Immensa

A worldly platpus

[thedoctorwolf]

Whenever I'm sad. I watch this.

[dogposts]

Floating through the stairs (via)

[viralfrog]

[unbreakablemouserat]

LEVERAGE (2008-2012) 3.15 - "The Big Bang Job"

[adhd-alien]

Remember when I came up with "buttons" to explain executive dysfunction just because I had an argument with my partner about getting things done?

I made an entirely new series for ADHD Awareness Month explaining motivation & ADHD. Coming next week 👀✨

[goth-queen]

Mood

[memeuplift]

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

[femnby-lesbiab]

[grendel-menz]

I don’t even know how to express both the relief and shame in seeing a ceasefire occur now, after all this death and suffering. It didn’t have to be this way. The genocide in Gaza has been practically live streamed for two years and still the world turned its back on the people there. This ceasefire is only the beginning of what will surely be a long fight for a free Palestine and the return of its people. We all need to have hope and, most importantly, do more.

[takereveng3]

Reporter: Why do you think so many countries’ governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?

Greta Thunberg: Because of racism, that’s the simple answer, I would say. Racism, and basically desperately trying to defend a deadly, destructive system that systematically maximizes short term economic profit and geopolitical power over the well being of humans and the planet. Right now, it is morally difficult to defend that – it is impossible— but they’re desperately trying which is …. absurd is not the word, but there are no words to describe it.

- Greta Thunberg in Paris, after returning from Israel’s illegal abduction of her aboard the Madleen (10 Jun 25)

[hiamigoman]

[icarus-suraki]

Happy Easter.

[huariqueje]

Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine - Samar Abu Elouf , 2024.

The New York Times is one of the three winners in the Singles category for the region West, Central, and South Asia of the 2025 World Press Photo Contest.

Mahmoud Ajjour (9), who was injured during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024, finds refuge and medical help in Qatar. Doha, Qatar, on 28 June 2024.

As his family fled an Israeli assault, Mahmoud turned back to urge others onward. An explosion severed one of his arms and mutilated the other. The family were evacuated to Qatar, where, after medical treatment, Mahmoud is learning to play games on his phone, write, and open doors with his feet. Mahmoud’s dream is simple: he wants to get prosthetics and live his life as any other child.

[reduxpictures]

ReduxStock: Photo by Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times/Redux of children in Gaza reacting to Israeli airstrikes in Switzerland's L'Illustré magazine - December 1, 2024 (via our French partner REA).

[st4rry-eyed-punk]

agreed

[isfree2fly]

Muslim brothers and sisters

So I found this app called Scan Halal where you scan the bar code of your food and it tells you if its halal or not. It’s a free app too. Pass this on so others can see and worry a little less about their food/snack choices

[thislittlething]

Yessss, it is very handy especially in non-muslim countries

[hisnamewasbeanni]

If you reblog this for no other reason, do it because it’ll piss off Pauline Hanson. And pissing off Pauline Hanson is reason enough to do anything.

[totalsillyfilly]

Pissing off Pauline Hanson is my favourite pass time

[sockknitterporg]

If you reblog this for no other reason, reblog it to make a Muslim feel safer, more accepted, and/or more informed about food.

Other people and their needs are not your game pieces to use to offend others or make yourself feel better.

[inkyshark]

This is actually a cool app! I had a customer come into my candy store and we discovered that certain flavors of the same brand of candy sticks were okay to eat! It was really handy for them to be able to scan it rather than rely on the ingredient list, which could be flawed sometimes! 

[basinke]

Ooooh this is neat!

[elfwreck]

Nice!

For those wondering “why don’t you just read the ingredients”: Even if you trust the ingredient list, you don’t know which “natural flavors” were used, and you may not know where the various chemicals came from. And a lot of people have a hard time reading tiny print, and don’t want to stand in the aisle for five minutes trying to work their way through 95 words of 4-point type.

So glad this exists! We need more ways for people to find the info that’s important to them!

[prismatic-bell]

Is there no halal symbol the way there are kosher symbols? Like literally I can just look for a symbol and know if food is safe for me.

If not….perhaps contact some imams and talk about creating a regulatory board that could arrange one? I’m sure there are rabbis out there who’d be happy to help. (My former rabbi is retired now, but he’s one such rabbi. I know there are more.)

[eye-lantern]

In France a lot of brands use the Hallal certificate (a lot of meat have it in big font on the front size when other items put it in the back next to safety regulation and other basic things) but the Kosher one is rarely ever used outside of Jewish neighbourhoods’ epiceries

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

I’ve noticed when checking for hechshers that some items (I feel like usually see it on cheese tbh?) have a similar, er, halal hechsher(? there has to be another name for this I just don’t know it) but it’s not ubiquitous like kashrut hechshers are, at least not in the part of the US where I live.

Anecdotally, I attended a break-the-fast event at the local mosque some years back and the people I talked to explained that if something is kosher it is also halal, and we were trying to figure out if the reverse was true. I didn’t know much about either system at the time, so have no idea how true that is or isn’t. If that is true, then it would be lovely to collaborate between our communities.

[18kgold]

There’s tons of overlap – the principles are the same – but there are several divergences. Essentially, *discrete ingredients* overlap at least 90%, but prepared food is a very different matter.

In college, I was in a Kosher-Halal dining co-op. We kept to the strictest possible kosher standards; the members who followed halal guidelines said that met all their requirements. Kosher is much more restrictive, most obviously because there’s no injunction against mixing meat and dairy in Islam. Also, a few animals considered halal are not kosher. Kosher isn’t always halal though: there’s sometimes an extra step in halal ritual slaughter – a prayer before *each animal* is killed, as opposed to before the slaughtering process; and there’s debate about whether foods cooked with alcohol – think vanilla extract – can be halal. (And of course there may be other things I haven’t heard about/encountered).

So, if you pick up something with a hechsher it is far more likely to be halal than something without, but it’s not a guarantee. Conversely, a cheeseburger could be halal, so it’s much less of a possibility for someone keeping kosher to rely on halal certification.

It ends up looking a lot like the practical overlap between, say, keeping kosher and ovo-lacto vegetarian; vegetarianism covers and/or negates most issues that come up with keeping kosher, but there are details (generally involving dairy, eggs, and the parve status of fish) that can be missed in either direction.

[lizzylolz]

Do you get it now? Without due process, everyone is at risk. How are you going to prove your citizenship otherwise?

[alex51324]

11 PM on 4/17/25, There is currently a US citizen being detained by order of ICE, in a county jail in Florida.

He appeared before a county judge (via Zoom); she saw, examined, and verified his birth certificate, which was brought to her by the man's mother. The judge confirmed that he is a US citizen and there is no probable cause to hold him on the charge of crossing into Florida as an undocumented immigrant*, because he is a US citizen.

However, she does not have the authority to dismiss the ICE order to detain him. So the jail, the prosecutor, the county sheriff, everyone involved, has decided to err on the side of caution by just keeping him there in jail until either ICE give them permission to let him go, or comes and gets him, or the order expires.

Because, you know, that's the prudent thing to do these days, as a county or state official. Trump has declared that certain government agencies, individuals, and groups are answerable only to him, and not to the rule of law, so if they give you an order, you obey it whether it makes any sense or not. Because getting in Trump's crosshairs is worse than, in this case, wrongfully imprisoning a fellow citizen.

The good news for this man, whose name is Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, is that the ICE order expires in 48 hours, at which time the jail will automatically be authorized to release him.

The bad news is that, as we have seen, if ICE does show up and collect him within those 48 hours, they could do literally anything to him, up to and including disappearing him to a supermax prison El Salvador--for the crime of being in Florida while Hispanic--and there will be no legal recourse or due process whatsoever.

So, that's some real dystopian shit right there. Per the CNN article, it is looking like ICE is planning to let him go and frantically shift blame to one or more of the state or county-level agencies involved in this fiasco, but it's still super-fucked up, and about all we can do about it is hope that, by making clear that we noticed--both that it happened, and that it's super fucked-up--we will generate an atmosphere in which ICE et al. feel somewhat constrained from doing it again.

(*Florida recently made it a state-level offense for undocumented immigrants to enter the state. This law is currently suspended for review by the courts, so they shouldn't be detaining anyone under suspicion of having violated this law. However, even if the law were in force, it would not apply to this man, because he is a US citizen.)

[starfieldcanvas]

He's out!!!!!!

U.S. citizen released from jail after arrest under Florida’s new anti-immigration law

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez held his mother in a tight embrace and wept following his release from the Leon County Jail Thursday evening, where

Thanks to a great deal of media attention paid to the case, they released him earlier today (April 17, 2025). He was already out when the above post was written, so I was surprised to see it written as though he was still in jail.

It's good that he's out, but he's not going to be the only one.

[tasty-tiktoks]