Blakey

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

What they said is actually extremely gross and Jewish supremacy is a perfect description of zionist beliefs.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago

This is exactly 1 for 1 like saying that calling America a white supremacist state is racist against white people. After all, it's not run for the benefit of ALL white people!!! Except worse in that anti semitism is a real thing.

I suggest that you should probably not peddle great replacement level nonsense. It's fucking offensive.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Gillen argued that Mamdani has promised voters “free everything” but has no “real economic plan to pay for it, other than raising taxes.”

That IS a plan to pay for it, and it's no doubt why people voted for him, because they want you rich ghouls to give something back for a change and slightly improve the conditions for poor people in the city that made you wealthy. They really are just threatening people with a good time.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 9 points 2 hours ago

I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.

I've been saying... Except I dislike saying "the economy". I mean, it is the economy, but an economy is just a means of distributing resources, so the solution would involve using "the economy", just y'know, not capitalism, which is the actual problem.

These excerpts are mostly just admitting Marx was right without actually saying Marx was right.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ. I clicked on it thinking about a story Boonta Vista covered where a dude ran a stop sign on campus intending to be pulled over by the campus cop for his "prom-posal" (Americans, you are insane) and seriously injuring another student on a motorbike but this is so much worse. Men are broken tbh. Not in like a redemptive way or anything we just really fucking suck.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like a replicator from star trek to me.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

“the Avengers of public policy, or the Justice League, depending on your personal persuasion: the best thinkers from across the spectrum.”

The full spectrum of cracker political thought: avengers to justice league.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

It's not even like he nicked it and then sold it. He just... Took a table intended for his use and used it somewhere it wasn't meant to be used. I bet it got more use in his room than it ever would in a public place

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

have you considered that refusing to support a gay politician just because he's a disgusting, mask-off white supremacist really is homophobic?

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

I dunno some shitty joke about his overly prominent pair of front teeth because he's a rat. I don't care.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I also felt like taking Israel back after such a long time and driving out the inhabitants is difficult to defend.

Yikes. It's not just "difficult to defend", it's indefensible. Israel was founded by the brutal expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. That alone is enough to make the foundation of the modern state of Israel an act of evil and a crime against humanity. The erasure of Palestinian history, though, is also disgusting. Palestinians are not Arabs. Just like the Romans didn't displace the people of Britain in the classical period and the Normans didn't displace them in the mediaeval, the arab conquest of Palestine didn't displace the previous inhabitants. Modern Palestinians are largely descended from ancient Palestinians (and therefore Jews) who converted during/after the conquest.

Now that absolutely does not matter. The fact is that Palestinians were living in the region and had a right to their homes that was breached during the creation of Israel - whether their ancestors had been there for 200 or 2000 years doesn't matter. They were the legitimate inhabitants and were unlawfully ejected, that's what matters. But painting them as a separate population who somehow "replaced" the "real" inhabitants is not cool. The idea that anyone but Israel are at fault when the entire nation was founded in an enormous act of ethnic cleansing is just revolting. Even if Arabs had in fact "ejected" the original inhabitants during the conquest it still wouldn't be acceptable to eject their inhabitants from their homeland of the last ~1400 years, but that isn't even true and modern Palestinians literally are the descendants of ancient /classical era Jews.

Israel wasn't "taken back". It wasn't "recreated". Zionists have no connection to the land they have stolen and the modern state of Israel has absolutely no continuity with any ancient states. In fact the only people who can meaningfully claim to be the inheritors of the ancient state of Israel are the Palestinians who were ejected by a bunch of white people with German, other central European, and american accents in the late 1940s. Just the idea of "enforcing" a contract which literally just said "you give us all the best land in your country, and in return we get all the best land in your country" (the partition plan, which Britain had absolutely no moral right to force on anyone in the first place) is mask off, unapologetic, Hitlerian Nazi rhetoric, and it's not more acceptable just because the beneficiaries are Jewish.

God Denazification was a pathetic failure. Just look at you talking about how Palestinians are partially responsible for the genocide and ethnic cleansing being visited upon them... Because they didn't agree to be ethnically cleansed "peacefully". Just truly, honestly sickening and evil.

 

no using them to figure out where I live, come 'round and make fun of me ok

It's orchids time!

A spider orchid. They're some of my favourites - you don't get the full effect in a photo, because they're big! About the size of your hand, with the petals outstretched. There will be more.

The humble donkey orchid! I don't see a lot of them and didn't get a good photo.

These are pink fairy orchids. They're super cute and there's a path along a creek near where I live where you can see hundreds of them at once which is really lovely, but hard to take a photo of.

Cowslips. I love them, they're really bright and cheerful and again pretty big.

Another spider orchid. King spider orchid, maybe? Lots of white spider orchids where I live - that and green.

But this one has some pink! I love the deep magenta and fringe on the labellum.

And apparently I've hit my limit for one post. I'll leave it for a bit then post more. Probably you can tell I like my orchids (although not every flower photo I take is of one! I get peas and kangaroo paws and their relatives too!) Plenty more where these came from.

 

where is the badposting metathread. I feel like for some of ~~us~~you posting bad is a major part of ~~our~~your life but ~~we~~you don't get a meta?

seems unfair.

 

Last year while waiting to start my studies, I spent a few months volunteering for a project radio tracking Ringtail Possums. The ringtail possum is a small nocturnal arboreal marsupial, and a lot cuter than opossums

I was involved in all parts of the field work - weighing and measuring, collaring, releasing, getting pissed on (they respect neither god nor man), releasing and tracking the possums.

We did unfortunately (but not unexpectedly) lose some to predation by foxes and cats. These were possums that had been injured and rehabilitated at a wildlife hospital and the high predation rate was pretty much the reason the study was carried out. Obviously not showing photos of those, but it was pretty upsetting for the rehab volunteers (and for we field volunteers too, of course! But we didn't really know the possums personally the way the hospital volunteers did.) We also found a few collars that had fallen off - they're designed with a weak link to try and eliminate any strangulation risk. Mostly the evidence we saw around lost collars suggested they were fine.

We started with 22 candidates for release; one sadly needed to be euthanized before release, due to the severity of its injuries and the fact it wasn't recovering. One was initially released but we then found it dehydrated and disoriented the next day while tracking it, right by a busy street - he was taken back into the hospital for further rehab. Of the others, by the time the several months were up, only I think four were still being tracked (most of the others knocked their collars off - we didn't lose 80% to predators!) which is a good result, to be honest, because this group of possums had been put through "possum finishing school" to try and train them to be scared of predators. Straight releases in the past did show predation rates on that order. So as sad as it was to see the ones that didn't make it, from what we could tell, the rehab's efforts were not in vain and the training did help. Which is especially nice when you consider how devastating it must have been to the hospital to learn that the vast majority of the individuals they treat were being eaten by introduced predators (it's a wildlife hospital, so losing some to eagles or quolls would have been sad but nowhere near as upsetting!)

I got this opportunity as a recent graduate (environmental science and conservation biology) through my contacts at the uni, but members of the public who had volunteered at the wildlife hospital were also involved. It was a very rewarding experience so I highly recommend it to anyone who has a similar opportunity.

Bonus: while out spotlighting a few months after the program ended, I saw some with their babies!

These were brushtail, not ringtail, possums which is why they look a little different. Didn't get a photo but shortly after this, they decided they didn't like being watched and the baby climbed up on mum's back to get a ride away from the strange man with the bright light 🩷

 

I had a look but couldn't see a community for natureposting. Apologies if I missed it! I want somewhere to post my photos of cool birds and sweetass flowers.

Like local orchids.

 

n/t

 

So like, which one of you...?

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