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This made me laugh way too hard
You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”
the people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about.
Close-up of a dragonfly wing, not stained glass, photo by Kelly J. Rebar
What if instead of having a “Christmas Truce” because, uh, the idea that every ghost respects a Christian holiday is Kind Of Not Good, the ghosts’ winter truce was based in the fact that it’s the most common time of year to die? Like, it’s the season where the statistical majority of the ghosts passed away so they’ve come to a cultural consensus that there should be a day (or several!) during the winter where everyone is just Significantly Nicer to each other
“So, Danny’s going to be late,” said Tucker, artificer.
“Box Ghost?” asked Sam, rogue.
“Box Ghost.”
“He’s got his character sheet though?”
“He says so,” said Jazz, DM, putting the pizza on the table.
“Bet he’s got a paladin.”
Tucker snorted. “Five bucks he’s got a warlock. He likes matching life.”
“Fighter. It’s the easiest class in terms of special abilities.”
“He tell you that?” asked Tucker.
“No, but he’s not going to pick something stressful to de-stress, is he?”
Danny phased in through the ceiling, waving a piece of paper and grinning. “Hey guys! Check out my awesome cleric!”
first step taken, first step successful :D
I wonder why the American/global media aren't reporting that there are weekly protests by the Israelis against Netanyahu and his cabinet? That him and his little right-wing coalition are deeply hated amongst their own people?
America doesn't care about other countries and right wingers have a vested interest in supporting the Likud right wing coalition and the left wing media have a vested interest in painting all israelis as evil settler colonialist baby murderers
Followers? dissenting opinions?
My opinion is that almost every day for most of winter I had to take a bus from a street where some of those protests are happening. They've been happening in multiple places, at different scales, some block the road and some don't. And every day I patiently waited for them while they blocked the road, chanted, then cleared the way. They did that multiple times during the protests every day. They're still protesting, although it's coming more in waves now.
And I have seen a single person trying to go against them during all those weeks. One single man with a microphone, whose only problem was that they were protesting during shabbat, so he went out on a weekday to tell them to stop doing that because it'll hurt the hostages. And once a woman panicked because she didn't know the area well and needed to catch a bus home, and didn't know whey never blocked the road for more than 10 minutes.
The Israeli population mostly agrees with those protests, to varying degrees. There's no unified opinion on what action Israel should take, but everyone agreed on one thing - that it should take action, and that Bibi needs to resign.
Why don't the global media show you those protests? Because they don't want you to think about the Israeli people as humans, as separate from our government. They want you to think we all want Gaza to be destroyed, that the hostages don't matter in this war, that we agree with Bibi and want him as our PM.
The protests intentionally happen in both Hebrew and English, so non-israelis would also be able to understand clearly what they're protesting about. Their signs contain English, Hebrew and Arabic. They chant in Hebrew and English.
The choice to not report them is deliberate.
Compilation of weird trees
These trees aren’t weird, they are the Old Gods
Please reblog for bigger sample size
Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading
Rare firsthand accounts by Israeli whistleblowers cast light on the horrific conditions in the Sde Teiman torture camp in Naqab Desert. Palestinians are stripped down, blindfolded, forced in diapers, and forbidden from speaking. They are subjected to beatings and mental degradation regularly. So much depravity that has gone unseen. Doctors performing procedures outside of their expertise, amputations due to zip-typing of abductees’ wrists, having large dogs unleashed on them at night. Being fed food through straws. I can’t believe it. I am truly in shock. And this is just one whistleblower accounting of this. Who knows what else is happening beyond our knowledge
My heart is breaking into a million pieces
Worth mentioning that multiple Palestinians have recounted these stories before, as direct victims detailing their experiences. What's unique about these accounts from CNN Israeli whistle-blower is that they're from an Israeli, therefore people are more likely to take this seriously.
what?
when doctors ask if i have any history of cancer in my family and i have to say that yes my grandmother had 2 types of gastrointestinal cancer and they're like oh wow okay so we'll keep an eye out for that but i'm like no it was probably just all the nuclear radiation and they're like ok hm ok what the fuck do you mean and it's very weird seeing the look on american doctors' faces when you have to explain to them that believe it or not atomic bombs were dropped on this earth 2 generations ago and it did have consequences
cant stop thinking abt ursula k. le guin’s essay abt the carrier bag theory….. she’s like, maybe the first human tool was not a weapon, but rather something that holds, a bag, a pouch, a vessel, something for gathering and storing and sharing. let’s shift the narrative of humanity from that of violence to that of safekeeping. and i’m like
and THEN she’s like, a novel is also a carrier bag. there’s the Hero’s story, sure, but there’s room enough in fiction for every experience, for every little thing, and it’s that other story, the life story, that she seeks……. o|-<
*slaps novel on the hood* this bad boy can fit so many facets of human experience in it
The first link’s broken so here’s another one
baby carrier of some sort. Keep hands free.
which is definitely not an omen
This is where Brexit Britain has gotten us. Can't even have a proper apocalypse now.
FOUR horses? In THIS economy?
My Theory/ head canon about why vlad has a white and grey cat named Maddie… and he also has a white and grey cat named Maddie.
Based on this meme
