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they/them | adult | bi | most things are queued | avatar by keymintt
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mudmouths

Israel has deployed auto-firing quadcopters that emit the sounds of crying babies.

https://xtwitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1780038184828608975

There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.

Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.

If you have money to spare, please consider donating to some of the fundraisers on Operation Olive Branch to help people escape this genocide.

End the occupation. Free Palestine.

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frozenemus

I liked this prematurely because I wanted to investigate for myself but yeah, it's true. Here's two news outlets reporting on the matter: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/disturbing-recordings-crying-infants-played-israeli-quadcopters-lure-gaza-residents-shooting https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6271 Normally I try to find a recurring pattern for stuff like this however I think this information is too fresh for there to be a considerable precedent yet.

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bisco
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I must post TOO ASS! at every opportunity because the source video has since been deleted so I think this is the only proof TOO ASS! ever existed

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profeminist

"School districts that don’t respectΒ transgenderΒ andΒ nonbinaryΒ students’ pronouns or force them to use restrooms that don’t align with their gender identity could be committing federal civil rights violations beginning this fall.

Today, the U.S. Department ofΒ EducationΒ announced the issuance of a final rule under Title IX to protect people in public schools from sex-based discrimination and harassment. The announcement marks a significant update in federal efforts to combat sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. During a call with reporters, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized the administration’s dedication to ensuring that Title IX effectively serves all students by providing safe, welcoming, and rights-respecting educational environments."

Read the full piece here

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I got accepted onto long-term disability through my employer/the state, but that doesn’t take effect until August 1st because it’s based off of my resignation date with the district.

I’m making monthly $672.01 COBRA payments to keep my insurance until then, which I need for 100% of my nutrition and hydration through feeding tube and central line.

I’ll need $2016.03 to make it via COBRA alone until August. That’s on top of all of our other bills and my spouse working full-time.

If you can’t donate, please support me by reblogging and following my other socials so I can monetize my content on other platforms.

@ paralyzedguts on TikTok and Instagram, I make educational content about disability and other social justice topics. I’ve been featured on NowThis Impact and work with organizations like The Oley Foundation and G-PACT.

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angelsaxis

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MUTUAL AID REQUEST!!

Being a trans woman in Nigeria is a constant battle for survival. I'm seeking help to overcome these challenges and survive with dignity.

I'm seeking help with HRT meds, feeding, and living basics.

Your support means the world to me

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imagining a world where askjeeves won out as the most popular search engine so people having arguments online end up saying stuff like "literally just ask jeeves about this, it's not hard"

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27-moons

Update Harvard students are walking out in solidarity with Columbia’s students

These are billion dollar for profit institutions that directly impact financial backing of Israel’s apartheid regime

MIT is walking out! Do you not understand how huge this is? Do you understand what holds Israel afloat?

In solidarity with Columbia Yale students have just constructed an encampment. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.

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kiramae54

I have a zombie gnome on little stump by my front porch.

Today, I saw some kid walking to the bus stop, turn and come up my walkway.

Gently, he knelt down beside my gnome, reached into his pocket, and pulled out a smaller gnome with a rainbow hat. He carefully placed the little guy on the stump, then turned and went to the bus.

I went out to take a look and it looks like the little guy was hand painted to match the zombies facial expression.

I think I'm going to treasure this for the rest of my life. Yeah, there's good in the world. And the kids are alright.

You are so right, tumblr user @ubersaur.

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cutecipher

Nobody irl told me i could be a trans woman, I found that all out online and even then it took me years to figure out a way to come out that wouldnt involve me being humiliated (it didnt work btw) so no I dont think a trans woman talking to me about gender would have been a problem and probably would have saved me years of torment but hey if more trans women existing is scary to you i guess it makes sense to not want anyone discussing it

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people will be confused about trans women forming such tight knit communities and being wary of non-transfem people and suspiciously call us "separatists" and then turn around and participate in a mass harassment campaign against yet another trans woman

its just like. its reached a point where pretty much all of us have either been subject to one of these callouts or at minimum had someone close to us subject to one. so of course we're going to have each other's backs. why the fuck wouldnt we.

They're not confused at all- they're mad.

Mad that they can't socially murder us anymore, that we're not there for them to use and put down and get rid of once they're sick of us. They're mad that we're acknowledging their tools of violence, mad that we're sticking together instead of letting them isolate us one by one. They're mad that we're giving each other worth that they can't control. They're mad that we aren't eager to be let into their mutual circles and discords so they can have a whipping girl. They're mad that we're giving each other worth that they can't control.

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prokopetz

The dismissive attitude toward a certain stripe of "fandom discourse" is getting more and more irksome to be me because it completely – and, I suspect, wilfully – elides how transparently targeted a lot of this shit is. Sure, anonymously swanning into somebody's inbox like "it's pretty sus that you don't have a pinned post preemptively denouncing the hypothetical wrongdoing I imagine your mutuals might commit in the future" is ridiculous on its face, but pay close attention to who gets hit with the lion's share of this shit. It's a calculated harassment tactic aimed at specific visible minorities – mostly trans women this time around, though it's varied in the past – that explicitly relies on the absurdity of what it's proposing to escape serious criticism.

Like, shit, I have personally seen people play the "you're guilty by association because you follow somebody who follows somebody who had a bad take" game by tracing a path through my blog without breathing a word of censure in my direction in the process. I'd ask how that makes sense, but we already know the answer, right?