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I showed up yesterday completely unprepared. No water, no emergency phone numbers, my school backpack on my back with my laptop in it. I thought it would be a small event on the green and the university admin would mostly ignore us. People talked about holding a seder, teaching classes.

I was surprised by the turnout, but the university was not. Over 150 cops showed up, state troopers, APD, university security, and others. They surrounded us on all sides and boxed us in tighter and tighter. Call me a coward, but me and the people with me got out of the box and away from the center at that point. There were a dozen troopers on horseback. They rode through groups of people shouting at them to move or the horse would hurt them. Some on motorcycles. Some with batons forming barriers and pushing people back (except for the moments the students pushed them back).

The governor called for us to be arrested, and I've heard over 79 people were. Indiscriminately: including people tying to disperse the group, including a cameraman for Fox. Students were shoved to the ground, bruising their faces and bloodying their noses. They were dragged by their hair and legs, one of them over a chain link fence. From what I've heard, the charges will likely be dropped, but we're waiting to see what action the university will take internally. If graduate student employees, professors, and staff will lose jobs (they already banned some grad students from TAing, effectively firing them, for implying support for palestine). If undergrads will be expelled (which the university suggested would happen).

The dispersal order said that we'd broken rules by obstructing pathways. The stated plan was to sit on the lawn, but police pushed everyone off the lawn and set up a perimeter around it, forcing them onto the sidewalks where they could be arrested. This protest was smaller than the crowds of people standing around for the eclipse, which the police felt no need to disperse. The university president, in his response, stated that he supports lawful protests, but this one broke the rules. Which rules? Well the university knew about the protest in advance and decided in advance that it wouldn't be allowed, period. So he's pro-protest, but this protest broke the rules of... existing at all.

Last night there was an email from the Dean of Students expressing concern for those "affected" and offering support. She made it very clear who this support was for by saying that if we felt unsafe, we should call the university police.

Today a notice was passed around at the protest laying out a new set of rules, and a matching list was sent to all university staff. It bans wearing masks, being on the lawns, being at entrances, being on walkways, making any noise, and being out after 10 pm. Organizers were already working around the ridiculous claims that the protest was too noisy and therefore distracting students in class by not using any amplification devices. Instead everything they said was repeated by the people around in waves so that the people at the back could hear.

Today was scheduled for a protest from the state employees' union against the sudden firing of 60 staff associated with DEI, following the state's ban on DEI offices and programs. The union officially ceded the day to protest for Palestine and against the events of yesterday. The DEI protest is rescheduled for Monday.

Today's resumption of the protest wasn't met with violence like yesterday. There was some police protest, but much lighter, and they didn't press us. After two hours, we dispersed peacefully on the organizers' orders. I've heard that there was even more turnout today than yesterday, although I never got a good look at the crowd from a distance either day. I am grateful that as far as I have been able to find out, none of my colleagues or students have been arrested.

Everyone take care. 🇵🇸

#stay safe

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the protests seem to have subsided on campus for now but over 20 arrests have been done. the comments of the videos documenting the violence all advocate for the death of my friends and people who haven’t done anything wrong

#it was horrible #a military response to a peaceful protest almost immediately…

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JUST NOW: the situation unfolding at ut austin is a deeply disturbing display of how fascism isn't just on the rise in america, its here in full swing. "i command you in the name of the people of the state of texas to disperse." this shit is fucking dystopian. donate to the bail fund if you can, @psc_atx on venmo.

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for those keeping an eye on ut austin: this is live.

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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the situation here has escalated to riot police pushing students and faculty down, state troopers brought an excessive amount of rifle magazines to this peaceful protest, and they're arresting people under the pretense of "anti-semitism" or "blocking passageways"

this is an awful and excessive show of violence

everyday i think about how my school was structured purposefully as a panopticon in 1990 to dissuade anti-war protests like vietnam war in the 1970s and today the school decides to bring tons of police and state troopers against peaceful protesters and for what. it's sickening. there was never any interest in peace or in maintaining the 1st amendment ever in this school

#palestine #free gaza

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everyday i think about how my school was structured purposefully as a panopticon in 1990 to dissuade anti-war protests like vietnam war in the 1970s and today the school decides to bring tons of police and state troopers against peaceful protesters and for what. it's sickening. there was never any interest in peace or in maintaining the 1st amendment ever in this school

#i'm sick of this

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sorry, no art for a while, i lost 2 really close family members in the last month and haven't been feeling great on top of having to catch up in classes due to grieving, i'll be back to it sometime soon :')

#silence crab

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small animatic test :')

#disco elysium #animatic

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disco elysium studies & expressions

#disco elysium #my art #art #sketch

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shop update!! put up some prints and some key chains for final fantasy and lunar new year!!

prices are also down for previous listings and shipping is free for orders over $35! :D

#shop update #etsy #etsy update #final fantasy 16 #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy 14 #trigun #trigun stampede #lny #lunar new year #lion dance #dragon #fma #fmab

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are you more of a tifa or aerith fan?

personally, tifa, but i love them both

#:'] i'm practicing chinese martial arts tangential to what she does #silence crab #anon ask

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mr. stampede :]

#my art #art #digital art #illustration #doodle #sketch #digital painting #vash #trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede

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from the river to the sea 🇵🇸

if you buy an e-sim or donate to the palestine children's relief fund or unrwa, dm me with proof and i will draw you a food commission 🍉🇵🇸 🫒

#rb

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[The audio is from a YouTube video made by Ac7ionMan where he meets a loud kid over an online game. The audio was repurposed to be an interaction between characters from the game Disco Elysium.]

Cuno: I'mma put my cat on the mic. Harry: [Grumbles as Cuno rustles around] Cunoesse: [Gutturally screaming] MEOW MEOW Harry: Dude, what are you doing? That's- shut the f*ck up, bro! Cunoesse: [In a long, guttural scream] MEOW

[The video cuts to Kim Kitsuragi watching the scene of Harry and the kids from behind at a distance. The audio is quieter.]

Harry: That's not a cat! That's- that's you screaming! Cunoesse: [In a long, guttural scream] MAH Harry: That's- shut the f*ck up, motherf*cker! What are you doing? Cunoesse: [Shorter screams] MEOW MEOW Harry: [In increasing volume and frustration] Stop. Stop. Hey, stop. Cunoesse: [In a long, guttural scream] MEOW Harry: Shut your f*cking mouth, motherf*cker! I can't hear my own thoughts! Cunoesse: [Guttural throat sound, as if she's throwing up a hairball]

[End video description.]

loud audio!!!!! lower your volume before watching!!!!

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loud audio!!!!! lower your volume before watching!!!!

COMPOSURE [Formidable: Success]

#my art #art #digital art #illustration #doodle #sketch #disco elysium #disco elysium animatic #cuno #cunoesse #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #harry dubois #fanart #my fanart #disco elysium fanart #i will work on an audio transcript soon #loud warning #volume warning #loud audio #loud