#we were at a protest

[hedgehog-moss]

Record numbers of protesters all over France today. Images from Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Rennes, Lyon, Lille, Marseille.

Major highways and bridges along with train stations, ports, warehouses and refineries blocked by demonstrators and unions, many universities and high schools blocked by students, Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe & Palace of Versailles closed to tourists, 25% of workers on strike in the national electricity and railway companies, 15% of all civil servants on strike. Protests were organised in every major city and many smaller ones. Could have added a lot more pics of huge crowds in Strasbourg, Nantes, Limoges, Orléans, Nancy, Annecy, Brest, Mulhouse, Pau, Montpellier, Rouen, Le Mans, Bayonne, Toulon, Tours...

And kudos to Brittany for consistently out-Brittanying itself this month, between the nurses who brought out the catapult again while playing the biniou, and the fishermen who sent a tractor to face down the police’s water cannon Transformers-style, your protests have a special place in my heart.

#frpol #there were small town marches in my rural region that brought out as big a crowd as we can possibly muster :') #i asked my mum if the France TV info livestream had mentioned small town protests and she said ''no they're on strike'' ah well. good #roads were blocked here too but nowhere near where i live or else pampe could have done her part in the national effort #she's used to being on roads for the purpose of being an inconvenience i think she'd have liked to use her skills for a good cause

[rosignoelle]

westminster abbey currently has the highest concentration of tax-dodgers in the world ❤️

#uk politics #coronation #it’s all fun and games until you remember a bunch of peaceful protesters were arrested and we (the taxpayer) paid for this shit #when people can’t even afford to heat their homes #i wonder which of the magic swords grants the crown tax evasion powers #probably the sword of justice

[ilayas11]

So over the course of the planning for r/place 2023 I made a bunch of glorious plans that absolutely did not get used and I figure I could would share them here.

The first is the traveler with the Lance Reddick memorial is rendered in all 4 color palettes used in 2023's r/place (8, 16, 24, and 36 colors). The two previous r/places started with 16 colors, 2023 r/place started with 8. This came as a surprise to everyone. Including me who was quickly trying to revise our plans. That confusion is one of the contributing factors as to why things fell apart at the beginning.

We were not able to get on the canvas until the first expansion when we attempted to create a very small but rather adorable little ghost who was unfortunately wiped out by a streamer before for we could get the word bubble tail completed.

And lastly these were some ideas I made up ahead of time in case we decided to claim additional space. They were never really used but I had fun making them.

#destiny 2 #destiny the game #rplace23 #pixel art #Still sad we never got to create Archie #The saint and Osiris art I was made because this place was supposed to take place in June not July #But reddit protests happened so they were quietly delayed #I still had plans to perhaps include them on the main pride flag but that flag never materialized so we never had the chance.

[thefandomchaos]

Everyday I’m disappointed when I remember we never got Dean carrying Sam. Either Bridal or piggy back but still- Imagine Sam being injured, unconscious or really out of it and Dean just says “fuck it” and picks Sam up and carry hims? Like I know this all comes down to if Jensen even could but I think he could have carried Jared Piggy Back Style- if this moment from VanCon2016 is anything to by…

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #jensen ackles #jared padalecki #j2 #padackles #weirdcest #wincest #samdean #deansam #really wish we got an episode where Sam got knocked out #and the monster or whatever is still after them and Dean knows dragging a unconscious Sam would be hard so he decides it’s easier to #carry him and so he picks Sam up even if his back legs and arms protest because Sam is not light and just- makes his getaway with Sam in hia #arms and even better if halfway through Sam kinda wakes up to feeling Dean’s arms around his knees and upper body with his head laying on #Dean’s shoulder- and he processes that they are moving but still to out of it to really do anything #so he snuggles closer to Dean and Dean reassurs him ‘Is okay’ ‘Were almost out of here’ ‘I’ll get you fixed up’ and is just really sweet

[cheeseknives]

So I happened to catch second half of the patagonia special and it might have made me bit mad

I understand protesting, I understand hatred towards British (and Europeans) but what I don't get it is violence, towards what? A license plate?? They're just making a TV show, even if it was 'teehee remember this' it feels like reach because its not a strong stance on anything, especially when they have said and done way more offensive things in other countries. And even if you must throw rocks at people, why do it at the film crew who are just doing their job? I doubt many of them would have much of an audience if they had some less than stellar opinions to share, since they aren't really public figures. It just comes off as violence for the sake of violence.

#AAAAA #rant #Like yeah our neighbours weird me out quite often but I still dont throw rocks at them #I dont agree with the ones with dual citizenship blaming us for the situation we are in and wanting us to open the border #but atleast they protest peacfully #Patagonia special #also I liked all three cars here its bit sad to see them abandoned )-: #even if they wouldnt normally bring them back with them to UK #still #they were such a nice cars #Top Gear #liveblog #kinda

[lazy-cat-corner]

In case some of you still don’t get it and think “it’s a tiktok ban” maybe I can put it in words you understand. *aggressively points to meme*

#remember when we were all pissed about the SOPA act? #we made outraged posts and marched? #yeah those protests worked! #censorship #us politics #restrict act #sopa act #tiktok #tiktok ban #social media #politics

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

not me typing a whole rant about some catholics being insufferably smug about their "better looking churches" while ignoring the history behind the barebone austerity of protestant churches and then deleting it all because my seething anger isn't christ-like either

*gnaws on wood* God help me love your children even when they are absolute prigs

#christianity #catholicism #CAVES!! PROTESTANTS USED TO HAVE TO WORSHIP IN ACTUAL CAVES!! #THEY INVENTED PORTABLE PREACHING CHAIRS THAT COULD BE DISGUISED AS *BARRELS* #BECAUSE THEY WOULD GET KILLED OR SENT TO THE GALLEYS OR LOCKED UP IN JAIL OR SEPARATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES IF CAUGHT WORSHIPING #YOUR CHURCHES HAVE ALTARS TO MARY'S GREAT AUNT AND JOSEPH'S SECOND COUSIN'S TWICE REMOVED BE SERIOUS #EUROPEAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRALS WERE BUILT WITH TAX MONEY AND COMMISSIONED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE STATES #PROTESTANTS CHURCHES HAD TO BLEND IN OR BE DESTROYED #and sure some places don't have that historical context #protestants weren't persecuted in the US and the catholic church wasn't state-sponsored there #but obviously that bagage informed their architectural choices for centuries afterwards DUH #are you being dense #and do you truly genuinely believe the God who came to earth to tear the temple's veil and preach on beaches and mountains *cares* #He told his own people *repeatedly* that no house they could ever build was worthy of His glory please be humble #He *deigned* habit the tabernacle and then the two temples as a demonstration of his grace and love not because the buildings merited it #and then He explicitly made *us* his temples and He promised to be with us wherever we worship Him please be humble #God doesn't care about stained glass windows He made the entire sky so we could always see his glory <3

[emblazons]

Seeing people have to justify why childhood friends to lovers can evolve into something where they physically express attraction without being raunchy or distasteful is the craziest thing I’ve seen come out of the fandom internet in a long while I won’t lie

#fellas is a gross to be attracted to people who you knew as a kid & b4 you were attracted to them? The Internet would have you believe #I genuinely grew up in the protestant church and experienced less focus on Puritanical beliefs than I do in modern fandom #begging y'all to stop moralizing your squicks too while we’re at it #(also to learn the term squick and notp cause…we need to bring that shit back) #☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[hedgehog-moss]

In other news, this week a French publisher on his way to the London Book Fair was arrested by British counter-terrorist police to be questioned about his participation in protests in France.

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Moret arrived at St Pancras [...] with his colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, to be confronted by the two officers. [...] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. [...] He was transferred to a police station in Islington, north London, where he remained in custody on Tuesday. He was later released on bail.

Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors. Moret also represents the French science fiction novelist Alain Damasio and had arranged more than 40 appointments at the London book fair. [...]

[Quoting publishing house’s press release] “The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make, and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.” [...] “There’s been an increasingly repressive approach by the French government to the demonstrations, both in terms of police violence, but also in terms of a security clampdown.”

(Guardian link - BBC link) (article in French)

The publishing house (here’s their latest statement in French) and the publisher’s lawyer mention that the British police asked him “Do you support Emmanuel Macron? Did you attend protests against the pension reform?” and he was also asked to name the authors with anti-government views that his employer has published. They add, “Asking the representative of a publishing house, in the framework of counter-terrorism, about the opinions of his authors, is pushing even further the logic of political censorship and repression of dissenting thought. In a context of social protests and authoritarian escalation on the part of the French government, this aspect [of the questioning] is chilling.”

Being an accomplice to thoughtcrime by publishing dissident authors gets you treated like an international terrorist now... The publisher’s lawyer suggests that French authorities asked the UK to help them get their hands on the publisher’s contacts in the radical left sphere. But on the face of it, we’ve got: Exercise your right to protest your government in France -> get arrested by counter-terrorist UK police in London. That’s literally the reason he was given for being greeted by police at the train station...

#frpol #i bought a couple of books from la fabrique this morning... win-win i actually meant to read them and didn't know they were #published by them #in slightly better news @french people if you haven't seen some video excerpts of macron meeting alsatians today it's worth checking out #people telling him how corrupt his gov is; someone saying ''you're going to fall; mark my words'' and someone else #''we don't want your reform you arsehole'' and people chanting 'macron resign' as he walks away looking a bit pissed... #and naturally protests were banned in the cities he visited today and cops had cleared the area of actual protesters #before macron arrived so the people he met were actually the less angry people

[kowabungadoodles]

dumping some thoughts in the tags

#I've been TRYING hard okay #I've been trying to buy better clothes from smaller shops #but when they arrive it turns out they're cheap polyester drop ship crap #I've been trying to get more involved in the queer community and be more of a person #but the online zoom meetings were uncomfortable #the discord transmasc voice class went badly because I didn't understand how to use the bot #I booked a queer film night for me and my partner but it turned out to be creepy and churchy so we dropped out #I've signed up to steward pride we'll see how that goes #I went to a protest but it rained a lot so I only stayed for half #I've been trying to use amazon less but every time I go around my small local stores they don't have any of the stuff I'm looking for #I'm trying to be more myself and be more brave but my binders don't fit and I can't use a sewing machine #and every time I speak to a stranger or a colleague my voice goes up #I'm trying to work out more and eat less but I'm so tired #I'm trying to boycott and buy slave-free and say no to Ai and to genocide and to tiktok and disney and nestle and spotify #Telling myself I have food at home and to stop scrolling reddit and got get more sleep and to call my friends #All this therapy all these good choices all this work and so little to show for it some days #I am going back to fucking bed

[coughloop]

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#idk how many people actually go to protests and marches and vigils on this site #but i think tonights was the first time ive ever felt kind of dissapointed by one #not because of the vigil itself #i guess i was just hoping a vigil in front of the local israeli conculate for ALL martyrs would've drawn more than like 50 -75 people #yes it was below freezing yes it was windy #but were all people who live in a cold city #and can dress warm for it #and know how to tough it out #and even if we werent its such a tiny discomfort for such a short amount of time to act like its a reason to not go to something #idk i guess i thought more people were deeply enough affected by Refaat and Hind and Aaron and every other martyr we know by name #and the thousands and thousands and thousands we dont #to show up and stand in the cold for a little while #to feel like we can honour them in some way #to hear Refaat's words read allowed (which has hurt consistently but is so important to feel) #idk where im going with it i think i just need to get it all out #its been a very weird day

[aropride]

it is 12:43 on a saturday im sorting beads on my floor and coming to the realization that i think i was raised fundamentalist???

#text #ive just been saying like evangelical vaguely fundie vaguely protestant #bc no one would tell me what denomination we were it was ljust Oh we dont have one we just follow the bible 🙂 #but im watching a video from an ex fundie rn and a lot of the stuff shes saying shes disclaiing with Ik this sounds crazy if u werent #raised this way and its still somethint i see as somehwst normal ??? #like not having secular friends til ur in public school Like that was just normal for me.is that not normal

[you-didnt]

Anyone else in Germany currently uuuuh. Kinda alarmed.

#started the new year with floods #one week later farmer protests that get hijacked by the right #same week some secret ethnic cleansing plans get leaked #in 4 days we could be seeing a fascist decline every 8 hours in 7 days were gonna witness a double event #german stuff #me watching historians who specialise on rise and spread of facism analyse this: hm. bad.

[lem0nademouth]

if your activism consists of protesting outside a cancer treatment center and disrupting a memorial for victims of a mass shooting i’m not inclined to believe you care about your cause so much as you care about getting attention and harassing whoever you deem immoral

#protesting MSK was not on the bingo card but here we are #and neither was demanding a ceasefire from biden by interrupting his speech at Mother Emanuel AME #ya know. #the church where nine people were murdered in a white supremacist mass shooting #the deadliest mass shooting in SC history #im not convinced y’all 1. care about palestinians or 2. know anything about Judean-Israeli-Palestinian history #i’m not convinced you care to know either #antisemitism #judeophobia #leftist antisemitism

[chronurgy]

I love imagining weird Bhaalist temple politics. Like do you think there were Durge loyalists even after they were deposed? Who hated all the changes Orin made and thought it was better the old way? Were they having secretive, hidden meetings where they kept the old ways alive? Did people complain at the monthly temple meetings that Orin's ornate headpiece and fancy corpse art pieces were distracting from the true spirit of Bhaal? Were Durge loyalists preaching an end of days style doctrine where the true child of Bhaal was not actually dead and was only testing their loyalty and would one day return and cleanse the unfaithful from the temple?

#Heyyyy uhhh can I get some protestant catholic schism up in this thang? #dark urge #orin the red #bg3 #I know there was the one cannibalism guy but were there others?? Were there other complaints?? #Was there other weirdness? #Did we get some fun new cults out of this? #I kinda hope we did.... It's fun to think about

[thebirdandhersong]

well mark that down as situation 2938489 that I don't know how to handle

#i would love advice on this if y'all have any thoughts to share because i know what my parents think and im having trouble sorting it out #i love these three friends of mine but it is really draining to be around them now because all they will talk about is church drama #(re: our old church) and rehashing it all and being Outraged about the horrors etc etc #either that or being downright condescending about protestants/non denominations and acting like it's funny to talk like that all the time #i end up being more angry or resentful or exasperated at the end of our conversations than glad and at peace like i did before #(before all THIS ish happened and the three of them were like okay this is all we're going to talk about now) #i've tried to say in gentle ways (i am simply not capable of this kind of blunt confrontation) that maybe we should not be talking #so uncharitably towards other people especially behind their backs. like. yes bad things happened. we have to acknowledge that. #but continually making jokes and jibes at a priest's expense really rubs me the wrong way especially since i KNOW that he loves us #and in many ways was trying his best in the circumstances. and are we not supposed to be loving our neighbour #and is this not downright slander to keep going on this way esp since it goes on for HOURS at a time #anyway i don't know what to DO because if i keep chatting with them/meeting up with them conversation will be 90% this thing and i Hate It #but on the other hand i feel responsibility towards them because my godson's one of them and another is a friend who is a fairly recent #convert and if i leave them to stew in their own echo chamber i doubt it'll do them good #am i supposed to keep some distance? am i supposed to keep arguing whenever one of them says something unkind or inflammatory? #am i supposed to keep speaking up so that they hear a different perspective? am i supposed to run in the other direction for my own peace o #mind? anyway i am still thinking this over and it stresses me OUT #it used to be fun and life giving to be around these people and now it is so exhausting and seriously alarming in many ways