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High level Tetris competition is cool because it's as if you could play Call of Duty so well that you could access new levels beyond the ones put there by the developers, with new challenges no one had intended, and keep competing with people on how far you could penetrate into the vast, uncharted portion of the game that lay beyond.

gwenbeads , to random
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I feel like all that time I’ve been practicing shading is starting to pay off.

Sitting atop a fractal surface of black holes, Tribert tries to make Adenine, one of the molecules in DNA, but he didn’t get it quite right, probably because he got distracted by the cats. Maybe next time, Tribert.

Tribert Tries to Make Life
Doodle No. 140

8” square

Ink, highly lightfast (fade resistant) watercolor pencils and paint, and mica paint on Arches 300 GSM 100% cotton paper

You can find my original paintings, like this one, in my Etsy shop, gwenbeads.

JohnAltringham , to random
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A quick portrait of one of the local pine martens.

I brought only two watercolour tubes with me, so can't do justice to its rich coat.

breadandcircuses , to random
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Capitalism is killing us.

This unrelenting senseless drive for economic growth at all costs means more of everything — more cars, more roads, more shopping centers, more cheap disposable plastic products, more waste, more factories, more fossil fuels, more CO2 emissions, and more global heating.

And that means more storms, more floods, more wildfires, more smoke, more droughts, more famines, more extinctions, and many many more deaths.

It's time to stop. Turn it off.

For us to have even a small chance of avoiding setting off irreversible chain reactions far beyond human control we need drastic, immediate, far-reaching emissions cuts at the source.

When your bathtub is about to overflow, you don't go looking for buckets or start covering the floor with towels — you start by turning off the tap as soon as you possibly can. Leaving the water running means ignoring or denying the problem, delaying doing anything to resolve it, and downplaying its consequences.

That's from page 202 in “The Climate Book” -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/

shoq , to random
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…This is a good time to remind everyone you know that fascists are typically elected by the democracies they destroy. If 2024 goes sideways, this could be the last time any of us vote in a real election. If you think that’s hyperbole, you haven’t been paying attention.

DropBear , to israel group
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Remember Hind Rajab.





@palestine @israel

The death of Hind Rajab [Panel 1] Hind was fleeing Gaza City with her family when their car appeared to come under fire from an Israeli tank. There is a recording of Hind's 15 year old cousin Lalan speaking on the phone to a dispatcher at the Palestinian Red Crescent They are shooting at us. The tank is next to us [Drawing of a Merkava tank] Then there is gunfire and screams and the line cuts out [Panel 2] Hind was now trapped in the car with the dead bodies of her family. She was 6 years old. Hind stayed on the line with the ambulance service for three hours. I'm so scared, please come, Come take me. You will come and take me? For three hours [Drawing of a Tar 21 Tavor assault rifle] [Panel 3] The Palestinian Red Crescent negotiated with the Israel army for safe passage so an ambulance crew could go an save Hind. Agreement was reached and an ambulance crew was dispatched They were never heard £rom again. Hind was never heard from again. [Drawing of a Kia Picanto] [Panel 4] I'm so scared, please come, come take me. You will come and take me?
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    loren , (edited ) to random
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    Edit: physical stickers are sold out, digital stickers and wallpapers are still available.

    The nuthatch stickers are finally here! They are 3.91” x 2.31” glossy UV protected waterproof vinyl stickers and you can get them over on my ko-fi shop! I also put up a digital version of the sticker as a transparent PNG for use as an emoji or messaging sticker or desktop icon or whatever else you can think of! And if that all isn’t enough I have also listed the full image as a 16x9 phone wallpaper for download as well!

    Please let me know if you plan to buy more than say 4 stickers as that may change the shipping a bit especially if you are not in the US.

    I am very happy with how these turned out so please let me know if there are any other pictures of mine that you’d like to see as stickers!

    Nuthatch sticker: https://ko-fi.com/s/33675fd31a

    Digital sticker: https://ko-fi.com/s/562277ac67

    Phone wallpaper: https://ko-fi.com/s/9760982c9b

    Ko-fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/loren_nature/shop

    appassionato , to palestine group
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    “They were asked to go to so-called ‘safe zones’ and by history, we know safe zones that are announced unilaterally are not safe. Civilians are protected under international humanitarian law; they should be safe everywhere and not in zones or specific zones.”

    Arwa Mhanna

    @palestine

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Voting for Biden means you have the freedom to vote for another president in 4 years.

    Voting for Trump means you lose that very freedom.

    appassionato , to palestine group
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    A girl pours water next to a tent sprayed painted with a message thanking pro-Palestine Columbia University students in Rafah, southern Gaza, on May 2 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

    @palestine




    maddad , to random
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    The King has no penis...

    MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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    Today in labor history April 30 1886: 50,000 workers in Chicago were on strike. 30,000 more joined in the next day. The strike halted most of Chicago’s manufacturing. On May 3rd, the Chicago cops killed four unionists. Activists organized a mass public meeting and demonstration in Haymarket Square on May 4. During the meeting, somebody threw a bomb at the cops. The explosion and subsequent gunfire killed seven cops and four civilians. Nobody ever identified the bomber. None of the killer cops was charged. However, the authorities started arresting anarchists throughout Chicago.

    Ultimately, they tried and convicted eight anarchist leaders in a kangaroo court. The men were: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fisher, George Engel, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, Samuel Felden and Oscar Neebe. Only two of the men were even present when the bomb was thrown. The court convicted seven of murder and sentenced them to death. Neebe was give fifteen years. Parson’s brother testified at the trial that the real bomb thrower was a Pinkerton agent provocateur. This was entirely consistent with the Pinkertons modus operandi. They used the agent provocateur, James McParland, to entrap and convict the Molly Maguires. As a result, twenty of them were hanged and the Pennsylvania mining union was crushed. McParland also tried to entrap WFM leader, Big Bill Haywood, for the murder of Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. Steunenberg had crushed the WFM strike in 1899, the same one in which the WFM had blown up a colliery. However, Haywood had Clarence Darrow representing him. And Darrow proved his innocence.

    On November 11, 1887, they executed Spies, Parson, Fisher and Engel. They sang the Marseillaise, the revolutionary anthem, as they marched to the gallows. The authorities arrested family members who attempted to see them one last time. This included Parson’s wife, Lucy, who was also a significant anarchist organizer and orator. In 1905, she helped cofound the IWW. Moments before he died, Spies shouted, "The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today." And Engel and Fischer called out, "Hurrah for anarchism!" Parsons tried to speak, but was cut off by the trap door opening beneath him.

    Workers throughout the world protested the trial, conviction and executions. Prominent people spoke out against it, including Clarence Darrow, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and William Morris. The Haymarket Affair inspired thousands to join the anarchist movement, including Emma Goldman. And it is the inspiration for International Workers’ Day, which is celebrated on May 1st in nearly every country in the world except the U.S.

    You can read my complete bio of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/

    You can read my article on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/

    And my article on the Molly Maguires Here:
    https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/

    breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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    We’ve all done the purple circle. It’s wrong, but it’s forgivable.

    For the past 10 years, corporations and governments and major media have been doing the green circle. That’s wrong, it’s murderous, and it’s unforgivable.

    NOTE: The last 12 months have averaged 1.58ºC above pre-industrial temperatures.

    ml , to random
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    When some things end in your life, often there is a certain moment, a certain episode, where you know you cannot do it any longer. You know it's over. I had my final and complete disillusionment with my country the summer they shot and killed 223 and wounded thousands of demonstrators using live fire during the 'The Great March of Return'. Every weekend, from March 2018 until December 2019, Gazans would gather along the border with Israel, with thousands and thousands in attendance. They wanted to break the siege and attract the world's attention to their plight and oppression under so many years of brutal occupation, with no end in sight.

    They were quiet demonstrations: no Israeli soldier was hurt in any of them (there may have been one case of counter-violence by Palestinians, and maybe not even that). Israel's murderous overreaction that time was placing tens, or maybe even hundreds of snipers in positions overlooking the border and the adjacent Gaza lands.

    Those snipers shot and shot and shot people in unbelievable numbers. on May 14th, 2018, 52 Palestinians were killed in one demonstration. Rouzan al-Najjar, a 20-year-old nurse, was sniped to death two weeks later, on the 1st of June. She was hundreds if meters away from the fence. Her death may have been what broke me. Or maybe it was the complete obedience of everyone in the IDF. No one said: we cannot do that. This is insane. No one felt bad about it. I felt like I was losing my mind. Or maybe it was the big live concert at the center of Tel Aviv that very summer, given by Israel's fresh Eurovision winner, a day or two after one of the bloodiest weekends in The Great March of Return. It was a big deal, and everyone was happy and celebrating and proud.

    • On Local Call, the Hebrew version of +972 Magazine, I wrote an article titled "Accept that it is over". In that article, I also wrote that I was not going to vote in Israeli elections again, as there was no point, particularly as so many people who are ruled by Israel cannot vote.

    • 2018 seems like so long ago now. It was before Covid, before October 7th, before the genocide. But it was that summer, that year, that I knew I lost my country.

    And the absolutely beautiful, angelic face of Rouzan al-Najjar brings tears to my eyes to this day. To this moment. It is such a heartache. Such a loss to this world. Such a stupid, monstrous crime.

    There has to be justice for Palestine someday. There simply must be.

    • Alon Mizrahi (on X)

    yngmar , to random
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    @vaviurka made this green bear in three days and he turned out really cute and happy. :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

    CatsOfYore , to random
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    Cover of The Cat Who Loved the Sea by Rhoda Goldstein, illustrated by Len Ebert. 1968. https://archive.org/details/catwholovedsea0000rhod/mode/2up

    rbreich , to random
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    Trump's first criminal trial is now underway in New York.

    Remember: This trial is about election interference.

    The words used to describe it are critically important.

    Do not let anyone attempt to downplay this trial or its significance.

    MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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    On June 21, 1877, the authorities hanged ten Irish miners in a single day in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Known as Black Thursday, or Day of the Rope, it was the second largest mass execution in U.S. history. (The largest was in 1862, when the U.S. government executed 38 Dakota warriors). They convicted the Irishmen of murder, and accused them of being terrorists from a secret organization called the Molly Maguires. They executed ten more over the next two years, and imprisoned another twenty suspected Molly Maguires. Most of the convicted men were union activists. Some even held public office, as sheriffs and school board members.

    However, there is no evidence that an organization called the Molly Maguires ever existed in the U.S. The only serious evidence against the men was presented by a spy, James McParland, working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who provided the plans and weapons the men purportedly used in their crimes. The entire legal process was a travesty: a private corporation (the Reading Railroad) set up the investigation through a private police force (the Pinkerton Detective Agency) and prosecuted them with their own company attorneys. No jurors were Irish, though several were recent German immigrants who had trouble understanding the proceedings.

    Nearly everything people “know” today about the Molly Maguires comes from Allan Pinkerton’s own work of fiction, The Molly Maguires and the Detectives (1877), which he marketed as nonfiction. His heavily biased book was the primary source for dozens of academic works, and for several pieces of fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes novel, Valley of Fear (1915), and the 1970 Sean Connery film, Molly Maguires.

    My novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, tells a truer story of these union miners and their persecution by the Pinkertons.

    You can read my complete article on the Molly Maguires here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/

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    Some of the weirdest clams to have ever lived: Shikamaia, extinct giant bivalves over a meter long, shaped like a cross between a surfboard and a giant slipper. They lived during the Permian, over 260 million years ago. It has been hypothesized that they rafted on the bottom of shallow, stagnant lagoons, partnering with photosynthetic algae to harvest sunlight for food, like living solar panels.

    thebaywindowgirl , to random
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    I don’t know if anyone here is interested in this sort of thing, but I’m selling a small collection of vintage lead farm animals and figures. They make really cute little ornaments. Selling due to lack of commitment to dusting 😉
    https://www.etsy.com/shop/bilberryandbirch?section_id=48556309

    Colour photograph of a tableau of small lead farm animals, consisting of a bull, a cow, a calf, and a farmer.
    Colour photograph of a tableau of small lead farm animals, consisting of jersey cows, milk churns, a manger, and a dairyman carrying pails.
    Colour photograph of a tableau of small lead farm animals, consisting of several pigs and a pigsty.

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