Palestinians Brought This Upon Themselves Because They Voted For Hamas. Haven't You Heard?

A little bit of hope: I've been going to protests every week since this started, and every week the protest is bigger

Not saying anything nobody's said before, but the way Fallout is a foundationally anti-capitalist story that got turned into funkopop sci-fi pastiche slop for morons is painful to the point of brilliance. Makes its points about greed and power that much more salient.

Glaze is out!

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Lately I keep thinking about environmental campaigns since roughly my childhood had to play up rainforests as these bright, shiny, heavenly fairy-tale utopias in order to get people to care about them. But in older media they're like dark, terrifying, brutal primordial deathworlds, the "SAVAGE UNTAMED JUNGLE!!!!" to the point that we still call the same exact thing a "jungle" in media if it's supposed to be more dangerous and exciting, even though there's really no technical distinction there. The reality though is that both are simultaneously true. I keep going on this rant lately but everything scary, painful, disturbing or dangerous about nature IS beautiful and wonderful and awesome!!! It fucking sucks that the majority of people only want to care about nature if they can comfortably hike it in their jorts and their crocs and only care about animal species if they're pretty to look at, useful or cuddle-able. "Rainforests" are absolutely kickass brutal primordial deathworlds. They're beautiful and precious and fantastic but they are also places where leeches will rain down on you from the trees until all your clothes are bloodstained and stinging ants the size of your thumb will make you feel like you're burning to death with a sting and one scratch from that adorable little monkey can torture you to death with sepsis. You'd never even guess, from how rainforests are portrayed on TV, that the thick canopy means they're actually dark as shit 24/7.

We get told piranhas actually aren't scary and that's true! The dreaded candiru is also so unlikely to attack humans we still don't know for sure if it really happens! But you don't hear about the Amazonian catfish, the size of a piranha, and incidentally also sometimes called a "candiru catfish," that convergently evolved with a cookie cutter shark and comes out at night to bite big round scoops of flesh from unsuspecting thighs:

I would love to meet all of these terrible awful things and I want them all to thrive forever and ever. Please love nasty things. We are nasty things. We're the nasty things planet and it rocks.

please don't stop speaking up. please don't stop writing letters. don't stop protesting. i know we all feel so helpless but all we can do is keep their morale high. show the people that you support their right for freedom and that you see their pain and suffering, and empathise.

hey dingus! drink some water! are you feeling sad? that's no good! drink some water! will it help? maybe! who knows! drinking water is a good idea regardless! so why not have a nice refreshing sip? sounds like a plan to me! go on, go get a glass of the good stuff! I'll be here when you get back!

Each story, post or interview I read with a Palestinian after the jabalia massacre seems out of a horror movie, a fantasy that is so far from reality.

You know what the horrible part is? This is real. This is real.

This is our reality now. I cannot fathom the pain, the unthinkable feeling and realization of finding someone you love in literal pieces, or to not find them at all. Israel is stripping them from even saying goodbye.

Ghalia hammad shares about the woman they interviewed live telling her story:

"A woman interviewed on air said that she thanked God that her son was still holding her hand after the supermarket they were shopping in got bombed. She held his hand tighter and pulled herself up to escape from the rubble... Before she was surprised to find that she was only holding his hand, without the rest of his body"

This is real. It's happening in front of us. Share this. Do not stay silent!

Thinking about how when my oldest brother took Japanese classes his professor was like your pronunciation is really good 😊 but you need to watch movies that aren't about the Yakuza because you sound like a criminal

Reimu's Mechapotheosis, wherein Reimu Hakurei from Touhou Project becomes Evil Super Mecha Death Christ