“another cheeseboi in my hand. from last year, my 2 month old siamese mouse!”

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You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that's entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don't know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.

Demonitizing Irish people's videos for having swear words in them is a kind of hate crime and psychological torture I think.

joseph: hermit purple..!! we have to take a picture of dio..!!!!

dio in his stupid mansion:

Krem taking a break at some Elven ruins. 

Krem: Me

Photo by @asparklethatisblue

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[Photo descriptions: two photos of Krem from Dragon Age Inquisition relaxing outside next to a weathered stone statue of a cow. In the first image he leans back against it with his arms crossed, looking into the distance. In the second image he leans more casually with one arm against it while the other rests on his belt, one leg crossed over the other.]

computer i don't know how much more i can explain to you that i would rather let a blue ringed octopus handle my appendectomy then ever touch the horrific unending nightmare that Microsoft "Shit Idiot" Copilot ai would surely be

my brain contains multitudes of the english language that i am unfortunately incapable of escaping. watch this i'll put some words together right now. Egg Lobotomy. did you see that shit i'm linguistic as fuck

In case someone is furious and wants to remove this thing, I got to remove it using Registry editor. You can try using the other methods too, but I just tried the one I prefered the most out of all of them.

No sorry I’m not done talking about the lighting in Dorian’s scenes.

The Scene. The sex scene. The temperature of the lighting tells you exactly when Dorian is feeling closer to the inquisitor and when he’s feeling afraid and isolated.

Just before and after sex, dominantly warm lighting. Significant to note the time of day, as it doesn’t seem to change throughout the scene. Midday with a cool toned light, but that cool tone isn’t affecting the scene at all (yet). Dorian and the inquisitor are painted in Skyhold’s warm lighting. They feel safe, close, as if they belong.

Then Dorian asks The Question—he gives the inquisitor an out. Notice how much cooler toned they are now compared to the rest of Skyhold. They’re washed suddenly in the blue light from outdoors. Dorian’s afraid here, vulnerable, and he’s putting the inquisitor in a somewhat vulnerable position too. He’s asking for commitment here, but in a roundabout way that’s outwardly him offering to leave after an incredibly intimate moment together. They’re isolated from the safety and warmth of Skyhold together in this moment of uncertainty, in Dorian’s uncertainty. In his fear of being abandoned.

And the dramatic temperature difference after the inquisitor says he wants more. The cool bright lighting has vanished, and instead they’re both submerged in purely the light of Skyhold, warm and dim and intimate. The uncertainty is gone, and they’re even closer to each other than they were in the previous warm shots. Their belonging to Skyhold is emphasized by the open door in the back, contrasting their intense warmth with the cold mountain. As if they’re in their own little safe haven in the warm fires of Skyhold, the inquisition, and each other.

this is a redo of an old post. it deals with more negative feelings than usual for the trans stuff but, those feelings are important too

Nine + Rose + Jack TARDIS team

'Omen'. Emile Corsi. 1886.

Unfortunately Emile Corsi doesn't exist - which the original creator disclaims on their blog at least (https://shuttered-gallery.tumblr.com/)

"Tuesday’s [April 9, 2024] definition-shifting court ruling means nearly 50 governments must now contend with a new era of climate litigation.

Governments be warned: You must protect your citizens from climate change — it’s their human right.

The prescient message was laced throughout a dense ruling Tuesday from Europe’s top human rights court. The court’s conclusion? Humans have a right to safety from climate catastrophes that is rooted in their right to life, privacy and family.

The definition-shifting decision from the European Court of Human Rights means nearly 50 governments representing almost 700 million people will now have to contend with a new era of litigation from climate-stricken communities alleging inaction. 

While the judgment itself doesn’t include any penalties — the case featured several women accusing Switzerland of failing to shield them from climate dangers — it does establish a potent precedent that people can use to sue governments in national courts.

The verdict will serve “as a blueprint for how to successfully sue your own government over climate failures,” said Ruth Delbaere, a legal specialist at Avaaz, a U.S.-based nonprofit that promotes climate activism...

Courting the courts on climate

The European Court of Human Rights was established in the decade following World War II but has grown in importance over the last generation. As the judicial arm of the Council of Europe, an international human rights organization, the court’s rulings are binding on the council’s 46 members, spanning all of Europe and numerous countries on its borders.

As a result, Tuesday’s [April 9, 2024] ruling will help elevate climate litigation from a country-by-country battle to one that stretches across continents.

Previously, climate activists had mostly found success in suing individual countries to force climate action. 

A 2019 Dutch Supreme Court verdict forced the Netherlands to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent, while in 2021 a French court ruled the government was responsible for environmental damage after it failed to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals. That same year, Germany’s Constitutional Court issued a sweeping judgment that the country’s 2019 climate law was partly “unconstitutional” because it put too much of the emissions-cutting burden on future generations.

Even in the U.S., young environmental activists won a local case last year against state agencies after arguing that the continued use of fossil fuels violated their right to a "clean and healthful environment."

But 2024 is shaping up to be a turning point for climate litigation, redefining who has a right to sue over climate issues, what arguments they can use, and whom they can target. 

To start, experts overwhelmingly expect that Tuesday’s ruling will reverberate across future lawsuits — both in Europe and globally. The judgment even includes specifics about what steps governments must take to comply with their new climate-related human rights obligations. The list includes things like a concrete deadline to reach climate neutrality, a pathway to getting there, and evidence the country is actually on that path...

Concretely, the verdict could also affect the outcomes of six other high-profile climate lawsuits pending before the human rights court, including a Greenpeace-backed suit questioning whether Norway's decision to grant new oil and gas licenses complies with its carbon-cutting strategy.

An emerging legal strategy

In the coming months, other international bodies are also expected to issue their own rulings on the same thorny legal issues, which could further solidify the evolving trend. 

The International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights all have similar cases working through the system.

"All these cases together will clarify the legal obligations of states to protect rights in the context of climate change — and will set the stage for decades to come," said Chowdhury, from the environmental law center."

-via Politico, April 9, 2024

my favourite duo so far 😈

was so caught up by the beauty of another fat tav mod that i went into the comments and got ambushed by the fatphobia...

anyway this mod is so gorgeous

unrelenting one 🪽

pelican town