I got 99 problems Madeleine & Joey are all of them

ajloun:

what I wish people would understand about fundraising for gaza is that while everyone is desperate and I would never say not to fundraise for or donate to individual families– I currently fundraise to support multiple friends’ families– the overwhelming narrative I see on Tumblr that the best and most ethical thing you can do is send money to individuals and there is no option for anything else is so so incredibly damaging and inadvertently lends support to the marginalization and distrust of any remaining communal social infrastructure. the sameer project, which you should donate to, talks about this in a recent video they put out. the situation in gaza is unimaginable and everyone is in need of a huge level of support, and yet this fundraising discourse by well-meaning people in the west that donating money to individuals is the only moral way reproduces societal divides wherein resources are directed to people who speak English, who have relationships with people outside of gaza, and who have internet access while hundreds of thousands are left behind.

there ARE non-ngo locally based grassroots initiatives working to meet those needs however they can, and your small donation goes a lot further with them because they are able to buy food/water/supplies in bulk at a reduced price and reach more people with less money. again I’m not saying people shouldn’t fundraise for individuals because these initiatives are so limited and many people cannot access them – but as an example, the group I fundraise with is currently serving people fleeing north gaza who are starving and have nothing, and when we fundraise enough to do cash aid distribution there’s so much need that our partners can only distribute 100-200 per large family. and then I go online and see people who have absolutely no understanding of this context at all exclusively working towards raising tens of thousands for just a few people when evacuations haven’t been possible for months. it’s good to do whatever you can but please consider how this narrative being reproduced among westerners trying to help that there are no other options has the potential to damage groups working towards equity and wider reach however is still possible

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adistanttree:

liberalsarecool:

Here is your mission.

TSLA hit its all time high of $488.50 on 15 DEC 2024. To reach of a price of $114.00 would be a 76.7% drop. That’s huge, right?

Yeah well, when I checked the price just now (12 MAR 2025 @ 1:31 PM EDT), TSLA is currently trading at $250.85. That’s down 48.6% from the high.

Babes, we’re already nearly two-thirds of the way there.

TSLA $114.00. I believe this is where I say ‘like to charge, reblog to cast.’

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ineffectualdemon:

prismatic-bell:

lierdumoa:

cheeseanonioncrisps:

catchymemes:

Okay. Say you ask a small child to draw you a house, and they come up with something like this:

ALT

For the purposes of this analogy the child is shit at colouring in, because I only wanted to give the general idea.

So, we can all agree that the child who draws a house probably isn’t trying to communicate anything in particular other than “look at this cool house I drew”, right?

Cool.

So… Why is it seemingly in the middle of nowhere, when most children live in houses with neighbours?

Why is the main body a square and the roof a solid triangle when that doesn’t look like any house that has ever been built anywhere?

Why does it have a wood-burning stove with smoke actively coming out of the chimney, even though the sun indicates warm weather?

Why is the sun smiling? Why is it yellow?

Answer: because the child has seen picture books, and films, and the drawings of other children, and has on some level absorbed that this is what a house is meant to look like.

Face to face, the child almost certainly wouldn’t know where to begin communicating “yellow is a colour culturally associated with happiness and warmth, and two dots accompanied by a curved line symbolically represent a smiling human face, so I have combined these attributes with the sun to convey that it is a very warm and pleasant day”.

Or “historically most houses in my country used fire for heat and cooking, and even though this is no longer the case for the majority of households, most media portrayals of houses are inspired by other, older, media portrayals and therefore include the chimney. I have chosen to follow this trend.”

Or even, “I have poor motor control because of my age, and large, 2 dimensional shapes are easier to draw than anything involving detail and perspective”.

Yet this is all information that you can pick up from detailed study of the house drawing.

Ultimately, it’s not about what the writer intended. That’s what the whole death of the author thing means.

If you think of literature like as a conversation, then think of all the analysis stuff that your English teacher keeps trying to get you to look at as like body language. It’s the stuff that the other person doesn’t even necessarily mean to communicate, but that can tell you a hell of a lot about what they mean.

Also, a poem written by a poet who got high is still a poem written by a poet.

People love to say dismissive bullshit like, “oh, that’s just the drugs talking” but actually, drugs can’t fucking talk! It is always the human being doing the talking regardless of how intoxicated they are. The drugs are not creating the poetry. The poet’s mind is creating the poetry. A person doesn’t stop being a person just because they took something.

David Bowie said he was so high the year he wrote the album Hunky Dory that he didn’t remember writing it (in fact he said he didn’t remember anything about the year).

This is the album that includes “Life on Mars?”, which many people consider to be some pretty cutting commentary on Marxism and capitalism.

Bowie himself could not tell you what that song is about, or if it’s about anything at all. But quite a few people have found a lot of meaning in it.

My teenager is working on a big art project for school and they said their meanings tend to be very surface level

Their work is about flora and fauna is a mix of bone motifs, animal shapes and natural flora intertwining to create one beast that symbolises the land

And when I pointed out that it seemed to me like a commentary on how the ecosystem works and every part is reliant on another and how life and death are two sides of the same coin they didn’t go “no I was just doing surface level nature is cool” they went “oh yeah! I can see it now!”

And I’ve had that experience as well

Sometimes artists don’t know the meaning until other people point it out

quasi-normalcy:

Tom Paris is so hilarious because he’s a “cool” character written by the kind of people who write Star Trek, so it’s just like “What are cool people into?” “Uh…fast cars! Rock & roll! Pool! Pizza! Black and white sci-fi adventure serials! Uh…19th century whaling ships! Quaint Irish villages!” “Are you sure about those last ones?” “What are you saying they’re *not* cool?” “Okay, fair point”

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butchscientist:

gray-warden:

i am indifferent towards your shoelaces

thanks. i obtained them through entirely legal means wholly unrelated to any country’s head of state

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worriedyourwingswouldmelt:

“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.

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wind-at-your-back:

iamadboy:

oxfrnk:

don’t!!! fake!!!! your!!!! interests!!!! to!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

don’t!!! bury!!!! your!!!! interests!!! to!!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

don’t!!! go!!! wasting!!! your!!! emotion!!! lay!!! all!!! your!!! love!!! on!!! me!!!

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some-pers0n:

Hey you ever think about The Characters so much to the point where

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kitten-kin:

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