#white paper

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Your Darkwood bosses are very fluffy and adorable.

I love 'em. I love 'em so much!!

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Have the gang in extra fluffy mode!

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June 28, 1943 — As Nazis had been murdering Jews on an industrial scale for two years & operating gas chambers for over a year — with millions already dead — Britain’s Home Secretary Herbert Morrison blocked the remaining life-saving immigration certificates to Mandate Palestine. 

His claimed reason? The Allies must not “negotiate with the Nazis.” Ok — let’s consider the context.

By then, the Final Solution was in full operation. Yet Britain had slammed the gates shut years earlier. The 1939 White Paper gutted the legally-binding Mandate for Palestine, capping Jewish immigration to a tiny quota and requiring Arab consent for anything more (which was never coming).

And the British enforced the White Paper viciously and sometimes violently.

The Royal Navy actively intercepted refugee ships, fired on some, arrested survivors, and interned them in Cyprus or Mauritius — or turned them back toward certain death in Nazi-occupied Europe.

The Struma tragedy was the direct result: nearly 800 Jews fleeing Romania were refused entry, towed out to sea, and sunk in the Mediterranean — with only one survivor (see image).

Britain was a supposed ally fighting Hitler. And in doing so, they most certainly were an ally of all humanity. 

Also true: as of the 1939 White Paper, Britain became an active obstacle to Jewish survival — prioritizing Arab relations and oil interests as another appeasement of aggression after Munich. 

Jews were trapped between the Nazi murder machine and a British blockade on the one place ready and legally obligated to take them in.

When Jews had no state of their own, even their supposed allies treated their survival as a diplomatic inconvenience to be managed.

@CptAllenHistory

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bursts in progress..2026

a freshly brewed tuesday*

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Car doodles

Had to fix my heket drawing cause I forgot her teeth

I’m in the car and all my stuff was really shaky it was miserable

Some of these are from school, but I added them here anyway… I’m using my white paper sketchbook instead of my toned paper, how special

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Continuation painting-luas scene-day 1

I have continued the image on like a photograph accordion book. I will continue to work on this with the colours yellow and red and then mix them and combine. The result in the end also adding white and then mixing green looking to add colours which I like to use a lot. This process was done in an hour or so before lunch, it was interesting to see how the process would look on to both sides in different but interesting combinations, of both photo and imagination. I’m looking forward to the outcome of the experiment with colour and defining a style within my work as I process further.

Also looking into compositions and colours in sketchbook for tomorrow this would be interesting to see the outcome of this and how they will compare with each other.

This unfortunately didn’t happen as I was unwell but if I had the time I would have definitely added my own style, I like using the colour I seen in the images so mainly blue, green, yellow, and white they are the main colours I would use as well as charcoal. I felt even though it was not finished doesn’t mean it’s not a great piece already.

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am i the only one who despises pitch white paper in the basking sunlight cuz its the most possible blinding thing to ever exist. more than the sun. more than the worlds brightest torch. more than bleach.

prove me wrong not cuz nothing cant

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Crossed Wires is now live on OSF — an open-access white paper exploring the overlooked impact of hemispheric lateralisation in cochlear implantation for APD and early-onset deafness. 📄 https://osf.io/pwqr7/

Abstract Cochlear implantation is often approached as a peripheral correction of hearing loss, with ear selection guided primarily by audiological severity, device history, or anatomical constraints. Yet for individuals with prelingual deafness and auditory processing disorder (APD)—particularly those who developed language through visual-dominant modalities such as lipreading and captioning—this approach may overlook a crucial factor: brain lateralisation.

The auditory system is inherently asymmetrical, with each ear routing input to the opposite cerebral hemisphere. Given that the left hemisphere is typically dominant for language decoding, implanting the left ear (feeding into the right hemisphere) may, in some cases, introduce an artificial signal into a neural system ill-suited to interpret it.

This paper proposes that ear choice in cochlear implantation should consider cerebral dominance and sensory compensation history, particularly in older CI recipients with entrenched APD and visual adaptation. Drawing on findings from research on hemispheric language dominance, cortical reorganisation, unilateral vs bilateral stimulation, and cross-modal plasticity, it identifies a critical gap: current CI evaluation protocols rarely account for how early sensory deprivation and neural re-routing shape long-term comprehension.

Evidence suggests CI outcomes can vary based on implantation side (Chilosi et al., 2014) and that unilateral implants may lead to asymmetric cortical dominance with lasting consequences (Gordon et al., 2013).

This paper doesn’t prescribe a universal protocol, but calls for a more personalised, neurocognitive framework—one that recognises that more input does not always mean more understanding, especially when the signal enters the wrong side of a rewired brain.