Jackassjamboree - No Such Thing As Mystery

Every time I criticize the Dems and someone says "so what's the answer?" , I'll just post this In a 2000 essay in Essence magazine, Octavia E. Butler wrote about predicting the future. She stated, "I didn't make up the problems," I pointed out. 'All I did was look around at the problems we're neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.' "Okay," the young man challenged. "So what's the answer?" "There isn't one," I told him. "No answer? You mean we're just doomed?" He smiled as though he thought this might be a joke. "No," I said. "I mean there's no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There's no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers-at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be." May we change our lives, in big and small ways and find ways to resist power, forever.

Fundraisers for Sudan

Funding for food at the Kassab IDP camp

The Save El Geneina initiative, which provides food and education/childcare to refugees in Chad

Evacuation fund organized by a friend of mine for 15 families trying to get out of Darfur

Food aid for Sudanese refugees in Cairo, who urgently need it as they face discrimination in Egypt

The Khartoum Aid Kitchen, a program supporting 10 kitchens that feeds thousands of people in the greater Khartoum area

The relocation and potential evacuation of an extended family consisting of at least 33 people

The Sudanese American Physician Association, which has been supporting hospitals and medical professionals in Sudan

The Darfur Women's Action Group (Darfur being a region with a higher Black Non-Arab population)

Two initiatives aimed at distributing menstrual hygiene products to people in Sudan

Hometax, a trusted on the ground org

Aid for the Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan, handled by a refugee led program

A continually updated thread on Twitter of even more gofundmes

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jackassjamboree

14 years ago

(via fuckyeahgirlswithguns)

jackassjamboree - no such thing as mystery

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danger gaze shoot

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3 months ago

hip local coffee place is holding a book swap and people are unloading their Neil Gaimans en masse like whole sacks of cursed amulets

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13 years ago

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Sappho (via theancientworld)

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quote Nifty historical sappho objectivity subjectivity

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1 year ago

Twitter post from David Wallace Wells, quoting from an article.
quote, if we had a trillion humans we would have at any given time a thousand mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. The article is from finance dot yahoo dot com, headline is Jeff bezos Ellen musk say human population not nearly big enough.

Post from Robert Evans responding to the above post.

we have many many more than a thousand people with that potential. most of them are starving, lack access to clean water, are stuck at borders staring down the barrel of some gun, or are sheltering in place from a bombardment right now

and many of the "luckier" ones are stuck working in Amazon warehouse or factories in Shenzhen or doing some other kind of hard labor for a pittance just to survive. if billionaires cared about human genius they would support taking care of people.

what Musk and Bezos really want is more people beneath them. An ever widening mountain of the poor who have to pay them fealty. there's nothing else that really matters to either man. they want compulsory praise to fill the empty space inside them.

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the highest tier clown shit on the planet and always was wish i'd never heard of these creeps but at least i never fell into the billionaire worship ditch. yeesh yeah anyway i hope that all the harm they've caused in the world comes back at them and the people who swear by them so much regard for 'genuises' who not only came from wealth but didn't do their own cooking or laundry or childcare and didn't know how we've been robbed of the greatest artists and thinkers and humanitarians in history and it's a joke that these assholes even speak

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14 years ago

fuckyeahwonders:

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crucial objectivity

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14 years ago

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illustration art nouveau alphonse mucha mucha

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14 years ago

Drew Smith - Melee (Fossils: 2007)

You want the truth, I don’t know what’s real You fight me off, I’m still nipping at your heels I could try, but the feeling won’t let go And you, my dear, will be hanging ‘round my door You need the truth, but some things aren’t up for sale You’ve felt me out, now you’re rushing by full sail I could try, but the feeling won’t let go And you, my dear, will be hanging ‘round my door All these bodies rush right through me It’s like I’m chased by ghosts And you, my dearest, choose to break the ones you love the most I could try, but the feeling won’t let go And you, my dear, will be hanging ‘round my door

I could try, but the feeling won’t let go And you, my dear, will be hanging ‘round my door

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sounds drew smith

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6 months ago