So i was reading an account of one of the Israelis taken by hamas, the Stella girl, and she was like "I had a gold necklace with my name in arabic is got from egypt that I gave to hamas as a bribe to make them be nice to me... now someone is walking around in gaza with my name around their neck" but the drawing that accompanied it spelled her name سطلة which is such a weird way to spell your name that can be read as SaT-lah with the hard t sound instead of the soft ت (ta) sound. Like dude no one is wearing your necklace around it's a nonsense word.

What kills me is that she was like "hamas tried to give me back my necklace when it was time for me to leave because they say it belongs to me... I think that is very twisted and strange." Huh?????

I'm cackling bc سطلة means dumbass in Moroccan darija 💀

Its the same in Palestinian arabic it comes from the word bucket which is like to say "empty headed" which is another way to say habla or moron... her necklace literally is an insult

Oh my bad it was with the ه not ة but similar sound

THE NECKLACE

This necklace is the most important thing to think about right now. We drew a picture of it. It points out the unique savagery of these Hamas. Do you see yet? A delicate hand is holding a delicate necklace! Don't you feel bad for her?!?

isnt there a better picture they could have used

No this was the best picture of Ed Sheeran they had

The word you are looking for is “selfish.” Not narcissist, not sociopath, selfish.

talking about Rosie The Riveter, fun fact: while the We Can Do It picture has become the most-well known depiction of her in modern times, it wasn’t really a famous image when it was made–in fact, it wasn’t even intended to be her

the most famous depiction of Rosie The Riveter during WWII was probably Norman Rockwell’s painting 

note what she’s resting her foot on

i fully support anti-fascist/anti-nazi butch lesbian rosie the riveter

A lot of people in mainland China are perfectly capable of getting around the so called 'Great Firewall of China' and interacting with the internet beyond it but the thing is a lot of them just flat out don't want to or don't really care all that much. Yeah sure the internet is heavily censored, but outside of that non-English spaces have gotten smaller and smaller while English takes over as the lingua franca of the internet, and they may or may not be able to read and understand English very well.

Also a lot of people on the internet beyond the 'firewall' are very hostile to them, they get treated like naive idiots or brainwashed infiltrators for the ccp. I remember a few years back when a lot of Chinese fanfic writers started uploading their stories on ao3 en masse because there had been a big uptick in websites that host fanfiction getting taken down and some people were so utterly vile about it, making jokes about how they could get the fics taken down by mentioning the Tiananmen Square massacre in the comments and things like that.

All because they were apparently offended by their favorite tags having more non-English works that can very easily filter out so they don't have to look at them at all. Because God forbid a fanfiction website that already greatly skews towards English fics have more works in other languages, right? That's like the only thing I miss about fanfiction.net, it had way more non-English fics, well that and more stories for certain fandoms than ao3 does.

And it's not like a lot of tech companies and other governments don't censor the internet to some extent or another, China isn't unique in that regard, it's just particularly infamous for being so heavy-handed and easy to use as a red herring.

hello, a chinese citizen here.

I do not like to type out long paragraphs here so I’ll try to sum it up.

Yes, I 100% agree with this guy, honestly it’s sad how most non-English communities (such as 3K) are getting reduced, and especially how some people treat Chinese people using typically banned websites like yt or twitter etc, i know that most people here are American or just not from china but cmon just give us a chance.

(sorry if my wording is kinda bad, im so sleepy rn lol)

No it's good, but even if it wasn't it would be nothing to apologize for. And trust me, 你的英文比我的中文好，我無法評斷你。

I notice it a lot in gaming too where people will just needlessly get sinophobic and demand they region lock chinese players or accuse chinese players of cheating, not to mention the typical accusions of anything from china stealing your data

we passed a sign in boring that said their sister city is dull, scotland

oh there's a third! bland, new south wales!

I'm sorry but I just have to appreciate the wordplay on that last sign. It's brilliant.

Official silly sign

guu

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

Trauma dumping becoming a popularized term is just so fucking sad idk that’s one of the worst ones used casually obv there will always be people who say and ask too much from people who cant and don’t know how to handle it but it becoming some sort of pop psychology criminal offense is insane. like someone constantly oversharing is a huge sign something is very wrong you just need to understand that sometimes you’re not the one to fix it and can walk away if need be. Not talk massive shit and play victim ruining someone’s life because they told you too much about their childhood or something just keep it moving

more blender shenanigans that i forgot to post on here…… perhaps i will make more soon…………

I am frustrated that my campaign is going slowly and I have only been able to raise travel costs for 2 out of 18 family members.

Please help me evacuate my family from Gaza before the fighting resumes.

sometimes it's not even enemies to lovers. sometimes you get handed the leash of a snarling, barking dog against your will and realize with dawning horror that you are now responsible for teaching it not to bite

These scenes of return are unprecedented in Palestinian history.

And you have to realise that these people are returning to destroyed homes and they know it. All of them said they will set up a tent on top of the rubble.

All of them are made to walk several hours to return to their homes in the north. Some even said they would do it even if they had to crawl.

What further living testimony do you need in order to understand that Palestinians will never give up their land and their right to return to their land?

My friend @amalashuor is one of the thousands who started their journey back home yesterday. You can still support her through her vetted campaign, the funds of which are aimed at helping her rebuild her life as a survivor of this genocide.