Ra-ra-rasputin

There was a cat that really was gone.

[jliolit]

[effiegogo]

We need to appreciate how patient Izzy was with Stede during their pirate lessons when he shot down a sail because I know that today I had a harder time keeping my cool when someone I was trying accidentally deleted a shared folder

[unregardless]

being rich would be so much fun, like aside from the obvious stuff, can you imagine going to a restaurant and being able to give your waiter/waitress a $500 tip for like a $40 meal? you could make peoples months without even trying

[emiko-matsui]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😝 this strain is called "dragon spice" 😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw my dad in a gemstone playing the drums

my buddy riz pacing: goldenhoard is lying to us

[dirtytransmasc]

the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

[fairuzfan]

There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.

[fairuzfan]

I'm not saying this just for morale. I'm saying this as a reminder that the colonialist regime relies on your despair, uses it to further their propaganda. Once you lose hope, and tell everyone you lose hope, you are aiding the Zionist Entity.

Make it a point that you BELIEVE that Palestine will be free even in the face of genocide. Hope can halt genocide. Do not aid our oppressors.

[queerandpagan]

There's something so. Fucked.

About having to work when you know everything going on in Gaza.

When you're wondering about what is happening in The Congo.

I hate that through every horrific life event, I've been working my dumb little job.

Like sorry if I'm slow y'all, the world is fucking dark and your hard drive doesn't matter to me in the slightest.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Palestinians are not "animals."

They are not "children of darkness."

Little kids are rescuing cats and trying to comfort them when they themselves are terrified.

A doctor broke down when his father and brother came into the trauma unit.

And several of his colleagues hugged and gathered to comfort him.

Journalists are playing with babies.

Doctors are refusing to evacuate hospitals because their patients can't and refuse to leave them.

There's a little boy who gives tea to the journalists and thanks them for spreading their stories.

He's displaced at the hospital, his home is gone.

A kid was asked what he wants to be when he grows up and he said kids in Gaza don't grow up.

Kids are writing their names on their arms so they can be identified.

Momin Kireka is a Palestinian journalist who was disabled by an Israeli attack in 2008.

And despite the difficulty in moving around, he vows to continue to show the world the truth.

Awni, a young Palestinian boy has a gaming YouTube channel he loved so much.

He was killed in the bombing.

Mohammed Sami was an artist who's dream was to open an art gallery.

He was playing with the kids to raise their spirits. And the next day he was killed.

They are victims.

They are going through unimaginable horrors and still find it in their hearts to be kind.

They have hopes and dreams just like you and I.

They are people.

And they deserve to be remembered as such.

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[thepastisaroadmap]

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

[headspace-hotel]

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

[rackiera]

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

[catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241]

yeah man this strain is called ‘final girl’ it’ll have you backing away precariously wielding a kitchen knife and shaking uncontrollably

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[boyrot]

boy it's me the textiles speaking to you inside your head. you need the yarn. you need thread. your soul hungers to participate in the act of creation. you must feed it. you must buy so many beads.

[mothergeekness]

[sighinastorm]

Anastasia wasn’t a Disney movie.  Saying it is now, simply because Disney bought Fox, is creatively anachronistic.   Don Bluth didn’t fight in the animation trenches and escape the clutches of The Mouse to have his work artistically misattributed.  I’m not dying on this hill.  I’m defending this hill.  I’m killing on this hill.

[tvandfilm]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

[pleasebeehive]

Whatever you do don't think about the fact that Izzy fought his way through a storm to protect his crew from the Kraken.

Izzy 'the spewer' Hands - who canonically doesn't do well in storms - fought his way up from the depths of the ship after an amputation and a bullet to the side of the head to save his crew from the man who just left him with a loaded gun to kill himself.

im not thinking about it i swear

[captain-flint]

You make Stede happy. / I'll never leave you. I'll never leave again.

[tamamita]

Nah, because God pretty much commands Muslims to break various Islamic rules for the sake of survival, lest it be to harm someone who is innocent. To avoid consuming pork despite your life hanging on it, is haraam.

There is also Taqiyya, which is a tactic Shi'a Muslims have used throughout centuries to survive. The idea behind Taqiyya is for Shi'as to hide their religion with the purpose of protecting their own lives against any form of oppression or life-threatening circumstances. Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula practiced this form of dissimulation during the reconquista.

There is no penance for doing any of these things, since the situation is understandable.

[adorablegorilla]

There's a similar concept in Judaism! I don't remember the name of it (I did not retain much from Hebrew school) but it's the same idea of "preserving life takes precedence over adherence to scripture"

[tamamita]

[tamamita]

Calling 2000 years of persecution against the Jewish people a "trend" is kind of a weird thing to say, also the Reconquista, follow by the Spanish inquisition was led by the Catholic Church, not a bunch of USAmerican cultists.

[cryptotheism]

"Did Spanish Catholics in 1492 do something problematic?"

[bizarrelittlemew]

1️⃣4️⃣ days until season 2 of Our Flag Means Death 🏴‍☠️