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Devastated to find out my childhood hero, Akira Toriyama, died suddenly today.
He had several new DragonBall works in the making as well before his passing. He was only in his 60s, and yet left behind a huge legacy of work that inspired so many young artists; myself included when I was growing up.
Dismayed and heartbroken over this. If he believed in an after life, I hope he is there and happy knowing the legacy he left behind will live on forever with the people whose hearts he touched.
The World Food Program announced it is ending general assistance to northwest Syria. Syrians get little aid in general and are at risk en mass of food insecurity.
Please consider donating to Islamic Relief so that they can distribute food and other materials.
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Politics.
I’m a pretty passive person, and I don’t get into politics much.
But if a ban makes me want to punch something in the face, something is up. Something is VERY up.
And this is a very vague post just...go look at the news.
Times of Gaza also reported just an hour ago: "Update from the ICU: More than 60 casualties and 120 injuries arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan-Younis since the morning."
The IOF is once again cutting off the internet and communications purposely in order to commit heinous atrocities. It has been over a week without proper service for Palestinians in Gaza, and while some information about Khan Younis is able to reach us, I'm beyond continually horrified. This should horrify you all. This occupation must end, and the IOF must be held accountable for genocide and war crimes.
Valentine's Day has become such an OVERRATED event. From my years in retail, it's often cishet men rushing around to get last-minute gifts complaining about it for all the wrong reasons. You don't need 1 day a year to express love and affection to your partner. You can use any other 364 days of the year to do so if that's how your relationship dynamics are.
As soon as Bayan posted this, like I have seen many talk about -there are many genocides and disaster going on in the world right now, so eff your Valentine's Day celebrations.
⚠️ATTENTION: A SCAMMER IS TAKING GAZA EMERGENCY FUNDS⚠️
If she has a new gofundme I will post it here as soon as possible, but for now here is Mai Rajab's account -the one who was scammed. Let's all support her, please. This is beyond devastating and heartbreaking.
The way societies constantly adultify young girls -especially young Black, Brown, and Indigenous girls but REFUSE to hold young boys accountable. These 13 and 14 year old's knew what they were doing when they created deep fakes, which isn't a new issue -but a persistent, systemic issue that disproportionately affects young girls and women. This is online sexual harassment and violence -and there needs to be MORE legislation to protect people from this.
These boys are predatory and I hope they carry the burden of having done something this despicable for the rest of their lives. If you actually cared about young girls and women there would be more interventions in the first place -to challenge and dismantle rape culture during health and sex education -or wherever you can fit it into the curriculum in early middle school. Because believe it or not, boys as young as 10 have access to the internet and sometimes in ways that are boundless -and they see Sneako, Andrew Tate, manosphere content about 'alpha males' and 'high-value women.' They learn to see women as objects -as sexual objects. This is serious and causes harm, and must be spoken about because it does cause an impact, terribly so.
Also, if you haven't watched the documentary series/TV mini series called The Most Hated Man On The Internet and know who Hunter Moore is -he is the one who created and profited off of exploiting and ruining women's lives on his revenge pornography site (this disgusting excuse of a human pioneered this violence), and I highly recommend watching it if the content itself it not triggering for you, of course. But this is just the tip of the iceberg because uploading ANY content meant to cause harm to someone should have consequences -and I have zero sympathy for those young boys.
This global strike is for 1 week. It starts on January 21st and goes until January 28th. These folks on X have complied information for people to read about. This is the LEAST we can do. The bare minimum. Unless it is for necessity or you have to work of course -please participate.
As always, free Palestine!
Take a good look at the countries leading/have started the legal battles to hold the IOF accountable -their fights to end IOF terrorism and war crimes, as this should have been done months ago, are now beginning.
So many Palestinian people have been genocided, and the rampant global government inaction has caused chaos, death, and destruction of Gaza... I just hope this leads to a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation. I truly do.
Families are on SIDEWALKS and streets in Jabaila because of these bombardments. There is NO where safe in the Gaza Strip. This also isn't the first time they attacked Jabaila -hundreds of Palestinian people have been genocided during those strikes and after having been stuck under the rubble for so long. It's beyond horrific -these are places of REFUGE, and none of these war criminals in the IOF are being brought to face their crimes. The IOF must be held accountable.
@/kittiearie on tiktok wrote this caption on her video: "When the sundown sisters' feminism is being upset Margot Robbie wasn't nominated for an Oscar but silent on how women and girls in Palestine don't have access to pads, tampons, contraceptive pills and other hygeine products while mothers are having their children without anesthetics."
some of white western feminist advocacy boils down to viewing issues (problematically so) as one-dimensional. their praxis never includes reflexivity, accountability, and intersectionality; while they ensure that their OWN reproductive health rights are never threatened, they vastly ignore so many people suffering in the world just because it doesn't directly impact them -looking at their priorities is just always so shameless and despicable.
Take a good look at the countries leading/have started the legal battles to hold the IOF accountable -their fights to end IOF terrorism and war crimes, as this should have been done months ago, are now beginning.
So many Palestinian people have been genocided, and the rampant global government inaction has caused chaos, death, and destruction of Gaza... I just hope this leads to a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation. I truly do.
Families are on SIDEWALKS and streets in Jabaila because of these bombardments. There is NO where safe in the Gaza Strip. This also isn't the first time they attacked Jabaila -hundreds of Palestinian people have been genocided during those strikes and after having been stuck under the rubble for so long. It's beyond horrific -these are places of REFUGE, and none of these war criminals in the IOF are being brought to face their crimes. The IOF must be held accountable.
*URGENT*
It saddens me how horrible Hurricane Helene has hit, especially in North Carolina. Hundreds are missing and/or dead. Biden and Kamala are doing NOTHING to help send support or aid to the region. Houses are destroyed and flooded, with people trapped under the aftermath and drowning because of it. Bridges and mountains are destroyed, and because of the ports being closed due to strikes, resources cannot be sent to North Carolina. If ANYBODY has links to support and donate to families who lost their homes and families, please, PLEASE, reboot with them. My heart aches for the state and its people.
Take a good look at the countries leading/have started the legal battles to hold the IOF accountable -their fights to end IOF terrorism and war crimes, as this should have been done months ago, are now beginning.
So many Palestinian people have been genocided, and the rampant global government inaction has caused chaos, death, and destruction of Gaza... I just hope this leads to a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation. I truly do.
EDIT: I've now made a post that you can read here with more information about the ICJ rulings, their powers and what we can do with this ruling here. I had to this morning and will continue to delete, report, and block all comments/asks that are anti-Arab, zionist, Islamophobic, racist, and/or antisemitic.
We already knew this but the ICJ has now ruled that Israel's continued occupation of Palestine is illegal and needs to end ASAP.
They found that Israel's occupation does not give it the right of sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza and that it is not a temporary occupation but is an illegal, permanent and discriminatory annexation. The ICJ also found violence against Palestinians, Israeli exploitation of Palestinian natural resources, transfer of civilian population (settlers and companies/organisations), extension of Israeli laws to replace local Palestinian laws, forced displacement of Palestinians, confiscation of Palestinian land, annexation. That Israel's 'security concerns' are not valid justifications for any of these measures.
The ICJ has ordered Israel to end its presence in the West Bank and Gaza immediately and to cease all new settlement activity, return all lands and assets to Palestinians that they've ceased since 1967 and that includes archives and items of cultural significance, evacuate all of their settlers from the settlements, pay compensation, and repeal all laws that maintain this occupation and discrimination. The ICJ is not legally-binding but does carry significant political weight and this ruling is important for continuing to advocate for Palestine and to put pressure on our government's to do the right thing and for them to put pressure on Israel. Keep contacting your representatives!
"Elderly Palestinian couple looking at their former home, now occupied by a couple from Brooklyn. 🇵🇸" [@/RamAbdu on X. April 4th, 2024.]