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♡Be♡ | she/her | we don’t deserve to be comfortable while a genocide is happening. Speak. Up.

[enditall @bewinsyl]

Open your eyes.

[حفصة @muslimthoughtz1]

this is their reality now

[enditall @bewinsyl]

@byunjoorine I am so proud of us all 😭✨❤️ someone on the other side cried at work today and I just

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

My coworker's son, Riku, didn't leave his bedroom for three years.

In Japan, there's a word for it. Hikikomori. The government estimates there are about 1.5 million of them. People who close a door one day and don't open it again.

Riku failed his university entrance exams twice. After the second time, at eighteen, he went into his room. His mother left meals outside the door. Some days the tray came back empty. Some days it didn't.

The only thing he did was play an online fishing game. Every evening. Alone.

Until one evening, someone on the lake sent him a message.

"any luck -L"

L was Lyle. 78. A retired machinist from Tennessee. His wife had passed. He said he couldn't sleep, so he fished.

He typed like a man carving letters into a headstone. All lowercase. No punctuation. And he signed every message, like a letter.

"bass arent biting. same as real life -L"

That first month, Riku told him only one true thing:

"I don't go outside."

Lyle took a full day to answer.

"ok. well. we can fish -L"

So they fished. Every evening. Same lake. They caught almost nothing.

Then one night, Lyle asked a question.

"did you open the curtain today -L"

Riku hadn't. The next night, Lyle asked again. And the next.

On the ninth night, Riku opened the curtain.

"good. thats it. thats the whole job -L"

After that, one question a night. Never two.

"did you eat breakfast -L"
"did you open the window -L"
"did you go to the mailbox -L"
"did you walk to the corner -L"

Riku's mother copied the messages into a notebook. She still keeps it by her bed. Some pages:

"you dont have to feel better to get up. you get up then you feel a little better. thats the order -L"

"a bad day is not a bad life -L"

"nobody is behind. youre just on a different mile -L"

"if all you did today was get through it that counts. im counting -L"

In the eleventh month, Riku asked him why he cared about a stranger in Japan.

Lyle took two days to answer.

"1969 i came home from vietnam. didnt leave my room for a year. my mother left plates by the door too. i know about the door -L"

Then:

"curtain first. always curtain first -L"

In the twelfth month, Riku walked to the convenience store. Three hundred meters. He bought a can of coffee and sent Lyle a picture.

Lyle answered in eleven seconds. Riku had never seen him type that fast.

"ATTABOY -L"

The only capital letters Lyle ever typed.

A week later, a message came from Lyle's daughter.

"Please don't tell Dad I told you. He doesn't have insomnia. He never did. For over a year, he set his alarm for 3:45 every morning so he'd be on that lake when you were. He said a boy in Japan needed somebody on the lake."

Riku is 23 now. He works at a bicycle shop. He goes outside every day.

Last summer, he flew to Tennessee. Lyle picked him up in a truck older than Riku, and they went fishing on a real lake.

They caught nothing.

Lyle said it was the best day of fishing he ever had.

Riku still plays that game. Every evening, he goes back to the same lake and looks for anyone who says they don't go outside.

When he finds one, he types:

"did you open the curtain today -R"

So if you're reading this from a room you haven't left in a while, I don't know you. But I know what Lyle would ask.

did you open the curtain today

[enditall @bewinsyl]

@juanidntt Truly 😂 I was absolutely delighted by it lol

[Rany Jazayerli @jazayerli]

As a Muslim I have been workshopping and refining the perfect answer to this accusation for 25 years, and he just...tweeted it out. He is so damn good at this.

[enditall @bewinsyl]

The baby seeking comfort in the pacifier, not finding it, and crying from the pain is soul ripping. Fuck everyone for supporting this

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The horror of seeing a baby with an amputated leg, then remembering Israel restricts medical supplies and anesthesia.

[pinkie @pinkamaniaa]

i’m always being polite when i say “i think” or “if i remember correctly” because i remember and i’m correct

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

September 30, 2000. Your daily reminder of what Palestinians have endured for decades.

[enditall @bewinsyl]

@hajin_backup @LoriaAngel13 I’m dying at this response 😂😂

[Alexander Aviña @Alexander_Avina]

Angel is 13 years old

[Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ @JennMGreenberg]

Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, The Christian Taliban:

[enditall @bewinsyl]

@Rosemarry__vt Frogger lol

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

One of my colleagues asked me “Do you think you’re superior for not using AI in your work?” and I'm like, Thank you for that beautiful question. Yes, I do.

[pupsi👁️🐋🫵🏾👨🏻 @IHumpYourDad]

I was 15 yrs old when I saw the Logan Paul Suicide Forest (2018) Video on Youtube. It was scaring.

The video was largely wiped from the internet, but not lost… Given his new position, he deserves public accountability. In the interest of transparency, here is my archive of it:

[enditall @bewinsyl]

@25YearsAgoLive My heart breaks for those little souls

[jazz @allergictojoy]

se conmueven con las fotos de hace 25 años de las torres gemelas pero le hacen la vista gorda a esto que está pasando justo ahora

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Her tire blew out. She pulled into a gas station, locked the doors, and waited for her family to come help.

When police arrived she was unconscious in the driver's seat.

They broke the window and fired twenty-three shots into the car.

Tyisha Miller. Riverside, California, December 1998. She was 19.

She was hit twelve times. Four officers fired.
No one was charged with anything. A grand jury declined. The Justice Department reviewed it and closed it.

The four officers were eventually fired by the city — and the police union fought that, too.
A nineteen-year-old waiting for roadside assistance, asleep behind a locked door, in a car that was not going anywhere.

Twenty-three shots. Riverside changed its entire police department after this, under state supervision. That is what it cost.

You know what happened to Tyisha Miller. But what happened to the hundreds of other cases that never became national headlines?

We went looking. The result is 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For—a collection of cases that deserve more than a paragraph in an archive.

Start uncovering them here https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

we did this to 2 million people

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

A 25-year-old artist was arrested for writing on a subway wall with a marker.

He arrived at the hospital thirty minutes later in a coma, hogtied, covered in bruises. He died thirteen days later.

Michael Stewart. New York City, September 1983.
Eleven transit officers were involved in some part of the arrest. Six were charged. All were acquitted in 1985.

The medical examiner's findings changed over time, in ways that the city's own investigators found troubling. Stewart's eyes had been preserved for examination and then, somehow, were not available.

He was a young Black artist in the downtown scene — he knew people, he was part of that world. And his death terrified the people in it.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was 22 and already famous, painted a picture of two police officers clubbing a faceless Black figure. He called it "Defacement." He reportedly said afterward: it could have been me.

Basquiat died five years later. The painting still exists. It is one of the most important things he ever made and almost nobody knows what it is about.

A kid with a marker. Thirteen days. Zero convictions.