#split the country up

[zvaigzdelasas]

7 Nov 23

#east-west split of the country seems possible #maybe even up to kordofan #im not sure if hemedti can take/hold Khartoum but hes trying

[realcleverscience]

jfc.

Exclusive figures from the NHS reveal that patients in England were diagnosed with one of 13 Victorian diseases when admitted to hospital on 421,370 occasions in the year to March. They include all people admitted with these illnesses - which include gout, tuberculosis, malnutrition, whooping cough, measles, scurvy, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps, rickets, cholera, and vitamin D deficiency - even if it wasn’t the primary reason for their admission...

Mr Baker said: “These are all completely vaccine preventable, particularly with measles which is super transmissible. Often you get these communities with a lot of anti-vaxxers, and they often get outbreaks of measles and mumps with people that refuse to have themselves or their kids immunised.”

Difficulty accessing routine NHS vaccinations or choosing to stay away from the health service throughout the pandemic may have also impacted these admissions - but Mr Baker warned that if a large proportion of children remain unvaccinated “post-covid”, there will likely be a peak in cases....

He added: “If we stop immunising our children, then we go back to the Victorian era. We look upon these things as a bit of a thing in the past because they are a thing in the past, not because we've got rid of them. It’s because we've controlled them through immunisation. If we take away vaccines they will bounce back.”...

#vaccine #science #medicine #health #shit like this is why I want to split up the country #I don't want to negotiate with crazy anti-science people

[malewifehenrycooldown]

yeah yeah i got recommended that Henry Cooldown analysis video whatever. i am still not over people comparing Henry to a medieval knight, NOT even taking the time to unpack that said mental image of a knight is 'mostly' associated with the British Monarchy*, an extension of its Empire that *checks notes* did a long list of atrocities like imperialism and colonialism, and also (multiple) genocides.

Henry is NOT British, he is Irish. Although considering the history of Ireland and how poorly the British Empire has treated them (amongst SO MANY OTHER COUNTRIES AND DIASPORAS), yeah it's NOT surprising that an Irish man like Henry is essentially forced to adopt quote on quote 'British sensibilities' to 'survive'. <- intentional imagery or not, the implications are not lost on me.

Like okay, calling out the comparison is cool but it sure would be nice if people went further to unpack what that means and implies in the long term. you know, like ACTUAL CRITICAL ANALYSIS?!

#I COULD do a whole essay about this. but i don't have the spoons to do so. #this is were i drop the big ball of information about me because fun fact! I am IRISH AND SCOTTISH. AND GREEK. so like. #so yeah i REALLY don't like the british #i hope in alternate universe i make youtube video essays about no more heroes and successfully argue how its about inter-generational traum #shallow rambles #nomoreposting #technically I was quite surprised by being recommended it. but looking at the comments i realised that their interpretation #is like the buy the books obvious surface level analysis of henry's character. not actually. thinking about the deeper things #behind his character. like. are we really going to ignore how his memories were wiped when he was adopted? okay. #to me henry is an example of someone finally confronting their trauma. how they cope is a whole other thing but henry is second #to jeane (the sister) that actually takes the time to confront the trauma although unfortunately this is mostly implied off-screen #travis BARELY acknowledges how fucked up it was for him and his siblings to be split apart and raised by different families #this got really fucking personal and i don't think anyone has actually cared enough to even consider the historical subtext #of these characters but that's just my take. #also i'm not fucking listening to a man explain to me what henry is. you know in a filmbro way. i have my own brain and interpretation and #that is all that matters to me. if you liked the guys video that's fine but honestly i am just not that interested in the essay. #you like henry for the rivalry trope. I like henry for other reasons that are open ended. we are NOT the same. #btw not EVERYTHING is about kill the past. it feels so reductive to ONLY analyse suda's work as a connected series #because it implies each one can't stand on their own merits!! that's NOT good analysis!! his work can stand on their own individually! #*about the whole knight and british monarchy thing there are other knights in other countries but unfortunately we only #think about knights in a VERY british-centric way. just thought to bring that up. #no i wont make a video essay about any of this i value my anonymity. #no i won't apologise for waking up and choosing violence today

[dmclemblems]

I like how he proves his point basically immediately.

#like... if she wanted to deny it she would've even if he wouldn't have listened. she just... didn't #I really feel like a lot of times she'll say things that sound nice but she'll only follow through with the bad things (at war) #I see no reason at all in this game why she'd have to kill him. she tells Claude she wasn't even really planning to kill Rhea #to her it was enough to take Rhea out of power and leave her alive so why would she have to kill Dimitri here? #the only singular reason she'd have is to conquer Fodlan in the event that he wouldn't stand down and just #let her take Faerghus and destroy the lives they've built. so... basically... the only reason to kill him is because #he won't give up on defending his people and their freedom and prevent them from being under Empire rule #and the thing is none of these people who are alive now in Faerghus have ever not been living this life #their life in Faerghus is what they know. it's not like when Faerghus first split off from Adrestia #the people living there now didn't do anything to the Empire. they aren't responsible for that war of independence #this is just the life they've always known and suddenly someone wants to take their country #and put it under the power of their country which for Faerghus isn't fair at all #she's basically admitting to being the aggressor and the whole problem for Faerghus with this smfh #Three Hopes #Dimitri #Edelgard

[stellarsightz]

What is the flavor of fear?

Sublime, my Brother.

(Alternate version under the cut)

#murder cult almost got wiped out. but we stay silly :3 #no hes not bald. yes he has hair. i was just too lazy to draw it #anyways. new art experiment featuring my altmeri listener called lynwalynn from my second skyrim playthrough #(no i havent finished playing it lol) #he and his twin sister used to be part of dark brotherhood in cyrodiil before the unrest. fled the country. got separated #lynn did some crazy sidequesting and became the archmage of winterhold. got bored so he joined the thieves guild. became a nigthingale #banged brynjolf. got into an argument w him and had a messy breakup. left the guild bc things got really awkward w bryn #eventually re-joined the dark brotherhood and became the listener. and now hes just chilling and doing illegal shit w cicero by his side :) #he and his sister (named baltana; my first skyrim babygirl) accidentally reunite and catch up. he discovers that his sister also #did some crazy sidequesting on her own and that shes the dragonborn the vampireslayer of dawnguard and used to be the harbinger #of companions (but left bc she fucking hated their racist nordic supremacy bullshit) #yes he is fucked up yes hes almost like any other listener you can find on ao3 i dont care #i made a self-sacrificing almighty hero on my first playthrough and thought it was bland as fuck so i just said #yknow what. how about i made the wettest most pathetic nasty fucked up guy instead. AND they split the titles bc theres no way only #one person can do all of those things. like i get it but i think its just. boring if you're the all-powerful big strong good guy #skyrim tes #the elder scrolls #dark brotherhood #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #long tags #oc: lynwallyn

[posletsvet]

So—

Being eighteen was great, can't wait to see what being nineteen will show!!

#no but truly #18th was the best year of my life so far #despite the insane levels of stress and torturous academic workload that going through the finals was #i started talking to people after years of proper communication with only my sister #for a brief while I was even brave enough to share my thoughts with the world #it was delightful #i made friends on my own which is something I've never been able to do before #i met you guys #my dearly beloved mutuals!!!! <33 #i made art and started feeling something about it again #i created so much I didn't even think I was capable of something like that #me and my friends created entire worlds in our minds #as well as loads of characters which i love dearly!! #i mean it's not really mine to call my achievement but it feels so incredibly special to be a part of something like that #i reignited genuine interest inside of myself towards life and even picked up a couple of new special interests #i read and watched so many great stories #oh yeah I finished school so good riddance to that part of my life hehe #i enrolled into one of the best universities in the country which still feels insanely unreal #took a gap year #me and my sister travelled on our own and were able to finally meet our internet friends which is the flaking best thing in the world #worked two jobs with an occasional third one to save up a bit #i'll be moving out of my home city this year which scares the shit out of me but is still so so amazing #there were and still are tragedies around me that split my heart in half with fury and despair #and I feel unfairly privileged to be granted so much joy in my own life #so yeah it's been one hell of a year #sorry for getting so insufferably emotional but I love all this so unbelievably much #i love you all folks :')

[daz4i]

bro i hate my country's politicians so much it's unreal

#i truly and sincerely hope they all die in a fire i am not even slightly joking #they promote violence and encourage an even deeper split between the people. bc it helps them #and it's disgusting. they don't care who they hurt as long as they get more power #actually they DO care who they hurt. they WANT to hurt people!! that's how they get more right wing voters!!!!! #they openly and proudly announce they want palestinians dead and out of their homes and it's sickening #(the fact this is WHY people vote them is even more sickening. they fact they were allowed to get this far is awful) #in addition to that they ofc want the lgbt community dead and they actively hurt women's rights bc how can they not :^) #i hate it here i hate it here i hate it here i hate it here i hate it here #sorry for talking politics. i try to avoid it but everyone on social media is talking about it. i'm so tired i hope we all explode fr #actually i'm not done i really need to vent lol #it really feels like there's no hope. the fact it keeps happening. and it gets worse every election cycle #and it's all bc fucking netanyahu is trying to avoid going to jail :^) i hope he dies today right now actually #for years everyone on the left jokes abt moving to another country but now it's becoming literally real #many people already HAVE left the country!!!!! like how fucked up is that!!!!!! that's how bad things are here!!!!!! #there's been rallies and protests for months now. i think nearly half a year at this point bc i remember it started in the winter #but obviously it doesn't do jack shit. bc why would it. if none of the right wing politicians literally get murdered - #- there is no real threat to them and so they have no actual reason to care. i sincerely think someone should take one for the team - #- and kill one of them lol i truly think this is the only solution at this point. #not to mention many of them are literally just. gross people. you hear them talk and can tell they have no experience in politics #they're all violent and constantly yell and this is how they appeal to the other violent people here #which is also why i think violence is the only way they'll understand. but alas if the left becomes violent we will be hated even more #ignoring the fact they have been violent this whole time yeah? they literally try to RUN OVER PROTESTERS #do you see why i have no hope here. do you see why i hate this so much. how can one be optimistic about this. everything sucks

[deerteetharepretty]

I’m starting to think my grandma has a camera or something in the room in staying in… I thought I was paranoid but she keeps overheating everything and even playing rain noises on my phone while I sleep is “too loud”

#help #she litterally heard my muffled laughter about a stupid Steven universe meme and thought I was on the phone mocking her bc her name - #is Crystal #like??? I’m sorry your name is a word?! #but HOW DID YOU EVEN HEAR ME??? it’s not even thin walls idk how this keeps happening #I had a panic attack bc she came in to scold me for being up when I couldn’t sleep (despite the fact I’m 25) #like I’m sorry my body likes to split my sleep cycle into two 4 hour rests??? I can’t help that I have sleep issues #I litterally could not sleep after that so I only got 4 hours of sleep. #stayed up planning my cross country move BACK to either Denver or Seattle

[knifearo]

k so sorry to be a mean nasty aro person but i do not like when non aspec people use the split attraction model. i Will gatekeep that actually. aspec people faced so much shit for using the split attraction model and it's something for us, something designed to communicate our experiences, and it feels so fucking icky seeing non-aspecs use it. i won't say that your romantic and sexual attractions have to line up exactly if you're allo. i don't know you. i don't live in your body. find some other way to express it though cause this isn't For you

#problematic take but this is the one thing i will be problematic about #cause like. i just don't fucking like it. it's a personal thing. #especially when it shows up with people specifying smth like panromantic and omnisexual... #like. again. your experiences are your experiences. #but why do you feel the need to differentiate the two of them? #do whatever the fuck you want obviously it's a free fucking country #but i will always have a nasty little sideeye for allos who use the sam. like that's Not Fucking For You. #aromantic #aromanticism #aroace #arospec #aspec #asexual #split attraction model

[bsaka7]

I am NORMAL about seeing family I am NORMAL I am NOT nauseous I have DEFINITELY thought about packing I TOTALLY have already done my shopping from the work gift shop

#I'm literally sick to my stomach rn :/ I even ate breakfast #I can't even say going home everyone is like are you excited to go home #And I'm like I have newly divorced parents who have family halfway across the country from each other. Neither of which where I grew up #So I can't even see friends or anything. And my mom's fam fought about holidays so theirs is split #So my brother is going to one faction with the cousins and FLORIDA and I'm going to the other with my mean grandma who makes me cry #Anyway of course I say yes im excited to go home #It'll be good bc i haven't seen most of my fam since last Xmas. But still I am like. sooooooo stressed it's insane #Also work is STILL REALLY COLD #But not as bad as yesterday #1 day travel 3 days dads fam 1 day travel 3 days moms fam 1day travel. Then literally a week and my mom is coming to visit. Oof. #Anyway. Flight in 24hrs #Wait perks. I'm going to get a hug from my grandparents :) I haven't touched anyone anything more than like. A high five. Or 3in the back #Since may.

[the-busy-ghost]

“Ok so the other bookshelf hasn’t arrived yet but why don’t I start organising my books, it will be a fun activity and useful!”

What nobody tells you about said fun activity is that you have to make Choices about how to organise and it’s all very confusing

#I run into this problem EVERY DAMN TIME and I still hate it #I like my history books arranged a certain way so that tends to fuck up the Dewey Decimal or any other system I attempt to impose #Ok so for example what to do with primary historical sources like chronicles and collections of letters #Do I put them with the mediaeval literature section (some of which also functions as a primary historical source- i.e. the Brus) #Or do I put them with my history books (ordered by time period and country) #Or do I put them in their own tiny little category of their own- an extremely confusing and apparently irrational category #Or biographies of authors of which I only have two or three #Do I put them with my other history books or next to the literary works they wrote or on their own little section again #But since I only own maybe three it would be a weird little section just Aphra Behn James Herriot and Robert Henryson by themselves #And then what on earth do I do with C.S. Lewis' Allegory of Love #It's technically literary criticism but I don't own many books in that vein #Never mind the question of whether I should separate novels poetry and plays even if it breaks up an author's output #I don't really want to have to look for Violet Jacob or Oscar Wilde in two or three different places #And then sometimes a book doesn't fall into either of those three categories- should split Nan Shepherd's novels from the Living Mountain? #And what if it's a 'Collected Works' by an author which contains a bunch of non-fiction historical essays as well as a novel? #And don't even get me started on what I'm supposed to do with the Road to Wigan Pier #And then THEN we come to Wodehouse #Do I put Leave it to Psmith with the other Psmith books or in the midst of the Blandings books? #I want all the Psmith series together but what if some hypothetical person new to Wodehouse wandered in #And wanted to start either series at random- would they be confused at the introduction of Blandings too early? #Wouldn't they miss out on some of the best bits that come with knowing Blandings BEFORE Psmith? #I don't know who this hypothetical person is by the way #Nobody's wandering into my house and browsing my bookshelves except me so I don't know who I'm curating this for #I suppose in the back of my mind I always thought I would have kids who would one day be pulling randomly at the family bookshelves #And so that's why I've saved some of the fiction books but I'm not likely to have or even want children so what is the point #I'm not even the kind of person who regularly rereads my childhood favourites but somehow I can't bring myself to throw the kids' books out #It's an immense waste of space and a bit pretentious to have lots of books that nobody else will ever read #Honestly I'd have been happier running a public library or a bookshop I think or even having a flatmate to share books with #Ah well if this is a problem at least it's quite a nice one to have; first world problems only this evening I'll count my blessings #Earth & Stone

[quicksilversquared]

Okay, do all eastern Targets/Walmarts suck or just the ones in my new area? I've used both for groceries in the past (when living in different places) and they've always had great selections for both produce and pantry, but I've tried both stores here and Target had a sad little produce island and hardly any cheese variety and Walmart had no fresh produce, even less cheese, and was terribly organized. And I say this as someone who is very used to uprooting every three months and moving to a different place and getting used to a new grocery store.

(going to try an actual grocery store next, since someone in my lab recommended it and I do need to actually be able to find common ingredients to be able to get any cooking done)

#personal #legit both of them sucked #the Walmart was split onto two levels which was odd? #there was something for bringing the carts up alongside the escalator but I wasn't about to mess with that #it's particularly odd because a lot of the other places where I've lived have been pretty rural #or smaller communities #and yet had larger Walmarts #(have not been to as many Targets across the country) #this is not remotely rural so I would have expected a better selection?

[seedlessmuffins]

i forgot that the local youth football teams my siblings and cousins play for are named after european clubs, my aunt just posted that my cousins team (u13 psg) won their tournament and that was a jump scare

#my brother’s team until a few years ago was ac milan #we didn’t watch football in my house when i was young so i didn’t realize these were legitimate Big Club names #i didn’t learn until i was like 15 #i was fully convinced that a canadian youth team just made up the name ac milan organically #there also used to be a summer camp where they would split the kids into teams and train as ‘countries’ #then at the end of the camp they would play in a ‘world cup’ #my brother won one year as latvia #another of my brothers won as japan #k.txt

[olliedollie1204]

i have been fighting for years to find a ship that fits "the devil's backbone" because it's a fantastic song that i KNOW has a lot of potential on a ship playlist but after 7 years it still fits diore the best. fuckers

#preacher #in my head after s1 preacher splits off into 2 timelines #the canon one and the one i wrote in my head after the season 1 finale #BECAUSE I REALLY LIKE SEASON 3 AND 4 STRAIGHT UP #it's just season 2 i dislike #and we were fucking robbed of jesse/tulip/cassidy on a cross country roadtrip #with fucking. deblanc and fiore following them as genesis' parents i mean parents i mean custodians 🙄 #man FUCK this show they wrote diore as CANONICAL angel/demon romance being put in charge of an angel-demon baby #(which. hm. wonder who its parents were. hm hm fucking HM) #and then they just said actually fuck this. deblanc go die fiore go become a stoner #bc deblanc's actor fucked off to do another project or something #oh i'm never getting over this fr #one of these days. my 2016-2017 era preacher fic will see the light of day #and then you'll see..... you'll ALL see #my posts #THEY SANG LULLABIES TO THE ANGEL-DEMON BABY TO CALM IT DOWN COME ON MAN