Meredith McClaren's Blog, page 31
January 1, 2024
me getting any new clothing: I will wear this for 5 weeks straight
me getting any new clothing: I will wear this for 5 weeks straight
December 31, 2023
‘Do the dead mark the days?’
‘Do the dead mark the days?’
Here’s to 2024
Description: An illustration of a graveyard at night. The tombstones are darkened by black and bare trees frame the sides of the picture. A hooded figure walks between the graves. In the distance, lighting up the sky are the fire works from New Years.
December 25, 2023
Went to see some lights
Went to see some lights
December 24, 2023
Merry Cribmas
Merry Cribmas
I don’t know why I like spooky horses.
Creepy horses.
…creepy horse girl…
Description: A dark illustration looking up at the night sky and full moon through bare branch trees. In the foreground, looking straight at the camera is a Mari Lwyd, from South Wale folklore. The spirit is usually depicted with a horse skull draped with long flowing veils. This one wears a crown of roses, bells, and ribbons. It’s mouth open and breath visible in the cold air.
December 16, 2023
Israeli bulldozers are trampling over the tents of displaced Palestinians who are sheltering outside…
Breaking: Israeli forces bulldoze Palestinian tents in Gaza
Israeli bulldozers are trampling over the tents of displaced Palestinians who are sheltering outside the Kamal Adwan Hospital, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Anas Shariff described it as a “terrifying massacre and unspeakable scenes”, and said people were “brutally crushed” in the hospital courtyard.
Israeli forces have bulldozed the tents of displaced Palestinians outside the Kamal Adwan hospital on Saturday, crushing people alive according to live reporting from Al Jazeera Arabic.
Video footage from the network showed mangled tents and belongings following the trampling.
Hundreds of people were sheltering in tents after being displaced from their homes.
Euro-Med Monitor called for an independent investigation into the incident.
The monitor said that some of the displaced Palestinians were “buried and crushed alive.”
The organisation added that they received testimonies from medics in Gaza at the scene who confirmed that Israeli forces buried and crushed Palestinians before withdrawing.
One eyewitness said that a body could be seen emerging from the sand.
December 6, 2023
Do you like kangaroos?? 🤔
Who doesn't?
They're cute. They swol. And they have little claws on the end of their feet that will disembowel you.
November 28, 2023
If you fucks actually go through with not voting on your next USA president elections and…
If you fucks actually go through with not voting on your next USA president elections and subsequently lead Trump to power again.
Yes. Yes I’m going to blame every single American for that. Collective responsibility and all that jazz.
Explaining in simple terms: if you don’t vote for Biden because “he is murdering palestinian babies”, you will get Trump as a president, who, being an open and proud islamophobe, will murder even more palestinian babies.
It is no good situation when you have to choose between two shitty candidates. But you have a two-party system.
russia has previously aided trump during elections, and they will do so again. A call to boycott the elections = a call to support trump
You are in no position to afford the privilege of being idiots.
Also this.
Also, a lot of his goons have been filling a LOT of important spots in the military and civilian fields to have positions available for trump to fill in with his loyalists and to easier do a hostile takeover if he wins the election.
IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR BIDEN YOU WILL GET A DICTATORSHIP BY TRUMP AND WE WILL ALL BE FUCKED
I don’t know how many times we have to tell people to make everythingin their power to stop Trump from coming to power again. USA will be fucked. Ukraine will be fucked. Palestine would be fucked. We don’t know how many other countries will be fucked.
Trump’s presidency already gave cart blanche for the international far right rise, and I don’t think we need to spell out to people that the state of the world today is directly credited to Trump’s presidency, his incompetence, him being Russian puppet, etc etc.
As much as I am actually an opponent of the whole idea that USA is responsible of everything in the world, it does have a huge influence on international politics scene.
SO GO VOTE.
And since USA is a democracy, then, again, y'all are responsible for the president you elect.
Also, in 2016 Russia went hard on surreptitiously spreading propaganda to get people not to vote for Clinton. We already know that Russia is using bots to spread misinfo about the Israel-Gaza war. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we are suddenly seeing tons of posts about how we shouldn’t vote for Biden in 2024. You are not immune to propaganda.
This is why I’m always bringing up the nuance. Because Biden and Trump are not equally bad. They are not even in the same orbit of bad.
Biden is a leader too moderate for my tastes, who I really really wish wasn’t so old. The things he has done have been unexpectedly good despite being hamstrung by the opposition. Love him? Nope. But Biden is making sucky choices from an array of sucky choices, domestic and foreign.
Trump is calling his opponents Vermin, outright explaining that he is ‘retribution’ and cracking jokes about victims of political and racial violence. He brags about being the one to kill Roe v Wade. In 2020 he asked why the cops didn’t just shoot the protesters in the legs. He wants to deport immigrants, including all dreamers, and his plan starts with 'put them in camps.’
I know most people don’t track political news. I get it. Its nauseating. But this idiot’s gotten stupider, and he’s gotten more hateful.
We are, horrifyingly, going to have to watch another Trump v Biden election barring some act of god. (on Nov 5, jfc) And I will walk you through your specific hesitations about Biden if that’s what it takes to get through to you. We don’t get to vote for a candidate we love. We get to vote for one who won’t actively kill american citizens.
November 23, 2023
in light of a four day ceasefire in Gaza being agreed upon, i am once again asking you all not to…
in light of a four day ceasefire in Gaza being agreed upon, i am once again asking you all not to lose sight of the big picture. Biden and the Israeli Government are trying to frame this as a major democratic victory and as a favor respectively. they have no intention of a total ceasefire. they have no intention of stopping their genocide. remember - a ceasefire is the very first step. it’s not even the bare minimum.
the absolute bare minimum in this situation is 1) a complete ceasefire and immediate humanitarian aid in Gaza, 2) complete halt of all military foreign aid to the Israeli government, 3) the Israeli government being prosecuted for its war crimes in the International Criminal Court, and 4) land back and reparations for the Palestinian people. free Palestine means free Palestine, not just temporarily stop carpet bombing Palestine.
a temporary ceasefire is something, but it’s not even close to the end goal. we cannot let up pressure when things seem to be looking up. keep protesting, boycotting, spreading awareness, contacting politicians, etcetera. keep your eyes on Gaza. free Palestine.
November 11, 2023
recently, Israel sent down hellfire missiles near a hospital in Gaza, which are missiles that…
recently, Israel sent down hellfire missiles near a hospital in Gaza, which are missiles that explode into blades that slam down and cut through anything in their way. (link)
There is a video of a man with his legs newly amputated, screaming in a pool of his own blood. I won’t share the video, because it made me vomit into a toilet, but either trust me it exists or go look for it yourselves.
There is another video of a young girl, crying silently after her legs were blown off in an explosion. She explains tonelessly to the camera man that she doesn’t want fake legs because they’ll just remind her of her real ones. She is 13. (link)
A hospital is told to evacuate and they do, all the while waving white flags in a show of surrender. The IDF shoot at them anyway. (link)
Meanwhile in Israel - they begin to enforce one of the most draconian anti-free-speech laws in history.
Israel also claims to be the “only democracy in the Middle East”.
Israel has bombed hospitals, fishing boats, schools, refugee camps, power sources, water tanks, evacuation routes. They have killed 80% of Palestinian journalists, they have killed 100 UN workers, they have murdered over 4,000 children in 34 days. Because of the lack of food and water, Palestinians have begun to die from starvation, cholera.
If you still support Israel after all this, I believe you’re completely lost. Utterly without any humanity. Nothing could ever excuse this.
In Australia, there is an ongoing list of protests planned, as well as a permanent camp out being set up in Naarm/Melbourne to block Israeli transport company ZIM from shopping weapons. Congressional staffers in the US are finally being gotten through to - in spite of their rampant greed and long-suffering inhumanity, even they can recognise when their phones won’t stop ringing with people saying flat out they’ll never vote for them again.
Find resources to help Palestine globally at Ceasefiretoday.com
November 6, 2023
Another happy morning.
Another happy morning.
(They weren’t fighting in earnest, they were just grumbling at each other.)
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