"I am exhausted. We are exhausted. If fatigue can be worn, we are all wearing threadbare shirts. We long for the Gaza we once knew, for the lives we once lived, and for the selves we once were." ~ Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi www.thenation.com/article/worl...

weeping at a long term study of former lab chimps who were moved to a sanctuary where they could sign freely with caretakers & each other & did so constantly & creatively—even to themselves pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Chapter 31, Women

The Iranian city of Tabriz, as depicted by the 16th-century Ottoman polymath Matrakçı Nasuh, More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-maps-of-matrakci-nasuh-ottoman-polymath?utm_content=bufferf3e65&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

on one hand i subscribe to the high minded ideal of expanding your horizons beyond what you liked as a teenager but on the other hand system of a down has just been hitting and i'm not going to question it

said it before but this app really is a test of how much smug ignorance you're willing to put up with just because it's not coming from a fascist

#coexist www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7eO...

Sweden is now entirely cage-free for laying hens, a feat achieved not with legislation but via consumer pressure and retailer pledges. Campaign group Project 1882 confirmed in June 2025 that the last 'enriched' cages were empty, freeing some 17 million birds. buff.ly/ytF8oMO #ShareGoodNewsToo

sometimes you just gotta back yourself

i'm going to stop limiting myself by constantly imagining apocalyptic conditions where all my current affordances are stripped away. just kidding

A sister as well as a friend of Neri Alvarado Borges confirm that he is now back in Venezuela. Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

they precision engineered that coldplay concert ceo adultery psyop to knock everyone into a more rudimentary form of consciousness from 15 years ago

some of you need to read this

yeah eat shit haters

What is even happening. Am I dead

It's honestly sad to see how far vibes-based autodidact cosmologies have fallen. None of these people are fit to kiss Menocchio's boots.

gm

yeah they call me the limestone lothario. the chalk hawk. the rogue of rügen and the rover of dover. aubigny archfiend and Indiana Stones. i’m the CaCO₃Demon — yes ms mackenzie? yes. stratigraphy quiz on monday. major units, diagnostic fossils. yes. i’ll release the practice problem set today

hey guys as you know i had a stroke in mid may and ive been on medical leave from work since then to recover i need help with medical bills and living expenses thank you all 🥺 venmo: @audenh cashapp: $audenh PayPal: jazz.june(@gmail.com)

contender for most bizarrely wrong opinion of all time?

it can also be a beautiful meadow where stalls are set up every other saturday ♥️

This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb

Up by four o’clock, and hard at my multiplicacion-table, which I am now almost master of, and so made me ready and to my office.

just an average resistance person channeling the raw material of history this hard is kind of awesome in the original sense to me

this is the most prog rock thing i've seen in my life

UNESCO has added Walking to the Store to the Intangible Cultural Heritage List

one of my zero tolerance write someone off completely phrases. extreme weakness of spirit and passivity of mind

charmed by this opener to a review

This is his time.

most of human culture is gossip between freaks, but this is the bad kind because it is based on a rift in the money fandom, which is unusually prone to publicly melting down since the nixon administration due to mysteries

so much of the FT is just gossip between some freaks lol

need to try getting into reading novels and stories and such instead of just *about* them. i'm giving myself license to be transported into the other world which is the same as this one. but as if it's another one. unto itself. but within this one

every once in a while i remember that the too-online young nationalists in egypt are identifying as "neo-pharaonists" timep.org/2023/09/20/e...

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE 3

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE 2

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE 1

difficult to express how pointless posting in any form anywhere feels right now, even difficulter to express what a hit this is for me personally

hummingbird clearwing #moths

Tunic with Confronting Catfish Nasca-Wari, 800–850 CE (Peru) 📷The Met

While christian nationalists cut life-saving public institutions with the explicit aim to force all forms of social support back to church and family, much poorer countries have levied their public institutions to create a citizenry that can cope with disasters. www.peoplesworld.org/article/cuba...