meave (sumud, sister)

why am i so tired all the time?!

early SAD?
increaiing the the "forget everything, fall asleep six times a day" medication?
burnout?

i've made so many commitments, and i don't make promises lightly, so there's no room for burning out.
counterpoint: it's taken me over an hour to write this post.

if bsky zaps it, i have the original to repost; it's too important to disappear.

the iof must leave gaza or mohamed will never know the state of his famiy's land. it's "a trust that must not be squandered," and he's a fine steward of his patch of dunes.
bit.ly/help-mohamed

this should be interesting.
i wonder how the treatment of political prisoners has changed since, for example, the IRA's dirty protest, or the price sisters forever ruining their digestive systems through forced refeediing;

the head of trust and safety doesn't even follow TOS himself — when was the last time anyone appealed anything and got a reply?

is it an unwritten term of service not to reply to an appeal?

or does the entire trust & safety team regularly break TOS while enforcing them for users?

within carceral settings, the violence of the carceral state is boiled down to its worst impulses like fucking bouillon

i'm on a 9/11-began-the-end-of-the-US reading journey; 2 A++ memoirs of incarcerated people at the start of the forever wars: adayfi's Don't Forget Us Here & manning's README.txt

(icelandic lullabies are most frequently about the loss of a child, as the history of iceland is quite tragic.)

WHICH WE CAN HELP PREVENT! please let’s help give mother & imminent infant the best chance at health. loads of blankets for everyone. chewing-gum cigars. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle

jfc loomer’s at it again. she’s claiming credit for ICE taking Sami Hamdi, a british journalist, into custody at sfo this morning. (she’s rabidly anti-zohran; the woman has got to be stopped.)
tinyurl.com/sxc38ts6

so ICE black-bags pro-🇵🇸 foreign journalists now? to quote kamala: DO NOT COME HERE.

if we can meet the goal for THE BABY! and everyone else i will ask sheep & falcon to welcome the baby; they may sing?
yes, i know it’s a stupid gimmick, but bit.ly/keeping-hope really isn’t.

‼️ parents of babies can register with the Saudi Center for formula and diapers: portal.ksach.org/children ‼️

sorry i mean hard agree (i am 42 i am tired in my bones of the fellating of radiohead how many other bands went “bleep bloop war bad” in 2003 and aren’t zionist pigs?) but every time i see your pfp it’s like a teeny ping! of happiness in my brain

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Trying to get to 1000 letters by tomorrow... actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

wait which way is the racism going i’m so confused

when exactly did the nobel peace prize deserve any respect? another rich old sicko buying his soul back through bourgeois prizes? fuck off.

how many war criminals, human rights abusers, genocide deniers* have been honored with a “torchlight procession” over the decades?

(*the zionist elie wiesel)

@abdullahs-dad.bsky.social says soldiers been painting a yellow line and putting up barriers. yesterday we “joked” that gaza is the new berlin 1945, only the nazis are splitting up the territory. ha. ha.

his village is so far behind that line i don’t know what tense to use

p.s. bit.ly/help-mohamed

رفح الان الاعلامية رابط التسجيل في المركز السعودي للاستفادة من حليب وبامبرز الأطفال. 🔗 للتسجيل من خلال الرابط:👇 https://portal.ksach.org/children

رابط التسجيل في المركز السعودي للاستفادة من حليب وبامبرز الأطفال.

🔗 للتسجيل من خلال الرابط:👇

portal.ksach.org/children

رابط من t.me/rafahalaan/129557

hey, this is important — HELP FOR BABIES IN GAZA!

Register with the Saudi Center for infant formula and diapers: portal.ksach.org/children

@mommunism.bsky.social

link via t.me/rafahalaan/129557 (OS translated)
original arabic below, but backwards, i hate bsky

i just realized i need to make a vertical version for instagram! i'll do that tomorrow.

i heard these two perform small curses on those who won't make an effort—"effort" being relative (to a degree…)

i heard the sheep's great size is a metaphor for your ability to help more people than you think, while the falcon's bright eye seeks comrades
bit.ly/keeping-hope

(sorry, i'm 🔜😵‍💫🔚 today)

ugh, since i'm Reading Less News, i missed that rafah now media posted the top-scoring high school students from rafah with pre-genocide(?) photos of them looking like regular young men
hypothesis: the uncolonized mind takes pride in students' academic achievements amid a genocide
proof: these posts

my dear friend emad @ofhungryghosts.bsky.social & his younger brother @mosabmuhareb.bsky.social are working hard in- & outside of gaza for their family so they can prep for winter—especially for mohanad; i can't tell if all his vaccines have been allowed in.
bit.ly/muhareb-family bit.ly/for-mosaab

the giving circle sheep and its companion? familiar? tiny god? beg to differ re: no one caring.

𝑹𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻⁉️
bit.ly/keeping-hope ↔️ tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle

be kind and care for people. this ceasefire…situation has so many palestinians i love on edge, it's unbearable.

sheep offers hankies for donos

this was unspeakably difficult for mohamed to post. he is perishing of shame
but he has 12 people to feed; 7 kids to clothe for winter; 6 school fees; and, god willing, another tin house for warmth & safety
the blockade cost him everything, and he still raised $1k for his cousin
bit.ly/help-mohamed

"potential"
gonna assume that's UK speech laws' mandatory fig leaf, rather than giving any member of the iof the benefit of the doubt.
the colonized, carceral part of my brain says GUANTANAMO, but 𝙉𝙊. overfill the ICC detention center. solicit contemporary digital evidence. never stop the trials.

(i liked what madea benjamin wrote on X: x.com/medeabenjamin/status/1981382153863610737)
Senator Josh Hawley has taken $312,009 from the Israel lobby…

60,000 Palestinians are dead and he still won’t call it genocide.

That’s about $5.20 for every Palestinian life lost. That’s his price.

The Trump administration is dangerously moving full steam ahead with unprecedented plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) immigration detention system including using Guantanamo Bay and other military sites, reinstating family detention, signing new detention contracts. The passage of the MAGA Megabill supercharges Trump's agenda, making ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the country. The bill provides $150 billion to target, detain, and deport as many people as possible -including $45 billion earmarked for ICE detention to tear apart families over the next four years. Shockingly, ICE's budget now exceeds the budgets of many militaries around the world. ICE detention is a cornerstone of Trump's attacks on immigrant communities and political opposition, and I urge you to do everything in your power to block this administration by: --Cutting funds to ICE & CBP through the reconciliation, regular appropriations or any other budget process --Opposing detention expansion in your district/state --Engaging in meaningful oversight to expose the cruelty of ICE detention and Trump's agenda --Advocating for the release people from detention --Supporting strong sanctuary policies in their district/state --Passing bills that defend immigrant and support vital programs and services that support all Americans As your constituent, I am deeply concerned and I am counting on you to reject the use of taxpayer dollars to persecute immigrants and political activists, particularly as so many of us struggle alongside them to meet our basic needs. We need better education, affordable healthcare, and secure housing-not more family separation, immigration jails, and border walls.

Dear Senators and Congresswoman, For the sake of the United States as a nation, you absolutely must abolish ICE, do away with its black sites, and retrieve every single person it has imprisoned in the US and overseas and reevaluate the nature of their seizures and detentions. Habeas Corpus every single one of them and do it now, before Trump and his literal jackbooted thugs completely shred the Constitution. Please believe me; I'm not using hyperbole. My husband is a US citizen, second generation on his late father's side and third on his mother's side. He also, because of genetics, has received a significant amount of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism, despite having little to no connection to either. However, he works in a not-too-affluent, multicultural neighborhood with people from all over the MENA region, and I'm afraid that one day he'll get swept up in an ICE raid and disappeared. Don't tell me this is impossible; every day ICE arrests people with the legal right to be here. And what if he's going for a walk without his wallet? Is he going to get lost in Guantanamo? Is it 2003 again? (continued on image 3)

(continued from image 2) Just defund ICE. CBP doesn't need a Gestapo. No immigrant is that dangerous. Stop letting the president play "9/11 without the inciting moment" - again, I'm telling you, sooner than later ICE is going to black-bag, disappear, "accidentally" kill or maim too many people. Or someone really important. Or any of you — you don't think Trump wouldn't stoop that low? You don't think he wouldn't strip Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar of their citizenship and set ICE on them the minute one of his people makes the "right" case for them? After that, it's open season on his political enemies. Sure, they're out-of-shape and inept now, but if they stay on the job, take the right PEDs, you'll have sat by and watched the president form his own paramilitary force out of the country's white supremacists Twitch chatters. I beg of you: Defund ICE while you still can. Please.

sometimes you just can't in good conscience send the template.
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-ice-detention-expansion
image 1: the template
images 2 & 3: my letter (it's < 2k chars. so i had to split it 😶),
not that they'll read it or care anyway. useless.

this has been a real fucked-up october.

Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social As a Palestinian living through genocide every day, it's painful to see any candidate's stance turned into a "litmus test" for Palestine without a deep understanding of what we're actually enduring. We're not looking for nice words or technically correct descriptions we need clear positions Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com • 32m The most bizarre thing about Platner is the number of people I see using his candidacy as a litmus test on Palestine. Admittedly | don't understand this at all? Cori Bush didn't even get this kind of support and she has *no* scandals. October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM Everybody can reply 12 reposts 1 quote 25 likes 1 save

that turned out unreadable, i'm so sorry. second try.

alaa's words reminded me of this excerpt of an interview ahed tamimi gave back in august; @mamatwins.bsky.social & @leftistlawyer.com tied it so neatly together with the use of "free palestine" to signal that "i'm one of the Good Ones," without ever thinking on the words' meaning bit.ly/rebuild-alaa

and to return to @mamatwins.bsky.social's point, if you're like me, once you meet and get to know people, you'll want to read as much history, watch as many (reputable) documentaries as you can find. you'll want to be able to position your friend's family history in time & space
bit.ly/rebuild-alaa

Eng Alaa. @mamatwins.bsky.social. 29m against occupation and colonialism, and real support for our right to freedom, return, and justice. Acknowledging the genocide is an important step, but without addressing its roots occupation, apartheid, and ongoing colonialism the stance remains incomplete. 1 reply 4 likes Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social. 29m For us, this isn't a political symbol or trend; it's our daily reality and our survival. 3 likes

slogans are for marches, social media bios, shirts, &c.

they can't teach you to decolonize your mind, especially not from the black and stinking heart of empire; nor are they a substitute for making friends with any of the myriad palestinians here. don't waste this chance.
bit.ly/rebuild-alaa

Thought I'd save the posts, just in case. it's always surprising to me that no publication ever hired alaa as a gaza correspondent; instead, she "gets" to fight a stupid racist social media platform so we can read her thoughts for free.
bit.ly/rebuild-alaa

genocide has the world so upside down i'm just handing it to ana kasparian left and right. am i wrong? her domestid "no transes, no unhoused" agenda is fucked up.

but i forgot how much of the armenian diaspora have direct ties to Palestine, in jerusalem and other cities. also, fuck canary mission.