#Time Famine

[asrarblog]

Interactive Work VS Individual Work in Offices – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #896

[zaacoy]

Good afternoon, love

[sayruq]

This is a new low for NYT.

[lady-raziel]

the fallout tv show fully depicting the brotherhood of steel as a crazy cult is really compelling and interesting to me in the same way fallout 4's iteration of the brotherhood was a fascinating evolution of the versions in the games before that.

however, i fully believe that the version of the brotherhood that carries the most weight in my mind is the one where they're the wasteland's version of guys that look at you and say, "well, clearly you don't own an air fryer."

[wynntermelon]

I really admire the scum villain fandom for surviving this long through sheer willpower and delusion alone

[lotus-duckies]

i think about this video every day

[sealrock]

the four horsemen.

[emry-stars-art]

@not-driven I mentioned whale-dolphin-hybrid-mer Kevin and I am here to deliver 🙏

[ddem1urge]

⋆ ˚ ｡⋆ 🐌🥯 pluto

[pratchettquotes]

"They're coming closer again," said War.

THEN WE WILL DO WHAT WE CAN.

"Four swords against an army? That'll never work!"

YOU THOUGHT IT MIGHT A FEW MOMENTS AGO. WHO IS TALKING FOR YOU NOW? HUMANS HAVE ALWAYS FACED US AND THEY HAVE NOT SURRENDERED.

"Well, yes," said Pestilence. "But with us they could always hope for a remission."

"Or a sudden truce," said War.

"Or--" Famine began, and hesitated, and said finally: "A shower of fish?" He looked at their expressions. "That actually happened once," he added defiantly.

IN ORDER TO HAVE A CHANGE OF FORTUNE AT THE LAST MINUTE YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR FORTUNE TO THE LAST MINUTE, said Death. WE MUST DO WHAT WE CAN.

"And if that doesn't work?" said Pestilence. [...]

THEN WE DID WHAT WE COULD, he said, UNTIL WE COULD NOT.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

[onebizarrekai]

I'm trudging through the dsasks tag and I'm sorry it stands for WHAT???? AFTERMATH HANDS????

[geddyqueer]

ok. um. i should maybe… prune this. (every time!!! every year!!! girlypop! prune them before they get to this state!!!) i have to fertilize my cucumbers today but first i have an interview with a beloved friend and mutual’s employer :)

[lady-of-ways]

Wiggly wants his wrath.

[lunarmoonheart]

hatchetfield song/nmt paintings!

I wont be painting them for a while but I wanna ask (I'm gonna sketch them all first then paint so they may take a bit)

[eretzyisrael]

by Rinat Harash

Distortion also plagued The New York Times report, which framed the entire story with comments from aid groups, and avoided mentioning the no-famine point by stating (in the 3rd paragraph) that the IPC has “stopped short of saying that a famine had begun.”

The BBC, The Telegraph and The Independent almost copy-pasted the IPC report verbatim, with headlines about the risk of famine:

These three outlets also uncritically parroted the report’s assessment that almost half a million Gazans now face “catastrophic” hunger — without mentioning that it’s down from the original estimate of 1.1 million.

Media Cop Out

Admittedly, news outlets must cover what bodies like the IPC report. And it’s true that the report sneakily started with the words: “A high risk of famine persists across the whole Gaza Strip.”

But journalists should read between the lines, understand the background, and not just take the IPC’s word as gospel, especially if its previous reports have been proven wrong.

Unfortunately, media outlets avoided this inconvenience and chose to perpetuate the false famine narrative.

After all, it’s an easy cop-out that hides their own faults of parroting unreliable sources.