new reason to stay alive: outlive the trump presidency. In fact, outlive Trump. He isn’t immortal. We can live to see the day he's guaranteed to never be in office ever again and we can make sure he knows that he'll never have enough power to kill you
Honestly the best thing he can do is die 1.5yrs into his term. Vance will not draw as many conservatives to the polls for the mid term election and will probably turn off a lot of middle of the road voters. Vance will only get 2.5yrs in the big seat and he has nowhere near the cult following Trump has. Yeah, the Project 2025 people are fully prepared for a Trump to Vance transition but they'll still lose time to the transition. The party will be more rabid at eating itself alive for the 2028 election because Trump won't have repeatedly endorsed a replacement (not that he is ever inclined to) and the "go with incumbent" rule will come into play, but even if Vance were to win he'll have lost that 1.5yrs. And despite what they want, 1.5yrs is not enough time to eliminate voting entirely.
Also, Trump is too much of an egotist even in his dementia to not install his own people, even to the detriment of the Project 2025 plans and they'll have to fight to replace Trump's nepotism and cronyism picks they didn't want with the ones they really wanted. And Trump's picks, by and large, care more about the money than the politics and will fight to keep their lucrative positions.
the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.
ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys
ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food
the starling got home safely
the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.
at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.
ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!
please help two brazilian trans women escape a shitty house
so, my father has moved on from verbal abuse to physical, and almost broke my nose the other day. our home life has become unsustainable, so now me and my gf need to move out as soon as possible, for our own safety.
any amount would be greatly appreciated, we need any help we can get.
hi trans kiwis and friends. if you haven't seen the news, they're trying to pass a frankly insidious bill in aotearoa to define the terms 'man' and 'woman' based on biological sex. this unsurprisingly reflects a lot of similar cruel efforts happening overseas at the moment. IT HASN'T PASSED YET, but I figured I should speak up about it because this is happening as we speak.
(screenshot from the linked RNZ article)
it seems very fucking bleak!!!! please don't lose hope! it hasn't passed yet and a lot of the shoddy bills suggested by the coalition have been shot down already. it's still worth knowing about. you don't have to share this post if you don't want to. I just know that a lot of my followers are kiwi. if there are any updates as to what we can do to push back against this, I'll make a relevant addition. kia kaha, okay? love you all.
UPDATE: you can now very quickly and very easily submit a comment on the bill! these will be counted and considered in parliament.
it took me less than three minutes, and that's only because I wrote a whole paragraphs on why this is a stupid idea. all you really need to put is "don't pass this bill" if you want. it'll only take 30 seconds.
if you're able to and you want to, please consider reblogging! the more reach this gets, the better. thank you all so much [:
Wonderful news! My dear friend Fadel (@fadel-dani) was able to present his graduation project at his university and received his Bachelor's degree in Information Technology! Anyone who would like to congratulate and bless Fadel can do so by donating so that he can get medical treatment and study for his master's and doctorate in a safer place.
Fadel's project was about creating an integrated system for managing the water desalination plant in Gaza electronically. This is an incredibly important project, because Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza's water treatment infrastructure, blocked repairs in countless ways, and targeted workers. It is extremely brave to be working on this project. Please donate so that Fadel can one day lend his skill to rebuilding Gaza. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
While Fadel shared this happy news with friends, he was interrupted by Israeli helicopters bombing nearby. There were four strikes on Gaza City last night and at least ten people were martyred. As we text today, @fadel-dani is still in the hospital receiving treatment. To maintain hope in the future, he must survive the present. Please donate so he can afford his hospital bills and medication costs.
Thank you so much to everyone who congratulated me and shared in my joy. I hope to be able to travel soon and have my surgery as soon as possible to be free from my pain, and to be able to complete my master's degree. So, my friends, you are our last hope. Please help me and be by our side before it's too late. Please donate and stand by me.
im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.
The headlines of the two articles don't really convey how fucking horrible this was. To anyone scrolling by who wasn't going to click on the links, here is a short summary:
The store owner got his gun out, and he and his son started chasing the 14-year-old boy, because they FALSELY believed he stole FOUR BOTTLES OF WATER.
The boy who was being CHASED WITH A GUN FOR NO REASON did carry a gun, and it would have been very much justified to actually take it out (because he feared for his life since he was being CHASED WITH A GUN FOR NO REASON), but witnesses never saw it in his hands, and at no point did he actually point it at his two pursuers. He had his back towards them the entire time because he was FLEEING.
The kid stumbled and fell, dropping his gun in the process. The gun was only ever seen on the ground next to his body, it probably fell from his waistband or pocket or whatever, not his hands. And since it was dropped, he did not have it on him AT ALL when he was murdered. He was SHOT IN THE BACK WHILE LYING UNARMED ON THE GROUND.
The sheriff's report written in 2023 said that this was "not a bias-motivated incident" even though there is literally zero ambiguity that this man was just itching to shoot a Black kid. There is no other explanation for why you would take your gun out and chase him more than 100 yards over a vague, weak, unfounded suspicion that he might have stolen four (4) bottles of water. In and of itself, the train of thought "this Black kid was holding four bottles of water at some point, and now he's leaving the store, clearly there's no chance that he simply put them back, he must have stolen them" is already racist as hell. But the cops say "well there's absolutely no indication that shooting an unarmed 14-year-old Black boy because you falsely suspected him of stealing a few dollars worth of water was motivated by bias" because of fucking course they do.
The murderer was found "not guilty" because the self-defence reasoning was accepted even though multiple witnesses confirmed that the kid did not have a gun out as he was running from the store, and definitely did not point it at his pursuers at any point. If anything, the kid would have been the person for whom self-defence would have been justified since he was the one being actively chased with a gun.
One of the strangest things about modern culture-war discourse around film is how often movies from the past are treated as “proof” that art
One of the strangest things about modern culture-war discourse around film is how often movies from the past are treated as “proof” that art used to be apolitical, non-woke, or free from progressive messaging and few examples illustrate this better than Alien (1979).
Today, Alien is frequently praised in anti-woke circles as the kind of movie Hollywood “can’t make anymore”: tough, grounded, unpretentious science fiction without modern identity politics. Ripley is often held up as the “right way” to write a female character, supposedly unlike contemporary heroines accused of being “forced feminism.”
But this reading becomes deeply ironic once you look at what the actual creators of Alien said about the movie because the themes many modern viewers would immediately label “woke” were not accidental interpretations imposed decades later by academics or online commentators. They were intentional. Explicitly intentional. Confirmed by the filmmakers themselves.
Dan O’Bannon (the writer) openly described Alien as an attempt to “attack men sexually.” The facehugger and chestburster cycle were deliberately designed around male fears of rape, penetration, forced impregnation, and bodily violation.
Imagine that exact pitch appearing online today before release.
“New sci-fi horror movie intentionally explores male rape anxiety and reverses traditional gendered horror vulnerability.”
The reaction from much of the anti-woke internet would be immediate and predictable. You would see endless YouTube thumbnails accusing the film of “emasculating men,” “injecting gender politics into horror,” or “turning masculinity into a victimhood metaphor.” Entire outrage cycles would form around interviews where O’Bannon explained the sexual politics behind the creature design.
And that’s only the beginning.
Alien also intentionally subverted gender conventions in horror. The crew was famously written as gender-neutral, and Ripley emerged as the survivor not because the script was designed around a male power fantasy, but because the filmmakers deliberately avoided conventional gender assumptions. Ripley is competent, authoritative, emotionally controlled, and ultimately proven right while many of the male crew members panic, ignore procedure, or become victims.
More importantly, O’Bannon’s stated goal was partly to force male audiences into a position of vulnerability that horror cinema had historically imposed on women. In other words, the film intentionally reversed traditional gendered dynamics of fear and violation.
Again, imagine these interviews surfacing before a modern release.
“The filmmakers wanted men to experience vulnerability usually associated with women in horror films.”
There is almost no chance today’s anti-woke discourse would interpret that charitably. The movie would almost certainly be accused of pushing feminist ideology. Ripley would be called a “girlboss.” Think pieces and reaction videos would insist the movie was “lecturing men” or “deconstructing masculinity.”
And then there’s the corporate theme.
Alien is profoundly anti-corporate. The Nostromo crew are not glamorous explorers or military heroes, they are essentially exploited industrial workers hauling cargo for a massive corporation that views them as disposable.
Weyland-Yutani knowingly sacrifices human lives for profit and technological gain. The revelation that the crew is “expendable” is not hidden subtext, it is the moral center of the film.
The company values acquisition over human life. The android serves corporate interests over ethical ones. Workers are lied to, manipulated, and sacrificed by distant executives.
If Alien were released today, with Ridley Scott openly discussing labor exploitation and corporate dehumanization in interviews, many of the same commentators who currently celebrate the film would likely denounce it as anti-capitalist propaganda.
And that is the contradiction at the center of so much “anti-woke” nostalgia.
Many beloved older films were deeply political, deeply ideological, and often radically subversive for their time.
What protected them from being dismissed as “woke” was not the absence of progressive themes, but the absence of a modern outrage ecosystem built around scanning media for ideological infractions before audiences even see the work.
Alien succeeded because audiences encountered it first as a brilliantly made film.
The themes were embedded in atmosphere, imagery, character dynamics, and horror rather than flattened into online discourse before release. Viewers experienced the movie emotionally before they experienced it politically.
But if the same movie appeared today, same script, same themes, same creator interviews, there is every reason to believe large parts of the internet would denounce it as feminist, anti-male, sexually political, and anti-capitalist long before opening night.
The irony is that one of the movies now treated as evidence that Hollywood “used to avoid politics” was, from its inception, explicitly built around gender anxiety, sexual politics, bodily violation, and corporate exploitation, and the people who made it even said so themselves.
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