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Two Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC- EP) guerrillas enjoy ice cream during a gathering near San Vicente del Caguan, Colombia, 2001.

(Photo credit: Paul Smith)

fus-mar-hoz

When you hear about the forest fires in Spain going on, always keep this in mind: forest firefighters have all been privatized and are under the competency of the respective regional governments; temporary and seasonal contracts are common, meaning most forest firefighters do not work in the colder half of the year, and a significant portion do not ever work more than one season. one firefighter put it like this to me: "someone who is fixing sinks the 30th of May, is putting out fires the next week in June". This means there's constant retraining needed, increasing health and safety risks (for instance, Madrid firefighters still lack proper protection against common carcinogenic substances they encounter) and hindering the accumulation of expertise. In the case of the region of Madrid, their salaries have been the same since 2008, and last summer they went on strike (temporarily paused to deal with forest fires in August) over this. This July they went again on strike, however they paused it to tend to the massive fires in the region.

The regional governments have systematically abandoned any pursuit for the quality of firefighting, and then act outraged, surprised and saddened when forest fires go out of control and displace tens of thousands.

geopsych

roadside, July

grapnel

An example of why one should use the Oxford comma.

polkadotmotmot

Kirsten Beets - A Season of Lights, 2026 - Oil and pencil on board

youneedone2

Wild Turkey fight by Ken Phenicie Jr

#me & who

radicalgraff

"The future they want for you"

Mural seen in Baltimore, USA

ultrakillblast

SHOCKING PINK (1965)

#10 hour shifts have me feeling like

hugsfromhugo

A solar eclipse and the Milky Way seen from the ISS

nchntd

In the club

vacuously-true

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

dimmadoome

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

i-restuff

ITS BACK ON MY TIMELINE

probuccalfat

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

probuccalfat

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

windstalkerwolf

anarcho-mom-unist

Transportation

tamathena

Okay but I love pictures of animals carrying their babies in slightly precarious looking ways, and the baby looks mildly concerned or displeased

a-book-of-creatures

belovedgoofball

Going places with Mama

all-the-lovers

"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."

Vito Russo

Photography by Betty Lane, 1978