in light of israel's looming invasion on rafah, south africa implored the icj to call for the protection of palestinians with new preliminary orders. the icj denied this request, insisting that its january orders would be sufficient in ensuring the safety of people residing in rafah.

we have all seen how israel responded to the icj verdict earlier this month. they have all but intensified their attacks on palestinians, their favorite of whom seem to be children. this will end in a bloodbath. palestinians, already malnourished and living in literal tents, will be bombarded, they will be shot, they will be slaughtered. and when i say palestinians, a lot of them are actual toddlers. the videos coming out of this are proof enough.

at this point, it has been made amply clear that palestinians will never experience safety in their own homeland. a lot of the families in gaza are trying to raise funds to get out of it, because there's nowhere left to go.

there is nowhere left to go. if these people don't get the funds necessary to escape, they will die.

it's vital that you go to operation olive branch's spreadsheet, choose a family that resonates with you, and donate as much as you can to their gofundme. every last dollar counts. one dollar could be the difference between life and death for a family. please don't fall victim to the bystander effect. your contribution matters, however little it may be. and whether you're able to donate or not, spread this to as many people as you can. each second we stay silent is a second an entire family is brutally massacred.

My favorite response to “that’s not a word” is “then why do you know what it means?”

Every time someone within 30 miles of me says “that’s a made up word” I am uncontrollably compelled to respond “ALL WORDS ARE MADE UP!”

In a college language class I took, we talked about the Jabberwocky poem and the professor had us try to explain every word in it. When we got to ‘outgrabe’ she asked why it was past tense and my response was “Cause the present tense is outgribe”. Her response was “That doesn’t answer the question but that brings up a better one. Why do you know that?”

"but there is something that happens when you are told you are too much. you begin to ask everyone, "how small would you like me?""

they should serve eggnog year round as a controversial milk

meant an alternative milk .

me and the family when the eggnog issue comes up

It’s uncomfortable how the cutting board and cabinets split the picture in halves.

It's meant to symbolize the division created by the eggnog

slightly parallel universe where tumblr allows alphabets from other languages to be used in peoples urls, so 2012 bloggers used katakana phonetically to shorten their ridiculously long fandom urls that contained every single ship theyve ever loved so that the whole goddamn thing could actually fit onscreen. a few users started using khmer and sinhala and other alphabets that are hard for monolingual english speakers to parse solely so it would be difficult for most tumblr users to @ them and/or track them down to block. this lead to discourse blogs demanding that people post selfies to "prove" that they arent using arabic for "nefarious purposes" and saying blatantly racist shit like "i block people using sanskrit on sight" or "can you claim ancestral reasons for using ge'ez?". someone gets called out for race-faking because they use chinese but their icon is a white woman, who turns out to just be a fictional character that they like, and they actually are chinese. several prominent and terminally online leftist blogs make bizarre claims about how using alphabets they dont know is basically the exact same thing as paywalls on academic articles because its "hiding information from people who cant afford college". it all culminates in staff making a meme that reeks of "how do you do fellow kids" vibes about how only cyberbullies use bangla, which is widely condemned by literally everyone as being racist as hell, and any further alphabet discourse from then on is shot down hard by merely posting tumblrstaffbangla.jpeg

Made the worst brownies ever created just now

Chat where did I go wrong

the reviews are in

Real and implied birds.

@elodieunderglass

As an Australian I love the whole "Australia is a death trap full of vicious deadly animals" cultural myth. Every place has some deadly animals in it who will fuck you over if you don't understand them; we're not more dangerous than anywhere else. BUT we get to look badarse by existing when people pretend we are. No downsides.

A very incomplete list of animals I find more terrifying than anything from Australia (except crocodiles because fuck crocodiles):

#in fairness. i would take on a dozen snapping turtles naked with a stick before I cross paths with a funnel web spider#Derin. Derin that is one of the most venomous spiders in the world#a snapping turtle could sever a finger but at least it doesn’t have venom#you can hold an alligator’s mouth shut with the same pressure it takes to hold hamburger.#but a box jelly??? a fucking box jelly??? you can’t slap them away from you. you will die

We have these remarkable things called 'antivenoms' and 'do not go swimming in box jellyfish waters you lunatic'. If a snake or spider bites me (which has never happened to me btw, despite being in their vicinity quite regularly; taking basic precautions like 'don't jam your fingers into random dark holes' mean you have to be REALLY unlucky to get bitten by anything) I can go to hospital and wait for a simple puncture wound to heal. If a snapping turtle takes a finger then that finger is just gone.

Some of the ocean life is fucked up but the great thing about that is that it is in the water. You can just not go in the water. Or go to a beach that's not full of box jellyfish. We have many such beaches.

Can you go to a picnic in a forest and take a toddler and let them run around unsupervised

No because that's how a toddler gets lost in the fucking forest and starves. There's uneven ground and holes to fall in and trees that toddlers can climb up but not back down and shit. Do you know how hard it is for a toddler to maintain a sense of direction in unfamiliar woodland? A little kid should always be in earshot if you're in natural areas they're not familiar with wtf.

Uh that's obviously what I meant??? "Unsupervised" as in "within earshot and eyesight and called back if they wander too far", like "not hovered over every step of the way" not "completely ignored"

We call that supervised here. What kind of obsessive helicopter society do you live in where that's unsupervised?

Yeah of course we do that, my family used to take us out bush all the time when we were little. You go out there and show them different mushrooms and trees and see if you can find any animal tracks on the roads so they can guess what animal made them, then you settle down with a cuppa while the kids build the worst 'shelter' you've ever seen and 'animal traps' that don't work at all and pretend they have to survive in the rugged outback. If there's enough of them in one place they'll form into two groups and invent some calvinball version of Capture the Flag that's going to result in at least two of them needing cuts disinfected by the end. I wouldn't let a toddler play in the bush without responsible older kids with them because they can't walk properly and the ground is really uneven, but once they're about five or older, yeah, that's what we did before the internet. Then they come back with some rock or pinecone or whatever and insist on bringing it home as a souvenir so now there's just another random bit of bush junk in your house for years.

This is so interesting to me! Like, I understand fully well that my interpretation of Australia has been a little skewed by the "everything there can kill you" jokes, but there are still absolutely animals there that scare me way more then anything in my home state of Arizona, or even most things in America (With notable exceptions).

Of course I'm not gonna claim to be a wildlife expert, but is there still not a significantly larger population of "f*ck you* animals in Australia then most other places? (<‐ question full of wonder and curiosity) Regardless, I do think a lot of the "no this place is scarier" "no this place is" conversation is dependent on having lived in or grown up in those areas.

I'm not gonna stick my hand in unfamiliar holes of course, but that doesn't mean I'd be able to identify everything dangerous is Australia, but in the same vein someone from Australia might not know whats making all those sounds at night in the forests of Arizona and even knowing myself, they're still freaky. It's just so interesting to me! Like, of course you're not scared of "insert animals of place", you lived there! Fascinating!

I've never been bitten by anything venomous in my life. (I did get stung by a bee when I was a kid but it's because I stepped on the bee without shoes on.) I think my stepdad got bitten by a venomous spider one time in his 80 years of life and had to go to the hospital for a bit but it was less serious than pretty much every other farm injury we had (most of which are a result of machinery). If you're super rural you see a snake occasionally and you leave the snake alone. If you're in a city, you usually don't.

Rural kids are trained in snake safety from the time they can walk, but they almost never need it beyond 'if you see a snake leave it alone and tell an adult'. I grew up on a farm and I think I saw 2 wild snakes in my entire childhood. (I saw more when I moved out to the desert.) The only people I've ever heard of dying of snakebite in recent times have been the occasional dumbfuck tourist doing dumbfuck tourist shit.

If you live in bear country, you've seen more wild bears than the average Australian has wild snakes. As for spiders, I couldn't tell you how many venomous ones I deal with because I never bothered to learn to identify different kinds of spiders. There's hunstmans (harmless) and daddy long legs (I think Americans call them cellar spiders; also harmless) and then there's the Dudes Who Live In The Garden and that's it. They've never been any kind of problem.

For people who are worried, here's the

Ultimate Guide To Staying Safe From Wild Animals In Australia

There you go, that's it, now you can survive the wildlife of Australia

Addendum: if you leave your boots outside, knock them out before you put them on again, in case there are any insects, arachnids, small mammals, etc hiding in the toes.

I was bitten by a red-back spider in suburban Canberra (it was in a tissue box) and I was fine - I mean my mum freaked out and made me go to the hospital but they just kept me in overnight for observation, I didn't need antivenine. My father in law (seriously rural) has been bitten so many times he's immune.

Gosh, your rules for "How To Survive In Snake Country" is EXACTLY the SAME as "How To Survive In Snake Country" in the USA!!!!

(I LOVED reading about poisonous animals as a kid.)

perfection

This is so fascinating to me bc I grew up where black bears are just a part of life and if you see one and it's in your business and you can't just leave it alone, mostly what you want to do is yell or bang pots and pans together and they fuck off.

The video that was going around where the guy like... shooed a bear out of his barbecue? That was taken about 15m from where my parents live.

I was truly baffled when my ex-gf, who grew up in the suburbs, was telling me about how scary it was when a black bear was outside the house they rented for a vacation in the county where I grew up. Like... why? You were in the house, right? You didn't need to leave right then? It wasn't acting rabid? The bear wasn't trying to get in, he was just... doing bear things. Existing. If you needed to leave, just... make noise. The bear will fuck off, unless it's rabid, and then, yeah you've got a problem.

I think this is really just about what you're used to. We're so used to our wildlife that it's just ... not scary to us, no matter where we're from. That's not that scary, it's just life. Bears get shooed out of yards, you don't put your trash out overnight unless you want your trash cans to end up down the hill with huge dents in them and Mom giving Dad some I Told You So looks. And y'all don't go swimming in box jelly water. Pretty simple.

The point about rabies is pretty valid though.

Oh no that one is pretty legit.

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

i had to phone a taxi today, scary

every time i see this post i think of that person who posted on reddit that they wanted to go to subway for the first time but they were scared they would say the wrong thing so someone gave them step by step instructions for the entire process and what all the choices would be and when they would ask what question and i just think

someone will

someone out there will see you and say "yes. the world is scary. but let me hold your hand and show you how to do it anyways"

everyone needs that someone, and everyone can be that someone

The subreddit r/explainlikeimscared is a surprisingly good resource for this. People are always very kind and thorough from what I've seen, and I spend a decent amount of time there giving walkthroughs and answering questions when I know the process.

Source: Vinland Saga ヴィンランド･サガ

by Makoto Yukimura

I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.

If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?

Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can't go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can't work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.

Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you'd let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.

if you want to test your luck, this site lets you choose a random human bone :) https://randomlistgenerator.com/human-bones

y'all, there are 206 bones in the human body.

22 of those make up the skull.

33 make up the spine.

that's a combined total of 55 bones that, if removed, would kill you dead or at the very least result in severe brain damage, nerve damage, or paralysis at best. that's a 26.6% chance of death or terrible injury - 1 in 4. those are horrid odds, worse than Russian roulette. and that's not even tallying all the other bones whose removal would instantly send you to the hospital with extremely painful injuries, costing you a good chunk of your million dollars to fix.

it's not worth it!

first try, which is why I said "none." I know what kind of luck I have.

It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.

So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.

What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.

In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.

This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.

Reblog every time

and on the fifth day god invented people who are younger and more successful than you in order to teach you some kind of fucked up and evil lesson