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Bedbugs Know No Social Or Economic Bounds

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Nate | Writer | 20s | all is well that ends well, but all is well that ends
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Upcoming Reading Groups Held on Discord

Short readings every week this summer! Full-length book in June!

Short readings (usually between 10 and 30 pages):

  • "Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" and "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak" on Saturday 5/11 8:00 PM EDT: In the first story by Jamil Jan Kochai, a teenager plays an ultra-violent videogame set in his father's native Afghanistan; in the second, a wiretapper slowly becomes invested in the lives of the people he surveils.
  • "The Library of Babel" on Sunday 5/19 8:00 PM EDT: An unnamed man wanders an infinite library in Jorge Luis Borges' rumination on language and nonsense.
  • "A Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven," and "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe on Saturday 5/25 8:00 PM EDT: Two short stories and two poems by one of the greatest horror authors to ever touch a pen

Full Length:

  • "House of Leaves" on Saturday June 29 10:00 PM EDT: An experimental haunted house novel in which the font, color, and shape of the text mutates
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❗️urgent insulin help 05/05/24❗️

hey we need $78 for food for the week and $37 for bros insulin that he MUST take to stay out of an er? URGENT important we get help for this as we have nothing after paying 'rent'. We have 2 kids & 4/5 adults who are disabled we also have 0 family or friends to rely on & i know times are hard and ppl aren't rich. If you cant help dont worry at all but if ur able to d*nate anything reblogs appreciated if you do send hate, blocked.

(this is thelastpyl3r/avatarerin)

Here’s my bank/paypal/venmo. PLEASE forget any notes we have not received ANY help at all. My bro has to have his insulin if not, he will end up in the ER, costing us more. Two kids require a lot of food we dont have and daniel can't attend school so he needs more food and liu is growing fast & my brother needs his insulin as he is out of it this is cheapest insulin we can get. I know people arent rich but this is urgent and if anyone could donate/reblog, it'd be amazing everything is appreciated, it all adds up, 10 cent to a dollar to 5, does boosting this.

48/148 (increased goal due to my mom needs a new medicine for her lupus + uber eating up a lot funds, luckily we can get it discounted some, but thanks to yall we got dereks insulin!!!! Now we just need food help and help for mom.)

Please ignore notes still need help please my bro got his insulin but my mom needs to try this new med. Please, we have no car so we have to use uber and use what money we have or we either have to order groceries online which is so costly it’s laughable so we’ll soon be out of money, no matter what.

Please if everyone could donate something (if you want to/you are able only, ignore this if you cant!) From a quarter, a dime, a dollar or 5, it all counts & greatly appreciated to even a reblog or spreading the word is also so helpful. Thank you all.

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I left gaza with tears in my face because my mom and three brothers still in Rafah under attack.. and also we lost home and many of our relatives 😭😭😭

Please donate or share to help the rest of my family to evacuate, believe me every single dollar will make a difference 🙏🥹

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They Do Not Exist (1974) by Mustafa Abu Ali (watch)

from PalestineCinema.com:

Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"
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ID: Twitter post by Alan MacLeod which reads

Breaking: Annelise Orleck, Head of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, has been banned from Campus for six months after protecting Jewish students protesting for Palestine from police attacks. Attached is a photo of Annelise Orleck.

Retweet by ceasefire (@kymtje) which reads

Combating antisemitism by banning the head of Jewish studies nothing to see here End ID

Slight corrections and additions: While Dr. Orleck still teaches at Dartmouth, she no longer chairs the department. However, she made it clear that she believed her presence as an older Jewish professor would make students safer by showing solidarity, and is outraged by the school’s response. Dartmouth claims that her suspension was “an error in the bail process, which they were working to fix.” Dr. Orleck was knocked to the ground and zip-tied, and came away with a case of whiplash.

Dartmouth brought in police only two hours after the encampment was set up, and the president has strongly defended her choice to create a culture of escalation and violence.

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nyancrimew

like ur allowed to disagree with me and ur allowed to dislike or hate me, even for no reason, that's normal and human. i have very disagreeable opinions and am weird and i get that not everyone's gonna like me, but man at some point u gotta realize ur being weird as hell about how u manifest ur disliking of someone.

this doesn't just apply to me btw, this is also just a general rule

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reblogged

I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.

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lezbianz

this is for a part-time job as a barista

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kirbybutch

on an application to work the front desk of a hotel

If minimum wage you'd like to make, This ancient quiz you'll have to take.

Step right up, but be prepared. Those who fail are poverty-snared. Question One! If your labor proves most fruitful, Raking quarters by the bootful, Who should excess profits reap, Me the wolf or you the sheep? Question Two! If, by merit, you're made pope, What will be your fervent hope? Law and order justly paired? Or mercy and the guilty spared?

Question Three! If a train should leave Topeka Driven by a solar squeaker, How then should the cat behave? Give it milk or give it grave? Question Four! Do you have a criminal record?