#but ukraine did better

[rainymoodlet]

so glad most of y’all see what’s going on in gaza for what it is

#i will say it a thousand times: abuse does not justify abuse #like did they really think we would forget about them stealing homes and raping and beating women men and children #you better get three thousand miles away from me if you support israel in this #it was not unprovoked. it was not unprovoked. #all israel sees in this is the opportunity to finish what they started under the guise of war #and they have the audacity to compare themselves to ukraine #i am fuming i am livid #i knew it would come a week after the ‘start’ #and lets be real #israel started this. and they found the means to their end. #i was trying to keep quiet on this but for fuck’s sake… #FLIERS???? #txt

[themthistles]

finally catching up with eurovision and croatia is the true winner in my heart

#if only for just that performance #literally mali podli psihopat rrRAT #slay #kinda liked them more than finland #everyone was right like sweden was not...yeah #i mean she's okay but imo even italy did the power ballad thing better #serbia ukraine and moldova were good too #love when performers go all out and Commit To The Bit #also that flute solo!!

[hypodermicfroggy]

Semi-Final One voting: A summary.

I haven’t seen a travesty this bad since 2018.

You let Portugal in, you let Iceland in, you let Greece in, all mid songs at best, you even let in SWITZERLAND which was hot garbage from the start.

But didn’t let in Latvia.

What the actual goddamn fuck.

#Eurovision #ESC #Eurovision 2022 #ESC 2022 #ESC Latvia #Eurovision Semi Final #ESC Semi Final #Eurovision spoilers #ESC spoilers #croak.txt #and people claim the elections in my country are stolen #ALSO SLOVENIA WERE JUST BABY THEY TRIED SO HARD THEY DESERVED BETTER #and yes maybe Albania didn't bring half the energy their music video did but they still deserved it more than SWITZERLAND #at least Ukraine got in this year #'but Hypo they were a pity vote because of the war-' #UKRAINE STILL BROUGHT MORE ENERGY AND ORIGINALITY THAN HALF THE FUCKING BALLADS THIS YEARS I DON'T FUCKING CARE

[erzsebetrosztoczy]

#magyar #magyarország #1956os magyar forradalom #magyar forradalom #'56os magyar forradalom #56 os forradalom #hungarian #hungary #hungarian revolution #56' hungarian revolution #ukraine #russo ukrainian war #kick them put better than we did

[mey-rin-is-fabulous]

People on YouTube are hilarious saying the UK and Sweden were better than Ukraine or that Chanel was the actual winner

I like Spain's and Sweden's and the UKs song was ok but they definitely weren't better

#Eurovision #eurovision 2022 #i was scrolling through the comments on the victory post #i think i found some of the jury members #look there is nothing better than a song not in english featuring a flute and has some cultural significance #ukraine understood the assignment and they won rightfully so #did we learn nothing from last year #countries more non English songs and less ballads and if you're gonna send a ballad at least send it in your own language #thank you netherlands

[therealgchu]

PSA: the posts on here of people that are crying for jewish/israeli blood or destruction are either: a) russian psy-ops, b) anti-semite nazis, or c) all of the above.

keep that in mind as you reblog these posts. do you really want to be part of those groups?

#there are better ways to help palestine #don't feed the russians #also did we forget ukraine

[medicinemane]

.

#I don't think I really have the energy to flesh out this post and I've got even less to deal with people twisting my words #so we get a tag post instead of a post; but I really wish american leftists would study what's going on in Ukraine #not just cause more support would be good; but because I see a lot of parallels in behavior between SJ movements and Ukrainian activism #I think there's some real lessons that could be learned if they engaged and paid attention #what lessons? come back with a warrant #I honestly fucking refuse to elaborate cause I don't trust people enough to listen and understand what I'm saying #I can't say anything without saying too much; and I don't feel like tipping my hand even slightly #I just think that the american left might learn some lessons about how they do stuff if they looked at Ukraine #and maybe they'd want to change up how they did stuff to be more effective #but then again I doubt they'd get the point I'm hoping to hammer home #all that aside... every day I keep any ear to the ground about Ukraine #everyday I hope for miracles but prepare to keep ridding along doing the little I can; in it till every inch of land is returned #I know this post gives like zero info; and like I said; there's reasons for that #you really really want to know; you can probably ask me and I'll consider telling you #though I may not; who knows #don't think I have any Ukrainians following me; so probably not relevant #do have american leftists following me; and really rather than explaining I'll just say follow some Ukrainians for a couple months #come talk with me then and we'll see if we can figure out any lessons that might make US movements better

[melodic-melovin]

The real question is if when Один Не Один releases on November 14th I can pull the same stunt I did when Ghost's Hunter's Moon came out and play it literally so much it gets added to this year's Spotify Wrapped a month before the cutoff point. I'm already insane about this song just from previews.

#honestly ever since it came out that Spotify lets artists see the names of playlists you add them to #I have wondered if Mel ever noticed the fact that I add literally every last one of his songs to a playlist just for him #and what he makes of the fact that it's called “HE DESERVED BETTER” #I may not post about him as much or listen as religiously but like...he's still my boy! my special boy!!! #when the UK did that self-fellating thing during ESC this year highlighting Ukranian artists #(self-fellating in that they were basically going 'look how kind and generous we are hosting because poor Ukraine can't due to the war') #(and it just came off as so smug and condescending and I also believe they think they deserved the win last year so that made it worse) #(p.s. they didn't we all know even if Ukraine didn't bring fire Spain's hypnotic ass and Norwegian meme wolves deserved it more) #ANYWAY #so when Mel was mentioned briefly in the ESC Ukraine highlight I was like 'THERE HE IS! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH THERE HE IS IT'S MY BOY!' #because like...yeah maybe there are better UA artists or more well-known ones but he's the most important (to me) #I wish I could muster the same enthusiasm I used to have for you. it's so hard now. but you got me through such a rough time. #maybe you'll do it again #anyway sorry for rambling in the tags I'm having A Moment at 12:43 AM here #not mel stuff

[reasonsforhope]

The World's Forests Are Doing Much Better Than We Think

You might be surprised to discover... that many of the world’s woodlands are in a surprisingly good condition. The destruction of tropical forests gets so much (justified) attention that we’re at risk of missing how much progress we’re making in cooler climates.

That’s a mistake. The slow recovery of temperate and polar forests won’t be enough to offset global warming, without radical reductions in carbon emissions. Even so, it’s evidence that we’re capable of reversing the damage from the oldest form of human-induced climate change — and can do the same again.

Take England. Forest coverage now is greater than at any time since the Black Death nearly 700 years ago, with some 1.33 million hectares of the country covered in woodlands. The UK as a whole has nearly three times as much forest as it did at the start of the 20th century.

That’s not by a long way the most impressive performance. China’s forests have increased by about 607,000 square kilometers since 1992, a region the size of Ukraine. The European Union has added an area equivalent to Cambodia to its woodlands, while the US and India have together planted forests that would cover Bangladesh in an unbroken canopy of leaves.

Logging in the tropics means that the world as a whole is still losing trees. Brazil alone removed enough woodland since 1992 to counteract all the growth in China, the EU and US put together. Even so, the planet’s forests as a whole may no longer be contributing to the warming of the planet. On net, they probably sucked about 200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year between 2011 and 2020, according to a 2021 study. The CO2 taken up by trees narrowly exceeded the amount released by deforestation. That’s a drop in the ocean next to the 53.8 billion tons of greenhouse gases emitted in 2022 — but it’s a sign that not every climate indicator is pointing toward doom...

More than a quarter of Japan is covered with planted forests that in many cases are so old they’re barely recognized as such. Forest cover reached its lowest extent during World War II, when trees were felled by the million to provide fuel for a resource-poor nation’s war machine. Akita prefecture in the north of Honshu island was so denuded in the early 19th century that it needed to import firewood. These days, its lush woodlands are a major draw for tourists.

It’s a similar picture in Scandinavia and Central Europe, where the spread of forests onto unproductive agricultural land, combined with the decline of wood-based industries and better management of remaining stands, has resulted in extensive regrowth since the mid-20th century. Forests cover about 15% of Denmark, compared to 2% to 3% at the start of the 19th century.

Even tropical deforestation has slowed drastically since the 1990s, possibly because the rise of plantation timber is cutting the need to clear primary forests. Still, political incentives to turn a blind eye to logging, combined with historically high prices for products grown and mined on cleared tropical woodlands such as soybeans, palm oil and nickel, mean that recent gains are fragile.

There’s no cause for complacency in any of this. The carbon benefits from forests aren’t sufficient to offset more than a sliver of our greenhouse pollution. The idea that they’ll be sufficient to cancel out gross emissions and get the world to net zero by the middle of this century depends on extraordinarily optimistic assumptions on both sides of the equation.

Still, we should celebrate our success in slowing a pattern of human deforestation that’s been going on for nearly 100,000 years. Nothing about the damage we do to our planet is inevitable. With effort, it may even be reversible.

-via Bloomburg, January 28, 2024

#deforestation #forest #woodland #tropical rainforest #trees #trees and forests #united states #china #india #denmark #eu #european union #uk #england #climate change #sustainability #logging #environment #ecology #conservation #ecosystem #greenhouse gasses #carbon emissions #climate crisis #climate action #good news #hope

[miss-styles]

we went from 21 days to 19, love that for me

#this better be accurate #it wasnt accurate last year #when i applied from turkey #but im hoping the effects of covid have passed by now #and also online applications went from 83 to 90 #i think its because of the situation in ukraine #a lot of refugees are applying #and outside of canada you can only apply online #and like i DID not pay 90 dollars for mail for nothing <3 #plus another 100 for the application itself #all because the agency i worked with fucked up #thanks for tuning into today's 'problems i faced while trying to move 8000 kms away from my country' <3 #mine.jpg

[opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko]

Imagine your city is fucking gone. Really sit with that thought. Let it germinate within your mind. It's no longer there. The streets you lived in, where you played with your friends as a kid, where you fell in love. Gone. It's a pile of smoking rubble. It's not there. You can't go back there. It's not there. It no longer exists. This is what russia did to Avdiivka. This is what they did to Bakhmut earlier, and to many other cities and towns. All because Western aid is being stalled. Because a lunatic religious fanatic is the Speaker of the House, and his party is full of self-serving traitors to the country. Because Polish farmers are blocking transit of important military aid at our border. Because all of you drank up russian psy-ops like thirsty wanderers in the desert. Because we gave away the weapons that could've prevented this to the perpetrator of this, in exchange for a deal to "guarantee our sovereignty" which one of the signatories broke and the other two are afraid to fulfill.

So sit with that thought now, and draw conclusions, and be better, and do whatever is in your power to prevent it from happening in the future, because if they aren't stopped in Ukraine, they won't stop with Ukraine. Do everything you can, so that the thought is a hypothetical, not a premonition.

#russia is a terrorist state #demilitarize russia #disarm russia #russia #russia invades ukraine #russian imperialism #russia ukraine war #russia ukraine conflict #russia ukraine crisis

[amerasdreams]

I have felt weird all week. (Rn I just feel like curling up on my bed and lying down for a long time in the dark).

Part of it is probably losing Lali.

And then I had to pay $2000 for car repairs and I have no immediate way to begin to get it back... the pet sitting i had scheduled next week was canceled, cutting a big chunk of income. (I need more but im.. thinking of sth else... use this time for creating a foundation but can I do it-- not much evidence for the positive)

#motivation dies #yesterday i was so slow... #then i did research about ukraine and felr better.. #outside of self #but. #to actually get somewhere... #idk what exactly is going on #hope im not sick #feel like i did w covid #maybe not all recovered? #i mean energy and like #on verge of tears #russia also makes me feel like this #and. #i need to go for main #that makes me feel better #goal #do what i want #go for it #but . #can i #really do it.. #just go for it and not think-- #well rn i need to get to writing #how not get to it all day #msg make me feel bad #bc any outside world things #not just in my head #makes me see how impossible it s #i just have to stay in mind and fantasy world and then i wont go in panic mode

[shachiruka]

holy fuck i just watched san marino's entry since i wanted to finally catch up and what the fuck they did not vote this into the finale?? i could've experienced this on saturday already??? we were even more robbed than i thought we could've been 😭😭😭

#performance song and even lyrics are all chef's kiss... if i had to choose between this song and estonia's i could not do so without #feeling horribly torn 😭 #(like don't get me wrong i did like ukraine's song too but i felt that goa's shum and manizha's russian woman from last year both did it #better. the rap part felt too disharmonious with the melody part in my opinion (or however you say it in english. i'm tired and can't think #properly anymore sorry) #ahhhh what a tumultuous day for me in music-related things. #first i find out about the ew the hu song then about a recent judas cover by lord of the lost #then i find out about nightwish having performed covers of wasp's wild child dio's don't talk to strangers and ozzy's crazy train #without me having encountered any clips of those ever before! (granted some performances are from like 20 years ago when i was like 6 and #definitely not listening to metal yet) #and then i discover san marino's entry which fucks severely on so many levels!! ahhhh i feel positively brimming with excitement #which is as always really inconveniently at 3 am when i absolutely should be asleep. #rukarambles #*the NEW the hu song

[jacensolodjo]

I love certain people but if at any point the thought process is 'besides the invasion of Ukraine, russia is actually okay because it stands up to the USA/West etc.,', I'm gonna have to wonder where the FUCK y'all have been the past fucking 100+ years aka YOUR ENTIRE LIFE russia has been not okay.

I want y'all to think long and hard every time, EVERY TIME, russia is in opposition to something the USA/west does. (always be suspicious why they are against it. believe it or not a country isn't always against something because it is morally/ethically right to be against it. they are against it because they don't like the other country. Surprise! while you may shrug and say 'same difference' haha read on) and then WATCH WHAT THEY DO. you WATCH. they will do THE THING THEY JUST CHIDED THE WEST ON DOING. Maybe a month later, maybe two months. Who knows. BUT THEY WILL DO IT!! IT IS THEIR THING!!! Or even better, IN THEIR HISTORY they have done the exact fucking thing they just chided the west on doing. And no I'm not even gonna say 'oh a hundred years ago they did this thing'. But they did this thing they are chiding the west on within living memory. or are ACTUALLY ACTIVELY DOING IT!!! While saying to the world 'ohhhh bad evil West, you no good West, how AWFUL!!!' They will shake their finger about war crimes and GUESS WHAT THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW??? They don't get to sit there and say SHIT while they do the same thing they're saying is bad. Any other country pulls that, they get hung out to dry. russia does it? Why is it okay?

It's called fucking whataboutism and it is still alive and well in russia. It was invented there and you are FALLING FOR IT EVERY FUCKING DAY. Because why? Russia is not your friend. Russia is killing the people you say you care about. Russia is killing people. EVERY DAY. Just because one day it also says it is against the shit you are does not mean you start going "yay russia! you tell 'em russia!"

Russia knows what you dislike about your own damn country, about the West, and it mocks you for agreeing with it for going 'bad West'. You earn points with absolutely no one. You merely look silly when, inevitably, russia does the bad things it does later after you have praised it for saying the same things you do. When it was advantageous for it to go 'bad West'. Or when it does something politically that you say is awful when the West does it. Because, again, it is STILL bad no matter what country does it.

After it has murdered Ukrainians. Chechens. Georgians. Siberians. Jews. Muslims. Gay people. Trans people. Black People. Asian people. The people you claim to give a fuck about. The people it has been murdering for decades. For centuries.

You want to sit there and go 'yay russia' because it happened to go 'naughty West'? Imperialism is Imperialism is Imperialism. Just cause it's a different flavor of it doesn't mean a goddamn fucking thing. It does the same bad shit you hate the West for doing. Russia just wears an ushanka while doing it.

I grew up with 'russia bad'. Idk when things stopped with 'russia bad'. But can we go back to 'russia bad'? Being anti-USA/West does not make some entity good. Take that fucking thought out of your head. russia bad. say it with me. russia. bad.

#russia is a terrorist state #altho when i say 'certain ppl' i mean in my life in meatspace lol

[gentil-minou]

can't we do smth for palestine like we did for ukraine like miraculers for palestine? i just think it'd help.

Monetary aid is useless in Gaza right now because Israel has the entire area under siege. We could raise a million dollars for them, and in fact many have, but it will rot in trucks trapped at the border because Israel refuses to let them in. They don't even have fuel or medical supplies or electricity or water or anything, not because there isn't anyone donating but because Israel refuses to let it in.

Their goal is to slowly starve and kill them all, or push them out of their homeland forever and steal more land for themselves

BUT YOU CAN HELP

WE NEED A CEASEFIRE

The majority of countries and citizens all throughout the world agree that we need an immediate and permanent ceasefire. (Not a humanitarian pause the US keeps trying to push like letting them have 5 days to breathe before Israel slaughters them all).

The majority agrees but a handful of countries, primarily the USA, Canada, and the UK have refused. And because the UN is a joke because the US gets whatever it wants even when it's the only one who wants it, a ceasefire is impossible.

So what can you do?

Easy

Contact your representatives and government

Flood their lines. Call them everyday. Fax them. Email them. Send them written letters. Join a protest. Disrupt the system

Make it clear you will not vote for them if they do not listen to you. Make it clear you want a ceasefire

Here are a few sites to get you started (these are US based but there are plenty of resources for other countries around)

This is just the link I have on hand there are COUNTLESS ones there are ones that will make the call for you, like this one that I used

Physical mail is better. Faxzero is a website that let's you send faxes for free. There are even pdfs and premade letters

Let's say you're not from one of these evil countries, what can you do?

There are protests around the world. Find them and join. Show the world Gaza is bleeding and Palestinians are screaming and that their screams are being heard. Show the world that you refuse to plug your ears and lie silent. Be their voice.

Educate yourself

Read books by Palestinians watch movies and documentaries. Follow their journalists, give them a voice especially now when the rich and powerful are trying so desperately to smother them.

Israel and the western powers want you to be ignorant.

DONT LET THEM

And whatever you do: don't stay silent. Don't treat this like a trend. Do not stop fighting

Even after a ceasefire, we need to keep going. There needs to be a complete dismantling of the Israel terrorist state. We have to keep fighting so Palestinians can live in Palestine the way they have for centuries. We need to show the corrupt governments in this world that we are not going to live under their tyranny

So be LOUD

#palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine #free gaza #Jerusalem #social justice #ceasefire now #gaza strip #palestinian #israeli apartheid #terrorism #jews of tumblr #jewsforpalestine #jumblr #asked and answered #miraculous ladybug

[redjaybathood]

це паблік сервіс анноунсмент фор українці онлі

ми не підтримуємо і не дивимось оту кріейторку з тіктоку/ютубу яка робить скетчі про пекло, маньяків і т.п.

бо ця людина:

це та сама людина яка написала це:

і там ще дно дна як от

я не вірю що інзоемці бойкотуватимуть її, вона в їхньому тренді ("робити вигляд що підтримуєш палестину й срати на Україну")

але якщо ви її дивилися раніше - відпишіться/заблокайте.

сенк'ю вері мач

for my International followers. If you would consider not following or supporting this creator, I would appreciate this very much.

There's nothing wrong with prioritizing Palestine over Ukraine if you feel that Palestine needs you more or that you can help them better. There is, however, a lot of wrong with making it a statement against Ukraine, and discouraging other people from supporting it/advocating for withdrawing support. I question her motives, seeing how she only participated in any kind of public discussion on Ukraine and Palestine when it got trendy - thus, giving her additional attention and revenue as a media person.

Additionally, she implies that supporting Ukraine is propaganda (false), that Ukraine does not need help (believe me, very false), and she states that our efforts to secure aid and support is "yapping for attention" and not literally an effort to stay, you know. Alive. She is basically going the Trump way: US has been funding Ukraine, meaning Ukraine received International aid, which means Ukraine does not truly need the aid - and adding a leftist spin on it: while US has not been funding Palestine so Palestine did not receive International aid so it needs it (also false; Palestine also received International funding. Did it help them against Israel after the HAMAS attack? No. Do they need more? Yes. The same thing applies to Ukraine as well! Shocking, I know)