haha what?
me, right now, 11/25/23
Am I the only one that feels like 2020 never really ended and we’re all stuck in a loop of the same struggles in different costumes for both our personal lives and goings-on in the world? 2023 in particular has been a lot of repeating lessons- maybe it’s the universe giving us more chances & hoping that we’ll all do better this time around. I’ve gotta assume if you’re still reading this, then you feel it too. Nice to be on the same page.
Things not on my 2023 bingo card:
- getting covid for the first time & needing to go to the ER due to fever & dangerous tachycardia
- getting engaged
- my fiancé breaking up with me through a text message
- my old lady baby cat Clover dying in my arms due to a series of strokes from a hyperthyroid storm
- my supervisor getting fired
- ^that same person dying several days afterward in what felt like a suicide
- completing my political, socio-cultral radicalization that started in 2020 with the BLM movement
- becoming a dedicated social media activist on TikTok for the human rights of Palestinians
I’m sure there are things I’m missing on that list…it’s been a crazy year. That last point, though, is whats pushed me to make this blog & website. The level of censorship on social media for anything related to Palestine has gone beyond what I’ve ever seen/experienced before.
Before that happened, I was able to launch my Resistbot daily letter to Biden & Congress campaign for Palestine and get some traction. I’m one person. I have never participated in activism to the extent I do now. It was not on my 2023 bingo card for 18,432 people to sign my letters and for 6,489 people to follow my activism efforts.
tell resistbot FOLLOW WATERMELON to get notified* for the daily letters to sign *(notifications not always working so join heywatermelon Telegram channel as well)
It’s been a beautiful experience in the midst of such horror. It’s helped to restore my faith in my fellow Americans. The problem now is censorship- its more & more difficult to get TikTok to push my videos to the FYP, and Instagram clocked me fast and gives me maybe 2-3 views on my reels. I’ve never attempted organizing efforts like this before, and I worry now that trying to set this site up now is even too late. I refuse to be discouraged, however. This is a cause I will fight for until the day I die- I will never forget the genocide of Palestinians.
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