i just really like birds

hi I'm wren (they/them), 23, and I'm from texas. howdy.

[sandmandaddy69]

[cryptvokeeper]

[turing-tested]

is this orange or yellow.

[turing-tested]

its yellow you are all wrong i have decided just now

[dogonitblog]

hey op, what does this say?

[turing-tested]

nice try but i’m not colorblind it says 71

[khazel-t]

[clearcutcasualty]

Am I tripping?

Is that not 71?

[rankeluck]

You’re slightly colorblind, that is 74 and the color of the car is orange.

[clearcutcasualty]

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[cranberrybogmummy]

It’s orange

[yumiiiiiii]

it’s literally 71

[jessbeinme15]

Bestie it’s 74

[yumiiiiiii]

[jessbeinme15]

[spacepaprika]

Y’all it clearly fucking says 21

[galvantual-moved-deactivated202]

where are you getting that from?

[rudolphsboyfriend]

Babes it’s 81 what r yall seeing

[vang0bus]

its 74 bestie you might be colorblind

[royal-random-the-yogurt-queen]

That 81 person can see shrimp colors

[astraltrickster]

I took exactly the same image, increased the saturation, and shifted it to a part of the spectrum most people can see better.

For all your no-YOU-have-the-weird-color-vision argument-solving needs.

Also, the car is orange.

[rubykgrant]

[vaultoffaggotry]

Posting this in case anyone is color blind and doesn’t know it lmao

[adamsmasher]

@cartoondog

[monkeysky]

Minotaur is not a species

The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[fleshdyke]

you cant fucking hurt me bitch im protected by the migratory bird act

[fallenangelvictorious]

Please, I just want to know what your migratory flight path is, I promise I’ll release you after I give you this bracelet that will insanely up your game with the ladies

[fleshdyke]

bitches love me for my bright and colourful leg band

[lavenderhorns]

Every now and then I remember that Malbolge exists and I get to spend the better part of an hour cry-laughing at the world’s worst programming language

already starting off strong, but it gets worse

Wow! Sounds easy and intuitive to use! What’s the “crazy operation” you ask? We’ll get to that later. For now let’s see what a program in this language looks like :)

Thanks! I hate it!

it’s so difficult to work with that the first program was written by another brute force search program

mmmmm delicious base-3 arithmetic, what could go wrong? (For reference, that means this program forgoes the usual “0/1″ values of binary code in favor of a much more fun “0/1/2″ set of values)

ah.

Here’s how the language actually figures out what to do. It’s got 8 “simple” commands that can be executed easily by *checks notes* running the code itself through the modulo operation and taking the result.

As a bonus, on top of all that every single character in your code will now alter what every single other character does. So I hope you’re alright with cracking a cipher every time you add a new letter to your program!

oh god oh fuck.

behold, Malbolge’s primary arithmetic operation and what you’ll be using for most of your math while programming with it :)

This looks specifically designed to be the least logical math operation you could make, and knowing what the rest of Malbolge is I’d wager that’s precisely what happened. I never want to ever use this and it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

Anyways here’s the wiki page if you wanna read through it more deeply, I’m gonna sit here holding in my laughter staring at the hello world program again.

[drifting-knightjar]

nice dichotomy, idiot. what lies outside it????

[fluffmugger]

#a secret bird thing

[bloglikeanegyptian]

two palestinians from the west bank have died of torture within israeli custody. the number of palestinian prisoners in israeli prison, who are on administrative detention (which means they have not been charged with anything) in june 2023 was 1117, of which 18 were children. the number being held awaiting sentencing was 1158, of which 85 are children.

the number of overall prisoners in israeli prisons in june 2023 was 5,200 most of whom were held on political charges including just being in israel illegally. many are held on false grounds, in inhumane conditions, including minors. they are political prisoners—hostages. since october 7th, that number has doubled to 10,000. so far israel has notified that it has murdered two in its custody. in the west bank (which is not ruled by hamas) over 90 palestinians have been extra-judicially murdered by settlers and the IDF since october 7th.

israel also has a policy of withholding corpses of palestinians who die in its custody. it's called "post-mortem detention." israel says it only has this policy for hamas fighters, but it is not true. there are currently at least 80 corpses of palestinians withheld from families, and around 370 who were either buried in undisclosed locations or kept in the morgue. when they are released, families are given 30 minutes to bury their loved ones in the dead of night, supervised by israeli soldiers with a limited amount of family members in attendance.

[iphnh]

For those who want to learn more: There's an organization called Breaking the Silence which keeps detailed records of the human rights abuses and war crimes committed by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

Breaking the Silence was started by a group of ex-IDF soldiers who deserted the army out of shame for the atrocities they committed and witnessed. After deserting, they felt compelled to begin documenting the human rights abuses and war crimes they committed against the Palestinians. The hope is for their testimony to be used in front of the International Criminal Court.

For those who would like to read the testimonies of hundreds of ex-IDF soldiers about Gaza specifically, you can do so by clicking here. This particular collection concerns the massacres that happened in Gaza in 2014, but it paints a picture of what life is like in Gaza, and how the IDF soldiers see the people in Gaza.

[jaffababe]

Gazan portraits by Palestinian Photographer Motaz Azaiza (pictured in the center of the final photograph) :

Motaz’s photography captures the daily life of Palestinians in Gaza; from old to young, from happy to sad, from living to dead - he is currently documenting the Israeli onslaught and mass destruction of Gaza live on his social media. His Instagram: Motaz_Azaiza

[papasmoke]

world seems pretty bleak rn man ngl

[fesenjan-deactivated20231206]

thats completely understandable given everything going on but please remember that all of the things happening rn are the result of world imperialism succumbing to its own contradictions. a cornered beast will lash out and it will lash out violently, but it’s crucial to remember that the huge increase in counterinsurgency efforts, reactionary violence, etc all reflect the desperate attempts of a dying system to keep itself afloat.

and while yes, the grief we have to endure as a result of that violence is immense, never forget that there was a time in history where there was no organized anti-colonial resistance to speak of, where workers hadnt seized the means of production in one country, let alone several, when colonial hegemony went almost entirely unchallenged except in the form of scattered revolts and rebellions.

we are not in that period anymore, we are living in the aftermath of the october revolution, of the chinese revolution, of organized international solidarity in the periphery, of the US empire spreading itself thinner and thinner and losing on more and more fronts, of recurrent and pronounced crises of the capitalist system,

an era where colonized peoples have become/are becoming the subjects of their own history, rather than merely the objects. all of this is reason to stay optimistic, to stay vigilant, and to channel that grief and anger and agitation into drive to fight, drive to resist

and perhaps most pertinently for this current struggle of palestinian liberation, please remember that the fight is ongoing and far from lost, on the contrary, there are many reasons to believe the tide is turning, that the palestinian people will rid themselves once and for all of the occupation and strike a massive blow to world imperialism in the process

[papasmoke]

By now, on October 22nd, hundreds more Palestinian children have been killed by Israel in Gaza in the past two weeks than all Israeli civilian and military personnel killed on October 7th, to say nothing of the thousands more Palestinian adults murdered whose deaths are just as tragic. Under immense pressure from the people of the world who have been protesting the genocide in the tens of millions, Biden, Trudeau, and the jackals of Europe make vague references to the rule of international law needing to be upheld (not even mentioning Israel by name when doing so) while making no effort to limit Israel's genocidal and indiscriminate campaign of terror against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. In one hand the United States pressures Israel to allow a handful of aid trucks through every day to the Gaza strip whose supplies can only tape over the gaping wound that has already been inflicted with what amounts to a third of a nuclear bomb being dropped on a 5x25 mile strip of urbanized land, while in the other hand sending billions of dollars in weaponry to Israel to fuel it's genocide. One hundred, five thousand, 2 million, 5 million dead Palestinians, the number would change nothing for the calculus of western governments who decades ago made the calculation that the total extermination of the Palestinian people was a price they'd be happy to pay in service of maintaining Israel as a racially and religiously segregated US allied military stronghold and test bed for new western weaponry.

[papasmoke]

Case in point on Israeli persecution of Palestinians being the testing grounds for weapons used at home in the US and abroad:

The U.S. Border Patrol and an Israeli Military Contractor Are Putting a Native American Reservation Under “Persistent Surveillance”

Elbit Systems, which touts its products as “field-proven” on Palestinians, was contracted to build a high-tech surveillance system on Native

[masriyah]

israel is refusing to take back the hostages because they don't care about their citizens, getting back the hostages was never a goal in the first place (demolishing gaza is), and they don't want to deal with the hostages speaking up about their experiences and clearly contradicting all the "hamas are barbaric terrorists who mass rape women and behead children" bullshit

[albrechtstarkarm]

They also know the hostages will expose the truth- which is that, while there were outrageous killings of civilians by Hamas operatives, the IDF likely inflicted the majority of fatalities among both the kibbutzim and ravers (nothing like the sight of the planet's largest open-air concentration camp to make a party swing, I guess) with the usual undisciplined frenzy with which they conduct themselves.

Already reports have emerged from released hostages that the IDF forces went nuts. This is little surprise; it's their functional standard operating procedure, monstrous and excessive firepower to preserve IDF lives, and to hell with anyone else.

This incidentally is exactly how American police are trained, and little coincidence in light of the long-ignored links between Israeli security forces and American policing agencies, both tentacles of the same colonial kraken.

[toogether]

I completely believe the above statements, but i'm begging someone who can to link something that substantiates that money or most of the casualties from the rave were IDF soilders!! please and thank you!

[masriyah]

i reblogged a post with the actual audio of the interview a few days ago but i can't find it so i'm assuming tumblr nuked it as they do with any post that debunks zionist propaganda, even searching it up by name hardly got any results on google so it's definitely being suppressed. i found this article that reported on the survivor who talked about her experience though

[masriyah]

@toogether found a video of the interview!

[komsomolka]

Behind every number of statistic are people experiencing a tragedy💔🇵🇸

[komsomolka]

As Israel continues its brutal repression, murder, and colonial domination of the Palestinian people a fruit has become a surprising symbol of Palestinian resistance. Following the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli authorities banned all public displays of the Palestinian 🇵🇸 with the possibility of imprisonment for those who defied the ban. Instead of flying their national flag, Palestinians are increasingly using 🍉 as a form of public defiance against the occupation.⁣

[un-monstre]

Disability will have you thinking shit like “I’m not even that disabled. I can manage as long as I limit myself to very specific careers, never go shopping for more than an hour or two at a time, keep my plans open so I can cancel and stay in if need be, and only go out a few nights per week at the most”

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.

decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years

UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire

US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire

Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests

Donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Donate to Medical Aid for Palestine

Donate to help get food and hygiene kits to Gaza

[vyorei-deactivated20251211]

Beautiful display of solidarity ongoing right now from the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Source: @jvplive on Twitter

[kosmogrl]

I love doing nothing, what I don't love is the inevitable overthinking that comes with doing nothing

[kosmogrl]