“The Mask Comes Off: How liberals and Kamala Harris supporters target Palestinians and minorities to deflect accountability”

The simple fact of it is thus:

Kamala Harris said flat out that she would not stop Gaza's destruction.

Trump said he would.

Maybe he was lying but this is their family's lives we're talking about. If it were your family and you had to make a deal with the devil to save them, would you?

I'm not happy Trump won, but after the absolute mess of a campaign Harris ran, I'm not surprised he won either.

So what now?

How to hang out with your bird gf? Here's some mostly useful guide. Also, don't forget about the frog 🐸 Some of the previous comics are here and here ----- Separate post about Hedwig/Yadwiga is here.

Post about Vaughn, Yadwiga and their AU is here

Find even more comics about them on my Tumblr by the Pticenoga hashtag

What I really need is a mainline Castlevania game that canonises the Captain N: The Game Master version of Simon Belmont by establishing that no, he's not that Simon Belmont, he's just named after the guy, and constantly being compared to his famous ancestor is literally the reason he's Like That.

Honestly, that would have explained a lot.

The One Trainer Who Has a Reason For Catching Shiny Pokemon

This went in a direction unexpected, but I am totally ok wth.

Wow, this one is unexpectedly wholesome, a nice surprise

I just realized that the catcher’s explanation was entirely free of derision. I heard derision in his explanation because I was expecting him to be arrogant and clout-chasing, but after seeing his reason, I went back and read.

He answered the girl’s question with total respect, and his self-satisfaction had nothing to do with feeling superior to her, but in achieving his goal of making his little brother happy.

I even missed how the catcher was INSISTENT that a shiny Pokémon was essentially no different, no better or worse than any other Pokémon of the same species.

Because he was thinking of his brother, whom he doesn’t love any more or any less on account of his albinism.

working link as of 2022 using the wayback machine

comic by Andy Kluthe and Andrew Bridgman

Please reblog if you are a GW2 or WoW blog!

IC or OOC, doesn’t matter. I wanna fill my dash with more Guild Wars 2 and World of Warcraft goodness :)

This blog, also my other blog: Adventures in Azeroth.

One of my favorite genres of insane Terminally Online Right Wing posting is *sees a pretty woman* "I am a gay pedophile"

not even allowed to keep adolescent sex slaves anymore. because of woke

The guy who shot Bin Laden branching out on this phenomenon a bit by directing his sexual desires towards actual young men

And he doubled down on it!

not even allowed to keep a harem of adolescent sex slaves and eat human flesh anymore. because of woke

... just... the fuck else can I say to this but that picture?

The worst thing is that there is so much potential for exploring the horror of psych wards from the angle of medical abuse, ableism, forced treatment/drugging, loss of autonomy, power imbalance, demonization, dehumanization, etc, and YET the horror genre keeps defaulting to "insane asylums and psych wards are scary because there are mentally ill people in there"

Come to think of it, I do know one that did that right.

Alice: Madness Returns.

The entire thing was that Alice's psychologist was corrupt and used drugs and his knowledge of human psychology to turn orphans into barely-aware dolls for sexual predators of old London, was the one behind the fire in Alice's home that killed her family, and acting as Alice's therapist used the same techniques to try to suppress her memories of that night to keep her from remembering the truth of her crimes as she had survived and he couldn't just kill her without arousing suspicion.

He even says at the end of the game when she threatens to expose him "What do you think will happen if you do? I am a respected doctor, and you're a madwoman. They'll never believe you."

So she shoves him infront of a train because fuck that guy. :D

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🟢C0mm for @sekhithefops :D🟢

For all its faults, for all the weaker expansions, for all the damage Afrasabiwasabibibbitybobbity (or however you spell it) did to the story during BfA... Azeroth still feels like home to me even now.

UPDATE: Holy yip this is getting a lotta reblogs.

Reposting for WoW's 20th Anniversary.

So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.

can ppl pls reblog this version

Not too long ago I made a post about the Sanded Church of Skagen that was abandoned due to being buried in sand, but the “sand problem” is much larger than the church.

If you look at Denmark on a map you might notice a white dot near the very top of the country.

That my friend is a huge sand dune that arose out of the sea 300 years ago and is slowly eating its way through the landscape at 18 meters a year.

And if you look closer you might notice that it’s heading straight for the towns Rannerød and Hulsig and when that happens no one will come to save them because the dune is protected. At least they’ll see it coming.

That means that in a few hundred years we won’t just have a sanded church, we’ll have sanded towns with more roofs and towers sticking out of the dune than any tourist bureau could wish for.

Because the dune is a very popular tourist spot. I myself have been to it a few times and it’s quite the experience for a child to suddenly be in a “desert” in Denmark.

If you feel sad for the people in the towns just remember that’s nature. The reason why the dune is protected is because the area used to have many more but people made an effort to destroy them and it fucked up the ecosystem in the area. The dunes leave moist wetland behind that loads of rare creatures thrive in.

So today the inevitable end of the towns are viewed as sort of romantic poetry about nature, the march of time and appreciating the now.

And isn’t it kinda beautiful? To know that something like this exists in the world that will destroy our towns, roads and railways that we could easily eradicate with our modern technology but we choose not to simply because we know it would be wrong.

anime-collaboration with @babuska-yaga @osatokun and @hhershlag. Because we can.

Here's one with my guys. :D

Y’know while I’ve read and enjoyed the Dresden Files, there are things about them that bug me, and a big one is the way that Jim Butcher is absolutely steeped in Christianity.

Like, other gods exist. Harry’s met them. Like face to face met them. And yet, the ACTUAL big boy power in the universe above all others is the Christian god, and Jim has never seemed to even question this arrangement, nor do any of his characters. 

It’s just so very Christian of him, and I suspect he’d be just sorta confused if this was pointed out to him and utterly not grasp just exactly how fuckin fucked up it is to have Kusanagi reworked in his mythos into a Christian artifact or have pagan gods be subordinate to his god.

Seconding this; the whole “Jewish Knight of the Cross” thing makes me… very uncomfortable, to say the least.

Right? And I know fans have pointed that out to Butcher, and he just sorta…brushes them off and ignores them.

Sorry the Jewish what of the what???!!!!

Yeah he had Waldo Butters, a Jewish character, become a Knight of the Cross, AKA a wielder of a sword forged with a nail from the true cross. 

For extra spicy offensiveness, that sword is supposed to be the aforementioned Kusanagi, a sacred sword in Japanese Shinto.

He does not seem to realize how exactly this is offensive, because he is a white dude, and he actually gets all pissed off about people pointing out that there’s an awful lot of capital letters White Christian Man in his books and that some of the things he’s written are offensive.

I’m sorry, the Christian sword is supposed to be Kusunagi? Of Shinto lore?????? I- that is literally offensive to just about the ENTIRETY of Japanese people???

I spent a WHOLE ASS YEAR deep diving research about Shinto for university, which, is INCREDIBLY difficult with Western devices because it’s so repetitive in just basic facts and just a whole bunch of ethnocentric explanations/retellings. It’s not really even a religion, a set of rules/guidelines doesn’t really exist and is, in fact, pretty goddamned transcendent in definition. It just IS the life of the Japanese people - the very core of their existence rooted so deeply within them that they just have a certain resonance with the world around them that many other civilizations don’t have - massively in part due to the folk tales that were passed down the generations.

And you’re telling me that this asshole just…appropriates and warps an important icon that not only is so far fucking removed from Christianity/Judaism/Islam, but also PREDATES all that in the first place…and bastardises it TWICE by making it a Christian artifact, and then forcing a Jewish man that has ZERO ties to the lands of where it came from to wield it???

I’m going to have a stroke.

Yep! That is literally what I am telling you! And the reasoning seems to be “Because katanas are cool, and it’s the Coolest Katana, and therefore it has to be in my books! I did ZERO research on this and don’t care!”

ಠ_ಠ

Shit like this is why I'm glad I stopped reading Dresden Files. I mean ye gods this is... wow... just... fuckin' wow Jim. Wow. Woooooooooow.