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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

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"Pluto isn't a planet" Fine.

"Dinosaurs had feathers" Fine!

"Neptune isn't a beautiful oceanic blue, it's actually the same washed-out disappointing color as Uranus" I will kill you with my bare hands

Look how they massacred my boy

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#minimum 2; usually 4 or more #right now i'm averaging 3 per day just because my coffee pot broke and i'm having to make individual cups w pour-over #which takes way more effort #so consequently o drink less coffee

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(comic references under cut)

a personal and fav hc of mine is that following jason's death, yes, batman shuts down, yes, he becomes colder and destructive — going out every night and staying out for as long as he can because hurting is better than trying and failing to sleep. i don't think he would have done the same as bruce wayne, though.

bruce wayne pulls away from the public. galas and events are either cancelled by the wayne foundations or go ahead without the man in attendance. no one can really blame him, after the death of his sheltered and beloved second son. there are no comments issued by anyone in the family besides what is strictly necessary and after one unavoidable yet invasive investigation¹ to sedate public obsession, bruce wayne does not speak on the matter at all.

he does however say a lot through action.

within a couple months, a long standing project finally gets unveiled with no big event or publicity. the Jason Todd-Wayne Homeless Shelter, right in the centre of Crime Alley. the Jason Todd-Wayne Children's Fund, offering free lunch meals to school children from struggling families. The Jason Project, focusing on reading programmes in prisons and rehabilitation support. donations under the name Jason Todd are publicly given to a multitude of charities.

the public opinion on these actions are split. some find it wonderful if heartbreaking, how a child can be so loved that their parent will do anything to make their legacy leave a mark in time. gotham hasn't seen such abrupt change in — well, ever. bruce wayne is known for charity, of course, but this is different. this is for one person. this is the most expensive form of mourning.

others are a bit unsettled. if all of this could have been done, why not do it before? why use a dead boy's name to do good that will only benefit the living waynes reputations? is this some sort of ego thing? to make himself feel better? to make everyone else feel bad?

bruce doesn't quite know himself.

part of it feels useless, pouring money and time not spent breaking bones (his own and others) into fulfilling dreams jason had once had. the boy had always wanted to help in a way that was more than batman, more than bruce. is it invasive, to assume jason would have been grateful for this, that jason would have agreed? does he have any right to be so presumptuous?

part of it feels necessary. to implicitly tell the world that even before jason todd had publicly died, the city had lost a hero². that losing him is more than just an article for the front page of the daily newsletter. that gotham has lost someone intrinsically important. to make it clear that bruce wayne is only as good as what his children let him be. that they are the ones who can make change, at the end of the day.

most of it is selfish. the Wayne Botanical Gardens opens a new exhibit for the first time in decades named My Son. the Gotham Library dedicates an entire self to Jason Todd-Wayne. the third door in the living quarters of the Wayne Manor is always locked, except for monthly dustings. there is a lesson, locked in a glass case down in a Cave, labeled A Good Soldier.

¹ : Batman: Gotham Knights #45

² : Batman #125

#that page from gotham knights.....😭😭😭 #batfam #dc

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do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation

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batman: the knight #9

#talia al ghul #minhkhoa khan #bruce wayne #batfam #dc #con reads comics #conpost #WHY DO I HAVE TO WRITE SO MANY TAGS. HASHTAG SUFFERING #anyway as per my last post. bruce has SUCH A TYPE kjshkajsdskjfah #sassy talia.....i am in love with her

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no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed

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batman: the knight #9

#minhkhoa khan #bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dc #con reads comics #conpost #bruce has SUCH a type this will NEVER not be funny to me

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hi God one quastion. is everything gonna be okay

#i feel this #all will be well and all manner of thing shall be well #+ #everything will be okay in the end. if it's not okay it's not the end.

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i feel a normal amount of emotions about this fictional woman i promise

#cassandra cain.......... #having a normal one today about 'you love everybody and everybody dies'

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batman: the knight #8

"You're good." "No. I'm the best. And I'll save everyone."

#bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dc #con reads comics #conpost #screaming crying et al

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“dick grayson is a rich kid” “dick grayson is a cop”

you mean the dick grayson who spent the first 9ish years of his life in a traveling circus? who probably lived in a trailer? who was put in juvie for weeks after being orphaned? who was likely taught not to trust cops?

you mean the dick grayson who refused to use bruce’s money once he left the manor? who lived in a shitty apartment in Blüdhaven and worked a job to afford it? who is very independent from bruce?

you mean the dick grayson who saw firsthand the corruption in both gotham and blüdhaven’s police department? who became a vigilante to do what the cops couldn’t/wouldn’t do?

you mean the dick grayson who, after becoming a millionaire (from alfred’s inheritance), gave all of that money to charity? that dick grayson?

#you get it #rebirth lowkey sucks ass but i LOVED that when dick got a bunch of money he immediately started a charity with it #batfam #dc

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batman: the knight #8

so many things about this issue but "people aren't insignificant" and "i'm not interested in losing my humanity" are making me Scream

#bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dc #con reads comics #conpost

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batman: the knight #3

#bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dc #con reads comics #conpost #i'm going CRAZY this is SO GOOD

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batman: the knight #3

#bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dc #con reads comics #conpost #on the floor WEEPING #(these pages arent actually consecutive btw)

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okay i'm really seeing why people kept telling me to read batman: the knight. like i'm only halfway through the first issue and we've got

bruce regularly getting into fights at school

bruce waging psychological warfare against a bully until said bully was pulled out

"i'm angry that we let people suffer." hoooooly shit

bruce going to illegal fight clubs and getting ARRESTED. iconic

alfred calling bruce 'son'

#batfam #dc #con reads comics #conpost

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The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.