#Tyranni

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[2524/11080] Cock-tailed tyrant - Alectrurus tricolor

(top photo: adult male, bottom photo: juvenile)

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Tyranni Family: Tyrannidae (tyrant flycatchers)

Photo credit: Carlos Otávio Gussoni/Claudia Brasileiro

[wolfythewitch]

OCs based on my birds

[captious-solarian]

@prudencepaccard Behold this neon phallus cackling sardonically

Ever hear an Andean cock of the rock before? Probably not, or maybe you have and didn't realise it, because they sound quite a bit like a kookaburra!

[forislynx]

Utifrån vad mäter man friheten, hos en enskild likaväl som hos folkslag? Utifrån det motstånd som måste övervinnas, den möda som det kostar att hålla sig ovanpå. Den högsta typen av fria människor måste sökas där det högsta motståndet ständigt övervinns: fem steg från tyranniet, tätt inpå tröskeln till träldomens fara.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Avgudaskymning

[elbiotipo]

Count Dooku: The Republic is corrupt and undemocratic, and the Jedi are elitist and out of touch, they have opressed us for far too long!

Separatist: I agree! We need to make a new path, down with the Republic, we'll join you!

Count Dooku: Good choice my friend! Welcome to the Dark Side of the Force. My name is Darth Tyrannus. You can join me at the Star Destroyer Malevolence with my friend, General Grievous.

Separatist: wh

Separatist: why are you called like that

[flawlessflesh]

the day when delgal disappeared.

[divorcedwife]

i love the idea of a god of tyranny so i designed my girl as the chosen of bane. inspired by the bane worshippers of bg3, roman emperors, and greek tragedy actors

[mako-designated-driver]

Warning: Some dav criticism ahead

Why is Tevinter so shallow? It isn't just about the lack of slavery (that, whatever else it is, however it was handled before, has been a pillar of Tevinter identity and inevitably leaves a hole in the narrative by being pratically missing). Why does the magisterium, the caste system, the Antaam invasion outside of Minrathous and the Black Divine play no role at all in its storyline?

Why the atrocities of the Crows (buying children, for example?) never come up during their faction quests?

Why do we hear nothing about the political side of the mortalitasi, how they control Nevarra from the shadows?

Why do we never even hear about Kont-aar even though we are in Rivain? Why there is no counterpoint to the (metaphorically, by qunari standards, mindless and souless) Antaam? Why is the qun completely missing from the game and the qunari reduced to cannon fodder the player has to cut down?

Why are the questions about magic that permeate every previous game absent here, especially when veilguard being set in the north could have given us such a unique viewpoint?

And, more importantly:

Why am I supposed to believe that no dalish elves would worship the gods they have already been worshipping their whole lives? That they wouldn't follow out of naivety, out of misplaced hope for a better future, out of fear, seeking to placate them?

Why am I supposed to believe that the gods would not even try to seek the dalish, when we are told by the previous games about the dalish hunters of legend, about how they are a mighty force to be reckoned with when united? Why do they only show up at the Blood of Arlathan quest, to play damsel in distress?

Why am I supposed to believe that no elves from the alienages would want to join the gods, because of every reason mentioned above, or out of spite or disdain for an uncaring world?

And yes, I know everyone learned the gods were evil off-screen. Why was it off-screen?

Also, where are the agents of Fen'Harel? Where are the people that vanished by the end of Trespasser?

Obviously, you can't expand on all of this in a single game, but why is all of it absent?

Why is bioware so afraid to engage with the world they created?

[onlyhurtforaminute]

AVSLUT-TYRANNI

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[2982/11080] Dot-winged antwren - Microrhopias quixensis

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Tyranni Family: Thamnophilidae (antbirds)

Photo credit: Greg Homel via Macaulay Library

[wolfythewitch]

THIS JUST IN I JUST GOT NEWS FROM THE FARM

Brutus now has two children

Alas Caesar is failing to perform and has none

[kinialohaguy]

Never Imagined

Aloha kākou. I never would have imagined this great nation would hold law abiding, freedom loving Americans as Political Prisoners. But here they are languishing in Washington D.C. jails and prisons. People that marched peacefully and patriotically to express their grievances against the stolen 2020 election. Americans of all walks of life: The average working Six Pak Joe, the university student…

[aleksgivanov]

I’m excited to finally post my pieces for the To Be Gentle and Peace Through Tyranny zines from @allsparkzines ! These were so fun to work on and connect together. Check out all the other amazing art these zines have to offer!

[forislynx]

I sin Upplysningens dialektik, ett centralt verk i modern filosofi, hävdar Theodor Adorno och Max Horkheimer att det inte var någon tillfällighet att ‘förnuftet’ så ofta vandrade hand i hand med ‘enväldet’ [...] Detta skulle bero på att förnuftet och vetenskapen inte främjar friheten, utan i stället uppmuntrar till ett absolutistiskt sinnelag genom att förutsätta en ‘absolut’ åtskillnad mellan sant och falskt, rätt och fel i stället för en pluralitet av värden. Enligt samma linjer resonerar den franske tänkaren Michael Foucault när han hävdar att upplysningsprinciperna och absolutismen går hand i hand och i den rationella administrationens namn stakar ut en väg som leder till en omänsklig socialpolitik. Olika slags missanpassade personer – gamla, sjuka, tiggare, småtjuvar och tokskallar – avlägsnades från gatorna och buntades ihop till en ‘oförnuftig’ social kvarleva, som man sedan stängde in på institutioner. De handlingar som här gav sig ut för att vara ‘upplysta’ var egentligen repressiva [...] Av detta följer att man inte kan nöja sig med att lovorda de upplysta intellektuella för att de försökte ge sig i kast med sociala problem; vi måste även beakta de praktiska konsekvenserna av deras hållning. Det är en sak att beklaga tiggeri och förnedringen hos dem som är beroende av välgörenhet, men att hitta effektiva lösningar på de problem som skapade fattigdomen är något annat.

Roy Porter, Upplysningen : en introduktion

[felassan]

What kind of spirit do you think Felassan waz?

Swag