@gemmafiles
a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
π¨ This is not just a post β itβs my childβs life.
In Gaza, he is fighting for survival while we search for a way to get him the treatment he urgently needs outside.
I am pleading with you β donβt scroll away.
Please donate or repost β your action could save him.
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Yes, @newyorker.com, how did universities not see authoritarianism coming? Yes, it's universities not the thugs ripping through every guardrail of American democracy that are at fault.
rubbing these peoples' noses in the Vocational Awe article until they get a fucking clue. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...
we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) and several Democratic officials and voting rights organizations have denounced the FBIβs decision to subpoena records related to the 2020 presidential election in Arizonaβs Maricopa County. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hoursΒ°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
There is no command structure for the global drug economy. It is driven by market forces, not by political will. Individuals join up to make money. Prohibition makes them richer. Donβt wage βwarβ against an enemy who is literally incapable of an organized surrender. Thatβs a recipe for forever war.
I wanna tell the story of where my screen name came from. It's a story some of you are probably already familiar with but it deserves retelling.
It's well documented that thousands of Black people were killed by lynchings for decades, but the year 1892 was particularly egregious π§΅
A very belated STORY DAY shout from me! My story "Distant But Unmistakable" is in the Experimental Files anthology, full of short stories inspired by @gemmafiles.bsky.social novel "Experimental Film"!
there are going to be major civilian casualties in a war. war mongers use this as an excuse ("well people die in war"). It's not an excuse. it's WHY STARTING WARS IF FUCKING EVIL.
I saw someone here warn against anthropomorphizing Trump, and it's the best description I've seen of the way the media covers him.
I'm not competing with Gene here (cause I'd lose - look at the detailed paneling, the carpeting, the brick: I know a masterpiece when I see one). But if we're sharing pictures of action figures, here's something my wife and I cooked up more than a decade ago: "Away Team in a Manger."
Photo of a man with a brown jogging suit next to a woman dressed in black with a cyan mask and a bandage on her arm. Background seems to be the inside of a white tent.
Different picture with the same description as the first one.
"MY MOTHER IS LOSING HER SIGHT! HER RIGHT EYE CONDITION IS CRITICAL AFTER THE INJURY & SHE NEEDS URGENT SURGERY BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. WE CAN'T AFFORD THE COSTS. PLEASE HELP US SAVE HER SIGHT. EVERY DONATION OR SHARE COUNTS! ππ"
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"Please share my post β¬οΈβ¬οΈπ"
Lina is panicking because needs are overwhelming and Mahmoud will need so much support in his recovery journey.
But BlueSky is making it impossible to create an account, making life so much harder for her.
She still urgently needs money for food, milk & medicine.
Chip in:
chuffed.org/project/omsham
As the prophecy foretold
Into the Fire (1989)- A nihilistic Cat. 3 actioner, w/ work by Sammo Hung's stunt team, about a triad punk & a rich kid who have to put their differences aside when they are both pursued by gangsters. Stars Chin Siu-Ho & Collin Chou. Only ever released on video to Laserdisc. Download link in replies
Good series for #WomenInHorrorMonth:
ΰ€ΰ₯ΰ€«/Khauf ["Fear"] (2025-) created & written by Smita Singh, dirs. Pankaj Kumar and Surya Balakrishnan.
Supernatural horror set in Delhi.
TWs for sexual assault, rape, gendered violence
letterboxd.com/film/khauf-2...
This thread is a must watch.
Newborn baby in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube and a monitor, wearing a white shirt and red pants.
X-ray image of a child's torso, showing the skeletal structure including ribs, spine, and pelvic region.
Our home was in North Gaza, but war took everything.
Now my daughter fights a serious illness, and we canβt afford treatment.
π She survived the warβ¦ please help her survive this illness.
π«Ά Any donation, even small, can save her life. Please donβt leave my child aloneπ
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Oscar Isaac with the overset quote: βGay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gayyyyyy!β and caption 'Oscar Isaac responding to Floridaβs βDonβt Say Gayβ law'
Happy birthday to Oscar Isaac π₯³
Back in 2022, while promoting βMoon Knightβ, the actor didnβt hold back when asked by Variety about Floridaβs controversial βDonβt Say Gayβ law.
Happy Birthday to Oscar Isaac, his beard, his ethnic hips, and the absolutely unconfirmed but decidedly nonzero possibility that he and Pedro Pascal have fucked around with permission from Oscar's wife
"Across the Twin Cities, immigration agents have identified legal observers by name and address, and, in some cases, led them back to their homes after they engaged in lawful monitoring of immigration activity."
#Minnesota #USA #Housing #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as βpointlessβ because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass βremigration.β Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the βGreat Replacementβ and coordinating across borders.
Jamal's parents are desperate for help, & donations are v slow. Jamal has asthma and diabetes, & is in critical condition. He desperately needs treatment, & his family can't afford it. They need your help, & are being blocked by both the admin & users of the site. Please help them survive genocide:
Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading
This is also why art is important. I learned about the Troubles because of the Cranberries song Zombie. I was only six or seven at the time, but it was such a powerful and terrifying song and music video that I asked my family what it was about. They told me as best they could.
I heartily recommend it for anyone who wants to be vaguely aroused and feel bad about it while laughing in a way that will disturb other audience members. Or people who just want to keep going βthe fuck is that dress MADE of?!?β
Oh, itβs definitely that! I also like how Fennell decides Edward Linton made his money in textiles, apparently just so Cathy can have the most ridiculous clothes (im)possible.
