‘I wish for death’ - Twelve-year-old Alma says. She fled bombing and shelling twice before the third place they sheltered was bombed, She was rescued from the rubble only to find out both her parents and all four of her siblings had been killed. She found her 18-month-old brother in an unimaginable state. Her little brother was beheaded from the rubble after the IOF massacred them.
Source: BBC
full article here, though the article is written a couple days ago, this interview was conducted in the start of December last year, after the December 2 israeli air strikes
hmmm… there’s probably an INFINITELY more humane way to do this…
i get that they’re not killing them and they end up fine, but imagine the trauma of you, a mammal, going through a long ass tube, not knowing what’s going to happen to you, and you can’t breathe. 🤷♀️
They get misted with water throughout the thing, and it results in fewer injuries than the ‘ladder’ method. Also, it’s a fish. It never knows what’s going to happen to it at any point in time throughout its life.
Also, I, a mammal, have paid 80 bucks to get into a water park to get the opportunity to feel like that fish, and that motherfucker gets in for free every day is fish day at the fish waterpark
well the MOST humane thing would be to not build dams blocking salmon migration routes, nor create a society where there are only resources allocated to solving the problem at all because blocking the salmon endangers the profits of a segment of the food industry.
Buuuut since we’re past that already, here are a couple of additional thoughts:
1 this IS the more humane alternative, which was invented to lower injury and death rates associated with previous techniques. When a better alternative is revealed it will probably replace this one. But this one is a pretty huge improvement over the other methods, one of which killed off something like 80% of the fish involved.
A study of the above fish tube was conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in 2017 on the Columbia River and showed a much higher success rate. In that study, only one fish died (“due to a human error during the system setup”) and only 3 percent had signs of injury. So. The next best improvement might have to be “remove dam”
2 they are on their way to die. That is where we are helping them get to. That’s the end goal of the salmon’s migration. They on their way to mutate, start rotting alive, have an orgy, and die. That’s where the tube is taking them.
So like, it’s not going to be the weirdest thing they experience this month, is what i’m saying.
hmmm… there’s probably an INFINITELY more humane way to do this…
i get that they’re not killing them and they end up fine, but imagine the trauma of you, a mammal, going through a long ass tube, not knowing what’s going to happen to you, and you can’t breathe. 🤷♀️
They get misted with water throughout the thing, and it results in fewer injuries than the ‘ladder’ method. Also, it’s a fish. It never knows what’s going to happen to it at any point in time throughout its life.
Also, I, a mammal, have paid 80 bucks to get into a water park to get the opportunity to feel like that fish, and that motherfucker gets in for free every day is fish day at the fish waterpark
well the MOST humane thing would be to not build dams blocking salmon migration routes, nor create a society where there are only resources allocated to solving the problem at all because blocking the salmon endangers the profits of a segment of the food industry.
Buuuut since we’re past that already, here are a couple of additional thoughts:
1 this IS the more humane alternative, which was invented to lower injury and death rates associated with previous techniques. When a better alternative is revealed it will probably replace this one. But this one is a pretty huge improvement over the other methods, one of which killed off something like 80% of the fish involved.
A study of the above fish tube was conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in 2017 on the Columbia River and showed a much higher success rate. In that study, only one fish died (“due to a human error during the system setup”) and only 3 percent had signs of injury. So. The next best improvement might have to be “remove dam”
2 they are on their way to die. That is where we are helping them get to. That’s the end goal of the salmon’s migration. They on their way to mutate, start rotting alive, have an orgy, and die. That’s where the tube is taking them.
So like, it’s not going to be the weirdest thing they experience this month, is what i’m saying.
i always think abt my cousin in greece who’s like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she’ll be like “wow…. a real life american barbecue… will there be red cups?” you bet your ass there’ll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue
When my 12 year old niece came to the US for the first time she was apparently super disappointed with LA because there were too many Koreans and it just felt like home. But when she finally saw a Midwest suburb she got super excited because she was like, “All the houses are far apart just like in the movies!” Apparently she also got excited at the size of the big gulp cups at 7/11 lmao
“BREAKING: The UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan. The resolution passed 14-0, with the US abstaining for the first time.”
In response, Netanyahu immediately said he was cancelling his trip to the US.
The resolution, put forward by Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Korea and Switzerland, calls for an unconditional release of all hostages on all sides.
Russia attempted to put the word “permanent” into the ceasefire language but the US voted against it.
Hey, new writers. Hi. Hello. Love what you’re doing there. Please, for the love of god remember to use paragraph breaks.
I love reading work by my students but because of my adhd when one of them decides that they’re allergic to paragraph breaks I start crying. It takes me like ten tries to read a single page. My eyes can’t focus on any of the writing. I literally get headaches sometimes from it.
I’m not exaggerating here for funny internet points. Please use paragraph breaks.
it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear I don’t even think that would be the case for non childrens media, either. perhaps holding every single story up to the same standard of “does it follow the acceptable narrative path or is it evil propaganda” isn’t the most anti-fascist thing, either. maybe.
“you are morally obligated to murder your enemies” is also perhaps not the most anti-fascist thing
“The death penalty is the only true form of justice” is not actually something I think children should be taught.
In a unanimous decision, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel had to act “without delay” to allow the “provision… of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance”.
The latest ruling by the court in The Hague comes after South Africa asked it to bolster an order issued to Israel in January to take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza.
South Africa said it had an obligation to act to prevent genocide as a signatory of the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.
The country has been highly critical of Israel’s military operation in Gaza and its governing African National Congress (ANC) has a long history of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
is anyone else constantly getting those scam asks about Gaza? like asking for donations messaging random people with barely any blog history?
it’s sooo annoying…..
anyway go donate to some real charity like maybe project olive branch or esims for gaza. I make sketches if you show proof of donation so yea. go donate to a real charity, many of them accept donation as little as 2$ (1$ often doesn’t work because of processing fees)
I get them CONSTANTLY! I firmly believe they’re scams because of the lack of blog history, but also because they never actually link what they want people to donate to. And to top it all off, most of them are worded the exact same way, like it’s a poorly written template they all use. Just- can people not use a fucking GENOCIDE to get money out of people? They’re pretending to be the people who actually need help and it’s so messed up
yes!! it’s in extremely poor taste, just evil. they are always almost the same message, maybe slightly changed. so disgusting. we’re truely living in hell
This is the conservative/christian sign for abortion. This is the sign used by those who are pro-life. This is a sign that is sexist, that demonizes abortion, that is anti women’s autonomy and female rights. It declares fetuses as full babies someone is throwing away. This sign can be genuinely triggering to deaf women who have had abortions.
If you want to go full-neutral, you can finger sign abortion.
Or, the scientific version (pregnancy-remove) that is considered the leftist way –
Do not spread the pro-life version. Conservatives specifically try to push their ways to sign things as the default. You are unintentionally helping overpower deaf women’s rights advocates.
Photographer Scott Taylor caught an ‘angry bird’ in real life. His camera captured a moment in which a cardinal’s wings were tucked tightly into its body, making the bird look like a fluffy red ball floating in midair.
This comic has been going around, uncredited. So I don’t know who the artist is. I’d like to credit them properly for being so accurate in describing TERFs but for now I cannot.
I’ll edit this if I ever find out who the artist is, though.
there’s a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn’t and the park service keeps thinking it’s dead and then it keeps blooming! well they’re removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they’ve said it’s finally time for stumpy to go and they’re going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they’re also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral
For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.
It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!
I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.
Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.
The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.
Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.
there’s a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn’t and the park service keeps thinking it’s dead and then it keeps blooming! well they’re removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they’ve said it’s finally time for stumpy to go and they’re going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they’re also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral
For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.
It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!
I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.
Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.
The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.
Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.
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