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vellichnora · 5 days
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If any of you ever feel like what you're doing for Palestine isn't helping anything, I'll tell you right now it's helping me. I know it is fortifying all of us who have been in this fight for years to see so many people willing to speak up. It has never been like this before.
The tide has already turned. The fact that #free palestine will have new posts everyday, that helps me. It helps my mental health knowing that Palestinians are less alone now than ever.
Yesterday I read some verses from the Quran talking about how "the blame" is not with those who wish to help but cannot, but with those who CAN help and do not.
Truly I do not care if all you do for Palestine is post in that #free palestine everyday, that is still more than many people with the means to do even more would do.
We see you. We see you standing in solidarity with us and with Palestinians. We love you. Thank you.
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vellichnora · 16 days
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it really is insane how waking up early will grant you access to some of the most beautiful sights and sensations in the world that will make you want to live forever, but only if you overcome the gauntlet of a thousand razors that is getting out of bed early. truly one of life's little saw traps.
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vellichnora · 21 days
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I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you
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vellichnora · 21 days
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me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid
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vellichnora · 25 days
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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles
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vellichnora · 30 days
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Confession of a grieving Palestinian, forever away from home.
(For the record, hopelessness does not mean giving up. When you feel like you can do so little, just do what you can. Donate. Protest. Scream the truth.)
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vellichnora · 30 days
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aaron bushnell knew exactly what he was doing. he states his intentions with total lucidity and sense of purpose. he knows what he's about to do is extreme--he says so. he speaks calmly, but he's clearly terrified. he takes a deep breath after pouring the accelerant over himself. he has to psyche himself up to light the flame. he struggles with the lighter. he says "free palestine" normally once before he starts to scream it. even through his agony he manages to say it one last time before he stops being able to speak at all. this is a man with total conviction. he wanted to help people, in any way possible. this action was a moral one, and any news outlet painting this as simply a mental health issue is a disservice to his memory. he knew what he was doing when he burned himself in uniform. he knew that there was a chance that sacrificing his own life could go on to save many others. this was the ultimate act of selflessness, and it should be treated as such. may he rest in peace.
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vellichnora · 1 month
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On windows and sonder
@persimmon444/ soir de mai, henri le sidaner/ the great gatsby, f.scott fitzgerald/ @marsupialpudding / @godspeedmp3/ sonder, the dictionary of obscure sorrows
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vellichnora · 3 months
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So turns out…..you guys are not gonna believe this…….but it turns out. Reading real books. Is good for you actually.
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vellichnora · 3 months
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I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something
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vellichnora · 4 months
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damn ok lake superior
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vellichnora · 5 months
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vellichnora · 5 months
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vellichnora · 5 months
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I’m so pained about what’s happening in Palestine, every time a video appears on my feed it just breaks my heart over and over again. They don’t deserve what’s happening at all. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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vellichnora · 5 months
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"I have dreams I have not yet achieved. I have a life that I have not yet fully lived." 10.15.2023
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vellichnora · 5 months
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vellichnora · 5 months
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Word-of-mouth testimonies from our colonizers are awarded front-page headlines, breaking news, and mass hysteria. Meanwhile, video footage of our children being slaughtered, being bombarded, being pulled out of the rubble, will never receive the same attention. Even footage of Israelis urinating and stomping on the dead bodies of Palestinians did not receive any of this media coverage.
Western newspapers work overtime to elicit sympathy for settlers while painting Palestinians as terrorists. The Palestinians whose very lands these settlers have stolen and now live on. Journalists spread this misinformation, often willingly, to decontextualize decades and decades of brutality and siege. Western newspapers will not tell you about the massacres committed by the Israeli military.
Zionism is always justifiable in their eyes. Settlers can kill, kidnap and steal, as well as institutionally monopolize violence as if it's business as usual. But dare a Palestinian resist? It's clear that the international community. And the Western world has no problem with violence, only a problem with the perpetrators of that violence.
Who gets to monopolize? Who has the authority to enact that violence? In addition to all of this, there is almost no international reporters on the ground in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Palestinians in the Besie's enclave have to deal with not only there not being any electricity because Israelis have targeted electricity, but being personally targeted by airstrikes.
..Seven Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israeli airstrikes since the beginning of the onslaught on the Gaza Strip. This very erasure is part of the reason why Palestinians resist. Mass media is preemptively conditioning you to write a blank check for Israeli genocide.
This is straight out of the playbook. They make up a lie. There is no evidence for it. Journalists spread it like wildfire. Diplomats and politics repeat it. Then a narrative is made. The general public believes it, the harm is done, and they might later admit that it never happened.
But, you do not have to be complicit in this. You do not have to justify their genocide. They are readying to wipe Gaza off of the face of the earth. And the time to mobilize support for the Palestinian cause is now.
Mohammed El-Kurd, Don't be complicit in genocide, October 11, 2023
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