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Had to unfollow someone I've followed for years yesterday bc they started reblogging exclusionist bullshit. So here's your periodic reminder that if you in anyway agree with exclusionists, TERFs, transmeds, biphobes, panphobes, queerphobes, or any other like minded bullshit, unfollow and block me
The U.S. will use its veto power against a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a member state of the United Nations during a vote at the Security Council expected to take place Thursday evening. Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department, described as premature an effort by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain member status at the U.N. He said there was not unanimity among the Security Council’s 15 members that the Palestinian Authority had met the criteria for membership, with unresolved questions over the governance of the Gaza Strip, where Israel is in a war to defeat and eliminate the controlling power, Hamas. “And for that reason, the United States is voting no on this proposed Security Council resolution,” Patel said.
Earlier it was revealed that the United States was secretly pressuring other members of the Security Council to shoot down a Palestinian state membership so the US wouldn't have to use its veto as that would lead to a wave of local and international criticism for Joe Biden.
United States vetoes Security Council resolution recommending observer State of Palestine be granted full United Nations membership Result of the vote: IN FAVOR: 12 AGAINST: 1 ABSTAIN: 2
In a vote of 12 in favour to one against, with two abstentions, the Council did not adopt a draft resolution that would have recommended the General Assembly to hold a vote with the broader UN membership to allow Palestine to join as a full UN Member State. The draft resolution is among the shortest in the Council’s history: “The Security Council, having examined the application of the State of Palestine for admission to the United Nations (S/2011/592), recommends to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership in the United Nations.” For a draft resolution to pass, the Council must have at least nine members in favour and none of its permanent members – China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States – using their veto power.
LEAKED TRACK LIST FOR NEW TS ALBUM:
Reading comics is constantly like "Here is one of the most fascinating concepts you've ever seen in a piece of media. No we will not elaborate on it and you will never see it reach its full potential. Here is an interesting, new character. Oh now they're dead/rewritten to be less interesting/trapped in a different version of earth to be only mentioned off hand and never seen again. Here is your favorite legacy character: they're currently being written by a misogynist." And then once in a blue moon there's a comic that blows your tits clean off it's executed so well. But it's a limited run.
these being back to back episodes after cas and crowley spend multiple episodes working together -> they literally discussed this
crowley, a bitch with exactly one outfit: salmondean sure do wear a lot of flannel
castiel, a bitch with exactly one outfit: oh my god i KNOW right??
Me when I'm watching the later seasons
[Ignore the previous poll if you saw it; I wanted the poll to go for a week instead of a day]
Idea stolen from @sillylotrpolls:
Counting all media, and you may take as generous a definition of companion as you like. To specify what 'number of characters' means in this context, if one character has multiple names, (fr'instance Bruce Wayne/Batman) that character only counts once. Otoh, multiple different characters with the same title, (ex. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, et. al.) might all be Robin, but they each count as separate characters.
As always, feel free to reblog for wider reach.
i’m only on s1 of torchwood but seeing jack NOT immediately give his “hi. captain jack harkness 😏” to everyone he meets is so funny like… does he just do it to put on a show for the doctor? like sure he’s flirty here but it’s not on the same level as how he is in doctor who?? is his flirt-introduction designed for provoking a “stop it” from the doctor???
burdened.
I really hope unfairly-maligned female-led sci-fi like the 13th Doctor era and Star Trek: Discovery get more popular in the future. They both got extreme misogynistic backlash for their main character which bafflingly excluded criticism of the show’s actual flaws. They have some really fun characters and concepts that haven’t gotten their due in appreciation both as a show and the work behind it as modern pieces of sci-fi.
You guys posting the new Taylor Swift lyrics and they're so bad it's hilarious
oh missy what a pity you don’t understand, you take me by the hearts when you take me by the hand
there's a new initiative organized by let's talk palestine on instagram called funds for gaza - they will prioritize 6 urgent fundraising campaigns at a time and replace them when they achieve their goals. you can suggest your campaign at tinyurl.com/gazafundform and here is the link for their instagram post about the initiative instagram.com/p/C4q81woo_Kq/?igsh=MWp1eG50YWxyZHk0Nw==
Thank you! Here’s the link to suggest the campaign as well as a full list of campaigns. Here’s a direct link to the rotating linktree for anyone interested! And here’s the post I made about it + Operation Olive Branch for anyone who wants it 🇵🇸
A cape rain frog from Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière t.30 (1788). Full text here.
So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????
I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.
Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?
Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.
Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.
wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them
