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[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Three yaks dance in Lhasa city (cr 情满拉萨，吉吉)(If you do not reside long-term in a high-altitude environment, please avoid intense physical activity at high altitudes, as it may trigger altitude sickness.)

[nyxkaikaos]

[Three musicians in astonishingly good chubby yak fursuits dance to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat it"]

[gunpowdercarousel]

Me: They're probably dancing to some traditional folk music or something.

Me: *unmutes it*

Me: AH.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

🚨 THIAGO ÁVILA, FROM BRAZIL, IS AMONG THE ACTIVISTS ISRAEL HAS KIDNAPPED FROM THE MADLEEN FREEDOM FLOTILLA 🚨

The boat, on which famous climate activist Greta Thunberg also was, carried no weapons, only humanitarian aid to the starving and massacred population of Gaza, which has been under relentless ethnic cleansing by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) since Hamas's October 7th 2023 attacks.

The Freedom Flotilla has made available templates of messages fellow Brazilians can send to representatives of their country in order to help build pressure against Israel.

For the Foreign Ministry:

E-mail: [email protected] / You can also call them to speak your mind on the phone number [phone].

Assunto: Exigência de Ação do Itamaraty para Proteger Thiago Ávila e Questionar o FCDO Prezado(a) representante do Itamaraty, Sou um cidadão brasileiro e exijo que o Ministério das Relações Exteriores tome medidas imediatas para proteger Thiago Ávila, brasileiro a bordo do Madleen, um navio humanitário registrado sob a bandeira do Reino Unido, em missão pacífica para entregar ajuda humanitária à Faixa de Gaza. O navio enfrenta ameaças públicas de ataque pelas forças armadas de Israel, incluindo monitoramento por drones, o que coloca a vida de Thiago Ávila e outros voluntários em risco. Como o Madleen navega sob a bandeira do Reino Unido, ele é uma extensão do território britânico, e o Reino Unido tem a obrigação, sob o direito internacional marítimo e a decisão da Corte Internacional de Justiça (CIJ), de garantir sua segurança e impedir interferências. Exijo que o Itamaraty: 1. Contate imediatamente o Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) para questionar quais providências estão sendo tomadas para proteger o Madleen e Thiago Ávila. 2. Adote medidas concretas para garantir a segurança de Thiago Ávila, assegurando seu direito de navegar pacificamente pelo Mediterrâneo e entregar ajuda humanitária à Faixa de Gaza, conforme protegido pelo direito internacional. 3. Informe publicamente as ações do Brasil para proteger seu cidadão e pressionar o Reino Unido a cumprir suas obrigações legais. A situação é urgente, e a vida de um brasileiro está em perigo. Exijo respostas e ações imediatas. Atenciosamente, [Seu Nome]

You can also put pressure on the president and congresspeople via social media. Make your voice heard!

SAVE THIAGO ÁVILA AND GRETA THUNBERG. SAVE PALESTINE. CEASEFIRE AND LIBERATION NOW.

(x, x, x)

[troubled-pasta-deleted-deactiva]

Hey so uh,

As a trans guy who’s been working out for a few years now and has learned a lot about their body and building muscle and whatnot in the process, here’s something I don’t see mentioned, like ever. 

Abs don’t really look Like That™ when they’re relaxed.

Here’s a few examples from a Reddit thread asking for pictures of people both flexing and not flexing their abs

I rarely see male body positivity posts in general but I’ve never seen this mentioned, and honestly? Call me stupid for it if you want, but I genuinely thought that super defined look was something that was achievable in a relaxed state, simply because I’ve never seen anything to the contrary. 

As someone with body dysmorphia as well as dysphoria, you can imagine the damaging effects that might have had on my mental health trying by to achieve the impossible. I can only imagine how many other masculine folk out there could be struggling with the exact same thing.

Anyway like, this is mostly to point out for masculine folks that might be pushing themselves too hard, that you’re probably doing better than you realise. 

[art-and-sterf]

Anecdotal stuff aside, this is an important thing for artists to remember as well! This is something I never realised despite being an artist that goes to figure drawing classes on the regular and having modelled for them myself- because of course people with abs are flexing for the poses! I was doing it too! - Admin Pasta

[makro-prinz]

Thank youu, I legitimatly cried about this

[catasters]

[drtanner]

Teaching the baby ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

[notsoheadless]

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

So recently the mayor of my city placed a bunch of sharp stones under a bridge commonly used by homeless people to escape the harsh tropical storms we experience during the summer

A priest decided that was an utterly anti humanitarian course of action (rightfully so) and so his solution.. was to destroy those rocks with a hammer.

I'm not Catholic (in fact, I grew up Jewish and am now atheist) but I feel this is what religion is supposed to be about. Using the divine to help humans behave a little more... human.

[http-maths]

That’s father Júlio Lancelotti, he’s a parish priest at St. Miguel Arcanjo Church in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. 

São Paulo today is the biggest city in the american continent with a population of more than 12 million people. Approximately 15% of this population are currently homeless and live under bridges such as these one in the pictures.

In February 2nd 2021 when the re-elected mayor (a right wing conservative) continued his anti-homeless policies in the city and installed this sharp rocks under this bridge, father Julio (who is famous due to his humanitarian work in the city) took upon himself to tear them down. 

The 72 year old priest (wearing a face mask, because Brazil is in the height of the covid pandemic) took a sledgehammer and tore down the anti-homeless brick stones with the help of his parishioners. This sparked national outrage which prompt city hall to tear down the rest of the bricks and re-think this entire policy. 

If you want to know more of father’s Julio humanitarian work you can follow him on Instagram and support him and his parish.

[vicshush]

[ID 1: A photo of the underside of a bridge. Based on the visible nearby cars on an adjacent road and the next photos, the space is at least 10 ft (3 m) tall and it is wide and long enough to park a minimum of 16 cars. The ground is covered with short, rectangular columns of stone, like irregularly-sized bricks, placed about a foot (third of a meter) apart in a very rough grid.

ID 2 & 3: Two photos of an older man with glasses, a medical mask, and a thin white fringe of hair. He is wearing a yellow smock over a white lab coat.

In the first photo, he has one hand resting on the long handle of a sledgehammer that is head down, upright on the ground, while he is looking out from under the bridge. The man is standing at the background edge of the space, based on the first photo. Around his feet are the short stone columns, but it looks like several rows from the edge have been partially destroyed, to the point that the space is much more navigable, and some have been completely reduced to rubble.

In the second photo, the man is in the foreground, holding the sledgehammer with both hands, lining up a swing at the base of one of the short stone columns.

/end ID]

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

[boopsloop656]

[dagwolf]

Laziness Does Not Exist

Psychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there's usually a good reason

good read for teachers.

[quoms]

[…] When a person fails to begin a project that they care about, it’s typically due to either a) anxiety about their attempts not being “good enough” or b) confusion about what the first steps of the task are. Not laziness. In fact, procrastination is more likely when the task is meaningful and the individual cares about doing it well.

[ahziz-imsorry]

I’ve been yelling this for years

[demonprincex]

Hi yall, author of the piece here. Medium instituted a pay wall so here is a link to access it for free:

Laziness Does Not Exist

But unseen barriers do

[catasters]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you don’t have to be in a positive mindset every day. that’s not realistic. but i hope you can find more days where the sun shines a little brighter for you.

[depsidase]

[tencrimes]

[jacine-the-queen]

Transphobes can die mad 🤷🏻

[femmesweetheart]

A closer look because these ladies deserve to be appreciated 💓

[everythingfox]

Best friends

[tykittaa]

[furikomaru-deactivated20190920]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if I had gone through life with the name Hugh Jass, and this was how a ten-year-old reacted to meeting me, I would probably think he was a nice young man, too.

[flipocrite]

[storybookprincess]

if i can impart any one piece of wisdom to y’all, it’s to, whenever possible, assume good intentions

assume people are trying their best, want to be good and treat others well, and that when their behavior doesn’t align with those goals, it’s because of outside factors that are pushing them to their limit

it’s hard to do, it doesn’t always come naturally, but it’s worth it

[storybookprincess]

before anyone jumps in with an “op has clearly never worked in the service industry,” i work in a public facing library job

i have a patron who is mean as a snake. won’t respond when you greet her, barks orders at you, and is generally nasty

i couldn’t stand her & dreaded the moment she walked in the door, until i stopped one day & went “wow, to walk around feeling unhappy enough to treat people so horribly every day. what a difficult way to live.”

and so my tactics changed. i made a point to be extra kind & friendly to her. she changed her hair color one day & when i complimented her on it, she was very caught off guard & said “oh, thank you. my whole life i’ve thought i was ugly.”

now we’re at the point where she shows me pictures of watercolor paintings she made & says hi when she walks in the door. she’s not my favorite patron, but she’s perfectly okay. most unpleasant people aren’t inherently rotten, they’re just unhappy & coping with it poorly

assume people are always doing their best, even if their best happens to fall a bit short. assume good intentions

[beardedmrbean]

What a good day to be filming a nature documentary.

[beardedmrbean]

[unfriendlymoth]

[sirfrogsworth]

Is anyone else just... exhausted?

[headspace-hotel]

Everyone living in the USA needs to inform themselves about "crisis pregnancy centers." They're not legitimate medical facilities and typically only have a nurse on staff, if even that.

"Crisis pregnancy centers" are UNREGULATED organizations that present themselves like medical facilities and often offer medical advice and information, but they are staffed by volunteers many of whom are not medical professionals, typically funded by churches and pro-life orgs, and exist to convince people not to have abortions. They often give "patients" misinformation and lies about abortion, contraception, and pregnancy.

These organizations often take the place of legitimate medical facilities particularly in impoverished areas despite being essentially fake medical clinics that offer few services and that are not bound to ethical or sanitary guidelines of real clinics.

A "crisis pregnancy center" in Kentucky was recently in the news because a nurse who volunteered there found that trans-vaginal ultrasound probes were being sanitized using disinfectant that was both expired and totally ineffective against HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection, meaning the clinic could have given their clients STIs with their shitty unregulated sanitation practices.

My MOM visited one of these "centers" when she was pregnant with me (a planned and wanted pregnancy) because she didn't know it was fake and unregulated!

People deserve real healthcare, not lies, randos dressed up in white coats, and disease-spreading, unsterilized equipment like it's the 1700s.