CLEAR SKIN IS SO ATTRACTIVE I’D CHOP A TOE OFF FOR CLEAR SKIN FOREVER
I swear to fucking god writing a post on this website is like talking to a fucking genie! Better be specific as shit or some smart as is gonna ruin your life
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.
Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.
For your consideration: cornfields
Cornfields are less mystical than wheat fields but more mystical than soybean fields. Two-bit monsters congregate in corn fields to eat people, but their power is nothing compared to the things that manifest in wheat fields.
Have been in both wheat and cornfields; can confirm. Cornfields host monsters who eat people. Wheat fields attract old gods.
I have a theory that this is because the notions most of us have of “old gods” are pretty intrinsically European, and wheat was (and is) the staple crop of European life. It is quite literally tied to the ancestral rituals and beliefs of most white people. Odin, the Morrigan, and even Zeus are actually linked to a set of peoples who cultivated wheat.
Meanwhile, corn (maize) is a crop native to the Americas. It features in the white cultural imagination in a very different way. Corn is a motif seen not in our ancestral myths, but in a much newer genre: the American Gothic. With its focus on the tensions between man and nature and—perhaps more importantly—the United States’s history of genocide against its indigenous population and trade in enslaved Africans, the American Gothic is VERY preoccupied with agriculture. Our monsters come out of corn fields because corn is a symbol for not only what we did to the Native Americans (who were the first to grow the crop), but of what we are doing to the very land itself. Corn is a monument to our cultural sins.
Meanwhile, I suspect that corn features very differently in the imaginations of people of color. If you asked a Native American person or a Latinx person what sort of mysticism they associate with corn fields, I imagine their answer would be very different than ours.
TLDR: White people associate wheat with our ancestors’ gods because our ancestors grew wheat. We associate corn with terrible monsters because it is a literal sign of our own monstrosity.
Native American here, can confirm that small plots of corn feel safe and homey; ideally they should be interplanted with other crops. You find turkeys and possums and raccoons in the corn. It might tell you important knowledge.
However.
Giant monocultures of corn, where the corn grows unbroken for miles and miles, not near human habitation, devoid of local wildlife, just corn on corn in the soft wind? Corn mega monocultures? Those sound like screaming.
“monocultures attract people-eating monsters” is not the take I expected to see today but I’m glad I saw it
The anthropological analysis and discussion on folklore is spot on. 10/10
Corn lore
Both the article and the tweet are disingenuous. Jenna Ortega never praised Hamas, but she also didn't say "Palestinians deserve to live" either.
Her exact tweet was "decolonize Palestine" which holds very different connotations. Implying that Palestine has been colonized in turn suggests that Israel is a colony and not a sovereign nation state.
Are you seriously surprised that some Israelis are not happy with people telling them that their country doesn't deserve to exist?
Their country doesn’t deserve to exist, hope that helps!! ♥️
"implying that Palestine has been colonized" yeah. That's what happened.
“In turn suggests Israel is a colony and not a sovereign nation-state” hey quick question how come the Palestinian population in Palestine went from 1,300,000 to 156,000 in one year?
abolish canada next
link to article here
Lake Michigan
Ocean*
I mean, Lake Michigan is big enough to be a sea. All the Great Lakes are, they’re not considered seas because they’re not all at sea level, they’re all freshwater, and they’re not directly connected to the ocean (they’re only connected through rivers and lochs)
Small lakes don’t have noticeable waves but because the Great Lakes are so big there’s enough room for the air to downdraft across it (which is also why in Michigan you get lake effect weather and so it can be a blizzard one day and 70° the next)
My grandmother, who grew up in Puerto Rico, when seeing Lake Michigan for the first time with my grandfather exclaimed, “This is not a lake, it is a sea!”
Lake Superior has tides. They’re not as dramatic as the actual ocean’s of course. But still. For every storm that kicks up 200ft spray and waves that crash over the tops of the lighthouses on the piers, there’s days when you can’t tell where the water meets the sky.
Lake Superior doesn’t have a monster, Lake Superior IS the monster.
One aspect of Lake Superior that supports that its the monster is that it doesn’t give up the bodies of people who die in it. Due to the cold, the bacteria that produce gases that typically make corpses float in water don’t work very fast, and so they don’t bloat the body up enough for it to leave the bottom.
It’s a dangerous lake, prone to vicious storms and when it gets you, it holds onto your body forever, refusing to relinquish it back to the surface.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot describes Lake Superior beautifully with the lyric
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called ‘gitche gumee’
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
Actually, that whole song is very haunting and beautiful. Every November 10th my school would hold a silence for the people that died.
This is the music video including footage of the ship before she sank. Idk if it’s just because I’m a Michigander and grew up hearing about this wreck every year, but this song sends shivers down my spine and makes me tear up. It’s just… haunting.
When I was on my way to Connecticut a few years ago, I had a layover in Chicago and it was my first time seeing any of the Great Lakes in person. Around here, most lakes are green or brown. I was shocked to see that Lake Michigan was in fact, the same color as the ocean - bright turquoise. I thought there had to be dye in the water or something. It couldn’t be real! But it was, and the water is crystal clear.
“As you should.” alright dont get sassy with me now
spotify: hey weird al, we super appreciate you recording a video for your top listeners this year. you made us look good right?
weird al: :)
spotify: ...right?
“do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less despair” still living in my head rent free
why didn't they just leave pompeii when the volcano erupted? were they stupid?
Fun fact: they did leave Pompeii! It's estimated that the population pre-eruption was something like 20,000, and the most likely number of dead in is in the range of 1,500-4,000. So most people just did leave Pompeii, it's just that not everyone left or could leave.
I'd have still left. the human body is capable of wonderful things in the face of danger
A lot of people died in the boats tho:/
I would have paddled away quickly
I take pretty hot baths so I think I'd be able to last a little longer than the average person
The scariest thing about pyroclastic flow is that if you can see it, no matter how far away it is, there is no possible way of surviving
I've done incredible things. I think you'd be surprised.
I know a lot about the volcano. they could learn much from me.
you should teach them
I will.
everyone who has ever died from anything is an idiot. I wouldn't have done that.
perhaps this could be chalked up to poor diet? I don't think explosions alone can do that.
their brains became AEROSOLS IN THEIR SKULLS.
what?? no
correction, some of their brain cells turned to glass, unless you want to bitch about the Smithsonian's knowledge base. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mount-vesuvius-turned-mans-brain-cells-glass-180976073/
that just doesn't sound correct. they should verify this information
sketchy thing for fun
it is so disgusting watching other white people reassure each other about taking breaks from social media and "prioritizing your mental health" when literally the one thing Palestinians are asking for more than anything is that people do not look away from what is happening to them
shockingly on the no reading comprehension site, people have no reading comprehension
did i say "fuck you and your mental health" or did i say that it's disgusting to watch white people reassuring each other about not paying attention to a genocide being enacted in real time (with direct contributions from their own governments in many cases) when that's exactly what the victims are asking for?
sometimes bad things happen and you will feel bad about it! that is normal and does not mean that you should just ignore them happening! of course you feel sad, it's fucking sad! of course you feel angry, it's fucking horrific and unjust! none of this means you should should look away to remain comfortable and undisturbed
also no one expects you to ignore your own life and be glued to the news 24/7 so stop pretending this is what people mean by "pay attention"
article from 2022, just to put things into perspective:
Over half of Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip have had suicidal thoughts in the past year, according to a report published by Save the Children on Wednesday. [...] Around 55 percent of children have contemplated suicide, while three out of five children have self-harmed, Save the Children revealed. [...] A report from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor last year found that nine out of 10 children in Gaza suffered from some form of conflict-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [...] Around 59 percent of caregivers documented an increase in youths experiencing difficulty in speech, language and communication, while 96 percent said they themselves felt unhappy and constantly anxious. “The children we spoke to for this report described living in a perpetual state of fear, worry, sadness and grief, waiting for the next round of violence to erupt, and feeling unable to sleep or concentrate,” said Jason Lee, director for Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territories. “The physical evidence of their distress – bedwetting, loss of ability to speak or to complete basic tasks – is shocking and should serve as a wakeup call to the international community.”
Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.
Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.
John Cusack, the voice actor for Dimitri in Anatasia (1997), shared his statement on Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
P.S. He has been a Palestinian supporter for years
I appreciate that he is cool but literally only on extremely normal website Tumblr would anyone ever introduce John Cusack as "the voice of Dmitri in Anastasia (1997)"
