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Everything in my shop is 30% off right now! Come find something you’ll love!
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ALTID in ALT.
so i just saw this post and i’m wondering if anyone has any examples (like screen shots or anything) of “pro-israel propaganda ads” on tumblr because i haven’t seen any personally. and when i tried looking in the notes on this post i just found people saying that the fact they can’t find their own pro-palestine posts when searching is proof of suppression. but the tumblr search literally never works?? i can’t reliably find *any* of my personal posts.
and i don’t understand the claim that tags are being totally manipulated when #Gaza has been trending at #1 or #2 for about two weeks now, and the #Palestine tag is not blocked (it still shows up for me. as opposed to some tags which have been blocked in the past because they had a lot of content that supposedly violated TOS. which is a Whole Other Issue but seemingly not applicable here).
the narrative here is baffling to me because it seems to imply that being silent–“playing both sides” or “acting nuetral”–would be admissible. but this is what, as far as i can tell, tumblr is actually doing.
i personally disagree that being silent is acceptable during genocide. every corporation and organization should be really vocal right now about the war crimes being committed in palestine. tumblr failing to do so is plenty to be pissed about in and of itself.
but i feel like throwing around accusations of pro-israel propaganda and suppression of palestinian support without any evidence just muddies the waters of a very serious situation.
if you want to call for a boycott then maybe listen to palestinian voices asking for boycotts of corporations that are directly supporting israel’s oppression of palestinians. BDS is an organization that has been working for years to help consumers know which companies are complicit in and funding the apartheid and genocide in palestine.
if anyone has any actual evidence of tumblr running pro-israel ads, then please show it when making claims like this. otherwise it just feels like misdirecting anger instead of using it in a way that could actually help the people affected by this horrible violence.
you *should* be angry right now! and you should be speaking out! but make sure you’re using your energy productively. contact your representatives demanding they support a ceasefire immediately.
if you’re in the US, you can use these resources to call or email your representatives.
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Sometimes I think about how many people I met in food service who smoke. I think about growing up in an upper-middle class neighborhood, and how it was drilled into me that smoking is addictive and bad for your health. I think most people, in America at least, are well aware of that. Whenever I would decline a cigarette, on the rare occasion it was offered, saying I dont smoke the reply is always “good, don’t start.”
I think about the long shifts, working on your feet all day, with breaks scheduled down to the minute. Every second of your day controlled by the clock, regardless of how tired you might be. However, in food service, there is one exception. The smoke break. Most managers respect the smoke break. The old school ones do, at least. The newer crop less so. Food service is fast paced, highly stressful work, and nicotine, in addition to all of its addictive and damaging properties, is a relaxant. If a burger flipper or barista says they need to step outside for a smoke, you let them do it, and you dont begrudge them for it.
It’s such a strange bit of kindness. One that we know is terribly harmful in many respects, but performed anyway. I think about all of the interconnected systems, of health, of education, of exploitation, that leads a person to knowingly trade in years of their life for five minutes of peace. I wonder how many people in my upper middle class neighborhood would propose simply banning the smoke breaks. I wonder how many people I know would just break.
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In my personal experience (which is, granted, not universal) I have never been an actor in a play that 100% went as it was supposed to the whole time. There is always an actor who skips a line, or forgets stage directions, or took a bit too long to change costumes and is now late for their appearances. But the thing about theater is that it’s a live performance- you can’t just apologize and redo the scene. You have to carry the characters through the important plot beats even if you have to ad-lib to do so. Do you get what I’m saying? A character in a play is not a fixed thing. A book will not change lines between readings. A movie will not change shots between rewatchs. But in theater, a character may act differently, speak differently, but they have to reach the same ending regardless. Characters in a play are trapped, not because things are already written- they do have some leeway- but because everything will conspire to drag them back on their predestined road. Do you understand? Do you understand what I’m saying?
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Favorite adderall review
You have to watch the dosage.
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Something to be said about how the home invasion subgenre of horror never fully took off outside the US and occasionally the UK, how castle doctrine developed in the UK and then grew to maturity in the US, how Americans have a fundamentally different relationship to home ownership than people in other countries. The idea of having the home you consider to be a source of security weaponized against you, used to trap you, turned into a hunting ground. Is it any wonder that there was a spike of home invasion horror movies during and after the 2007-2008 financial crisis
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Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, was murdered, repeatedly run over by a bulldozer as she stood in defense of Palestinians.
Her family was threatened and anyone who spoke about her was smeared as an antisemite including Alan Rickman who wrote and directed a play about her.
To this day she is remembered and honoured as a martyr in Palestine.
While, at the time, her death was mocked in Israel by putting her face on pancakes.
There is a street named for her in Ramallah. The Palestinian people will never forget her.
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“Parents can often be the last to know about their child’s gender identity, Ehrensaft says. Coming out can be terrifying for many transgender kids. Family members often respond with violence or distrust or may even kick the child out of the house. Almost 40 percent of transgender youth experience homelessness or housing instability, according to a 2022 report from the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides crisis support for young LGBTQ+ people. Many kids who wait to discuss their gender identity with their parents before appearing to “suddenly” come out are simply keeping themselves safe, Ehrensaft says.
”‘It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria,’ she says. 'It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.’“
I’ve been saying for years that when someone comes out as trans, it only seems rapid to you, because they’ve been secretly living with it for years. There’s a mountain of stuff they need to figure out, and virtually nobody to discuss it with.
If you have a trans kid, and you think about it… you might actually recall your son asking "would you still love me if I was a girl?” when he was five, or your daughter saying “I don’t feel like I was supposed to be a girl” when she was nine.
And you might recall what you said, and how you said it, and how awful it might have been for them to hear. Because you didn’t know. How could you? Even they didn’t know, not really.
Or then again, maybe you don’t recall. Because for them, it was an important conversation, and for you it was Tuesday.
No trans person just wakes up one morning and says “I think I’m trans.” It’s a long and difficult process they go through very much alone, and it sure would be nice if you didn’t make it harder for them when they start sharing.
Also some people are just in denial.
Despite me being a tomboy for years of my childhood, despite me blatantly telling my mother that I’m transgender and that I want to pursue medical transition age 13, despite me living solely as a man, with a man’s name, deliberately appearing as close to cis male as possible, dating exclusively VERY blatantly gay men, she still tried to tell me that it was all very new and sudden. I have been out for 17 years, almost 18 years. I have been out longer than I ever tolerated being called a girl. I have never once accepted life as a woman.
It’s not “she didn’t notice”. It’s “she actively pretended not to see it until I progressed enough that it wasn’t possible for her to look away anymore” and now it’s “this is all very new, you were never like this”.
I was. She just chose not to see it. So how many of these “rapid onset gender dysphoria concerned parents” are just like this as well?
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Hydraulic press vs Legos
Just to put this into perspective, that little tower held roughly 80 tons before pieces started popping off.
You could put a fully loaded Boing 737 on it, and it would not break. (I’m assuming you’d have to balance it on its nose.)
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