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New zine that's free for anyone to print and distribute! Read the whole thing at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the rest of this post.

UPDATE 4/11/2023:

I swapped out the colloidal silver nasal spray info for xylitol nasal spray info. I originally included colloidal silver spray because of the linked study and recommendation from RTHM, but I don't want to be pointing people toward something with notable health risks. Xylitol spray (Xlear) is also cheaper and more widely available!

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This is just open contempt. They know exactly how much this looks like it's out of a bleak, unsubtle satire, and I have no doubt that they think it's hilarious. All while further kneecapping the poor by raising the bus fare cap for no good reason, and attacking people on disability benefits.

Genuinely: either this is sincerely meant to boost popular support (in which case it's ridiculously patronising and out-of-touch), or it's meant as an insult. Maybe it's both. Another soundbite for the media to bandy about for the people of this country who have been kept blinkered and ill-educated about the state of our politics, while thumbing their nose at the people who want legitimate change.

But I really don't think that the vast majority of UK citizens are thick enough to swallow this. I won't sing our praises too highly - god knows there are plenty of gullible, hate-driven people in this country - but this is taking it too far.

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i hate you private jets i hate you bitcoin i hate you cars that go 200 mph i hate you golf parks i hate you yachts i hate you huge mansions with a pool i hate you luxery resorts i hate you exessive wealth causally killing the planet and using up ressources we all need

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Something that's made the horror of the Gaza genocide even worse is how it's underlined a horrible truth about the state of modern politics.

It's there on our screens, livestreamed by the people who are experiencing it. But it's not even as if the state of Israel is even attempting to hide what they're doing. It's so blatant that it's taunting - 'yeah we're committing genocide, what are you gonna do about it?'. And the answer is... nothing?

If the scenes of abject cruelty and incomprehensible loss that we've been seeing haven't been enough to even get the people in charge to utter condemnations out of fear of losing their power and donations, what chance does anything else have? It's never been more clear that our politicians don't care about anything but their own gain, and they'll happily sacrifice countless lives if it means they get a fraction more. How can we trust anything they say, anything they do, when they're happy to see hospitals burned, children shot, millions starved and bombed?

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I've got such a backlog on this site that I have a tab open with posts from June. I just don't have the time to browse Tumblr like I used to I guess!

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Over three months into Starmer's tenure as PM, and...

Somehow Starmer's Labour is even worse than I expected. I was worried about them maintaining the dire status quo, but it's been a run of horrendously cruel policies ever since they got into power.

In the last two days alone they've announced that they'll effectively be using overweight unemployed people to test weight loss drugs (to see if that magically gets them jobs?!), and said that they'll be sending job coaches into mental hospitals. They've been attacking disabled people while at the same time rushing assisted-suicide legislation in a pretty blatant tilt at eugenics.

And they've had no qualms with continuing to support Israel even as their war crimes and genocidal intent become ever more obvious.

I genuinely do not know if the Tories would have been worse. I suspect that they may have been identical.

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Mindless Doodle - A Toast.

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Mindless Doodle - A Lamplighter.

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my life with ADHD

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For the goths and ghouls 🥀 An old one from Blacktober 2020 I know people really enjoyed. :-)

Prints available below for those interested:

Addams Family | Lurch | Cousin Itt

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What's the first question that really pops into peoples' minds about Ea-Nasir? I'm trying to write this history down, but I'm struggling.

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i don't care if you live in new york city get normal about drug addicts sometime soon or jump in front of the trains

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Do you ever think about Doggerland?

Like how fucked up is it that it’s just….. gone.

I tend to forget about it and then when I remember it again I’m like “Oh yeah! There’s like an entire country sized stretch of land that’s just fucking GONE.

well…. “gone”….

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Not sure if anyone has done this yet

Spin the wheel and get a dungeon meshi character!!

Tell me who you got in the tags :D

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Would you get pregnant, carry, and birth a baby for $600,000,000

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Overwintering, 2022

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But then around 30 million years ago — halfway through the Age of Mammals, give or take — something happened. The nautiloids started disappearing. Fewer species, less diversity. Bit by bit they shrank back into their current small range. What happened halfway through the Age of Mammals? Well, here’s one clue: the nautiloids’ long retreat showed a pattern. It wasn’t everywhere and all at once. They disappeared first in the northern arctic regions; then in the Antarctic; then in temperate zones; finally across most of the tropics except that one small patch. This pattern suggested a culprit: a warm-blooded predator that evolved in the Arctic and then spread around the world. But… the armored cephalopod design had been around forever. They’d been living with predators for half a billion years. Sharks. Primitive armored fish. Not-so-primitive modern fish. In the age of dinosaurs, they had to deal with ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. Back in the Paleozoic, they were hunted by eight-foot-long giant sea scorpions. Way back in the Cambrian, they had to live with the anomalocariids. In the early Age of Mammals, there were primitive whales and sea-going crocodiles. The armored cephalopod design took them all in stride and kept going. So what happened?