ratboy

Can't stress the part about making sure you get natives enough! Double check with your salesperson. I bought a wildflower mix from a local nursery that is known for being hyperlocal, organic etc and I bought a pack that had a bunch of invasive.

I think seed bombing is a great idea tbh I should do that myself

Hey y'all, do we know where Hamas is at in everything right now? I haven't heard anything in the past several days and if I search for hamas I get horrible propaganda, naturally. Like the last thing I saw was that they were releasing a couple hostages like four days ago??

I've thought it was "Hosha" or some such

It's day 4 of writing about Palestine you guise and I'm about to hit the Balfour Declaration!! FINALLY!!! Just another 105 years to go.

I was so incredibly depressed today but at least I was able to distract myself by delving into this and feeling kind of like I'm doing something important. I have at least 4 people who I know in real life that wanna read my stuff so that's cool.

I also found a pdf of Rashid Khalidi's "Palestinian Identity" and I'm so stoked because it feels next to IMPOSSIBLE to find any in depth information about the Palestinian peasant class in the early days of the Zionist colonial project and Khalidi lays it all out.

Fuck, me too! Damn you

I mean there are parts of toilets that don't get rinsed with water, as there are in showers but that's mostly the sides, walls, and hardware. Also we shit in toilets and that's a different ballgame lol. I guess my thought, too, is how much does it differ from the dirt, sweat, oils and grime that accumulates in the shower?

I swear I'm not trying to turn it into an argument/struggle sesh I'm just curious lol

How is it unhygienic if it all gets washed down the drain?

For my research I'm mostly going to do my work online and when I get a lot of pieces put together I'll double check my sources; I'm planning to form it as a sparknotes type situation for folks who only have a surface level understanding of what's going on or who only know a few things about the recent past. Unfortunately I think my hyperfixations are so brief that I wouldn't be able to read a ton of literature. Though I'm sure lots of other people have recs though, lots of other people much smarter and well read than I here

I'm only planning on doing more or less a SparkNotes version of the history starting from then to really just set the stage. Really does seem that Ottoman/British intervention is where things started to get complicated but I just found the early civ stuff interesting

Oh for sure, I was mostly being facetious about dunking lol. I mostly have seen so much misinformation and half truths and half context recently that I wanted yo dig as hard as I can in a short amount if time to connect dots. I'll probably try to correct outright disinformation when I see it but I know most people, online at least, are not interested in having their minds changed.

I shall!

Absolutely, I can do an effort post. A disclaimer though, this will be very quickly put together and written for someone who has a very limited knowledge of the area and its history so it will be short and sweet and (hopefully) as accurate as I can get it