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Mutual Aid Request Roundup 29 July 2026

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Protesters holding signs at a pro-Palestine rally, with one sign reading “Not war, it’s colonialism. Not eviction, it’s ethnic cleansing. Not conflict, it’s occupation. Not complicated, it’s genocide.”

There is a special kind of obscenity reserved for empire’s inner circle when they start competing for credit. This week in Washington, Netanyahu eulogised the late Senator Lindsey Graham as “Israel’s number one friend,” and Trump corrected him on the spot: no, actually, I’m israel’s number one friend, Lindsey was only ever number two. Two men who between them have overseen a war on Iran, a permission structure for continued strikes on Gaza, and arms sales to a NATO member Israel considers hostile, spent a public moment jockeying over a rivalry medal. That is what passes for statecraft at the top of the imperial core: theatre about loyalty, staged for cameras, while the actual violence those loyalties produce goes on without commentary.

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If there's a better way I'm listening 😂

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Person: how does writing work? Writer: well you type & you delete. You rethink. Then you do 187 min of research & correct it. You reread & wonder if you have a grasp of English. Then you revise Person: then you're done with the book? Writer: then you move to the next sentence

If there's a better way I'm listening 😂

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Mutual Aid Requests Roundup 22 July 2026

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Protesters holding signs at a pro-Palestine rally, with one sign reading “Not war, it’s colonialism. Not eviction, it’s ethnic cleansing. Not conflict, it’s occupation. Not complicated, it’s genocide.”

Ali Khamenei is dead, and the two things happening on either side of that fact are not the two things Western coverage keeps trying to merge into one story. On one side: PMOI Resistance Units launched a nationwide campaign of defiance on 10 July, following what the same outlets describe as lavish, militarised state funeral ceremonies for a man whose regime spent decades disappearing and executing its own dissidents. On the other side: the United States is now nine consecutive nights into a bombing campaign that has nothing to do with Iranian civil society and everything to do with a strait oil needs to move through. These are not the same story wearing two faces. One is Iranians deciding, on their own terms, what comes after a dead theocrat. The other is a foreign military using the resulting instability as cover to keep dropping ordnance on Bushehr and Jask.

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Does thinking of cool ways to kill the multiverse count?

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Photo of a woman looking menacing holding a butcher's knife. Caption: "If you've ever spent any measurable amount of time considering "cool" ways to kill people... You're probably an author" ~Harry Widdifield

Does thinking of cool ways to kill the multiverse count? 🤔 😁

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Now I want Eldritch Horror, I want to glimpse the infinite complexity that will turn to madness

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Post by bramblesand People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame. An ant doesn't start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness. Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does. It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then... It's an ant again. Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters. This is madness.

Now I want Eldritch Horror, I want to glimpse the infinite complexity that will turn to madness... As long as I don't have to get of the couch and put on pants 😂

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With apologies to all the poetry lovers out there, but

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Post by LilJonson I have bad anxiety and one point I got prescribed Xanax. Without the anxiety, all of a sudden I felt like a different person. I was doing things I never did, like I started writing poetry. thats when I got off the meds because I'd rather have crippling anxiety than write poetry.

With apologies to all the poetry lovers out there, but... 😂

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[Microblog] “I must not grammar

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Four panel meme frim the Dune movie where Paul is being tested with pain. 1: Remove the hand from the box and you will die. 2: What's in the box? 3: A misspelled word in your published book. 4: *Paul clutching his hand and crying*

“I must not grammar. Grammar is the mind-killer. Grammar is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my grammar." 😂

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If I had to take a stab at this I'd say I'm an 'Unemployed novelist/lawyer with social media manager and game author tendencies' otherwise known as an IndieAuthor 🤔😂

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A diagram describing whether or not you are a novelist and what else you might be instead.

If I had to take a stab at this I'd say I'm an 'Unemployed novelist/lawyer with social media manager and game author tendencies' otherwise known as an #IndieAuthor 🤔😂

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I never let the truth ruin a good story

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Question. If, an individual tells a story and uses embellishment and overexaggeration to add more of a dramatic effect and create more of an experience, but cannot recall such stories 100% properly due to complications in his/her memory, then could such person be considered a liar?

I never let the truth ruin a good story... But then again I'm a writer A.K.A professional liar 😜😂

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Okay aanee it's not exaclty the meme that was promised but it's in the right general direction 😜😂

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Post by ely kreimendahl When I get negative feedback: omg so true, thank you for your honesty... When I get positive feedback: why would you lie to me like this...

Okay @aanee it's not exaclty the meme that was promised but it's in the right general direction 😜😂

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If I had known then what I know now I could have saved so much time and gotten isolated and weird so much sooner 😜😂

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Me, in High School: "I'm going to hecome a writer!" My guidance counselor: "So, you've decided to become isolated and weird."

If I had known then what I know now I could have saved so much time and gotten isolated and weird so much sooner 😜😂

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If you try to compete with shitposts, you're gonna have a bad time 😂

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Post by R.T.Slaywood Another day, another shitpost outperforming my writing.

If you try to compete with shitposts, you're gonna have a bad time 😂

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So, what I'm hearing is don't read my own work once it's published?

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Post by allthingswhumpyandangsty writers when they’re proofreading their works for the 34th time *find zero mistakes, there’s no typo, no grammatical error. everything looks good. hit the post button* writers when they’re reading said works after they’ve been published like proud parents *find 52 mistakes at first glance, 38 typos and 14 grammatical errors with a bunch of inconsistencies and plot holes*

So, what I'm hearing is don't read my own work once it's published? 😁

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I take this as definitive evidence that we live in an inherently unjust universe, and maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong 😜😂

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Four panel meme of Gru having an idea for a story. 1: Great idea for story 2: Great character name 3: Writing and editing 4: Hard work

I take this as definitive evidence that we live in an inherently unjust universe, and maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong 😜😂

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If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

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Three panel comic by Tom Gauld MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS FOR NOVELISTS 1: Susie has written 12 chapters of a novel. Her editor asks her to cut 3 chapters and rewrite 8 chapters. How many glasses of wine does Susie drink that night? 2: Every day Paul spends 3 hours procrastinating, 2 hours worrying, and 1 hour napping. How long until the publisher asks Paul to repay his advance? 3: Anne writes a new novel every 6 months. 75% of Anne’s novels are bestsellers and 66% win literary prizes. How much do you hate Anne?

If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

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I had a double shot of this today, two new reviews were just posted on The Last Philosopher: Part Two 😊🎉

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Two panel meme of someone whispering something in another person's ear and them getting goosebumps. 1: I posted a review of your book 2: Writers

I had a double shot of this today, two new reviews were just posted on The Last Philosopher: Part Two 😊🎉

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Readers like their WIPs slightly burnt right?

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Four panel meme with photos of a man in a chefs hat opening an oven. 1: He says, "Time to check up on my WIP." 2: Opens oven and flames shooting out. 3: Flames spreading 4: Closes oven, "I'm just gonna give it a few more drafts."

Readers like their WIPs slightly burnt right? Asking for a friend... 😜😂

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I'm in this meme and I don't like it 😜 😂

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Post by David Wales "The worst script is the one never written" he said to himself as he wrote the second worst script.

I'm in this meme and I don't like it 😜 😂

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The thing they don't tell you about so called "professional industry" people is they have no idea what they're doing either 😂

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Caption: The best screenwriting advice I have ever seen Post by Mistamema on a picture from the new Star Wars movies: If you ever have waning confidence in your screenwriting or storytellings abilities, just remember that a professionally paid, multimillionaire screenwriter wrote down the words "somehow palpatine returned" for the final installment of a major hollywood franchise, that has run for over 40 vears.

The thing they don't tell you about so called "professional industry" people is they have no idea what they're doing either 😂

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I wouldn't say I do this, but sometimes "that part" is unavoidable 😊

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Two panel meme from Spiderman where he's enjoying a show and being observed by their old friend looking down on them. Panel 1: people enjoying a book Panel 2: the writer waiting for them to get to “that part”

I wouldn't say I do this, but sometimes "that part" is unavoidable 😊

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The struggle is real!

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There panel meme of Joel for The Last of Us looking like he's having a panic/heart attack. Caption: Writers realising the only way their book will be written is if they write it...

The struggle is real! 😜😂

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I wonder if I function executively down the stairs?

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Post by Loukas Christodoulou Autistic authors writing neurotypical characters: "They were the kind of person who read between the lines without even knowing the lines were there. A natural smile played on the face of their un-headphoned head, and they functioned executively down the stairs."

I wonder if I function executively down the stairs? 🤔 I hope I do, it sounds fancy 😜

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Am I the only one who started writing just to see if I could🤔😂

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My main problem as a writer is that I don't write because “I have a story to tell”. I write because there are worlds I want to visit, ideas I want to explore, people I want to meet, conversations I want to hear, emotions that I want to express, and impossibilities I want to make real. Which means that I still need a f*king plot.

Am I the only one who started writing just to see if I could🤔😂

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The real question is why we're built to hate everything that's good for us 🤔😂

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Post by Delia Cai everyone who is a writer should get into running bc it's important to have at least one hobby you hate even more than writing

The real question is why we're built to hate everything that's good for us 🤔😂

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[Microblog] Fry: "Um

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Two panels from the show Futurama: Girl: "You're from the 20th century? That's incredible. I'm from the 21st century. Remember when those billionaires enslaved humanity?" Fry: "Um.. yeah, that rings a bell."

Fry: "Um... yeah, that ring's a bell."

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[Microblog] RE: mastodon

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RE: mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/This is the kind of love story I like around here, shut up I'm not crying, you're crying... 😊 @galacticwriters @writers @books @bookstodon @joinin@keepwriting #WritingMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Books

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In an updated writing version of this meme I vividly hallucinate 1s and 0s onto liquid crystals

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Painting of a woman lying in bed reading a book. Caption: Have you ever realized how surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours hallucinating vividly.

In an updated writing version of this meme I vividly hallucinate 1s and 0s onto liquid crystals.

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Okay, I've read Les Miserables so I feel that I'm now entiteled to know what else Victor Hugo got up to 😁

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Tumblr post by enjolstaire My favourite thing to do is to tell my friends about the wild things victor hugo did and see the look of shock and horror in their faces bc they only know him as the great author who wrote les mis and hunchback and not as the man who gave his fiancee a live bat in an envelope. Reply by skywalker-anakin He what now?

Okay, I've read Les Miserables so I feel that I'm now entiteled to know what else Victor Hugo got up to 😁

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I feel like the dystopian techbros and super-rich aren't getting enough credit in this meme 🤔😁

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Four panel meme of Mr. Bean cheating on a test. Then: Government (Mr. Bean) looking at dystopian scifi books and movies (his neighbours test) Now: Dystopian fiction writers (Mr. Bean) looking at government (his neighbours test)

I feel like the dystopian techbros and super-rich aren't getting enough credit in this meme 🤔😁

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And then when you do start writing them down, you end up with more ideas than you know what to do with

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Three panel meme with pictures from Pirates of the Caribbean movie where Jack is looking for rum. Writer: "Why is my idea gone?" Brain: "Because you refused to write it down last night when you were comfy in bed." Writer: "But... why is my idea goen???"

And then when you do start writing them down, you end up with more ideas than you know what to do with... 😁

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