#24 february

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Students using an automobile driving simulator in a classroom at the Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades, February 24, 1953. The "Aetna Drivometer" used real-time traffic films projected onto a large screen to simulate driving scenarios. Students sat in mock-car stations, equipped with controls, to practice driving techniques.

Photo: UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

[oediex]

For the sake of the animals, more people need to see the truth of what we do to them, something which most will refuse to do.

The truth is you cannot really blame them for it.

It is not just the harsh and naked misery of it. The throats slit and the heads kicked. The tails docked and the beaks trimmed. The lambs and the calves and the baby chicks. Misused, broken, severed from safety, crushed and suffocated. The crowdedness, the faeces, the injuries, the cages. The blood, the screams, the panic. The unrelenting suffering.

It is that, of course. It brings me to tears on a regular basis. It will surge up into my chest, envelop my heart. For a few seconds, minutes sometimes, all the suffering of all the animals in all the world will press on me. It is unbearable.

And yet you have to bear it.

But it's not just that. It is also the knowledge of your own complicity. I was not born vegan. I was not raised vegan. I was an omnivore for, currently still, most of my life, and vegetarian for a few years after that. I was a part of it. I looked away, because I knew what I would find. Not precisely, but I knew. For several years before I went vegan I knew that I ought to. That it was the logical consequence of my commitment to vegetarianism. That I did not cut the suffering out of my life. That I wasn't even trying.

This knowledge you have to live with. It does not leave you as the years pass by, as the beauty of the lives of animals enriches you, as the horrid reality of their besmirched existence stays with you. It sticks to your skin while you move through the world with the promise of no more.

So can we really blame them if they do not wish to face this?

But do we not owe it to the animals that they do? That we open our fellow humans' eyes and hearts. That we show them what is hidden behind closed doors of animal farms and slaughterhouses. That they listen to the cries and moans that testify to what they so desperately do not wish to hear.

The truth is we must amplify these animals' voices even if they hurt the people we love. Even if we must pull them, these people who are good and kind, into the abyss that we stare into - not unflinchingly, never unflinchingly.

Until the abyss stops staring back.

[mdoesitmatter]

You love books? Good thing you aren’t Ukrainian.

A try not post anything on the topic of w@r on this account but this situation ruined on another level. My hands are shaking as I write this.

Today, on 23th of May ru$$ians made a massive missile attack on Kharkiv and one of those missiles destroyed one of the biggest Printing Enterprises in Ukraine. 7 people was found dead (for this moment), more 40 was seriously injured and thousands of books completely destroyed. My favourite publisher manufactured their books there as well as 17 others. Years of work are gone in a blink of an eye. And it was just 1 out of 15 missiles.

Many books on my shelves was made there. But because we are neighbours with terr0ristic state my passion to literature costed people their lives.

Because that is what Ru$$ians do. They destroy every single aspect of our lives. They k!ll our people. They bring destruction and de@th. They don’t want to win to win the w@r, they want to erase Ukraine from the face of this Earth.

I understand that my home country isn’t the only one to struggle right now, but I am not going to apologies for wanting to help my people. War is still going. They b0mb us every day. People d!e every day. Every day I call my loved ones, fully aware that they might not pick up and that last time I talked with them was the last. I fear that I will never return home.

If Russia stop fighting — there is gonna be no war.

If Ukraine stop fighting — there is gonna be no Ukraine.

Save Ukraine.

Save Ukrainian people.

Arm Ukraine.

Слава Україні!

Допомога цивільним на деокупованих та прифронтових територіях.

Допомога Силам Оборони. Підтримайте армію України зробивши донат зручним для вас методом.

[moldonacorpse]

Tomorrow it's three years

[wiiildflowerrr]

@Ashton5SOS: The only recorded photo of me doing karaoke lastnight, I've never sang with so much passion 😂

24 February 2017

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 24 February:

1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the new Gregorian calendar, replacing the Julian calendar. 1692 – The Treaty of Limerick is ratified by William of Orange. 1721 – Birth of physician and politician, John McKinly, in Ireland (Ulster). He emigrated to Wilmington, Delaware in 1742 and was a veteran of the French and Indian War. McKinly served in the Delaware General Assembly, was the first elected…

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[dateinthelife]

24 February 1968

The first ad for Apple appears in NME. All the photos were chosen by Paul, and more can be seen here.

[ourladyofomega]

Celebrate Industrial / EBM Day today.