Boycott Disney. Boycott McDonald's. Boycott Starbucks. "Oh But It Won't Work, It Won't Do Anything" Yes

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It's so sad that I am hearing of Bosnian genocide survivors talk about how they are triggered by the genocide denial happening around gaza. That the rhetoric that is being thrown around in the media and the rationalization for killing thousands and the talk of "let's be careful of what we call genocide. Let's wait before we call it that" is repetitive of what they were hearing when they were living through it

And Holocaust survivors who were protesting in DC and feeling the burden of having to come out and protest another genocide being done in their name except the media has completely sidelined them because it does not fit the narrative.

I have no other words except how terrible this is but it feels comforting in a weird way that genocide survivors are standing with Gaza. Who needs the acknowledgement of governments when you have them

Matched one this morning! 💖

MATCH MY GOFUNDME DONATIONS FROM TODAY

Here are the donations I made for the gofundmes I’ve seen on my dash/posted about today. I did the minimum amount allowed, so please consider matching one or more of my €5 donations to help further these families to their goals 🤍

I donated $5 CAD to Rana and her family

I donated €5 to Yusuf and his family

I donated €5 to Omar

I donated $5 CAD to Ahmed, Malk and their family

I donated €5 to Ruba and her family

I donated €5 to Mohammad and his family

I donated $5 CAD to Mahmoud and his family

Here are all my receipts

MMMMMM WOW. On my end for days, Palestine/Gaza/etc has been trending, and now after tumblr put this “tag issue” message, those trending tags are gone…y’all it can’t be any clearer what this company is deliberately doing to suppress sharing about what’s happening

Ummm? My side blog @lil-bloomz is gone? Or I can’t see/access it from being logged in on mobile?

it's hard work being ur own ocs #1 fan, but it's honest work. (some kaz fits for fun)

I got a lot of new followers today, hi! A lot of you probably just found me from Tumblr staff featuring me on the @artistalley blog.

I've seen a few people comment that they dislike these featured posts because they're "ads" so I just want to address that for a second

Tumblr does not get any kind of revenue from me through featuring me. I didn't pay them for that. I know a lot of people are disgruntled with Tumblr staff for various reasons but I think the artist alley blog is a great way to spotlight merch artists. It's helping me right now

I am a queer indie fashion designer whose clothing store is my entire livelihood. Sharing and purchasing my work directly supports a QPOC (me). You can dislike "advertising" as much as you want but I hope you know that a lot of individual small businesses are run by people like me and are very small-scale operations (I run my store solo) that rely on self-promotion and features to earn a living. It's incredibly different from big corporate advertising.

I am being so serious when I say: if you have the financial and time privilege to get a group of friends together and make an indie project, PLEASE do. Indie games, indie animations, indie comics etc etc

the art industries are kind of in the shitter. It’s not so much because of AI (though that doesn’t help) but because studios just aren’t hiring people and funding projects anymore. People who’ve been in the industry for decades are finding themselves struggling, and once you have a mortgage or kids it’s harder to do something as risky as making something on your own.

completing projects is hard. it takes a lot of time and effort, and most people can’t afford it. so if you CAN afford to make art, even at the risk of no financial gain, I strongly encourage you to be as resilient as you can. We’re at a point where these industries are not going to turn around by themselves, and waiting for jobs to open up again in order to get experience and portfolio work might not be realistic.

people have been making art and telling stories longgggg before we were getting paid for it, and people aren’t going to stop just because no one has hired them to do so.

for everyone else: support indie artists when you can!!!! That person who made that cool indie game or youtube animation or webcomic might be doing this full time! your support might be the only reason they’re able to keep doing it.

and if you have already started an indie project: you’re so brave and I’m very proud of you!!! in fact, drop a link to it in the reblogs if you want! 👇

Hey yall bc I've been keeping an eye on this the Itch.Io bundle for the PCRF is now live

they had an issue last week with itch.io so they had to postpone opening for a few days but for those who wanted to d/ona/te it's here!