Displaced children living in a camp set up next to a landfill in the Yarmouk area of Gaza City on 22 March.
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Omar Ashtawy / APA images)
From the Palestine in Pictures: March 2025 feature, a monthly digest of key developments in Palestine showcasing powerful images by photojournalists. Read here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-march-2025/50566
#Gaza #Children #Despair #Orphans #Hunger #Catastrophe #Genocide #Israel #Politics
Omar Ashtawy / APA images) 
#STOPTHEGENOCIDE #genocide #palestine #mastodonart #art #mastoart #people
Another one of #Egyptian #artist Abdullah Wgih's real-life inspired paintings showing a young man in #despair and #hopelessness.
That's what I'm feeling, too, because #Palestinian #babies and #children in #Gaza are being murdered the very moment I'm posting this piece.
G.
Condemned.
Charcoal on paper.
A condemned man , semi collapsed, surrounded by dark figures holding a bright knife, lit by candlelight.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/condemned-james-mccormack.html ]
Bifido in Gambettola, #Italy
A large-scale mural titled “Hell Is Round The Corner” by Bifido portrays an older man holding his head in despair, masterfully integrating existing windows and architectural elements to intensify the expression of emotional distress.
From @markhamill on 
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Hey Kids!!! Get ready to either laugh uproariously or sob inconsolably, cuz it's time for either the SUNDAY FUNNIES or the TRUTHFUL TRAGEDIES, depending on your own personal point-of-view.
#Enjoy 
(or) #Despair 
Occasionally in my reading I stumble on a passage that seems so germane it's as though truth and emotion have jumped across decades. Consider this from a letter the philosopher A.J. Ayer wrote in 1939: "The political situation makes me more and more depressed. I resent above all the feeling of impotence from which one suffers at times like these, the feeling that really everything one values is at the mercy of knaves and fools" ("A.J. Ayer: A Life," p. 160). #politics @bookstodon #despair
7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?
In this episode, Ariel and Christina try to get to the bottom of why our fictional visions of utopia are so negative. They often involve mindless acquiescence to an authoritarian nanny state, the oppression and labor of an underclass, or both. It’s as if we can’t imagine a situation in which we all voluntarily treat each other (reasonably) decently and life can be good for everyone. We discuss the literary origins of utopia, how it has evolved (or not) as a concept, and Ariel gives a few examples of sci-fi futures that are about as close to her style of solarpunk utopia as can be. Ultimately, the topic of utopia raises more questions than answers.
https://youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH2MNFHmO8Ct
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season7 #Episode #PodcastEpisode #YouTube #utopia #SirThomasMore #SaintThomasMore #ThomasMore #Dystopia #Protopia #WakandaForever #BlackPanther #Indigenous Futurisms #Afrofuturism #Utopias #Anti-Utopia #LiteraryHistory #Cruelty #Despair #Hope #UntopiaParadox #Omelas #TheOnesWhoStayAndFight #TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas
When I walked into the kitchen this morning, spouse said, "I saved the most expensive Valentine's present for this morning."
And he handed me an egg.
We laughed hard, but it was the morbid laughter of dark times, and though I know that "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us," but I really wish none of this were happening.
#laughter
#tears
#joy
#despair
#dialectic
#dichotomy
#CurrentEvents
#eggs
#FuckingEggs
#HowDidItComeToThis
#NeverGiveUp
#RESIST
I wrote what I felt this morning. Please read it here:
https://davaug.medium.com/future-tense-14915d0da0b1
A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Who would attain to summits still and fair,
Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author and poet.
Poem (1906), “Climbing,” ll. 9-10, New Thought Pastels
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
“His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, & he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens & mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a #perverse scene of #despair & #violence.”
She commended #RFKJr for “pulling himself out of illness & disease” but lamented “siblings & cousins who Bobby ENCOURAGED down the path of #SubstanceAbuse suffered #addiction, #illness, & #death…
Every month, 5AM StoryTalk explores a different song about our struggle to lead good and meaningful lives in a confusing, increasingly grim modern world. This January’s pick is Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over”.
#music #modernworld #despair #hope #crowdedhouse
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/songs-to-live-by-dont-dream-its-over
