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literally oscillating between utter despair and extreme gratitude for everyone and everything every 30 seconds today

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“tumblr mutual” beloved friend I would pick up at the airport if y’all visited my home city

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do people treat you like you're weird (infantilized), weird (demonized), weird (dehumanized), or weird (fetishized)? i'm currently pulling all four and also some variations i've yet to decipher.

#mostly 3 and 1

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Dame (Alice) Ellen Terry ('Choosing') (I) (George Frederic Watts, 1864)

#art #george frederic watts

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Donations Needed: Help a Gazan Skater Evacuate His Family

This is the link to help Hani. Hani is a skater currently living in Belgium and rebuilding his life. His family lives in Gaza and are suffering at the hands of the occupation. His father was killed and they lost their house. He is now responsible to protect his family.

He needs the funds to help them evacuate. Please donate and share this.

Read more about Hani’s situation below (from his GoFundMe):

“Hello, I'm Hani from Gaza, and I'm 23 years old. I've been living in Belgium for a year, and I'm an inline skater. I'm collecting donations to get my family out to safety from northern Gaza to Egypt because I can't afford the large amount of money needed. I'm here in Belgium in the process of rebuilding my life and achieving my dreams.”

“After losing my house and its destruction on October 13th, my family became displaced in tents, and on September 15th, I lost my father due to the attack on Al-Shifa Hospital. My father was suffering from kidney failure and passed away due to lack of treatment. He was the breadwinner of my family. Now I am responsible for my family, which consists of 10 members, including 3 minors, and my 18-year-old brother. The rest are my sisters, including two toddlers, one is 3 years old, and the other is 2 years old.”

“My siblings were university students and had dreams too, but because of the war, they lost everything; they lost the university, our home, and our father. They aspire to continue their studies at the university, but the war destroyed everything. I'm now trying to get them out of Gaza to Egypt to rebuild their shattered lives. To do that, they need to be evacuated, and they need to pay for the coordination into Egypt. Due to war time prices, they're asking for 5,000 euros per person to get them out of Gaza because northern Gaza has been completely wiped out, with insufficient food and people scattered among the rubble of homes under heavy bombardment. I hope you can help me through your donations or by sharing the story with friends. Thank you so much with lots of love.”

Please donate. Every little bit helps. If you cannot donate, share this.

https://gofund.me/5d6469bf

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Guattari’s idea is both refreshing and profound. He suggests that when a person experiences psychosis, her psychosis changes according to her surroundings, and, therefore, treating her with fear by locking her up, keeping her in restraints, overmedicating her, and exposing her to other methods of suppression only serves to change her psychosis to a psychosis of fear and paranoia. Who, psychotic or not, in the same situation wouldn’t also feel terror and paranoia? Indeed, there is a legitimate reason to be paranoid and afraid. Further, the shock of being treated inhumanly, the sense of alienation and of betrayal, and, perhaps paramountly, the realization that humans can and do treat other humans in this way, is itself shocking and traumatizing. It is a shock and trauma that alters the psyche, changing the personality of the person who undergoes it.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting: Essays on Silence

#mental health

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Sorry to hear that some people are shocked at certain wealthy gay people's support for Israel but like. Identity isn't inherently revolutionary. Being LGBT doesn't make you inherently more understanding of the plight of other people or free you from empathising with capitalist and colonial forces. Pls remember that.

#thinkin about it ahain

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The situation of the Congo Genocide is complicated because we are all implicated in it. We can’t ascribe it to a foreign policy state interest as we can regarding Palestine. It is something we, as consumers, all have a hand in and given the ubiquity of the resources involved, a lot of us are caught off of guard by this premonition of the type of wars to come. This is that nasty intersection of neo-colonialism and hyper capitalism that pits the Global South against the Global North. It’s a war of sustaining a way of life means imposing slavery and genocide on others. This is an instance of global capitalism and hyper consumption as a lifestyle and convenience is being pitted against the humanity of those we deem expendable.

#Congo

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'The proletariat is the creator of the future, not the heir to the past'

Art by Soviet designer Varvara Stepanova, 1919.

Via LadyIzdihar

#art #ussr

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This murderous world will pass away, must pass away.

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#💞 #tagged

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Oh cool thanks so much for your help! Oh yeah format not too important at all :)

But random but does anyone have a PDF copy of The Futurist Cookbook by Marinetti? For obvious reasons I don't wanna spend money on it

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Thanks sm!

But random but does anyone have a PDF copy of The Futurist Cookbook by Marinetti? For obvious reasons I don't wanna spend money on it

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@soul-hammer @marinetti-dinner-party don't suppose u might have it please?

But random but does anyone have a PDF copy of The Futurist Cookbook by Marinetti? For obvious reasons I don't wanna spend money on it

#sorry for tagging you in this it is deeply unimportant

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Bit random but does anyone have a PDF copy of The Futurist Cookbook by Marinetti? For obvious reasons I don't wanna spend money on it

#chatter

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What's really horrifying right now is my inbox. Good Morning.