Quite possibly the most surreal thing you'll read in our surreal times.
Kids face machine guns with stones so a beaten up journalist can receive help and those kids are then hunted by a terrorist army funded by the journalist's government.
Women are expected to prevent male violence, anticipate male violence, survive male violence, explain male violence, and then comfort men about male violence.
It’s mind-blowing that this is not the standard response, as it legally should be under the Genocide Convention that 75% of the world’s states have ratified
i learned yesterday that big bend is the certified largest dark sky on earth. this is what they’re destroying. this is what texas is losing, what the world is losing.
It's also interesting how they get to decide what counts as an "intellectual" conversation in the first place. More often than not "intellectual" just means topics they're interested in or already knowledgeable about. They often mistake their interests for intelligence itself.
saying it's ableist to be anti ai like Beethoven wasn't deaf, Stevie Wonder isn't blind, & Frida Kahlo didn't start painting bcuz of being bed bound for 3 months + used a brace for her spine after that. disabled artists have always been here & your chatgpt ass can't compete
i don't want kohen wiley's name to fade away with time. he was more than another headline about police violence against black people. against black children. i want his case to continue residing in the hearts of everybody who ever heard or read about it.
justice for kohen wiley.
What Isabel is being put through is unconscionable, and reading the details, my gut tells me the man who attacked her is a predator who's done this to others and gotten away with it because he knows that the Hong Kong judicial system is prejudiced against sexual assault victims.
A rocket hasn't been fired from Gaza in 18 months. And Hamas has handed administrative control over to a technocratic interim committee. Yet the apartheid state continues killing children daily. Almost as if it's a holocaust and not a war