[pansytheleia]

please vote for new European bank notes

if there is two things you should remember me by it's both loving birds and being very pro Europe.

Anyway we'll apparently get new bank notes with either historic figures or nature and I'm not telling you to vote for birds buuuuuuut -

[pansytheleia]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share/

[official-kultur]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share

[youarestrongerzine]

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[edelkirschehandmade]

Two Fanbindings of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (one in english, one in german) as a coupled twin-binding for me and my bestie who went to see the movie with me immediately when I expressed my wish for it! (Which is why the location mark is blacked out, thats the cinema we went to!)

While browing I saw these two papers and knew i needed to use them for endpapers. This also sparked my wish to bind this book at all. It took me around two months from conception to finished product.

The bookcloth is Wooqu's starry black bookcloth and it is positively SPARKLY in real life - pictures dont really do it justice. My first time using the Silhouette cutter too, and thus also my first time using HTV. A game changer, honestly. I really enjoy how it looks.

[inkskinned]

was it so bad to say - you just want things easier. your mother would laugh at that, would say you'd always been a little lazy, look at your grades and your smattering of second-places awards. your "wasted potential." you aren't supposed to admit you're weary, that it's hard.

the exhaustion, though. every morning and every day, like a weight. a hand that dampens sound. every joy quietly extinguished. under that weight, you wriggle.

if you had the ability to stop time, your first thought has always been i'd sleep until i wasn't tired anymore. just that. just sleep. you are so fucking tired of constantly-pushing. you can carry it, sure. but fuck. just for a second, if everything could slow down. if all that kindness and justice and trying that you pour out into the universe - if it would finally fucking find its way back to you. if it could - just for a second - finally be easy.

but it won't be. and today you wake up. and today, like the day before it - is abjectly tiring.

[transformativeworks]

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[therobotwig]

One year ago today I posted this miniature Star Wars Andor inspired photo I created. Shot practically using real figures, lighting & a couple of broom heads to create a crop field and a few perspective cheats.

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[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[theramblingvoid]

Hit "view post" and lost it

[glowcowboy]

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[ms-demeanor]

Here's the report as a PDF.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[skippyisntfunny]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Pulitzer Prize type shit

[wizardshark]

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

[spooky-narwhal]

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

[loveridden1999]

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

[loveridden1999]

Tens of thousands of Cockroach party protesters defy police with Delhi march

Youth-led movement calls on education minister to quit in one of India’s largest anti-government rallies in years

Police attack Cockroach activists as thousands march on Indian parliament

More than 10,000 protesters braved tear gas and baton charges in their largest challenge yet to PM Modi's government.

[banji-effect]

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

[theyoungwaldschrat]

This is a incredibly rare find. A ball of yarn made from stinging nettle fibers in the Late Neolithic (5900 years old) in what’s now Marin-Epagnier in Switzerland. The thread has been preserved by being carbonized. Look at how much thread that is! And how fine and even it is spun! The skill going into this is absolutely incredible. Imagine the incredible textile work that must’ve been made with that. For a reference here’s a ball of nettle yarn I managed to make with a drop spindle. That took me 300 hours of work.

[haejooarts]

Book your weddings with B&W!

some behind the scenes under the cut :D

[shi1498912]

Beschluss des Koalitionsausschusses: SPD und Union planen Abschaffung des IFG

Es ist der schwerste Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik: Der Koalitionsauschuss von SPD, CDU und CSU ha

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Das sind die SPD-Abgeordneten im Innenausschuss:

Textvorschlag von FragdenStaat für die Mail unter dem Cut...

"Sehr geehrte*r [Name des MdB einfügen],

mit großer Sorge höre ich von den Plänen des Koalitionsausschusses, das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz de facto abzuschaffen. Aktuell ermöglicht das IFG allen Menschen, Einblick in staatliche Dokumente zu bekommen und damit das Handeln von Behörden und der Regierung zu kontrollieren.

Im Koalitionsvertrag haben Sie gemeinsam mit der Union vereinbart, das IFG im Sinne der Bürger*innen zu reformieren. Der jetzige Beschluss des Koalitionsausschusses ist das genaue Gegenteil: SPD und Union planen einen massiven Bruch des Koalitionsvertrags – und den größten Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Die vorgeschlagenen Änderungen würden der Informationsfreiheit in Deutschland de facto ein Ende setzen. 

Anfragen wären nur noch nach Nachweis eines „berechtigten Interesses“ und nur für Privatpersonen möglich – und damit fast nie. Außerdem könnten Anfragen künftig zehntausende Euro kosten. Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen oder Pressevertreter dürften offenbar keine Anfragen mehr stellen, ebenso wenig Menschen ohne deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft oder Unionsbürgerschaft. Behörden könnten Anträge über weitere Bereichsausnahmen noch leichter ablehnen, Namen von allen Behördenmitarbeiter*innen – auch in leitenden Funktionen – sollen konsequent geschwärzt werden. 

Mithilfe des IFG konnten in den vergangenen zwanzig Jahren zahlreiche Skandale und Missstände aufgedeckt werden. Es ist das wichtigste Transparenz-Werkzeug für Bürger*innen und gewährleistet die öffentliche Kontrolle von Politik, Behörden und Verwaltung. In Zeiten, in denen das Vertrauen in Politik und Staat ohnehin schon sinkt, eben jenes Gesetz auszuhöhlen, sendet ein katastrophales Signal an die Bevölkerung und würde zu einem weiteren Vertrauensverlust führen.

Nun ist es an Ihnen, diese Pläne zu stoppen. Als Mitglieder des Innenausschusses müssen Sie das IFG unser aller Recht auf Informationsfreiheit gegen diesen Frontalangriff verteidigen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

[Name Absender*in ]"

[shiniestcrow]

SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokum

Link zur Petition an die SPD

[lacefuneral]

the word empathy is WIDELY misused, even in mental health spaces. 

empathy:

is responding to a person’s emotions by experiencing the same emotion as them (i.e. feeling sad when something sad happens to that person, or happy when something happy happens to that person.)

is an automatic response that cannot be controlled

cannot be learned

sympathy:

is recognizing that another person is in pain, even if you do not experience that pain, and offering comfort to that person

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

compassion:

is showcasing care and support via words and actions

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

if you need an example of a person with no empathy who practices sympathy and compassion, look no further than data from star trek: the next generation. he doesn’t have emotions at all, but he’s still kind to people and wants to help them.

stop telling people that they’re evil because they don’t experience empathy. stop equating empathy with morality. stop equating empathy with caring. stop saying that cruel people “lack empathy.” stop throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus.