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I need to be a hater

Every few months this gd h*lluva b*ss show is trending and people always lose their minds over these thangs with the worst designs ever being sad because?? Idk I don't watch that

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Tristan Monroe - Sole Survivor - Fallout 4 (Archie and Emmett belong to @carrionsflower)[template by @jennystahl and @newbordeaux ] [open images in new tab to read info]

#omg slayyy i love her #fallout #fo4 #ty for using yayyyy :)

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#oh my god :-(

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you don't understand i need him so bad

#OOF #s: moonlight serenade #sadie x charles

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Them actually:

#fallout #fallout show #YES #lucy x maximus

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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

as of april 15 ct dissenters (new york and connecticut) need bail funs for arrested activists: zelle: [email protected] cashapp: $BristolAntiRacism (use "april gift" in your memo so contributions can be tracked)

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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small thing of kennedy meeting @newbordeaux's lou heh <3

The rifle was in her hands as soon as she felt the hairs on her neck raise, an indication that something—or someone—was nearing. She spun around, leveling the barrel at human height.

"What the fuck are you?!" She had meant to say who, but it was too late now.

The woman in the blue jumpsuit—no, not that kind of blue jumpsuit, more of a grayish-blue mechanic's canvas jumpsuit really—skidded on the dirt and held her hands up, not quite above her head, hovering around her shoulders. Both wrists were laden with Pip-Boys.

"I'm a person. Like you, I think." She slowly dropped her hands as the woman lowered her brandished weapon.

"Me too. Sorry." She holstered her rifle. The other woman seemed harmless enough, which was to say her pistol was holstered and she wore a backpack, a sign of someone traveling rather than someone looking for trouble. "I don't usually see anyone around here besides the brahmin ranchers. You're pretty stupid for sneaking up on me like that." The other woman frowned but nodded, apparently agreeing with the assessment. "I guess I just walk really quietly. Even in—" she stopped herself. Maybe it wasn't the time to mention coming from one of the most privileged places in the entire wasteland. "Well, my name is Kennedy. I'm sorry for sneaking up on you, even if it wasn't on purpose. But what are you doing out here?"

"You can call me Lou." The brown-skinned girl now known to be Lou kicked a small rock at her feet. "I'm heading out to scavenge. I just came from Junktown. You headed that way?"

"Not really, but I could use a rest right about now. Is it a nice place?"

"What do you think? The name's literally Junktown."

"Well, maybe it was a misnomer. I guess any place is probably better than New Reno." "You been to New Reno?" Lou looked Kennedy up and down, taking her in. She didn't seem the type. She looked too…clean. But Lou herself had always wanted to visit New Reno. Maybe not for the more unsavory affairs they conducted there, but she knew most people considered it a fun time.

"I passed through. Someone wanted me to play a vault dweller in a porno movie. But I've never lived in a vault, so…"

"So that's the only reason you said no?" Lou snorted. "You seem kinda dumb, like a vault dweller. And you've got two Pip-Boys."

"You're pretty short and weak-looking to be a scavenger."

Lou opened her mouth to respond, annoyed at the insult, but Kennedy kept talking.

"Sorta dumb, too, telling me where you came from like that. What if I'm a raider, looking for my group's next conquest? You pointed me right in the perfect direction."

Lou scowled, reaching to grab her rifle again. Raider or not, she was getting on her nerves. She hoped to intimidate her into running off.

"You better not grab that gun of yours. I've got one too." Kennedy was pointing the 10mm right at her. Lou had been too offended to notice her unholstering it. "But I don't want to shoot you. I'm not a raider. I'm not a vault dweller, either, and I also said no to the porno because I only fuck with condoms and I didn't trust those guys."

Lou couldn't help but laugh, a breathy laugh of disbelief.

"Alright, I'm sorry, I guess." The 10mm was holstered. "But I have to get going." She adjusted the strap of her bag on her shoulder and started forward, aiming to go around this woman and leave her behind. Gladly, that would be.

"Wait."

"What?" Lou turned around, half expecting her to be pointing a gun at her again.

"Do you have a can opener?"

"Maybe."

"Come on. Please." "What will you give me for it?" Lou squinted against the sun, its glare now in her eyes.

"Uh…" Kennedy took her backpack off, dropping to one knee as she unbuckled it. She shifted some things aside, finally settling on a clean white box with words and pictures Lou couldn't make out from where she was standing. There was a Vault-Tec logo on the side; that anyone would recognize.

"How about a tampon?" She had opened the box and was now holding a small cardboard cylinder. "Pre-war, perfectly sterile."

"What's that?" Lou eyed it skeptically. "Bandages or something?"

Kennedy grinned, showing off a large set of pearly white teeth. "Kind of. It's for your period."

"Oh." Lou felt a little hot, embarrassed that she hadn't known. She didn't know how she could have, but she hated being wrong or ignorant.

"You open the cardboard and detach the string, then using your finger you—"

"Yeah, I got that." Lou rolled her eyes. "I mean, I've got a nice set up, I even have some bleach for rags, but sure, I'll take it."

Kennedy packed her things and stood, approaching Lou. They made the exchange, with Lou trying not to observe the tampon too closely. She would take another look later.

"Thanks," Kennedy said. "I'll be in Junktown. Look me up and I'll give it back to you." She pointed the metal can opener in her direction, smiling again before she turned around and practically skipped away.

Lou watched her go, scoffing quietly to herself. "That bitch is definitely a vault dweller."

#YESSS!! EVERYONE READ THIS ITS SO HOT!!!! and so funny #the humor is sooo spot on & fits the vibe of the show so well #fallout #c: lou #oc: kennedy malone #lou & kennedy

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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.

But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.

In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.

One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.

Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.

#man.. idk what to say anymore this is sooo fucking sickening

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Please send your thoughts and prayers 🙏 Ben Gvir got in a car accident and I need to make sure he dies 🙏

#me and my family were hollering. die bitch

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the fires of youth, a novel of juvenile waywardness butch deloria & female lone wanderer (platonic, gen) 2164 words | teen | pulp, dirty jokes, mentions of cannibalism

Thanks to Dogmeat's nose of supreme detection, a bantering Sam and Butch happen across boxes full of old-school, pre-war pulp fiction novels.

As soon as Sam heard Butch's stomach growl all the way through his leather armor, she knew the complaining was only moments away.

"Hey, uh," Butch started, jogging to catch up with her, "do they ever eat people out here?"

Sam stopped, letting her rifle hang limply in her hands. Memories flashed through her mind, hanging bodies, chopped up organs, bloody tendrils strung about like they were drying for a proper meat show.

"No," she lied, then kept walking. "If you try to eat me, I'll shoot you in the face."

"I'd like to see you try," he muttered, hanging back again with Dogmeat, whose nose was pressed firmly to the ground.

"I already told you I have some cans in my backpack."

"I don't want that nasty shit. It's old as hell."

Sam sighed loudly and turned around, making him nearly bump into her. "Yeah, it is, and so's everything else out here. It would be safer to eat two hundred year old pork and beans than one of the people I've met out here."

"Can we make camp then? Jesus, I'm starving."

READ THE REST HERE!

#man. so obsessed with the dialogue in this 😵 i love theway you write people talking idkkk it always feels so natural and like. them. yk #fallout #fo3 #oc: sam wright #butch deloria #this is so hottttt and like i said in dms... the perfect butch & lw dynamic to me #amazing as always woohh

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SCARIEST THINGS FOUND IN THE OCEAN pt1

#c: linton

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Can't stop thinking abt this screenshot....

#TINY ASS NORM...... OOOUGH #fallout #fallout show

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Society now that the fallout show has released and I barely see posts about [REDACTED] anymore because everyone is getting back into that. Utopia image

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#naomi #lulucore images....

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Meow or Woof?

Feel free to suggest any poll you would like to see via chat or comment or ask :)

#cats :)

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#modern Troubadour 😍

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How to spot Liberal Zionist Propaganda 101

This post is by no means exhaustive at all. There are many Liberal Zionist talking points but these are just some of the most common ones. While on the surface they seem a little naive and hopeful at best, they are very much harmful. If you claim to be an ally to Palestinians, this post is primarily for you!

For starters, liberal Zionists will often try to both-sides the issue of Palestine, talk about how it's complicated, they'll claim that the conflict hurts both Israelis and Palestinians, how the only way forward is one where Jews and Arabs "just need to get along," amongst other things. They also often like to centre themselves, even when acknowledging Palestinians as the victims of Israel or this "conflict." From time to time, they also like to engage in tokenising certain Palestinians whose views tend to more or less align with theirs. Here are some common arguments you may hear from them:

1. Any form of justifying Israel's existence or claiming that the only solution is two states

It does not really need to be said why justifying Israel's existence is harmful but justifying its continued existence also means legitimising Israel's land theft, its expulsions of Palestinians, and its ongoing harm to Palestinians and other populations. Reducing any sorts of “solutions” into a binary is unhelpful. Needless to say, a 2ss would not even address any legitimate concerns Palestinian have, such as the right of return, and would only legitimise Israel’s colonialism. Talking about a two-state solution also implies that the root of the conflict lies in Palestinians not having their own state rather than being an occupied people. It is very much also possible to construct a paradigm where Jews and Palestinians both live together on the same land as equal citizens that doesn't involve two separate states, much less an ethnostate.

2. Security for Israel could only come through peace

This is a similar talking point to the one above. Not only does it centre Israeli safety and security above Palestinian liberation but it mistakenly assumes that once Israel makes peace with Palestinians, it'll achieve security. The reality, however, is that Israel's imagined security has quite often come at the expense of peace. In fact, "peace" has just acted as nothing more than a smoke-screen for Israel to carry out its expansionist policies, particularly in the West Bank. When liberal Zionists talk about peace juxtaposed with Israeli security, they're talking about attaining a negative peace rather than a positive one.

3. Israelis are not their government.

This point does nothing to actually help Palestinians. It is also an incredibly tone-deaf thing to say when Israel has targeted many Palestinian civilians by having alleged proximity to Hamas, such as being family members of militants or leaders (inc. children!), civil servants in a Hamas-led government, or even any male above the age of 15 they consider to be a potential combatant! It also deliberately erases Israeli civilians' support of and culpability in Israel's actions towards Palestinians.

4. Netanyahu and/or the Israeli right are the source of conflict.

While it is true that things have gotten inadvertently worse under Israel's various right-wing governments, they are not the source of conflict, but rather a product of extremist nationalism and Jewish supremacy perpetuated by the system. Both the 1967 occupations and settlements were undertaken under centre-left governments in Israel, and Israeli policy under non-right wing governments has been just as harmful towards Palestinians and has paved the way for where we are today. Blaming Netanyahu just also obscures the violent nature of Israel's military occupation over Palestinians which long precede him coming into power.

5. Netanyahu and Hamas are two sides of the same coin

I don't think I've seen any allies give validity to this claim but it's an extremely reductionist claim and is sort of similar to the one above. Groups like Hamas are merely a response to the Israeli occupation while Netanyahu is a byproduct of it. While some Israelis may see Hamas or their actions as an "obstacle to peace," Israel's actions and policies long pre-date Hamas and how Israel is currently responding to Hamas is no different to how Israel has engaged with Palestinian militant groups in the past, regardless of political affiliations or political goals. It is also important to note that Hamas has agreed to the establishment of a state along 1967 borders while Netanyahu aims to prolong the occupation and empower the settler movement (some of whom are part of his coalition government) as much as possible.

6. Israel is not a settler-colonial state.

While it is indisputable that Jews have historical connections to Palestine, that doesn’t automatically make you Indigenous or negate Israeli settler-colonialism. Colonialism in particular describes a relationship of exploitation. There are many cases of this, but we most clearly see this in the West Bank where Israel exploits natural resources on occupied Palestinian territory for its own political and economic gains. In terms of settler-colonialism, it is widely known that Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to make way for Jewish refugees and migrants to the new state of Israel, and is still actively facilitating Jewish migration to Israel today while denying Palestinians their right of return.

7. (X) doesn't help Palestinians.

It is not up to anyone to determine whether certain tactics or strategies are helpful or not. This point only seeks to discredit pro-Palestine organising. Only Palestinians get to decide what is actually helpful for the cause or not.

8. Any sort of Hamas-blaming.

On the surface it may seem like there’s nothing wrong with this, but this point is often harmful and usually lends itself to right-wing talking points because its objective is to deflect blame away from Israel. Certain arguments blaming Hamas also aim to minimise Palestinian suffering perpetuated by Israel. It also paints Israeli violence as retaliatory to Palestinian violence which only obfuscates Israel’s (and by extension, the US’) role in its state military apparatus and the differing power dynamics between Israelis and Palestinians. In other contexts, this point seeks to also legitimise certain opposition, such as the Palestinian Authority. Hamas-blaming also tends to sometimes lead to racist diatribes about Palestinians and their culture.

9. Al-Jazeera is not a credible news source.

Al Jazeera is a news source like any other. It has varying editorial policies and therefore will have equally good reporting on certain issues while having terrible reporting on others. The difference is that Al-Jazeera's news on Palestine is credible because it comes directly from their Palestinian reporters on the ground and first-hand eyewitness accounts. Western news sources are no more or less credible than al-Jazeera. Compare this to CNN, NYT, and any other Western news sources where Palestinian voices are often entirely missing from the narrative.

10. Overemphasis of antisemitism on the left

Antisemitism is a real issue and has the potential to fester in left circles if not directly addressed head on. Combatting antisemitism is extremely important, however, it is not an issue exclusive to the left. There is also a double standard in that no one expects Zionists to call out Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. Certain accusations of "antisemitism" also seek to distract from what's going on in Palestine by making it about Jewish comfort and feelings. Combatting antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism etc is always important as the basis of good politics.

Last but not least, be wary of native collaborators or any sort of normalisers! They are Palestinians or Arabs who try very hard to appeal to Western liberal consensus and can end up perpetuating a lot of harm to the cause and/or other activists. You will know them when you see them.

#good post. ive also seen a lot of them claim they allegedly support palestinian liberation [footage not found]