A word from Bisan to the students of the U.S. in their campus solidarity encampments.

Adoptable discount

Tl;Dr: buy more than one and get a 20% discount on the total price!

All the adoptables I currently have on offer! I am currently really trying to get enough money to pay for driving lessons so I would really really appreciate someone taking these! They're all their listed price EXCEPT!! for the elf. She is 25$.

Rules:

- commercial use okay with credit

- all rights transfer to the buyer with credit to me

- if you buy more than one I'll give you a 20% discount! Like if you buy the firefly and the bee, instead of 60$, it'll be 48$

- Payment through PayPal!

- DM to claim! ALL OPEN CURRENTLY

Adoptable discount

Tl;Dr: buy more than one and get a 20% discount on the total price!

All the adoptables I currently have on offer! I am currently really trying to get enough money to pay for driving lessons so I would really really appreciate someone taking these! They're all their listed price EXCEPT!! for the elf. She is 25$.

Rules:

- commercial use okay with credit

- all rights transfer to the buyer with credit to me

- if you buy more than one I'll give you a 20% discount! Like if you buy the firefly and the bee, instead of 60$, it'll be 48$

- Payment through PayPal!

- DM to claim! ALL OPEN CURRENTLY

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Courtesy Alison Fisk

If you’re in DC, stop by the GWU University Yard and show them some love. The encamped students are remaining under threat of suspension

For those who don't know, Rafah Crossing is closed. Meaning Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are technically not allowed to go into Egypt through Rafah Crossing (with exceptions, like holding a foreign passport) so in order to evacuate, Palestinians need to bribe Egyptian border security officials. The standard price used to be about $5000 - 7000 per person but some Palestinians have been told to pay $10,000 per person just to cross the border, forget other expenses like food and boarding.

For a group of people who are enduring genocide and the complete destruction of their homes that money is impossible to raise without the help of fundraising. That and the collapse of the UNRWA is the reason you're seeing so many Gofundmes nowadays. The entire aid system is gone with the exception of local aid organisations that have limited reach.

So if you see a credible fundraiser, please at the very least share it so it can reach more people. This list by @el-shab-hussein is a good place to start.

love going on callout posts for "thinks cnc is okay" and seeing people talk about how us freaks need the electric chair. fantasizing about violence is okay as long as its not sexual, funny that

Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.

hello its been 11 years and im not over the fact that “tranquility” was Anders’ RECRUITMENT QUEST smh that shit hurted Karl Thekla as Patroclus–click for full res, the canvas is a big boy

I love the "Where's the Chantry? Not in Darktown!" npc dialogue bc she gets it.

I fucking love Darktown. Like there's all these people, they're rotting here, they're dying here; in the sewers, in the dark. And where's the Chantry, for all its supposed charity, for all the gold they have in that huge church to build a gilded statue where the qunari used to be? Not here. They don't care about the poor dying folk of Darktown or even Lowtown. The city of Kirkwall lays on Darktown like a blanket, like a sheet or a shroud; covering up what those above don't want to see, what isn't pleasant. But there's a lantern light that promises healing and salvation for a minute, at least.

Adoptable discount

Tl;Dr: buy more than one and get a 20% discount on the total price!

All the adoptables I currently have on offer! I am currently really trying to get enough money to pay for driving lessons so I would really really appreciate someone taking these! They're all their listed price EXCEPT!! for the elf. She is 25$.

Rules:

- commercial use okay with credit

- all rights transfer to the buyer with credit to me

- if you buy more than one I'll give you a 20% discount! Like if you buy the firefly and the bee, instead of 60$, it'll be 48$

- Payment through PayPal!

- DM to claim! ALL OPEN CURRENTLY

Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

I watch a ton of great youtube videos about halting and reversing desertification but now youtube recommends me a ton of videos of people using those techniques to turn desert ecosystems into farmland. If you see these too, please downvote them. Going to desert ecosystems and planting food forests is not a trend we should be starting. Many plants and animals are endemic to those areas and those ecosystems are worth protecting. Deserts are not wastelands. These videos mislead people into thinking that this is a good thing for the environment just because there is more green. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are so many actual forest ecosystems that need to be restored, we should not be wasting energy foresting deserts that have been deserts for millennia.

For the past six months, I have been moving from one address to the next across the Gaza Strip with my husband and two children, aged 7 and 9, in an elusive search for safety. Our home in the Tal el-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, was bombed soon after the war began, and since then we have been homeless. At first, we moved between residences in the north. But sooner or later, every neighborhood in Gaza City became a target, and every apartment in which we sought refuge was damaged by Israel airstrikes. Eventually, my husband and I decided to flee south with our children, to the city of Khan Younis. It was a journey filled with adversity. Again, we moved from one address to another, until we ended up at Al-Amal Hospital. Sheltering at the hospital grounds in the middle of winter, we slept only on a blanket, with a second blanket on top of us to provide warmth for my children and I. It was the first time I had felt extreme cold; the severity, along with the fear I felt for my children, brought me to tears. After the occupation army besieged Khan Younis, we fled in early February through the so-called “safe corridor” under their control. On that journey, we experienced abuse, insults, humiliation, and the theft of our belongings. We continued back northward to the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, prolonging the bitterness of displacement until this day. It has been six months, three cities, and countless places of refuge — and with the war showing no signs of ending, we know that we may not be able to shelter in our current spot for much longer.

barbie official: we’re gonna put all our movies on youtube for free!

youtube, still selling their movies: huh? what’d they say they were going to do?

i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt