killyfromblame:

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killyfromblame:

i’m trying to post a long list of informational resources on palestine and tumblr simply will not let me

is there a limit to how many links you can put on one post? it just says there’s a “problem”

testing with one link

QUICK FACTS: The Occupied Palestinian Territories: An Overview | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

testing with two more

Putting Palestinians "On a Diet": Israel's Siege & Blockade of Gaza | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Putting Gaza in ‘Formaldehyde’: Israel’s ‘Disengagement,’ A Decade Later | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

testing with three more

Fact Sheet: The Palestinian Authority | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Fact Sheet: Palestinian Citizens of Israel | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Quick Facts: Israel’s West Bank Settlement Enterprise | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

and the rest:

Israel’s Mass Incarceration of Palestinians | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Israeli Restrictions on Palestinian Movement | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Israel’s Theft & Destruction of Palestinian Land & Homes | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Discrimination & Hate Crimes Against Christian Palestinians in the Holy Land | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Atrocities & Bantustans: The Legacy of Ariel Sharon | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

The Prawer Plan: Ethnic Cleansing in the Negev | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Plan Dalet: Blueprint for the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

Fact Sheet: The Palestinian Nakba & The Establishment of Israeli Apartheid | IMEU

The Palestinian refugee and displaced person population is the largest and longest-standing in the world.

imeu.org

The Dahiya Doctrine and Israel's Use of Disproportionate Force | IMEU

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digita

imeu.org

my intention in posting all these is as follows: i love everyone standing in genuine solidarity with palestine, but some of you are really uninformed and thus your talking points suck shit and you don’t know how to respond to the most basic, common lies about palestine and palestinians–sorry for being harsh, but it’s true. if you want your advocacy to be better, please actually know the basics of how this whole “situation” functions. the imeu has put together a lot of fact sheets^ that can help you get a basic understanding. note that these are all at least a few years old and not about extremely recent developments, like the current crisis, updated numbers on the population of west bank settlements, etc.

whencartoonsruletheworld:

funniest disney history facts i can think of atm

• literally EVERYBODY thought the lion king was gonna flop and pocahontas would be their greatest movie ever made. people begged to ditch lion king and work on pocahontas.
  
• the reason robin hood ends so abruptly is that there was an actual ending planned and storyboarded but the crew spent too long arguing about everyone’s fursonas to finish animating it
• madam mim was way less comedic in the original book but because her character was too similar to maleficent (who was in their latest film at the time), the sword and the stone crew decided to differentiate her by making her fucking hilarious
  
• when making a goofy movie, jeffrey katzenberg (studio chairman at the time) told bill farmer to give goofy “a normal voice.” farmer, who had been voicing goofy for eight years at that point, including in the goof troop show that a goofy movie was a sequel to, was very confused. after making an attempt they decided to scrap that note completely.
  
• as of march 2023, farmer is still voicing goofy, and tony anselmo has been voicing donald since 1986. the 2017 reboot of ducktales, which was slated as “wanting to do for donald what goofy movie did for goofy,” featured both actors as those characters; they had also been doing the voices for the original ducktales and goof troop/goofy movie. all the times goofy and donald interact in the 2017 ducktales however, donald was voiced by guest star don cheadle as a joke
• current voice of mickey mouse bret iwan has stated that he has attempted to play kingdom hearts and did not do well
• disneyland’s current world of color halloween overlay features a plot that is basically “the disney villains simultaneously adopt a goth kid” and i love it
  
• people will make jokes about “well math says that the beast would’ve been 11 when he was cursed” well that was actually the original intent, but a flashback scene of baby beast was scrapped because he looked “too much like eddie munster”
  
• when disney sent a representative to pixar to check on toy story production, she was like “this is all great! what style of music are you thinking” and they were like “for what” “for the songs” “we uh. we weren’t gonna have. any songs” and she went dead silent and then went “i have to make a call” and left the room
• saludos amigos and the three caballeros were made as ww2 propaganda. the government commissioned disney to make movies to make latin america like them so that they wouldnt side with the nazis and provide them an in to invade, and latin america really liked donald duck so
• saludos amigos was apparently the first time many usamericans realized that latin american people were like. people. film historian alfred charles richard jr said that the film “did more to cement a community of interest between peoples of the americas in a few months than the state department had in fifty years”
  
• while latin america generally liked both films, chilean cartoonist rené rios boettiger fucking hated the chilean segment of saludos amigos, seeing the main character of pedro the plane as a weakass bitch, so in response he created condorito, the most popular comic character in all of latin america
• disney wanted to adapt ts eliot’s old possum’s book of practical cats. his widow adamantly refused, and then sold the rights to andrew lloyd webber bc he wanted to make it sexy and she said “tom would’ve liked that”
• in case you haven’t seen the defunctland, walt disney wanted epcot to be a futuristic utopia where he was basically the dictator. then he died so they just made it another theme park
• speaking of defunctland the first defunctland video was on disneyworld’s alien attraction and please watch it. please it’s so funny
  
• after the huge failure of the black cauldron disney was going to shut down its animation department. the department tried to convince them to keep them alive by showing them the one scene they had finished for the next movie– the mouse burlesque from the great mouse detective. it worked
• the only attraction the black cauldron ever got was in tokyo disneyland where they put a tour under cinderella’s castle where everyone had to escape the disney villains trying to kill them, only to end at the horned king and the cauldron, who would try to sacrifice them to satan. this tour was popular but was closed in the early 2000s as the tunnels didn’t fit earthquake regulations and i want it in disneyworld so bad
• walt disney once referred to his unionizing workers, led by goofy’s creator art babbitt, as “commie sons of bitches,” and i want a mickey build-a-bear that calls me a commie son-of-a-bitch whenever i squeeze its paw
  

zoethebitch:

zoethebitch:

McDonald’s giving away free fries if you use their mobile app and then updating the terms and conditions to say if you use this app you waive your right to trial in any class action lawsuits and have to do mandatory arbitration is INSANE

lokiina:

ratsstick:

ratsstick:

rabid-raygun:

lokiina:

The sharp increase in people creating Cyberpunk Ai voice mods is fucking alarming.

If you do not have permission. Stealing someone’s voice is quite literally a form of identity theft.

Stop training these systems. Christ.

I don’t really go here, but as I saw Elias Toufexis (actor of Adam Jensen in deus ex) on twitter recently addressing this very thing so for some added context.

Even if you personally have good intentions - don’t do this shit

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I actually sent a message to SAG-AFTRA about it and linked the Scarlett Johanson, Ryan Gosling, and Ariana Grande one. Nexus currently will only allow reporting from the individual or whoever owns the property being used so we can’t report these mods.

The US House also has introduced a draft bill called NO FAKES seeking to put limits on this kind of shit. I think one thing in the meantime we could do is let the voice actors or relevant union know and link to them because they are unauthorized AI and that they can request Nexus remove the mods.

Here’s my email and their response

Oh hell yeah. Get em.

I really hope enough attention can get Nexus to finally put their foot down on this kind of thing. If a threat of a possible lawsuit from the affected parties is what does it, then I hope they use that as a way to slap some sense into them.

shutinthenutouse:

mlem0817:

She loves her kids

findingfeather:

cassie-is-trans:

feministism:

This made me cry

I used to watch this in playgroups, too, and what I really hated was the way that it’s not just families, it’s everything. The preschool line was one of the worst.

You’d have a kid coming for months to the community centre playgroup and he was just a sweet kid - sometimes he got angry, just like all the rest of the kids, sometimes he wanted to be a dinosaur or a scary lion, just like the rest of the kids, but he also loved the baby dolls and played house and wanted a pretty hat just like the rest of the kids. Some of them would even really explicitly like Dora the Explorer or they’d love Doc McStuffins or whatever, wouldn’t care. Would also love Bob the Builder, my point is that this shit’s gender appropriateness wasn’t even on their radar, and their parents were clearly fine with that, including the somewhat bro-y dads.

Then they’d start attending actual pre-school. And suddenly whether or not things were for Boys or Girls was Important. Suddenly Dora wasn’t acceptable; she was for Girls. Suddenly, Boys don’t play with baby-dolls. A lot of it is peer pressure - not kidding, in all innocence peer pressure, at four years old, because some of the OTHER kids HAVE been taught the world has Boy Things and Girl Things and it’s absolutely bad for Boys to like Girl Things.

One mom I talked to noted that on the one hand her kid loved pre-school and also she needed the care hours, and (as a valid concern) she did want her kid to know how to socialize with the rest of the world, but she was also pretty pissed that he’d spontaneously given up what used to be his favourite things because they weren’t “for boys” and was sad about it, and also four, so she couldn’t actually explain to him why he didn’t need to. (She’d tried.)

These were just people who hung out in the same nice liberal neighbourhood I nannied in and attended that playgroup at the community centre; I don’t know how things turned out for them, as we lost touch.

But this shit is toxic and it starts so early, and we have got to figure out how to stop it. We have got to figure out how to just let boys be fucking children, let them enjoy the things they enjoy without making them constantly check themselves to make sure it meets with Masculinity Approval. Do not do this to your kids. Dads, especially, do not do this to your kids but Moms too*.

And as a de jure woman stg when I see other women reinforcing this shit and I possibly can I will fight you. Do not fucking do this. Do not push your boy at “boy” stuff and demand they avoid girl stuff. Do not tease them for being scared, or bug them about doing “girly” things, or whatever. Do not. I will fight you. Don’t do it to them, and don’t do it to their dads/your male partners either. Your sons are listening. Don’t help this toxic bullshit.

[*if you are a parent who does not fall under dad or mom and you’re still enforcing gender roles I don’t know what to do with you but I will probably challenge you to a duel in a public place should we ever meet.]

brightlotusmoon:

glorioustidalwavedefendor:

trickstertime:

daily–cats:

This is me♡♡

Please do this for your cats.

Dispite their reputation, cats are very very socal creatures. Cats do the equivalent of this for you when they sit in front of your laptop and put their arms on the keyboard or put their paw on your phone while you’re using it. This is their love language, it’s how they show that they like you and care about what you care about. They don’t understand why you care about it but they’re trying.

If you turn around and do the same for them they’ll be absolutely delighted. Sometimes when our youngest cat goes to the scratching post I scratch it with him too and he loves it. He’ll gets so into the scratching that he ends up climbing it cuz he wants to scratch with his back paws too. If they’re chirping at the window I’ll sometimes go over to see what they see and they usually scoot over so I have room beside them to see the offending bird or insect and they’ll purr like crazy cuz they’re so happy I’m helping them

@brightlotusmoon

I do this with my cats and my friends!

queen-breha-organa:

queen-breha-organa:

queen-breha-organa:

Do you ever like physically feel yourself pass your mental breaking point and then all you can think is “oh these next few days are going to be interesting”

Like you’re just sitting there silently and on the outside you seem fine and gathered but in your head you’re like “oh this is gonna hit me like a train any second”

Glad to see all 19k of us are clearly fine and okay

enden-k:

kvthm au idea i had, idk

in which kaveh got taken in by eremites when his father took him to a small exploration to the desert he begged to join; they got into an accident and his father died while protecting kaveh from harm. later he was found by some eremites who took him in and raised him

[years and the archon quest later] aether is out on a trip to some ruins and asked haitham to join him for help (and translations) - out of interest and as a good excuse to escape his acting grand sage duties for a bit he joins. they meet this strange, golden haired eremite who got them out of danger just in time and offers his services as a guide through the desert to their destination, so they end up traveling together

and ofc haitham and kaveh get closer and closer to each other, first time for both of them to feel smth like this so i guess the desert/ruins is not the only thing they be exploring

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