The fact that we, Arabic-speaking average people(aka non-journalists), have to keep up with translating Palestinian posts from Arabic to English to avoid having Western Media/Pro-Zionists mistranslate on purpose, says enough about how we all lost trust in the media. From the "there's a list" guy who was standing in front of a calendar and condemning the days of the week, to the BBC's mistranslation of a freed Palestinian hostage's interview. I will try my best to keep translating whatever I can find, and I encourage my fellow bilingual/multilingual Arabs to do the same. It's already sad enough that Palestinian journalists and even children have to use English in videos instead of their native tongue in order to get the world leaders' attention.

Please keep speaking about Palestine.

National Geographic: ‘When the Frost Lies White’ (Japan, 2003) photography: Tim Laman

Yellowstone Winter 2023

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Frosty Morning Moments: Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

(c) riverwindphotography

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Winter Night, Adolf Kosárek, 1857

To those in the Northern Hemisphere, happy Winter Solstice.

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

“The Cutest Cub” by | Charly Savely

Katmai National Park & Preserve, Alaska

Golden clouds

Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia Chilena.

my favorite girlboss and her skrunkly bf finally getting the happiness they deserve

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Grandfather Cottonwood, Revisited

(c) riverwindphotography, from the archives

Yosemite National Park — by neohumanity