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Chasing The High Of Being First Chair Alto Sax

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future babushka | white | clinically exhausted
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"syntax error: unclosed if at line 56": perfect error message, tells me exactly what I need to fix and exactly where to look for it.

"memory write failure at address 0xeb008a": good error message. describes the problem well enough to enable troubleshooting by an experienced user.

"something went wrong, please try again": bad error message. does not tell me anything useful.

"oops! something blooped! 🙁": I will kill you with my bare teeth

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tramampoline

the lovely woman who owned kabosu, the shiba known as doge, should get to take a point blank shot at elon musk with the doohickey that killed shinzo abe

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reading blackshirts and reds. 1) having a great time 2) I remember Toscano in Late Fascism gives a bunch of definitions of fascism and one of them was that fascism is bourgeois class consciousness. applying that label to fascism seems to be pretty productive while reading Parenti

like how do you not go insane reading history. how do you not lose your fucking mind

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Families in Gaza are starving because of Israel blocking resources from entering. The consequences of childhood starvation are severe and deadly, both immediately and long term. Malnutrition weakens your immune system and leaves you more vulnerable to infectious diseases, and makes it harder for your body to fight the illness, so the chance of severe illness from common illnesses is higher. Even completely treatable illnesses can kill you when you’re starving and don’t have access to medical care. This combined with lack of clean and safe drinking water is extremely dangerous, especially for the children. Malnutrition stunts your growth, affects your development and heightens risk of serious health problems for the rest of your life. Being underweight and suffering from malnutrition makes you cold more easily, and more vulnerable to hypothermia.

Can you imagine as a parent having to witness your child suffering like this? Fearing for your children’s lives from what would usually be a relatively minor illness? Hearing them cry from hunger because the occupation is starving them? This is every parents worst nightmare, but for Ahed this is reality.

Ahed has three beautiful young daughters under 10 years old. 9 year old Fatima “the closest to (Ahed’s) heart and my little one”, 6 year old Iman “the friendly, kind, and loving child who is loved by everyone” and little Nour, who is only one year old and has barely got to experience peace in her short life.

He campaigns every day to get attention for his campaign to feed them and keep them warm and hopefully evacuate when the border opens. We have the power to help Ahed and his little children survive this. Food prices in Gaza are extremely high and it’s difficult to even get water. Ahed and his family do not have adequate shelter from the cold. Donations can help him buy food and clothing and blankets for his children to keep them warm in the winter They’re already suffering so much from the sounds of bombs and repeated displacements, starvation and infectious diseases is another cruel consequence of the occupations genocide in Gaza.

I know he is scared and exhausted from asking for help for this, but he keeps going because his children are his whole world, and like any parent he would do anything to save them. This is his hope. I believe it’s our job, as the people who support and care about palestinians lives, to make sure the people who reach out for help know that the world hasn’t forgotten them. Please show Ahed that the compassionate people of the world will help him

they only have €7,153 raised out of the 40,000 goal. Anything you send will help a lot ❤️

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Could you imagine if one of them was on their death bed and you couldn't pay for the medical costs of keeping them alive?

Omar is at risk of losing his brother Mohammed, who is currently in the ICU. His brother and his brother's children are the last surviving member's of his family. If he dies, the children will become orphaned, since they already lost their mother.

The doctors have had a hard time stopping the internal bleeding. Omar needs help to pay for blood transfusions to keep him alive until he's able to heal. It costs him at least $150 per day.

Please, PLEASE donate & share.

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annevbonny

i really think social media is radicalizing for people who are relatively powerful in society for a basic epistemological reason in that they are now being exposed to intercommunity or private or hell even just public but typically unheard conversations b/w members of oppressed groups that they hardly ever interact with meaningfully in real life. so a woman or a person of color or whoever it may be telling them to fuck off or even just describing their life experiences becomes this earth shattering and dangerous revelation when really they’re just getting to hear how they are generally perceived as a class in the eyes of those groups for the first time. and those random strangers have no actual power over them but it feels like they do because they make them feel bad. but that’s not fixable is it. unless of course you demand that the people speaking police themselves constantly as though they are being watched by lions so as not to hurt the feelings of people who benefit from their subjugation because god forbid those people are radicalized to subjugate them “even more.” even more than what? they’ve already got the power. they have literally already got the power. and if when alerted to that fact for the first time those people go crazy then that’s on them. the upside is some people don’t go crazy and those are the people who can actually become allies down the line after they’ve gotten over themselves. bc it means they are not foaming at the mouth to become reactionaries at the drop of a hat

i think this is also partly the reason why usamericans start saying the wildest most hitlerite shit online after being exposed to a handful of ppl from “over there” being like “hey you know your govt blew up my country and also half the world and i hate your fucking army for that fuck you lol.” this also works in the reverse in that many usamericans behave like nobody else is in the (online) room with them when they say shit like “those ppl and their problems that we cause over there don’t matter bc they aren’t real, we are real.” meanwhile everyone is in the room yk. im sure romans would act the same way if they had twitter

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actually now that i'm thinking about it. every single video game that lets you costumize characters but doesn't let you be fat is extremely revealing to the fact that most people can't imagine fat as something a person would want to be. there's other examples but like, fuck, i can't even choose to be fat in imaginary spaces. My size isn't accommodated for because they couldn't imagine a player who wants to be anything other than skinny.

Like, you see it right. How media shapes people's beliefs, and people construct beliefs into the things they create? If all you can ever choose to be in a game is one of two body shapes, and you have to physically alter the game to be anything bigger, like. "why would i imagine a world with you in it."

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katrafiy

Yeah so anyways, contrary to popular misconceptions and fear mongering spread by bigots, post op trans women's vaginas are amazing actually. 💛

ID: A screenshot from the Reddit post linked, with text reading:

"So I'm going to refute some of the more popular myths about trans women's vaginas by directly describing my own fully healed experience. (I had surgery several years ago using a fairly standard penile inversion technique that used some spare internal mucosa to supplement the vaginal lining. Recovery sucked, but it wasn't that bad.)

  1. Yes, all the normal parts of vaginal anatomy are present. I have a vulva with clitoris and labia, a vagina, I can pee normally, etc etc etc.
  2. No, I don't have visible scars. Some of us do, but they're usually not prominent, especially after a few years. Internally, thing must look quite normal too, since I've passed as cis during a pelvic exam with a speculum.
  3. No, it's not an open wound and it won't heal shut if I don't dilate. It's not a piercing, it's a vagina. I don't dilate at all, and not only do I not lose depth, but I can take a fist if I want
  4. No, I don't have to wash my vagina out. It has its own flora, so douching would generally be a great way to get an infection; luckily, it cleans itself. Yes, it smells and tastes normal.
  5. Yes, I have totally normal sensation in my vagina, clitoris, g spot, etc. Yes, I can orgasm. Yes, I can self-lubricate. Yes, I have totally normal vaginal muscles (the vaginal canal transects the pelvic floor muscles, that's why you can grip and do kegels, though my pelvic floor is stronger than most through a lifetime of kegels).
  6. No, I'm neither immune nor unusually prone to STIs, BV, yeast infections, or UTIs.
  7. Yes, I can cis pass while having sex. No, I don't pre-disclose before casual sex, though I also tend to meet partners in trans-positive environments.
  8. Yes, everything feels like it "should"; nothing feels out of place or misaligned, unlike before surgery, and really the only surprise was how unsurprising everything feels.
  9. No, I don't miss my old equipment at all. I do enjoy wearing a strap on sometimes, but that's pretty common among wlw."
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My dear friend Noha @nohaibrahims-blog is in need of funds to purchase medicine for her younger sister Nour. Nour was born with serious health problems. When she was just 7 months old, she went through open-heart surgery, and continues to suffer from various effects of that. She requires medication to treat her condition, but her family has no money to purchase it.

They need $500 for the cost of the medication. Nour really REALLY needs this medication!! Can we raise $500 on GFM in 48 hours? Please support if you can, reblog this post, and copy and paste this link (https://gofund.me/4be74469) across all your social media accounts.

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pure

are minorities really “voting against their own self interest” or have you failed to consider that amerikkkan nationalism supersedes all identity politics

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pure

if you learn nothing else from my account then learn this: Amerikkkans don’t care about “the economy” or “genocide” or “the border” or “slavery” or whatever. Our most pertinent issue is if we can rent a peasant to deliver our cheeseburgers for pennies on the dollar. libs try to gaslight you into thinking that this is an ableism issue and rightoids just genuinely like slavery and won’t lie about it. That’s how Amerikkan politics works. Thank you.

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khanger

Mohammed khalil, 19 years old, has survived more than six wars, and his family's life has been greatly affected. Mohammed and his family survive being bombed while walking. He injured his foot while trying to get an internet connection and witnessing horrific massacres. His family is in a dire situation, with an older blind brother, a young brother with autism, and one sister and youngest brother. Their home and livelihood were destroyed, and they are now living in an overcrowded UN school with no clean water or safety. Mohammed is trying to raise money to get his family to a safe place outside Gaza, and with your donation and support this can be a reality for Mohammed and his family.

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CONVERSION RATE
1 € = 1.11429 $
1 $ = 0.897435 €

UPDATE €14,814\€15,000 (12 November)

€186 Away From Short-term Goal

LAST DONATION WAS AN HOUR AGO

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killy

Aya @family-aya is a Ghazzawi who got put in touch with organizer friends of mine in hopes that they could help with promoting her family’s survival fundraiser. Right now, the need is to continue to raise funds. None of my friends’ collective’s organizers have reach on Tumblr, so I’ve been asked to help out. I hope you all will help Aya and her family out by circulating it as much as possible 🙏🏼 I will be putting Aya in touch with a user who can independently verify the fundraiser as well, because while I know this to be legit through personal IRL connections, I am aware of the need to increase peoples’ confidence around donating and sharing. I will provide an update on that ASAP.

Here is Aya’s GFM:

I spoke to Aya, here are her words on her situation:

I didn’t include Aya’s blog in the initial post, apologies for that. She is @family-aya if you’d like to support her by circulating her posts

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irangp

Donate to my friend Eyad so he can take care of his young nephews and nieces. He's also dealing with severe respiratory issues. There's no medical care anymore in Gaza. People are getting sicker and sicker every day. What does it get you people to donate. 5 euro is even less than a coffee in some western countries!!!! The north is being wiped out and in the south people have to beg online from strangers across the world so they are given a chance to survive.

Eyad is without shelter now as the weather gets colder and colder. Please help!