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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

I do think "literally zero evidence indicates that gatekeeping medical transition does anything to prevent regret, but the harm done by gatekeeping is extensively documented" is a much stronger argument than "regret isn't real" cause there's always going to be some anecdote that puts you in a weak-looking rhetorical position for the latter, but the former is pretty unassailable.

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

Run this up! Happy Juneteenth!

Pride month isn’t over donate if u can!

Hello! Things have gotten more serious since the last week of posts, so much so that Benji has gone the proper GoFundMe route and I encourage you to please share and donate if you can! In the meantime, short term expenses like shelter/meds/food could be handled with paypal if you don't wanna submit to the GFM!

Yesterday marked the Palestinian Nakba, a day of profound sorrow for the Palestinian people. It is the worst day they have endured since that time, as Israel committed thousands of massacres, forcibly displacing millions of Palestinians from their homeland and building amusement parks, synagogues, and resorts on the graves of tens of thousands of Palestinians. These people cannot be considered human; they are Zionist Nazis and monsters.

Israel has committed thousands of massacres since 1948, the most severe, brutal, and well-documented of which—though the Zionists deny it—is what has happened to us here in Gaza since 2023. Dozens of massacres have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands, the starvation and displacement of two million people, and the denial of medicine, food, water, and travel to safe countries. Where is the humanity in all of this? All we are trying to do is stay alive under these conditions. Please save us. Please help us and donate to us now.

GoFundMe deleted my previous campaign, and this isn't the first time they've done this. Please donate now. I swear, you are our last hope to get out of here and stay alive. Please donate.

For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.

I know millennials are getting the traditional generational luddite reputation at this point for sneering at smart devices and banging on about privacy and not needing all those fancy functions etc. but I am speaking to you right now as an experienced activist: you have to start seeing your smartphone as your big red glowing weak point. it is a repository of all the information someone could conceivably use to ruin your life, and you carry it around with you all day every day guarded by maybe a 6 digit PIN (or a photo of your face, seriously turn off face unlock right fucking now).

Stop playing games, stop watching movies, stop following football matches, stop listening to music... Leave them alone, even if only for a minute. Sit with yourselves for a minute and think carefully: Do we deserve to die? Do we deserve to live this life? If the answer is no, then do something for us. Either donate, participate, or do anything that makes us feel that you are with us and not leaving us alone in front of the genocidal criminals.

I am a person who wants to complete my education, and my life is very similar to yours. The difference is that I was born in Gaza, so I need you to contribute in any way so that I can live a safe life and protect myself and my family from death and malnutrition. I should not die at the hands of the Zionists. Please stand by me.

If you think my fundraising campaign is for individuals and would like to donate and help more people, or if you just want to help as many people as possible at once, my campaign has a large number of beneficiaries. You can donate here.

Please share this post and donate if you can. Nader and his family are suffering greatly. Please help them and donate now. If everyone who shares this post donates $10, we will raise a good amount to help Nader and his family.

Please, friends, don't let us down or abandon us. We need your support and help. Please donate; we need 2200 euros to reach our goal. Donate now, please.