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I think some of the funniest stuff in Arknights is when they try to justify the outfit change for an Alter unit. I haven't seen all of them, of course, but my favorites include:

Silence - "I was undergoing a clandestine covert mission for the boss of the *R&D DEPARTMENT* when another of my bosses found me and gave me a free makeover."

Skadi - "Some old guy who I helped out once gave me these clothes as a disguise from the Spanish Inquisition so I'd stand out less. No, I did not ask why he had a sultry outfit in my size just lying around."

Lava - "This is literally my cool self-insert OC's design for the movie my girlfriend wrote for me to star in. Do not steal." *bumps into a wall because of her stupid blindfold*

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The State of Israel is what decolonisation and land back looks like - an indigenous people regaining sovereignty over their land after centuries of oppression and genocide.

When you say it has no right to exist, that Israelis should all "go back to where they came from" and calling for its dismantlement and takeover by Palestine, what you are actually advocating for is the destruction of native lands by a colonising force.

Don't have the bare faced audacity to pretend you give a single shit about indigenous rights if this is what you want.

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Okay, so here's my contribution. To anyone seeing this, sorry I haven't been on Tumblr for 2 or 3 days I think & I don't have time to catch up on stuff, so that's either a tomorrow thing or day after that. I just saw notification that I got tagged for this & decided to do it before getting some sleep.

This song was used in one of the Final Fantasy Games. The funny thing is I haven't even played any of the Final Fantasy Games. I downloaded this album because "Blaze" is on it & decided to listen to the rest of the album. So I know a Final Fantasy song because I'm a Gundam fan (Blaze is from Iron-Blood Orphans, usually abbreviated as IBO).

Tagging @xclowniex @short-wooloo @queer-geordie-nerd @shofarsogood @vigilantsycamore @hermthejewishwyrm & @jewishgay4il. Only join in if you feel like it.

i found a cool tag game on twitter and i really wanna import it (o^ ^o)

this picrew + the last song you listened to :]

no pressure tags: @blood-loving-leech @overtaken-boredom @lesbianthatyaps @kameonerd566 @hexedvampire @laczki @anonymous-shxtposter @fleurafae @flovqy + anyone who wants to do it <3

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russian invasion of Ukraine: 24.02.2022 - 24.11.2024

Crimes of russia against the media and journalists in Ukraine.

-762 crimes against the media and journalists were committed by Russia in Ukraine during two years and nine months since its large scale invasion of Ukrainian territory.

Categories of Violations

92 journalists and media workers killed in total; 12 of them died while performing editorial assignments

14 journalists are currently missing

29 times journalists were kidnapped

41 journalists were wounded

2 attempted murders

21 TV towers shelled

44 incidents of shooting into journalists

22 editorial offices sized/ruined by russians

35 incidents with switching off Ukrainian broadcasting

83 death threats, intimidation of journalists

94 cyber crimes

329 media outlets closed down due to Russia's invasion

10 digital blockades of Ukrainian media in russia

26 incidents of legal pressure

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"Uhh AFAB transfem people could be intersex-"

Without looking it up, tell me what types of intersex people would be assigned female at birth and simultaneously need to transition to being female. I don't think you know, because most of you were just using intersex people as a rhetorical shield for your real audience - cis women who aestheticize and objectify trans women.

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Extreme leftists who constantly bleat about being against colonialism and imperialism while simultaneously sucking the dicks of literal fascist, genocidal dictatorships are so absurdly funny. Be so fucking serious. That I ever thought I had shared values with these lunatics.

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Here is a brief summary of what is happening in Wikipedia right now:

In the last few years (3-4 years) the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which was originally created to improve the quality and coverage of native issues and native articles on wikipedia, has been hijacked by a small number of users with an extremist agenda. They have been working diligently over the last few years to change the definition of both what it means to be an Indigenous American and even what it means to be state and federally recognized.

The four or five key players (Mainly Editor Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, ARoseWolf, (now retired editor CorbieVreccan, Netherzone and Oncamera) who are part of the “Native American Articles Improvement Project” started implementing these changes slowly, but they started pursuing their goals aggressively after November 2023, when state-recognized tribes retained their voting rights in NCAI. Essentially, after the movement to delegitimize state-recognized tribes failed officially, the key players doubled down on altering and controlling the flow of information about Native Americans through Wikipedia.

The talk page of Lily Gladstone’s article has a relevant discussion here. Initially, the leaders of the WikiProject removed any reference to her being a “Native American Actress” and instead had her as “Self-identifying as Blackfoot” and “Self-identifying as Nez Perce” because her blood quantum was too low to be enrolled in either tribe.

You can see some of the discussion here:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lily_Gladstone

Eventually they relented and changed her category to being “Of Nez Perce Descent” but you can see in the discussion that they are referring to an article that these editors (Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, and CorbieVreccan) themselves appeared to have mostly written and revised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_identity_in_the_United_States

This statement is very much at odds with even the government’s description, as seen below;

The DOJ Office of Tribal Justice Office on their webpage “Frequently Asked Questions About Native American”, question “Who is an American Indian or Alaskan Native” states:

“As a general principle, an Indian is a person who is of some degree Indian blood and is recognized as an Indian by a Tribe and/or the United States. No single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person's identity as an Indian. Government agencies use differing criteria to determine eligibility for programs and services. Tribes also have varying eligibility criteria for membership.”

In addition, “List” pages have been created on Wikipedia for federally and state recognized tribes. The Wikipedia “List” page for state-recognized tribes is inaccurate in its interpretation of state recognition and not supported by expert reliable sources--(1) Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law 2012 edition, (2) NCSL.org current stand on state recognition (not the archived list from 2017 which NCSL no longer supports), (3) Koenig & Stein’s paper “Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: a survey of state-recognized tribes and state recognition processes across the United States” (both 2008 & updated 2013 in book “ Recognition, sovereignty struggles, and indigenous rights in the United States: A sourcebook”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States

State-recognized tribes who have received recognition through less formal but acceptable means have been moved from the Wikipedia list page on state-recognized tribes to the Wikipedia list page of unrecognized or self-identifying organizations.

The Wiki page "List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes", in particular, is being used to purposely defame legitimate Native American individuals who are members of the tribes/Native communities that are on this list. 

By the parameters set up on Wikipedia, only the colonizer’s governments can acknowledge who is Native American through either federal recognition or state recognition. If an individual is not a member of a federally or state-recognized tribe, then it is determined that they cannot be Native American and are, instead, considered “self-identifying” or only “a descendant of ...” (example Lily Gladstone). As a result, Native individuals are currently being tagged as “self-identifying” and their names are put on “list” pages that strongly imply they are “pretend” Indians.

These editors have indicated that they would like “self-identification” to be the default setting for any people who they deem do not fit within the parameters that they themselves created within Wikipedia.

Moreof, these editors are admin and senior editors within the Wikiproject Indigenous Peoples of North America, and are being called in specifically to weigh on Native Identity, and any project involving any Indigenous Group.

Any attempt to correct misinformation, add information, or change any of these articles is often met with being blocked, reported for various offenses, or reported for having a Conflict of Interest, whether or not that is actually applicable. They have use this strategically in many different pages for many different individuals and groups within the scope of their Wikiprojects.

While changing things in Wikipedia does not change the truth, it is a way to control how most people take in information, and thus they hope to manipulate the narrative to better suit their goals.

This is quick and messy but:

Here is a link to the google document with the other state recognized tribes (Including yours) that were edited by these editors. This is an incomplete list so far that only goes back to September 2023 but I am going to add to it. If you can add to your own part of this list, and send your complaints and information to the arbitrator committee (the email is below) with the involved editors, this will help our case.

The  more tribes who complain, and the more Wikipedia editors complain, the better our case will be. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNDEjLTrrZ_mMIRCVxtvt69FwCYpJWKs71lBhWa5a9M/edit?usp=sharing

The place to make complaints on Wikipedia is oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org , and

arbcom-enwikimedia.org . It is most helpful to have an editing account on Wikipedia, because Yuchitown and the others will try to defend themselves using Wikipedia methodology and make anyone who confronts them look like the aggressor (see the other tribes who tried to fight back on Wikipedia I found).

The more people and tribes make complaints the more likely it is that this will work and we can rid ourselves of these monsters.

Some of the tribes I have spoken to are taking legal action against these editors. Any groups affected by their policies should also reach out to the news to make knowledge of this more widespread.

Thank you

- quoted with permission from an email sent by an associate of my tribe. Message me for their email address if you'd like to reach out to them.

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Please read the whole thing.  

Now I will argue that Batman’s motivations (protecting the innocent), level of preparedness, and the fact that he doesn’t kill people, put him miles above the current uniformed fascists charged with maintaining the status quo and protecting property. That being said I think this would be an innovative take on the Batman mythos, and have social commentary guaranteed to piss the wrong people (by which I mean the right people) right off.  Personally I’d watch the shit out of that. 😉

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Give me one logically supportable reason why the fuck we should have an iota of respect for someone's culture if it's misogynistic?

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I hadn't seen any news earlier today. But I'm with my parents & we just watched the news, so I just learnt about what happened in Woollahra. This is what happens when you don't crack down on the antisemites quickly & don't apply the full force of existing laws on them. They escalate. Adass Israel in Melbourne last week, Woollahra today. If our government did a crackdown earlier, neither of those attacks would have happened. I hope these two attacks will be the wake-up call for our government to do what needs to be done.

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I don't think I could have expressed it better than @barszcz-czerwony-i-biali (though I admit that as a goyische atheist, I looked up the meaning of teshuvah on the My Jewish Learning website. Yeah, it meant what I thought it would based on the context, but I always check definitions of words I don't remember).

People can change for the better. As long as they take concrete steps of restitution rather than just saying an apology that might be meaningless, I'm fine with forgiveness. If someone who used to be a toxic bigot comes around & atones by trying to help the people they used to hate, then isn't that the best outcome. I understand people being burnt by enough bigotry to be unwilling to trust, so I don't hold it against those who wouldn't accept attempts at atonement. Trust in people or society, once lost, is hard to rebuild. But if we want our society to become better, then we need to hope that some of the current bigots atone.

If they try to hide their past mistakes or offer an apology but don't make any effort to make either restitution or at least self-reflection on why they fell down the judenhass rabbit-holes, than yeah, that's different, don't forgive those jerks. But if they make a sincere effort to right their wrongs, then we should help them get there, as that's the path to a better future.

Could you personally forgive someone who had a neo-Nazi “phase” as an adult? Assuming they’re trying to make amends for their past behavior/beliefs

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I didn't count the exact number, but if we assume 20 books per shelf, assume 3 shelves per bookcase (only the smallest bookshelf at home has only 3 shelves) than multiple that figure by the number of bookcases I have. Yeah, even not accounting for books that aren't on a shelf because I don't have room left on the shelves, my collection is well above 100.

Do you own more than 100 books?

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how has football been for y'all

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BH

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