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[khazafi-deactivated20260131]

there is violence against ethnic groups happening all across the world, and while it is so important to pay attention to the palestinian genocide because awareness and liberation for one group opens avenues for other groups, it is also inexcusable to solely focus on it, and to, in an era of endless information accessible at our fingertips, in machines that we hold 8+ hours a day be silent or uneducated on oppression simply because it is not covered in mainstream media, bottom line. that said, every day is an opportunity to learn and to do better, so i have compiled this information for those wishing to widen their lens outside of what is being widely covered, and for those wishing to help. sudan:

what is happening in sudan?

the hunger crisis in al fashir

the uae’s complicity in darfuri genocide

how can i stay updated on the situation in sudan? sudan war monitor, radio dabanga, ayin weekly news bulletin, msf sudan, darfur human rights monitor

how to help individual sudanis

donate towards a community kitchen in al fashir

help sudani women receive menstrual products

darfur women group: action steps

underfunded sudani fundraisers

donate to help disabled sudanis in the nuba region

yemen:

what is happening in yemen?

the malaria crisis in yemen | the cholera outbreak in yemen

the flooding crisis in yemen

how can i stay updated on the situation in yemen? yemen online, live event coverage, yemen news agency

how to help individual yemenis

donate towards food, healthcare and education in yemen

dr congo:

what is happening in dr congo?

the congolese rape crisis

coltan mining in the drc / ethically sourcing electronics

the 2025 ebola outbreak in dr congo

how can i stay updated on the situation in drc? all africa, al jazeera, team congo

donate towards humanitarian aid in the drc

donate to support women in the drc

donate to build a school in doma, drc

tigray:

what is happening in tigray?

the displacement crisis in tigray

the ongoing tigray famine

how can i stay updated on the situation in tigray? omna tigray, tghat media, weghata facts

donate towards displaced people in tigray

haiti:

what is happening in haiti?

the displacement crisis in haiti

how can i stay updated on the situation in haiti? the haiti times, haiti libre, le facteur haiti, ayibopost

donate towards individual haitians

donate towards education for haitian children

gaza:

what is happening in gaza?

1948 nakba-now

the famine crisis in gaza

how can i stay updated on the situation in gaza? eye on palestine, quds news network, al jazeera

donate to help individual gazans

donate towards soup kitchens in gaza city

donate towards menstrual kits for gazan women

general resources:

decolonizemyself

so informed

guttmacher institute

middle east matters

code pink

bds movement

this is a non exhaustive resource. violence, oppression and genocide towards minority groups is widespread and ongoing, and not limited to these groups or resources. remaining uneducated is a choice, and an inexcusable one to make. the same systems used to oppress and kill ethnic groups across the world can be used on you, too.

if i have misspoken or added something that should not be here or is problematic, please let me know in the notes. please also feel free to make your own additions to this post.

nobody is free until we all are.

[jv]

Is it known in The Great Beyond (aka outside of Spain) what's going on with the Vuelta Ciclista a España? Because holy fuck it's so cool

[jv]

So, long story short, the Vuelta a España is the spanish version of the Tour de France: A three-weeks-long cycling race that goes around the country. It's probably the 3rd more important/prestigious tournament in the cycling world (after the Tour and the Giro d'Italia), and it's a pretty big deal over here (Cycling competes with a couple of other sports to be the 2nd more popular sport in the country).

So, this year, one of the invited teams is "Israel Premier Tech". It's, as its name clues, an israeli team. But, again, as you can see in the name, it's not just a team from Israel, but a team whose motive is being a Israel promotional tool. So when they were included in the team rooster this year, there was a huge uproar because, you know, Israel is actively committing a genocide as we speak.

The race org take was that this is a private team that doesn't officially represent the country (unlike what happens, for example, in Eurovision), but it's kind of hard to defend when the team owner is close friends with Netanyahu and, well, the fact the team is literally called "Israel": if you're not familiar with cycling, the usual name convention is that the teams use the name of the company that sponsors them (Cofidis, Lidl Trek, Movistar team, etc), and in this case, the sponsor is a company called Premier Tech, so adding "Israel" to the name is a way to tie the identity of the team with its country of origin.

So long story short, the Vuelta organization refused to ban them from the tournament, which has been going on already for two weeks...

... And chat, the Spaniards have risen to the occasion like an evening star.

You see, all these kinds of cycling races are done on public roads. Most of the days the rides go over 200km of public roads, so people can just go to the streets of their town and see them pass by. So, unlike Eurovision, it's literally impossible to have any kind of control access.

And, well...

This has been happening every day for the last two weeks. A couple of days ago, the organization even cut the daily race three kilometers short because there were too many people protesting by the real finish line (12 people were detained by the police in the protests).

Even the general attitude of the media and politicians had been looking at the protests and going "good for them": some of the biggest sport journalists in the country have declared their support for the protests, the Spanish government has publicly asked the Vuelta organization to ban the team, etc.

Honestly, it's being pretty awesome to finally see this kind of massive reaction against the normalisation of the genocide we are seeing elsewhere.

[irisseireth]

It was Bilbao where the race had to be cut short. All of Spain is very pro Palestine but the Basque Country in particular, we take no shit. And the Spanish right wing is losing it over that.

[jv]

Yes, and it was in Asturias where 12 people have been detained for trying to block the race (sorry I had to claim some of the coolness for my home province 😁)

[jv]

Good news, everyone!

Yesterday's stage had to be cut 8km short because of the massive protests by the real finish line. The race keeps going on every day until next Sunday, where it ends in Madrid. Protests are not showing any sign of stopping.

Vuelta a Espana: 'No Plan B' for race despite stage 16 shortened by pro-Palestinian protests

Vuelta a Espana organisers reiterates their desire to finish the race in Madrid on Sunday as planned despite pro-Palestinian protests disrup

[dumbpuppyfag]

i'm old enough, i remember how they treated trayvon martin, this was a kid who got lynched for walking on the wrong street and they called his murderer a hero. they dragged trayvon's name through the mud, they called him every terrible thing under the sun and blamed him for his own murder. meanwhile if you even acknowledge the things that charlie kirk objectively was, the way he promoted himself, the things he proudly did, you're a disgusting monster. forgive me if i can't take that shit seriously

[leathergerard]

[ahuara-deactivated20250412]

posted Aug. 13, 2020

[cooking-with-hailstones]

For those wondering why their dash is suddenly crab raves

[ahuara-deactivated20250412]

(Nov. 29)

[wondersmith-and-sons]

god bless rolling stone for having this article prepared in advance but even more so for publishing so quickly they didn’t even remove the placeholders

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 29, 2023 - Kissinger has finally died! 🦀🦀🦀

[monsterbutch]

*takes your hand* we'll go to the local kebab guy ok. no mcdonalds. local kebab guy loves us

[monsterbutch]

i'm glad this resonated with a lot of you but this wasn't a "cute date ideas" thing this was a "boycott fast food that feeds genocidal soldiers" thing

[normal-thoughts-official]

Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change

[horseimagebarn]

horse laying down looking at camera nose rather close to the lens its face is one of tranquility though a spark of curiosity and life still remains in its eyes

[recently-reanimated]

This video has permanently changed my vocabulary so I need you all to see it

[butchniqabi]

its crazy to me that you can just get married at a plantation and day trip to a plantation and have tea at a plantation like its sick

[soberscientistlife]

[whatbigotspost]

Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.

This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.

[byjove]

“unions drowned out the voice of the individual 🥺” I can promise you employers were not listening to the voice of the individual to begin with

[byjove]

individualist ideals are a plague, in direct opposition to the labor movement. you are stronger together than apart. hate to tell you this but your coworkers are humans as well. organize

[headspace-hotel]

fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely

The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this

[uncivilliberties]

The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.

Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.

This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.

Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.

I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.

[willowdove]

Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.

[gandalfsbignaturals]

what if the answer to the fermi paradox is that life cant exist without a moon like luna

[habbadax]

I got a serious beef with the Fermi paradox. There is no Fermi paradox. There stopped being a Fermi paradox once the first radio telescopes went up, and we began to get a true sense of the sheer scale of the universe.

Space is big, empty, and loud. Sunspots can cause enough interference to affect global communications. We’re not even loud enough to talk over our own sun. On our own planet. We can barely communicate with Voyager, and we know exactly where it is and what its signal sounds like.

The Fermi paradox is like doubting the existence of Belfast, because you stood on a windy New York beach shouting towards it and didn’t get an answer.

[headspace-hotel]