so long, technoblade

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

plugging gaza soup kitchen for those with the means to donate! it's another gazan-led initiative currently providing food, water, classes for children, and medical care across the north and south. you can donate through their website or their gofundme, or follow them on instagram for news about their projects

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

message to all aromantics please survive

GUYS I JUST WANTED TO KNOW HOW TO GET INTO THE REALM SMP

Like? Joining? Cant. Whitelisted invite only. Watching? Find a cc who is on there and watch streams. VODS are available on their platforms if you wanna catch up on whats happened but just jumping in and watching the next live is also a valid option.

oh yeah I don’t play mine raft I just wanted to put something on in the background lol. ans I thought the realm looked cool

Yeah no worries! Some ccs i can remember off the too of my head who are in there (i dont watch every stream, just occasionally so idk who all exactly is on there) is Bekyamon, MythicalSausage, Tubbo (obvs), Philza, Baghera, BBH, FitMC, Sneegsnag, Ros (I cant remember her full username T.T) and lots more but those are a few you can search up to get started :)

I think I’ll watch tubbos livestream bc I thought he’d be on it by now and thought he’d be a good intro bc he made it and see if there’s anyone I wanna check out :)

i love this guy so much hes asking the real questions

Any Austin's YouTube channel: X

if i were tubbo i would've been arrested and charged with arson already. how is he this calm

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

dream literally is just proving tommy's point i have come out of this having not known much about him for the past few years thinking tommy has done nothing wrong and literally has done so little bad the only argument against him is literally intentional lies. i am coming out of this turned back into an inniter thinking this guy has to be a good dude bc his arguments against him are so bad it only makes sense if the guy has literally zero skeletons in his closet.

are you not sure they’re not one and the same

Oh my fucking god THE FUCKING INVOICE BEING PAYED BY TUBBO AND THEN USING SITUATION WHER IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY THE CONTENT CREATORS GOT SCAMMED

DREAM DIDN'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT THE SITUATION AND YET HE TRIED TO USE IT AGAINST TOMMY

And also they way Dream keeps cutting out context from all the Tommy's clips making me want to punch the screen

and then he had the gall to act like tommy was roleplaying

anyone in this thread smoke weed

When does their next album drop? Can’t wait.

This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

This is oaywalled but it made me weep with relief to see an honest recounting for once, so I’ve saved some good bits:

pocket edition ?

How Animals Mourn

ok so the party isn’t stopping anytime soon

can someone hit the party with a bus