wonderful & strange

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[birdpaladin]

god isnt watching

[tsalala]

Sister and cubs Mara Plains Camp, Kenya Photographed by Suzi Eszterhas

[espanolbot2]

MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd Fired Following Charlie Kirk Shooting Comments

Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday on the campus of Utah Valley University.

[heydocverdant]

the comments in question are actually completely reasonable — his response to “what kind of environment lets shootings like this happen?” was basically “an environment that charlie kirk helped to create”

[disparition]

this is a picture of a stack of bricks. it’s located at a construction site in new jersey.

if you do a reverse image search, you will find this image currently being posted on multiple social media networks along with the claim that violent protests in LA were planned by some nefarious conspiracy and that these pallets of bricks were dropped off at strategic locations near protests in order to fuel said violence.

often, when a picture like this is posted, the conversation is immediately flooded with commentators who readily accept the image as hard proof of what is “really happening” even though it is simply a photo of some bricks with no stated location or context (as for how i know the bricks are in NJ, see the link ill drop in the comments below)

there’s no AI trickery here, these are real bricks, and the people sharing the image don’t have to do any work to “prove” that these bricks have anything to do with the protest, because a pre-existing crowd of accounts is already there to support the narrative and shout down contradictions.

this is of course just a drop in the bucket. the misinformation war is huge, and pales in comparison to the physical violence that victims of ICE and other state forces are going through today, but all of these elements work together.

i am hearing from people in other parts of the country that LA is “on fire” (it isn’t), that local authorities have told law enforcement to stand down and join the protests (they haven’t), that there is widespread looting and rioting (there isn’t). there is zero justification for the national guard or marines being sent here, that is entirely a political stunt; albeit a disgusting and dangerous one. i have also seen people sharing videos of soccer fans and claiming they are protestors, sharing pics from other protests in 2020 or even in other countries, and claiming that its current footage of LA

you are being lied to. that’s not new, but the speed and scale of it is. as usual, the reality is that the majority of violence is coming from the authorities, and the widespread use of deceptive media is being used to turn the people against a justified protest. don’t fall for it.

[bucephaly]

😭😭

[bucephaly]

There are only around 1,500 native Cherokee speakers left, and most of them are elders

Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They're also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.

This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.

I recommend checking out the little cherokee seeds facebook page!!

[queerpunktomatoes]

Okay not to dox myself but I live on Cherokee territory (#landback) and there are a few universities I know of that are working to restore the language among younger Natives. I'm not an expert, but I recommend checking out Dr Sara Snyder Hopkins and the incredible work she's doing to translate old Cherokee writings so we never lose them and Dr Ben Fray who is Cherokee and fluent and teaches it to students as a revitalization effort.

[bogwitch-extraordinaire]

Not seeing anyone talk about it, so Greta Thunberg and three other activists on the Madleen have been released by Israel. I can't find the names of the others who accepted deportation, but Greta Thunberg is back in France.

Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who was also onboard the Madleen, has refused deportation along with the other 7 remaining passengers. She specifically said that she refused to sign a document stating she had entered Israeli waters illegally. She and the other seven passengers will face an Israeli court this week. They are in danger. Spread the word.

Israel deports four from intercepted Gaza-bound Madleen, others in custody

Greta Thunberg among four activists who agreed to deportation, others to appear before Israeli authorities.

[pebblebugs]

Four Deported, Eight Detained - Israel Holds ‘Madleen’ Group Illegally - Freedom Flotilla

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Hay Sha Wiya, FFC Press Officer WhatsApp: [phone] Submit interview requests here: https://docs.google.

According to the Freedom Flotilla's own statement, the four released are Greta Thunberg, Baptiste Andre, Sergio Toribio, and Omar Faiad.

[gutterbrat]

hi. fuck ice. here is how you can help families affected by unlawful deportation

edit: and FUCK LAPD. here is how you can help bail out protestors who are in the trenches, facing mass arrests and putting their bodies on the line.

[gutterbrat]

6.9.25. police are about to start making arrests in DTLA (again)(outside the metro detention center on alameda). crowds have been gathering for five days near federal buildings protesting while being antagonized by pigs, tear gassed, struck with rubber bullets, and ultimately arrested. every boost helps.

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

And they were roommates...

[architectureofdoom]

Locals and children play on Redcar beach in the shadow of the Corus Steelworks in Middlesborough, England.

[maroolynns]

she yearns for the tub water. disgusting.

[thererisesaredstar]

Bubonic Plague | Influenza | Measles | Whooping Cough | Typhoid

Excerpts from First Nations artist Ruth Cuthand's Trading series of traditionally beaded micrographs.

[augustdementhe]

*applauds*

[handweavers]

i fell asleep watching jerma and while i was sleeping a clip was playing of him listing every ingredient in cheezits and it entered my dream so i was dreaming of him shouting every ingredient in cheezits at me while pelting me with cheezits and chasing me relentlessly and i got so pissed off annoyed i shouted HEY! in real life waking myself up and my mom came in thinking i was having a legit nightmare and i had to tell her it was just jerma. kms

[sharkchunks]

"Two Paid Ads And A Trans Girl's G-Rated Selfie" (tumblr, 2025)

[guerrillatech]

Trump team plans to send thousands of migrants to Guantanamo starting as soon as this week

The use of the facility would send another signal of deterrence amid immigration crackdown.

The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up sending undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay starting this week, with at least 9,000 people being vetted for transfer, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.

That would be an exponential increase from the roughly 500 migrants who have been held for short periods at the base since February and a major step toward realizing a plan President Donald Trump announced in January to use the facility to hold as many as 30,000 migrants.

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[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[gutterbrat]

hi. fuck ice. here is how you can help families affected by unlawful deportation

edit: and FUCK LAPD. here is how you can help bail out protestors who are in the trenches, facing mass arrests and putting their bodies on the line.

[clownskribbles]

I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)