Okay but AU where Five arrived at the alley one day later than he originally did. Aka Five falls right back into another post apocalyptic wasteland right after escaping the apocalypse
FRISCHLUFT IST BESTE. Since I was little, I’ve had it instilled in me at home and in school that windows should be opened a bit frequently to let in fresh air, to the point my classroom once proudly had a little device to measure air quality. What Ludwig means by “kipp” is that a lot of windows are set up here so that you can “tilt” them - opening them a little without actually opening them, which is neat! And a great way to let in some of that fresh, fresh air. In German you say that the window is “auf kipp”.
The second post on my dash when I logged on to post this was actually a post about our supposed obsession with this haha.
Since most European homes don’t have air-conditioning, we also have to rely on what we do with our windows to help regulate temperature. Or at least that’s what we do lmao, when it’s as unnaturally hot as it currently is in summer, sometimes the best thing to do in the evening is to open every window and every door in the apartment and get a draft going so the place cools down a little.
It was really strange to me when talking with my American friends who do not feel the intense need to tilt open your window every few hours to get fresh air (and yes I know this is partially because you often have air conditioning and because of other factors) so I’ve wanted to draw something about this for ages! I love these little cultural differences that don’t seem significant and you don’t think about but are just kind of fun.
System of a Down finally released music after 15 years, yes!
BUT let's talk about WHY! They're trying to raise awareness about war crimes committed by facist leaders in Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 🚫(backed by Turkey 🇹🇷 🚫) against ethnic Armenians in Artsakh. Their wealth and power gives way to curruption and allows them to silence media outlets all around to world by paying them off as they do things like bomb civilians, churches, hospitals and use phosphorus to kill people and animals!
Please speak about these issues. Lives are at stake 🙏🏽🇦🇲
turkey and azerbaijan are attacking armenia right now, and it’s 1915 all over again because the world is distracted and people are too busy wondering if they’re gonna live or die, and who gives a shit about my country anyway? my mum told me to tell my friends and explain to them what’s happening and that we are the victims in this war because azerbaijan is spreading lies and people are believing their lies and i told her, what good is that going to do? do you think anyone’s going to come to our aid? is russia going to help us? is america? is england? erdogan said they will finish what their ancestors started, and he means genocide. he means ethnic cleansing. he means to massacre every last one of us. and in doing so admitted to the very same thing turkey has spent 105 years denying. i don’t know who to tell and what good telling people will do because we’re a small, insignificant country, and we have nothing to offer to the people in power, the handful who rule the world. so i sit here with my pain and i feel helpless. i know there’s twitter threads and links to petitions and people being urged to contact their senators, and sorry if im being pessimistic, but azerbaijan has been attacking us for the last 22 years, and though we defend ourselves, we can’t do anything to stop them. they’ve violated ceasefires (and geneva conventions) multiple times. i don’t think they’ll rest until every last one of us is dead.
we just want peace. we just want to live peacefully. we’re not asking for a lot here.
Watching this happen I’ve been so scared there is going to be another genocide and nobody would notice. My whole life I’ve hated how forgettable armenian people seem to be to the world. Protect armenian people or rot, please don’t turn a blind eye to us again. And same as above, reblog or unfollow.
here are some cold hard facts for those interested:
1. after losing the war in 1994, the az government spent the next nearly 30 years on a) dehumanizing armenians, b) blaming armenians and losing the war for the terrible socioeconomic state of the people in this oil-rich country while president and his family steal all of the money their oil produces, c) pushing armenophobic propaganda on the population since kindergarten age, d) oppressing and humiliating the other ethnic minorities living on its territories, e) regularly violating the ceasefire of 1994 whenever the internal situation get tense and the ppl get angry, f) selectively sending the youths of said ethnic minorities to the bloodiest parts of the frontline whenever said ceasefire violations happen, g) suppressing free speech, arresting journalists, harassing and threatening those who dare to voice their discontent, etc.
2. in early 1920s, josef stalin, in order to appease the new turkish “republic” and its leader ataturk, with the hopes of using turkey as the base for spreading the communist revolution further into asia, passed artsakh (also known as nagorno karabagh) with its 95% ethnic armenian population onto the new created turkic azerbaijan republic (a country that did not exist before 1918, that’s what newly created means), despite the opposition from the people of the region in question and the republic of armenia.
3. during the 70 or so years that artsakh was part of the azerbaijan republic as an autonomous region, the gov of azerbaijan did everything they could to a) suppress the development of the region, b) change the demographic of the region by moving turkic population to artsakh
4. in 1980s, the people of artsakh, utilizing their rights stipulated in the soviet constitution, petitioned both moscow and baku to be allowed to reunite with armenia. as a response to this, the azerbaijan government started large-scale repressions against the organizers and activists of the reunification movement. arrests on made up charges, threats and violence followed (more info on all that in the link provided below)
5. the people of artsakh then held a referendum as was their right under soviet constitution, and more than 90% of it’s population voted in favor of seceding from the azerbaijan republic. the response to this were the anti-armenian pogroms in baku and sumgait ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-18-mn-305-story.html)
Alexander Gulanerian heard the mob pounding down the hall seconds before his door was broken down and they stormed in, brandishing knives, b
6. all this grew into the first artsakh war, which azerbaijan lost, as mentioned in point 1.
to sum it up: artsakh was never a part of the independent azerbaijan republic, during it’s brief 70-year forced az control its indigenous armenian people were oppressed via various government policies, the people of artsakh deserve to live a free and happy life in their homeland, free of threats and fear of annihilation that is sure to happen if azerbaijan takes control of the region
to them, it’s just a territory and they want that territory without the people.
for further reading, check out this comprehensive timeline of the artsakh history up to 2017( when it was written)
For centuries the sacred khachkars of Djulfa stood tall along the banks of the River Aras — hulking and ornately carved 16th-century headsto
while you are at it, read up on the armenian genocide and keep in mind that turkey, specifically for this war, moved syrian jihadists to azerbaijan to fight against armenia and artsakh. read up on the kind of internationally banned ammunition azerbaijan has been using against the civilians in artsakh capital, and then maybe make your judgement.
oh, and if anyone tries to frame this as an islam vs christianity thing, send them to hell, regardless of the side they claim to support, bc this isn’t it.
spreading awareness is HUGE because azeris are spreading lies (mainly on twitter bc apparently thats the only social media they’re allowed to use atm? i haven’t verified this but it checks out with the dictator in powet lol) and it’s really really really important for us to counter their lies with FACTS. like there’s far few of us and we don’t have any bots lmao so it’s really hard to get people to listen to us.
cardi b apparently made a post about it, talking about how there’s a genocide going on in armenia, and azeris started harassing her so she sort of backtracked and said something like “i didn’t know there was two sides to this” and like it’s not the only person they’ve done this to!
this video on twitter actually explains their tactics (the girl in the video is basically translating azeri post) how they target people who speak out in support of armenia and make them rescind their support.
so yeah. it’s important for us to fight against the misinformation. and i think i have no respect for any armenian person who chooses to not engage because the internet is our battlefield. this is where we fight because it’s the least we can do. (note i said armenian person, because i don’t think its fair to ask this of people who don’t have a personal stake in this war).
System of a Down just released 2 new songs, their first new music in 15 years, to raise money for the Armenia Fund. Go to their Facebook page or https://systemofadown.bandcamp.com/ to purchase the songs for a donation as little as $2 USD or more of your choice
There are so many things that are TOP quality about this. The business with the mic rope. The bounding across the stage like an excited puppy or a newsie. The Voice™️ that is so synonymous with John, you know, the voice of a guy who sells ice cream at the soda fountain in the 50’s. The analogy itself.
It’s all so beautiful, such peak humor and content.
I’m going to be talking about this for the rest of my life. Because this? This is one of the defining pieces of culture from a time when life went from bad to worse. Everyone knows this sketch. Almost word for word. This four minute bit is carrying us through these times, and is probably the only piece of media to come directly from politics that is genuinely joyful.
You simply cannot talk about this era without mentioning the horse loose in a hospital. It defines the entire experience, and does it hilariously.
For anyone who even THINKS about saying artists don’t contribute anything just remember EVERY. SINGLE. OBJECT in your fucking house, was DESIGNED by… ARTISTS. Every piece of media, your clothes, every fucking logo, YOUR PHONE IN YOUR FUCKING HAND. Had to be DESIGNED BY ARTISTS.
Even when we were troglodytes hunting and gathering, dying at the age of 30 or 40, our ancestors were making art. On cave walls, on their bodies, on rocks via carving, even dead bodies were decorated with the shell-beaded leathers they wore in life.
Art is intrinsically human, and was a form of communication before the written word. It’s worth investing in.
So first, Trump tweets that he’s having a press conference at the Four Seasons - a very nice hotel, very on-brand for Trump. This will be at 11:00am.
Then, he deletes the tweet. Hmm. A little later, he tweets again, and this time it says the press conference is at Four Seasons Total Landscaping? Also the time has changed, it’s half an hour later.
This… this can’t be correct, right? Surely this second tweet is a mistake? There’s no way that he’s going to have his lawyers standing around what appears to be a pretty typical landscaping place, right? But the Four Seasons confirms:
Okay? Sure… but this still seems fishy. I wonder why they had to bump the time back by half an hour.
Oh. Yeah, okay, that would do it. So… it seems that someone fucked up, failed to book the Four Seasons, and then refused to back down and just kinda went with it? Maybe they’d already (somehow) booked a landscaping place by mistake but I think it’s more likely they announced first, then called and found out the Four Seasons hotel wasn’t available, and frantically searched for anything else called Four Seasons.
This means Rudy ended up giving a press conference in some random dirty parking lot between a crematorium and a sex shop. Yes, really.
I know it sounds incredibly shallow when I say write it down but I truly dont have the ability to articulate how confused my brain is right now by our willingness to tie ourselves to electric numbers that are "money" and why we cant just pick up and move somewhere else and exist there and- hmmmmmm.
Apples are real. Dirt is real. Wallstreet is a building filled with desperate men screaming at imaginary numbers that turn them into kings and paupers. And police have this power that only exists because we gave it to them and- HMMMMMM
But the other frustrating thing is everyone is trapped in this system. If I want hormones or a few crumbs of rights I have to play along into the system. But is that really being free either???
The annual festival in the Italian Market literally has climbing a greased pole as one of its attractions in which ppl can win a fair bit of money; not only do philadelphians just do that, they practice
We need to thank the Navajo a nation! They all got out and voted with no cars and few polling places- their population was enough to swing BOTH Arizona and New Mexico
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