Don't quit before the miracle happens!

Repost from AJ+

“When our grandchildren ask what we did during the genocide in Gaza, I’ll say I refused.”

"Ella Keidar Greenberg is in jail for refusing to serve in the Israeli army, a decision she announced publicly outside the military recruitment center. She’s currently being held in solitary confinement, according to Mesarvot, an organization that supports conscientious objectors. AJ+ spoke to her before her detention."

A few people in the notes have been fairly incredulous at only 10 refuseniks since the 7th so I'd like to clarify— Ella is the 10th objector to publicize her refusal and imprisonment since October 7th. In September 2023, over 200 teenage settlers released an open letter titled Youth Against Dictatorship promising to refuse service when their draft days came and calling for the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. And we know in November of 2024 Israel released at least 1126 arrest warrants for orthodox settlers who had refused service.

The exact number is hard to say, especially when Israel has an interest in concealing it to keep up their image.

Local goat discovers joy of painting

SHHHHHH. They're sleeping.

Happy International asexuality Day! Be ace, do crime, drink aced tea!

Awesome art OP, thanks for sharing!

Aced Tea for everyone!

What all historical fan fiction writers need is a database with a series of videos showing someone getting dressed and then undressing step-by-step with subtitles that tell us the name of each item of clothing, for every possible era and culture

Yes, so we can write smut, obviously, but very informative smut where you come out learning a little something about the undergarments of a woman in the early 1600s Italy and how you might take them off with your teeth

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

hate J K Rowling button. love asexuals button.

love trans people button!! we in this shit together!

we can shit together too. we’ve always been safer going to the bathroom in groups

i miss the late 2000s trend where artists would play their own romantic rivals in music videos

now THIS was cinema

Tumblr once again coming up with a feature I’m not gonna- hey whats going on back there

Great moments in corporate synergy: Disney released their Super Bowl ad imagining what the world would be like without Iconic Disney Moments and it included a single Disney animated film. Frozen obviously. Otherwise it's entirely films made by companies they bought and one live action remake. "Remember when Disney brought you Star Wars" and it's the original and no. Bc they very much did not bring us that one

There's two things here. For one it's weird how Hollywood's baffling distaste for animation has spread to Disney now. But also the way they retroactively claim things they bought were not just made by them, but are core aspects of their identity.

Without Disney, would Star Wars exist? And like. Yes. There are three trilogies of films and the two best-liked were not made by Disney. But now "Disney Took You to a Galaxy Far, Far Away" is A Thing. We all remember that right. We all remember when Disney gave us Star Wars (the 1977 one and not Rise of Skywalker & the Star Wars Hotel)

Marvel was bought by Disney earlier but: the first phase of the MCU, so everything up to The Avengers, wasn't made by Disney. It was made by Marvel themselves, and then they entered into distribution deals with various studios (mainly Paramount, one by Universal). Anyway now Disney brought you Marvel. It's one of the main things they brought you, remember? Look at this clip from The Avengers (a film already in production that Disney bought out the distribution rights for when they bought Marvel). That's what people think of when they think of Disney: Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Hulu, and live action remakes

Tbh the actual worst moment of "Disney has always been responsible for the exciting IP 'war with Eastasia'" synergy was when Disney bought Fox and they started retroactively calling Anastasia a Disney movie

You know that movie everyone in 1997 & for decades afterward had to keep explaining wasn't a Disney movie? There's now official Disney anniversary merch of it

This kind of makes a nice metaphor for the economy in general. "Rich guy claims credit for work he had nothing to do with" is pretty much capitalism in a nutshell.

comfortable, decent quality bedding will change your life I'm so serious

my needlessly aggressive opinions concerning:

you will fall asleep faster and have better-quality sleep if your sleeping space provides a good sensory experience, tailored to you (and your sleep partners) personally. and dear stars and devils do we all need some good sleep rn

Can't be sincerely dark without being called edgy, can't be sincerely emotional without being called melodramatic, can't be sincerely silly without being called stupid. They're gonna hate every emotion you put in your art no matter what so make it anyway and be as sincere as you can be

can't believe the plot of leverage is literally 'man gets hired to be a project manager for Crime and then is forcefully adopted by the employees he doesn't want'

and it fucks

Jury's out. The Avengers (2012)

rick astley did a cover of pink pony club and i loved him singing about having fun on stage in his heels

is this a set up

hehehe only one way to find out