Why is it even called the Swiss guard... do you actually have to be Swiss to join? I guess there are Swiss Italians right... Wikipedia says it's 10% of the country. Weird type of restrictions for hiring though. I wonder if anybody made a discrimination claim against them... although I guess the Vatican legal system prob doesn't even recognize the concept of discrimination LOL
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she took my empire of dirt in the divorce
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no one gently carries your sleeping body into the bedroom upstairs anymore, while the music blares into the night downstairs
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guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff
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do kids these days still tell each other to google blue waffle
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Donald trump live from turbomax brandonprison on a computer screen at a podium: Ron DeSacraligous sleeps outside in one of those plastic igloos for dogs, it's true.
Ron: It's not outside
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Giant lion's paws at the entrance of Sigiriya Fortress, the only remaining parts of a colossal lion statue.
Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura period, 5th century AD
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Yutaka Matsuzawa White Circle Collage, c. 1967
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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.
But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.
In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.
One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.
Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.
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Igbo bride, Nigeria, by Lakin Ogunbanwo
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