Hope Is A Skill

Repeating my COVID surge PSA: there is a major surge underway in many places right now. In the US, estimates are that we're seeing higher covid levels than 90% of the pandemic, with 1 in 35 people currently infected, so eg a gathering of 20 people has a 45% chance of having an infectious person present (source, posted 12/18/23 so they're already a couple days old and expected to rise through early January). It's common for people to be infectious without/before becoming symptomatic, and rapid tests miss a lot of cases.

You can protect yourself and your loved ones by declining invites for overly risky situations, wearing a well fitting high quality mask when you're sharing air with others (kn-94, N95), and following the People's CDC safer indoor gathering guide as much as you can

I hate that tumblr has eroded the usefulness of the term “TERF” & uses it as shorthand for “transphobe” or “transmisogynist.” Those words were created because there was & is a need for them.

2023 Nativity Scene at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, Bethlehem, Palestine

"In Gaza today, God is under the rubble. He is in the operating room. If Christ were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble. We see his image in every child killed and pulled from under the rubble. In every child in incubators," writes Rev. Munther Isaac of the church.

what random city did spotify tell you has your music taste this year pls add in tags

Keep an eye on Palestine this coming Ramadan. Israel often launches harsh depraved attacks during Ramadan solely to ruin the Palestinians fucking lives and wear them down and it’s disgusting do not look away.

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

Genie: Okay so there are 3 rules; you can’t kill anyone, you can’t make people fall in love, and you can’t bring anyone back from the dead.

Me: I wish that whenever I pissed my dick sounded like a kazoo-

Genie: There are 4 rules

okay so a ceasefire will happen soon, inshallah, but i just know the second it does, most of y'all will pack it up and go home. the world has proven time and time again that the second the violence "stops", then everyone forgets about us and then we just go back to suffering under the israeli occupation. you guys need to promise us, promise every single palestinian child in the world right now, that you will not stop fighting. that you will continue boycotting, you will continue protesting, you will continue disrupting the world until palestine is free. and then we'll do it again. and again and again and again and again. for sudan, for the congo, for everyone who is suffering right now.

you guys cant keep leaving us and forgetting about us once you've done "your part". it always happens, and we always go back to suffering. you need to stand with us until palestine is completely free. until we have our land back, until we can rebuild our homes, until we can drink clean water and breathe clean air, until our children grow up never having to face a horror like the nakba ever again. you need to stay fighting until we are all free forever.

"Political violence is not ok" alright and how many coups has the US backed, exactly?