#75 years young

[stesichoreanpalinode]

Special birthday edition part 2: five gifs that come up when you search for ‘Roger Taylor birthday’

[a-woman-unkind]

happiest 75th birthday to the most precious and beautiful soul. roger taylor, you have changed so many lives with your creativity and are a huge inspiration to many. we all also adore how silly and how much of a menace you can be at any given time. we love you and cheers to many more years to come x

[stesichoreanpalinode]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROGER

EVERYBODY SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROGER 🎉

[suchaspookyginger]

would you guys read an asl bros + dadan (+ law) ficlet based on my and my brothers' real-lived anxieties regarding my mother being an absurdly young recipient of a carotid endarterectomy? be honest

[officalgeorgestaniel]

Intro/Set 3 I love you

[kushanna]

beato is beatrice. beatrice is a title others can have/pretend to have. which means beato is a person before being beatrice. everyone is a person before being beatrice. beatrice wrote on maria's diary and on the pages inside the bottles. we see beato write on maria's diary and call maria an apprentice. that was an untrustworthy magical scene created by beato. beato is not necessarily the one maria calls beatrice since all scenes we have with them are untrustworthy magical scenes created by beato. beato is not necessarily beatrice who wrote on maria's diary and wrote the pages inside the bottles. who is beatrice, the person handing maria letters and writing on her diary. who is beato. these are two different questions. are they one and the same. possible. it's more fun if the answer is no though. how does beato fit into all this then. this is the most important question of all. does she have an existence outside the magical meta world in an eva/eva beatrice sort of situation. was she on the island. was she the 18th. i am constructing an intelligent thought.

[caprine-bees]

the "lol nuerotypicals are actually the weird ones, imagine asking someone how they are and getting mad at the response" thing makes me so sad. like babes you're just proving the point that you don't actually understand the social interaction and you're taking it at the bare minimum implications.

"Hey, how are you?" Doesnt mean someone doesn't want to hear about your day. They do want to hear about it. Even strangers. Even the waitress. The problem is that the response of "My dog died/ I failed my exam/ I got fired" is out of step of ths rythm. You're stepping ahead of the dance. You aren't giving them a tone tag before the information. "Honestly, not great" or "There's been better days" gives the conversation partner a chance to check in with themselves about what they can handle. If you just throw out your bad day, it takes that agency from them. That's why they get upset. Because they have their own lives and bad days, and they don't always have the bandwith to carry soemone elses bad day with them. They're not upset that they asked and they want you to just say "It's great :)", they're upset that you took their agency from them.

If you do a buffer step, a tone tag, whatever you want to call it, plenty of people will be happy to hear about your day for real life. I've hugged strangers in the supermarket, I've held hands with crying old ladies. But if I was having the worst day of my life and they sprung that on me? That would suck. Just give people a chance to opt out. "I'm sorry to hear that." Is an opt out. "Aww, what happened." Means they are ready to hear it. That's it. It's not that they're asking a fake question. It's that they think they'll be getting a tone buffer and it feels to them like they expected another step on the stairs and their foot comes crashing down onto the floor.

[sukimas]

apartments being like "you have to make 3x this rent a month for us to let you rent here" are so stupid. you think i'm spending $4000 on bills food and incidentals? the most i've ever spent on a car repair was $2k. give me your stupid apartment asshole

[callumilott]

MEET THE GRID ➝ Formula 3 (2023)

[stesichoreanpalinode]

Special birthday edition: five gifs that come up when you do a gif search for Roger Taylor

[firebastardextraordinaire]

Ahkrin: when you’re mean to me this is who you’re being mean to I hope you know

[esyra]

After the hospital bombing, I finally heard back from my grandmother and confirmed that several of my relatives were murdered by Israeli bombing. Seven of them, to be precise. Three are still going, including her. We've been talking constantly ever since.

Asked if it was possible to head south, and was told they did but were also bombed there. So they decided to go back home, in Zeitoun. Their home was bombed and they were pulled out of the rumble, then driven by ambulances to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital. There were people in every corner. Gazans sheltering, sleeping on the floor. Gazans dying on the floor, waiting for beds.

Four were declared dead on arrival, three were in need of surgery and other three were just bandaged. Then, a bomb was dropped in the parking lot that made parts of the ceiling collapse, like Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah reported in that horrific conference/interview. Those in need of surgery died.

By the way, just in case you didn't know: the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the third oldest in history, bombed by Israel a few days back, was located near the hospital.

When looking for new shelter, they saw schools with signs hanging outside, "We can't take any more families." They met families, sympathetic but already sheltering too many people. They're now staying in an apartment building they found empty. Sleeping in the corner of the living room. If the family comes back, they'll apologize and leave.

Told me she was saving her phone battery for when the bombing stopped, and she had to ask for help to rebuilt the neighborhood. But she doesn't think it's gonna stop anymore. The ones still with her are mute most of the time, like they're saving energy, but she feels lonely and wanted to talk. There's no internet and to connect to WhatsApp, people are buying "a card from the supermarket, there's a password and username." Not sure what she meant. Still, the internet is inconsistent and won't load neither videos or images nor pages, so she doesn't know what's happening on the outside world.

Told her there were a lot of people protesting to stop the genocide, she replied, "The bombings are getting worse by the day." The bombing yesterday was the worst she ever witnessed. The entire neighborhood is infested with the smell of death, of decomposing bodies. Bodies are piling up in the streets and she's not sure if it's because they ran out of places to store them, but most of them are in bags. The smoke of the bombings hide the blue sky—she hasn't seen the clouds for a while.

Asked if I could share their pictures, names and dreams with people and was told, of which I partly agree, "they're not entertainment." If anyone genuinely cared, they would be alive—I'd argue there are people who do care, but I'm not gonna lecture her pain. And they don't deserve to be used to fulfill someone's sick fantasy. Told me to remember what some Israelis do with pictures of dead Palestinians. And I do.

For those of you who are not familiar, many times before settlers got together to celebrate the murder of Palestinians. For one, in 2015, Israeli settlers set a house in Duma, West Bank on fire. An 18-month old baby, Ali Dawbsheh, was burnt alive. Both parents later died of wounds and only a 5-year-old, Ahmad, survived, although severely injured.

Two celebrations of their murder are widely known, one at a wedding and others outside the court in which two were indicted for the terrorist attack. In the wedding, guests stabbed a photo of the toddler, Ali, while others waved guns, knives and Molotov cocktails. Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was present.

That's what happens in an apartheid. Palestinians are so abused by authorities that their "innocent civilians" come to accept the brutality as necessary or are desensitized by our suffering. After all, it's been 75 years—get used to it!

So I won't risk the image of my loved ones, in fear they are used in these kinds of depravity. I will say, though, the world lost a young footballer. Lost a female writer and an aspiring ballerina. Lost a kind father, who was also a great cook, and a loving mother that enjoyed sewing and other types of handicraft art. Lost a math teacher and a child that wanted to become one.

People think Israel is testing new weapons on them. There's civilians arriving at the hospital with severe burns, which they thought was from white phosphorus, but apparently the pattern is different from the one caused by white phosphorus. It's widely believed Israel tests weapons in Palestinians.

Jeff Halper, author of War Against the People, a book on Israel's arms and surveillance technology industries, said: "Israel has kept the occupation because it's a laboratory for weapons."

They've ran out of drinkable water and the "aid" Biden sent was only for the South of Gaza and no fuel, for hospitals, was allowed in. Many shelves in the supermarket are empty. She said many are convinced that if they don't die from the bombing, they'll die from starvation or dehydration, or whatever disease will develop from the dirty water they're drinking.

Told me all people do now is pray, cry and die. Told me she hopes West Bank is spared. Told her Israel bombed a mosque in West Bank and dozens of Palestinians in West Bank are being murdered by settlers, so she bided me goodbye.

[drdarine]

Sometimes, time seems to move in a vicious cycle, repeating itself in a painfully astonishing manner, as if mocking humanity’s ability to learn from its mistakes. Two images are separated by 75 years, yet they appear as though no time has passed as if the gap between them is merely a few fleeting moments.

The first image: A Palestinian elder holding the keys to his home, from which he was forcibly displaced after the Nakba of 1948. An image filled with pain, with tears that dried on faces, and hearts that collapsed under the weight of loss. Yet, hope for return still filled those hearts.

The second image: A recent photo that tells the same story, but this time, the protagonist is my young sister, Maryam, holding the keys to our home from which we were displaced after the Nakba of 2023.

There is no difference between the two stories, except that this time, the story is even harsher and more painful.

History seems to repeat itself, but this time, it comes with a level of suffering that humanity has never witnessed before. The killing and destruction that have ravaged both the land and its people have become more brutal at a time when many believed humanity had learned from the lessons of the past.

I'm human, and I'm asking you to act from your humanity.

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[sesamenom]

fun fact! we actually do have concrete ages for a lot of people (from a combination of appendices and NoME sun year conversions) at the point of the Quest of the Ring:

[edit: i am tired and misread the original post - take this as the Assorted Apocrypha version]

Gandalf: 54,960 Sun Years Aragorn: 88 Legolas: ~2000 (exact birthdate unknown) Gimli: 140

Frodo: 51 Sam: 39 Merry: 37 Pippin: 29

Boromir: 41

Based on average lifespans we can translate these ages to Human Age (to make it easier to compare them):

Gandalf: ∞ Aragorn: 31 Legolas: 25-ish?? Gimli: 39

Frodo: 40 Sam: 31 Merry: 29 Pippin: 22 (by lifespan percentage) OR 17 (by age of majority)

Boromir: 25

so (unless he's lying on the genealogical records) boromir is not quite the youngest member of the fellowship, but he's certainly close!

The Fellowship gets on the topic of their ages one night and Boromir comes to the dawning realization that he has absolutely no idea how old any of his companions are supposed to be at all

[belgianfry]

I was inspired by @euryalex to spotlight a Palestinian fundraiser. The talented young man you see up there is inline skater Hani Al-Hajjar aka @skatehani and he needs help to get his family to safety.

After their house was destroyed on October 13th, his family became displaced, living in tents. On September 15th, he lost his father due to the attack on Al-Shifa Hospital. His father was suffering from kidney failure and passed away due to lack of treatment. He was the breadwinner of their family. Now Hani is responsible for his family, which consists of 10 members, including 3 minors, and his 18-year-old brother. The rest are his sisters, including two toddlers (2 and 3 year old).

His GFM has been vetted (#75 on this list). The last week there have only been 4 donations and it's currently at €33,272 out of the €50,000 goal.

DONATE HERE

If you can send money (every cent helps!) or just reblog & spread the word, that would be amazing. Thank you! ❤️🇵🇸

[kentucky-daisey]

today was okay

Was feeling overwhelmed at work (long to-do list, busy day tomorrow), so I went for a walk on my lunch break. Walked by a kid’s party and a little boy ran out, yelled “I have a pinwheel” while holding it up for me to see, blew on it so it spun, and then ran away.

It was a really long day, but that kid made the biggest difference.

Also, dude, totally awesome pinwheel!