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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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North Atlantic Seabirds 🌊

#art #animals #bird

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

#Palestine #All Cats Are Beautiful

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It’s a little more off topic than I usually am (though I do post SFF on here when it’s related to nature or science) but is anyone else here into the Cosmere? I caught up on the Stormlight Archive a while back, and now I’m going through the Kickstarter books! I just need to finish the Sunlit Man.

(Though I probably will do a post on Rosharan denizens since that includes a really cool reef-like terrestrial system with weird plants adapted to a constantly stormy world.)

#Alex says words

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Herders

Out on the plains, a group of herders watches over its flock. At around 15 feet in height, the Magnavindix have flat tops, good for catching the sun’s rays to supplement their energy requirements through photosynthesis. The majority of their sustenance however, comes from the placid, defenseless Iumentus creatures they tend to. Imposing in stature and well armed, they play the role of defender, shepherd, and also matchmaker, bringing a pair of Iumentus together when their biolights signal readiness to breed. Indeed this symbiosis has grown so exclusive that the Magnavindix have evolved specialized appendages that are only useful in carrying the Iumentus. Having no concern for danger, the livestock are free to grow fat and slow as they wander the open plain, grazing on the expanse of the fibrous purple carpet creature that dominates this land. Other species benefit from this arrangement too. The shy Brush-faced Verecundas stay close to the herd as their giant guardians deter nearly all predators that would attempt to approach.

#aliens #art #speculative biology

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A Universe Below

Almost no sunlight penetrates the thick canopy of the glow forest. As a result, organisms in this ancient biome have evolved a massive array of survival strategies using bioluminescence. Some emit light to attract mates or warn against predators. And some, strangely, illuminate themselves in order to be eaten.

#aliens #art #speculative biology

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Happy Earth Day to the best planet in the known universe for 3.5 billion years and counting.

#animals #bird #dionaea #carnivorous plants #plants

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

#Some good news!! #Indigenous

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No one person here is Pharaoh though. It's fallacious thinking attributing system-level problems to a single person. As much as I despise Reagan and think his grave should be tossed into the sea, I also don't like using him as a singular supervillain because it ignores that the things he accelerated were always featural to American society, even if some of them were waiting to emerge.

Similarly, Trump, Biden, and Netanyahu are focused on as aberrations or supervillains, when that distracts from the reality that colonialism and capitalism create terrible people like them and give rise to them naturally. Focusing on them as "Pharaoh" means that the base conditions are never dealt with, and more Reagans, Bushes, and Netanyahus will be created in the future.

It's Passover! May Palestinians be freed from their bondage in their own Mitzrayim, and be able to cross into the promised land.

#alex says words

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It's Passover! May Palestinians be freed from their bondage in their own Mitzrayim, and be able to cross into the promised land.

#alex says words

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Turkey tail mushroom

#fungi #fruit #mushroom

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Hey yall bc I've been keeping an eye on this the Itch.Io bundle for the PCRF is now live

they had an issue last week with itch.io so they had to postpone opening for a few days but for those who wanted to d/ona/te it's here!

#Palestine

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Update Harvard students are walking out in solidarity with Columbia’s students

These are billion dollar for profit institutions that directly impact financial backing of Israel’s apartheid regime

#!!!! #palestine

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yummy pomegranate

#pommy!!!! #fruit #art #punica

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Visited my P-patch and decided to do an impromptu harvest! There is a big lilac (Syringa vulgaris) in the area so I took some flowers to try and turn into a syrup. Aside from the lilac I also harvested a bunch of weeds from the giving gardens to eat! I figured I could make stir fry using the fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), red deadnettle (Lamium purpureum), and mint (Mentha spp.) growing everywhere. I’m thinking I could improvise something Mediterranean or Greek-adjacent.

Also, a bonus leafhopper on the mint!

#plants #plantblr #lamium #flowers #food plants #mentha #syringa #foeniculum

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When you sow everything too early (yet again) and you wind up with squash blossoms. Also, bonus immature zucchini ovary that wasn’t pollinated (no bees or wasps in my apartment unfortunately:P) so I popped it in my mouth.

I don’t expect them to be able to do this!! They’re just hanging out in small nursery planters.

#cucurbita #food plants #flowers #plants #plantblr #plampts

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Please look at the native range of this truly rare tree called Florida Torreya...how did you even make it

#torreya #Linking specifically to the controversies section