#world events

[castielsprostate]

once again i ask of you to please stop looking towards celebrities and influencers for political commentary and their takes on catastrophic and inhumane world events and to instead focus your attention on experts, journalists and world leaders

#sjonnie.text #world events #text post #9/10 of them don't even know how to cut a tomato. why are we expecting them to know (or care enough) about anything #it's frustrating and annoying #and please stop sending death threats #it's not helpful in ANY situation and it makes the person you say this too a lot less inclined to learn ANYTHING

[demigoddessqueens]

Keep your voices loud!! Keep making noise!!

#free palestine #free free palestine #i stand with palestine #palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine news #pro palestine #save palestine #stand with palestine #support palestine #we stand with palestine #free 🍉 #🍉 #palestine 🍉 #❤️🖤💚 #current events #world events #united nations #ceasefire #ceasfire now #permanent ceasefire

[disciplesofhim]

Anyone who also believes is hated because we don't conform to the world's behaviors.

#jesus christ #world events #salvation #faith #hated for truth

[ceilingstar07]

What a week:(

Monday, July 4): US Independence Day! Fireworks and Fun!

Also another devastating mass shooting in the US: Highland Park parade shooting.

July 6: 40+ U.K. MPs resign

July 7: Boris Johnson resigns (basically the UK government collapsed)

July 8: Former PM of Japan, Shinzo Abe is assassinated

There was an internet outage across Canada

July 9: After protestors stormed the Sri Lankan president's house, the president and PM resign.

Elon Musk backs out of Twitter deal

Ex-president of Mexico dies at 100

Meanwhile the war in Ukraine is still ongoing

What a wonderful time it is to be world leader. For the first time, the BBC's homepage isn't just full of America's problems

#this week #not great #uk politics #july 4 #shinzo abe #Canada #world events #war in ukraine #sri lanka #bbc #boris johnson #members of parliament #2022

[charlie-the-frogie]

Call me insensitive, but I don’t understand why is everyone making such a big deal out of the billionaire’s submarine disappearing.

These guys spend way too much money on an unsafe rich tourist trap. And the news haven’t stopped talking about it all week.

But I barely heard about the ship carrying 700 migrants that sunk in the Mediterranean Sea. There is already at least 79 confirmed death, and 500 are still missing, but people want to know about the 4 billionaires.

It is so maddening to see that so many lives that could have been saved by Europeans authorities are considered less important than those idiots.

#submarine #titanic #world events #news #world news #submersible #current events #oceangate

[wackachewbacca]

The historian in me is thinking about how tumblr blog posts might be used as first person sources/accounts for the political decline of the UK/Scottish Independence

There are going to be academic papers addressing the significance of the Star Trek meme and I hope I get to write one of them

#history #world events #scottish independence #an aside I’m neither Scottish or English but you can bet I’m routing for Scotland and every trans person being withheld their human rights #another aside electronic sources are cool and all but also hand written accounts are just as good #write in your journal about these world events if not for future historians then for yourself #you’re gonna find out you lived through incredible times with recognizing how significant they were

[mellorocket]

Quick Heads-Up: The US House of Representatives will be voting on aid for Ukraine, possibly on Saturday! Now would be a good time to reach out to your local Representative to send in your support!

I'm reposting this from another website, but I found the information incredibly helpful with the process! (Original Post)

How to Contact Your Representative: 1. Click www.house.gov to search for your Representative by Zip Code (in the upper right-hand corner) 2. Write a brief message about how you feel about the proposed bill into the contact form and press send. Sample Correspondence: Dear Representative (name): I am aware of the House Appropriations Committee's initiative for critical supplemental funding for Ukraine. As your constituent, I urge you to support Ukraine. The supplemental initiative is not only about Ukraine defending its own country, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, it is also an investment in the international law-based security dynamic. Assisting Ukraine and curbing Russian aggression now will prevent prolonged American involvement in a future worldwide conflict. I look forward to your affirmative vote for the Ukraine supplemental bill. Thank you!

#ukraine #aid for ukraine #politics #world events #usa news #world news #i already sent mine in #if you have a free second #please send in a message to your local rep!!!

[krystal-prisms]

#submission #my bs #2023 #2023 predictions #dodgeball boy #apollo #dodgeball #world events #predictions #poll #polls #tumblr poll #vote

[sternfleck]

This is me when I see an atrocious take

#world events #beafts #art #my posts

[todayontumblr]

Monday, September 18.

History.

Ahh, history. There's been a lot of it. Enough to go around, you might say. There's been a fair few billions of years of this most elusive metaphysical substance, and a few things of note have happened within that time: dinosaurs roamed the Earth, then didn't. Cities emerged. The Greeks ate very well and sh*gged each other senseless, then didn't. The wheel was invented somewhere down the line, as was sliced bread. Dogs were domesticated (as were cats, sort of). Some smart folk put the alphabet together. The printing press was invented. The Industrial Revolution happened and sent us on a violent forward and backward trajectory simultaneously. Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at The Oscars (2022). It's been a busy old time, that's for sure, but the clock keeps-a-tickin', and the wheel keeps-a-turnin'. Come tick along with us as we celebrate all that is strictly past tense: #history. 

#today on tumblr #history #culture #world history #history tag #anthropology #archaeology #taylor swift eras #study #studyblr #historyblr #museumblr #art #world politics #world news #world events #education #learning #learnblr

[idohistorysometimes]

So what is going on in Iran right now?

I am pretty sure most of you who are either on TikTok or keep up with international news have heard about the massive protests happening in Iran right now. Its a pretty big deal. But what exactly are these protests for and why are they so important?

Hopefully, for those who dont know whats going on I can explain it all here.

Who is Mahsa Amini and what happened to her

Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old woman traveling from Kurdistan to Tehran (the capital of Iran) to visit family and was stopped once she entered the city by something called “the morality police” (yes this is a real thing). They claimed Mahsa Amini was wearing her Hijab incorrectly and that she would be arrested to undergo “reeducation” at the police station (which would result in her being released after an hour or so). Mahsa’s brother was with her when she was arrested and waited at the station for her to be released.

It is unclear what exactly happened between when Mahsa was arrested and the events of her death (mostly because we do not have any video of these events), but the women detained along with Mahsa reported for similar offenses reported Mahsa was violently beaten by said “morality officers”. This was supposedly for resisting their insults directed toward her. This story is corroborated by her brother’s report of Mahsa having bruises all over her body and the hospital where Mahsa was staying reporting she was brain dead upon arrival along with reporting signs of skull fracture and bleeding in her brain both on social media and in leaked medical reports.

Mahsa died of her injuries 2 days after she was admitted to the hospital on September 16th of 2022. 

The official cause of death as reported by both the morality police and Iranian government has been extremely suspicious since the ‘official’ story claims she died as a result of a random heart attack/seizure combo. However, as stated before, there is plenty of evidence that Mahsa was violently attacked which includes (but is not limited to): the skull fractures found, the bruising around her body and face, the bleeding found in her brain and ears, and the fact several other witnesses have either said they witnessed the assault or have seen the previous things. Mahsa’s father also reported she was in perfect health and did not have a history of heart or seizure issues.

Why are people protesting?

For the people of Iran, instances of violence like this are not an unheard-of occurrence. Since the revolution of 1979 and the creation of this “morality police force” women were forced to wear the Hijab regardless of personal choice and had to adhere to a strict modest dress code lest they face similar treatment to Mahsa. To quote an actual penal code enacted in Iran post-revolution:

"women who appear in public without religious hijab will be sentenced to whipping up to 74 lashes"

Violence against women for this reason was now, in a way, much more normalized. Some of these dresscodes did apply to men, sure, but they were primiarly created expressly to control women with the use of fear and force by way of the Hijab. To also directly quote Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (who has been in power since 1989):  

"improperly veiled women should be made to feel unsafe"

Is this an anti-Islam protest?

The protests surrounding the death of Mahsa Amini have definitely gained international attention by what many people are doing in them. Many women are burning their hijabs in the streets, cutting off/shaving their hair, and otherwise just doing a lot of things that, traditionally, would be considered taboo under this system that's currently in place. However, this does not seem to be a direct rejection of Islam and rather a direct rejection of control over women by the use of the Hijab as an avenue for that control.

As stated before, this is not a new issue. There have been anti-hijab protests going on since the revolution in Iran back in the 70s. There were even protests pre-revolution FOR veiling since the leader at the time wanted to strictly stick to western norms. Iran shifted from one major extreme to the other. And in both these extremes choice on the part of the woman in question is completely taken out of the equation. It has been men making these choices for women in a broad universal way without giving women the ability to decide what they want for themselves. There is more than 1 way to veil in Islam. There are also many women who do not veil at all but are still active participants in their faith. There is not one specific way to do this correctly within Islam because modesty as a whole is a subjective topic. So the fact this police force exists in the first place is less about keeping morals ‘secure’ and more about exerting control through these rules via more extreme interpretations. 

It would however be unfair to say that these protests and the cultural revolution happening because of these protests do not diametrically oppose some parts of Islam and the culture surrounding it. These beliefs are incompatible by virtue of them being polar opposites of each other. These protests, like it or not, have western influence on them and this influence threatens certain parts of Islam because over time certain aspects of culture have become rooted in these controlling methods. Its pretty unclear how this will all play out. However, it is safe to say this will be shaking up things both within Iran and in the world of Islam as a whole. 

Why are Non-Iranian women also cutting their hair?

Ever since the protests have gained international attention many women outside of Iran (both ethnically Iranian and not) have also been cutting their hair to various degrees to stand in solidarity with protestors. 

This is significant symbolically for a few reasons. In many cultures, long hair is directly tied to one's femininity, attractiveness, and even in some cases where one comes from. Like it or not hair is culturally and socially important and the loss off it can be a very big deal for those living under these cultural expectations. In Iran doing something like this subjects you to harassment from the morality police. It breaks the morality code and challenges the idea of what a woman should be and look like. Outside of this context, the removal of hair can be a sign of mourning, fear, anger, and a rejection of femininity (or in this case, the control brought on by strict gendered dress codes). 

There has been a lot of controversy around this act since many people currently participating in these protests feel this act is performative activism on the part of western allies. Cutting one's hair is not really on the same level as donating money to a cause or protesting yourself. But others believe this is an important act of international solidarity. If you reading this decide to do this: do it at your own discretion and be sure your act of solidarity does not outshine the actual protests going on.

Why are people asking to blur/delete protest footage posted online?

It should go without saying that the people protesting right now are putting themselves in very real danger. What happened to Mahsa Amini is now happening to protesters who are speaking out about Iran’s harsh morality laws. Many people have died already as a result of participating in these protests and many more have gone missing. When you are dealing with an oppressive system like this they are not going to take too kindly to opposition. And if they are not afraid to beat women simply for wearing their Hijab ‘incorrectly’, they are not afraid to do much worse to political rivals. 

Out of respect for the protesters and their safety: please blur out any faces, names, and remove all metadata from any protest photos/footage you decide to share online. Because if I can find one of the protestors on Instagram simply by looking at their face and general location so can the morality police. For those around during the Black Lives Matter protests, the Russian anti-war protests, or any other media-sensitive protest use those same rules when posting footage/reporting on them

#iran #mahsa amini #world events #whats going on #psa

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I wonder what would they do with the star trek franchise after the war? Like would they end the show? Would they continue as it is and get backlash for not including real aliens? Or would they try to retroactively incorporate andalites etc in the lore of the show? And most importantly, would they let Marco pitch his star trek ideas??

Also I just started watching ds9 last month (it's the first star trek I'm watching, it's great) and like it was airing during the war and it has A) an antagonistic/villian group of shapeshifters who infiltrate positions of power and B) a protagonist with a worm symbiot. And I can't stop wondering what the reaction to that would be after the war is in the open, would people think yeerks were involved in the production of the show?

No, I completely agree that sci fi is going to get awkward in the years after Animorphs ends. I haven't seen Star Trek, but that's why I have a through line in my fics about everyone suddenly not knowing what to make of X-Files, and the implication that the show itself is getting weird. It's partially because I have Thoughts about X-Files's wasted potential; it's mostly because I think postwar sci fi will be forced to grapple with all kinds of funny aneurysm energy (where events that occur after a work of fiction make that work deeply disturbing in hindsight).

Star Trek and other sci fi are going to have an upheaval after the yeerk invasion comes out. Kind of like the tectonic impact of the 9/11 murders on Hollywood, or the world's current ambivalence about COVID in fiction. I imagine there will be a lot of strictly metaphorical treatments of events (e.g. Inside and COVID, War of the Worlds and the NYC attacks). A lot of attempts to force the mold of a simple good vs. evil story (e.g. Glass Onion and COVID, Batman vs. Superman and the NYC attacks). Probably not a whole lot of nuance, at least not from Hollywood and not in those first years.

#animorphs #sci fi #world events #animorphs meta #animorphs spoilers #funny aneurysm #x files

[disciplesofhim]

Any law made can't make up for any bad things that still happen!

#world events #man's law #immoral #sinful #jesus christ

[without-ado]

Ringing in 2024 around World l REUTERS

9/35 l France l Thailand l UK l Greece l Singapore l Philippines l Hong Kong l Australia l India l More

#fireworks #happy new year #REUTERS #photography #photos #photojournalism #world events #2024 #2023 #paris #REUTERS Pictures

[mothtarts]

hi y’all armenians celebrate christmas on the 6th and i wanted to take this time to spread awareness about what’s going on in my home country.

for some context, during the year 1915, Armenia was genocided by the Ottomon Empire. Now modern day Turkey. Over 1.5 million Armenians were massacred, millions more forced out of their homes, my great-grandparents included. the land was taken by the Ottoman Empire and it is impossible for Armenians to travel to their motherland.

Over a 100 years later the same thing is happening again. Azerbaijan, a country that shares cultural and economic ties with Turkey, has been forcing native Armenians out of Artsakh. They have been encroaching on Armenian land and have had support from Turkey and Israel, a country commiting its own genocide against the native Palestinian people.

Please do not forget about us, we are a strong people but we are small in numbers

#armenia #armenian #artsakh #azerbaijan #turkey #israel #world politics #genocide #current events #world events

[pilloclock]

🇵🇸FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸

Please watch in full !

This is why we say free Palestine AND ceasefire now because we need a ceasefire immediately but after we get one we cannot go back to the way things were before.

#free palestine #pro palestine #gaza #help gaza #share #palestine #world #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #from the river to the sea #life in Gaza #education #news #world events #current events #current news #lgbt against genocide #ceasefire now #end israeli apartheid #end israeli occupation #please share #please share this #share this