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you have to appreciate the irony of the massive Christopher Nolan biopic about the guy who developed the nuclear weapons that were dropped on Japan getting surpassed by the low budget Japanese kaiju movie about the survivors guilt of the people who survived those bombings and the threat of further US imperialism
Dr Refaat AlAreer was just murdered by israel (12/7/23)
His last tweet:
Yesterday I watched a video of a toddler in Gaza playing with a little red bicycle startle and cry at the sound of a bomb. Today I found the IOF had invaded their house, shot and killed the little boy in front of his mother and thrown them all into the street.
And it wasn't even the only child on my TL that had been killed the same way because the IOF are taking over all the houses still standing in Northern Gaza. They took over the school shelters, made the men hiding in them strip to their underwear in the freezing winter, lining them up and shooting them like dogs. They're ripping up hundreds of years old trees in groves. THEY'RE FLOODING GAZA WITH SEA WATER.
Meanwhile:
I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANY FUCKING MORE. HE'S SENT ANOTHER TWO HUNDRED CARGO PLANES OF WEAPONS TO ISRAEL. WHY IS THIS MOTHERFUCKER STILL BREATHING??????
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cant talk rn obsessed over the design concept of this 2017 production of pinocchio as a stage play where pinocchio is the only character played by a human actor and the rest of the cast are portrayed as puppets ,,,
like. how insanely poetic is this . you are a boy and you are made of wood but you know so entirely that you are more than wood, you are as human as anyone made of flesh and bone and it's not your fault that you came into the world with sap running through your veins instead of blood. and your entire life you are searching the world for what it means to be human but the dramatic irony of it all is that none of them know how to be human either. you keep reaching out for humanity and they seem so big and powerful but they are just puppets of a greater design too performing for an audience you cannot see. and whether you know it or not you are more human than any of them even if they are convinced you are just wood and paint and magic. im on the floor .im losing my mind over here. gimme a second guys hold on. wait a minute guys wait a goddamn minute like. wahta a good fucking design concept. head in hands !
such a weird feeling to be part of a generation that has essentially been prevented from being able to afford typical adult milestones like buying a car or getting your own place while also being taught to think that at 25 we're old and washed up. like are we stunted or are we ancient
The reclassification of pentl'ach and its addition to B.C.'s official list of First Nations languages, was the result of linguistic and admi
Long considered extinct, pentl'ach has now been declared a living language and added to British Columbia's official list of First Nations languages. The reclassification of pentl'ach (pronounced "PUNT-lutch") was the result of both linguistic and administrative work by the Qualicum First Nation on Vancouver Island's east coast, with support from the First Peoples' Cultural Council. The Coast Salish language had been considered extinct because the last well known fluent speaker died in the 1940s. But Mathew Andreatta, a Qualicum member and researcher with the pentl'ach revitalization project, said the language was never truly gone. Andreatta called the reclassification "an affirmation of something that we've always known and that we've always felt." He said the move is important because it is healing for his people, but also because it opens more doors to continue revitalizing the language.
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Re: the dysentery in the IDF. Doesn't this mean the Gazans themselves are also dealing with an outbreak of dysentery?? Without clean water, sanitation, medical aid? When the UN peacekeeping force caused an outbreak of cholera in Haiti it killed 10,000 people, and that was with medical facilities.
I do think they've already started experiencing dysentery honestly, from a while. They've been drinking contaminated water for a few weeks now.
Really, there's been outbreak after outbreak in Gaza since they're so close together. They've got both the bombs hailing from above and the disease spreading due to lack of the ability to maintain hygiene (in food, water, personal...).
There was a photo of an Israeli soldier eating fresh soup from a pot in Gaza circling around, which means they've been eating the food the Gazans left behind as they flee. So the IDF might actually be already getting it from the Gazans, as a possibility of origin.
But that might be speculation. I asked some people that are in the healthcare field about it and they said they aren't sure either. But yeah, its a dire situation right now.
Gazans don't even have tents to sleep in so they just sleep outside on the street during winter. I wonder why the (extremely limited) aid doesn't include tents? Maybe they're intentionally trying to encourage disease to spread. But yes, the disease is a serious serious consideration among people in Gaza right now. Bisan herself is quite sick. I imagine many people are right now.
Someone who has medical knowledge might be able to provide a better outlook on this, but this is what I've heard so far just from our (Palestinian) circles.
Gazans are almost certainly facing outbreaks caused by contaminated water (especially given the recent sewage breakdown) — if not dysentery, then cholera, hepatitis A, typhoid or polio.
These diseases do often have positive outlooks given immediate & effective treatment & while treatment is relatively simple (for example, cholera requires hydration (like IV fluids) plus maybe some antibiotics; dysentery typically improves without intervention given adequate hydration) BUT the issue is, Gazans won't have adequate hydration & any hydration they do have is likely to be contaminated.
These are also quick-spreading diseases; the more they reproduce, the more likely they are to mutate which likelihood that a new, untreatable strain emerges. Re-infection is likely, & any immunity developed (like Hepatitis A infections often recover with lifelong immunity) may not protect civilians from a new strain that they no longer have the resources to recover from.
Israelis do have the better end of the deal IF they are able to return to Israel & access clean water (plus any medical care they may need), whereas Gazans have nowhere to go for medical aid & no clean water sources to use as they recover.
Many of these diseases are also disabling if not deadly; to return to polio, it causes paralysis & has no known cure. While Gazans may be vaccinated (& from my understanding, Palestine is polio-free for over 25 years), outbreaks can still occur when water sources are contaminated. For any civilians who survive the virus, they will be facing permanent disability.
Some of these diseases will also not show right away or at all, if their hosts are killed by some other cause first. For example, hepatitis A can take up to 7 weeks after exposure to show symptoms. (I personally suspect that COVID rates are also high, but simply not relevant because upper respiratory infections are a dime a dozen & it doesn't matter if it's a cold or COVID if they can't get treatment for it & they're dying from air strikes or ground invasions or some other atrocity before the symptoms can even be distinguished).
None of this is good. The living conditions in Gaza are criminal — the blockades on aid is beyond unethical. It may be affecting Israel, but it will affect Gazans first & most fundamentally.
Please also remember that incubating these strains so quickly & in such close quarters means that the likelihood of developing a strain that can resist treatment or even cause an epidemic is higher than ever before.
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is anyone else just like. constantly filled with rage about their position under late capitalism and how we are expected to just keep playing this game that we know will literally kill us, is already killing people all over the world, and yet everyone around us is somehow fine with going about business as usual, with pretending we are free by being able to choose between different ways of being exploited. there is nothing more dehumanising than being forced to partake in a system that is actively detrimental to our survival as human beings, that is so physically, psychologically and spiritually destructive, and i don’t know how to deal with this anger anymore
love leopard seals. they are so dragon coded. that is an entire mammalian marine wyrm
Look at this fucking. beast. Medieval painting animal that eats princesses
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New age colonialism.. way 2 stand up
Degrowth scholarship notes that capitalist growth depends on the creation of artificial scarcity. Human needs can typically be satisfied either by means of relatively resource-efficient, non-commodified need satisfiers (for instance, public transit; food from a community kitchen), or by means of relatively scarce and resource-inefficient commodities (a privately owned car; a meal from a home-delivery service). Under capitalism, essential goods (housing, healthcare, transit, nutritious food, etc.) are commodified and access is mediated by prices that are often very high. To obtain the necessary income people are compelled to enter the capitalist labour market, working to produce things that may not be needed simply to access things that clearly are needed. Artificial scarcity of essential goods thus ensures a steady flow of labour for capitalist growth. It also creates growth dependencies: if productivity improvements (or recessions) lead to unemployment, people suffer loss of access to essential goods and growth is needed to create new jobs and resolve the social crisis. This dynamic explains why, despite capitalism's high levels of production and resource use, many basic needs remain unmet even in high-income countries. In this respect, capitalism is deeply inefficient and wasteful.
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