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happy pride month! please consider helping a disabled queer person afford the bare necessities to survive
hi everyone. you’ve probably seen a few of my posts floating around in the last few months – life has not been kind to me. i lost my job due to ableism and haven’t been able to find another one willing to make accommodations for me. i have diabetes and need insulin several times a day, and need to regularly visit the doctor for a myriad of reasons. for the last few months, i’ve been relying solely on the generosity of others and whatever money i make from commissions.
if anyone could spare a few dollars, it would mean the world to me. i’m going to run out of insulin again soon and i’ve been eating once a day for weeks now, if eating at all. my commissions are always open, so if you’re interested in that, you can find the link below. last of all, if you can’t help monetarily, i totally understand – things are grim for all of us right now. all i ask is that you boost this post and spread it around as much as possible so that more people see it.
you can find all of my links below. thank you for reading!
after getting all of my medical necessities, i’ve only been able to afford ramen this week and no amount of insulin is helping keep my blood sugar in a healthy range. it’s supposed to be anywhere from 70 to 100, and i’m supposed to go to the hospital immediately if it’s above 300. as of two hours ago, it’s 477. i haven’t eaten since yesterday and it’s still dangerously high.
i need to work on commissions but i don’t have any energy. i feel so weak and lethargic, i don’t want to do anything when my levels get like this. i’m going to have to go back to fasting at this point, i can’t eat ramen every day or i’m going to end up dead. please please consider sending me a few dollars so i can get the foods i need
You have got to all stop calling Jews zionists just because they are Jews.
A jew: hey im just like. Not in support of states so I cant support Israel as an entity and I think killing palestinians is bad while also respecting the generational trauma that has led to people feeling the need for Israel to exist. I am capable of holding multiple nuanced views at the same time and ultimately I want everyone to be safe and happy.
Tumblr “antizionists”: um ur a zionist and support genocide akchually
Also like. Going after Jews for being evil zionists for having different opinions on how to achieve piece, or different opinions on if holocaust comparisons are appropriate, or any other nitpicking, when they still ultimately support the survival of palestinians is just fucking stupid. Its virtue signalling, its cannibalising the cause for the sake of ideologically purity.
That is not how you achieve your goals in real life. Making change means teaming up with people that you do not agree with 100%, but agree with enough to get something done.
Except when they are Jews, apparently.
AND even if a Jew IS a zionist it still does not automatically mean they are evil and support genocide. There are many zionists working for peace and doing what they can to help palestinians. Have some fucking nuance. The same people I see begging for this site to have nuance are the ones going “everyone not on my side is the devil”
This! Always!
I’m so sick of the hypocrisy and blind hatred when in reality it is doing absolutely nothing to ACTUALLY help Palestinians. It is also racism of low expectations but that’s a whole different topic.
I wish people would take their head out of their ass and actually think about what they are doing or saying.
Whole communities and millions of dollars has been spent on trying to move the needle towards peace by both jewish, non Jewish and Israeli groups 🙄 does that sound genocidal to you? Vilifying your local jewish community does nothing to help Palestinians either, it just shows the world your bigotry and makes more jewish people feel they should think about moving to Israel too.
So there’s also that.
Most goyim don’t know what zionism is anyway. They made up a definition for it to get mad at that has very little to do with zionism and is just a cover for their antisemitism
Ultimately, actual Zionism, without all the extraneous things the uninformed have attributed to it, is a Jewish intracommunity issue, for us alone, because it’s a question about how to shape and preserve ourselves as a people. Other people don’t have a legitimate say in that, regardless if they think they should.
My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, “Maybe I’ll proofread your paper for you in exchange,” meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, “Cool,” and gave him the file. And he said, “Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!” And I said, surprised, “What? Where?” Because I’m sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.
And then he pointed to the screen and said, “Look at all the blue and red lines you have.”
And I said, “Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I’m ignoring because the computer is wrong.” And then I paused and added, “You know you can’t proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?” And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, “It didn’t have a blue or red line.”
There’s a very good reason for that: THAT’S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN’T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.
I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.
I don’t want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It’s not just that I’m freaked out by people being like, “I use it to write novels!” (Although I don’t see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! “I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z.” But…why? Why not just…use your own brain…to…brain…storm? The computer doesn’t even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, “But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!” So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don’t belittle the wonder of thinking.
I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to “Wouldn’t it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?” Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I’m not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.
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