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To everyone being neutral and asking for peace.
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While returning a book to the uni library today, I was suddenly struck with the realization that I miss the regular use of borrowing cards - you know, the cards in library books that would be stamped with the due date before the advent of computerized borrowing systems.
On a practical level, it was really convenient to have the due date right there in the book, instead of having to go log in to look up your due dates if you needed a reminder. But that's not the big reason why I miss them.
I loved looking at them and learning the book's history. They were like book passports, not so much a record of wheres as much as whens. How many people have borrowed it? How often? Was it a popular book or was it lucky to get checked out once a decade? And who WERE the people who needed to read this book on Medieval potato sculpture?
Some books I've encountered still have their old borrowing cards, but the date stamps usually peter out somewhere in the late 1990s mid-2000s, give or take. They might have been checked out more after that, but I would never know because I didn't see the stamps, and it makes me a little sad to have that chunk of the book's life missing.
Whenever I checked out a book that looked like it hadn't been out of the library in a while, I always felt a strange sense of pride, or maybe honor. "Oh, little bud. I know you don't get out much, but come on, come stay with me a while and we'll have an adventure together. You can teach me about astral Jovian-style basketweaving and I'll give you the chance to see what's up in the world and when you get back you can tell your shelfmates all about what you saw."
It's a little silly, but I like to think the books got as much out of visiting with me as I did getting to read them. It was nice to have a physical record of that interaction.
I understand why they aren't a thing any more from a privacy perspective, but I still miss them
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It should also be recognised that Lucille Ball helped advance the medium of television as a whole by, more or less, inventing the idea of reruns. This was, in large part, what drove the success of non-serialised shows such as Star Trek, but also paved the way for extremely popular television genres like the sitcom
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unclefather
Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.
Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.
Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I’m trying to tell you that I’m evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!
Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
this is one of my favorite posts
that’s because it is broski
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rubbing my penis
big if true
not really, it's slightly below average
The average penis, when soft, is much smaller than the overwhelming majority of erect penises. As a large majority of penises are currently at rest, it follows that any penises in attack position must be of larger size than the overall average penis size.
It must also be noted that rubbed penis quickly grow to their peak size.
Ergo, big if true.
ok but how do we know everyone isnt hard currently? your argument is built off of an assumption that we cannot verify and therefore your argument is unsound.
Schrodinger's penis exists in a superposition of both hard and soft until it is observed
i think schrodingers penis has actually decomposed by now he's been dead like 60 years
Schrodinger's penis exists in a superposition of both decomposed and fresh and juicy until it is observed
hey im no longer rubbing my penis btw
Neither is schrodinger
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⚠️⚠️FAKE BIRDER ALERT ⚠️⚠️
THE COMMON LOON WINTERS IN FRANCE AND IS OCCASIONALLY FOUND THERE DURING THE BREEDING SEASON SO THIS CALL IS NOT OUT OF PLACE
GET EBIRDED IDIOT
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why would I camp somewhere named Hole Where You'll Freeze To Death
Yeah I'm going on a camping trip to the Hole Where You'll Freeze to Death. No I won't be back soon.
If people are curious about what the video title means, I watched it some time ago, and it's actually pretty important info to know if you're going camping/backpacking: heat rises, and cold sinks, so the lowest point of the terrain can become much colder than the surrounding area, especially at night. If the temperature in these low-points drops farther than the temperatures your camping gear is rated for, you can definitely freeze to death.
"Don't sleep in holes" seems like a pretty obvious statement to make a video about. But it isn't talking about what we normally think of when we're asked to describe a hole in the ground. The video is talking about low-lying meadows or depressions, often in cold mountains like the Alps, that are free of trees and large plants. They seem like good flat ground to camp on. And to compound the problem, maybe some poor sucker tried to build a now-abandoned log cabin or shack right in the middle of one that you may be tempted to sleep in, like the one in the thumbnail. But the reason the meadow is free and clear of trees, is because even pine trees, which grow in high altitudes and low temperatures, can't survive the temperature difference. The downhill slope of the terrain collects the freezing air like water in a bowl, and with nowhere for it to go, it may become even colder than temperatures recorded at much higher elevations in the same area. And you'll be right there in the middle of it, because it looked very nice in the daylight. Now? Not so much.
So don't sleep in holes. Best case scenario is that you'll have a very chilly night's sleep and a lousy morning. Worst case is that you won't wake up in the morning at all.
(My memory and explanation isn't perfect, watch the video itself in case I got important stuff wrong. The creator also lists his sources in the video description if you wanted to check those out.)
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Damn they caught the Highland roaming monkey. Gutted for them.
The monkey is absolutely fine by the way, I just support his right to roam the highlands.
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"i could fix him" "i could make him worse" well i could turn him into a flea. a harmless little flea. then i'd put that flea inside of a box📦. and then i'd put that box inside of another box🎁. and then i'd maaaaiiiilllllll that box to myself!!!!!!!!11!!!!! 📬
ANDWHENITARRIVESAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'D SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!!!!!!! 🔨💥
I can change him.. into a llama.
A llama?! He's supposed to be dead!
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I AM SORRY I CANNOT RETURN YOUR EMAIL AT THIS TIME. am in a cave
ace pride flag color picked from this picture of a cave
aro pride flag also color picked from this picture of a cave
Trans
truly the gifts of mother earth are splendid beyond compare. GET IN THE CAVE
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how much fun are we having in this timeline folks?
Time to download and run all your works through Nightshade before posting them anywhere. Poison the data sets.
Reminder to artists, webglaze is also developed by the same ppl as nightshade, and it's very useful too!
GLAZE ALL YOUR ARTS BEFORE YOU POST THEM ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET
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i always assumed the infamous ☪oe✡is✝ bumper sticker was american because it was such a quintessential part of a certain era of american politics but when i found out that the image was originally created for an israeli museum i was like ah. yeah. that tracks
the story of the museum itself is a microcosm of the type of hollow peace activism the coexist image has come to represent.
the coexistence exhibition at the museum on the seam "brings the universal message of diversity and acceptance of the other to the world community." the museum, located at the edge of occupied east jerusalem, was originally built in 1933 as the home of palestinian architect andoni baramki. it was seized by zionist forces when the family fled jerusalem during the nakba of 1948, and was subsequently turned into a military outpost. andoni's daughter, laura baramki khoury, has written about her experience fleeing jerusalem.
"In April of 1948, when everybody was leaving in the wake of the Deir Yassin massacre, and no place seemed safe enough, we left our home in Jerusalem, taking nothing with us except some of our clothes, thinking that it was a temporary period. That is why we took refuge in Birzeit, a town north of Jerusalem, so that we would be close by to return when all would be well again. But it was never well again. My family and I never saw again the Jerusalem we knew and had lived in. After living in Gaza, then Beirut for a few years, we eventually returned to Jerusalem in 1953. What we found was a destroyed city, a city with its soul gone. Our families and friends were no longer there. Our homes were full of bullet holes, all run down and neglected."
when the family attempted to return, they was barred from doing so after the state of israel appropriated the house under the absentees' property law.
"The Israeli army had no more need for the house as a post, so the Baramki family felt their quest to reclaim the House could finally come to fruition. Alas, the family’s request was denied by the Israeli authorities under the racist Absentees’ Property Law of 1950, which was used to pillage the property of Palestinians ethnically cleansed during the Nakba and even those who were internally displaced and declared as “present absentees.” This infamous law recognizes the presence of internally displaced Palestinians as “residents or “citizens” of the state of Israel, but “absent” as far as their own individual property is concerned."
despite decades of attempts to assert their legal title, the family has not been able to reclaim the house.
"Unlike nearly all other Palestinian refugees exiled in 1948, the Baramki's had the double-edged privilege of glancing at their home from atop certain locales on the hilly terrain of Jerusalem's east side. Risking sniper fire, family members would occasionally visit locales contiguous to the borderlands in an effort to peer at their home and assess its condition. One family member, at the time a young man having just returned from his studies in Beirut, remembers ascending seven floors of steps to the top of the East Jerusalem YMCA on the edge of the frontier with his architect father. From this vantage point they would gaze down at their property across the divided landscape."
"One Baramki family member described the lengths the Palestinian owner and architect of the home went through to win back his property after the wall dividing Jerusalem was brought down in 1967. He also relates the humiliation that accompanied efforts to contest the mechanisms of exclusion enshrined in Israel's Absentee Property Law: You know, this question of being defined "absent" or "absentee" by the Israeli Government is unbelievable. Imagine, my father at the time [1967], a 70 year-old person going to the Israelis and telling them that "here I am now and I want my property" and them telling him that you are an "absentee." And he would tell them "how am I absent? I am present!" He could not understand how he was absent and present at the same time. The Israeli Government never did permit the owner and architect of the home to step foot in his house after 1948, and the elder Baramki died an exile."
in 1999, after being used as a military outpost and then a military museum, the house was ironically converted into a museum of tolerance, with the mission of promoting "dialogue, understanding and coexistence." laura baramki khoury notes:
"And to add insult to injury, the Israeli curators of the museum never acknowledged the fact that the building belonged to my father. All they mentioned was that the house, with its special architectural beauty, was constructed by Mr. Andoni Baramki, omitting by intention the fact that it was owned by Andoni Baramki."
the museum's director was asked about the building's history in a 2012 haaretz interview. he did not support returning the house to the baramki family, instead suggesting that using it for art served some kind of higher purpose.
Etgar, not surprisingly, primarily views the situation through an artistic lens. He concedes locating the museum in the building may have been nave. “But the history of the building reflects the history of the city,” he says. He argues that returning the building to the Baramki family would not erase the contradictory and conflicting histories of the city. More to the point, he says the building fulfils a larger function by providing an evocative historical backdrop for the art it houses. “Context is as important to the work as presentation,” he says.
the dismissal of the family's legal claims in favor of "dialogue" echoes the liberal response to the bds movement in recent days. the prioritization of discourse over everything, the insistence on changing hearts and minds but balking at efforts to change the facts on the ground... it's all a tacit acceptance of the occupation as indelible history, rather than grappling with it as an ongoing process that can and must be stopped.
andoni's son, gabi baramki, not only worked to reclaim his family home but was an avdocate for the bds movement. in a 2012 statement commemorating gabi, the bds movement spoke against the museum directly.
"The story of the Baramki House is only one of thousands of similar stories; but this particular case exemplifies the wider injustice. In August 2012, Gabi Baramki passed away, leaving behind a rich legacy of struggle for Palestinian rights and for developing Palestinian educational institutions. The struggle for freedom, justice and equal rights, to which Gabi dedicated his entire life, continues. We in PACBI see this Museum as an embodiment of Israeli criminality, hypocrisy, property theft, colonization, oppression and persistent denial of the Palestinians’ very presence and the rights that go along with it. We demand that international law be implemented, and the Baramki House be returned to its legitimate Palestinian owners, the Baramki family."
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This works no matter which slice you start with
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this is revolutionary meme technology right here
Anonymous asked:
where do you typically store bread?
- the pantry
- the fridge
- somewhere else (where?)