turkey and azerbaijan are attacking armenia right now, and itās 1915 all over again because the world is distracted and people are too busy wondering if theyāre gonna live or die, and who gives a shit about my country anyway? my mum told me to tell my friends and explain to them whatās happening and that we are the victims in this war because azerbaijan is spreading lies and people are believing their lies and i told her, what good is that going to do? do you think anyoneās going to come to our aid? is russia going to help us? is america? is england? erdogan said they will finish what their ancestors started, and he means genocide. he means ethnic cleansing. he means to massacre every last one of us. and in doing so admitted to the very same thing turkey has spent 105 years denying. i donāt know who to tell and what good telling people will do because weāre a small, insignificant country, and we have nothing to offer to the people in power, the handful who rule the world. so i sit here with my pain and i feel helpless. i know thereās twitter threads and links to petitions and people being urged to contact their senators, and sorry if im being pessimistic, but azerbaijan has been attacking us for the last 22 years, and though we defend ourselves, we canāt do anything to stop them. theyāve violated ceasefires (and geneva conventions) multiple times. i donāt think theyāll rest until every last one of us is dead.
we just want peace. we just want to live peacefully. weāre not asking for a lot here.
Watching this happen Iāve been so scared there is going to be another genocide and nobody would notice. My whole life Iāve hated how forgettable armenian people seem to be to the world. Protect armenian people or rot, please donāt turn a blind eye to us again. And same as above, reblog or unfollow.
here are some cold hard facts for those interested:
1. after losing the war in 1994, the az government spent the next nearly 30 years on a) dehumanizing armenians, b) blaming armenians and losing the war for the terrible socioeconomic state of the people in this oil-rich country while president and his family steal all of the money their oil produces, c) pushing armenophobic propaganda on the population since kindergarten age, d) oppressing and humiliating the other ethnic minorities living on its territories, e) regularly violating the ceasefire of 1994 whenever the internal situation get tense and the ppl get angry, f) selectively sending the youths of said ethnic minorities to the bloodiest parts of the frontline whenever said ceasefire violations happen, g) suppressing free speech, arresting journalists, harassing and threatening those who dare to voice their discontent, etc.
2. in early 1920s, josef stalin, in order to appease the new turkish ārepublicā and its leader ataturk, with the hopes of using turkey as the base for spreading the communist revolution further into asia, passed artsakh (also known as nagorno karabagh) with its 95% ethnic armenian population onto the new created turkic azerbaijan republic (a country that did not exist before 1918, thatās what newly created means), despite the opposition from the people of the region in question and the republic of armenia.
3. during the 70 or so years that artsakh was part of the azerbaijan republic as an autonomous region, the gov of azerbaijan did everything they could to a) suppress the development of the region, b) change the demographic of the region by moving turkic population to artsakh
4. in 1980s, the people of artsakh, utilizing their rights stipulated in the soviet constitution, petitioned both moscow and baku to be allowed to reunite with armenia. as a response to this, the azerbaijan government started large-scale repressions against the organizers and activists of the reunification movement. arrests on made up charges, threats and violence followed (more info on all that in the link provided below)
5. the people of artsakh then held a referendum as was their right under soviet constitution, and more than 90% of itās population voted in favor of seceding from the azerbaijan republic. the response to this were the anti-armenian pogroms in baku and sumgait ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-18-mn-305-story.html)
Alexander Gulanerian heard the mob pounding down the hall seconds before his door was broken down and they stormed in, brandishing knives, b
6. all this grew into the first artsakh war, which azerbaijan lost, as mentioned in point 1.
to sum it up: artsakh was never a part of the independent azerbaijan republic, during itās brief 70-year forced az control its indigenous armenian people were oppressed via various government policies, the people of artsakh deserve to live a free and happy life in their homeland, free of threats and fear of annihilation that is sure to happen if azerbaijan takes control of the region
to them, itās just a territory and they want that territory without the people.
for further reading, check out this comprehensive timeline of the artsakh history up to 2017( when it was written)
For centuries the sacred khachkars of Djulfa stood tall along the banks of the River Aras ā hulking and ornately carved 16th-century headsto
while you are at it, read up on the armenian genocide and keep in mind that turkey, specifically for this war, moved syrian jihadists to azerbaijan to fight against armenia and artsakh. read up on the kind of internationally banned ammunition azerbaijan has been using against the civilians in artsakh capital, and then maybe make your judgement.
oh, and if anyone tries to frame this as an islam vs christianity thing, send them to hell, regardless of the side they claim to support, bc this isnāt it.
These are all some of the things the Dai Li has done to this RPC. They are acting as bullies. Letās end bullying.
Encouraging people to block others is bullying.
Making up false claims, aka, spreading rumours about people is bullying.
Sending people threats to their inbox is bullying.
Reblogging peopleās posts you donāt like calling them horrid names is bullying.
Making a blog targeted at one specific person you donāt like and mocking their username is bullying.
Using racist language to mock someone you donāt like is racism and bullying.
Manipulating someone by making a blog to gain their trust only to go into their server and collect screenshots is bullying.
Posting a list of people to block on your page is bullying.
Posting peopleās private conversations that you acquired through violation and deception on your own blog to smear them because all they did was privately gossip about the things you did to them is bullying.
Reblogging posts guilting people to go along with their smear campaign and narrative warped callout is bullying.
Making people feel so intimidated by your callout posts is bullying.
Attaching disgusting labels that are untrue onto users who do something that you personally do not like is bullying.
Repeatedly telling someone to ādeleteā, ādelete yourselfā, ādelete your blogā, or some variant is bullying.
Telling someone that they are responsible for someoneās self-harm or potentially worse is death baiting and bullying.
Allowing these actions to run rampant in a community you are a part of is being complicit in bullying.
Stand up against the Dai Li now.
Reblog this post if you are done with being afraid of the Dai Li. They are once again messaging new users. They are still bullying. Itās time to make this stop. I know my username is attached to drama, but I implore all of you to please at least like this post if you stand against this bullying. Enough is enough.
May I offer you some fun birb Skeksis in these dark times?
I LOVE when they do birb things in the show!
So hereās some SkekMal shitpost! I have this powerful cosplay and this is what I do with it xD
Give me characters who are ambitious and calculating but not snarky. Characters who know when to bite their tongue, but wait patiently for their moment to strike. They donāt always fire back with the perfect insult, but theyāre watching, and theyāre analyzing, and theyāre planning.
Give me characters who come across as cold, but have good intentions. They may not have a secret soft sideā¢, but they donāt need one. Their heart is in the right place, and they donāt have to be amazing at displaying their emotions to prove it. They may be logical, they may be introverted, they may make social missteps, but the people who know them know that theyāre kind.
I feel like there are traits we could add to the ācold and calculatingā trope that arenāt usually added, and I want to see more of it.
so my dad is a college professor and he just got alerted recently that in an effort to goĀ āpaperless,ā the faculty is having their printers taken away. My dad decided to take this opportunity andā¦ create a meme? So he goes proudly up to me and tells meĀ āI created a meme!!!ā and lo and beholdā¦
my dadās first meme
he was so proud of it and he emailed it individually to other faculty and nobody gave him any acknowledgement, he came into my room all sad. pls share to give my father the meme support he deserves
My doggo, Ezri, who rarely barks and mostly borks.
When I got her, sheād been abused and would cower and pee at almost everything, and had been mistreated when sheād barked, so she never would. One day months after I had her she got excited on a walk and borked at a bird, and then immediately cower-peed. I had to re-teach her to bark by gathering her whole human pack and having everyone bark and howl and feed her treats and pet her till she got excited enough to join in, and then got more treats. Took a while but I was able to teach her to bork on command (and sheās gotta be excited or she just stares at me like āSorry, the bork system needs chargingā) and sheāll do it happily when sheās excited to go for a walk or upon seeing a friend, and at birds. I love her croaky borking, especially when she started off terrified of making a joyful noise.
Iā¦ did not expect this post to blow up this much but I am delighted at all the tags and replies and Ezri has been told the internet thinks sheās a Very Good Dog. :D
Sheās a German spitz - in the same family as keeshonds and pomeranians. She might be crossed with something else as her freckled coat, non-pointy nose, and personality are not standard for her breed (theyāre usually a lot more high energy and excitable - sheās super laid back and chill). Sheās a bit less fluffy than breed-standard too, mostly because sheās grown out from her spring/summer trim (not usually necessary/good for her type of coat but she gets terribly itchy otherwise). It also makes her look like a puppy of a large breed:
Ezriās best friend is Murder Cat, who is a gentle friend to humans and Ezri, but does things to mice that would make Hannibal Lecter goĀ āIsnāt that a bit much?ā
I got Murder Cat as a kitten, and she used to try to nurse on everything when she was small. Eventually, she settled on her favouriteĀ thing to nurse on, Ezri, who has never had puppies and a little confused at first but eventually went with it. She grew out of it, but they have stayed snuggly buddies ever since.
New Years here is full of fireworks outside and Ezri gets Vry Scared. I usually set her up somewhere with a snuggly spot right by me, and Murder Cat comes and does this all night:Ā
She goes everywhere with me in my bakfietsĀ (cargo bike) and lets me warm my hands in her fur on cold days.
And her ears disappear if I say her name to get her attention.
ok so great thanks for coming to my TED talk about my dog, good night, drive safe
Visual exhaustion is another symptom of ADHD, which means that if we see something enough times (or we see enough instances of something), it fades into background noise and we fail to notice it.
This is why a lot of ADHD people can stand living surrounded by mess/clutter, because itās just visual background noise to us. We donāt even notice it anymore.
So if we write something down and see the note stuck up somewhere a lot ā or if we write a LOT of somethings down and have a lot of notes hanging around ā then weāre even less likely to think of/remember the thing because itās just part of the scenery now.
ADHD is the Catch-22 of brains.
A very good thing to know about ADHD. Donāt fall into the trap.
A lot of folks in the comments are talking about writing on themselves or setting phone/calendar reminders. Your mileage may vary on those. You may also want to consider ways to set a habit of referring back to a planner or similar every day/hour.
To get those brain juices flowing, check out this Buzzfeed article on different ways folks with ADHD stay on top of things.
Readers, let us know if you have specific advice for this situation!
