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A reminder to everyone posting about the violence in Jerusalem and across Israel and Palestine...

It is not helpful to post one-sided, nuance-free content.  You are no less or no more woke when you include Islamophobic, antisemitic, racist, or downright horrific tropes in your posts that will not end the Occupation, will not end this brutal civil war, you will make no one feel any more or less safe, and will not make our world a better place.  Nuanced compassion will help you, and help us.

If you want to begin to understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as a non-Palestinian, as a non-Jew, as an non-Israeli, take a step back.  Take a deep breath, and…

…imagine you are a Palestinian father living in an occupied refugee camp outside of Bethlehem who cannot get to his work without going through a security barrier..Imagine the humiliating feeling.  Imagine you are an Israeli child living in Sderot, having to rush inside frequently due to frequent barrages of rockets aimed at your home.  Imagine that you are a young Palestinian teen living in the United States, unable to return to your grandparent’s birthplace of Lydda due to their forced evacuation in 1948.  Imagine you are an ultra orthodox Jewish woman living in a settlement in Gush Etzion, told that if you moved there you would live a more fruitful life - and constantly scared of her Palestinian neighbors.  Imagine you are a little boy living in the Gaza Strip or in Ramalah, taught to be scared of Jews and Israelis, due to frequent visits from the IDF.  Imagine that you are a young Yeshiva boy living in a settlement, scared to be kidnapped by Palestinians - a fear justified by the recent kidnapping and murder of three Jewish residents of the West Bank.  Imagine that you are a Palestinian olive tree farmer, and discovering that your trees have been cut down by settlers.  Imagine that you are a Jewish settler living in the West Bank who actively makes deep connections with her Palestinian neighbors, forging peace-building initiatives between Jews and Palestinian that you can only do as a resident of the West Bank.  Imagine that you are her partner, a Christian Palestinian man who works hard with her to combat hatred and bigotry.

Imagine you’re a queer Arab Israeli living outside of Tel Aviv… an Israeli teen activist against the occupation… an American Jew who cries when their family in Israel is bombarded by rockets… a young Palestinian man in Greece who has made a life outside of Palestine … a young Christian child living in Jerusalem under a barrage of rockets… a Palestinian teen who is so fed up by years of Occupation that tries to stab an IDF solider at a gate outside of the Old City of Jerusalem…. a young Bedouin child heartbroken to grow up around violence and fear… a Palestinian educator with Israeli friends trying to teach their class tolerance… a rabbi living in Tel Aviv trying to teach their congregation tolerance… 

The biggest problem with non-Palestinian (both in Palestine, and in the diaspora), non-Israeli, and non-Jewish discourse around the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is that those not directly involved, fail to see this conflict from the perspective of those directly involved.

Do the work.  And don’t hurt us along the way.

If you support disabled people, please stand with us against Discord’s redesign.

...and do more than reblog this post about it.

Chronic migraines. Dyslexia. ADHD. Autism. Vision impairment. Visual sensory processing disorder. Colorblind. & Neurotypical. Abled.

These are aspects of people that are affected by Discord’s new update to its color scheme and font, and there very well could be more I didn’t mention. Yes, you read it right, abled people and neurotypical people too. You are not immune to eyestrain.

What are the issues?

A font which is both overly uniform and overly squished, with many letters that have essentially the same silhouette as others and could easily be flipped and look the same as another. ▻ This is dyslexic-unfriendly, as well as generally harder to read and an issue for people with visual impairments who may find that letters bleed together or that their eyes ‘skip’ over letters or words at times.

A color scheme that is so highly saturated that it both immediately draws your attention and also makes you want to immediately look away. ▻ This is generally unfriendly, affecting people with sensory issues the most (ADHD/Autism, migraines, processing disorders), but it’s also colorblind-unfriendly. Due to the differences between the colors being exclusively the part that changes the named color (hue; “green” vs “blue”) instead of both that and the colors being different intensities (saturation; “neon green” vs “leaf green”), they look practically identical.

Aren’t there more? No. This is pretty much all that was changed.

Discord changed TWO THINGS and pretty much managed to land every single person possible to genuinely hurt with a visual design change that doesn’t add or remove any elements. Including abled and neurotypical people!!!

Discord is currently a good number of people’s lifeline and way to connect with others. And with this change, they just made using their app hurt. They know that we can’t leave their app without leaving our friends and communities behind. They know that if they can just sweep this under the rug, they won’t have to do a thing.

...So we can’t let them.

Why would Discord do this?

It’s actually fairly simple. Discord was hemorrhaging money from its very conception. Discord only exists because investors think it’ll make money in the future. If Discord doesn’t do as well, investors will push to make it “better” or they’ll drop their funding. Discord was probably forced into this situation, they probably knew exactly what would happen.

We have to show their investors that Discord was right.

What can we do to fix this?

DON’T:

Reply to Discord’s tweet about the design change. ▻ It gives Discord more attention, and if any complaints are acknowledged they are directed to Discord’s accessibility forums.

ONLY post on Discord’s accessibility forums. ▻ It gives Discord stats to work with, but it also means the outcry isn’t public. We need everyone to see this, not just Discord.

DO:

Reblog this post. ▻ Spreads the awareness, and all.

Retweet, reply to, and/or like this tweet: https://twitter.com/KarklesMarx/status/1393223369571586053 ▻ This tweet is part of our and our friends’ initiative to get this big and get this public.

Make your own posts about it on different social medias. ▻ Tumblr, Twitter, Discord servers, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, whatever ground you have, use it. You can help make this change too.

Find other people doing the same thing. ▻ One initiative is never enough. Look for other people making posts like these and boost their posts too.

IF YOU KNOW ANOTHER LANGUAGE, MAKE POSTS OF YOUR OWN BOOSTING IT IN OTHER LANGUAGES. ▻ Please. There are probably a lot of people we haven’t reached because this is an all-English post.

Wait, don’t you have pictures of what’s going on?

We do. They’re under the cut, to prevent causing issues for people reading the post.

This compilation post of the smaller problems: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001066342-Fix-Your-Stuff-or-ALLOW-CUSTOM-CLIENTS-or-BOTH-

Images that show some of the changes:

[Two screenshots of the Discord icon on an IOS device. One is a cool indigo gradient, the other is a solid, brightly saturated indigo.]

[The words “gaming central” twice in Discord’s new font. One is bold, the other is not.]

[The words “reddit fart reddit smell” in Discord’s new font. Underneath, the highly saturated indigo as seen in the icons, stretching across the screen to indicate new messages.]

[Discord’s old indigo, icon, and stylized font displayed above Discord’s new indigo, icon, and stylized font.]

hey hey! don’t do this!

Just a reminder to my fellow Jews that Hashem loves you :)

(Goyim are encouraged to reblog!)

This is the face of someone who's ready to sacrifice himself..... again

Me posting on tumblr:

Del Toro/Mchale adapting Pleasure Island as a Fascist Youth Camp where the boys are forced to train and play war games, turning them from innocent boys into mindless soldiers (jackasses, if you will) is a masterstroke- I think seeing the kids and Pinocchio run around with fake guns and grenades, knowing that something bad was going to happen to those kids was more stress inducing than the original scene in the 1940 version.

this is what being an artist is all about

LISTEN UP AGAIN KIDS STOP REBLOGGING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE POST. IT IS 100% FUCKING BULLSHIT AND CAN AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL LITERALLY KILL. DO YOU NOT SEE WARNING LABELS THAT SAY “DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING”? THEY AREN’T FUCKING AROUND. YOU CAN FUCKING BURN THEIR ESOPHAGUS BY CAUSING VOMITING, CAUSE CHOKING, DROWNING, OR MAKE IT WORSE! AGAIN DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING DOWN ANYONE’S THROAT. THEY. CAN. DROWN. IF SOMEONE IS LOSING CONCIOUSNESS ALL THE CHIT CHAT IN THE WORLD WILL NOT PREVENT IT AT THAT POINT THEY ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER. “Buuut i don’t wanna take them to the hospital!!!” WELL SUNSHINE GLAD YOU’D RATHER HAVE A DEAD FRIEND THAN A LIVING ONE BUT YOU’RE IN LUCK CALL FUCKING POISON CONTROL. THEY ARE NOT THE COPS. THEY WILL HELP YOU. AND IF THEY SAY GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. NO EXCUSES. 0. NONE. I have seen this shit cross my dash SO MANY TIMES so PLEASE fucking reblog this and prevent some well meaning idiot from accidentally killing someone they love!