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More little guys! Including a ctenophore with a crustacean hitchhiking in it, a larval fish, these slender fishes that live under the rocks in the bay, and colonial ascidian sea squirts!

Found some photos I thought I had lost! These are from over ten years ago when I was in Newport and was able to visit the ocean more often. I technically still live near the sea but chronic illness has made it difficult to get the energy to see my invertebuddies since the beach isn’t easily accessible without a car. I do miss my nature walks a lot.

Friends include various (mostly unidentified) jellies, s ctenophores, bladderwrack, and the largest sea lemon nudibranch I had ever seen.

The jellyfish with the red eyes is Polyorchis penicillatus! Folks in iNaturalist seem to think the big beached Schyphozoa is a fried egg jelly and not a Lion’s Mane like I thought. The others I haven’t been able to get identified.

Clione (a sea angel, a swimming gastropod) is also here! Definitely not something I expected to find in the shallows of a bay. I’m guessing most of this stuff was swept up by the tide from deeper more open waters.

#animals #fish #trypophobia - #tunicata #ctenophore #Crustacea

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Found some photos I thought I had lost! These are from over ten years ago when I was in Newport and was able to visit the ocean more often. I technically still live near the sea but chronic illness has made it difficult to get the energy to see my invertebuddies since the beach isn’t easily accessible without a car. I do miss my nature walks a lot.

Friends include various (mostly unidentified) jellies, s ctenophores, bladderwrack, and the largest sea lemon nudibranch I had ever seen.

The jellyfish with the red eyes is Polyorchis penicillatus! Folks in iNaturalist seem to think the big beached Schyphozoa is a fried egg jelly and not a Lion’s Mane like I thought. The others I haven’t been able to get identified.

Clione (a sea angel, a swimming gastropod) is also here! Definitely not something I expected to find in the shallows of a bay. I’m guessing most of this stuff was swept up by the tide from deeper more open waters.

#animals #algae #fucus #mollusca #Clione #Doris #Cnidaria #photography #my art

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Found a bunch of old photos I thought I had lost!! I got a bunch of iNaturalist observations out of them too :P I will probably upload some of them here since it's mostly a bunch of fun marine critters and vegetation, and critters that look like vegetation.

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An older comic about appreciating snakes.

#snake #comic #art #animals

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still very very slowly making art!! i'll have my little 8pg accordion zine about tidepools at seattle art book fair may 11 & 12 -- in slightly different colors because of [fucked up the riso printing process]

#art

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Evolution is another thing that's not well understood by broader audiences (even when folks believe in it) due to a lot of pop sci stuff, and limitations of everyday language and I will kvetch about that soon as well, since it's another thing that's treated sort of mystically or like a black box by people.

This is a good video!! Quantum physics and quantum mechanics are poorly understood, in part due to misunderstandings due to a combination of the game of telephone that happens between scientific reporting and when studies get to wider audiences and the limitation of language when it comes to unintuitive scientific concepts. (The short answer to video title is "No,")

Quantum physics does have a lot of weird stuff, which is mostly perspective from us not dealing with objects of that size, but it's nothing particularly mystical. An average American finds durian weird, not because it's objectively weird but because it's something outside of their usual frame of reference. (Also sorry to be a buzzkill! This is one of many scientific pet peeves I have)

All this doesn't mean that it isn't fascinating! It's cool learning how the universe works and why it does! You just can't use this to manifest new jobs though or influence the shape of snowflakes. :P

#physics #science #science communication #quantum physics #Youtube

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This is a good video!! Quantum physics and quantum mechanics are poorly understood, in part due to misunderstandings due to a combination of the game of telephone that happens between scientific reporting and when studies get to wider audiences and the limitation of language when it comes to unintuitive scientific concepts. (The short answer to video title is "No,")

Quantum physics does have a lot of weird stuff, which is mostly perspective from us not dealing with objects of that size, but it's nothing particularly mystical. An average American finds durian weird, not because it's objectively weird but because it's something outside of their usual frame of reference. (Also sorry to be a buzzkill! This is one of many scientific pet peeves I have)

All this doesn't mean that it isn't fascinating! It's cool learning how the universe works and why it does! You just can't use this to manifest new jobs though or influence the shape of snowflakes. :P

#physics #science #science communication #quantum physics #Youtube

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I'm also not asking people to be action heroes or anything, since it takes a very specific kind of person to do that sort of direct resistance. I'm asking for people to actually acknowledge and discuss the fact that there is a genocide going on, and to not pretend things are fine. (This applies to all social justice struggles. Acknowledgement helps normal conversations about it, and de-normalize the ignoring of it like we do for many social problems.)

Also there are many ways to support efforts for justice! The people doing direct action require people to support with costs, food, care supplies, etc. For everyone in a visible position, there are a lot of folks cooking as well.

As a Jew I wholeheartedly believe that, folks who are pretending nothing is wrong and Palestinians aren't being murdered every day would have absolutely ignored the Holocaust and let my folks get killed without blinking an eye.

Americans have a lot of heroic fantasies about what they would have done during the Holocaust or chattel slavery, and the answer for a lot of them is absolutely nothing. They would have complained about the people actually doing things for being too disruptive. We Jews did the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and they would have called this terrorism. They would have also complained about MLK and Malcolm X, the former of which took the economies of entire cities hostage. Modern day disruptions don't hold a candle to historical disruptions.

In a two of more decades, people are going to use excuses like "I didn't know!" or pretend they were supportive all along, making tear jerking films about the Palestinian plight. We need to not let them do this.

#Alex says words

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As a Jew I wholeheartedly believe that, folks who are pretending nothing is wrong and Palestinians aren't being murdered every day would have absolutely ignored the Holocaust and let my folks get killed without blinking an eye.

Americans have a lot of heroic fantasies about what they would have done during the Holocaust or chattel slavery, and the answer for a lot of them is absolutely nothing. They would have complained about the people actually doing things for being too disruptive. We Jews did the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and they would have called this terrorism. They would have also complained about MLK and Malcolm X, the former of which took the economies of entire cities hostage. Modern day disruptions don't hold a candle to historical disruptions.

In a two of more decades, people are going to use excuses like "I didn't know!" or pretend they were supportive all along, making tear jerking films about the Palestinian plight. We need to not let them do this.

#Alex says words

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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Thousands and thousands of years back in three minutes:

But closer to the issue...

Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

(includes some of the reading material recced below)

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List

List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal

Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications

(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Lemon Tree (2008)

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)

Naila and the Uprising (2017)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Omar (2013)

Paradise Now (2005)

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

The Gatekeepers (2012)

Foxtrot (2017)

Gaza Mon Amour (2020)

The Viewing Booth (2020)

Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive

The Village Under the Forest (2013)

Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza

Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin

Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary

‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)

Sources:

https://www.972mag.com/

https://jewishcurrents.org/

Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series

Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1

Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

B’Tselem

Breaking the Silence

Al Haq

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Yesh Din

DAWN

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

Gisha

Forensic Architecture

Instagram Accounts

gazangirl

mohammedelkurd

khaledbeydoun

motaz_azaiza

wizard_bisan1

etafrum

sara_mardini963

Twitter(X) Accounts

@PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies

@medicalaidpal

@middleeastmatters

@KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch

@YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS

@ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states

@btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre

@MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group

@rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal

@sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)

@alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation

@FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories

@Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation

@sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer

@EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer

@saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)

@Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO

@_ZachFoster - Historian

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(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#resource #palestine #genocide

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"I didn't know my government could do this" is a wild statement to me not only because I've grown up being aware of many war crimes and genocides done by the USA and other such countries, but that information is really not that hard to find. People complain about their education system a lot but there are thousands of books, documentaries, essays, articles- hell, even videos -about the numerous atrocities committed by the USAmerican government that they should be looking for. The main thing people tell others to do is educate themselves. I'm just.

#The US and Canada invented the Concentration Camp #Germany got that idea from here! #Also while I did have a huge mental health dive in 2016 #I also recognize that for a lot of folks things were always that bad

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My Black Pearl peppers are starting to flower! Love my edgy goth pepps.

#plants #plantblr #capsicum #food plants #flowers #plampts

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Pumping out the grafts! I’ve only had a few failures this year! A far cry from last year where only one of mine worked out. Tomatillos especially are easy to graft it seems. For the rootstock I’m using a landrace the sellers had evolve to suit the PNW better, thinking it’ll help out the more Mexico-focused varieties that I hadn’t had as much luck with here.

The next stage of this is the continue grafting more on each plant so each of them has multiple genomes, letting me have more genetic diversity on fewer plants to save space.

#physalis #plants #food plants #plantblr #twisted evil plant experiments #plampts

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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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North Atlantic Seabirds 🌊

#art #animals #bird

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

#Palestine #All Cats Are Beautiful

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It’s a little more off topic than I usually am (though I do post SFF on here when it’s related to nature or science) but is anyone else here into the Cosmere? I caught up on the Stormlight Archive a while back, and now I’m going through the Kickstarter books! I just need to finish the Sunlit Man.

(Though I probably will do a post on Rosharan denizens since that includes a really cool reef-like terrestrial system with weird plants adapted to a constantly stormy world.)

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