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i'm so, so excited to share this painting with you. i have officially been making art for 20 years, and i thought it would be fun to repaint the first digital work i ever made.

i have wanted to give up art so many times over the years. i'm tremendously proud of myself for sticking with it and improving as much as i have. i hope you're proud of me too! please be sure to zoom in to see all those details i worked so hard on (especially the rhinestones!!). thank you for being with me during my art journey. 20 years, 20 more 🖤

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You know what

Screw it

If this post gets 5k[edit, the new goal is 10k omg] notes before the end of January, I'll come out to my parents, get my hair cut, and ask parents for the things I need to pass as a boy.

Have fun

[Temporarily pinning]

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Reblog to have the most homoerotic year of your life 2024

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origins

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When Henry Kissinger dies, we about to fucking party.

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. . . But in 1948 Israel declared its sovereignty from the British Mandate through the besiegement of indigenous Palestinians. The new nation retained Regulation 133(3) with an important caveat: It was amended to give military commanders complete control over where a body is buried, as opposed to the original “community to which such person belongs.” This is the legal basis of postmortem detention, and over the last 80 years the scope of the law has expanded greatly. Namely, who is subject to postmortem detention by the military (from “enemy soldier” to the blanket term “terrorist”) and when the state is entitled to seize bodies (from “times of war” to “forever war on terror”). Regulation 133(3) can now impose restrictions on funerals when a body is returned to a family. When Palestinian prisoner Mustafa Arabat succumbed to torture in 1992, Israeli courts ruled in favor of the military to enforce that his funeral be held in the middle of the night and only attended by immediate family. Today, families whose bodies are eventually returned to them must abide by the military’s rules on how to express their final rites. Israeli law explicitly defines these funerals as a threat to “public order” and grants soldiers power over a family’s grieving.

. . . full article on The Nation (29 June, 2023)

[archived link]

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Please please please I know we all love Friends and Chandler was our favourite character and Matthew always put a smile on our faces and that’s all amazing but can we please please please talk about this:

“I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I'm still working through it personally, but the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, 'Will you help me?' I will always say, 'Yes, I know how to do that. I will do that for you, even if I can't always do it for myself! So I do that, whenever I can. In groups, or one on one.

And I created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober-living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me, and to people who love people like me.

When I die, I know people will talk about Friends, Friends, Friends. And I'm glad of that, happy l've done some solid work as an actor, as well as given people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the world wide web...

but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people.

I know it won't happen, but it would be nice.”

- Matthew Langford Perry

(August 19, 1969 - October 28, 2023)

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i don't really know how to relay the horrors that palestinians are describing first-hand, if you can speak arabic and follow people from gaza online there are some phrases i don't think anyone will forget, some things for the arabic-speaking world will scar for life just like muhammed al-durra scarred me as a child. at least five of the people i followed since last week (journalists, photographers, students, artists, tiktokers) are dead now. it's becoming terrifying to follow someone from gaza, because you don't know if they're going to be alive tomorrow. i don't really know how to describe this feeling? what is it to follow some kid on tiktok who's making jokes while planes drop bombs around him and think "i hope he stays alive?"

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Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel, in 1973, 1992 and 2011. Photos by Francis Khoo (1, 2) and Jean-Pascal Deillon (3).

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So I went to read the Kids Online Safety Act, thinking that it couldn't possibly be as bad as what people are making it out to be, I mean I'm a lawyer and expert in statutory interpretation, it can't be that bad, right?

Oh no. KOSA IS that bad. It will literally eradicate queer people online.

The bill says that a "covered platform" - broadly defined as "anything on the internet a minor might use" which is literally the entire fucking internet- has a "duty" to protect minors from anything that might harm them, including "sexual exploitation" and other undefined terms

It also gives state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce it.

So here's exactly what's gonna happen:

Wacko republicans, as they've been doing with increasing force this year and last, are going to sue any and every website in existence, saying that the mere existence of LGBT people online constitutes sexual abuse of minors. And websites are gonna be so afraid of not doing the most that they'll just axe all LGBT everything.

Like. Republicans have been calling all LGBT people groomers and child molesters for years. The lead Republican literally admitted this bill will be used to attack trans people.

This bill is BAD bad. I'm appalled that democrats are lining up behind what is clearly a republican Trojan horse to eradicate LGBT people from the entire internet.

Call your senator

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There's a new swarm of totally real ladies with empty blogs following me, and I'm blocking and reporting them left and right. If you are an actual human person with a brand new account trying to follow me, I urge you to please post *anything at all* on your blog so that when I go to check who the heck you are, I can tell you aren't just a bot-encrusted void. Just a simple "hello this is my lurker account I use to follow people" is enough.

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As I'm writing this post there's over 2000 people dead in Morocco and more are injured and wounded, not counting people still stuck under the rubble.

If you can donate PLEASE do!!!

Edit here's more links:

Croissant Rouge Marrakech (Red Crescent Marrakesh):

https://don.secourspopulaire.fr/maroc/~mon-don?fbclid=PAAabUyxKBEILvZoe3PIFRcD75aR2hquWRiyuKr5Jrs7h3JVk5dcXwyLOqiag_aem_AYxPVtbmhTGzchzaoUsa0R7jBhxQq29oPaF0FmzGn566W4-Cn6vKtMKgKAaTGkenCAU

AFCD Fondation:

Titulaire du compte : HOURIA ET TOUILE ( Représentante de l’association de

futur pour les chantiers et développement- AFCD Fondation)

RIB: 230 450 3338851211030300 15

IBAN : MA64 2304 5033 3885 1211 0303 0015

Code SWIFT: CIHMMAMC

● Association Tamounte Ouirgane:

Titulaire du compte : ASS TAMOUNT POUR LE DEV DE LA

RIB : 145 475 2111666536490006 74

SWIFT : BCPOMAMC

El Baraka Angels:

N° de Compte: 007 810 000105500000021509

Code Swift International: BCMAMAMC

Agence Attijari WafaBank, Avenue de France, Rabat

La Banque Centrale du Maroc (Bank Al Maghrib)

Depuis le Maroc 🇲🇦 :

RIB : 001-810-0078000201106203-18

Depuis l’étranger 🌍:

IBAN : MA64001810007800020110620318

CODE SWIFT : BKAMMAMR

Those are the most reliable sources for donations but again double check. If you have more sources feel free to add them.

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odd tumblr glitch.. while it seems they have extended the time tumblr live is snoozed from 1 week to 30 days

despite it being clearly switched on, and me even turning it on and off again multiple times, i think the snooze button has been broken completely because the tumblr live page will not go away at all

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"If only the paddies could just conveniently forget and forgive the state-sanctioned murder of members of their community then we all can put this nasty business behind us" If you want truth and reconciliation, first you need the truth.