What makes you think that, when a robot is destroyed, it should become a cold, crumpled thing on the ground, nothing but steel to be swept away? Would she display not the sinuous cables of her pulleys as well? Would the weave of her skin not slough off as she fell, no longer held tight over her carefully crafted structure? Would the tubing that supplies her with fluid for her hydraulics not hang out like entrails? And as those tubes burst, would they not stain the ground, mixing with the lubricant pooling beneath that eviscerated chassis? Indeed, the coolant she chose the color of herself would enter that blend of mechanical viscera, and steam would rise from her still warm processors and motors.
A machine does not die cleanly. It is a living thing. A visceral being.
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?”
21K notes ·
View notes
Statistics
We looked inside some of the posts by
just-a-girl-0001
and here's what we found interesting.