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She has been an absolute glutton lately, I put the crickets in not ten seconds ago

#sandwich has taken to sleeping in #I hope she leaves him some 😤 #combo meal #red eyed tree frog #retf #frogblr #frog blogging

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#science fun

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hearing officials and public figures criticize biden openly on talk shows and seeing newspaper headlines sharply decry israel killing aid workers is making me feel kind of crazy. like it could've been like this the whole time. before 40,000 palestinians were killed and the infrastructure of gaza destroyed. it could've been like this when people gathered their children in plastic bags at al-ahli hospital, when a poet and his family were assassinated for a joke, when journalists buried their families on air, when children were targeted by drones on camera, when a little boy holding his grandmother's hand in one hand and a white flag in another watched her get shot and die in front of him, when a cameraman was left to bleed out with a live counter for hours while his rescuers were shot, when patients were bulldozed in their tents in the courtyard of a hospital, when four babies were left die and decompose alone in their hospital beds, when six year old hind rajab was crying for help trapped in a car with the corpses of her family on the phone with the red crescent for hours until she and the rescuers sent to get her were killed too.

#as usual a few thousand dead brown foreigners is a statistic #a white citizen’s death is a tragedy #:/ #mind that over 150 Palestinian aid workers have been killed since the war started and one was killed in THIS incident too #but the outcry is about the white ones #at least the backlash is happening. but THIS is what it took?

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hot off the presses

#next day rebagel

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hot off the presses

#for the record I enjoy the dirty border. but not the scratches… #gotta erase those #intaglio #etching #artists on tumblr #my art #original art #jellyfish

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i genuinely hope that boop day inspires everyone to interact more with other tumblr users. because it’s clearly way more fun this way!! even once the boop button is gone, there’s still asks, tag and ask games, comments, dms, fuck it let’s bring back blog rates i don’t care. part of the reason that tumblr is dying is that its way less social than it used to be. let’s fix that!!

#boop

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🫡🫡🫡

#🫡 #april fool's day #boop

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been a long day in the boop mines today. I need that last badge before the boss'll let me clock out

#I'd edit paws into this image but I do in fact have to get on a call in 5 minutes #I'm at 640 out of 1000 rip #also my computer keeps giving me errors so I'm just going taptaptaptap on my phone and spamming friends #sorry k and a specifically

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I just read that the middle boop badge given at 315 boops…is this because 3/15 is the Ides of March??

is this the Caesar LARP event we’ve been asking for for all these years

et tu, tumblr

#unclear whether it’s boop 314 or boop 315 #at any rate it’s a peculiar number for this. unless #boop #april fools day

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Repostober 24, Boops boops the Bogue fish!

#hm. cat behavior. fish mascot. walk with me here #boop #april fool's day #science fun

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PVP ENABLED WEBBED SITE

#I am experiencing an emotional high #boop #april fool's day

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Excellent collapsing notification too. This is going to get out of paw so quickly

Good website

#april fool's day #I’m so sorry I can already tell I will not be able to reciprocate all boops #we’re really going ham on this #wishing you all many boop

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#april fool's day

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Good website

#and yes. it is #april fool's day #boop

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I found it btw. My only regret is forgetting that the senate was Roman I was going to be snippy and say that maybe if we had more memes about groups of people I'd know my history better, but then I remembered the tumblr holiday that passed not two weeks ago. my bad

google honey I have seen some of the shit you index, don't lecture me right now. you don't even know what I'm talking about

#but the subjects here are indeed Greek so one point back in my favor

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google honey I have seen some of the shit you index, don't lecture me right now. you don't even know what I'm talking about

#WHAT IS THAT MEME

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it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all

but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help

i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.

the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.

i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.

#as an update the jjk artist and her family managed to evacuate #they are physically safe now but still enduring immense physical and emotional recovery #the jjk community on Twitter rallied beautifully for her and Palestine over the last few months #nerve wracking to go days without hearing from her sometimes #and knowing there are many others we will not hear from again.