fricatives (eric yip)

what did they do to my girl

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Joe Sacco, The War in Gaza 1.31.24 (excerpt)

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

An Easter cartoon for the Guardian

I’ve been using the Spore creature creator to bring my loved ones back to life on the computer

i hope a ceiling fan falls on the empty spot in the bed next to you and it starts understanding your needs

from the aptly titled Biden’s Increasingly Contradictory Israel Policy by Isaac Chotiner, for The New Yorker

Updates 4/2/2024

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war never changes

*teeth-gritted fists clenched* want to post zine work but that shit is under lockdown until late april

Last week, Politico reported that President Joe Biden would “consider” conditioning military aid to Israel if the country launches a large-scale invasion of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering. “It’s something he’s definitely thought about,” said one of the four anonymous US officials cited as a source. This was about as weak of a position as could be imagined: The President had definitely thought about maybe doing something. Still, even this proved too much. One day later, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the article was based on “uninformed speculation” by anonymous officials and that he wouldn’t be entertaining hypotheticals about how the US would respond to a major invasion of Rafah, which US officials have signaled they would accept in a more limited form. The dismissal was the latest indication of the administration’s almost complete unwillingness to even discuss imposing serious consequences on Israel for waging a war that has killed more than 30,000 people, most of whom were women and children. Instead, the administration has adopted a newfound feeling of impotence. As State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller put it last month, “The United States does not dictate to Israel what it must do, just as we don’t dictate to any country what it must do.” The absurdity of this position was made clear when a reporter interjected, “Unless you invade them.” Miller couldn’t help but laugh. It has been obvious for months that there are many things the Biden administration can do to restrain Israel and distance itself from a war that has been condemned throughout the world. The problem has not been a lack of options but a lack of political will. Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator who is now the president of the US/Middle East Project, told me, “I think many of us who had very low expectations of the US and of Biden have had a rude awakening as to how much lower the actual performance has been [compared] to even the lowest of low expectations.”

As evidence of how important US backing has been for Israel, Levy cited veteran Israeli journalist Yoav Limor, who wrote in Hebrew earlier this month that without “Biden’s support, Israel would long ago have been forced to stop the fighting in Gaza due to a shortage of weapons, while at the same time it would have been forced to deal with United Nations Security Council resolutions (and possibly sanctions) against it.” Still, Levy thought it might take weeks or months of sustained US pressure to compel Israel to change course. In any case, Biden is under no obligation to provide thousands of bombs to a country whose leader has consistently ignored him as Israel wages a brutal war that has leveled much of Gaza and caused children to die of starvation. “We need to stick to our own values,” Ford said. “If our values say, ‘Starving children is way beyond the pale,’ then we need to react to that and take stern action, whether or not it changes Israeli policy.”

Taawon, a Palestinian non-profit, are organizing to distribute suhoor and iftar meals for displaced families in Gaza during Ramadan.

You can donate whatever amount through their donation page but they do have this guide on their page on what your contributions will help them provide.

btw if you get a begging message from this person, block and report. they are a (very clumsy) scammer targeting people who have helped to fundraise for ahmed and his family. according to people actually active in the area they claim to be from, all of their local info is wrong and they only speak google-translate arabic lol. truly despicable.

it looks like GFM has already shut down their campaign and refunded the 2 entire donations they managed to wheedle out of people but keep an eye out for this shit and never feel bad about looking for red flags when a complete stranger asks you for $$$$

this is an instructive case bc they did almost everything wrong:

brand new blog, every post has 1 like (by op)

only other interactions are from aggregator / bot accounts

'some replies have been hidden or removed' on their begging post

I actually couldn't find their photos on a reverse image search, but it's pretty easy to fool tineye with image editing so that's not a guarantee that they aren't stolen. regardless...

...same selfie used repeatedly on their blog and in DMs (and they sent it to me unprompted, which is a super weird thing to do unless you already know you sound shady as fuck)

keeps repeating that they're 'ahmed's friend' but never tags him, and he has never intereacted with their posts or mentioned them

asked me to message them first so their replies couldn't be published <= insanely dumb, why would someone genuinely fundraising for their dying family want to keep it a secret

anyway it's all very transparent and evil but going back through their notes there were enough well meaning people trying to signal boost their shit that this needs to be spelled out. there are people in the world who have no qualms about impersonating a victim of genocide to steal your money. you are always allowed to ask questions. you are always allowed to subject this shit to scrutiny.

hello im in a weird “ask everyone questions” mood but i already asked my server one for today so i have to subject tumblr to the rest

edit also its ok if it’s not your fault but you still have to choose if you were passenger or driver