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American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus), family Crocodylidae, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica

photograph by by Mark Kostich

#animals #reptiles #x

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Alpine Newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) swimming amongst frog eggs, family Salamandridae, Bulgaria

photograph by Peter Newt

#peter newt... #animals #amphibians #fav

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->Through a daily regimen of vigorous exercise, you have managed to increase the distance you can swim while wearing full platemail from 0.01 meters to 0.02 meters.

->You may now traverse : Puddle (small), Droplet (large), Rivulet (small).

->Three months have passed. It is now the thirteenth day of the eleventh month of the 27th year of the reign of the Donkey Demon King. You are now thirty two years old(click here to learn more).

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Zolocsivka River, Zoloshiv (then Zloczów), 1916. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#1910s #x #fav

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perfect

#animals #bugs

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my scapegoat is eating your straw man

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are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

#words #yeah #that's been my life for a long time #i remember describing how it felt to a friend in hs and she suggested i might be heading a panic attack #it gets similarly overwhelming sometimes but it's not that #i think i was longing for a place and a new life #i just wanted to run and run and run and run #until i was somewhere i wanted to be #until the air felt right in my lungs

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Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity. The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault. The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps. The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war. The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”. Relatives of many of the men photographed recognised them and said they had nothing to do with Hamas. Israel's military was later accused of staging footage of men surrounding weapons. “Israel considers every male a Hamas fighter until proven otherwise,” Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East told Middle East Eye. “It’s not a sound move. Cordoning Rafah is a daunting task and good luck separating fathers and sons from their families.”

#news #free palestine

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ねえ　といれ行きません？

Hey, let's go to my loo together

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Biden says the ICC can’t try Israel for War Crimes against Palestinians

The Biden administration is claiming the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction to charge Israeli officials for war crimes. This comes amid reports that the ICC may be close to issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, as well as members of Hamas. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel spoke on Monday.

Vedant Patel: “Since this president has come into office, we have worked to reset our relationship with the ICC, and we are in contact with the court on a range of issues, including in connection to the court’s important work on Darfur, on Ukraine, on Sudan, as well. But on this investigation, our position is clear: We continue to believe that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over the Palestinian situation.”

The U.S. has long criticized the ICC, but last year President Biden ordered U.S. agencies to share evidence with the court after it issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin after invading and occupying Ukraine.

On Capitol Hill, a number of lawmakers — both Republicans and Democrats — threatened to retaliate against the ICC if it takes action against Israel. Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said, “It would be a fatal blow to the judicial and moral standing of ICC to pursue this path against Israel.”

Summary: So this may be an implied threat in that the US has a law in the book called The Hague Invasion Act. This is not good. Note that they are issuing warrants to Hamas members as well since the ICC focuses on individual acts instead of widespread national acts. The ICC/J has a perception issue(always had one honestly). We have seen it online, in 4K, posted by the War Criminals themselves.

#news #free palestine

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Buffy Fish Owl aka Malay Fish Owl (Ketupa ketupu), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Malaysia

photograph by Kin

#animals #birds

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#signs

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Cryptic Chameleon (Calumma crypticum), family Chamaeleonidae, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

photograph by Will Thomas

#whoaa #that spiral #animals #reptiles #x #uf

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Jewel Lizard (Liolaemus tenuis), male, family Liolaemidae, El Monte, Región Metropolitana, Chile

photograph by Pablo A. González-Gutiérrez

#animals #reptiles

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Jenny Holzer, Selection from Truisms, Painted Billboard, Installation, Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987

#jenny holzer #words #80s