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So I've decided to make renders of the Nitro+CHiRAL protagonists in their latest collective artwork as they model for the shirts that the company is currently selling. You can learn more about that here.

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The Harvest by Stefan Koidl

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Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :

“Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)

“200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)

“Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)

“To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)

“Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)

“3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)

“Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)

“Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)

“Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)

“A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)

“Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Omar” - a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way so that i can add them to this list]

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Jef Bourgeau

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What? Me?

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yeah no naruto and sasuke aren’t in my dream blunt rotation. sorry. naruto would start thinking that everyone around him hates him and he’d have a weed panic attack and sasuke would just…. do this

for 2 hours

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sasuke is a very self sacrificial character but the audience doesn’t pick up in this because his self sacrifice is to those he cares for only, not in a self sacrifice for the world itself. obviously one of the best example is him throwing his life away without blinking to protect naruto at low but. he also spends years of his life self sacrificing every aspect of a kid’s normal life because he’s too focused in the duty of avenging the ones he loves. he’s—as he himself states—ready to give his soul to the devil if that gives him the power of fulfilling that. he distances himself from comfort and company because he can’t afford himself lose sight. later on, he believes its his responsibility to protect the peace his brother wanted even if to achieve said peace he has to become the martyr and be the sole person to be suffering…

and this is why vote 2 sasuke being pulled out of that goal will never be wrong to me. there’s a reason why sasuke looks so relieved to say he lost. it’s not just him accepting he can’t cut off naruto, its sasuke who has finally letting go of the mindset he has to sacrifice his oneself for the sake of bringing justice of those he loved

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Midori Ito at the 2023 International Adult Figure Skating Competition

She’s 53, she’s amazing and she radiates joy ✨✨

(She won btw)

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narusasu

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Frank Paton - Witness my Act and Deed (1882)

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hmmmm nothing changes between these grandpas

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Korilakkuma: Full of Strawberry Day

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“In a culture so besotted with personal ease, it is a profound act not to turn away. To commit. To speak up. To protest. To teach. To gather in community and action.

So much of this moment involves breathtaking misinformation, attachment to ideas, conflation of preservation and narrative - the insistence that one person's safety can only exist by siphoning another's freedom. For many allies, the antidote is to continue to relationally show up, look for openings, continue to humanize, continue to seek out messy, uncomfortable conversations.

And for those contemplating and questioning: remember that at any given moment you may choose to reevaluate an idea. You may choose the risk of curiosity. The power of private, quiet reckonings: the ones happening behind the scenes, the tender confrontations between you and yourself, between yourself and a long-held belief.

It is easy to focus on the sense of powerlessness, the inconceivable loss, the vetoes, the complicity. It might feel cognitively harder to recognize our collective power, to remember the impact of small actions: they dismantle powerful narratives, seed curiosity, mount political pressure.

There is no miraculous tide that is shifting: the tide is made up of millions of people around the world choosing to pour their hearts, time, resources, hearts, personal ease into not looking away.

Steadfastness says more about the relentlessness of oppression than some magical patience inherent to the oppressed.

There is nothing glorious about steadfastness: it is a task like any other. Nobody should be asked to do it. Steadfastness, endurance, resolve: these are choices in the service of our moral compass and value system, of how we want to spend our time on this earth.”

— Hala Alyan

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[Video ID: The video shows two women singing on a boat, taking turns. The woman on the right is Sofia Adriana, she starts singing a traditional Spanish song often hummed while baking bread, called Panadera. Then the woman on the left , Palestinian Singer “Terez Sliman”, follows by singing the Palestinian song 'Ya Talleen Al Jabal'. Both women show harmony and synchronization in their singing, clapping their hands on the boat to create music.]

"Ya Tall’een Al Jabal " - "يا طالعين الجبل" , a song from the Palestinian heritage was sung by Palestinian women in coded language to their imprisoned husbands and relatives in British prisons during the 1936 revolution to tell them resistance fighters would soon free them, while disguising words with the letter "L.". While "Panadera" in the Spanish language means baker, it is a traditional Spanish song that women sang during the baking process. The movement of the hands in rhythm represents the baking process.

"يا طالعين الجبل" أغنية من التراث الفلسطيني كانت تغنيها النساء الفلسطينيات عند زيارة الأسرى في سجون الإحتلال. كانت النساء يضفن حرف اللام بين مقاطع الأغنية للتمويه لإيصال رسالة للأسرى أنه الليلة سيقوم الفدائييون بتحريرهم.

باناديرا في اللغة الإسبانية تعني الخبّاز، هي أغنية تقليدية اسبانية كانت النساء تغنيها أثناء عملية الخبز. حركة اليدين في الإيقاع هو عملية الخبز فعليًا.

Sung by: Terez Sliman (to the left) | Sofia Adriana Portugal (to the right)

🎥( Video Credit )

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Today is not only Malleus's Birthday, but also Lilia's 'rebirth!'

Happy Birthday Malleus!

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excerpted from: Rebecca Solnit, "Slow Change Can Be Radical Change." January 11, 2024

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btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️