Lemon Tree (2008) Dir. Eran Riklis

Lemon Tree (2008) dir. Eran Riklis

Palestinian Evacuation And Support Fundraisers

2024-05-20

A list of things that’s been on my mind, in no particular order:

Rice is technically a fruit.

Lamentation of warm weather hindering my ability to drink copious amounts of hot tea.

Convergence tests and thermodynamics.

Summer! Rest! Freedom!

Okay cohesive post. I just got fired from a job for accepting a new better opportunity. I barely worked this job however and bills are due and food is low. I'm psychotic and unmedicated. My benefits are up in air. I just need help eating and staying afloat. I didn't this this would happen.

I'm a black nonbinary poet. Link to poetry site here.

Kofi link.

Pay is forwardalways23

Cash is forwardalways21

Dm for zelle

Sorry guys but I'm so blindsided. I'm kinda fucked over here. Setting a goal of 150. For bills and food

0/150

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

saturday, may 18th, 2024 ☀️

things are really good right now. my partner and I signed the lease for our next apartment this week, so my brain can finally move onto other things! the weather is beautiful here and I've been enjoying sitting and reading on the balcony (and commonplacing at my desk when it gets too hot outside).

I also finally got myself a copy of Practical Malware Analysis the other day - I really wanted this book when I was working on my last certification, but I knew it would distract me from studying too much. I've only read the first chapter so far but I'm excited to keep going! it's nice to be back to studying something that I'm super interested in.