If a regional war breaks out between Iran and Israel, Gaza will be forgotten. We will continue to suffer this suffering and will not be mentioned in anything. We will be forgotten forever.

The last days of my life are the worst. Iran is bombing Israel, and Israel is unable to do anything except bomb us in Gaza. This is clear injustice.

I was very scared because the occupation forces shot at us last time, but we barely escaped. Please, my friends, the occupation forces’ planes are bombing as if they are doing nothing please donate

Guys please we only have 90 euros left to get there 31000 please my dear guys Last night I did not sleep a minute because of the intensity of the bombing and also the poisonous insects. Please donate.

now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

now ALSO feels like a good time to mention that israel has prioritized the killings of civilians, children, etc-- that has been its goal, america has defended and materially supported it. Iran has not been targeting civilians/settlers, it has in fact been targeting the people conducting this genocide. so you, some 20 year old in portland in a studio apartment, do not need to start doomspiralling about world war 3. world war 3 as a concept is our deflection of the fact that there are genocides and ethnic cleansings going on that do not materially hurt us in the imperial core. you are not going to be killed by Iran any more than america is already killing you and killing us. if you are afraid of retaliation, i understand, but now is not the time to start joking or seriously humoring the idea that some random people out in miami are going to get nuked by Iran. this self-effacing logic is demonstrative of american exceptionalism, and wholly unhelpful to the oppressed people of Palestine and Iran.

it turns out a lot of people are actually on the same page about whether or not they'd work if they didn't have to earn money, we just all seem to have wildly different definitions of what counts as work. i'll see one person say "of course i would, i'd still want to create art and volunteer in my local community" and another say "hell no i wouldn't, i'd quit work and just create art and volunteer in my local community" and then they look at eachother like they said something incomprehensible.

a friend of mine has a decently sized personal bar and one night he realized that a lot of his bottles and mixers were close to empty, not enough to make any given drink with, so he mixed them all together and it looked like the dirty water from those big floor scrubber machines. Dark purpley brown and thick and he decided it was the Floor Scrubber cocktail and actually drank it. It apparently tasted very bland.

(cw: sexual assault) the pedophile -as it is understood outside of academic circles- is a mythical creature. the idea that a complete stranger who kidnaps and sexually assaults kids is their biggest threat is absolutely insane; not one case of CSA (child sexual assault) in a hundred looks like that. CSA is committed almost uniformly by adults in a preestablished position of authority (such as family, family friends, clergy, or teachers) and in a way that a victim who doesn't know what sexual assault looks like will be left unsure what happened to them. without knowing concretely how sex and sexuality works, would you be able to tell the difference between molestation and the various other forms of unwanted physical touch and abuse kids are regularly subjected to? would it even seem that different? but parenthood and the submission of youth to adults as institutions are threatened by the reality of CSA. adults need to justify their ownership of children through an imagined outside threat constantly held at bay through their diligence. the truth - that putting yourself in such a position of authority over children directly enables abuse (including sexual abuse) - is thrown aside.

i don’t know where the post this makes me think of is, but the general idea of it was that children aren’t properly taught how consent works, because if they did have a functioning framework to understand all the ways in which they’re exploited by adults—and continue to be exploited as adults, in different ways!—it would pose a serious threat to the social order, which is, i think, highly relevant here