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Drawings of various characters from Donkey Kong Bananza: Pauline, Donkey Kong, Void Kong, Poppy Kong, King K. Rool, and two small Fractones.

DK Bananza sketches~

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

black text on white background "Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

I thought this was lovely.

u can’t believe a single thing from a yt person unless there’s actionable proof behind it

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Here's an Indigenous People's Day mutual aid opportunity for those seeking some! 🪶 💕💸

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

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#今週のワンピ

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

Poster for the movie, “Blade Runner: The Final Cut” (2007), directed by Ridley Scott. Poster art by Drew Struzan. Original cut: “Blade Runner” (1982).

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

hold on i have to brood in the forest for another 18 hours ill get back to you

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO it’s fresh from being cut with the kunai 😭😭

that was literally me…

ebook version. text highlighter with a mini square at the side which indicates notes. the black text highlighter in yellow says : “empires footprint knows this argument by heart. We treat you so much better than we have to; why are you so angry? Why did you make us do this to you? Where is the Palestinian Martin Luther King? I've heard said on more than one occasion, never accompanied by any self- reflection as to what kind of society necessi tates a man like that, nor what that society ultimately did to him before his posthumous veneration. The implicit accusation is that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for th misery inflicted upon them. But Palestinians do respond overwhelm ingly with love. Just as the Indigenous popu lations of an entire hemisphere, subjected to the largest genocide in human history, responded overwhelmingly with love. Just as the Black communities in much of the United States, a country that quite simply would not exist in its current form were it.”

ebook version. text highlighter with a mini square at the side which indicates notes. the black text highlighted in yellow says : “if not for the theft of their labor, responded overwhelmingly with love. Just as every people everywhere deemed acceptable collateral in service of the empire's interest responded overwhelmingly with love. Today I watched footage of a man kissing his son's foot as he buried the body so torn apart by the missiles that the foot was one of the only pieces the father could find in the rub o le. Tell me this man doesn't know love, nasn't been made to know it in a way no human being should. Except it is a love that cannot be acknowl edged by the empire, because it is a people's love for one another. Anyone who has dragged a relative out from under the wreckage of a bombed building, who has held a friend bleeding to death in the street while the officer who pulled the trigger looks on, who has watched their water poisoned, their land burned, their communities starved, is intimately well versed in love. But in the eyes of the empire such a thing can never be called love, because the directive was never in the first place, Love, but rather, Love me. In spite of it all, love me.”

multiple parts i still think about months later but this part in the chapter is so beautiful.

yes! no problem getting home

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been sat in the park in pitch black for near 2 hours and haven’t been killed hashtag aura

essential and important read

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

nope i always know

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

Unpacking 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison Thoughts from someone that went into this book completely blind.

it's 3:30am but i just finished my first substack post

open.substack.com/pub/sundaifm...

think if u just dm them and talk about it/end it amicably it avoids a lot of that no?

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very slow, at times feels like its slowing down my whole device, videos/photos just don’t load.. it’s kinda nuts

feels like this app is held together by dry glue and old tape sometimes lol