Gum Ball No. 10: “Sugar Daddy” by Charles Bell, 1975 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691

go my sparrows www.youtube.com/watch?v=glsB...

Whether I’m looking up the head of UK Palantir, Oswald Mosely’s Grandson, or whether it’s this Robert Bates, centre of Migration Control - public powerful figures - I’m faced with the Right to be Forgotten. I wonder how many regular people on LOLcow use this vs people in control of our world

Some welcome good news!

Mr. Kirk found out how much gun deaths were “worth it”. Asshole.

THANKYU !!!! 💛🌟💛🌟💛

congratulations! 😊✨️

A silly thing to celebrate my recent graduation !! I am a chemical engineer now !! And the ninja turtles definitely helped me thru years of that process !! I love these turtles so much !! #rottmnt #tmnt #riseofthetmnt

Donnie popsicle i made some time ago to test out some of the new procreate brushes ! I still fuck a lil more w ibispaint hehe #rottmnt #tmnt

I want to draw !!!!! My thesis is holding me hostage !!!

WIP Smiling friends design i also started and god knows when I'll finish. I want a cute smiling friends t shirt for myself and maybe to sell too

Notes app doodles also (these classes aint worth it)

Going back to my roots w these, i love my wives #eddsworld

Tamara !!!!!!! My wife !!!! #eddsworld

@eddsworld.bsky.social - open.spotify.com/track/6SnDya...

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You are a gem in a pile of rubble.

Like literally I wrote about how my mom was spat at during the first Gulf War and that's the part they wanted me to write more about. I am actually so upset.

This is my fault for trusting this outlet. It's my fault for throwing good time after bad. But anyway here is the story of how asked to write about anti-Muslim racism, I had yet another incident of it.

4 pm I get a message - they want more edits. They aren't going to publish it for tomorrow morning as promised. Could I please continue to work with them? I let them know in no uncertain terms that they should be ashamed about this process, and pulled the piece. 7/

All day long we edited back and forth. I refused to back down on any of the central points. No byline is worth any negotiation on integrity. She said we were coming to a con consensus. The day dragged on, I asked her to please not waste my time if they weren't going to take it. 6/

I wrote them Sunday that I was withdrawing the piece. This morning, the same editor wrote back, apologizing, saying it was her boss that made these edits, and that she understands my position. She said she still wanted to work with me, could I please give them more time. 5/

Instead, they asked me to expand on parts where I talked about violence my own family members experienced. They wanted me, in short to be a token Muslim and write a fluff piece about representation, not dehumanization. 4/

On Saturday night I click to take a look - the piece has nothing to do with what I wrote. This version changed my argument into a fluff piece on Muslims “belonging” – mentions of Cuomo's legal suport for Netenyahu, US imperialism, threats to Mamdani’s denaturalization etc all removed. 3/

I got the piece in ahead of the deadline. The editor who solicited the piece gave me edits back - we went back and forth a bit. Fine. On Friday she sent me the "final" version in pdf. I don't click on it immediately, thinking it's what we agreed upon. 2/

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Paper thin

Low empathy ≠ inability to care. Sympathy is still possible. A friend of mine lost their ability to empathize to brain damage. She's good people.