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doh, this feels like as if I just assumed ai was used to make rorschach blots.

Did the model files for the Shortpacked figurines disappear with Patch Together?

I don't think those were ever model files. Pretty sure they just sculpted them out of clay traditional-style and made molds.

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hello liberals. please don't act like joe biden didn't spend the last 2 years setting up this exact situation by doing nothing about ICE and sending a billion dollars to israel every 2 weeks for GENOCIDE and kamala saying she wouldn't do anything differently. kamala explicitly said that she views iran as the biggest threat to the US. democratic leadership are equally as hawkish on the middle east as republicans. can’t forget tim walz saying at the vp debate “the EXPANSION of israel is an absolute fundamental necessity for the united states.” schumer spent the last 2 weeks basically taunting trump to do exactly this with that taco trump nonsense like sir do you WANT him to do the bad things? because it sounds like you want him to do the bad things

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All you stupid bitches had to do was vote for Kamala. Oh my GOD.

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The name Palestine, or it’s possible predecessors, have been found in five inscriptions across countries in the Levant and North Africa, all naming it Peleset or Purusati, inscribed in hieroglyphics as P-r-s-t

Their first mention is at the temple of Ramesses, 1150 BC, where Ramesses is mentioned to have fought off the Pelesets, the last known being 300 years later on Padiiset’s Statue, reading “Ka of Osiris: Pa-di-iset, the justified, son of Apy. The only renowned one, the impartial envoy of Philistine Canaan, Pa-di-iset, son of Apy.”

“Philistine” and “Canaan” both refer to the land of Palestine. The Assyrians have called it Palashtu since 800 BC, through to an Esarhaddon treaty more than a century later

The term Palestine actually comes from the writings of Greek author Herodotus in the 5th century BC, where he calls the land “Palaistine”, which is where the Arabic term “Filastin” comes from

Now, it should be noted that there is a bit of nuance in what I am about to say next - the Iron Age Kingdom of Judah did exist, and was an Israelite kingdom - this was around 960 BC to 560 BC

However, this by no means implies that Palestine is not Palestinian land - the kingdom of Judah famously fell, after all, and Israel the state was only established after political Zionism in Britain, spurred on by catastrophes like the Holocaust and pogroms, promoted the idea of a Jewish “reclaiming” of Palestine

In 1918, the Jewish Legion helped the British conquer Palestine to create the Mandatory Palestine. This caused obvious revolts, as most acts of colonialism tend to do

Over the next few decades, things went as you might know - the Holocaust meant a massive surge in Jewish refugees, most of whom were turned away by their neighbours because, well, millions of new citizens were hard to feed, and all of whom decided that Palestine was where they would go

Of course, none of this took into consideration the fact that native Palestinians would have to be displaced from their homes and livelihoods to do it, often with violence

The Holocaust was a horrible thing, obviously - but attempting to colonise a new state out of a pre-existing one, displacing and killing thousands of native Arabs, in response was hardly a good thing, either

On 22 July 1941, the Jewish militia Irgun bombed the British headquarters in Palestine, killing 91 people. This was in response to a series of raids conducted by the British ,including one on the Jewish Agency

All mediation attempts conducted over the next few years failed, as the Jewish diaspora - and more importantly, the Zionists amongst them - were unwilling to accept a solution that did not produce for them a whole new all-Jewish state in Palestine, while the native Arabs were somewhat pissed at the idea of having to leave the land of their birth due to colonialism

And it was colonialism - Zionist colonialism is still colonialism

Finally, the matter was brought before the UN, who decided to go with the Zionist idea of a separate Jewish and Arab state, with Jerusalem as an international city between them

The Irgun and other Revisionary Zionist groups rejected the idea, seeing it as an act of ceding native Jewish land. The leader of the Irgun at the time, Menachem Begin, openly stated that “the bisection of our homeland is illegal. It will never be recognized” and that the Zionists fully intended on expanding beyond their UN-set boundaries “after the shedding of much blood.”

Simha Flapan, the Israeli scholar, states that it is a myth that any Zionist groups at all accepted the partition, as most of them simply wanted to undermine the creation of an Arab state, fully intending on expanding into them later

Baruch Kimmerling, a professor at the University of Jerusalem, has stated that Zionists “officially accepted the partition plan, but invested all their efforts towards improving its terms and maximally expanding their boundaries while reducing the number of Arabs in them”

So, yes, the Zionist myth of a peaceful, unambitious Israel is exactly that - a myth

The Arabs had a much more open reaction, rejecting the plan outright. Zionists will tell you this is because they hated Jews. It’s not. Their principle argument was that it was against the principles of national self-determination set out in the UN charter, granting them the right to decide their own destiny

In any case, over on the Zionist side of things, Jewish insurgency peaked until Irgun took two British sergeants hostage as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun officers. The officers were executed as planned, and the sergeants were murdered and hung from trees. Spurred by this, the British called for an evacuation of the Mandatory Palestine

On 26 November 1947, the UN General Assembly presented another plan for the partition of Palestine, evidently fully ignoring what the actual Palestinians had to say. In this, they assigned 56% of Palestine (notably, Arab land that already had Arab landowners) to the Jewish diaspora, who had so far owned 6-7% of the land

Arabs, the majority, held 20% of the land, and the remaining 23-24% was granted to Mandate authorities and foreign entities

Once again, the native Arabs rejected this. Not because they wanted to kill Jews. But because it clearly benefitted European interests over Palestinian ones, and was thus unacceptable

Afterwards, Israel had its way and declared independence once Mandatory Palestine was dissolved. The neighbouring Arab states, formed the Arab League, and invaded, with the goal of ensuring the prevention of the Partition

To make a long story short, they failed, and Israel annexed massive parts of Palestine in the process. The native Palestinians were then expelled from the homelands by the Zionist militias in a bloody and brutal process that would come to be known as Al-Nakba

In addition, this led to the destruction of Palestinian culture, identity, and national aspirations. They were no longer “Palestinians” - they were the expelled and discarded. Their settlements were either destroyed or given new Hebrew names

In the process the Israelis would also start their genocide against the Palestinians with a bang - the poisoning of village wells and other acts of biological warfare.

750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their ancestral homes and towns - 80% of the population living in what would become Israel. Eleven Arab towns and cities, along with over 500 villages

It’s believed that around 70 massacres occurred during the Nakba, with the Yishuv killing over 800 -Arab civilians over the course of 24 of them. Other sources state that there were 10 major massacres with over 50 casualties each

The Saliha Massacre ended with 70 dead, the Deir Yassin with 112, the Lydda with 250, the Tantira with 200+ and the Abu Shusha massacre with 70 dead

And those are just the major massacres, as recognised by the Israeli historian Benny Morris. There are plenty more. Each death a living, breathing, person, whose life and death are being erased by the acts of the government of Netanyahu

The nakba, which began on 15 May, 1948, is considered to be still ongoing today, with new deaths and massacres occurring everyday. The US support Israel has enjoyed, along with their own technological breakthroughs, has only made it more effective at destruction

All to make room for a state that, I will remind you, does not have any right to exist in Palestine. It is true that there was a Jewish kingdom in Palestine once upon a time. But there was a Muslim kingdom in Spain once, too, and no one’s arguing for Arabians to go colonise Spain

The Palestinians have existed in Palestine since at least the Bronze Age, being the descendants of the Ancient Levantines extending back to the inhabitants of the Levant at the time

According to the Palestine historian Nazmi Al-Ju'beh, like in other Arab nations, the Arab identity of Palestinians, largely based on linguistic and cultural affiliation, is independent of the existence of any actual Arabian origins

The Palestinians are the indigenous population of the land of Palestine. To displace and genocide them to make room for your own colony is not unlike what China is doing in East Turkestan or what America did to the Native Americans

All that to say - the Zionists did in Palestines what every racist and Islamophobe seems to think Muslims are trying to do in Britain

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blocking every person who posts destiel announcing a war crime like its a fucking joke.

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don't lionize this opportunist just because he wants to be the one who orders the national guard to put down a protest instead of Trump.

Source

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And here, we have Benjamin Netanyahu in 2002 telling us to invade Iraq because Saddam is building nuclear weapons.

And now that he successfully helped guide George Bush into devastating Iraq, Netanyahu continues on with his three decades old lie about Iran.

Netanyahu’s lies about Iran’s nuclear capacity since 1992

1992 - 1995

Iran is “three to five years” away from reaching nuclear weapons capability.”

1996

Iran is a “global threat” and that “The deadline for attaining this goal (preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon) is getting extremely close.”

2005

Iran's nuclear ambitions “must be stopped.”

2007

In an interview with CNN, he claims that “Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs.”

2009

Netanyahu tells a US congressional delegation that Iran is “probably one or two years away” from reaching nuclear weapons capability. Later that year, he says, “Iran has the capability now to make one bomb,” adding that alternatively, “they could make several bombs in a year or two.”

2010

“The greatest danger facing Israel and the world is the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran.”

2012

Netanyahu says Iran has only a “few months” — possibly a “few weeks” — to have enough nuclear enrichment for an atomic weapon.

2013

Iran “continues to create” nuclear weapons.

2023

In an interview with Iran International, Netanyahu claims that Tehran is “dangerous moving forward” with its nuclear program and is nearing “red lines.”

2025

Netanyahu warns that Iran is “only days away from enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.”

NO.

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phone and google maps? na. The most recent paper maps they can get for free.

each year congress people should be required to go on a field trip where they each get dumped in the middle of a random u.s. town & handed a phone with google maps & forced to find their way back to washington solely through the use of local public transportation systems.

to be clear i don't think this would improve our political reality in any way, but it would be fun to watch

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The Monster Wears Your Face

Written by @joles.bsky.social‬ on Bluesky

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Like it's funny, nobody is saying that the Islamic Republic of Iran is good. Nobody even likes Khamenei, but lest you forget the Iraq war, overthrowing that leadership and replacing it with a western puppet is gonna do more harm than good.

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Like I know we flee here from the smouldering ruin of our civilisation at the moment but I as a mid-40s year old need you guys to know

Netanyahu has been saying Iran is close to nuclear weapons for 30 years

He has wanted a war with Iran that whole time

The "they have nuclear weapons" was the reason the allied west invaded and flattened Iraq in 2003 and it also turned out to be a lie

Tulsi Gubbard who is the head of US Intelligence signed a statement less than two weeks ago confirming it is America's belief that Iran is not currently pursuing nuclear weapons

Talks between the US and Irani delegation were expected to take place on Sunday, and the Irani lead negotiator was interviewed as saying he felt positively about the possibility of a new deal

Netanyahu bombed Iran and killed that exact negotiator on Friday.

There is heaps of footage of Netanyahu claiming Iraq had WMD/nukes, he was a lead proponent of the war on Iraq.

History is fucking repeating and it is MADDENING. I was at protests against the Iraqi invasion in 2002/2003. We all knew there were no nukes. US and Israel wanted regime change in Iraq anyway so they could install puppets and that's exactly what they're doing in Iran.

People will study this period in history and go, "WHY DID NO ONE STOP NETANYAHU AND ISRAEL IN GAZA, IRAN AND THE WIDER MIDDLE EAST? WHY DID THE MEDIA NOT COMMENT ON THE FACT ISRAEL HAS NUKES AND HASN'T SIGNED A TREATY BUT IS CLAIMING TO BE UPSET ABOUT A FICTIONAL SITUATION WHERE OTHER COUNTRIES ARE APPARENTLY DOING THE SAME?"

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Right to exist

Transcript:

Reporter: Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on Palestine: Israel does exist. Israel is a recognised member of the United Nations. Besides this, there is no such thing in international law like a right of a state to exist. "Does Italy have a right to exist?" Italy exists! Now, if tomorrow Italy and France want to merge and become Itafrance, fine, this is not up to us. What is enshrined international law is the right of a people to exist. So, the state is there, that State of Israel is there, it's protected as a member of the United Nations. Does this justify the erasure of another people? Hell no. Not 75 years ago, not 57 years ago, surely not today. Where is the protection of the Palestinian people from erasure, from annexation, from illegal occupation and apartheid? This is what we need to discuss