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Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading

#free palestine

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The last words of Aaron Bushnell before he set fire to himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington - Free Palestine.

The original scene is true: capture photo from video shows #AaronBushnell sets fire while a policeman is pointing a gun at his burning body!! Cop went for gun instead of an extinguisher.

DrSonnet — #CNN #BBC #SKY #NYT,.... SPEAK UP. It's 2024, not... (tumblr.com)

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all…Free Palestine.” -Aaron Bushnell

"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal"

-Aaron Bushnell

Shortly before his final act in this world, Bushnell posted the following message on #Facebook: "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' "The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."

RIP Aaron Bushnell.. He decided to be a free man and not to be complicit in #GazaGenocide.. His last words were (Free #Palestine).

Photo credit: SOURCE: Krime Krime (@krime_1) / X (twitter.com)

#RIPAaronBushnell #AaronBushnell

#Gaza #freePalestine #PalestineLivesMatter

#aaron bushnell #free palestine

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anyway. i think most people left of mainstream US liberal are uh. insufficiently scared of Trump. this has become a cringe take over the years but i think electing him again has a really terrifying set of tail outcomes that are unlikely but possible

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Remember all you. THIS is the post that triggered Rita's ban.

#transmisogyny by tumblr staff #hammer time

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I only ask cause you usually seem to be pretty up to date on the goings on of this site, but what the HELL is going on with tumblr's CEO? Why are they having a meltdown responding to asks? What's the trans misogyny accusation about? Why is tumblr apparently being run by children?

Thanks in advance.

This is kind of a long story so this is sort of TLDR for brevity but there’s more going on here.

Some context if you weren’t aware; Tumblr has been accused multiple times by its userbase for fostering TERF staff members and covering for them when making transphobic moderation calls. Things like; an overeagerness to ban trans women for posting nudes despite not addressing nazis or bots for years, or protection of notable TERF users who flagrantly break TOS by organising hate campaigns. The users who collected evidence of this became huge targets for these “””alleged””” TERF mods and users and were basically hunted online for sport. Up until recently the “terf mods” take was considered a bit of a conspiracy theory by some who assumed it was more likely to be an automation problem mixed with transphobic reports.

This week: tumblr user predstrogen was recently permabanned (for a second time) following a mass reporting by TERFs. This, obviously, pissed a lot of people off, and a fairly routine “the fuck haven’t you banned the nazis yet??” ask was sent to photomatt, the CEO.

Photomatt, INSANELY, replied, misgendering her multiple times and defending his decision to personally smack down the ban hammer by citing predstrogens nudes, but by his own admission the far more heinous crime was this absolutely ridiculous post;

Matt has also contacted the FBI over this stupid shit despite predstrogen not living in the US.

Lastly, during this very public announcement on the kangaroo court hearing, matty drops this absolute nuclear bomb about Tumblr having some internal drama when they’d discovered an external contractor was A) a transphobe wielding mod authority to be transphobic B) criminally selling moderation (likely to TERFs).

Despite this obviously being on the record somewhere, this is clearly news to fucking everyone including myself.

It’s also worth noting that predstrogen has not been the only recent ban; several black people and black transfems have been instabanned after directly asking matt for accountability (the user i’ve seen specifically named was @rulerofpurple and his partner)

So, naturally, people are fucking furious they spent years getting gaslit by staff, who had been assuring us of their even-handedness, but surprise!!! Trans women WERE being uniquely targeted, and even worse, likely targeted by the people who they could never seem to deplatform despite constant death threats and doxxing!! And despite all this assurance that Tumblrs internals are now perfectly free of transmisogyny and racism, it’s pretty obvious to just about everyone that Tumblr staff are chomping at the bit to ban trans women.

#transmisogyny by tumblr staff #hammer time

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Tony's thumbs up is what gets me 😂

The Iron Age issue #2

#tony stark #marvel 616 #panels #characterization #I will take 100 just like it thanks

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Hey. I am a huge fan of Doctor Doom and Tony's dynamic. I have noticed that you have sometimes posted about them. Are they any particular comics that have their dynamic that you would recommend? Anyways, hope that you have a great weekend/weekday. And I am sorry about my English, I know that it is not perfect.

Hi! I love their dynamic as well! (Also, your English is great). I'll go in order of release starting with the Camelot trilogy.

Iron Man (1968) Issues 149-150

This is the first part of a trilogy arc where Iron Man and Doctor Doom are sent back in time to the days of Camelot and Morgan Le Fe.

Iron Man (1968) Issues 249-250

Part 2 of the trilogy where they go forward in time to the future Camelot.

Iron Man: Legacy of Doom 4-issue limited series

The final part of the trilogy where Doom is trying to wield Excalibur.

Some of my favorite interactions of theirs has to be in more recent comics, though.

Invincible Iron Man (2015) issues 1-2, 3-6, 9, 12-13

I love them working together and bantering!

King in Black Iron Man and Doctor Doom

The hilarious Christmas one shot! I laughed through the whole thing.

Hope that was somewhat useful. If anyone knows of any other interactions of theirs that I forgot about please feel free to add. :)

#doomtony #reference

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If you live in the USA and you're pleading for donations to pay your rent, bills, or get food then dial 211! Please dial 211 before the last minute!

It's a toll free service with people who will help you find programs in your community to pay those bills, find food, and find housing! They will give you numbers to call so you can get help.

It is not 100% foolproof. Their job is to direct you to a program they believe will help your current issue, but it's still a step up from praying random strangers online will give you enough cash before a deadline! The added benefit of these community programs, which get funded by the local government most of the time, is if there are more people using them then they can get more money to help more people.

You're not taking resources from other people if you use your community services. Your taxes pay for them. Use them.

Dial 211 first to see if they can help, and if for some reason they can't, then make your donation posts!

https://www.211.org/

#reference #community resources

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Janet Van Dyne and Victor Shade in Avengers Inc. (2023)

#saving this for reasons #avengers inc #janet van dyne #comic covers

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I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco     

Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright    

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley   

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico        

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages             

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom          

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow              

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower            

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam   

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon 

Hi Honey, I’m Homo! by Matt Baume      

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw  

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman 

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun     

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods 

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt    

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman    

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist           

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi             

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed      

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

#queer stuff #reading recs #go to the library challenge

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A hopeful framing of the ICJ ruling today

#free palestine

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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

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#its about the reaching #the way the outstretched hand is also the light source #stevetony #art

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I’m here—

#tenderness #art

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COVER REVEAL!

Done by the lovely @ghosthan

Preorder starts January 27 at 6 pm CET (Central European Timezone)! Treat yourself to the EARLY BIRD bonus!

#tony stark zine #dude this is incredible i'm so hyped #iron man

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Meta Monday: Women in Comics

[ID: Animated GIF image in retro comic book art style. On the right is a blonde fair-skinned woman in a pink suit with a megaphone, in the style of a comics character. On the left is a large yellow sound effect bubble with the text “Women in Comics! An essay series by Comicbookgrrrl”. Above the woman’s head is a thought bubble with the text “Meta Monday”. The Fanlore logo is in the top left corner. /End ID.]

For this week’s Meta Monday, we’re looking back over the essay series “Women in Comics” by comicbookgrrrl, which discusses the history and treatment of woman characters and creators in comics. comicbookgrrrl analyzes women at DC and Marvel, ranging from the early 1900s to the contemporary age. Learn about topics like tokenism, DC’s forcing out of women in creative roles for New 52, and the comic book industry’s treatment of breast cancer. There’s even an application of the Bechdel Test and the Reverse Bechdel Test to a range of popular comics!

Although the original website that hosted this thoughtful and broad analysis is lost to time, our archive links still work great. Come and read the whole essay series on Fanlore, and tell us what you think!

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from al jazeeras live reporting of the first ICJ hearing, 11 Jan 2024

#free palestine