That’s really interesting, usually when someone has a specific target, they don’t plan a minimum timeline for how long they will fight them, they usually aim to finish the job and then be done. It’s almost like they’re just trying to do the most damage to the Palestinian people as possible for as long as they can get away with it and Hamas has fuckall to do with it
[ID. Video of a woman recording an opera performance when her cat, fluffy and with bulging eyes, hops into frame. She stops singing and tries to push the cat slightly out of the way, but on her next cue the cat starts meowing before she can sing. The woman starts laughing as the cat continues meowing to the music, as though it was singing as well. End ID.]
More evidence that cats bond with us by mirroring us.
I’ve read accounts here on the Tumblr of a trans man whose cat lowered the pitch of their meow, after he started taking T. So I suspect this woman sings a lot around the house, and her cat is like: “That’s just how we do things in this clowder.”
This works as an answer to the metaphorical problem because the key is for the hedgehogs and prcupines to be a bit flexible about how they position themselves and keep thier spines pointed in such a fashion to minimize poking, just like how in human relationships you have to be a bit flexible and concious of your position relative to others, and to manage your sharp bits to minimize the harm you do to others.
My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem’, they look back at me, clear message.
What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me… the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet”
“Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.
I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that.
But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he’s fairly certain I’m just not applying myself properly here.
another essential read, maybe even as a counter/companion to “conflict is not abuse” (which i am now dipping into some criticisms on) is david graeber’s “the bully’s pulpit” about the relationship between power, performance, and domination.
honestly, the part about cowardice was extremely striking to me.
“Most people dislike wars and feel the world would be a better place without them. Yet contempt for cowardice seems to move them on a far deeper level. After all, desertion—the tendency of conscripts called up for their first experience of military glory to duck out of the line of march and hide in the nearest forest, gulch, or empty farmhouse and then, when the column has safely passed, figure out a way to return home—is probably the greatest threat to wars of conquest. Napoleon’s armies, for instance, lost far more troops to desertion than to combat. Conscript armies often have to deploy a significant percentage of their conscripts behind the lines with orders to shoot any of their fellow conscripts who try to run away. Yet even those who claim to hate war often feel uncomfortable celebrating desertion.
About the only real exception I know of is Germany, which has erected a series of monuments labeled “To the Unknown Deserter.” The first and most famous, in Potsdam, is inscribed: “TO A MAN WHO REFUSED TO KILL HIS FELLOW MAN.” Yet even here, when I tell friends about this monument, I often encounter a sort of instinctive wince. “I guess what people will ask is: Did they really desert because they didn’t want to kill others, or because they didn’t want to die themselves?” As if there’s something wrong with that.”
Hey can i rip your wings off? Haha sorry that was wierd. Can i tear your halo from your head? Haha omg that was so random. Can i tear the divinity from your wretched form, removing you from the guiding hand and will of that which made you? Can i supplant your divine spark with wires and cables? Can i replace your golden halo with a golden circuitboard? Hypothetically
this is such vital information !! fight genocide by learning and only using the Palestinian words for the towns and cities of Palestine, because they are PALESTINIAN.
do not let Palestine be erased through language. the colonisation of language is just as deadly.
(edit with the link! please reblog this version instead!!!!)
“why are you obsessed with talking about fat people” im kind of very affected by being fat for every second of every day for my whole life my bad bro. i’ll do better
Fandom is amazing we’re all just writing stories for each other and making gifs and video edits and fanart and for what? For sharing the joy of it, the love of it. So we can look at another human and see ourselves
Every time I talk to an irl person about what I do here they’re like “are you going to monetize that” and I’m like, you do not understand. You do not get the point. I am doing 10-15 hours a week of academic research and writing for pure and simple love of my clan. Tumblr is my cave and we’re all just in here drawing pictographs on the walls, leave your currency OUTSIDE.
According to the review I just read this video offers more of an explanation for why Palatine is still alive than the new movie does lmao
the way he turns into a polygonal 3D object as he falls is fucking poetic cinema
Every time I watch this I break out into giggles it’s just so funny idk even how to explain it but the animation and the dialogue and everything it gets me every time I love this
[ID: an edited Calvin and Hobbes panel where Calvin sits, smiling, at a lemonade stand with a sign taped to the front of the table. It reads: It’s time to retire that other meme and replace it with this template. Change my mind. Next image is the same meme but the sign reads: Steven Crowder does not deserve a meme format. Change my mind. /end]
See this just feels so much better. I’ve read enough of those comics to know that Calvin has some really deep insights rattling around in his head. And look how happy and attentive he looks. You could absolutely have a polite, intelligent, and enriching conversation with this kid. Meanwhile Steven Crowder is so financially incentivized to always look like the smartest guy in any given room that the only way to change his mind is with a 2x4 to the side of the head. Which, I admit, would be enriching in its own way.
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Just something I really want to share on here because it’s important.
this is really important to remember, even if you said something stupid and don’t feel like repeating it- it can still feel isolating to folks with hearing and auditory processing problems!
i took so long to fix these glitches they gave people stockholm syndrome. anyway my advice for designing software that appeals to everyone is you don’t
For anyone who is unaware, MAP means “minor attracted person” though this is nothing but a false name Pedophiles use in attempt to weasel their way into the Queer community. If you see anyone using this flag, block them and report them if you can.
The whole MAP thing was made up by chucklefucks on 4chan to push the idea that queer people are child molesters and dangerous for your children to be around and want to normalize yada yada you know the drill. It might’ve been used sincerely by some people at a later point, but it wasn’t originally that, and it did pretty much flicker out of existence once the people running the accounts got bored. It was basically a mildly more successful version of the “Super Straight” thing we had a while back.
Backstory: This gentleman escaped from Central Park Zoo in March after his enclosure there was vandalized, and there was a lot of concern over whether or not he could/would survive out of captivity. Unconcerned by this, Flaco settled himself in a particular area of Central Park and spent all the spring, summer, and most of the fall eating large numbers of rats, and genially allowing himself to be photographed by an ever-growing cadre of bird paparazzi.
Then a few weeks ago, possibly irked by repeated mobbing by assorted hawks and corvids, Flaco took off from his normal haunts and went on a brief tour of apartment-building courtyards on the Lower East Side. Now he’s on the Upper West Side, within sight of Central Park (so food’s no problem, should he feel like heading back that way to hunt), and shouting for everybody to hear that he owns the place. The image above shows him on the water tower of an apartment building at 86th and CPW.
If you look back through the Manhattan Bird Alert and Above 96th Twitter feeds, you’ll see many splendid pictures of him. He’s a handsome lad, and it’s good to see him thriving.
What’s in his future? Hard to tell. (Though some people on Twitter are suggesting he should run for mayor.) He may head upstate at some point. But he may decide he’s quite happy to be a Manhattanite. As a fellow one, I wish him very well. :)
I love that an animal escaped from the zoo and everyone just went “no let’s see where he’s going with this”
as someone who has actually tried to get an unflighted adult Eurasian eagle owl back into his box while actually having a good grip on him, I can tell you with reasonable certainty there is no damn way they were ever going to catch him again.
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When the death toll for Gaza goes up from disease, Israel will claim deniability, that those deaths were not deliberate and calculated. You see it with how settlers will talk about the genocide of Natives, that most of us “just died from disease then colonizers ‘accidentally spread’”. It is NEVER an accident. Famines and Diseases and always used as tool for genocide by colonizers
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