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In any given conflict, there are the bad guys, whose motivating is Being Evil, and who always do bad things, and the good guys, who are noble and pure-hearted, and only do good things, all the time, and are universally beloved by the downtrodden. All you have to to do to be a Politics Understander is know which is which. If you don't immediately get what's happening in any given situation, it's because the bad guys are concealing stuff from you. Everything else is a diversion and anyone who implies there is any level of complexity is a subversive and a cop. When in doubt, seek out the assistance of people whose constant onslaught of posts make you feel panicked, guilty, and anxious for reasons you can't articulate. They will helpfully yell at you if you fuck up. Good luck!

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gen z is not falling for media propaganda because we have alternate independent sources of information! look at this video:

[2 minute tiktok full of conspiracy theories, racism, and history distorted like a pretzel]

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A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

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Pictured: Worms in dirt (chocolate pudding, crumbled oreos, whipped cream, and gummy worms)

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Antique, pomegranate-shaped, objects from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem:

Pomegranate-shaped bottle, Cyprus or Egypt, 14th-13th century BCE, Brown glass, core-formed, The Eliahu Dobkin Collection.

https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/227927

Pomegranate shaped vessel, Ashdod, 8th-7th century BCE, Pottery, Israel Antiquities Authority.

https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/369578

Pomegranate-shaped vessel, Provenance unknown, 8th-7th century BCE, Pottery.

https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/353189

Pomegranate bowl, Tel Halif, 9th-8th century BCE, Pottery, Israel Antiquities Authority.

https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/369920

Amulet pendants in the shape of pomegranates, Provenance unknown, 14th-13th century BCE, Gold, Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum.

https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/344898

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you all simply MUST join me in celebrating the fact that a woman who was basically forced out of her faculty position at upenn 10 years ago for not being "tenure material" just won the nobel prize in medicine for her work in pioneering the concept of mRNA vaccines. incredible. stupendous, even

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hey don’t cry. spiro the bald eagle failing at catching a crab, okay?

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okay, who's out there headcanoning that Cliegg never got rid of Shmi's explosive device and that she hated being with him and that she wanted to leave and that she was a slave wife and not a partner? because whoever's doing that you're wrong.

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Fuck Joe Biden

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“Is it possible to turn things around by 2050? The answer is absolutely yes,” says Kai Chan, a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Many scientists have been telling us how the world will look like, if we don’t act now. However, others, like Chan, are tracking what success might look like.

They are not simply day-dreamers either. They aren’t being too optimistic. They are putting together road maps for how to safely get to the planet envisioned in the 2015 Paris Agreement, where temperatures hold at 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than before we started burning fossil fuels, this article from July states.

“Three decades is enough to do a lot of important things. In the next few years—if we get started on them—they will pay dividends in the coming decades,” says Chan, the lead author of the chapter on achieving a sustainable future in a recent UN report that predicted the possible extinction of a million species.

Making these changes won’t mean years of being poor, cold and hungry before things get comfortable again, the scientists insist. They say that if we start acting seriously NOW, we stand a decent chance of transforming society without huge disruption. 

No doubt, it will take a massive switch in society’s energy use. But without us noticing, that’s already happening. Not fast enough, maybe, but it is. Solar panels and offshore wind power plummet in price.  Iceland and Paraguay have stripped the carbon from their grids, according to a new energy outlook report from Bloomberg. Europe is on track to be 90 per cent carbon-free by 2040. And Ottawa says that Canada is already at 81 per cent, thanks to hydro, nuclear, wind and solar. 

Decarbonizing the whole economy is within grasp. We can do this.

“If we have five years of really sustained efforts, making sure we reorient our businesses and our governments toward sustainability, then from that point on, this transition will seem quite seamless. Because it will just be this gradual reshaping of options,” Chan says, adding: “All these things seem very natural when the system is changing around you.”

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Some dipshit just tried to argue with me that artificial image generators provide accessible means to create art for disabled people...

This isn't even the full list. Google quadriplegic artists, there is a shocking abundance of search results, probably because learning legitimate forms of art is a really good form of therapy. Not, y'know, ripping off other artists and not actually accomplishing anything other than inputting a prompt.

There are blind artists, paralyzed artists, and artists with a variety of other physical disabilities, but that doesn't mean they need to resort to unethical means to participate in art. As per usual, the lazy fuckers who can't be bothered to learn how to draw will co-opt accessibility movements to promote their capitalist theft programs. If people who promote programs like MidJourney actually gave a shit about art or accessibility, they would take five seconds to look up the history of disabled artists.

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some of my favorite traditional tunisian sweets!:

- almond bryouettes (top left): a thin cigar-shaped sheet of brick pastry filled with delicious almond paste and decorated with a touch of hazelnut powder.

- bjawia (top right): prepared with roasted dried fruits which deliver all their aromas in a soft syrup to form a divine bite sprinkled with pistachios.

- kaak warka (bottom left): a very delicate donut shaped pastry filled with marzipan that’s been flavored with rose water. (my personal favorite)

- baklawa (bottom right): distinguished by its firm consistency, its thin layers of pastry drizzled with butter. And with a compact, melt-in-the-mouth filling bathed in sugar syrup and flavored with geranium water.

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Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012…

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This child has a better grasp on suspension of disbelief than any adult modern movie goer.

Got his ass