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[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 68 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Court said to approve mom’s request to use fallen soldier son’s sperm to have grandchild

Sharon Eisenkot permitted to use sperm of 19-year-old son Maor, Golani fighter killed in Gaza who was also nephew of ex-IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot

An Eilat court has authorized Sharon Eisenkot to use sperm retrieved from her son, IDF soldier Maor Eisenkot, who was killed in Gaza in 2023, to have a grandchild through surrogacy, according to a Channel 12 report Saturday.

The court based its ruling on testimonies showing that Maor had clearly expressed his wish to have children and had agreed to the posthumous use of his sperm, even with a woman he did not know. Sharon Eisenkot only learned of his wishes after Maor was killed in battle, through a childhood friend to whom he had confided.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/court-said-to-approve-moms-request-to-use-fallen-soldier-sons-sperm-to-have-grandchild/

where's the line? Will we see a 14 yo's semen harvested after a car crash? Does israel harvest ovum from dead women?

More importantly, just how much semen is israel hoarding?

tucker-catboy

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry your struggling, but I think itd be good to spoiler such negative slurfilled self talk in future <3

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

things that help me with dysphoriaThis felts really corny when i first tired it but doing some positive afformations in the mirror really helped me with this, little notes that say something like 'this is what a woman looks like', 'you are beautiful' etc, I've got an old crimethink 'beauty must be what we define it as, or else it is our enemy' poster too

i generally just avoid looking in the mirror tho tbh

i dont know how long youve been out to yourself for, but with time things like ffs and srs have become a lot less important to me, but it was a lot of mental work

once when i told my grandmother how depressed i was feeling she told me, whenever she's feeling really down she hops in the shower, puts on some nice clothes and does her make up (oddly affirming because she doesnt really get im trans), but self care really helps

also helpful to remember the way you see yourself is not how other people see you

be kind to yourself

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

this is sweet i have memories like this

I keep some hairties on me all the time (on my keys, in my wallet), gettining to help out someone, is a good feeling in return. I think i gave one to some random retail staff who were getting chewed out by a manager in front of me once

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

hot? yeah i guess it was a little toasty overnight now i've had to crack out my second blanket, its the middle of winter! This is southern hemisphere erasure!

im doing okay, someone in the vague 'activist scene' in my city is kinda making my life hell atm, theyre not well, but neither am i. So i'm fading out of existence. For how much people all talk about 'community', i'm yet to have many people check in with me.

Theyre going to be living in a worldwithoutlawyers.jpg now i'm gone. no one else is going to tell them to reexamine their preconceptions, theres going to be unexamined racist shit going down, i tell you what.

i kept being told 'well remember what you were like when you were young!', and i kept thinking, yeah damn, they should all be doing drugs instead of crowing themselves godking of the 'movement'.

this has all really destroyed my confidence i'm actually too anxious to even check replies here atm, for a while i couldnt even comment because i felt like everyone was so mad at me lol.

The 'scene' is good for them, but has been a disaster for my mental health. so i'm dropping everything so i can rekindle my energy and re engage myself with my union organising.

i dunno this feels like too much, maybe im too much. I'm getting echoes of an ex telling me 'i'm not availible to do emotional labour for you'. haha hehe hoho yes

if people are treating you like shit, you should leave, its not easy, but its for the best

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh hey look, China and India are suddenly getting a lot of oil from Kazakhstan

I dunno how good this source is, but you get the idea

https://sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com/kazakhstan-changes-regarding-monitoring-of-goods-re-exported-to-russia/

honestly how would america survive if there was suddenly an additional 500% exercise on goods from PRC?

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

fbi shootout in Idaho? I immediately thought itd be white seperatist losers ala Ruby Ridge

Settlers doing settler things

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Volcel police

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Have bob dylan killed

comrades why do we not have any monty burns emotes? 😥

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Its not just 'they wrote porn', they did so and distributed it online, for money. Of this was some passion project, a general freedom of expression, they could be distributing it anonymously and freely. I'm doubtful anyone's being arrested for their homebrew erotica - you'll never take me alive

we're being coerced into arguing semantics about the rights of petit bourgeois 'artists'

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

You're right it's incredibly safe to be openly gay in the streets of 'western' cities, but speak to 'western' queer people about how their families reacted to them coming out and you'll see that conservative attitudes are still very prevalent, especially amongst older people.

😇 lol sorry, tbh my parents are coming around but its been a decade of work, forcing myself to family events and continuing to be myself

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

An author was raided in sydney this year for a 'romance novel' she wrote

it turned out to be pretty damn pedophillic, here's a crap source

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/sydney-author-lauren-tesolinmastrosa-arrested-over-pedophilia-book/news-story/5babb82438d7adc5ca699c877b07641a

You will have to excuse me if i am sceptical of the intentions of the author of this NYT article

Vivian Wang

Vivian Wang is a China correspondent for The New York Times, based in Beijing, where she writes about how the country's global rise and ambitions are shaping the daily lives of its people. Previously, she was based in Hong Kong and New York City. In 2021, she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in public service for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. She grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Yale University.

Lol

To many people, the arrests also show how much the space for female and L.G.B.T.Q. expression has shrunk in China.

theyre stories written by straight women, for straight women, nice try tho! I actually dont feel great about hets writing steamy erotic novels about le gays.

i will never not be extremely sus on ivory tower journalists, theyre either feds, or being manipulated by the feds to publish articles justifying the feds.

Wang was previoisly awarded for her coverage of COVID in china, and if you google her name and corona virus you find plenty of 'the peasants are revolting against the emporer' kind of articles, 'the chinese are covering it up' 'we looked at gps data to get the real story'

these articles very rarely cite any regular people who live in China, its generally experts from the usa all the way down.

anyway, my point is, remain critical, approach things with caution, honestly i feel pretty sad someone would post this here without any sort of analysis. inadvertanly promoting the face value 'theyre killing queers'

need i remind you how the NYT reports on Palestine?

sorry this is cranky i havent had coffee

 

I'm pretty embarrassed that almost every song from the We Are Lady Parts series gives me goosebumps. I hope this stuff inspires a whole lot of people to start playing guitar!

 

Sorry I'm posting a listicle, and I didn't CW for FOOD because it's c/food

I just went down a rabbit hole reading about Uzbek food and saw this

Uzbek-style plov is found in the post-Soviet countries and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. In Xinjiang, where the dish is known as polu, it is often served with pickled vegetables, including carrots, onion and tomato.

Yeah I shouldnt be surpised, you can walk from Xingjang and Uzbekistan, and I did know this, I'm just excited about plov! Years ago my housemate and I made an amazing vegan rendition of Plov with apples and cashews, I wish I could remember what else we used...

It doesnt feel possible for me, but I like to imagine one day visiting Xinjiang

anyway, #plovposting is a much healthier late night activity that peeling through imperialist rags

 

If we go to war with China there'll be nothing to buy, nothing to buy -- nothing to buy, nothing to buy

picture

dorky song by a local band that I get stuck in my head on the regular.

 

I don't know where else to post this, it's a response to some anti-tanki shit I saw locally on the local cool leftist instagram clique 🥸

Its a good critique on online ~~anti-communists~~ very correct ultra-left-ists or whatever they call themselves

https://culture-centered.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-whiteness-of-binaries-that-erase.html

I'm definitely try and see Prashad talk later this month

 

Only from the BBC

The dangers of China’s cyber-nationalism

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly6xpz9p1no

also, potential emoji courtesy for UK television license payers

 

"I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here," wrote Navalny in his upcoming posthumous memoir titled "Patriot", which this week had excerpts published in the new yorker

Patriot? Wow!

source https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6eppg77geo

bbc article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its complicated!) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084

Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status after it says it was "bombarded" with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he has made in the past and not renounced.

newyorker article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its so complicated!) https://archive.md/EOb48

According to Volkov, Navalny now regrets making the 2007 video in which he advocated for deporting Central Asian migrants, but he has not deleted it from YouTube “because it’s a historical fact.”

obviously I shouldnt be surprised about this kind of thing, especially from publications that were around to talk about sHitler caring about germany or whatever

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Don't be a shithead (hexbear.net)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by EllenKelly@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
 

Being a shithead can manifest itself in many ways:

If your friend says something offensive, and you don't call them out, or you only gently scold them so you can stay on good terms - you're being a shit head.

If you're criticising people behind their back, or holding your tongue in a meeting, and gossiping later - you're being a shithead.

If you're letting people off lightly because what they say doesn't personally affect you - you're being a shithead.

If you're demanding special treatment, while expecting others hold themselves to a higher standard - you're being a shithead.

If you resort to personal attacks, instead of arguing against an incorrect point - you're being a shithead.

If you hear someone state a falsehood as fact, and you don't correct them - you're being a shithead.

If you're at work and you're not agitating, and showing no concern for the well-being of others - you're being a shithead.

If you see someone harming others, while you do nothing to stop them, and do not try to reason with them - you're being a shithead.

If you do the bare minimum, with no direction, plans or goals - you're being a shithead.

If you consider yourself a veteran, better than others around you, and above menial tasks, - you're being a shithead.

If you're aware you've made a mistake, and you do nothing to correct it - you're being a shithead.

Being a shithead might keep you comfortable and safe, but you're doing harm to those around you when you engage in these behaviours.

If you're being a shithead, do not.

I try my best to uphold these principles, so yeah I guess you can say I'm pretty unpopular.

😎Yes I did just do a shorthand version of combat liberalism and ctrl+h "liberal" with "shithead", the idea of making a poster with these points that just says "DONT BE A SHIT" has been floating around in my noggin for a while, yes thank you, I am very funny.

spoiler 😱 actually if the original copy of this said "shitremoved" and I changed it to "shithead" so I don't upset anyone, is that liberalism? 🤔 /s :::

I feel like this should almost go in c/badposting haha

i-spil-my-jice

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjrq0ewj77o

Context https://xcancel.com/tshugart3/status/1813332364761968959

some amature sleuth paying for photos of Chinese ports #osint was sure its a submarine until it wasnt

another comrade had a better write up but I can't find it now

 

I know we're all still masking, I'd been a little slack and it got me sick (we isolated immediately when our friend tested positive the next day), this is your reminder.

This round of covid was as bad as every other, the symptoms were different (I was so nauseous), but as bad as it always is.

My hoarding paid off though, we didnt run out of food or anything.

 

sigh

 

this is me expressing myself in a healthy way

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