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holy shit its franky friday

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Happy YAOI Friday everyone !!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!1! (/≧▽≦)/

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

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Customer: THIS IS ME WHEN I VISIT MY FRIEND DMV: THE FRIENDFUL VISITOR

Verdict: DENIED

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One of the best things about My Adventures With Superman is that it puts a classic rescuing-cats superman in a post-Injustice world that not only believes Superman should be dark and evil, but is doing its damnedest to convince Superman that he already is the Bad Superman everyone expects. Even his typical bastions, at least at first, aren't sure what to make of him. Martha Kent is traumatized by the time the ship almost killed her and accidentally projects it onto him. Zor El is scary and off-putting until he realizes that Clark doesn't know anything about Kryptonian language or culture. Lois Lane loves Clark but distrusts Superman, a near inversion of the typical early-relationship dynamic.

And like you see the strain on him. He's out to prove to himself as much as anyone else that he's good actually, and the universe keeps conspiring against him, what with a League of Loises, the Brainiac infection on his ship, and Mxyzptlk's little Trauma Orb. Poor guy is the sweetest and most lovable version of Superman since Christopher Reeves, but in a world even darker and more cynical than the 70s.

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The U.S. will use its veto power against a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a member state of the United Nations during a vote at the Security Council expected to take place Thursday evening. Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department, described as premature an effort by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain member status at the U.N. He said there was not unanimity among the Security Council’s 15 members that the Palestinian Authority had met the criteria for membership, with unresolved questions over the governance of the Gaza Strip, where Israel is in a war to defeat and eliminate the controlling power, Hamas. “And for that reason, the United States is voting no on this proposed Security Council resolution,” Patel said.

Earlier it was revealed that the United States was secretly pressuring other members of the Security Council to shoot down a Palestinian state membership so the US wouldn't have to use its veto as that would lead to a wave of local and international criticism for Joe Biden.

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Dozens of Google employees began occupying company offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday in protest of the company’s $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services to the Israeli government. The sit-in, organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid, is happening at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale and the 10th floor commons of Google’s New York office. The sit-in will be accompanied by outdoor protests at Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Seattle beginning at 2 pm ET and 11 am PT. Tuesday’s actions mark an escalation in a series of recent protests organized by tech workers who oppose their employer’s relationship with the Israeli government, especially in light of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. Just over a dozen people gathered outside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale on Tuesday. Among those in New York was Google cloud software engineer Eddie Hatfield, who was fired days after disrupting Google Israel’s managing director at March’s Mind The Tech, a company-sponsored conference focused on the Israeli tech industry, in early March. Several hours into the sit-ins on Tuesday, Google security began to accuse the workers of “trespassing” and disrupting work, prompting several people to leave while others vowed to remain until they were forced out. The 2021 contract, known as Project Nimbus, involves Google and Amazon jointly providing cloud computing infrastructure and services across branches of the Israeli government. Last week, Time reported that Google’s work on Project Nimbus involves providing direct services to the Israel Defense Forces. No Tech for Apartheid is a coalition of tech workers and organizers with MPower Change and Jewish Voice for Peace, which are respectively Muslim- and Jewish-led peace-focused activist organizations. The coalition came together shortly after Project Nimbus was signed and its details became public in 2021.

You can read No Tech for Apartheid's open letter here.

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Palestinian artist Asmaa Aljueithni shares a photo of the only thing that survived the airstrike that left her Gaza home in ruins: one of her paintings.

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This started out as a mindless doodle until it wasn't

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#Literally me

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Sonic: I had a family patient enough to let me figure things out

Me at the first syllable of family:

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Super ✨🌠