things change.

it’s never too early to teach children about the devaluation of labor!

It’s absolutely okay to give a discount, but the full price should still be listed on the invoice, then list the discount they’re receiving and make the subtotal the price after discount.

When people only ever see the price after discount with no real understanding of how much the discount was it’s easy to devalue the work/product/craft they’re getting.

If you worry people won’t charge that much because you’re new, offer them a new customer discount to offset the cost, at least that way they know they’re getting a deal.

Make sure you do the same for friends and family as well! When I offer discounts to friends and family I tell them how much it cost me in materials, how much I would normally charge, then tell them they can pick any number in between the two that fits within their budget. If I need my time compensated in some way I’d put that under what it cost to make the product/provide the service.

when I was starting out as

a photographer

Rightfully so, I have gotten messages worrying if everything I post is legit (I try my best to make sure the answer is yes), but here’s a masterlist of ones that one or more people have confirmed are legit Palestinians. Most are from the blogs @el-shab-hussein, @ibtisams, @palestinecharitycommissionsassoc ,@90-ghost, @nabulsi and @palipunk

I will also be making individual posts for most of these

So how do y'all feel about the fact that pearls have nothing to do with sand? Bivalves deal with sand all day long, of course grains don’t get “stuck” until they have to make a pearl. That was the assumption centuries ago and just continues to be spread by the jewelry industry as a plain old lie.

The formation of a pearl is to smother and permanently seal the parasites bivalves contract from all the animal feces they process :)

https://cortezpearl.mx/pages/how-a-natural-pearl-is-born-from-myth-to-reality

Habibi (2011) dir. Susan Youssef

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

When wolves attack prey, they don't bark, snarl, and growl at it; they just attack. When tigers attack prey, they don't roar, snarl, and hiss at it; they just fucking attack.

There is a BIG DIFFERENCE between a predator attacking because they think you're a threat (see: that jaw-dropping video of the jogger who accidentally found puma cubs and got chased off by the mother) and attacking because they think you're food (read any firsthand account of an unprovoked puma attack).

In the former, yes, they're gonna put on all their threat displays. In the latter, they are QUIET and FOCUSED, and while pack hunters may vocalize during an attack, it's to coordinate (or out of frustration), not to scare off their goddamn food.

Medical Aid for Palestinians

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. We provide immediate medical aid to those in great need, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.

you can read more about their ongoing emergency response here

Responding to this emergency situation, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)’s team on the ground in Gaza are releasing all of our pre-positioned stocks, worth $570,000 USD (approximately £465,000), to ensure hospitals and emergency responders have the supplies they need to cope with an unprecedented influx of casualties. The list of supplies provided by MAP includes essential drugs and disposables, lab reagents and support for Gaza’s blood bank services. Some of these supplies are already being delivered to Al Awda Hospital.