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Wait a minute. JRPG is the initials of the betles

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psychic plural Russian girl asking permission to mind meld: can you give me headmate

her Australian roommate, immediately tying up her hair: I thought you would never ask

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An Israeli arms manufacturer’s facility in Bristol which was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action appears to have closed unexpectedly.

The Elbit Systems UK site in the Aztec West business park was the subject of dozens of protests by Palestine Action, including on 1 July, days before the direct action group was banned under the Terrorism Act.

Elbit has held the lease since 2019 and it was not due to expire until 2029. The protests included blockades using lock-ons, occupying the roof, smashing windows and dousing the site in red paint.

Elbit Systems UK is a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, which is Israel’s largest arms producer. Elbit Systems, which had revenues of $6.8bn (£5bn) last year, describes itself as the “backbone” of the Israel Defense Force’s (IDF’s) drone fleet, which has been used extensively in the assault on Gaza.

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Elbit Systems UK did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment about the status of the site. But the property, located within a commercial and industrial park on the outskirts of Bristol where the M5 and M4 meet, was deserted when the Guardian visited this week.

There were no staff present aside from a security guard stationed in a vehicle parked outside the premises.

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Andrew Feinstein, an expert and author on the global arms trade and former member of the South African national assembly, described the closure as “extremely significant”, adding: “We need to remind ourselves that Elbit (Systems) is one of the two most important Israeli arms films, along with IAI, that is it is obviously a key component of Israel’s military industrial complex.”

6 September 2025

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Embroidered Sculptures Recreate Lifelike Mushrooms, Lichen, and Fungi in Thread

by Grace Ebert - Colossal, February 25, 2022

Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. As a scroll through her Instagram reveals, the resulting sculptures are so realistic in color, shape, and size that it’s difficult to distinguish the artist’s iterations from their counterparts.

Currently, Cobbett is preparing a collection that will head to the Artful Craft exhibition at Make Southwest, which opens on April 2.

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Shit is bad, but today, I learned that California's kelp forests have made a major comeback with the help of scientists, fishermen, and hammer wielding volunteers.

It's a win for habitat restoration. It's a win for marine life. It's a win for all of the people who helped make it happen.

It's a fucking win and it makes me happier than words can describe.

Edit: now with video and link.

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it's such a sadness to me that kids eventually lose that 'no filter' thing when they grow up. my niece asked what 9/11 is and someone explained it to her and her unfiltered conclusion was "bro. is that it"

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STOP: before you make that post on social media, ask yourself- if you boil it down, is it "boys vs girls"

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he sippa da justice

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step 1. we genetically engineer octopuses to have 50 year lifespans

step 2. we teach the octopi human lannguage

step 3. the octopodes discover anthropogenic climate change and decide to kill us all

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Young orca with salmonberry. Started this two years ago, worked on it here and there, finally done with it I think?

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obviously there's a difference btwn someone who cannot do a task Literally Ever and someone who can do it under great duress in an emergency but i feel like these conversations ignore that the latter person, if their entire life becomes "an emergency", is going to become the former person in about 2 weeks - 2 yrs depending. if you are the type of person who says "i can't prepare my own food" and really mean "i can force myself to prepare my own food if i would die otherwise" and you are forced to prepare your own food All The Time lest you die, how long do you think that "emergency" skill is actually going to last? and how many other skills are going to go down with it? or: what else is the person sacrificing, on purpose or not, to stay alive under those circumstances? it may be Almost Every Other Skill They Have. this is where things like "autistic regression" come from!

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[“Eugenicists were divided over the role women should play in the national campaign. Some insisted that they remain guardians of the hearth. This ideal coincided with the traditional southern ethos that asserted planter and middle-class women possessed a “natural aversion” to associating with black men. The New York horse breeder Stokes called on women to scrutinize potential suitors, demanding family pedigrees and subjecting the man to a physical examination. (It is easy to see how he borrowed from the horse breeder’s demand for pedigree papers, not to mention the proverbial “gift horse” mouth inspection.)

It became popular for young women to pledge to a eugenic marriage, accepting no man who did not meet her high scientific standards. In 1908, a concerned female teacher in Louisiana started “better baby” contests, in which mothers allowed their offspring to be examined and graded. This program expanded into “fitter family” competitions at state fairs. The contests were held in the stock grounds, and families were judged in the manner of cattle. The winners received medals, not unlike prize bulls.

Educated women were the gatekeepers, the guardians of eugenic marriages, though fecund poor women continued to outbreed their female betters. So-called experts contended that those who overindulged in sexual activity and lacked intellectual restraint were more likely to have feeble children. (Here they were imagining poor whites fornicating in the bushes.) Once experts like Davenport identified harlotry and poverty as inherited traits, sexually aggressive women of the lower classes were viewed as the carriers of degenerate germ protoplasm. In 1910, Henry Goddard, who ran a testing laboratory at the school for feeble-minded boys and girls in Vineland, New Jersey, invented a new eugenic classification: the moron. More intelligent than idiots and imbeciles, morons were especially troublesome because they could pass as normal. Female morons could enter polite homes as servants and seduce young men or be seduced by them. It was thought to be a real problem.”]

Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History Of Class In America

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went for a walk the other day and there were apples and blackberries growing along the trail and i walked past some teenagers smoking weed in a ditch and overheard one of them point to the fruits and say "bro that shit is bountiful"

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Pangur used to growl when she heard Belphie's name. now look at them

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Sorry but everyone is misogynist. Yes that means you. Yes that means me. Yes that means the most committed, well educated, experienced feminist you can think of. I honestly think that not one single person has fully unlearned misogyny, nobody can be fully aware of the ways that they are perpetuating it, and as trans ppl we have got to stop pretending that some of us are exempt from the obligation to continue the process of unlearning.

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if youre freaked about the social construction of “natural” just wait till you hear about “real”