PLEASE DONATE TO THEM IF YOU CAN!!!
🙏😔Stop, please 😔🙏
We have been displaced several times, and our tragedy has reached the point that we now live in a tent that is unfit for living. We desperately need your help, I have launched a donation campaign but I cannot get the funds so I can get $50000 to get through this current crisis.
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Going to the mall as I am now (kinda punky/extremely autistic) is kinda funny like. That's a nice shirt. However, it's not one of my thousand beloved black graphic t shirts and it is such a texture and kind of a weird shape to it and honestly I don't really wanna buy any sort of fast fashion type shit or brand shit. Don't care. Oh they have patches. Kinda cute but straight up I can just make those. In fact, I would prefer to. Don't care. Also I'm not buying that.
Info dump, share if you want or rephrase, etc: Up until today, I’ve been hearing suggestions that people who have changed/are changing their names and gender markers apply for as many official documents as they can esp if they’re in a friendly state. As of the 22nd, it appears that has changed with respect to passport applications, where the Colorado Name Change project is now reporting nationwide officials have been instructed to deny passports and confiscate supporting documents (I.e corrected birth certificates, SSID, etc). Which is to say DO NOT SEND IN YOUR PASSPORT OR OTHER CORRECTED DOCUMENTS FOR A PASSPORT UPDATE REQUEST in the US. However, currently issued documents are not currently expected to be retroactively withdrawn so if you have a corrected passport HANG ONTO IT.
solid information, I'll rally the punks.
PUNKS TELL EVERYONE
First post!
Hi, here I am celebrating that Be Alone is actually real and not just a fever dream
Trying to figure out how this app works
you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.
if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)
PUNK PSA:
Please don’t put anything too political on your back patches— especially about your own marginalized experiences.
This has been a long standing rule in punk communities, passed down for generations. People do get jumped and experience violence as a result of this. You can’t see who is behind you, you can’t tell if they’re far right, and you can’t prepare yourself for sudden violence from behind.
So many people are new to the scene, introduced via social media, and don’t know the weight of walking with something on your back (literally and metaphorically) that immediately outs you as marginalized. If you’re able to defend yourself, or out with friends who can watch your back, by all means go for it and wear whatever you want on your back patches but if you walk alone at all ever, please be safe.
Also this is why punks wear spikes and studs on our shoulders especially. Makes it harder for someone to grab you and works as self defense (but also never wear spikes at a small show or if you plan to mosh— people can get hurt!).
Hey I’m not dead I’ve just been creating and interacting with fandom in a less public way.
Here’s two fics from two fandoms. One big, one…pretty small I think??
Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: F/M
Fandom: Dream SMP
Puffy has narrowly escaped capture by a band of bounty hunters. Leaving the wreckage of her ship behind, she sets out to meet up with the rest of her crew. Along the way, she runs into a piglin that seems to need a bit of help. Well, Puffy would never turn her back on a lil (actually pretty big) guy in need, right?
That said, seems this piglin was running from something himself.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen
Fandom: The Living Tombstone (Tombsonas Universe)
“It is through destiny alone that its hosts find Rust’s armor.” But what happens after that?
Or, the story of Rust reforming in a new body, in a new place, and proceeding to walk, hitchhike, and train-hop halfway across the country to find its way back to its family. On the way, it’s finding itself again.
Medical Aid for Palestinians
Palestine's Children Relief Fund (PCRF)
Palestinian American Medical Association
ANERA
Middle East Children's Alliance
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)
Doctors Without Borders
Direct Action: Palestine Action
Palestine Legal
A more exhaustive list of trusted organizations to donate to here
you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. (this note taken from @sulfurcosmos's useful masterlist here)
A 101 course from USCPR.org to understanding Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people
A Palestine masterlist here to learn more about Palestine - informative sources, materials, stores, charities, books, documentaries etc.
A twitter thread explaining about the history of Palestine and the ethnic cleansing that's been happening in Palestine since 1948
A second helpful masterlist of how to help Palestine
A third helpful masterlist that is regularly updated by op, including info on how you can take action depending on where you live, please reblog the original post to get the most recent info
Decolonize Palestine's list of myths and debunkings of them, including "Israel made the desert bloom," "all Jewish people are indigenous to Israel," and "Palestinians won't participate in the peace process"
Bo Forbes, "Talking Points Guide: Israel-Palestine" (2023)
Jared Sacks, "A 'Self-Hating' Jew’s Guide to Zionist Talking Points" (2014)
Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, "Talking points and messaging guidance for Palestinians and allies" (2023)
starbucks_red_cup on Reddit, "Some Zionist talking points and responses to them"; and comments (2023)
Middle East Policy Council, "The Original "No": Why the Arabs Rejected Zionism, and Why It Matters" (specifically a response to the "Palestinians are at fault for rejecting the 1947 partition plan" narrative)
If you prefer podcasts:
Citations Needed, "News Brief: Debunking the 5 Most Common Anti-Palestinian Talking Points" (2021)