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i hope that in 2025 u get to take more walks, read more books, connect with more people whom u love and who love u, achieve ur goals (even if ur goals are having no goals and just living in the moment), exercise fun hobbies, move from a place of self-direction, and weave together a beguiling assortment of beautiful little moments. remember that no feeling lasts forever. love u

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A large model (it is 4.3 m long) of the Wappen von Hamburg III that hangs in the intermediate deck in the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. Made by Eduard E. Willke

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In ho: *smirking* I heard people are shipping us.

Gi hun: *terrified* TO WHERE???

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Breaking Bad’s Tuco Salamanca in Squid Game

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I love when they hug, best thing in the world

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gwen my gwen

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The shape of a fish's caudal tail can tell you a lot about how fast the fish moves! A rounded tail is the slowest and a lunate tail is the fastest! The lunate tail has the most optimal ratio of high thrust and low draw, making it the fastest.

Ichthyology Notes 2/?

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Bro the squid game netflix show is actually awful. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea. I actually had to stop watching, it made me feel physically ill. Fuck capitalism. Fuck netflix.

Rant ahead. Tw for description of the game, descriptions of violence, mention of gore, anxiety, swearing, high stakes situations, fucking evil corporations, genocide

There's this guy on the third (?) episode and they force him to make an important decision that affects a quarter of the contestants fate. And so this guy is fucking shaking, and he says "they're gonna remember me as the guy who stopped them from becoming a millionaire". Yeah probably. And during the challenge, he was trying not to puke and people were 'dying' around him and he felt it all. That was not right.

Unless they were rich beforehand, this money could change their whole lives and Netflix are fucking pigs for dangling that in their faces. As if we'll think that their fear and desperation (for what Netflix would view as cents) is fun and entertaining. God, it was actually horrifying.

Sure, they weren't killing anyone. They were taunting 99% of contestants with the hopes of a future without poverty and struggle for them and their families. Netflix is a billionaire fucking company. It could have given every single person that prize money, easily, without feeling the cost at all. Instead they made it scarce, and they made everyone fight each other and cry and suffer. They put decisions in their hands like, oh you could be generous or selfless- rather than them, the fucking pigs with the money. Cry for the TV. Fuck you. Fuck you. Completely dehumanising and unfair and fucked.

"We're not forcing them" they'd say like the literal fascist villains in the fictional squid game said. But it's not a choice at all, really, because the prize money is so much more than anyone can imagine having- that it's only reasonable to compete and throw each other under the bus (they coerced contestants into eliminating each other, to hold another's future in their hands) and live in fear of losing that slim possibility for days or weeks. This could make or break their lives. Millions.

The disappointment and feeling of failure would weigh heavy, even when some games were clearly rigged like Red Light Green Light. THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO MAKE THESE STUPID CHOICES AND PLAY THIS STUPID GAME for the amusement and profit of others. Netflix didn't have to make the show. Absolute lack of media literacy to think this was a good idea. Absolute lack of empathy to think it wouldn't fucking hurt to watch. Fuckwads.

I don't know why it strikes me so much more than the other 'compete for the money reality shows', though I'm not a fan of the genre. Maybe it's because the stakes are much higher. $4 million. Rather than ten or a hundred thousand, a tangible amount someone could possibly make in this system if they slave away for decades (with higher education). Unlike $4 million. You'd never have to work again. Never have to worry or budget or even check the price tag of the clothes you buy again.

I think it's also because we're watching them play the same game in the same setting as the fucking horror/thriller TV show with people getting shot in the head. Blood and gore. It's not real, they weren't going to actually die, but so many people were shaking as they cut out the dalgona. So many people flinched at the gunshots.

This show reminds me that it is a game to some people. Entertainment. Apathy. They didn't die in this game, this time. But there is a warzone out there. There are multiple genocides out there. There are people actually dying and begging online for money that could save their lives, (fucking cents to corporations like this) (they refuse to save lives. they profit from desperation and suffering and death)

It's also around 450 people who lose out instead of like 20. I always thought those other shows were staged and everyone gets a small cut. Here, the suffering was stark. If it was rigged, it didn't seem like the players were aware of the fact.

The billionaires hide. This billionaire corporation has the fucking audacity to release this show at a time like this. Fucking abhorrent. They have vast amounts of money, they can help an incredible amount of people but they do not.

It is companies, fat cats, greedy ceos who can save lives with the money that they don't use but they don't. No, they prefer to buy meaningless things to show off their wealth while people can't buy food. They prefer to hoard money in their greed. They build an empire on our broken bones.

It's people, real empathetic people, coming together, pooling their small amounts of money together, to contribute to fundraisers in order to save lives. It's people who give their time and empathy to those of us who suffer. It's people who risk their lives in Gaza to help eachother. It's people who may feel the cost of giving money away, but do so anyway. We are human and it is our strength.

I am thankful that hope and strength persist in the face of oppression. It frustrates me that we like and share and donate and boycott and hope, when all of this could be done with a snap of a million/billionaire's fingers but they refuse to care. It seems futile, to talk about this when the people with real wealth refuse to listen. It's been two years now and nothing seems to change for the better, but it does in small ways. I am proud that so many people do help. I am glad.

I hope for a better world, one day. One in which we all have equal opportunities, equal access to food, safety, healthcare and education. A world without corporate greed and unequal power. A world that doesn't run on the suffering of the majority. Empathy and humanity persist, despite it all.

Delay. Deny. Depose

This game highlighted the stark difference in our class, that they think it's entertainment when it is in fact, life and death for some people. They pit us against each other in this capitalism system. Fight or help one another, when it's not us with the power to stop the genocide. There is power in numbers, though.

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Literally where would be as a society without the soup store video

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when i was a kid my parents bought me an inflatable doll of the Scream by Edvard Munch (??) that was significantly taller than i was at the time and i used to slow-dance with it and pretend it was my boyfriend. It had its hands attached to its head obviously so it felt like he was always a bit horrified to be forced to dance with me

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defined muscles will kill the patient, the patient needs belly to live

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Yeah! 🎉

Today we celebrate… scarves!

🎉🥳 Hooray for scarves! 🥳🎉