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This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

I found a site recently called the nakba archive that interviews palestinian elderly that survived the nakba. What i like about this archive is that they ask these palestinian elderly about their lives and traditions. Theyre not just archiving survival stories but preserving cultural memory

All of the videos are in arabic but if you click on the transcript link, it gives you an english translation

A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:

The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.

Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.

Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.

They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.

Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.

Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.

And stomps the ashes.

KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.

KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.

Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.

Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.

Chuffed link

Raneen, @a00h2, is my friend. She is trapped in Gaza, Palestine, with her family. She lost everything in the bombings and is now in poverty and homelessness. Her 1-year-old baby is in a respirator; he has very dangerous lung cancer and she needs to pay $3,000 more before the 8th of June to get him out of Gaza so he can receive proper treatment. My friend doesn't have that money. She can't help him alone. Please, I beg of you, don't just reblog. Donate, whatever you can. $40, $20, $10, $5, whatever you can, it will all be useful. Thank you so much.

Her account is vetted by @90-ghost here, by @gazavetters (#576) , and by @bilal-salah0. This Chuffed fundraiser goes directly to her; for transparency, you can dm @a00h2 if you want to confirm it.

PLEASE, HELP MY FRIENDS' BABY LIVE!!

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Hey everybody, you'll never guess what happened. AI killed my job!

So now's as good a time as any to follow a new dream: Freelance fiction editing.

As such, I'm opening up limited spots for FREE editing projects. Got a novel drafted but can't afford hundreds or thousands of money for edits? Let's spite capitalism together with a free exchange!

~You receive: Free proofreading, line editing, and/or developmental editing from someone with limited fiction editing experience but lots of non-fiction and journalistic editing experience and a heap of enthusiasm for writing!!!!!! Stuck on something or unsure how to make your themes come through stronger? We can work through that together!

~I receive: Experience, feedback on how I did, and maybe a recommendation or testimonial if you feel like it.

Please only apply if you can't afford to pay an editor! Fiction editors are also struggling right now and many aren't in a position to offer services for free.

I will edit anything from a lengthy novel to fanfiction to comics, in any genre (including smut!). Fantasy and sci-fi are especially welcome. My only restriction is NO GRAPHIC SEXUAL VIOLENCE please. There's nothing wrong with writing it, I just can't personally handle reading it.

Message me for more info! The world's fucked but we can and should always make art.

If you don't need editing but want to help a fellow weirdo out, reblogs are appreciated.

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

he just released his new album

For those saying it’s fake, idk what to tell you except it’s not and I promise I have much better and more efficient ways of getting attention on the internet than making fake childhood art. I’m a little honored you think I could come up with something so whimsical at age 29 though