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I wanted to apologize for the amount of political stuff on my blog. But guess what? Let's fucking not.

I am proudly European. Always was, always been. But I cannot say always will be after tonight.

On what is supposed to be Europe Day, Israël got 39% of votes at the Eurovision, according to the Italian channel Rai. 39%. And the only people able to vote are Europeans.

By doing that, we, the people who are supposed to promote diversity and peace, gave them the opportunity to perform on the biggest stage of Europe on Saturday.

We gave them visibility when Palestine has none in this contest. EBU even censured the performance of one Palestinian singer. How is it normal?

Worst, they are now part of the favorite to win, right now, for the bookmakers. They are second after Croatia. This is a fucking disgrace. This is something that should not be happening.

So for Saturday, and considering the EBU behavior, I will state this, repeating something that everyone is saying for weeks:

BOYCOTT THE EUROVISION

BOYCOTT THE EBU

And if you still want to watch? Put Israël on the last spot. Please.

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honestly pissed off that Eurovision is trending despite the very explicit call for a boycott from BDS itself. Went into the tag hoping that there would be content about Palestine but no…some of u are unironically excited about this stupid fucking genocide supporting contest. If you can’t skip watching Eurovision for Palestine while Israel is literally invading Rafah…like good lord it’s not even the bare minimum it’s lower than that. BDS has been calling for a boycott for months now so it isn’t like this is a last minute thing either.

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Block and divest from celebrities and influencers -the one's who make millions/billions and continue to remain willfully ignorant and silent about genocide. This newest 'strategy,' for folks who have the time to do so online -please do.

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I'm convinced the reason Israel hasn't been banned from the esc is because of Moroccanoil. They sponsor the whole event. An Israeli brand. It's all about money. It always will be.

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Something I learned in these last seven months is that when children get war-related amputations, they need further surgeries as they grow.

I'd read it on Twitter so I looked it up to confirm (and it's true) but a lot of the search results were hospitals and doctors trying to explain the process to parents and what to tell their children, what kind of care they'd need after, how prosthetics would work.

I just saw this adorable little baby on Twitter (you can click to view the video, it's not gory, he's just a super serious little dude)

and I thought, fleeing from Rafah must be one of the most traumatizing dangerous situations you could be in right now as a healthy adult, let alone a baby with multiple amputations in famine conditions.

There are no working hospitals to speak of in Gaza, healthcare workers keep being killed off, aid keeps being blocked, many of the amputees have no one to look after them, there's still constant bombing and shelling and shooting.

UNICEF reported 1,000 child amputees by the end of November.

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I am reactivating an account that has been dead for 10+ years to inform everyone of what is happening.

Israel will win Eurovision 2024.

After tonight's semifinal, the Italian broadcaster RAI accidentally released the results of their televote, normally this only happens after the grand final so as not to influence voting.

Israel won the televote with 40%.

This can be compared with Ukraine winning the Italian televote in their 2022 semifinal with something like 25%.

This can almost certainly be guaranteed to be replicated in every voting country on Saturday which means that Israel is likely to max out the amount of televotes they could receive.

This is not necessarily because the majority of people watching are in support of them, but rather because pro-Israeli votes will be concentrated to one (1) song while the anti-Israeli vote will be watered down between the remaining 25 songs.

The only way that Israel will lose on Saturday is if they somehow are tanked by the jury vote, but the jury is essentially 180 individuals who themselves might vote pro-Israeli and their vote will carry an immense amount of power.

So the likelihood of Israel losing is essentially 0%, and Eurovision will be in absolute shambles and probably won't recover for years.

EBU did this to themselves by not banning Israel all the way back in January when the first protest lists started appearing.

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As protests start ramping up and violence escalates please remember:

DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES FOR PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.

It can and will cause infection due to bacteria. Flush with water, distilled if possible, and never EVER wear contact lenses to protests where there may be police retaliation.

Please reblog. It may save someone's sight.

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A sea of protesters gathered in Malmo, Sweden today to show solidarity with Palestine and protest against Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest.

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The Toymaker did something to The Vlinx that's gonna come back to haunt us in the future. I'm calling it now, because we already saw it happen. And if you don't believe me, go watch the Spice Girl's scene in The Giggle. At the very end of the song, right before he hops through the floor. He points to The Vlinx, there's a funky bleeping noise, and it's eyes go red.

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With Doctor who coming out on Disney+ and BBC Iplayer early, I want to see how everyone is watching it, so:

[Pirating is included in the streaming options]

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After how Cara was treated in the first poll this may be a bad decision but I had fun making it so here's another one

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Three days ago, the Israeli military dropped flyers ordering displaced people and residents of Rafah to leave. In the orders where people were told to move out of Rafah, the military said it was “about to operate with force against the terror organisations in the area”. A UN estimate says there are 1.2 million people sheltering in dire conditions in Rafah, Gaza's southern city. The "full-blown famine" that has taken hold in the north of Gaza has spread to the south, Cindy McCain, the head of the World Food Programme, confirmed over the weekend. There are roughly 200 Palestinians that are being forcibly displaced from Rafah every hour, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Wednesday. During an online press briefing, medical doctors and humanitarian aid workers reporting from the ground in Gaza spoke about the impossible feat of moving people from Rafah, as people are ridden by famine plus a collapsed transportation and healthcare system. "There are children and elderly that are so starved that they can barely walk. These people cannot just relocate to another area, to so-called 'safe zones'. It is not possible," Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy from Save the Children, said. Several aid workers have expressed that there is no "safe" area in the Gaza Strip for people to relocate to. "The concept of safe zones is a lie," Helena Marchal, from Medecins du Monde, said. Aid workers also reiterated the difficulty of getting aid both into Gaza and then distributing it. Both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom crossings, through which most aid reached the besieged Strip, have closed since Sunday evening. Roads across Gaza are largely destroyed or blocked by people sheltering, contributing to the difficulty of movement of both goods and people. Only a very limited number of routes, especially between the north and south, are available for humanitarian use, Jeremy Konyndyk, from Refugees International, explained. Another issue is overcrowding. "In Deir al-Balah and the Mawasi area on the outskirts of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, there is barely any space. There are tents everywhere, on the beach, on the sidewalks, the streets, the graveyards, the courtyards of the hospitals, in the courtyards of the schools," Ghada Alhaddad, from Oxfam International, said. Saieh explained that it took her team six weeks and four failed attempts to move a couple of hundred food parcels from Rafah to the north of Gaza. "One litre of fuel cost $40 yesterday," according to Ranchal. Fuel enters through the Rafah crossing. If the fuel is cut off, the aid operation collapses," Konyndyk said.

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i know it’s all just jokes but i think we should fr stop acting like the people around us don’t have inner lives. “npc” becoming an acceptable term to call people is very disturbing to me like genuinely idc if it’s not that deep…. plus the new phenomena of calling things you find no substance in “coworker music/movies/etc” like i get the conceit of the joke but i think when you refer to other people in that way consistently, you start to genuinely become convinced that people are just there to fill the background of your life, that they don’t have hobbies or families or lives beyond what you perceive, and that’s so bad. that’s sooooo bad to think of people

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Switching my language from “Israel is detaining Palestinians in the West Bank” to “Israel is abducting Palestinians in the West Bank” because that’s actually what’s happening. They are not detainees. They are hostages. Innocent Palestinians get taken from their homes randomly, held up in detention centers indefinitely, and subjected to the cruelest conditions on no basis other than “you might do something bad in the future, so we have a right to imprison you.” This is what Israel calls administrative detention—and through it they have managed to get away with kidnapping hundreds of innocent Palestinians.

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late night reminder to self: your depressive episode will not last forever. it will have an end. tonight will not be the end of you.

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This war has to stop. Israel is stopping aid from getting into Gaza and people are starving.