Trialing deleting this and TikTok for a time to see how that assists my mental health and attention/dopamine issues (for which these apps are the worst if you’re neurodivergent - shocking). Instagram I don’t use as much, so I’ll keep that for now. B”H I’ll see an improvement ✌️🩷
@NoContextHumans I miss the creative eyeshadow/faux lashes looks that were everywhere beyond just drag/other makeup art in the mid-late 2010s. I’ve never attempted one post-pandemic and might try to hone my (albeit limited) skills again ❤️
@kirawontmiss Is the hijabi lady meant to be ramming the old white lady with her trolley, but both are pretty chilled about it? The right wing nut jobs don’t even know what their messaging is anymore.
@not_coolidge@IhabHassane Yes I agree, I just hope this amounts to practical action that Abbas knows he can’t interfere with and keep his position. It’s a 180 from Fatah point stating they will never accept Israel and rejecting most peace deals from pure spite, so it’s something, but I’m still realistic.
How common is it to repeatedly argue back to a podcast or a YouTube video with your AirPods in so it looks like you’re talking to yourself when you think you’re alone before remembering you’re not?
Autism isn't a tragedy
But you know what is? The lack of support or understanding autistic people or their families receive from those who claim to care
I wish I could invite people to live in our house for a week.
A week only.
In a Palestinian house in area H2.
In a house of a pacifist family.
Who recognizes the state of Israel.
Who opposes Hamas.
Who opposes violence.
See how we live under occupation.
I have taken the time to read and digest the new testimony (and surrounding commentary) that further confirms that ‘sexual violence was "widespread and systematic" during the October 7 attack, rape and gang rape occurring in at least six different locations.’
This testimony should not have been needed for people to believe what happened to these women and girls. As this article reminds us: ‘bodies of young women [were found] stripped and tied to trees and poles, shot through their genitals and in the head.’ If it were any other group of women, this in itself would have been acknowledged (and empathised with) as credible indicators of brutal rape.
As @orlipeter wrote a few days ago on X:
‘International investigators have relied on similar forensic markers for decades. In Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, and elsewhere, they have drawn on:
▶️ The condition and positioning of other women's bodies
▶️Physical evidence of restraint and assault
▶️Witnesses who heard women's screams begging them to stop
▶️Observed assaults
▶️Repeated patterns of similar violence
▶️Delayed witness or survivor testimony, a common response to extreme psychological shock.
All of these were present after October 7.’
Thus I can think of no further comment other than to reiterate the exact words I wrote in an article March 2024 to the ‘feminists’ who betrayed every principle they purportedly stood for in denying or rationalising this horror of mass sexual violence:
The weight of the unspeakable agony that these victims endured in their final moments is one carried by the Jewish community globally: an agony that echoes the brutality inflicted on Jewish women for millennia.
It is a weight made infinitely heavier by the profound betrayal of so many ‘feminists’. Author Rena Lipiner Katz, daughter of Holocaust survivors, searingly wrote on X: ‘after 40 years of self-identification as a feminist, I renounce it. Women's groups have abandoned me and my Jewish sisters by politicising feminism and left us exposed once again to a brutality unseen in history. I am a Jew.’
@uricohenisrael I despise the sexist slut shaming in response to her conduct. She’s a disgusting antisemite which is enough, the misogyny is reaching for the lowest hanging fruit (not a deliberate reference to pomegranate but feel free to read it that way). Same mocking Greta for being autistic.
@CTOTHELOS77 Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt. Trent Reznor freely admitted that it wasn’t his song anymore after Johnny Cash covered it about 6 months before he died 💔
To the West, I urge you to recognize the state of Palestine only under the following vital conditions:
✓ The immediate return of all hostages.
✓ A commitment to restoring democratic governance.
✓ An opportunity for leadership change.
✓ The reinstatement of their constitution.
✓ A clear and unequivocal denouncement of terrorism against Israel.
✓ An acknowledgment of Israel as a sovereign state.
These steps are essential for a path toward lasting peace and mutual respect.