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As a result, many people’s wells are running out while we’re in the middle of a massive heat wave.

Homes her are built with large water reserves, either in the form of big plastic tubs on top of the house, or underwater wells. These reserves are filled on the days Israel allows us water (although it’s limited and these reserves aren’t always filled all the way) and when they run out…. You’re completely out of water. No toilets, no showers, no drinking water, etc.

To compound the issue, on the hottest days Israeli settlers turn their ACs up creating a massive spike in electricity demand. To compensate, our electricity is shut off.

As you’ll see in the article, it’s not even caused by any remote scarcity of water, but simply because Israeli chooses to deprive Palestinians of basic water needs while allowing Israeli settlers to fill their swimming pools and consume on average three times more water per capita than Palestinians.

I haven’t updated this post mainly because I’ve been really busy, as well as there being a lot of confusion around the water situation. Many people were told we’d get the water on one day or another, only for those days to come and the water to never arrive.

The water was turned on earlier this week on Tuesday for several hours, allowing most people to fill their wells, but water to my house as well as my immediate neighbors was not turned on, due to us living on the outskirts of town in what’s regarded as a different district by the water authorities.

Thankfully our wells are still full, and we’ve been told that ours would be turned on on Monday [it is Friday today]. While we’re able to shower and clean and use water from our well throughout the inside of our house, we’re unable to water our plants or grove as that is connected directly to the water line itself, and not to our well [because when push comes to shove…do you want to use your limited water to bathe and clean, or to water plants?]

There have also been a lot of people who’ve messaged me asking if there’s anything they can do to help, and as generous as such requests are, it’s not so easy. It’s not a situation that can be helped by sending water [as shops here have bottled water for cheap as it is] and it’s not something that volunteering or donations can fix. This is life because Israel controls every aspect of our life and society, and until the occupation is ended and control is handed back to us as Palestinians and the settlements are gotten rid of, this sort of thing will continue just as it has for the last several decades.

The best thing anyone can do is spread awareness of the reality of Israel’s occupation, help Palestinian voices be heard, and share articles like the one posted above that details Israel’s control of our water.

If the internet means ANYTHING to you, if it’s an escape, if you support creators, if you stand for free press and speech and the right to self start, STAND UP FOR ITS RIGHT TO BE FREELY AVAILIBLE TO EVERYONE!!

Wealth is a disease to these people. They have more money than any of us will ever have. They have the power to do good, and they don’t. STAND UP   TO THEM! 

Go to this link, fill out the form, and SEND IT. Send 10. Send 20. Make it perfectly clear how suicidal it would be to agree to this.

In the economy here; cash is already strapped as it is. You bet your ass companies would suck the ever living life out of misc. art sites.

I don’t want it to ever come down to me choosing between groceries or purchasing a new tier package via comcast to be able to access tumblr or DeviantArt (let alone not guaranteeing I’ll even be seen by my customer base since they may not want to pay out their asses either). It doesn’t seem important to most, but I do 90% of my business online entirely.

-Morgan

 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more

 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more

 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more

 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more

This means that the American internet is going to be firmly under the control of those who have the most money. You’ll only get to see the content of those who can pay the ISPs to provide access at a reasonable speed. This means that you can expect to see skewed representation of just about everything, with those bigger businesses who can afford to pay ISPs a premium for access deciding what you can and cannot read, view and consume on the internet.

This is not something that we have in the UK. Our ISPs compete with each other to provide higher speeds, better services and lower prices, but because there’s a monopoly in the US of a few ISPs who provide services, they can afford to do this to you. You can’t go anywhere else, after all.

I just wanted to say this to any fandom that’s of a TV or Netflix show targeted towards children and up, please, if you draw smut of them, don’t tag their names or the show when you post it.

I have a little sister who loves Voltron, Star Vs. the forces of evil, and My Little Pony. She loves Lance, Star, and Pinkie Pie, but even with safe search on our family computer, smut art still shows up.

Please, don’t tag TV show names or character names on smut for shows targeted mainly for kids. Please, my sister is 8. She just turned 8. She just wants to look at pictures of Lance and Pinkie Pie so she can doodle them, just like how I draw.

Please have some sort of courtesy to the young fans of shows and one tag smut with the show/character names.

I know it’s the internet and stuff like this happens. She is eight years old. She doesn’t need to see that of her favorite characters. I don’t want to see that of my favorite characters. Please just don’t tag the show or the characters.