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?”

The situation of the Congo Genocide is complicated because we are all implicated in it. We can’t ascribe it to a foreign policy state interest as we can regarding Palestine. It is something we, as consumers, all have a hand in and given the ubiquity of the resources involved, a lot of us are caught off of guard by this premonition of the type of wars to come. This is that nasty intersection of neo-colonialism and hyper capitalism that pits the Global South against the Global North. It’s a war of sustaining a way of life means imposing slavery and genocide on others. This is an instance of global capitalism and hyper consumption as a lifestyle and convenience is being pitted against the humanity of those we deem expendable.

what do you meaaaaaaan this is baby sturgeons youre lying to me.... you just Shrunk him

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

Helmo aka Thomas Couderc (French, b. 1977, Perpignan, France, based Marseille, France) and Clément Vauchez (French, b. 1978, Lons-le-Saunier, France) - Collaboration with Bonnefrite for Pronomade(s), 2010, Photo Collages

A bit late but happy Lesbian Visibility Week!

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Velvet lynx spider, Oxyopes flavipalpis, Oxyopidae

This species comes in a pretty wide range of coloration, which you can see here if you’re curious!

Photographed in Zimbabwe by spidermandan

joan baez performing 500 miles and harmonizing with the audience you will always be famous

Moebius born Jean Alphone Gaston Giraud aka Jean Giraud aka Gir aka Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (French, 1938-2012, b. Nogent-sur-Marne, France, d. Paris, France) - Drawing

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they enjoyed the sunset together

The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.