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this video is originally from 2021.

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Professor of Assyriology, Matthew Stolper, standing in front of the Colossal Bull Sculpture from Persepolis.

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is the world okay??? (I know the answer is no). where did everyone lose the thread of reality and humanity so thoroughly?

it actually does not matter how much anyone hates Israel in this instance. it is irrelevant. no one with a shred of awareness or decency would be standing with these brutal, inhumane regimes. there is no excuse for this. there is no excuse to support the Islamic Republic, there was never an excuse to support its terror proxies. yet we’ve seen it nonstop for 20 months, and here they still are, now lauding the head of the snake.

how quickly they forget Mahsa Amini. how quickly they forget Nika Shakarami. they are two names among thousands of innocent names.

perhaps the truth is revealed that they never cared about them at all in the first place.

As war unfolds between Israel and the Islamic Republic, headlines scream “Iran attacks” and “Iran strikes back.”

But let me be clear: this is not Iran.

The Islamic Republic is not Iran, it’s not a government, and it certainly does not represent the Iranian people. It is a foreign, Islamist regime that hijacked our nation, to erase our identity, and steal our future 46 years ago—and every time you conflate the two, you help bury the truth.

This regime was never elected. It has never represented Iran. It is not native to our culture, our history, or our values. It is a violent, ideological occupier that murders Iranians daily. Every four hours, one Iranian is executed or killed for refusing to kneel.

Women are raped, tortured, and publicly shamed for daring to show their hair. Children are shot in the streets. Our artists are silenced. Our students disappear.

So when Israel launches precision strikes on IRGC commanders, they are not attacking Iran.

They are targeting the enemy of Iran, the very machinery that vowed to destroy Iranians—people like my father, Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by this regime.

Or Mojahed Kourkour, executed at dawn just days ago for a crime he didn’t commit—his only “offense” was refusing to bow. They killed him on the birthday of Kian Pirfalak, the nine-year-old boy gunned down by the same forces. Then they blamed Kourkour for it.

And when this regime retaliates, it doesn’t target military sites.

It rains missiles on civilians—in Tel Aviv, in Ashkelon—because terror is its only language.

It is a gut punch every single time world leaders, journalists, and even activists call these butchers “Iran.” You are helping mask jihadist terror in the language of diplomacy.

And worst of all, you are ignoring the millions of Iranians—especially women—who have risked everything to say: not in our name.

This is personal—not just for Iranians, but for Jews too. Our peoples share thousands of years of history. And that history is now being rewritten by a regime that incites genocide, funds terror, and has driven out or silenced what was once the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside of Israel.

But still—even now—Iranians and Israelis are lighting candles for one another. Praying for one another. Mourning one another’s dead.

We see each other because we know who the real enemy is.

So let’s ask the real question:

Now that you see Israelis and Iranians praying for each other’s safety, mourning each other’s dead, and fighting a shared enemy—what will you do?

Will you finally sever your ties with these oppressors?

Will you end the charade of nuclear deals and backroom diplomacy?

Will you stop pretending tyranny can be reasoned with?

Or will you once again betray the people of Iran—especially the women, the girls, the brave protestors—by handing their jailers billions, under the guise of peace?

The time for ambiguity is over.

Gazelle Sharmahd is a human rights activist and the daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, an outspoken critic of the Islamic regime in Iran.

if you do not know Jamshid Sharmahd’s name and story, you should. it is graphic, horrific, and a tragedy of injustice.

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You did it, Chum !

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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books Summer Reading Special.

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Stained glass ao3 logo :P

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Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'

Groove-Billed Ani

Hoatzin

Pheasant Coucal

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It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

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