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[butchtoks]

[baronfulmen]

They sent a proof of life photo

And now of course everyone is arguing about whether or not it's AI. I don't see any obvious tells, but it's hard to say these days. I'm not going to claim it's AI without evidence, but I also wouldn't put it past them. So I guess I'll just sit back and see how this plays out.

[baronfulmen]

#Someone needs to find that newspaper and check the date

So fun fact, they did. It's the newspaper from that day, I think New York Post? It's totally possible the photo is legit, but if not I think it's safe to say there's no proof because the only accusations I've seen of it being fake have vague "but look at the pixels" comments rather than any good arguments.

[ralfmaximus]

It would be so easy to put him on TV for 30 seconds or even a brief facetime session; he's a public figure and should expect that scrutiny. The fact they're not doing that is telling.

[astra-the-dragon]

yeah I'm with prev. if he can walk up to a public podium in front of a live audience, say a couple words, and walk back into the hospital, I'll believe he isn't dead/dying. yet.

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

BABYLON 5 1993 – 1998・4x02 Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?

[rosalie-starfall]

Michelle Yeoh in Mechanic Resurrection 2016

[kittybroker]

Simba may not be particularly smart, but he has a heart full of love. How much is he worth?

Not very smart Simba making up for a lack of brains with a surplus of sales! Now coming in for only $21.44!

[andhumanslovedstories]

There’s an emotion only unlocked when you live in a house with multiple stories. I call it “the stair emotion” and it’s when you realize the object you need is on the other side of yet another trip up and down those goddamn stairs. It’s the closest I get to transcending the desire for material goods. Maybe I don’t need that notebook. Maybe I don’t need anything.

[zdr-77]

Kira, her goofriend and the homoerotic tension between him and his archnemesis

[catsofyore]

The babby. 💕 Photo from my collection, 1932.

[zhugeliangs]

“Let not your heart tremble in the heart of the sea, when you see mountains trembling and heaving, and sailors’ hands as limp as rags, and soothsayers struck dumb. When they set their course, they were full of joy, but now they are beaten back in shame. The whole ocean is yours to escape in, but your only refuge is the snare of the deep. The sails quiver and quake, the beams creak and shudder. The hand of the wind toys with the waves, like reapers at the threshing: now it flattens them out, now it stacks them up.”

— Judah Halevi, from “The Poet Imagines His Voyage”, The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse

[skrankku]

Hi there! I just wanted to say I love your DS9 art so much! So delightful! Hope you are well!

Thank you so much! I'm battling art block at the moment sadly, but encouraging comments really help 💛

Kira is me during any car trip longer than 30 min:

Odo pondering the hand:

Another snake-Cardassian (probably Gul Dukat):

[astra-the-dragon]

this is gonna be difficult to hear, and I lean towards the inherent fluidity of language, but some words. have defined meanings and solid roots. and when you use them in a way that is totally divorced from -- or in contradiction to -- its accepted meaning... you are showing off your ignorance and how little of a shit you give about the histories and cultures that shaped that language.

such rank and willful negligence spreads disinformation and dog whistles. you cannot casually flip what a word means and especially not if you're an outsider to rhe ingroup / dialect. even worse if you use multiple definitions for the sake of rhetorical trickery. ughhhhh

[astra-the-dragon]

eh fuck it adding to main post

"the Democratic party was and still is the party of slavery, only the Lincoln-loving Republicans can give Blacks freedom" energy from these people. I don't CARE what Jabotinski wrote omfg

also in retrospect I do still think that the IDF in 2024 *attempted* to commit genocide in Gaza, and there were tens of thousands of deaths, which align with the demographics to indicate non-discriminate slaughter... and there was deliberate mishandling of the war, it was dragged out and the hostages essentially used as disposable rage fuel... but in the end? Through massive combined effort of both anti-war Israelis, of Palestinians, and of our allies -- for all the sickness, the threatened plague did not happen. For all the hunger, the threatened famine did not happen. For all the thirst, the threatened drought did not happen. And even the mass-killing slowed to a crawl. I have no doubt that if Netanyahu had been unopposed there -would- have been a cleansing / genocide. I think he wanted one. But... he failed. The genocide was brief and largely unsuccessful, thank goodness.

As for cultural genocide -- sure. Israel is as bad as Canada or the USA in that regard. But most certainly not worse!

also re: apartheid -- for a very certain definition of apartheid, and only in a small number of places, I guess. but SHOCKER the 3500+ year history of the Levant, and the 300+ year history of Europeans in Southern Africa... are... different???? wow. but hey no apartheid is any time that a population has limited access to some places it used to be able to travel in freely. oh and even though the walls and checkpoints only started after the friendly hapoy intifadas, the apartheid started. idk. 100 years ago! sure! why not!!

[astra-the-dragon]

this is gonna be difficult to hear, and I lean towards the inherent fluidity of language, but some words. have defined meanings and solid roots. and when you use them in a way that is totally divorced from -- or in contradiction to -- its accepted meaning... you are showing off your ignorance and how little of a shit you give about the histories and cultures that shaped that language.

such rank and willful negligence spreads disinformation and dog whistles. you cannot casually flip what a word means and especially not if you're an outsider to rhe ingroup / dialect. even worse if you use multiple definitions for the sake of rhetorical trickery. ughhhhh

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[translatingpoststogerman]

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

[oneheadtoanother]

[mokeonn]

Here's the unedited comic for those curious:

[letsnotandsaywewantedto]

The original is from June 18, 1959.

Some have called "they pay me in woims" Sluggo's catch phrase. It's not. He said it once, and folks on Bluesky loved it so much they say it all the time, especially in response to the Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller account. Here's the original "they pay me in woims" from February 22, 1978:

And, another mention of woims from September 13, 1949:

And the Woims Wednesday (aka Woimsday) image that gets posted almost every week because of the popularity of the word:

[penny-anna]

The thing is every step of the situation does actually make perfect sense if you follow it more closely. Why is Farage stepping down and immediately re-running? Well he's trying to delay the investigation into his finances and also pull a PR stunt. Why is no-one else running? Well they don't actually want him out of parliament yet because they want the investigation to continue. Why is his main competitor a man with a bin on his head? Oh that's just Count Binface, he runs every time there's a high profile by-election. Why is he Count Binface? Well he used to be Lord Buckethead but he had to drop the character due to a copyright dispute. Why was he Lord Buckethead? Well in 1977, Star Wars was released in cinemas,

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[yesterdaysprint]

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

whoever wrote this paper has the funniest phrasing possible

[the-wave-finally-broke]

happy turtle bit off a cop’s toe in the hudson river day for those who celebrate

[saessenach]

A CENTURY AGO