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you ever heard a lightning fucking scream?

youre about to

#video

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Lovely art by my friend, and he gave me permission to share it to y'all

Machina furem is hiding in your wifi

#machicolation rocking pigtails? hell yeah! #mac <: #undescribed #fanart

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Chaos cannot tempt Belisarius Cawl, but memory might.

#warnings in fic tags #40k #belisarius cawl #Eri Cawl; the anomaly #version изобретает

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Cawl/Qvo is not on the list because it's not particularly funny. please reblog to spread!

#poll #belisarius cawl #40k

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wait do you guys actually carry purses/bags everywhere you go i really need to know

#going somewhere without a backpack is extremely incautious #a bag if I must. genuinely how do people keep their KEYS and PHONES in pockets?? fellas THEY FALL OUT

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Bellie Cawl has mastered the infinite space marine hack. all he needs is a supply of children.

#undescribed #humor #belisarius cawl #mtg #40k

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Bellie Cawl has mastered the infinite space marine hack. all he needs is a supply of children.

#40k #thought #warhammer 40k #humor #belisarius cawl

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"We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and our students, and the insistence on our future, in the face of all current attempts to erase us.

The Israeli occupation forces have demolished our buildings but our universities live on. We reaffirm our collective determination to remain on our land and to resume teaching, study, and research in Gaza, at our own Palestinian universities, at the earliest opportunity.

We call upon our friends and colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide in occupied Palestine, to work alongside us in rebuilding our demolished universities, and to refuse all plans seeking to bypass, erase, or weaken the integrity of our academic institutions. The future of our young people in Gaza depends upon us, and our ability to remain on our land in order to continue to serve the coming generations of our people.

We issue this call from beneath the bombs of the occupation forces across occupied Gaza, in the refugee camps of Rafah, and from the sites of temporary new exile in Egypt and other host countries. We are disseminating it as the Israeli occupation continues to wage its genocidal campaign against our people daily, in its attempt to eliminate every aspect of our collective and individual life.

Our families, colleagues, and students are being assassinated, while we have once again been rendered homeless, reliving the experiences of our parents and grandparents during the massacres and mass expulsions by Zionist armed forces in 1947 and 1948.

Our civic infrastructure – universities, schools, hospitals, libraries, museums and cultural centres – built by generations of our people, lies in ruins from this deliberate continuous Nakba. The deliberate targeting of our educational infrastructure is a blatant attempt to render Gaza uninhabitable and erode the intellectual and cultural fabric of our society. However, we refuse to allow such acts to extinguish the flame of knowledge and resilience that burns within us.

Allies of the Israeli occupation in the United States and United Kingdom are opening yet another scholasticide front through promoting alleged reconstruction schemes that seek to eliminate the possibility of independent Palestinian educational life in Gaza. We reject all such schemes and urge our colleagues to refuse any complicity in them. We also urge all universities and colleagues worldwide to coordinate any academic aid efforts directly with our universities.

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the national and international institutions that have stood in solidarity with us, providing support and assistance during these challenging times. However, we stress the importance of coordinating these efforts to effectively reopen Palestinian universities in Gaza.

We emphasise the urgent need to reoperate Gaza’s education institutions, not merely to support current students, but to ensure the long-term resilience and sustainability of our higher education system. Education is not just a means of imparting knowledge; it is a vital pillar of our existence and a beacon of hope for the Palestinian people.

Accordingly, it is essential to formulate a long-term strategy for rehabilitating the infrastructure and rebuilding the entire facilities of the universities. However, such endeavours require considerable time and substantial funding, posing a risk to the ability of academic institutions to sustain operations, potentially leading to the loss of staff, students, and the capacity to reoperate.

Given the current circumstances, it is imperative to swiftly transition to online teaching to mitigate the disruption caused by the destruction of physical infrastructure. This transition necessitates comprehensive support to cover operational costs, including the salaries of academic staff.

Student fees, the main source of income for universities, have collapsed since the start of the genocide. The lack of income has left staff without salaries, pushing many of them to search for external opportunities.

Beyond striking at the livelihoods of university faculty and staff, this financial strain caused by the deliberate campaign of scholasticide poses an existential threat to the future of the universities themselves.

Thus, urgent measures must be taken to address the financial crisis now faced by academic institutions, to ensure their very survival. We call upon all concerned parties to immediately coordinate their efforts in support of this critical objective.

The rebuilding of Gaza’s academic institutions is not just a matter of education; it is a testament to our resilience, determination, and unwavering commitment to securing a future for generations to come.

The fate of higher education in Gaza belongs to the universities in Gaza, their faculty, staff, and students and to the Palestinian people as a whole. We appreciate the efforts of peoples and citizens around the world to bring an end to this ongoing genocide.

We call upon our colleagues in the homeland and internationally to support our steadfast attempts to defend and preserve our universities for the sake of the future of our people, and our ability to remain on our Palestinian land in Gaza. We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again."

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Brazil recalls its ambassador to Israel

The nearly eight-month-old conflict has soured Israel's diplomatic ties with several nations, including Brazil, whose President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in February accused the country's government of genocide. Israel reacted furiously, declaring the Brazilian leader persona non grata. Israel had previously summoned the South American country's ambassador Frederico Meyer to a meeting at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem, where he was publically reprimanded in Hebrew without a translator present, said the Brazilian source. This "humiliation" to which Meyer was subjected contributed to his permanent recall, the source said. The source said conditions had not been met for Meyer to return to Israel and there are no immediate plans to replace him. Lula has appointed Meyer as Brazil's representative to the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva, according to Wednesday's official gazette. Brazil will now be represented in Israel by diplomat Fabio Farias. Israel's foreign ministry said in a statement it had not yet received "an official notification about the matter."

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"head of the Tau R&D department" is an underappreciated and unnoticed mad scientist in the galaxy, just waiting for their horrific and innovative deeds to be brought to light

#t'au'va #t'au #40k #thought #warhammer 40k

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I had one conversation with my trans friend about techpriest gender and now I keep randomly generating trans techpriests whenever I make new ones

#I am not complaining but I am surprised how little it took for the internal character generator to get the idea #40k #humor #adeptus mechanicus #techpriests

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the AdMech is a faction where every member is their own gimmick build. precision artillery. Radiation Georg. omnidirectional gun turret but all the guns have shit range. vent skittler with 120 knives. fellow that spends 50% of their power output on unnecessary flotation devices. palanquin that doubles as a tank. woman who can skate on thread legs. person who could get themself augmented with three death rays and instead enters melee combat with an axe. Tentacles.

#“precision artillery” is a headcanon-ish dig at the magnarail lance specifically. and radiation georg is those needlessly grimdark skitarii #40k #thought #warhammer 40k #humor #adeptus mechanicus #techpriests #techpriest

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Fabrician techpriests can purr. the standard pattern of vocal implants they receive to speak binary allows them to emit soft static as well as low clicking noises, which they use to comfort others and self-soothe. these sounds fulfill most purposes purring is thought to have. when newly-decanted novitiates are given to their families, what usually results is a pile of techpriests holding the confused and wiggly children, and softly clicking at them.

#logically speaking this includes the Cathcart siblings. they should be able to static-purr too #40k #thought #techpriests #worldbuilding

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Do you know of any current petitions to support Palestine that Aussies can sign? Feeling really helpless right now

There are two e-petitions currently open for signatures about Palestine:

Petition EN6212 - Palestine needs more humanitarian aid and support.

And:

Petition EN6173 - Australia to declare recognition of the State of Palestine.

There's also:

Petition EN6141 - Impose Trade and Arms Sanctions on Israel.

Though the e-petition section of Parliament's website does allow you to see petitions that have since been submitted, and responded to, so while the above linked ones don't have many signatures this one, Call for a Ceasefire and an End to Israeli Occupation, got 185,795 signatures and also a response from Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, back in April this year (which you can download and read if you click that link).

Also here is a link to find out how to contact Members and Senators to email them directly about this.

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i wish there wasn’t such a stigmatized view on platonically loving people.

I can’t call people nicknames and pet names like hun and honey without them immediately assuming i have romantic interest in them.

i can’t tell my friends i love them without adding on “platonically” or shortening the phrase “ily” “love you” “love u”

i love a lot of people. i love my sister, i love my boyfriend, and i love my best friend. All different versions of love.

let us love people openly and honestly without it being seen as “making a move” or being romantically interested.

please please please stop assuming that love is strictly romantic, i promise you life becomes so much brighter and bigger when you stop keeping love strictly romantic.

#being affectionate as a guy is a bit harder too. society taught me it's wrong and for pussies #thought

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Something I learned in these last seven months is that when children get war-related amputations, they need further surgeries as they grow.

I'd read it on Twitter so I looked it up to confirm (and it's true) but a lot of the search results were hospitals and doctors trying to explain the process to parents and what to tell their children, what kind of care they'd need after, how prosthetics would work.

I just saw this adorable little baby on Twitter (you can click to view the video, it's not gory, he's just a super serious little dude)

and I thought, fleeing from Rafah must be one of the most traumatizing dangerous situations you could be in right now as a healthy adult, let alone a baby with multiple amputations in famine conditions.

There are no working hospitals to speak of in Gaza, healthcare workers keep being killed off, aid keeps being blocked, many of the amputees have no one to look after them, there's still constant bombing and shelling and shooting.

UNICEF reported 1,000 child amputees by the end of November.

#undescribed

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the general population’s education of indigenous american cultures is literally painful like people walk around not knowing that native americans domesticated dogs and turkeys, that many communities had farms that stretched for hundreds of miles, that many communities had completely terraformed their territories, that there were native trade systems stretching across the continent, that there were native metalsmiths before european arrival, that most native people were multilingual etc

#information #undescribed