Percentage of Each State Occupied by Corn Fields

happy mothers day to the mothers of palestine who have lost their children and to the mothers who were forced to give birth and be separated from their children in congo.

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instead of watching and supporting eurovision tonight, please instead boost this post & donate if you can. keep your eyes on rafah.

woah dude..... your hurt sound is vaguely sexual..... im trying to kill you but im. im getting a bit flustered

who is leon dbd

ok i looked up leon dead by daylight and omfg why does he... wh.... why does he sound like that

this literally is not an exaggeration

https://youtu.be/mGUJlJGimJY

I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind

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I appreciate that this is at least a small bit of progress. But. Seriously.

ON LOAN?!?!?!?!

Time to bust out the James Acaster routine again.

Again, it is illegal for the British Museum to repatriate artifacts. A lot of people at the BM want to, but can't. This is a HUGE precedent and loop hole that may well lead to the fucked up law changing.

To add onto this a little bit, three years should be the maximum duration of a loan according to the guidelines of UK professional museum bodies like the Collections Trust. It's possible to agree a loan for a longer period, but it would be counter to recommendations and against the norm. I would imagine the BM went with 2x 3 year loans so there wouldn't be any grounds to refuse it on that basis.

Non-national museums (so, those not directly funded by and ultimately owned by the government) wouldn't be under the same restrictions. They'd need to do due diligence about determining the right place for something to go, and to get the board of trustees etc. to sign off, but it would be more possible. Being a national museum is kind of a double-edged sword: your existence and funding are more secure, but you have less autonomy to make decisions.

The reason for the cap on loan lengths is to avoid a common situation from the past wherein objects were loaned 'indefinitely' and often forgotten or abandoned. For example, the museum where I used to volunteer had a painting loaned indefinitely by a member of the public from many decades earlier. When she died, her inheritor didn't want it and refused to collect it. The museum did not particularly want to keep the painting, but were unable to dispose of it because they did not have legal title to it. (TBH it seems like there have been people who just use museums as convenient free storage facilities for stuff they don't want or have room for.) But since storage space and conservator time are also at a premium, leaving things with museums without ever re-confirming a loan or accepting return means museums are less able to accept other objects that might better reflect their collecting priorities.

So, while I totally agree that a 'loan' rather than outright repatriation feels like a cop-out, in these circumstances, it's a solid step.

*smashes you over the head with a potion bottle but it was a healing potion and it heals you for the exact amount of damage i dealt you* oh… uh. hm. do you think you could just lay on the floor and pretend to be unconscious

uhhh i guess that’s reasonable. how long? maybe five to ten seconds?

longer. *aside, to my minion* how long does it take to set up the heinous device?

(in a stage whisper) three minutes if we're speedrunning it.

*back to the hero* just picking a number at random here. let’s say three minutes

Nadine Abdel-Taif, 10, whose home in Palestine was destroyed by Israeli bombing

I feel like wanting things has been important to being happier for me

sorry i can't tonight.. my spring melancholy is developing into hysteria

wait, isnt NSFW the letters on the compass

So close.

north south FUCK west

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

Do you know this queer character?

Castiel is Queer and Agender or Genderfluid, and uses varying pronouns based on presentation!