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There is no crime where torture is an acceptable punishment.

There is no crime where sexual assault is an acceptable punishment.

There is no crime where slavery is an acceptable punishment.

"Well obviously people arrested for drugs and other non-violent crimes shouldn't be forced to work but—"

No! There is no but!! There is nothing in the world that makes slavery okay!!!

I could talk about people being charged for crimes they didn't commit. I could talk about coerced confessions. I could talk about people being charged with more extreme crimes than what they did to fill prisons. I could talk about how slaves out of certain types of criminals creates an incentive to charge more people with certain crimes.

But I'm not going to actually talk about any of that because it doesn't matter. No one should be enslaved. No one should be defending or justifying slavery. This should not be controversial.

I agree with your point, but I want to add more:

There is no crime where medical experimentation is an acceptable punishment.

I've seen way too many people argue that we should test the COVID vaccines on prisoners and as a Jewish scientist, I cannot tell you how revolting that concept is.

As someone who was recently in Fukui, this isn't even scratching the surface of how mad the town is for dinosaurs.

For example, here is the outside of the train station:

If you thought that they were only outside the station, think again!

The last dinosaur has a crab, because the region is known for seafood.

You can even buy coffee emblazoned with dinosaurs!

And that's not even getting into how you get to the nearby Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. Behold, the Dino-Liner:

And if you're like, man I don't know how the museum will top all of these dinosaurs, boy do I have news for you.

And then you get to the cafe:

But, eventually, it was time to head back to the train station...on the dino bus.

minecraft “i can’t remember where i put anything” asmr

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Was kinda distracted so I only skimmed part of the post thinking: Wow, that surgery is not going as planned.

quick doodles for a trod scene

Lamb and Narinder sitting in a tree, K-I-S-wait. nvm

Today's Seals Are: Old And Even Older

Totoro~

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• “La liberté guidant le peuple” by Eugène Delacroix

and

• “13th attempt to break the Gaza blockade by sea”. Photo by Mustafa Hassouna (Andalou Agency for Getty)

Update!

The guy in this photo is called A'aed Abu Amro. Shortly after this image went viral, he was shot by Israeli Army but someone close to him said he was fine. I couldn’t find anything else about him, not even ways to support him directly. So I’m adding some relevant links to help as many people as we can:

Here’s a thread on twitter with GoFundMe links for Palestinians in need

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF)

Medical Aid for Palestinians

You can find more links to support organizations here!

Please, if you can’t donate, consider taking 5 to 10 minutes to learn about the situation. I know is hard, but you don’t have to do it all at once.

Do you remember Mohammed El-Kurd? His interview with CNN went viral recently. His instagram is linked and you can find ways to support Sheik Jarrah through his linktree. Here’s a direct link for donations.

Some student work that really excites me :) earthenware basket sculpture made to look like welded rebar… The artist said she chose to painstakingly recreate rebar out of clay (using moldmaking) because she is an inexperienced metal worker but still wanted the look. She even developed a special glaze to perfectly mimic rust! Even if you inspect the piece extremely close you cannot tell that it isn’t actually just rusted steel!! When people asked her why she chose to make this she said she’s just inspired by things on the street and still doesn’t understand her subconscious, but really wanted to make it. Incredible and so genius!! Love love love this work with all my heart

Conceptually interesting, technically astounding.

that’s a fucking GLAZE? and the student made it? WTF.

Finally got a clear shot of noonoo carrying her spring, it's her favourite toy

noonoo….

the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

…OH.

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images

Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.

Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex

I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved

obsessed with the summoning dark’s sections of thud. vimes’s subconscious took one look at the quasidemonic eldritch god in his head and said im not trapped in here with you, youre trapped in here with me. and it WAS.

Remember that time Esme Weatherwax got bitten by vampires and everyone was like "Oh no, they're going to turn her into one of their brainless puppets!", and then Esme was just like "This is not a one way road!" and just straight up mind-controlled them right back? Like, she mentally just kicked down the door and said "You let my blood in, I am going to take that as an invitation!" and then started wreaking havoc in their brains.

I want to be her so bad when I'm old!

The music in water levels:

The music in snowy levels:

Don’t forget the desert levels

The haunted house level:

The cave level though

The Boss Level: