My first finished plushie utilizing my embroidery machine! Learning to use it and my embroidery program has been a challenge but rewarding to start seeing results
Honey, don't worry about our daughter's new habit of standing in front of the security camera in her playroom and murmuring about bones every night. That's probably just something women do
Can we just talk about how real this is tho? Like cis het white men havenāt felt enough mortal peril in their lives to truly grasp when shit is about to hit the fan. Iāve known men that canāt even imagine fearing for their safety in any serious way. Like itās an hour into blood dripping down the walls, demonic screeching coming from the closets, and your wife staring frozen at the corner, and these men are straight up like ā I think the radiator needs to be replaced itās kinda loudā ādo you think we have bees in the attic?ā āBabe I know youāre in a serious home decor flow state so Iām just gonna get some takeoutā.
Everyday Iām punished by the heavens for loving a beast. I cradle him gently to my chest while the tears stream down and land upon him. I can only hope my hoarse whispers of love and reassurance will bring him solace. May he never understand my suffering
Giving my dog silly nicknames has somehow devolved into me waking up and shouting āBeef!!ā Across the house to summon her for morning greetings. Beef is her second name now and I can only imagine that my neighbors think I am weirdly passionate about cow meat. My dog probably responds to āBeefā more than her actual name, I probably use it more than her actual name. My devastated cry when I catch her nibbling her toes too much seems to have a stronger impact tho. Perhaps it is the spirits of all the cows turned into beef that are simultaneously reprimanding her for not showing her toes the care and appreciation they deserve.
Not inspired by anything specific, but imagine the storytelling that could happen if you got two superheros who have insta-healing (let's say for random example, Deadpool or Wolverine), who are so used to the casual trauma of being brutally attacked and attacking without reservation that they lose track of what's normal on any level, and they wind up attacking someone who doesn't heal like that with that same unreserved feral energy, and once the knife is buried in their victim's stomach and their head is bashed in after two seconds of violence, they realize they went way too hard and this person is HELLA dead
Or just thinking about the mental trauma and instability that would come with your body receiving so many death blows, and the pain followed by instant recovery, so that they don't have the same barriers between life and death. After all this time they can't really remember what's an acceptable level of violence to do because they've been so thoroughly desensitized, that the idea of violence being a bad thing, or even an intense thing isn't inherent to them anymore. What kind of behaviors would follow that? Would they lash out at others or themselves at random stimulus, because those pathways have been overwritten so many times? Would they do casual self-harm when trying to think, because it feels the same to them as drumming our fingers does to us? What about the approach to hurting other people, do they care if someone else dies, or are they overly aware of how fragile other people's bodies are?
I booked my theater seats kinda weird and I had to watch it next to a random middle aged dude who seemed visibly uncomfortable with the sexual tension between mustiled and corpse puddle. No amount of thirst for the middle aged men on the screen could compete with the ādad giving the talk to his teenage daughterā vibes the guy next to me was projecting. Like he wasnāt offended but man he would really like to be somewhere else during certain parts of the movie
this Logan variant is serving cunt. look at that stance and that mane. dude probably gives aggressive back alley blowjobs with too much teeth for petty cash or something.
Anyone else with long hair ever accidentally crochet/knit a loose strand of your hair into a project? And itās like, well, guess Iām part of this object forever now
Unironically it makes me nervous because in my culture that literally means I have a semi permanent connection to this object and it goes both ways. I always keep my hair away when making gifts because I donāt have time for that spooky shit.
Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people
Who are the Shompen?
The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.
Why is there risk of genocide?
India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".
Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering āunique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.ā
The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.
This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.
The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).
And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that āafter all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.ā However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.
Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would āvirtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groupsā. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: āThe Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.ā
On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that āIf the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.ā
How to help
The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:
Take action for the Shompen now!
The Shompen are one of the most isolated tribes on Earth. They live on Great Nicobar island in India, and
From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.
Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.
Sources:
Indiaās plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ādeath sentenceā for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.
āIt will destroy themā: Indian mega-development could cause āgenocideā and āecocideā, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.
Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.
The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.
[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.
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