these are butterfly bullets or “dum-dums.”
they’re banned by the international law ICC, and their use is listed as a war crime by the international criminal court. yet lsrael has been using these bullets again UNARMED palestinian protesters.
netanyahu declared palestinians as pampered. what he failed to tell you is that IDF uses butterfly bullets against palestinians. which has been prohibited under international law.
these are often used to shoot palestinians in the legs. often resulting in amputation.
join us. we can help stop this. we are stronger together.
(i did not take these images)
THE. FOXES.
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Are there any radical feminist groups here with the purpose of collaborating on research and publishing articles? Tumblr is nice and all, but to make the good ideas here accessible, we need to present them professionally and credibly. I'd kill for a gc on reviving radical feminism in academia.
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for every mutual that's been broken for me, i've added one or two new Jewish mutuals
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it’s a small thing, but while I was working on the Transmogrification Explained Part 2 I caught something that I thought was interesting enough to share.
At this point (see below) at the end of the finale, after the ceremony, all the housemates go into the fancy room and Nandor says something about playing Parcheesi right before he takes a brief moment to comfort Guillermo the tiniest bit.
Right afterwards however, instead of doing as he said he would and follow everyone else into the fancy room, he heads right, down the hallway, most likely going straight to his room.
All the nonchalance and dismissal and ‘hey, let's pretend everything is fine and back to normal now!’ talk is a feint. Nandor doesn’t go into the fancy room to take comfort with the group and deny that anything important happened, and since he told Guillermo to clean up Derek before sunrise (something I thought was odd at the time because why would it matter if Guillermo left it until sunrise when everyone would be asleep anyways), he knows Guillermo won’t follow him.
Nandor is choosing to be alone after all this. It’s a very neat little character bit that is easily overlooked within the noise of the episode. While the tone at the end of the ceremony looks like everyone is moving back to square one and blatantly ignoring the seriousness of the situation to do something as banal as a board game, the actual actions of the characters show that there really is devastation amongst them. Guillermo’s obvious, but Nandor’s is hidden with a line that distracts us from noticing that he actually retreats from everyone and hides away.
It really makes me wonder what Nandor did after everything. Used the time to get himself ready for bed so Guillermo couldn’t wouldn’t have to do it when he got back? Sulked? Had a tantrum? Went into his treasure room to read Guillermo’s thank you card again and again?
oh and another little thing: Guillermo and Nandor are the only ones who still have their robes on after the ceremony, and actually end the scene still in them. All the other characters almost immediately took them off after the lights went on.
having them the only two that still wear the robes feels so significant to me. like they’re still in this ritual between them. Or, if the bondage rope part of it comes into play, they are still tied to each other. There’s definitely something to be read here, with both Nandor keeping the rope-cape on and pretending like he was going to follow the others but going to his room instead. Whatever it is, one thing’s for certain to me: Nandor is Not Okay after the ceremony.
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Separatism is never the answer. All it does is make all of us more vulnerable, and create spaces full of isolated people who are much more easily manipulated and abused by bad-faith actors.
Queer unity is important for all of us.
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when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking your rights, remember:
- in deep red areas you’re a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don’t vote what you want on this specific bill, because it impacts your republican ideals so very much.
- in swing states you’re a undecided voter who’s gonna go blue if they don’t vote how you like.
remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together. (emails and letters don’t work like that.) so it can really rattle them if they get high volumes. remember you gotta make them feel like they’re losing something.
“talking points i’ve been using in my blood red state:”
- “i’m a small business owner and [example: anti-drag bill] is making me lose money!!” OR “[anti-drag bill] is going to cost us millions in taxable sales!!” - if you talk about how it’s making you personally lose money and absolutely need to bullshit, you run a bar or do freelance photographer. the intern they have on the other line does not have the resources or the know-how to check that.
-“i’m concerned that [anti abortion bill] is the government infringing on my personal rights.” - self explanatory.
-“[anti-gay bill] goes against family values in my church.” - they aren’t going to call your local pentecostal chapter to fact check this. you don’t even need to be pentecost. you just need to assert that you’re part of a community and a major voting bloc.
- remember in smaller towns, literally every vote counts. and voters genuinely don’t call in, so your call can carry quite the advantage.
i did not come up with these, they are from a couple different sources. all credits to them.
join us. we are stronger together.
THE. FOXES.
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Sylvie should’ve run after Loki and grabbed his hand and said ‘You go, I go’.
Because he shouldn’t have to carry this burden alone. They’re stronger together.
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