People Seem To Think This Is Fake Because It's Written In English. Apart From The Racism In Believing

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
@MSF_canada
Medical staff in #Gaza are so inundated by the sheer mass of patients arriving that the surgical board used to keep track of the weeks upcoming surgeries has been wiped clean and replaced with these words:

[Photo of whiteboard with a neat weekly chart drawn on it. Across it is crawled in block letters: "Whoever stays till the end will tell our story. We did what we could. Remember us."]
11 Nov 23

People seem to think this is fake because it's written in English. Apart from the racism in believing that Arab doctors and nurses aren't fluent in English (a second or official language for half of Asia), Palestinians have deliberately been addressing their audience in English on every social media, from journalists to children, because they know speaking English to Westerners immediately makes people more human in their eyes. Because language is one of the ways the imperial cultural hegemony conditions us (yes, everyone in the world) to see who qualifies as "people" and who are simply a mass of bodies who were always made to suffer and die. Gazans know this deeply, which is why they have been using English to beg and plead through social media, "We're not numbers! We're not numbers! We're people like you, we speak your language, we deserve to live!" all the while they're systematically slaughtered.

Tweet by Ben Ehrenreich
@BenEhrenreich
Still unable to digest the fact that Israeli snipers were purposefully targeting children in the ICU of a hospital today. Looking through the sight and pulling the trigger, again and again and again.

[Screenshot of a Guardian article reading:
One person killed, many children wounded after Israeli snipers target al-Quds hospital, according to Palestinian Red Crescent
The Red Cross statement calling for the protection of patients, healthcare workers, medical facilities in Gaza comes as the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PCRS) said Israeli forces opened fire on the intensive care unit at al-Quds hospital in Gaza City.
One person was killed and 28 others were wounded in sniper fire by Israeli forces at the hospital, the organisation said.
The majority of the injured were children, it said, two of whom are in critical condition.
Nov 11, 2023

Israeli forces also encircled Al Shifa Hospital yesterday and bombed it for several hours while shooting dead anyone trying to flee including medical staff moving between buildings. Not sure whether it's still continuing because WHO lost all communications with its staff there a few hours after. The last new report said that thirty-nine babies had been removed from the incubators before the power went out. It's extremely unlikely they will survive.

Please understand that these atrocities depend on the war of attrition between governments and public attention. The momentum of public outcry is difficult to sustain through repeated stonewalling and bureaucratic intractability. When we're flooded with these reports and a sense of futility and despair replaces the anger, it allows compassion fatigue to set in and the violence to become normalized. Massacring hospitals, killing sick children and openly targeting humanitarian aid workers (Netanyahu just declared the UNRWA is in league with Hamas) will become simply more news articles that fade into the background, and open genocides will soon become part of the "lesser evil".

Take care of yourselves how you can, take distance where needed, but please never tune out and give up on the two million people for whom we are the only witness and hope. Never stop boosting and sharing the news and posts you find, never stop getting out there and joining every protest you can, however small. Anger burns out, which is why activism must depend on an immovable sense of justice and uncompromising value for human life. It's not just about Gaza, it's about the kind of evil our generation will be coerced into accepting as unchangeable and inevitable hereafter.

Things found at Mar-a-Lago

An incomplete list of items found in the raid, in progress:

A list of all USA nuclear weapons facility locations

Detailed files of American troop movements and strategies, in envelopes with addresses in Russia, China, and North Korea

Codes to US Government vaults, safes, and Konami video games

D.B. Cooper’s parachute

5500 pages of tax evasion plans, bribes from Russia, and nudes of Barack Obama apparently taken from a White House shower

Empty moonshine bathtub gin bottles and dirt

Jimmy Hoffa (mummified)

Numerous DVDs of digital Trump self-insert My Little Pony hentai

300 lbs cocaine, 100 lbs heroin, 50 gallons of LSD, 8 bins of PCP, and some Ivermectin in an enema bulb

Numerous paintings stolen by Germany in WW2, including a room made of Russian amber and some Fabergé eggs (unhatched)

Several children with sales receipts from Jeffrey Epstein

A blu-ray copy of “The Cars that Ate Paris” by Peter Weir

A rotting bagel with olive loaf

One signed copy of “How To Violently Overthrow America When You Don’t Get Your Way” by William Luther Pierce

Bones of the Lindbergh baby

Several exhumed Popes, and half of a Bishop

A film reel of the pie-fight ending to Dr. Strangelove

A golden ‘Ark’ full of sand topped with two angels and a fedora

Genghis Khan (mummified)

A broken Swedish-made penis enlarger pump

One jar of toenails, one jar of hair, and one jar of what we all hope is mayonnaise

A postcard from a Bassetlaw Love Hotel signed, “Until next time, Milo Yiannopoulos XOXOXO”

A set of Trump-style toupées set on preserved human heads

Ben Shapiro (mummified)

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I’ve seen multiple people genuinely asking whats wrong with playing their music on a speaker/their phone in public rather than through headphones. While it baffles me that you can’t reason it out I’m taking it in good faith that you genuinely don’t know - so here’s a list of reasons you shouldn’t:

- It sounds bad. It doesnt matter if people like the song, you might be close enough to your phone speaker for it to sound largely as intended, but everyone else is getting a distorted mess.

- Unwanted noise is extra stimulation in the already overpowering public space. Yes this is particularly bad for neurodivergent people but I actually want to acknowledge that this effects Everyone. Everyone has a stimulation threshold and unwanted music easily pushes people closer to it.

- Its distracting/disruptive. People want to focus on their own conversations, listen to their own music through their earbuds, or just be alone with their thoughts. Your music is intruding.

- Differing taste. This one is less significant but people around you just dont always like the same music you do. In extreme cases they might actively hate a song you’re playing.

- People have the right to as close to silence as they can get. If they’re in a shop playing obnoxious music they can leave, they can change the radio in their car, they can skip the song on their playlist. They have no control over what you are putting on and in bus situations they can’t get away from you.

- Any other number of reasons; Maybe your music is offensive, maybe its uncensored and there are children about, maybe someone just got horrible news and your perky feelgood song feels like salt in the wound, maybe someone’s sick or hungover or in pain and your music feels like a drill to the skull. You might think your music is good, it might make you smile after a hard day. Nobody is saying dont listen at all, just put in earphones. To everyone around you its the equivilent of a drunk guy singing loudly and off key at the back of the bus. Maybe it makes some people smile to think he’s having a good time, maybe some people are scared his lack of boundaries will mean he could act out, maybe some people wish he would just shut up.

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I must object to the use of 'Phobia' in this context. If you identify as trans/homo/whatever-phobic, you are not afraid - you are an asshole.