I have a few resources!

There's a number of recipes here, including one for hashweh which the cook suggests you can serve at Christmas with a leg of lamb.

Palestine in a Dish has an archive of Christmas cookies and is generally a good source of recipes.

Almond & Fig is another Palestinian recipe blog which posted a series of Christmas recipes and memories from Bethlehem here.

And if you want to learn a bit more about Palestinian Christmas food, Middle East Eye did an article about it, although there aren't any recipes.

My absolute favorite Palestinian cookbook (and I collect them because my family is the worst at teaching recipes) is the gaza kitchen also here

snackies!!

“I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

anyway i watched jesus christ superstar last night and i cannot stop thinking about this vocal performance. carl anderson made me lose my fucking mind

having a lot of thoughts and feelings about judas

the reprisal of mary magdalene’s “i don’t know how to love him” sung by judas is driving me absolutely batshit insane

The Great Lakes should have their own very small species of whale

i can't believe the world's saddest grocery list sold for $512 rich people are insane

[NOTE READS:

milk

white bread

baloney + cheese

doughnuts

saltines (salt tops)

pretzel

cereal]

the idf has ransacked the freedom theatre, located in jenin camp. they have abducted several members of the board of the theatre, including ahmed tobasi, the artistic director and mustafa sheta, producer of the freedom theatre. the link above is a google doc that the theatre itself is updating as more news comes to light on the situation.

to us and uk followers: if your theatre has ever worked with the freedom theatre, like the public theatre in the united states, demand they call for the release of these people. if you have ever been in theatre, and it’s impacted you in some way, this is a call to action. the freedom theatre operates in an occupation, and inspires everyone who helped put on their different works.

imprisoning and killing artists is a part of genocide.

I’ve been playing so much sudoku. You have no idea how much sudoku I’m playing. Every time I close my eyes I see the grid. I’m making moves in my sleep. 179432568. 653897124. 824516937. 915683742. 246175893. 387249615. 561724389. 498351276. 732968451. This morning before I was fully awake I was playing sudoku in my head. I rise with the dawn. I’m a warrior of numbers. You’re nothing to me.

The iron fortress of my mind is like the torment nexus for Arabic numerals 1 through 9. No puzzle forged against me shall prosper. I’m the square’s strongest soldier. You can’t even count, bitch. If sudoku was a drug I’d be in rehab, except I wouldn’t, because I never quit. There are 81 squares in the sudoku board and that means there are at least 81 things that are more important than you. Now get the fuck out of my sight.

I wasn't finished yet. I'm scribing numbers you haven't even heard of. I play so much sudoku in my brain I can't tell if I actually played sudoku this morning, or if I just thought about it really hard. I asked the lady at the checkout counter if she had any more sudoku puzzles. She said "i'll check in the back." She went to the back, and she never came back. I'm like a cave fish. I'm losing senses I don't need. I'm adapted to my environment. I don't know who I am anymore

Israeli soldiers went inside a school in Northern Gaza and abducted the men and then went into a room where women were hiding and opened fire. This is a massacre

It was the Shadia Abu Ghazala School

Okay, since the Spielberg post blew up, I need to clear up something because I can see in the notes that pple think that Spielberg owns the rights to MLK speeches and I don't want to spread any misinformation. This is what the Vice article says:

This means that while the MLK estate still owns the original copyright for the speeches, Spielberg actually bought and now owns the film rights to MLK's speeches. However, this doesn't erase how problematic it it is since this means that Spielberg is the only filmmaker legally allowed to use MLK's speeches word for word in his films. A White filmmaker is essentially holding onto the film rights, at the expense of Black filmmakers. The article talks about how Ava Duvernay had to write original speeches from scratch for Selma.

The article also mentioned that Spielberg bought life rights and according to this Forbes article, this means that Spielberg also bought the rights to MLK's life.

Hope this clarifies everything!

- mod sodapop

starting Nona the Ninth. what’s the worst that could happen. I ask you . what is the goddamn worst that could happen

I didn’t even have time to make a ‘we’re so back’ joke because we were so over not 3 pages later

ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER ITS SO OVER

Young Palestinians, in Martyrs’ Square, kiss their hands and then jump to touch the pictures of their heroes who were killed while throwing stones at Israeli soldiers, Gaza Strip 2000.

Israel doesn't know where the tunnels are and the tunnels themselves aren't interconnected so flooding won't work. They tried this before and it failed.

This is just them salting the earth, making it impossible for Gazans to plant crops. This will ensure that Palestinians starve even after the Israeli army withdraws

starting Nona the Ninth. what’s the worst that could happen. I ask you . what is the goddamn worst that could happen

I didn’t even have time to make a ‘we’re so back’ joke because we were so over not 3 pages later

12 December 2023