Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

police: oh yeah it's sus that he killed women, we'll be looking into that for sure

also police: but the killings are definitely not ideological! not terror! please don't use those words for a man who kills women!

Sydney stabbing suspect Joel Cauchi identified by police after Bondi mall attack (Jay Savage, BBC News, April 14 2024)

Screenshotting as OP’s confidence in defending their own ideas was such that they pre-blocked me as soon as someone tagged me to respond, but I really want to hold this post up as just an incredible example of confirmation bias and groupthink. Can you imagine a take like this getting over 48,000 notes if the victim were literally any other group? Someone who stands on the power end of a clearly unbalanced relationship with a group who is unquestionably being exploited, a person profiting from their bodies and production, declaring ‘actually this is mutually beneficial’ while dismissing collective boycott of an incredibly destructive industry as ‘virtue signalling’ and it being widely shared and applauded? On Tumblr.com? This is the extent of the vested interest we all have in maintaining our illusions about our consumption habits. We are presented with the horors of modern farming, we recognise instinctively that this is wrong according to our own values, and what we essentially have are two choices: 1) We can change our behaviour to match our values. 2) We can attempt to argue that our behaviour already does match our values. One option requires self-reflection, acknowledging our own wrongdoing and vowing to do better by making real, tangible sacrifices in our own lives, while the other offers a reassuring pat on the back that we actually don’t need to change a thing about our own behaviours and our own consumption habits, and that some vague far-away problem is the actual issue, like capitalism, or industrialisation, or something else that requires nothing of you personally. Almost all of us, all the time, are choosing option 2. Posts like these are always so incredibly popular despite the juvenile attempts at justifications, the zero sources, the no-nuance analysis precisely because they offer us semi-coherent reasoning to continue engaging in our current behaviours while maintaining the facade of caring about animals and our planet. This is why we have post after post telling us ‘it’s not us it’s capitalism,’ or ‘actually being bred in unhealthy bodies for profit, exploited then having their throat slit at a fraction of their life expectancy is ‘a sweet gig’ or that ‘what we buy doesn’t matter since supply and demand isn’t real.’ This is the diffusion of our responsibility and has been the favoured public response to just about any atrocity anyone has ever been complicit in. I ask all of you to rise above which ‘side’ you think you’re on, and to look through transparently self-interesed takes that tell you exactly what you want to hear. Be suspicious of anyone letting you off the hook for your own responsibility to make moral choices and passing the blame off to someone else, somewhere else, something you can do nothing about. Look at what animal agriculture is, look at what you pay for and what you support by spreading rhetoric like this. Look what this industry does to animals, to human workers and communities, to eco-systems, to our environment, and most of all, look what it does to you and your ability to live your own values. Most of us absolutely do have the ability to make different, more humane choices, if we just take the time to examine our biases and really consider why we find reassuring but uncritical rhetoric like this quite so appealing.

Crimes against short people

Clothing representing the 11,500 Palestinian and 36 Israeli children who have been killed in Gaza were laid out on Bournemouth beach this week.

The 5km line of second-hand clothes was created by activists were laid out to illustrate the scale of child deaths in Gaza.

Each set of clothing represents a child who had been killed.

So urce

When you're unsuccessfully looking for something and start gradually increasing your It Could Be There range. Like yeah sure maybe the rice cooker pot is in the freezer, idk

Art by Johan C

Wounds of the Earth

— by xis.lanyx

the narrative: *starts the third act by repeating a scene from the first act but now it has a totally different context*

me: ohoHOhohoHOHOhoHO

kaikkien aikojen suomalaismeemi

Jikko-in / Hosen-in / Myoshin-ji by aekashin

yukiko noritake

The Holiday (2006) dir. Nancy Meyers + trivia (x)

If not by flame, then by feather

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in history, experts say

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history. In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Islamic State group. The Israeli military has said little about what kinds of bombs and artillery it is using in Gaza. But from blast fragments found on-site and analyses of strike footage, experts are confident that the vast majority of bombs dropped on the besieged enclave are U.S.-made. They say the weapons include 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) “bunker-busters” that have killed hundreds in densely populated areas.

Me and the homies locking eyes across the room