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4ft10tvlandfangirl · 7 months

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I had only just watched an earlier update of Bisan telling us that she's still alive and calling for a ceasefire only to refresh a couple times and see this. She says she had been in that spot just earlier. 🥺😢

They've hit outside Al-Shifa Hospital. Israel is still bombing around Al-Quds and the Indonesian Hospital where civilians are in abundance because they have nowhere to go!! How can this be right?!!

#social justice #gaza #bisan owda #al shifa hospital #gaza under attack #may god cover them #may allah have mercy on them #i dont fucking know #free gaza #free palestine #Instagram

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radaverse · 24 days

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keii · 1 year

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I remember before youtube and video gameplays/let's plays were a thing, if I didn't own a game, I would read written out walk throughs as if it was a story LOL I would go to a store and see a game that I'm interested in, but my parents wouldn't buy it for me, so I just read about it online to live vicariously through those.

#I remember doing it for devil may cry bc i thought the cover for the game of dante was hot LMFASDFASDF #what a time...#parents didn't want to get me devil may cry bc they thought dante looked too mature??#but yet they bought us resident evil- silent hill- siren... god of war- gta LOL #played games w literal sex scenes in them??? did u know how weird indigo prophecy was...LSKDFJSAF BUT NOT DMC BC HIS ABS WERE OUT!!!#x #shrekeii

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naomiknight-17 · 1 month

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Sitting in a waiting room with Mom cuz she has a doc's appointment

There's a sign on the door saying masks are STRONGLY encouraged

Only Mom and I are wearing masks

There are over a dozen people waiting

The fact that I haven't massacred the whole room is a testament to my incredible self-control

#i am using hyperbole of course i wouldn't murder people #but like... what an amazing show of how little people give a fuck about those around them #i know masks don't fix everything but i don't understand how people can refuse to do the smallest thing that even MIGHT help protect folks #especially when you're in a DOCTOR'S OFFICE #and there's a sign practically BEGGING YOU TO WEAR A DAMN MASK #PEOPLE MAKE ME SO MAD #i feel bad not having n95s (gonna get some soon) and these people aren't even trying to cover up at all #it just makes me nuts #masks #covid-19 #but also every other damn illness people in a doctor's waiting room may have hhhhhh #at least the staff here are masked up. thank god for that

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sharkneto · 1 year

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man i knew it was going too smoothly

#went from appointment to bloodwork to prescription for T in less than a week #and now i'm in insurance hell trying to get it covered so i can go pick it up and start my boy journey more thoroughly #but! it's not even that insurance doesn't want to give me the boy gel!#i called them ahead of time to see if I had to do anything for them to cover it - and the answer was just have my doctor send a form in #so i did that and then went on vacation expecting boy gel when i got back #but no! insurance never got the form and the phone tag between them and the doctor and the pharmacy i had to do to confirm this was wild #but hopefully doctor will resend the form it will go through and i will have t by the end of the week #fingers crossed anyway #the upside of this is that i have only had a pleasant time talking to insurance on the phone?#i may have shit coverage but by god is their customer service good #minus the continued ''ma'am''s even after confirming the prescription i was calling about was for testosterone lmao #worst case is they end up not covering it and i pay out of pocket - which isn't terrible and i'll do it but paying less is always nice #but also i would have liked to just know that and have gone and got my goddamn boy gel already #i don't talk about my personal trans stuff here very much but i should make a tag in case i do more of it #what do i want that tag to be tho #boy stuff #yeah ok i'm going to commit here and now to ''boy stuff'' lol

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rosemary-bells · 1 year

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boys in the headspace again...

#pollen #got into danmei literally nearly a year ago have never gotten out #worst mistake of my life but wahoooooo! yipeeeeee! my mental space is somehow the worst and best it's ever been at the same time #frickin... what do i even tag this as #svsss #erha #2ha #sqq #sy #cwn #alright that probably covers the bases whatever. i drew this bcs i was dead inside and missed my horrible little guys #i love them i hate them i love them i h #hhh going insane losing my mind also i have EXAMS #literally did the photo even load idk i tired i sleeby goodbye #also so sorry abt the amongus im tired im so tired im so so so so tired god im dying and perishing. im dying im dying #i just wanted to draw the sad old and also gay men in my head. goodbye #ik my writing is illegible whatever whatever im dying its 130 am literally perishing. have a giid eveninf everyone im not h h hdvnsdfjsd. d #do what i cannot do. i suffer so that y ou may be free hrrgh

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elliebartlets · 1 year

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so CNN has these documentary miniseries about each decade that deals with different topics in each episode and I just finished watching the 2000s one about television shows and holy shit? what a time to be alive. out of all the shows they talked about or even briefly mentioned, I’ve probably watched 2/3rds of them and the ones that I didn’t were already on my list to watch. those shows were it. I really think that was the golden age of television.

#CNN #the 2000s #television #tv shows #cnn the 2000s #2000s television #sorry but most of todays tv shows (and most of today’s everything) doesn’t hit the same #like it’s no wonder all my favorite tv shows are from the mid 90s-mid 00s #also they were talking about finales at the end and talked abt the sopranos and went on to briefly show other finales and Buffy popped up #and i turned away so quickly and covered my ears and made my mom tell me when it was over #I did *not* come this far in buffy to be spoiled like that lol #I won’t lie I may be also partial to that period because it took place during my childhood and while I didn’t watch like…any of those shows #when they were airing I remember hearing about them or seeing commercials for them and that takes me back #except I did watch desperate housewives and grey’s anatomy #desperate housewives literally changed me as a person. 8 year old me was not prepared lol #like before that point I was watching like pbs shows so imagine the cultural shock lol #grey’s was also fun to watch but I wasn’t into it like I was with dh until I got older #i also got a kick out of them talking about the west wing #it aired in late 99 but they were probably like eh close enough lol #god I love tv shows #they’re capable of making me feel many emotions #and thinking about things in different ways #plus the art of it all #in an ideal world I write my own show or work on one #anyway here I am rambling in the tags again #I probably sound like a loser but idc

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targkso · 11 months

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Not to condone Thomas Thorne but I Get it

#this is about. someone i served at work today #like ohhhhh thats why Thomas is Like That #they were very really pretty & i will never see them again. AGONIZED #so sleepy.. may the scheduling gods show mercy on me because i ahve worked too many late nights in. a row #I AM BRUISED AND BATTERED. LIKE A BANANA.#COVERED IN BANDAIDS #SCHEDULING GODS.#MERCY #PLEASE #anyways i love using the tags as a life update section #like a little diary #if youve read this far hello why are you peeking in my diary #nosy nosy

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cakesdown · 1 year

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im literally so happy with my current cover wips.... it’s ninezero city over here

#out of four wips three of them have him in them LOL god i love his voice #the other has ryo it was gonna be mai but then i was like oh..... he sounds so niceys #two out of four need to be mixed. one of those two is having art made for it rn im just taking a thousand fuckig years #binkies!!!!!!#let me put it this way... GHOST's songs are soooo good for his voice #im actively trying to Not cover all of their music but god hed be so good for so many of their songs #but i dont wanna be a weirdo lmao #anyway [tooth emoji]

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polktd · 2 years

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not to be an insane person but steddie saw au

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t00thpasteface · 3 months

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god i love the blue catfish so much. kind of a terrifying superpredator honestly. they like living in muddy water so their eyesight is dogshit, but they've got these huge barbels around their face to feel around, and their whole body is covered in almost two hundred thousand tastebuds to figure out exactly where their prey is, and they've got a special adipose fin to be extra tuned-in to water currents/pressure, and they have super keen senses of hearing at really low AND high frequencies, and they ALSO have a deeply forked tail to decrease drag so they can just cruise around and gulp down literally whatever they want, including other catfish, even in like zero-visibility water where every other animal is basically blind. and they get so fucking stupid huge with this technique that nothing can grab them because they're as big as a person. and if an eagle or something does grab one before it's gotten big enough to be eagle-proof, the catfish has fucking POISON KNIVES on its fins to not only stab things but also envenomate them in the process

you may not like it, but THIS is what peak performance looks like

#i need to draw five hundred million of them #shebbz shoutz #fish #catfish #blue catfish

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enigmaproductions · 8 months

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New release from Ezekiel Nigma: Reinvention (As I Lay Dying Cover)

Ezekiel Nigma had this to say about the new release:

Here's my cover of "Reinvention" by As I Lay Dying, in a more symphonic metalcore rendition. It's honestly one of my favourite songs by the band, and a rather underrated one at that. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy my take on this AILD classic!

#As I Lay Dying #metalcore #symphonic metal #symphonic metalcore #metal #metal music #cover #Ezekiel Nigma #Bandcamp #this cover may or may not be dedicated to someone in my life and it just so happened to have released on their birthday as well #dear god I hope they don't find my tumblr because they will probably figure out that it's about them #and there's like a 1-100 chance that they could find it because I'm pretty sure that they also use tumblr #ngl this is probably the one time I'm glad that I'm as insignificant as I am because I'll (hopefully) stay under the radar #okay I think I've done enough being a lovestruck idiot in the tags already I'm sure y'all get the point by now

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hohuios · 10 months

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Tag drop: 1/2

#[ ooc. ] marconi plays the mamba; listen to the radio. don't you remember? we built this city. we built this city on rock and roll.#[ ic. ] beginnings always end. that's the rule. it may be sad but looking gloomy just 'cause it's the end isn't my thing.#[ answered: ic. ] cash up front? this i like. the water needs turning on and those toilets need flushing.#[ answered: ooc. ] 'not gonna die' my ass. that bitch slap nearly killed me.#[ psa. ] it's not about loss. strength is a choice: fighting like hell to protect what's important.#[ saved. ] keep it. / i thought it meant a lot to you? / that's the only kind of gift worth giving. i want to entrust it to you; so i am.#[ prompts / memes. ] whatever. i don't really care. i'm just gonna sit this one out.#[ crack. ] perfect timing. the rest of this show is adults only.#[ salt. ] you can hide that body but that smell... hoo! there's no covering that up.#[ et cetera. ] what do you think after looking at your father's image? / it's like staring into a backed up toilet.#[ self promotion. ] it was your idea to work apart wasn't it? / are you pouting? maybe you're lonely being all on your own.#[ promotions. ] i'm impressed! those are two of the most badass women in the world. i only know one other guy who can defeat them.#[ v: dmc1. ] those eyes... deep in them i see the same light as in sparda's eyes. / why my mother?#[ v: tas. ] didn't you hear me? i'm studying. i may take the odd job here and there; but i've got on desire to babysit some brat.#[ v: dmc2. ] a false coin for a false god.#[ v: dmc3. ] and now my soul is saying it wants to stop you. / unfortunately… our souls are at odds; brother.#[ v: dmc4. ] well; if the kid screws up. then i'll just have to kick his ass.#[ v: dmc5. ] this is… special. / special? okay. / this demon is your reason. your reason for fighting.

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hallowforest · 1 year

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[ sticks a white box next to it bc i hate how LARGE this picture is on its own ]

BACK WITH CRIMES. i ran out of hot glue but i got more and now im impatient so. it's getting Ugly(tm). which is fine tbh it's very much just a See if i can Do This project

#doll crimes :)#shoulders are still causing Problems but i think ive found a solution for them.#may eventually go over the legs with electrical tape to make it all smooth-ish. or cover it in actual paper #hopefully another update some time next week bc god i am going to be out of it for the next couple of days lmao #please dont look too closely at its crotch i tried to fuse the pieces back together with a lighter #it did not work all i did was char the damn thing

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odinsblog · 2 months

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“I first started noticing the journalists dying on Instagram. I'm a journalist, I'm Arab, and I've reported on war. A big part of my community is other Arab journalists who do the same thing.

And when someone dies, news travels fast. Recently, I pulled up the list that the Committee to Protect Journalists has been keeping and looked at it for the first time. There are 95 journalists and media workers on it as of today.

Almost everyone on it is Palestinian. Scrolling through, I started to get angry. These were the people carrying the burden of documenting this whole war.

Israel is not allowing foreign journalists into Gaza, except on rare occasions with military escorts. These people's names are being buried in a giant list that keeps growing. What I want to do is lift some of them off the list for a moment and give you a glimpse of who they were and the work they made.

I'll start with Sadi Mansour. Sadi was the director of Al-Quds News Network, and he posted a 22-second video on November 18. That was a report from the war, but it also gave me a picture into his marriage.

Sadi's wearing his press vest and looks exhausted. He's explaining that cell service and the Internet keep getting cut off, and it's often impossible to text or call anyone, including his wife. So they've resorted to using handwritten letters to communicate while he's out reporting, sending them back and forth with neighbors or colleagues.

He ends the video with a picture of one of these letters from his wife. In it, she writes,

‘Me and the kids stayed up waiting for you until the morning, and you didn't come home. We were really sad.

I kept telling the kids, Look, he's coming. But you didn't show up. May God forgive you.

Come home tomorrow and eat with us. Do you want me to make you kebab or maybe kapse? Bring your friends with you, it's okay.

And give Azeez the battery to charge. What do you think about me sending you handwritten letters with messenger pigeons from now on? Ha ha ha.

I'm just kidding. I want to curse at you, but we're living in a war. Too bad.

Okay, I love you. Bye.’

A few hours after he shared that letter, Sadie and his co-worker Hassouna Saleem were at Sadie's home, when they were killed by an Israeli air strike that hit his house.

His wife and kids, who weren't there, survived.

Gaza is tiny, and the journalist community is really close. Reading the list, you can see all the connections between people. Like with Brahim Lafi.

Brahim was a photojournalist, one of the first journalists to die. He was killed while reporting on October 7. He was just 21, still new to journalism.

On his Instagram, you can see that in his posts just a few years ago, he was still practicing his photography, taking pictures of coffee cups and flowers. Then he started doing beautiful portraits and action shots. You can really feel him starting to become a journalist.

Clicking around on Instagram, I found a tribute post about Brahim from his co-worker Rushdie Sarraj. In this photo, Brahim staring intently at the back of a camera, his face lit up by the light from the viewfinder. He looks so young.

The caption reads, My assistant is gone. Brahim is gone. Rushdie himself was a beloved journalist and filmmaker.

And I know that because he's also on the list. He was killed just two weeks after Brahim. I read the tribute post to him too.

I saw this over and over again. Journalists posting tributes, who were then killed themselves soon after. And a tribute goes up for them.

And then the pattern continues.

Thank you.

Something else I saw over and over on the list, journalists later in the war who had become aware that they could be making their last reports. They'd say it at the beginning of their videos. And those were the hardest to watch, especially when it was true.

One video like that was posted by Ayat Hadduro. Ayat was a freelance journalist and video blogger. Her videos before the war covered a wide range from what I can tell, interviews about women in politics.

She even appeared in a commercial for ketchup-flavored chips. She clearly liked being in front of the camera. Once the war started, Ayat's pivoted to covering bombings and food shortages.

On November 20, she posted a video report from her home. You can hear the airstrikes hitting very close to where she is. It's scary.

‘This is likely my last video. Today, the occupation forces dropped phosphorus bombs on Beit Lahya area and frightening sound bombs. They dropped letters from the sky, ordering everyone to evacuate.

Everyone ran into the streets in the craziest way. No one knows where to go.

But everyone else has evacuated. They don't know where they're going. The situation is so scary.

What's happening is so tough, and may God have mercy on us.’

She was killed later that day.

Targeting journalists, in case you didn't know, is a war crime. So far, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found that three of the journalists on the list were explicitly targeted by the IDF, the Israeli military. Investigations by the Washington Post and Reuters, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations have also raised serious questions in these three cases.

And the Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating 10 other killings. When we reached out to the IDF for comments, they said, quote, the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists. That's the answer they always give in these situations.

Meanwhile, dozens of seasoned reporters have fled Gaza. Journalists who worked for Al Jazeera, the BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, Agence France-Presse. So many media offices were demolished in Israeli airstrikes that the Committee to Protect Journalists stopped counting.

It's not just individual lives that have been destroyed. It's an entire infrastructure.

Thank you.

The name on the list that was hardest for me to look at was Issam Abdullah, because I'd crossed paths with him once. Issam was a Lebanese journalist, a video journalist for Reuters for many, many years. He had just won an award for coverage of Ukraine.

I'm Lebanese and still report there sometimes, and I'd worked with Issam a couple of summers ago. He helped me film a sort of random story in Beirut. I was interviewing this entrepreneur who had started a sperm freezing company after an accident where he spilled a tray of hot coffee on his private area, burning himself.

I know, ridiculous. It was a really silly shoot. Right after we said cut and started to rap, Issam started this whole bit about being in his late 30s, reconsidering his own sperm quality and everything he now realized he was doing to hurt it, and no one could stop laughing.

It was a really good day that felt good to remember and to remember him that way. Issam was killed by the IDF on October 13. His death was one of the three that the Committee to Protect Journalists has identified as a targeted killing.

He was fired upon by an Israeli tank while standing in an empty field on the Lebanon-Israel border with a small group of other journalists. Everyone was wearing press vests with cameras out. They were covering the Hezbollah part of this war.

A few other journalists were injured in the attack, which was captured on video. The IDF says they were responding to firing from Hezbollah, not targeting the journalists. But multiple investigations, including by Reuters, the United Nations, Amnesty International and the AFP, found no evidence of any firing from the location of the journalists before the IDF shot at them.

The journalists in the group and video footage confirmed that there was no military activity near them. I had only met Issam once, barely knew him, but it affected me so much when he died. I know that he understood the risks of his job, but somehow it still felt so random and unfair that he would be struck down like that, following the rules, wearing his press vest and helmet, and a pack of reporters on a sunny day in an open field.

I find myself thinking about him all the time. His last Instagram post was commemorating another journalist, this iconic reporter Shereen Abou Aql who had been killed by the IDF. When I first saw that post in October, I thought how ironic because a week later, Isam also was killed by the IDF.

But then, after spending time reading the list, I realized how common this had become. I still haven't finished going through the list and looking up the people on it. I keep finding things that stick with me, like the funny way this one radio host would cut off a caller who was rambling on for too long.

A tweet from reporter Al-Abdallah that quoted Sylvia Plath. It read, What ceremony of wars can patch the havoc? I'm going to keep going down the list, even though this story is over now.

Just for myself. My own way of bearing witness. Which is, in the end, all that these journalists were trying to do.”

—DANA BALLOUT, The 95. Dana sifts through a very long list—the list of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas war, and comes back with five small fragments of the lives of the people on it. Dana is a Lebanese-American, Emmy-nominated documentary producer.

#politics #dana ballout #the 95 #palestine #israel #war crimes #gaza #committee to protect journalists #🇵🇸#brahim lafi #shereen abou aql #issam abdullah #ayat hadduro #rushdie sarraj #hassouna saleem #sadi mansour

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foone · 5 months

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Have you heard about the Polish Train company, Newag, and the bullshit it turns out they got up to?

So, the regional rail operator Koleje Dolnośląskie bought some Newag Impuls back in 2016 . In late 2021, some of them need to have major maintenance done, as they've been in service a while. So the company SPS (Serwis Pojazdów Szynowych) gets the contract to fix them. They basically take the train apart, replace a bunch of it, following all the rules in the documentation Newag gave them, and... it won't move. The train says everything is fine, the brakes are off, there's plenty of power, but you push the throttle up and it won't move.

SPS spends a while trying to figure out what the fuck is wrong, with no luck. So they hire some hackers from the Polish security group Dragon Sector. Dragon Sector figures out how to get into the code of the computer system that runs the train, and OH MY GOD.

So it turns out there's a secret train-lock system. If it's on, the train won't move. This will be triggered in some situations you might think are normal: the clocks are wrong, the serial numbers of the various parts have changed, and a firmware mismatch between the main computer and the power system. Now, the fact that it makes sense to not run the train in these situations until someone can check it? that doesn't extend to the fact the train uses a SECRET lock system, rather than just popping up an error message telling you what's wrong. There's also the problem that while these are all potential error problems, they can't be cleared by anyone with the technical manuals, which are supposed to cover everything about how to run these trains. Only Newag themselves can reset this system.

Which, you know, keeps SPS from properly fixing them. Only Newag can fix them now, but not because SPS lacks any technical ability, but because Newag sabotaged their own trains. But don't worry: it gets worse.

So now that Dragon Sector knows what's happening, they get to look at other trains. It turns out the trains aren't all running the same software, and there are other tricks in there.

One of them is a "how long has the train been stopped?" check. If the train hasn't hit 60 km/h in 10 days, the train locks itself and won't move until Newag can clear it. So, like, if a train is ever out of service, like it's going to a repair place... it'll break itself. Unless the repair place is owned by Newag.

But two of the trains go further: See, these trains have GPS built in, right? You may be able to guess where this is going...

THEY JUST MAKE THE TRAIN CHECK IF IT IS PARKED AT THEIR COMPETITORS' REPAIR YARD AND BREAK ITSELF IF IT WAS.

The sheer audacity of this move. This is frighteningly bullshit anti-competition self-sabotage.

This has, obviously, made some parts of the Polish government to start investigating this. Newag may be (and hopefully will be) in a lot of trouble.

For more info, there's a great video of a presentation by the three people from Dragon Sector who did the hacking, which was presented at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Ars Technica also has an article on it, but it predates the presentation so it doesn't have some of the later details.

Anyway, the good news is that in the end the hackers at Dragon Sector were able to unlock most of the trains: A few had additional trickery that they didn't want to hack around, because it might break the train's certification. For the others, they discovered undocumented "cheat codes" in the software that they could use to bypass the secret lockouts... presumably the same ones that Newag would have used when they "repaired" trains.

#trains are blameless holy creatures #computer security #reverse engineering

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