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there are way worse written games than Elden Ring
Oh hon, you don't have to tell me.
I played Mass Effect Andromeda.
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Shame is not a motivator.
#something bidenettes really need to learn#esp when directed at Palestinian Americans#and all the supporters#which is probably more than half the country at this point#join the protests#be they against israel or trump#and just shut it about biden bc no one wants to hear it#he's a war criminal and that is effing that
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If these stay-at-home things have taught us anything, it’s that the internet is vitally important to people’s education, employment, ability to communicate with others, and our overall well-being. If that doesn’t sound like something that should be considered a public utility, I don’t know what else to say.
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After three weeks of attempting to backup this blog with Tumblr's option, nothing happened and export is no longer available.
The "bug" keeping my blog (and many others) from showing up in searches is still going strong.
If anyone has used any other service that has worked, please pass it along? Thanks.
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Israeli forces have supposedly withdrawn from Khan Younis, but at what cost? All houses are destroyed, al-Amal Hospital is completely out of service, bodies strewn everywhere under rubble. People still have no electricity and no clean water and no food. It’s hard to dub this a victory when the suffering continues.
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Just a head's up if you're using or considering using the Mojeek search engine: some of the art/photos that come up are provided by Pixabay and they are using ai-generated images.
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Shoutout to all the artists on Tumblr who work on something for weeks and only get 4 notes
Shoutout to all the artists on Youtube who do amazing speedpaints and, if they’re lucky, will get 500 views
Shoutout to all underappreciated artists who do amazing work and receive no recognition
#how does this post have over 300k notes and how did tumblr get 70 million boops while the folks this is supposed to uplift get zip?#if we can ever answer that question we might understand something about how engagement works here#and what gets valued vs. what clearly doesn't#life is weird here#shoutout to the dancing spiderman post with over a million likes and shares#what you contribute is a mystery but you are loved
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Pretty sure none of these actors consented to their images being used like this, Tumblr.
And there's no real reporting mechanism for it.
Whoops. Someone call Leo.
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Whoops. Someone call Leo.
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[Image above: screenshot of tweet by @rashaabdulhadi: All that "world war 3" talk is settler talk, by the way. Unlearn it, unlearn the fascination with it that you've been raised on.
Second tweet follows by @michkeenah: yeah, we only speak about a 'world war' when there is a possibility that the imperial core is in danger. which is funny bc when you look at who is funding these genocides + conflicts around the world, it's obvious that we are at war--the battlefield is just the global south /end description]
What happened yesterday was Bibi successfully redirecting the conversation away from the genocide of Palestinians and how that isn't going to stop anytime soon, toward Iran, whom they deliberately provoked into an attack.
An attack, btw, that was announced beforehand, giving Israel, the US and Jordan, time to knock them all down.
This bullshit has been going on for decades.
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Hot fandom discourse take but framing dark content as only being acceptable if its a vehicle for exploring personal trauma is just giving ground to the puritan segments of fandom.
Simply liking dark content for its own sake is perfectly fine.
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When I say there are things that Israel will never ever take away from Palestinians I also mean the way the fight for Palestine is ingrained into every aspect of our lives, down to even the names we give our children who come decades and decades after our initial Nakba.
For example, Bisan is a very popular girls name in Palestine and it is the name of a Palestinian city that was depopulated by Israel in 1948. Girls with names like Bisan, Yafa and Jenin may not have seen these cities yet, but they carry them within them regardless.
Also, many Palestinians can identify with how our aunts and uncles have symbolic names such as A'ed or A'eda which mean returnee. These names were not chosen arbitrarily by our grandparents who were forced to raise their families in refugee camps. Similarly, there are names like Thaer (revolutionary), Bassel (courageous) and Nidhal (revolutionary struggle) that are very common to this day.
We are literally walking around carrying notions of Palestine and our struggle with us and planting the seeds of resistance within our children, we must be so frustrating!
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'Al Rozana / عالروزانا
Like the majority of Palestinian folk songs, 'Al Rozana, which translates to onboard the Rozana, has a multitude of stories about its origin. One thing remains true, however, is that the Rozana is the name of a ship that carried produce to the region like apples and grapes.
One version of the story depicts the ship as belonging to the Ottomans who wanted to harm local farmers by selling the produce with cheaper prices. Another version of the story is surrounding how this ship was meant to provide aid during the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon in 1914. Another version claims that the song is about the Italian ship, the Rosanna, which carried produce that, upon arrival to the region, had gotten spoiled, among many other stories.
Despite that, 'Al Rozana kept its first verse unchanged across the years. The first verse has been adopted by many artists across the region who added to it to create new versions of the song, each invoking a different set of emotions associated with the lyrics of their choice.
The main verse of the song (below) is iterated by a person whose loved one had boarded the Rozana on their way to Aleppo, which cements one truth amongst the many possible background stories: the Rozana refers to a ship carrying produce which was heading to Aleppo at the time:
عالروزانا عالروزانا كل الهنا فيها
شو عملت الروزانا الله يجازيها
يا رايحين ل حلب حبي معاكم راح
يا محملين العنب تحت العنب تفاح
كل من وليفه معه وأنا وليفي راح
يا ربي نسمة هوى ترد الولف ليا
On board the Rozana
Bliss is onboard the Rozana
By God, what has the Rozana done?
Oh you who are departing to Aleppo
My beloved is amongst you
Oh you who carry crates of grapes
Underneath it lie apples
Everyone is accompanied by their loved ones
Except my loved one is gone
By God, may my beloved return with the sea breeze
Considering its origin, noted 'Al Rozana performances come from across the levant region with Lebanon’s Fairuz, Syria’s Sabah Fakhri and Palestine’s Lena Chamamyan, with a more recent remake of it by Gaza’s Sol Band.
Throughout its history and to this day, 'Al Rozana stands as a stark reminder of the region’s history, its wistful tune remaining the same across the many renditions, summoned by aches of separation. 'Al Rozana is usually sung by mothers and wives who are longing for their children or husbands who are in Israeli captivity or are in exile.
More songs are shelved at my (humble but growing) Palestine folk music library.
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