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Nic, 30s, she/her mostly, they/them is cool too. I read/watch/listen to things and sometimes blog about them. Also tend to get interested in (obsessed with) obscure bits of history from time to time. Currently listening to... several nonfiction podcasts (Behind the Bastards, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, Lions Led By Donkeys and... others), a few fiction ones (Malevolent! go check out Malevolent!) I'm also reading a lot of nonfiction history books
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harminuya

Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

This post is from 2021.

Last September, Artsakh was completely cleansed of its indigenous Armenian population. 3000 years of history were violently disturbed. Now the anti-Armenian propaganda and hatred is increasing and they are openly talking about taking over all of Armenia. Please take your time to read about these issues.

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Before the cost of living crisis gets any worse someone needs to just snap & restart the Whiteboys

Protesting is clearly not working so let's just do this again

Yes it is! Everyone be sure to get into the spirit of whiteboy wednesday by brutally piking your landlord to death 👍

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On that note, I want to spotlight the fundraiser for an Afro-Palestinian journalist, and Lama Jamous' uncle. He has less of a following amongst allies because he posts almost entirely in Arabic, so I'm going to spotlight him on my blog and put him on the fundraiser list as well.

And please follow him on IG as well, even if you only speak English he has small captions on the videos he posts that translate his Arabic.

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actually speaking of family history

(yes it's Mad Uncle Alan's side of the family again)

I recently fell down a bit of a youtube rabbithole and watched a whole load of videos by this guy Milo Rossi. He's an archaelogist / science communicator, has some very good points about the pseudoarcheaology/pseudoscience pipeline & he hates graham hancock, so I quite like his videos.

ANYWAY

in some of his debunking videos he mentions a very outdated theory called "hyperdiffusionism" (basically, all ancient cultures actually came from one advanced culture rather than developing independently). And that term sounded very familiar. And he mentioned Grafton Elliot Smith, a prominent hyperdiffusionist, and that name also sounded familiar.

Because Mad Uncle Alan's side of the family was largely made up of a lot of eccentric academics.

One of whom was an anthropologist.

Who worked closely with Grafton Elliot Smith. So uh... oops, turns out one of my long-dead relatives was deep into pseudoarchaeology.

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wilwheaton

RE: "Thought he was a democrat" - Further investigation shows that the man had a history of mental illness before he shot his victim, having stabbed his own father 5 years earlier. Better to argue for stricter gun laws and better mental health supports, I think,than simply right vs left.

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Of course this is a Right vs. Left issue. Nobody on the Left is openly calling for violence the way nearly everyone on the Right is. Nobody on the Left is telling their voters to "strap on a glock" or using dehumanizing language to reduce human beings to enemies who must be destroyed.

Every country in the world has people who struggle with mental health. America is the only country in the world where this kind of violent murder happens regularly.

This isn't about mental health. This is about easy access to weapons, and a political party that openly encourages its followers to choose violence, and then acts surprised when they do.

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If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it

That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes

I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded

like to charge reblog to cast tbh

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camelpimp

Amazing solution to getting fans not to spoil the ending to yr murder mystery VN despite achieving massive name recognition is to cater all but exclusively to the kinds of fans who will spend all their poasts about it getting into ideological fights or making the two male leads kiss

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vaspider

I legit thought DE was a game about one guy navigating his nervous breakdown. I didn't know there was really a murder. I thought that was probably a lie his brain told him.

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mclennonyaoi

reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

bankston is my HERO he’s tearing these people apart

HE LEFT

oh my god

KILL HIM

he is DONE.

HELP ME .

wow. ok.

genuinely first two pages he says that he thinks ben’s lawyer is the one who is actually suing him and admits he has no clue what the lawsuit is about .

doing a reread now this is so cunty

goddamn .

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cryptotheism

fun fact: the Mr. Bankston here is Mark Bankston, the same lawyer who absolutely ruined Alex Jones during the Sandy Hook trial.

Genuinely read this not just the clips, its hilarious and will probably prove more than important as things proceed

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scientia-rex

I have no strong feelings about Taylor Swift. Sometimes I enjoy her songs and sometimes I don’t. I don’t feel that questions around her life are all that relevant to mine.

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Maïwenn looks at me. “I have to be honest. It’s difficult to shoot with him... all the crew were scared because he has a different kind of humour and we didn’t know if he was going to be on time, or if he was going to be OK to say his lines... I mean, even if he was there on set, on time, the crew were afraid of him.” Nor has the situation improved. “There’s been no normal relationship since the shoot,” says Maïwenn. She shrugs. “Johnny for me is a huge genius but he’s in another world. I cannot communicate with him.”

once again depp proving that he is a truly piece of shit.

I find it interesting that he does not ever concede a single claim. Not one is accurate, ever. No complaint ever brought against him has any validity ever.

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