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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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i am skeptical you could do that actually, tiktok user

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The world was so rich it was rotting.

— Clarice Lispector, “Love”; from The Complete Stories (tr. Katrina Dodson)

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Why Firefox?

Firefox isn't trying to take away my ad blocking software, forcing me to wade through advertisements to traverse the web. I rarely have to stop and put up with ads in my day to day browsing experience. Google has made it very clear that they don't want you to have that power.

I'm very used to a specific UI in my browser, and I'm able to tweak Firefox to my needs. I don't use tabs when I'm at home, and being able to eliminate the tab bar can totally be done with Firefox (I won't elaborate on that here). However, there are many other things I can add to Firefox to improve my experience!

You know how sometimes you want to download an image on a webpage, but you can't right click on it, or it's hidden behind another element? I've got a Firefox tool for that called Right-click boroscope.

Don't want scripts to load in on a page, and cause havoc? Firefox has me covered again with NoScript.

I want to immediately reverse image search something I find regurgitated here on tumblr, in search of the original? There's a TinEye extension for Firefox to do that and save time.

For using tumblr more efficiently, there's XKit Rewritten. In Firefox.

Sick of Youtube's shitty search suggestions, and shorts being pushed? There's a Youtube Search Fixer add-on for Firefox for that.

I've also got the Wayback Machine integrated into Firefox.

The thing is, whatever reasons I enumerate to use Firefox, there are another hundred good reasons that other folks can add to this list no problem.

In some ways, it sucks that I should have to make so many modifications to my web browser to make it suitable for taking control within the modern webscape, but it also says alot that I have the freedom to make those modifications to my browser should I so choose. At work I'm forced to use chrome, and even though I'm only browsing ad-free internal corporate pages to get my job done, I still can't stand that experience.

We should be free to control our web browsing experiences. If a company finds a mantra like "don't be evil" too restrictive, maybe I don't want to help perpetuate their advertising machine (and don't think for a second that chrome isn't part of said machine). The web is supposed to be this free and open place, and it sure as hell isn't helped by browser monoculture. I really don't like the idea of supporting a monopolistic browsing experience that is the sea of chrome clones. Everything else seems to have turned into another chrome.

Fuck that noise.

So I will continue to use Firefox.

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Don’t underestimate my desire to not wanna

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ONE HOUR AGO: greg abbott, who i have the great displeasure of calling my governor, is calling for the expulsion and jailing of ut austin students exercising their first amendment right to freedom of speech an assembly. every single motherfucker on the right soooo concerned about the first amendment seems to be creaming their pants over college students being brutalized and arrested for protesting. its fucking reprehensible.

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“He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.” ― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

#cat tag

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#nancy ng

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Hey guys. I've previously posted about Nancy Ng (who is sadly still missing) and I wanted to provide an update. You can also keep updated at helpusfindnancy on Instagram which is run by her family and this is from their gofundme updates, please consider donating if you're able.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP: In March, our family worked on a video with Kendall Rae, an advocate for missing persons and their families. We'd like to thank Kendall and her incredible team for covering Nancy’s story. They did such an amazing job covering the details of Nancy’s case and published the most comprehensive video on Nancy’s case to date. We are blown away by the support from Kendall’s audience, who have not only sent over 1,000 emails to Ambassador Bradley, but have also put the spotlight on the Ministerio Publico and U.S. Embassy in their roles in Nancy’s case via X (formerly Twitter). Our family continues to be immensely grateful for the online community being one of our biggest supporters and advocates during this time. Thank you for helping our voices be heard and for not letting Nancy be forgotten. As mentioned in Kendall’s video, please help our family escalate Nancy’s case by emailing the following template to Ambassador Tobin Bradley at AmCitsGuatemala @ state . gov (Do not include spaces in email address.) Please note that the subject line must start with “E99” so that the email gets routed to the correct office. Subject Line: E99 - Urgent: Assistance Required In Search For Nancy Ng Hello Mr. Bradley, My name is ____, and I am writing to you on behalf of Nancy Ng’s entire family, who have gone months without answers regarding what happened to her on October 19, 2023, on Lake Atitlán. After kayaking out into the lake, she disappeared in an alleged drowning incident. The one and only person who witnessed Nancy’s drowning has been uncooperative, and there are now allegations that a bribe occurred to have her statement omitted from the police report. This person then left the country without aiding in search efforts and has refused to cooperate with the family and search teams. It is my understanding that you have the power to escalate Nancy’s case to the appropriate authorities in Guatemala because, as it stands, little is being done to investigate her disappearance. Please help her and her family. I am asking that you please: - Request that Guatemalan authorities ask U.S. officials, such as the FBI, for assistance in this investigation. The United States has resources that would prove incredibly valuable to this investigation, as well as in the search for Nancy’s body. - Facilitate a conversation between the Ng family and someone in Guatemala who is actively working the case. Their family is not receiving relevant case information from the prosecutor. Please help connect them with someone with more information regarding the status and details of Nancy’s case. - Lastly - I am asking that you please not forget that Nancy was human. She was a sister, a daughter, a teacher, and a friend. All her loved ones want is to know what happened and to bring her home to lay her to rest. Their patience has been taken advantage of and it’s time someone stepped up to escalate the situation for them. Please consider taking action swiftly. Thank you.

#nancy ng #missing people #missing person #true crime

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hello, i was wondering if you'd be able to help me with finding an fc? i'm looking for one for a female japanese character who's supposed to be a little muscular, and i've been having trouble finding one! thank you so much!! ( age range preferably from 20-30 )

Reika Saiki (1992) Japanese - actress and former bodybuilder, singer, idol and professional wrestler.

Yukino Kishii (1992) Japanese - in Small, Slow But Steady.

Ai Fairouz (1993) Japanese / Egyptian.

Eri Matsuda (1994) Japanese.

Yuki Aino (1994) Japanese.

Konami (1997) Japanese.

Ayaka Miyoshi (1996) Japanese - in Knuckle Girl.

Itsuki Aoki (1997) Japanese.

Sareee (1996) Japanese.

Ami Sohrei (1997) Japanese.

Maika (1998) Japanese.

I'm sorry I couldn't find more actresses, anon!

#fc help #rph #rpc

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drives me up a wall when i see people say things like 'what about the israelis' right now, bro look around you, we are digging up mass graves of palestinians and there are daily pogroms in the west bank can we focus for a little bit??

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a fruit is a stone, a free chapbook of 17 poems and 10 illustrations

Donate to evacuation funds for Gazans:

linktr.ee/fundsforgaza

Gaza Family Funds Directory

#free palestine

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Armenian Palestinians being forced to tear down their homes with their own hands so they don't have to pay the Israeli state to tear it down for them.

#free palestine

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VAPORWAVE COMPUTER INTERFACE TEMPLATE by kai @miwtual

initially featured in this gifset, i wanted to share this template with all of you! this template features a set of 2 psds with multiple parts meant to be mixed and matched, all with an old school desktop computer interface aesthetic.

what you need: ♡ basic giffing knowledge (in particular, layering) ♡ fonts: neusharp and francophil sans

download this template FREE via kofi! donations are appreciated but in no way required :) <3

if you have any questions, comments, or concerns concerning this template, feel free to send anything to my askbox and i will be sure to try and help you!! please note that i am a photopea gifmaker, so i may not be able to help with your photoshop needs.

#templates

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#uyghur