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Liverpool fan from Germany. The blogger formerly known as jordan-rossiter. Failed fanfic writer. Proud legacy fan. The football fandom's answer to Winifred Carney. Habitual forgetter of irony tags. Usually found ranting about football and/or capitalism. Bohs are my second team now apparently.
NOTE: journalists based in gaza are saying that donations are not going to help atm. what will help is a demand for ceasefire. so please contact your local MPs every single day demanding as such. palestine need a ceasefire right now, not money (i will update when monetary help is needed)
if you want to donate, do this instead:
help buy e-sims for people in gaza(you can follow this tutorial. if the simly app is not accepting donations or “gifts” then you can check out holafly. those are the only two that are working well right now. if you would like to stay updated, please follow @/Mirna_elhelbawi on twitter)
note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.
“The company, whose sales of €8.4bn in 2022 were almost double the level in 2018 when the calls for boycotts began, declined to comment”
it’s important to mention that the boycott has been ongoing since 2018, and it has been working greatly and that is the last step. sure it was a business and financial decision, wonder how did that come to be though !
check the progress made by the BDS movement through the years “Together, we have caused PUMA to lose millions in important sports contracts, exposed PUMA’s lies and spread our call for justice with millions worldwide. We won’t stop until PUMA finally ends its complicity in Israeli apartheid.” and they fucking did that!
Slow the fuck down is also the way to avoid scams, social engineering, phishing, etc.
“Oh, no the CEO of my employer is having an emergency and I need to click this link right now!!!”
Slow down…
“Why would the CEO be emailing ME of all people? Maybe this email is a phishing attack that would get my employer hacked and me fired for allowing it.” (It probably is a phishing email.)
In general, “Slow the fuck down” is an extremely powerful information literacy skill.
Genuinely thinking about showing this to my freshmen instead of the CRAAP test
ok.
Best advice I ever got:
If it inspires a Strong Emotional Reaction, be suspicious
misinformation thrives on using the impulsive emotional part of your brain to override the logical thinking part. They want you to share it based on what you feel, not what you think.
If you take a minute, it lets the logical part of your brain kick back in.
[ID: All 8 images contain only text, signed by @/charlottekupsh (without the slash). Transcript of images:
Image one, all caps lock: [bold] Spot fake fucking news [end bold] I spent my Sunday on this because I’m sick of y’all
Image two: [bold caps lock] 1. Slow the fuck down [end bold caps lock] Disinformation and misinformation often spread because we share things without thinking, especially during crises when we’re excited, scared, or confused. Stop. Breathe. Take a fucking minute.
Image three: [bold caps lock] 2. Who the fuck is behind this? [end bold caps lock] Look at who created the post, photo, meme, or infographic you want to share. Should you trust this person? Why are they credible? Why should you share information from this specific person rather than another source? (If you can’t tell who created it, red fucking flag: people sharing legitimate information tend to want credit for the work they’ve done curating and creating the post.)
Image four: [bold caps lock] 3. Do a fucking google [end bold caps lock] Most media outlets and journalists have enough of an online trail that you can find out in basically seconds whether other people tend to find them credible and whether they have clear political leanings that might impact the way they frame a story. If the internet doesn’t know who they are, red fucking flag.
Image five: [bold caps lock] 4. Where the fuck does this info come from? [end bold caps lock] If the sources aren’t cited, don’t share the post. (Watch out for very broad citations, like simply saying “NPR” without a specific link or date.) In theory, you should be able to find the exact place the information came from yourself based on the information in the post. If you can’t, red fucking flag.
Image six: [bold caps lock] 5. What the fuck is it saying? [end bold caps lock] Is the information wild, new, or shocking? Head over to god damned Google and do a search. Can you find other sources that collaborate this one?
Image seven: [bold caps lock] 6. Resist lizard brain [end bold caps lock] Our lizard brains love binaries, simplicity, and being right. Is this a complicated fucking issue that’s being framed as simply “good” or “bad?” Has a complex topic been reduced to two sentences in a dancing GIF? Do you like this meme because it confirms that you’re right and your dumb cousin Gary is wrong? Your lizard brain wants to share. Disinformation loves a lizard brain. Don’t let the lizard brain win.
Image eight: [bold caps lock] 7. I said slow the fuck down [end bold caps lock] Make yourself a drink and ask, “Did I really think about this first? Why am I sharing this? Is this what I want to do with my life?” End ID.]
