In the least dramatic way possible being Arab right now is a very isolating experience (and I think in the context of being Iraqi in the US it always was but this is a whole new level) and that’s something I’m grieving but also coming to accept bc also in the least dramatic way possible everyone is sick of you centering the fact that Arab people are being genocided and you are more susceptible to losing friendships over it than ever

Argued w a friend yesterday about this bc she was flabbergasted that I did not bat for Harris at all and she was like “I know u care for ur people but what about the people here in the us” and that’s when I knew the whole friendship just fractured beyond repair tbh like even if I somehow try to force myself to look past this viewpoint I just know it’ll never be the same. So that sucks because most people hold this view right now and I don’t think it’s getting better

Like I just think it’s so over as far as solidarity goes tbh maybe Tumblr paints a different depiction of it bc everyone’s in their own bubble but in the real world no one gives a fuck & it has truly driven me to choose isolation over ever talking about this w anyone ever

taking away a clowngirl's makeup telling her she doesn't have to be a clown she can just be a normal silly billy and correcting her any time she tries to juggle until she gets sadder and sadder and eventually stops talking altogether and just communicating via gestures and realizing with horror you've created a mimegirl

you get it

wonder if the longstanding frequency of terms like “decadence” in marxist rhetoric and organisational imperatives means anything about those theoretical discourses and organisational histories. probably nothing to worry about, right? right ?

idk its hard to take seriously a rejection of rhetoric that makes u look bad when u (a) accept the substantives of an argument happily juxtaposing pleasure on the one hand to “real” politics on the other - where does that go btw? the subordination or repression of pleasure to economic ends? does that discursive dichotomy describe our only options? - and (b) are happy to play a game where one prominent transfems blogpost becomes evidence of some basic social frivolity, superficiality, license, demanding discipline or expulsion by some more muscular position self-identifying with the pursuit of power

There should be a way to say “there’s a loneliness crisis” without it being interpreted as saying “women need to put out more.”

It’s a problem of people having no friends as well, not just no romantic partners. And I don’t even think it’s necessarily affecting men much worse than women? Lots of lonely friendless women out there too.

you’re a fucking poser if you preach enjoying the early 2000s internet aesthetic and then make fun of kids today for liking skibidi toilet. they used to make mario say a bad word in a ytp and we would laugh. we would fucking holler

use more olive oil

I didn’t even notice the url I was just like damn they’re right.

Especially Palestinian olive oil!

It is not only ethically better, it’s just all-around better.

Buy from:

Or just look for a local Palestinian-owned or Middle-Eastern-owned market! Al’Ard is a good brand.

libby app guide

aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.

disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.

one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.

two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.

three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.

four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.

five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)

anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!

Reblogging again to say that you do not need Kindle, the app or the device, to read ebooks on Libby!! You can read any book you borrow WITHIN the Libby app, and you can change the font and dark/light mode for accessibility too.

please be aware the libby app does NOT let you read or listen offline so the app itself is unusable for me for actual reading unfortunately! you guys who have access to the internet steadily can use it but be aware. you can't use it on a plane, for example, but if you download to kindle you can.

You should actually be able to use libby app offline (for those allergic to kindle like I am lmao). You just have to change your download permissions in settings. The web browser version of libby is online only though.

Go to Settings > Change Download Rules > toggle to “Everything” (and recommended to “Download only on Wi-fi” if you are worried about your data)

Then Settings > Read Books With… > Libby, so that it downloads to the correct app. You should be able to change your preferences on the main page by clicking the cloud icon to see where you’ve downloaded it too.

Libby also has a feature called Notify Me--if you search for a book and Libby can find it in their database but it's not available to borrow from your library, hit Notify Me. Not only will you be notified if the book becomes available, but your library will be notified that there is A Reader who is looking for this book, so that they can buy it if that's possible for them--without you having to make a direct request!

You can also change your preferences so you only see results in the medium you want so you only see audiobooks if that is what you use Libby for (like me) or to exclude audio if you only want eBooks

audiobooks are SO expensive, and i listen to them almost every night. libby has saved me thousands of dollars by now, no joke. support your local library. if you’re not american, you can still try to apply for a library card at the brooklyn library!

Just watched the banned Moon Girl episode.

>the episode addresses the topic of trans kids in sports >the entire episode is about how bigots will always move the goalpost, and playing by their rules is pointless >the solution is not to play their game and break the rules >it also states that trans people should never feel like a burden >the character Brooklyn is explicitly stated to be trans >there is also an explicitly nonbinary character >multiple mentions of pride and depictions of pride flags, trans flags and progress flags

I'm not at all surprised this didn't get past the censors but I'm so mad that it didn't, because this could've been something really special, and the fact it was canned after being fully finished is downright painful. This episode was wonderful and I'm grateful to all the people who worked on it, and angry that their hard work was wasted. Disney did not deserve you.

Here's a link, as long as Disney doesn't take it down

Reminder that twitter is now an informal, unregulated (i.e. warrantless) information source for Trump administration use.

Dragon age fan type 1: I'm so happy party members say encouraging things when I'm in the fight

Dragon age fan type 2: I miss when my party used to tell me to kill myself

If your response to the information "an alarming number of people simply cannot read well enough to function in the society that was built around them" is "wow I'm so much better than them" i think you need to kill yourself

It's not like education will fix every problem but it is almost certainly one of the most important things to push if we want an improvement in material conditions for everybody. Writing off your auntie because she gets overwhelmed trying to decipher densely packed text and "professional" language is not going to build a better future for anyone.

something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.