JUCIFER🗑

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

I think about this a lot -- I read her memoir and it really hit home for me that she quietly was the person who wrote all of her hit songs and people simply assume it was some dude who is smarter than her when she's the brains behind the operation

really important🧵 on going thru a 'summer cold' 'weird ick' 'this thing our group keeps passing around' 'been feeling so awful for weeks now'

yeah *taking the bare essentials but also our house key in case we can come home again* is not 'selfdisplacement' come onnn (the come onnn is for talkingpoint makers not u in case not obv)

Some excellent reading for those who want to know basic chronology and facts regarding the emptying out of Palestine between 1947 and 1949.

and we have seen this displacement of life-value by prominent mass-audience-discourse for generations. arguably as long as printmedia has been in existence.

you'd think we'd have (en masse) at least got wise to it by now

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...visible as it creates 'unmournable' lives in other [all, any] marginalized communities.

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"...the humanity of others."

"We demonstrate that selective mourning practices in German* media, shaped by historical allegiances and cultural narratives, fundamentally influence whose suffering receives public recognition."

*the study is specific but the trend being examined=universal and...

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"Media reporting can sustain or disrupt the ways communities recognise one another, acknowledge their suffering, and empathise with victims of violence. In turn, media-shaped understandings of violence are essential to peacebuilding, influencing how people relate to conflict, identity, and..."

Hierarchies in death: coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims in the context of October 7 and the war on Gaza This study examines the framing of Israeli and Palestinian deaths in German media, focusing on the construction of grievability within public discourse after 7 October 2023, during the early stages...

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"By juxtaposing these divergent representations, the study raises critical questions regarding media ethics and the relation between conflict journalism and the conditions of public mourning for victims of violence."

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"...highlighted individual stories, family backgrounds, and emotional narratives. By contrast, Palestinian casualties are predominantly portrayed as impersonal statistics, trivialised as collateral of war, and embedded within abstract conflict narratives."

"The research explores how linguistic choices and contextual presentations shaped public perceptions of deadly violence, fostering empathy with some victims and reinforcing distance towards others. The findings indicate that Israeli victims often receive highly personalised coverage, which..."

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“The United States is using AI infrastructure — data centers, cloud controls, and compute access — as a tool of power projection in the Arabian Gulf.”

Somehow managed to find something worse than oil.

it's interesting to have so much access to ppl's thoughts that anything u gleaned about why certain bs went down in history gets illustrated regularly

whee

on the one hand there's ppl who'll tell u things are actually fine bc 'fascists=doing everything out of bumbling [intellectslur] plus it's actually not legal'

otoh there's ppl who think it's all just a problem of theory so u shouldn't be mad@statements that encourage idea *some* folx 'disposable'

!!! truly

also yknow what? it is good to feel empathy for suffering and loss towards any person or creature experiencing them. full stop. and if someone can't perceive that, let alone feel any, they're never helping reshape a world with equity, safety and sustenance as its baseline provision.

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anddd ppl will think this is a harmlessly fun innovation just watch

*evaporates despairingly*

your empathy for mourners is correct and shared

but QP is doing genocide justification/apologia/agitprop (the trope of 'savagery' and inaccurate claim 'professionalism' reveal their slant, as does a quick search of their past posts here)

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like yes, getting the illness can provide some level of immunity for some period of time- just like vaccines, level and time are variable

but the *illness* hits your body so much harder, carrying extra suffering +risk, and can leave behind zombies of itself that reanimate to torment u years later!

heard a doctor interviewed for news about the changes to cdc recs and he completely failed to mention this factor

it has to be one of the worst omissions of public health messaging to have never fostered wide understanding that the entire reason to use vaccines is that they are SAFER than diseases!

LRS well said and im gonna tell y'all something it illustrates that's universal:

they can't stop us knowing what's right OR caring for eachother

whenever they try+whichever theys are trying

we will always recognize our own+have one another's back

in ways+to extents they don't even comprehend

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I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I will repost this plea every time I get. Posting alt text is so damn easy. And you will actually get more engagement. I promise.

This will end will.

And, they’re doing this for nothing. No substantive use cases. No public benefits. No productivity or quality of life improvements. No improvements in inequality.
Instead, students are learning less and cheating more. Managers are treating employees as even less valuable. And art is being stolen.

i see yours!