i must not get mad online. getting mad online is the mind-killer. getting mad online is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face my urge to get mad online. i will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past, i will turn the inner eye to see its path. where the getting mad online has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain
some people seem to think aotearoa new zealand is just fields and hills and grass. maybe some mountains. maybe a fjord or two. which is so fascinating to me because we have so many different biomes and landscapes it's bonkers.
we have massive volcanic fields. we have native palm trees and mangroves up north. we have huge swaths of geothermal areas that have geysers and bubbling hot mud and multicoloured pools. we have dense temperate rainforests. we have fern trees that grow ridiculously tall. we have huge tussock grasslands. we have a freezing cold desert. we have huge black sand beaches. we have sand dunes that stretch for kilometres. I love you aotearoa. this isn't even all of it these are just a few examples man
it's ridiculously beautiful and varied over here and yet when you say "new zealand", a lot of people imagine grass fields and sheep. which to be fair. we do also have. BUT STILL
#I have a suspicion that a lot of people think aotearoa is a lot smaller than it actually is #I think there's a tendency especially for europeans and east-coast americans to think of it as 'a small island off of australia' #which like #it's small compared to australia #but most countries are small compared to australia #aotearoa has a greater area than the entire united kingdom #it also spans about 15° of latitude #which is 50% more than england #and also more than any US state except Alaska
"off of australia" is also a bit misleading; the distance looks small on a map, but that's because your brain is comparing it to the entire pacific ocean on the other side.
sydney (eastern coast of australia) to auckland (nz north island) is a three hour plane flight.
EXACTLY!!!!! we stretch from florida to new york if you put aotearoa on a map of the US. it's like saying "japan is a small island off the coast of china" to me
would anybody else like to tell me how big the united states is. does anybody else want to let me know that the united states of america is big actually and takes a long time to drive around. <- being silly <- has heard it over a dozen times on this post alone and is a little tired because it's really truly not the point of the post
girls I did cry a little during the dan and phil coming out video. I am so autistic I literally never conceptualised that they were together as a teen because I just wasn't involved in fandom in like 2014 other than for late 70s-early 80s british sci fi show Blake's 7. So, like, this has no meaning to me other than it makes me so happy to see a queer couple living their truth, and happily setting their own boundaries, and just being themselves. It feels like all the examples of queer couples online are all in some way having to sell their love, and I 100% relate to not wanting to do that. I was that crazy bitch who never put any wedding photos on Facebook, because I was like fuck it, we did it our way and we didn't do it for them.
But yeah. It's not like it was a surprise, two openly queer people living together for years, but I hope that whatever comes next for them, Dan and Phil have peace in their lives like never before. I hope they sleep like babies, I hope the media/fandom reaction is everything they could have wanted, and I hope this heralds a new age of couples being able to just Be online, without having to perform their Love.
Uh-oh, coming down with a case of “what-if-a-bunch-of-other-people-experience-these-symptoms-as-bad-as-I-do-but-they-suck-it-up-and-work-anyway-and-I’m-just-being-a-little-bitch”-itis
I love how Taylor Swift has made a complete enemy out of me via 1 song. Like girl I previously had a neutral to positive opinion of her, but then she decided she had to release the opposite of the girl so confusing remix
Sometimes people do things that just perfectly showcase all their character faults in one fell swoop, and it just makes you completely re-evaluate them
#its fucked up bc they’re just doubling the number of spell slots you need for summoning ketamine apes. which obv is no problem for wealthy#wizards who can just buy more spell slots. discrimination#deepening wizard inequality
"Not being protected is traumatizing. Sexual abuse is traumatizing on its own. But if you were sexually abused but then protected as soon as another adult became aware, you will recover from the trauma far quicker. It is the relational wound of being unloved and unprotected that is so profoundly damaging. Not being protected is degrading. It is humiliating. It turns you into a person with no boundaries and no self-esteem. It turns you into a person with no impulse toward self-protection and you will be abused over and over again. I was. Being sexually abused strips you of your dignity, and not being protected announces that you have no dignity to protect. Not being protected communicates to you that you don’t matter and you aren’t loved."
No but seriously. Normalize finding love in your 40's. Normalize discovering and chasing new dreams in your 30's. Normalize finding yourself and your purpose in your 50's. Life doesn't end at 25. Let's stop acting like it does.
Al Jazeera does have a better article about it, full text is under the cut
Nepal’s PM resigned on Tuesday as protesters set buildings on fire. But calls for broader change are growing.
‘Topple this government’: Nepal’s Gen Z protesters demand mass resignations
Kathmandu, Nepal – Pabit Tandukar was shouting slogans against Nepal’s government outside the country’s parliament building in the capital Kathmandu when he felt sharp pain cutting through his leg.
The 22-year-old university student was taken to the trauma centre of Kathamandu’s Bir Hospital on Monday, where doctors confirmed he had been hit by a live copper bullet.
“We were there for a peaceful protest. They were initially firing tear gas at us and we were pushing back. Suddenly, I was shot,” Tandukar told Al Jazeera.
At least 19 protesters were killed, and hundreds – like Tandukar – were injured after security forces fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas shells at youth agitators on Monday, after what began as a peaceful protest descended into violent clashes with law enforcement officers.
The killings have pushed Nepal into a political crisis. Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigned from the position on Monday evening, claiming moral responsibility, and on Tuesday, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned.
But the thousands of young people who hit the streets of Kathmandu and other cities in Nepal on Monday, as part of what the organisers have called a Gen-Z movement, are demanding more – a dissolution of parliament and new elections.
The protests have erupted amid growing criticism of alleged corruption, and anger over perceptions that the families of the country’s ruling elite – including leading politicians – live lives of relative luxury while Nepalis struggle with a per capita income of less than $1,400 a year.
Then, the government last week banned 26 social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube and X, after they missed a September 3 deadline to register with the country’s authorities under a controversial new law. That ban further raised anger against the government among young, digitally native Nepalis, though the government said it was trying to stop the use of fake online identities to spread rumours, commit cybercrimes, and disturb social harmony.
By Tuesday, though, that simmering anger and the protests it led to had exploded into even more violence, with the killings of civilians by security forces becoming the lightning rod galvanising youth, who returned to the streets for a second day in a row.
“The government should not have fired bullets at students,” Tandukar said.
‘This one is for KP Oli’
Joining the protest near parliament on Monday, Megraj Giri* aimed a stone at a CCTV placed on the northern wall of the legislature building in New Baneshwor, in the heart of Kathmandu.
The government had imposed a curfew – which was extended on Tuesday – but Giri was defiant. “This one is for KP Oli,” he shouted, referring to the prime minister, as his missile shattered the camera.
That’s not how the organisers of the protest had imagined things would turn out.
“We planned a peaceful protest with cultural events and fun,” said Anil Baniya of Hami Nepal [translated as We Nepal], one of the organisers, speaking to Al Jazeera.
“During the first few hours, it went as planned, until some external forces and political party cadres joined in the protest and agitated the armed forces and pelted stones.”
Organisers have not named specific parties or external agents whom they blame for instigating the violence. But it was when some protesters began to climb the walls of the parliament complex to enter that security forces fired back, Baniya said.
Some of the protesters who were hit were schoolchildren still in their uniforms – it is unclear whether they were among any of the 19 who were killed.
The Kathmandu District Administration Office imposed curfew in that part of the city, and Nepal deployed its army. Armed forces also entered the Civil Service Hospital near Parliament to capture protesters, and shot tear gas, causing chaos in the facility. Toshima Karki, a doctor turned member of parliament, was at the hospital helping the injured when she witnessed the attack.
“No matter what, the government should not have used bullets. They murdered young people,” added Baniya.
Until late on Monday night, videos also emerged showing armed police officers carrying out search operations in houses near the protest area.
Among those killed was Sulov Raj Shrestha, who was studying civil engineering in Kathmandu.
“He was always smiling and had a friendly behaviour,” Sudhoj Jung Kunwar, a friend of Shrestha, recalled, speaking to Al Jazeera. “I just found out; he had his GRE exams today.”
Kathmandu Engineering College, where Shrestha studied, posted on Facebook: “We mourn, we protest, we condemn…… Sulov…..your nation has failed you…”
Political analyst Krishna Khanal blames “sheer negligence” on the part of the government for the killings.
“The young people should have been handled well; even if they crossed the parliament building, there were other ways to control them,” Khanal told Al Jazeera.
The UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Amnesty International have both condemned the killings and called for transparent investigations into the events of Monday.
Speaking to the press late Monday night, Prithvi Subba Gurung, Nepal’s communications and information technology minister, announced the social media ban was being lifted.
But while the ban might be over, it is the killings on Monday that have now emerged as the principal issue inflaming passions on Nepal’s streets.
‘We demand mass resignation’
While the social media ban drew global attention, many protesters said their grievances run much deeper.
“We need to kick these old leaders out of power. We are tired of the same old faces,” said 27-year-old Yugant Ghimire, an artificial intelligence engineer who took part in Monday’s protest.
“The government is on a power trip, there is rampant corruption, no one is accountable,” Ghimire told Al Jazeera.
The movement has found support from sections of the political class, including Balen Shah, the mayor of Kathmandu, who is also a popular rapper.
Posting on social media on Sunday, Shah wrote, “Tomorrow, in this spontaneous rally, no party, leader, worker, lawmaker, or activist will use it for their own interest. I will not attend due to the age limit, but it is important to understand their message. I give my full support.”
Meanwhile, before Monday’s protest, Oli was largely dismissive of the movement. “Just by saying Gen Z, one is free to do anything, just by saying you don’t like it,” Oli said to an audience of his party cadres on Sunday.
That approach appears to have backfired on the government. On Tuesday, as the government imposed an indefinite curfew in Kathmandu, protesters defied those restrictions to set the homes of several politicians on fire.
Organisers of the protests have now released a set of “non-negotiable demands” which include the dissolution of the parliament, mass resignation of parliamentarians, immediate suspension of officials who issued the order to fire on protesters, and new elections.
Protest leader Baniya said the movement would continue “indefinitely until our demands are met”.
“We now have more of a duty to live up to the expectations of our friends who were murdered by the state,” said Baniya. “We need to topple this government, we demand mass resignation and we want them out. This is our country.”
Ok, so I am probably going to get people disagreeing with me on this, but I swear to god, if the things about the pro-trans pro-anarchist messaging on the bullets are true, AND this person turns out to be legit left wing when they are caught, I have to say, fuck them.
I feel no sympathy for Charlie Kirk. Living in a culture where political assassinations are frequent is absolutely terrible though. It's never a good sign for the future, and it creates an extremely toxic political environment.
If you are trans ally, and you want to do something for trans people, DON'T POLITICALLY ASSASSINATE SOMEONE AND THEN IMPLICATE US!!! Sure, it won't make any difference to what happens to you, but the US government is definitely going to try and strip gun rights from trans people now. Trans people are an extremely vulnerable extreme minority! We make up a tiny portion of the population! Do you think anybody will be convinced to change their minds about trans rights because you assassinated Charlie Kirk for us??? Not in a good way, certainly!!!
Here's what you do instead: in the UK, we "milkshake" or "egg" politicians. Embarrassing for them, hugely inconvenient, but nobody dies, and rarely will anyone feel sorry for the politician. You get a charge of like, common assault at most, and probably just get a slap on the wrist. Go do that.
Anyway. I am absolutely sick to death of cis people performatively saying and doing violent things in reference to "supporting trans rights" as a signal to eachother that they are super cool, and in the in-group of cool people who love trans people. Actually fuck off!!!!! Stop assassinating people, stop calling JK Rowling a Bitch online, you are actively handing them ammunition against us and we are at an extremely politically vulnerable point in time!!!
Like oh my god! Cis people! Stop saying things like "but they're already killing you we have to #fightback" or whatever!!! This is just not true! Things can get so much worse for trans people! Stop fucking accelerationist sacrificing us for the hope of some kind of mental civil war cum revolution!!!!
"Make fascists afraid again" bitch they are killing left wing people more than right wing people!!!!!! Every public figure will now be afraid you dumb fucks!!!
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