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Petrolisthes violaceus, a species of porcelain crab, in Los Molles, Chile

by Diego Gutierrez

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Why doesn’t Israel ever seem to get in trouble for what it does and for breaking international laws?

We hear the phrase “international law” and it might lead us to believe that it’s a single body of laws under which everyone is held accountable equally, and that’s, as you’ve come to realise, is not the case.

But how did that happen?

For starters, we should look at how fragmented this "law" really is; there is no unified or singular legal body internationally. There are multiple legal bodies such as the ICC, ICJ or UNSC, each with its unique power and influence. This fragmentation is exactly why "international law" doesn't really mean anything in particular.

This fact is something that Israel and its accomplices understand and utilise very well. They also understand that, in the words of Israel’s former head of International Law Branch of the IDF, Daniel Reisner, “international law progresses through violations.” So they do understand that their violations are the means of "advancing" what we know as international law, and they do that every day by setting precedent.

This precedent is set by violating the law enough times until it becomes the "norm". This is also what’s called “customary law” which as the name suggests, is a set of laws that are determined by "how things are" according to states and what they determine to be lawful. An example of this is how Israel started a policy of extrajudicial assassinations against the Palestinian resistance, something that was condemned even by US officials as “excessive”. However, Israel continued the practice until just years later, the U.S. started to apply that same policy in its own War on Terror, ultimately taking what once was seen as a horrible breach and cementing it into international law. And that’s how it usually works and this is why Palestinians have been warning everyone that if Israel isn’t stopped, no one will be safe.

Lastly but very importantly, it’s extremely critical to understand that these superpowers have designed international law as a set of laws to control the post-colonial global south, not the other way around. Think of the veto power given to permanent members of the UNSC, and how the US abused that power to stop the genocide in Gaza not once or twice, but five times in the span of 19 months.

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Girlypop show me in the books where Jon ever said anything remotely like this

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Using elitism as a reason for your ship is fucking wild lmao?

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6/7/2025

The National guard is being deployed to Los Angeles to support ICE.

Mask up. Black bloc. White citizens to the front.

ICE and the LAPD have been firing rubber bullets directly at protesters and utilizing weapons like tear gas.

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Sheila Bawar by Fernando Tomaz for Elle Brasil Magazine June 2025

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Zionists get so mad when someone reblogs their post with "OP is a Zionist" because they know that being a Zionist invalidates any other opinion they have. You can't be both a Zionist and a good person. You can't be pro-genocide and expect us to care about anything you have to say.

You are a monster and people need to know that

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Jon watched them leave, and Arya watched Jon. His face had grown as still as the pool at the heart of the godswood.

Game of Thrones, Arya I

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I made this to test out the posca pens I just got and to celebrate the announcement of the switch 2! 🐶🐭🎮

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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Palestinians are stronger than any marine

(Sharing their other link because they have a regularly updated account that they use like a normal person, everyone be normal about this please)

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There's nothing hotter than my grandpa's daughter

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She threw her skinny arms tight around his neck. “I was afraid you were gone,” she said, her breath catching in her throat. “They wouldn’t let me out to say good-bye.”

GoT Jon II

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Actor Jonathan Joss was just murdered for being gay and married to a trans man. On the first day of pride 2025. He was best known for playing John Redcorn on King of the Hill.

I had no idea he was gay but he was married to a man named Tristan Kern de Gonzales (on valentines day 2025!)

They lived in San Antonio Texas where his family is from and he grew up. He was 59.

In Janurary 2025 his home was burned down which made news. It killed some of his beloved dogs. He didnt elaborate beyond he believed it was arson (gofundme is still up and i suggest donating to help his funeral costs and his husband

Update: de Gonzales says hes fine he just wants justice but i still think its nice)

Now we know he and his husband had been threatened by several neighbors for being queer. They told pigs, pigs being pigs did nothing before or after it happened.

Yesterday Joss and his husband went to check their mailbox wherein they found one of their dogs skulls (statement from his husband

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As they weeped and mourned in shock, a neighbor, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, came out and aimed at de Gonzales…but Joss jumped in front of the bullet and was instantly killed.

Ceja, homophobia murdering coward, tried to take off but de Gonzales had called pigs who vaguely tried to do something. He was arrested and his bail set for $200k. Or as my sister said who the fuck sets bail for a murderer?

San Antonio.

De Gonzales is clearly mourning, posting pics on Hoss’ fb page. This one really struck me

This is why we need pride people, and not rainbow capitalism. Please donate to the gofundme and let san antonio cops knows what you think. De Gonzales said multiple neighbors had threatened them…id like to see those people investigated for arson.

Go into pride with rage and knowing. Have joy, kiss puppies, dont bow to homophobes. And maybe enjoy a little king of the hill.

UPDATE

Jonathan Joss’ husband Tristan kern de Gonzales identifies as trans on his facebook page.

Which explains the ramp up of hate and why the murderer shot at de Gonzales (Joss pushed him out of the way). So this is also a transphobia related murder

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Mothering monsters

I'm not sure if this means anything but I was thinking about how, in ADWD, Dany reflects:

Mother of dragons, Daenerys thought. Mother of monsters. What have I unleashed upon the world? A queen I am, but my throne is made of burned bones, and it rests on quicksand. Without dragons, how could she hope to hold Meereen, much less win back Westeros? I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.

ADWD, Dany II

And then there's Val, the girl who Jon is crushing on, and she acts as a surrogate mother to Gilly's baby whom [Val] names 'Monster':

[Jon] "I have heard you singing to him." [Val] "I was singing to myself. Am I to blame if he listens?" A faint smile brushed her lips. "It makes him laugh. Oh, very well. He is a sweet little monster." "Monster?" "His milk name. I had to call him something. See that he stays safe and warm. For his mother's sake, and mine. And keep him away from the red woman. She knows who he is. She sees things in her fires." "Kings and dragons." Dragons again. For a moment Jon could almost see them too, coiling in the night, their dark wings outlined against a sea of flame. "If she knew, she would have taken the boy away from us. Dalla's boy, not your monster. A word in the king's ear would have been the end of it." And of me. Stannis would have taken it for treason. "Why let it happen if she knew?"

ADWD, Jon VIII And who knows what Jon is returning as himself? What is he? Fire wight, he's already a warg, he could be walking the planes of Planetos as a resurrected human, a zombie, the Others...

"Can they talk?" asked Jon Snow. "I think not, but I cannot claim to know. Monsters they may be, but they were men before they died. How much remains? The one I slew was intent on killing Lord Commander Mormont. Plainly it remembered who he was and where to find him." Maester Aemon would have grasped his purpose, Jon did not doubt; Sam Tarly would have been terrified, but he would have understood as well. "My lord father used to tell me that a man must know his enemies. We understand little of the wights and less about the Others. We need to learn."

ADWD, Jon VIII I am high

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He is nine!!

This little guy is seven today! Please wish him a happy birthday 🎈🎈

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I know, I know. Some of you will just be pissed off by this, as you are by everything I announce here that is not about Westeros or THE WINDS OF WINTER. You have given up on me, or on the book. I will never finish WINDS, If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING. If I do, it won’t be any good. I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old. I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire decades ago. I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money. I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards. You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and DYING OF THE LIGHT, “Sandkings” and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” OLD MARS and OLD VENUS and ROGUES and WARRIORS and DANGEROUS WOMEN and all the other anthologies I edited with my friend Gardner Dozois, You don’t care about any of those, I know. You don’t care about anything but WINDS OF WINTER. You’ve told me so often enough). Thing is, I do care about them. And I care about Westeros and WINDS as well. The Starks and Lannisters and Targaryens, Tyrion and Asha, Dany and Daenerys, the dragons and the direwolves, I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine.

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