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Climate crisis is coming for all of us. We need to vote for people who are not insulated from reality via donor bribes.

We need a robust EPA. The current Supreme Court wants to end the EPA and Federal power to regulate our air and water. Never forget.

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AFK Arena Single Day quotes?

I posted what I had earlier but the short version of the story is: During its first year of runtime, AFK Arena released a set of quotes of characters answering the question "Why aren't you in a relationship?" or something of the sort, in celebration of Singles' Day (11th November). This was only posted in Chinese but some good soul translated it into English in the AFK Discord server.

This was the first major confirmation that Baden and Thane had a thing for each other that didn't just come from their backstories with Thane saying that while he once was in love, that relationship wasn't allowed in the eyes of society so it never came to be, and Baden saying he's saving himself "for a very special 'him.'"

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Crying at the idea that every like 50 feet baden is like hey respen whats thane doing hey respen whats thane doing hey respen

Edit: here's the entire quote

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I've never met anyone doubting Thaden as one of the most canon-implied ships but between their singles day entries referencing each other, Thane being repeatedly called Baden's light, Thane thinking Baden was talking to him when saying the word beloved, all the pining in the webcomic, "Even Thane has left you," and now Baden's victory animation being producing a flower and going "Thane, let's go," I'm not sure if anyone even CAN doubt them at this point.

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yesterday was the anniversary of the no gun ri massacre. remember that south korea is a hypermilitarized hypercapitalist neocolony of the U.S. empire that was built on the blood of our people and continues to kill korean people today.

[image ID=a tweet from the account @nodutdol, reading "On July 26, 1950, the No Gun Ri Massacre began. For three days, US soldiers butchered 400 Korean refugees hiding in a tunnel. The US and South Korea denied this history until 1999. No Gun Ri is just the most famous of 200 reported civilian massacres by US troops in the south. 🧵" attached is a greyscale photo of two tunnels situated in a hilly landscape.

the following four pictures are slides with text, sourced to Nodutdol. they read:

"TESTIMONIES FROM SURVIVORS & PERPETRATORS

"They were shooting at us from this side. We ran out the other side, but they were shooting at us there, too." - Keom Choja, age 12 in 1950

"They were checking every wounded person and shooting them if they moved" - Chung Ku Hun, survivor, age 17 in 1950

"It was assumed there were enemy in these people." - Herman Patterson, ex-rifleman

"The command looked at it as getting rid of the problem in the easiest way… shoot them in a group." - Edward L. Daily, ex-machine gunner

"We just annihilated them." - Norman Tinkler, ex-machine gunner

No US Army records on the No Gun Ri Massacre were ever found. However, in 2000, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon received a captured North Korean document in August 1950 which described the discovery of 400 bodies at No Gun Ri.

The 2001 South Korean report on the massacre mentioned a South Korean ex-US intelligence agent who claimed to have confirmed the massacre for the US by interviewing local villagers in the fall of 1950.

"Indescribably gruesome scenes… shrubs and weeds in the area and a creek running through the tunnels were drenched in blood, and the area was covered with two or three layers of bodies." - North Korean newspaper Chosun Inminbo, August 19, 1950

After the AP report, the US and South Korean governments published separate reports in 2001.

The US acknowledged an "unknown number" of people died at No Gun Ri, but denied that orders were given to shoot them. The US report suggested the massacre could have been an accident, or provoked by refugees attacking soldiers.

President Bill Clinton wrote a statement of "regret" for civilians who "lost their lives" at No Gun Ri. The US has never apologized, taken responsibility, or offered compensation for the massacre.

The South Korean report noted that key US documents were mysterious unable to be found during the investigation. National Security Director Oh Young-ho said, "We believe there was an order to fire."

No Gun Ri survivors denounced the US report as a "whitewash" of history. Six years later, the US Army admitted it had found but did not disclose a letter from the US ambassador addressed to the Secretary of State from the day the No Gun Ri Massacre began. The letter read: "If refugees appear from north of US lines they will receive warning shots, and if they then persist in advancing they will be shot.""

this slide contains a greyscale photo of statues of a group of people carrying packs. it's captioned as "Commemorative statue at No Gun Ri Memorial Peace Park, built in 2015."

the final pictures are screenshots of tweets by @nodutdol. the first reads: "The No Gun Ri revelations opened the floodgates to other Korean War survivors' testimonies, which had been suppressed by decades of US-backed fascism and the anti-free speech National Security Law. In 2005, the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed." attached is a screenshot of a slide reading:

"Summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report:

  • 9,461 reports of civilian massacres
  • 154 mass graves
  • Evidence for 1,461 massacres found, including 200 done by U.S. troops
  • 82% of massacres involved US or ROK forces"

the final tweet reads: "No Gun Ri is the most famous US massacre from the Korean War, but it's not the only one. No Gun Ri exposes the US myth of "saving" or "liberating" Korea. In practice, the US saw all Koreans as "gooks"—racially inferior threats to be controlled or eliminated." attached is a black and white photo of a group of Korean people with their hands on their heads, watched by a soldier with a gun. the group is walking down a dirt road, and in the background a destroyed building is billowing smoke. /end ID]

stop asking gay people which one is the man and which one is the woman. ask them which one is out of touch and which one is out of time.

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Got back from seeing the movie again and a tiny theme I liked was the solidarity in the younger POC generation vs the older gen.

Margo, Hobie, Pavitr and Miles all had eachother’s back. They fought together, they helped eachother in small ways like Hobie telling Miles to use the palms, and big ways like Miles saving Captain Singh and Margo letting Miles go “home”.

They could’ve stopped him, they could’ve not helped eachother but they did. Because they understood and they all realized what was wrong with the Spider Society. All of them at the end came together to support and help Miles, in the way the rest of the spiders couldn’t and didn’t.

And when you put that into perspective with Miguel and Jessica, older POC that gave no support. They believe that Miles has to suffer in order to become Spider-Man, that pain will always have to happen.

But the others don’t believe that, they know that best way to be a hero is uplift and help eachother. Often the parents, the older generation compromise their morals and others for the future, for them to grow up safer and yet the future generation always has to reckon with the consequences of those actions without even having a say in the first place.

That’s a damn message, and I love that they used the younger poc generation to show that because this does happen in real life, there is a difference and often our parents, our grandparents believe that pain has to happen for our identity to be created.

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how’d you make a blank post?

  • you make a bulleted list and press tab until the text either is all the way on the right or it disappears depending on the resolution of the computer it’s viewed on. also, it doesn’t work on mobile.
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please tell me

This is the most hilarious thing to see on mobile.

I don’t know if anyone has ever done this before but, here ya go… The Different Types of Fanfiction! 

I probably left a few out, but these are the most common, compared to their base fiction’s canon plot. Enjoy! XD

The crack fic is enough for a reblog.

then there are these favs….  ;)

me normally: i'm not personally a huge fan of modern art

me around right wingers: I love modern art sooooo much and I think there should be litter boxes in schools also

fucking obliterated lmao

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit