can you please promise you will try having reading comprehension skills? for me 🥺

Rapper Macklemore is releasing a track called “Hind’s Hall”, speaking out on the genocide of Palestinians, and the United States complacency in this ongoing violence. Macklemore has stated that once the track drops on streaming, all proceeds from streams will be going directly to UNRWA— the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.

The new tracks namesake Hind’s Hall echoes the honours that Columbia University encampment protestors bestowed the Morningside Heights campus’ Hamilton Hall— in memory of Hind Rajab, the 6 year old Palestinian girl in Gaza who was shot by Israeli soldiers after being trapped inside a vehicle, with her dead family. She had begged to be rescued as tanks closed in on her.

Macklemore using his platform to vehemently speak out against genocide, the Israeli occupation and United States-led violence is what every single artist should be doing right now. The power of art should not be underestimated. Macklemore started out in the Hip-Hop scene within communist circles, namely working alongside Blue Scholars, and has never neglected his Leftism through out his career: the artist has spoken on issues regarding mental health, addiction, racial profiling and police violence, Capitalism, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and toxicity of American culture.

“The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied” Hind’s Hall, Macklemore, 2024

No joke is one-size-fits-all, but adding "but I remain optimistic" at the end of any somewhat-speculating statement makes it funny, taking a different tone in each.

Adding it to the end of something positive gives it an unexpected twist - implying that whatever the good thing that happened was, it wasn't what you expected or hoped to happen, but you're yet to give up hope of whatever the fuck you've now vaguely implied towards might still happen. "He survived and is expected to make a full recovery, but I remain optimistic."

Adding it to a neutral statement implies that you think something can be done about it, funniest if the statement is something that obviously can't be affected. "Apparently it's tuesday tomorrow, but I remain optimistic."

And the bleakest, most hopeless statements just become bleakly funny by the grim absurdity. "About 30 seconds remain until impact, and the chances of any of us surviving the crash are zero. But I remain optimistic."

Been seeing a lot of posts i want to unleash the scarab on 🪲

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Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust

#a samurai with a flintlock pistol sitting next to a guy dressed as a caveman drinking a styrofoam cup of dr pepper#and it fucks severely

It's not THE renaissance, it's A renaissance. Of what? Up to you

Being autistic is weird bc it's a lot like putting on a play. You gotta remember your lines, deliver them like a normal human, and tripping up on what you say can break the immersion of normalcy. Also you're at the dentist

This might be the blooper reel but its my movie bay bee

Leaflets (read: death threats) were dropped on the eastern side of Rafah by Israeli warplanes just a few hours ago, in translation they read:

"Urgent Warning

To the residents and the displaced in Alshwka municipality, Salam neighbourhoods, Aljunaynah, Alboyok, block numbers:

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, 270

The Israeli Defence Forces will be working intensely against terrorist organisations in your areas, as they have been until now.

Whoever is near the terrorist organisations puts their life and their family members' lives in danger.

For your safety, the Israeli Defence Forces urges you to evacuate immediately to the designated humanitarian area in Almawasi. Gaza city is still an area of intense fighting, do not return back to the North.

Do not come close to the eastern or southern security fence.

Israeli Defence Forces"

Since this morning, the eastern side of Rafah has seen an increasing number of intense Israeli airstrikes, including in areas where displaced Palestinians set up tents.

Quick reminder that there is absolutely no place to go in Rafah. Rafah is one of the most densely populated areas in the world right now. This is basically an extermination notice handed out to 1.4 million Palestinians (almost half of Gaza's population) who are displaced and have been crammed into the southern most part of Gaza, as Israel has been systematically pushing them this way for over 6 months now. And we don't have to even talk about the lie that is the "humanitarian routes", especially considering Israel's specific targeting of said routes throughout this aggression.

Important to note that this evacuation order covers the area where the Rafah crossing is, where aid is supposedly meant to enter the strip. Additionally, it includes the area where the only remaining functioning hospital in Rafah is. It does not get anymore obviously genocidal than this.

Every journalist from Rafah reports how people have nowhere to go and have decided to watch what happens next exactly because they are trapped. So needless to say, this is going to be catastrophic at every level imaginable.

[Picture captured from Hind Khoudary's instagram story]

(Xユーザーのしぴこめᓚᘏᗢさん: 「注）これは我が家のキジトラです。 https://t.co/uue4kAeHqY」 / Xから)

Aah!! Long thunderbolt mysteriously appearing!!! The lengthy grabber is a cat! ✓

urgently seeking more images of this nature

White People on tumblr who dont listen to rap, ignoring all the racial and historical context of why Kendrick is going against drake to just make it a fun trendy meme/ Kendrick being a hater is the same exact reason Kendrick called drake a colonizer

As someone who knows, like, nothing at all about rap, could someone give me a SparkNotes rundown on the racial/historical context of the situation? Because I've tried to find a good summary but mostly all I've found is very light hearted "lol this is hilarious" stuff or dramatised "OOHHHH, THERES BEEF' stuff, which hasn't really helped me work out what's going on

There are no "sparknotes" for years, if not at least decades of racial/historical context for a whole genre of music that leads to this point.

However, if you're truly interested in learning about it, F.D Signifier has a whole indepth video about Drake and where he stands in the Rap/Hip Hop community

Also

This is a good follow-up to that video

Also, for general understanding of how Hip Hop ended up comodified to give even more context and understanding why it's considered that Drake is just a colonizer in the genre, I recommend Lil Bill's 3 parter on how the hood and subsequently rap and hip-hop got comodified

Theres also vids going over every diss exchanged between Drake and Kendrick and all that but those don't go over why people like Drake are a problem.

You guys do realize that just because trans men primarily experience infantilization doesnt mean that we dont also experience demonization right

gamerbros be like “im not a transphobe but if you acknowledge that trans people exist in your game i will absolutely refuse to play it or stop immediately if i am currently playing it”

Is the post about that one boomer game reviewer who was seething over a game’s dlc having a scene with 2 10 pixel sized pride flags?

This one

You left out the best part