#is unfit for general human consumption.

[noecoded]

hey asmo fans

[kiiraes]

“Shaving our head is a painful decision for any woman, but we are forced to do it.” Nisreen, a Palestinian mother of six, had to leave her home in Khan Younis on 13 December, as the Israeli ground invasion of the city intensified. She has since sought refuge at a nearby UN school, and later to a makeshift tent, with little access to drinkable or cleaning water. “I had to shave my head, because I have no water to wash my hair,” the 49-year-old told Middle East Eye from her tent in al-Mawasi area. “I also did the same to my 16-year-old daughter and my 12-year-old son, to protect them from scalp diseases as their friends developed scalp ringworm,” she added. The ferocious Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza, now in its fifth month, has killed at least 27,500 and displaced more than 1.9 million Palestinians, who collectively have no access to clean water and essential hygiene facilities. Even before the war, more than 96% of the water supply in Gaza had been considered “unfit for human consumption”, due to the Israeli blockade on Gaza since 2007. But the situation has been exacerbated after the Israeli government’s decision to cut off the water supply to the Gaza Strip at the orders of Energy Minister Israel Katz on 9 October. Additionally, the Israeli army seized the majority of water desalination plants in the northern part of Gaza by 30 October, and in the southern part of Gaza City by 1 November, according to satellite images from Planet Labs PBC. Zainab al-Shawwaf, a general practitioner based in Rafah, clarified that the lack of hair care and washing may give rise to conditions like alopecia, scalp ringworm, and bacterial infections, ultimately leading to the development of hair abscesses. Juliette Touma, spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), has warned that “water is being used as a weapon of war” during the current conflict. “Many people are resorting to unsafe sources of water... Clean water in Gaza is either unavailable or available in very, very small quantities.”

Source: Middle East Eye

[bootleg-nessie]

List of Extremely Cursed Knowledge

Having autism and ADHD is a blessing and a curse because on one hand, I’m basically a walking encyclopedia of random facts and information. On the other hand, a fair amount of that information is so fucked up that it’s not socially acceptable to share it with anyone. So naturally, I took every fucked up fact, every bit of twisted trivia, every bit of cursed knowledge that I could come up with off the top of my head and compiled it into one big list to post on the internet. Some of this information may permanently ruin your (you, the reader) perception of certain things. None of this information should have ever seen the light of day, and a fair amount of it was never, ever meant to be known by humans.

You cannot unlearn anything on this list. This is your chance to scroll past.

You have been warned.

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According to FDA standards, a jar of peanut butter is allowed to have up to seven (7) rat hairs before it’s considered unfit for human consumption. If it has 7 or less rat hairs it will still be sold in stores.

If I just ruined peanut butter for you, don’t google the FDA regulations on any other foods you enjoy.

Human teeth have 36 calories each.

The average human body has roughly 125,000 calories. This is actually relatively low, which makes cannibalism in humans generally unsustainable.

Human meat tastes like pork.

Penguins have been observed practicing necrophilia.

Dolphin vaginas secrete a substance that acts like an aphrodisiac on steroids. When scientists swabbed some of it on a chimpanzee’s penis, it masturbated so furiously that it had a heart attack and died.

Dolphins have been known to intentionally commit suicide if kept in poor conditions.

Scientists that work with cockroaches often become allergic due to exposure. Simultaneously, they also develop an allergy to chocolate and pre-ground coffee. Make of that what you will.

Dolphins have been observed masturbating using decapitated fish heads.

Dolphins have been observed getting high on pufferfish venom recreationally, sometimes even passing a pufferfish around like a joint.

There’s a LOT of rape across the entire animal kingdom. Like, a LOT. It’s especially prevalent in dolphins, otters, ducks, penguins, and primates, to name a few.

On a related note, female ducks have corkscrew shaped vaginas. Male ducks also have corkscrew shaped penises that measure in at a whopping eighteen inches.

The barnacle has the largest penis to body size ratio in the animal kingdom, with its penis being up to eight times as long as its body.

Chimpanzees have been observed using frogs as a fleshlight.

A disembodied human head weighs about 10-12 lbs and is balanced in such a way that requires you to use both hands to pick up.

Pigs will eat every single part of a corpse - including bones. In 2012 a farmer in Oregon was eaten by his pigs after having a heart attack and falling in their enclosure. This also makes pig pens a prime spot for dumping bodies.

A body will decompose faster if you fill the rectal cavity with yogurt before burying it

When burying a body, make sure to bury it in a heavily wooded area. If vegetation is too sparse and/or the body isn’t buried deep enough, it will be easily noticeable after a few months because plants will grow in much thicker directly above where the body was buried.

You cannot bury a body in sand, as sand is too porous. The smell will seep through and give away the location

The entire universe could theoretically exist as a false vacuum and collapse into nothingness at any moment without warning.

Any alien civilization advanced enough to detect life on earth is also probably advanced enough to destroy our entire planet almost immediately. At the peak of interstellar technology, the only limiting factor is the speed of light. If they decided to attack, we probably wouldn’t even know it was coming until the entire surface of the planet was already vaporized.

It takes three and a half rotations to fully detach a human head from its body.

Recently deceased bodies can experience rigor erectus, which translates to “death boner.” This is especially common in victims of hanging, as it’s primarily caused by trauma to the cerebellum or spinal cord.

There is an extremely real chance that you have unknowingly purchased a product that was made by modern day slaves at least once in your life. Coffee, cotton, fish, clothes, shoes, and technology are among the most vulnerable industries.

A decapitated head remains conscious for several seconds after separated from the body.

The entire koala population across Australia is currently undergoing a major chlamydia epidemic. It’s actually been extremely devastating for them and they’re currently facing the threat of extinction because of it.

[good-old-gossip]

Israeli Environmental Terrorism in Gaza!!!

Israel’s war on Gaza has created an unprecedented environmental crisis in the enclave destroying sanitation systems, leaving tonnes of debris from explosive devices and causing major pollution, the United Nations said on Tuesday in a new report on the environmental impact of the war.

The report found that explosive weapons used in the war have generated around 39 million tonnes of debris, with every square metre of Gaza littered with more than 107kg of debris on average.

It also found that water, sanitation and hygiene systems in Gaza are almost entirely defunct, with the strip’s five wastewater treatment plants shut down. “All of this is deeply harming people’s health, food security and Gaza’s resilience,” said UN Environmental Programme (Unep) Executive Director Inger Andersen.

Israel’s war is exacerbating an already deteriorating environment in Gaza, where over 92 percent of water was deemed unfit for human consumption in 2020. Israel has also targeted the small environmental gains Gaza had made in its attacks on the area’s solar panels. Gaza had one of the highest densities of rooftop solar panels in the world, but Israeli forces have destroyed a large swathe of its solar infrastructure.

“It is my opinion that large areas of Gaza will not be recovered to a safe state within a generation, even with limitless finance and will,” Eoghan Darbyshire, a senior researcher at the UK-based nonprofit Conflict and Environment Observatory, told Reuters.

The UN report came as a result of a request from the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority in December, in which it called on Unep to look into environmental damages in Gaza. Climate change and Israel’s attacks on environmental infrastructure have long plagued Gaza and other parts of occupied Palestine.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-conflict-has-caused-major-environmental-damage-un-says-2024-06-18/

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Andrew Doyle

Published: Mar 11, 2024

As a child of the Eighties and Nineties, I remember well that homosexuals were fair game in the mainstream media. One columnist in The Star railed against “Wooftahs, pooftahs, nancy boys, queers, lezzies — the perverts whose moral sin is to so abuse the delightful word ‘gay’ as to render it unfit for human consumption”. After the death of Freddie Mercury, sympathy in The Mail on Sunday was limited. “If you treat as a hero a man who died because of his own sordid sexual perversions,” one writer cautioned, “aren’t you infinitely more likely to persuade some of the gullible young to follow in his example?”

It was sadly inevitable that the AIDS crisis would exacerbate this ancient prejudice. A headline in The Sun declared that “perverts are to blame for the killer plague”. And while a writer for the Express held “those who choose unnatural methods of self-gratification” responsible for the disease, letters published in its pages followed suit. One reader called for the incarceration of homosexuals. “Burning is too good for them,” wrote another. “Bury them in a pit and pour on quicklime.” Someone had been reading his Dante.

I happened to come out in a much less hostile climate. In the early 2000s, we were enjoying a kind of Goldilocks moment, neither too hot nor too cold. We weren’t generally on the receiving end of homophobic slurs, but nor were we patronised by well-meaning progressives. My memory of this time was that no one particularly cared, and I was more than happy with that. Being gay for me has never been an identity, it’s simply a fact, as unremarkable as being blue-eyed or right-handed.

And so it has been troubling to see a resurgence in the last few years of the kind of anti-gay rhetoric that was commonplace in my childhood. Of course, it could be argued that the rise of social media has simply exposed sentiments that were previously only expressed in private. As Ricky Gervais has pointed out, before the digital era “we couldn’t read every toilet wall in the world. And now we can.”

Yet the most virulent homophobia appears to be coming from a new source. Whereas we have always been accustomed to this kind of thing from the far-Right — one recalls Nick Griffin’s remark on Question Time about how he finds the sight of two men kissing “really creepy” — but now the most objectionable anti-gay comments arise in online spheres occupied by gender ideologues, from those who claim to be progressive, Left-wing and “on the right side of history”. The significant difference is that the word “cis” has been added to the homophobe’s lexicon. Some examples:

“Cis gay men are a disease.”

“Cis gay men are truly some of the most grotesque creatures to burden this earth.”

“I hate cis gay people with a burning passion.”

“If you’re a cis gay man and your sexuality revolves around you not liking female genitalia I hope you die and I will spit on your grave.”

“Cis gays don’t deserve rights.”

“There’s so many reasons to hate gay people, most specifically white gays, but there’s never a reason to be a transphobe.”

“It’s time to normalise homophobia.”

Of course, any bile can be found on the internet, but these kinds of phrases are remarkably commonplace among certain online communities. Even a cursory search will reveal innumerable examples of gender ideologues casually branding gay men “fags” or “faggots”, praising the murder of gays and lesbians, and claiming that the AIDS epidemic was a positive thing. Many thousands of examples had been collated on Google Photos under the title “Woke homophobia: anti-gay hatred & boxer ceiling abuse from trans activists & gender-identity ideologues”. The site was taken down last year, presumably because it violated Google’s policy on hate speech — or perhaps because it revealed the toxicity of the ideology the company has spent so long promoting.

If such ideas were restricted to the demented world of internet activism, we might be justified in simply ignoring it. But we now know that the overwhelming majority of adolescents referred to the Tavistock paediatric gender clinic were same-sex attracted. Whistleblowers have spoken out about the endemic homophobia, not simply among clinicians but also parents who were keen to “fix” their gay offspring. And of course there was the running joke among staff that soon “there would be no gay people left”.

And now a series of leaked internal messages and videos from WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health), has revealed that clinicians in the leading global organisation for transgender healthcare have openly admitted in private that some teenagers mistake being same-sex attracted for gender dysphoria. The result of the “gender-affirming” approach has amounted to what one former Tavistock clinician recently described as “conversion therapy for gay kids”. Homosexuality was removed from the World Health Organisation’s list of psychiatric disorders in 1993, and yet here we are medicalising it all over again.

So how did we reach the point where gay conversion therapy is being practised in plain sight by the NHS? Much of the responsibility has to lie with Stonewall, a group that once promoted equal rights for gay people but now actively works against their interests. It has even gone so far as to redefine “homosexual” on its website and resource materials as “same-gender attracted”. It should go without saying that gay men are not attracted to women who identify as men, any more than lesbians should be denounced for excluding those with penises from their dating pools. What trans activists call discrimination, most of us call homosexuality.

Indeed, activists often claim that “genital preferences are transphobic”, or that sexual orientation based on biological sex is a form of “trauma”. The idea that homosexuality is a sickness was one of the first homophobic tropes I encountered as a child. Now it is being rebranded as progressive.

As for Stonewall, its former CEO Nancy Kelley went so far as to argue that women who exclude trans people as potential partners are analogous to “sexual racists”. She claimed that “if you are writing off entire groups of people, like people of colour, fat people, disabled people or trans people, then it’s worth considering how societal prejudices may have shaped your attractions”. It is worth remembering that Stonewall is deeply embedded in many governmental departments and quangos, as well as corporate and civic institutions. Anti-gay propaganda is being reintroduced into society from the very top.

Meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service has been meeting with trans lobby groups such as Mermaids and Stonewall to discuss changes to prosecutorial policy in cases of sex by deception. Since these meetings — only revealed after sustained pressure from a feminist campaigner who submitted Freedom of Information requests — the CPS has recommended what Dennis Kavanagh of the Gay Men’s Network has described as “a radical trans activist approach to sex by deception prosecutions that would see them all but vanish”. In trans activist parlance, the barriers to having sex with lesbians and gay men are known as the “cotton ceiling” and “boxer ceiling”. Now it seems the establishment is attempting to support the coercion of gay people into heterosexual activity.

Consider a recent post on X by Stephen Whittle, OBE, a professor of equalities law at Manchester Metropolitan University. In a reply to LGB Alliance’s Bev Jackson, Whittle took issue with the notion that “love is all about genitals” (an argument that Jackson has never made). Having dismissed this straw man as “a very hetero/homo-normative perspective”, Whittle then claimed that “a lot of gay men can’t resist a young furry ftm [female-to-male] cub”.

While it is true that there are some bisexuals who identify as gay, it is simply not the case that homosexual men “can’t resist” certain kinds of women. As Jackson rightly noted in her response, this is rank homophobia, “disturbed and disturbing on every level”. Yet it has been expressed by an individual who has been described as a “hero for LGBTQ+ equality”. With heroes like these, who needs villains?

Another example is Davey Wavey, a popular online influencer, who has encouraged gay men to perform heterosexual acts in a video called “How to Eat Pussy — For Gay Men”. It may as well have been called “Gay Conversion Therapy 2.0”. We are firmly back in the Eighties, where gays are being told that they “just haven’t found the right girl yet” and lesbians are assured that they just “need a good dick”. And yet now these demeaning ideas are being propagated by those who claim to be defending the rights of sexual minorities.

The Government’s recent guidance on how schools are to accommodate trans-identified pupils — in which biological sex will take precedence over identity — has been met with horror from gender ideologues. One of the common refrains one hears from activists is that it represents “this generation’s Section 28”. But this is to get it precisely backwards. Gay rights were secured on the recognition that a minority of the population are same-sex attracted. In dismantling the very notion of sex and substituting it for this nebulous concept of “gender identity”, activists and their disciples in parliament are undoing all of the achievements of previous gay rights movements.

The widespread homophobia of the Eighties, epitomised by Section 28, was based on the notion that homosexuality was unnatural, dangerous and ought to be corrected. Present-day gender identity ideology perceives homosexuality as evidence of misalignment between soul and body. In other words, it seeks to “fix” gay people so that they fit into a heterosexual framework. It is no coincidence that so many detransitioners are gay people who were simply struggling with their sexuality. Gender identity ideology is the true successor to Section 28.

The proponents of this revamped gay conversion therapy dismiss our concerns as “transphobia” and “bigotry”, or as part of a manufactured “culture war”. Worse still, the new homophobia is being cheered on by those it will hurt most. While prominent gay figures continue to feed the beast that wishes to devour them, we are unlikely to see this dire situation improve any time soon. It was bad enough in the Eighties, when gay people were demonised and harassed by the establishment. Who thought we would have to fight these battles all over again?

[stareyedsheeple]

hello!! im doing this as part of the social media storm for the icj hearing on january 11th-january 12th, and also because i generally feel as though i haven't done as much posts about palestine as i would have liked to. more under the cut.

the violence committed against the palestinian people by israel has been going on for nearly 100 days at the time of writing– although it has been going on, truthfully, for roughly 75 years. the death toll has risen to 23,000+ and counting. palestinians again and again have been chased from their homes, with the amount reaching 1.9 million palestinians with their houses forcibly taken away (x), and some fully destroyed. they have been brutalised and treated as less than human for existing on land that the israeli government deemed theirs. the streets of palestine smell of rot and flood with sewage; the palestinian people have held their dead infants for the camera for the camera to see, recorded their children dying, far more than anyone should ever have to do, just to gain enough compassion from the world to stop israel's bombardment, just to make sure their lives and their entire existence isn't lost to bombs and false statements from israel about whats currently going on, and yet again and again western governments have continued to turn a blind eye and in the us' case, assist in the genocide of the palestinian people while preaching peace and unity. 97% of water in gaza is unfit for consumption, and "[...] famine is right around the corner."

in this case, it also falls upon us, people outside palestine, to spread the word about palestine and hope enough pressure falls upon our politicians to make real change for palestinians, who have undergone unimaginable amounts of pain and deserve to see a world where they can live freely and without suffering. moreover, in motaz's words (who everyone should definitely follow, he is a good journalist and is extremely resilient in the face of what has happened to him), (edit: he has now left gaza, but nonetheless, i believe it is important to uplift palestinian voices regardless of where they are) we cannot call ourselves a free people if we can be so against such an awful thing happening and see no yield from our presidents and governors past a shrug of the shoulders and a vague statement about not liking the death of innocents. we cannot call ourselves a free people if israel can so blatantly bypass several laws, killing hundreds of journalists and health workers (one more journalist was killed recently, hamza al-dahdouh. i would feel wrong to not mention him during this portion. his father is staying strong even in the face of it, and i wish him a dignified funeral when this is all over and a proper time for his surrounding family to grieve.) trying to ease the strain in gaza, who have done far more good than i could ever hope to do in my lifetime, along with many more innocent civilians, because what does that say about the effectiveness and application of these laws? what does that say about our actual safety at the end of the day, that if, in the eyes of western governments, the right person is behind the trigger, they can shoot whoever they want with no consequence? the genocide of the palestinian people by israel is directly related to everyone on this planet, and until we have them and everyone else under the boot of a genocidal regime freed, we are not free either.

we MUST call for a free palestine, for every palestinian within it, for those who were killed calling it, so that maybe in this lifetime we see real change for palestinians, so that maybe everything gets a little better in the world. it won't be a fast change, it'll require a lot of yelling and stomping and pushing against israel and the us and everyone else who benefits from whats happening to the palestinian people, it'll take the disassembling of a country built on the corpses of palestinian people and planning to take far more away with its bombings of lebanon and syria, but that does not mean its impossible, just hard. i do truly believe change can be made with enough people dedicated to the cause and enough pressure placed upon governments who can intervene via protests, boycotts, educating one's self about the genocide via literature and documentaries, and calling + emailing representatives about the genocide. below is an assembly of links talking about whats going on and also statements by palestinians, i'll stop rambling on. free palestine. and FUCK ISRAEL!

info on the sde teimen concentration camp (couldnt find a non-paywalled vers of the article linked in post)

decolonise palestine

gaza is starving

wael al-dahdouh's statement on his son (and general family)'s death

south africa's statement submitted to the international court of justice

palestinian hostage says he was sent into a hamas tunnel strapped with bombs

article + video of idf soldiers detaining dozens of palestinian civilians (including elderly people and children) half naked into a stadium

reporting of attacks on refugee camps and hospitals, of which there are many, so heres a few (x) (x) (x)

more than 10 kids per day on average lose one or two limbs in gaza

several amputations done on palestinian children without anaesthesia

the brutality of israeli prisons && camps

house to house executions in gaza by israeli soldiers

coverage of palestine in the media and bias towards israel

and, finally, what you can do to help. do not roll over and lie still under the weight of all this suffering. you must continue fighting, you must shape that weight into a weapon, and yes, it will hurt, and yes, you will get tired and worn out (in which case, you rest. you working yourself to the bone is of use to no one) but eventually, something will happen, and until then you hold that weight like a fire in your chest and direct it towards helping those who need help. never forget that weight. never forget palestine. nothing lasts forever, and neither will this. there will be a free palestine.

i'd advise tuning into the icj hearing if you have time– i personally will not be available, but i'm sure whatever goes on over there will be of some value to whats going on. follow palestinian journalists (motaz, hind, bisan, plestia, and many others, who are risking their lives to deliver the news to outsiders, who have done more than anyone should be obligated to in a thousand lifetimes, who deserve safe families and good lives and a long rest and a thousand years in a free palestine, on their beautiful homeland) if you have the linked platforms and can, continue talking about palestine along with them. treat yourself kindly. for the fourth time i've said this in this post, and however many more times it needs to be said, free palestine!

[cakerollk]

Gozu lore jumpscare

i think I shall post gozu lore here under readmore!! one day I’ll get over my irrational fear of talking too much on twitter and do more oc stuff but for now.... GOZU LORE

tho pls be mindful of the trigger warnings!! They’re all just briefly mentioned but still!! 

TW: religious cult, cult brainwashing, self flagellation, forceful removal of teeth, animal death, consumption of animal corpse, child marriage, arson, large scale masacare. 

(temporary placeholder image bc my ass can never finish anything) 

Formerly of Liyue, Gozu is an independent agent who contracts her particular set of talents out to those who can pay for them; or ones that take her interest. It all has an endgame objective-finding her younger sibling who went missing several years ago when she was aboard.

The only lead she has is he could have been taken by the Fatui into the Haeresys, so if it means accepting the Harbingers’ coin; then so be it.

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Gozu was born and raised in a cult that preaches of false gods, using their own bloodline as ‘offerings’ to appease these gods. Since birth she was subjected to brainwash into believing all gods outside their own are malicious and evil, the scaremongering propaganda has been passed down throughout the generation.

All members undergo rigorous training to become the perfect vessel for their God to possess, inhabiting their body as a vessel. They ingest small amount of poisons to build up immunity, fast to the point of near starvation while doing vigorous physical training, partake in self flagellation as a way of keeping one free of human vice.

All children of the temple are required to partake in a coming of age ceremony in which they are tasked to kill an Adepti beast and consume its flesh to ‘absorb Adeptus energy’. Prior to setting out on their journey, the candidates have their canine teeth removed and dressed in nothing but a white robe, armed only with a ceremonial knife.

Those who failed (‘killed’) the trial have a mock funeral held for them back at the temple. Members  outside the core circle are told that the candidates have tragically been mauled to death by the Adepti that they sought to slay, nothing of their corpse left. It’s this propaganda that continues to embed fear of higher beings into cult members into absolute obedience.

But in reality these failed candidates have only passed out from starvation from being left to fend for themselves in the wild, told not to return until they’ve killed an Adepti. They are found by trusted members of the cult and then sold to the Fatui. The cult itself gets their funds mainly from trafficking women and children of their temple, only recently that they’ve come to work with the Fatui in creating false Sigil of Permission (The one Childe has and gives to the Traveller in the game is a finished product).

Gozu’s mother had attempted to leave the cult with her and her then unborn brother, the attempt was later discovered by the cult leader and the mother was subsequently locked in solitary confinement. Gozu was told her mother had passed shortly after the birth of her brother, but in truth she too was sold off to the Fatui.

As Gozu gets older, her rebellious streak too increased, having gotten it from her mother. She hasn’t quite broken the illusion of her cult family yet, but her gut instincts told her something isn’t right. Her disobedience resulted in numerous punishments throughout the years.

At 16, the leader deemed her unfit to stay at the temple any longer and put her in an ‘arranged marriage’ to an acquaintance of his; Chang Ge was her to-be fiance, but she knew better than to believe she would be shipped off to live as a married woman, considering she knew Chang Ge’s profession is an inventor who oversees a brothel full of marionette prostitutes.

She was able to slip pass a sedated Change Ge and escape the house of horror. It took her weeks to find her way back to the temple, but she was merely hours too late and her brother had already been taken away. All 54 members of the cult were massacred and the temple burned after all was done. As no one was able to give her answers as to where her brother’s whereabouts was, Gozu sealed their souls into the family heirloom whip.

The patrolling Milithe of Liyue harbour were alerted of the incident by the sheer magnitude of the fire coming from the mountain, by the time they arrived to the burning temple, Gozu was gone and none of the soldiers could figure out where all the bodies had gone to.

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Gozu’s Vision is Hydro, which she had received during the night of the temple burning. While most Hydro users’ elemental colour is blue, Gozu’s is a deep red due to her passively using it to mask her scent of rot and decay, essentially dying the blue with blood red. She embedded her bull whip with Hydro, and as a result she can greatly control the new additional length.

Her whip is a family heirloom that’s been passed down through the generations, and it’s mainly used for ceremonial self flagellation. After Gozu has successfully entrapped all 54 souls of the cult members into the whip, she is vulnerable to its cursed property, and is constantly at a risk of possession.

It’s why Gozu has to constantly run her Vision passively to soothe it, it’s not to say she hasn’t been possessed by the whip in the past, especially during her early years post-temple burning. Anyone who comes into contact with the whip is also at risk of getting possessed, hence why Gozu keeps it on her at all times.

As the whip is sentient, Gozu always hears eerie whispers and pained cries of the trapped souls. She’s long learned to tune them out, only keeping tabs on voices that are telling her useful information e.g someone is approaching from behind, the thing she’s seeking is near, frantic whispering amongst the souls of a person she meets emitting dangerous vibes etc.

Other than her whip, Gozu is equipped with numerous knives strapped on her body, all of which are made from the bones of slain Adepti beasts. They do not grow dull, and they will always find their way back to her. This is made so by Gozu having performed self-surgery to sew pieces of the Adepti bones onto her rib bones.

Other stuff: 

-She has teeth indentures, purposefully made sharper than the average human canines. They’re made from molten Mora.

-To present day she still doses herself with a controlled amount of poison, ergo continuing to build her immunity towards most strong poison. But this habit has led to her losing her sense of taste for the most part. 

[thezoologistsgastroblog]

Start From the Beginning: Invasive Snails and the Reason to Study Gastropods

            To understand the benefits of snails, we must also understand the detrimental effects they can have when mismanaged. Specifically, let’s narrow our search to the dangers of invasive species of snails, who end up in ecosystems not suited for them due to external factors such as human intervention. In order to properly grasp the influence of snails, it is important to recognize the negative impacts an uncontrolled invasive snail population can pose for the environments not meant for them.

            A solid way to analyze the affects a species has on its environment is to simply study the environment deprived of it. Another way is to measure the effects they have on an environment in which they are not typically found; environments where they are, for all intents and purposes, outliers. The ecosystems of these places function independently of any invasive species that may be introduced to them, and thus, we can potentially consider unusual ecological flux as the activity of such invaders, whose presence, made up of their feeding habits, reproductive rates, and prey/predator interactions, may contribute to abnormalities in an unsuited area. If we were to measure the effects invasive snail species have on these places, we may therein consider how they are meant to contribute to their home environs.

            To illustrate, we need to observe actual instances of ecosystems altered by invasive snails. Let’s begin with the New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum), a species of snail native to New Zealand that has quickly spread around the world. These snails are incredibly hardy, being resistance to a solid range of temperatures and variations of local water levels, and quick to reproduce, capable of 2-3 birthing periods per year with an upwards of 60 eggs per clutch. Combined with the rapid sexual maturity rate of the species, allowing around six generations to spawn per year, they are incredibly dangerous to leave alone, as they will rapidly grow in numbers when introduced to unfit environments.

            The hardiness of the mud snail allows it to easily out-complete local species, especially other invertebrates such as snails, allowing it to quickly consume vital producers of food, most of which are plants. In turn, the mud snail provides little toward other predator species due to their hard shells and the inability for most native fish species to break down their bodies effectively. In the event they are consumed, they also have the potential to transmit local parasites, which bank on their lack of resistance to quickly spread through their reproduction.

Continuing, another example is the apple snail (Pomacea maculata), a type of snail that has been inadvertently introduced to various U.S. wetlands. A study performed on the effects these snails have on the areas they invade found that the snails contributed to a large net loss of plant biomass, which is consumed rapidly by apple snails exploiting their rampant growth rates and accessibility. In turn, the nutrient cycle of the given wetland types was sped up considerably because of the rapid nutrient breakdown apple snails perform distributing resources into the soil.

            In both given cases, the detrimental effects are a detriment to the food web and the distribution of resources. Both species have a clear and consistent impact: sapping the overall health of the local ecosystem through the consumption of its greatest benefactors whilst contributing little in return. Such forces are adapted to their own local predators, but not to those that are introduced without warning and with little room for counter. It is without proper understanding and management of snail populations that these environmental detriments are observed.

            However, we can also see, in these cases, the inverse: the benefits given by invasive snails–what values they have that would, in the context of their natural environment, contribute to the ecosystem, with these effects mildly observed through the observed detriments. The negative impacts are not negative because of the mere existence of the snails themselves, but of the misplacement of their positive ones, as they are not simply ecological mistakes but incorrectly relocated environmental players.

Both the apple snail and mud snail possess voracious appetites, contributing to the acceleration of nutrient cycles due to their capability to break down resources into easy-to-access forms. The mud snail’s benefits are lost in the wrong ecosystems because their new competition struggles to break down their bodies and shells, both of which would normally be vital. While the acceleration of the nutrient cycle via apple snails is detrimental, their digestion is designed for the environments to which they belong, wherein local snail populations consume and digest at rates consistent with their own homes.

Building on this, the mud snail can and will siphon mineral resources for their own health and to build their shells, a process which they perform via seeking out those materials in local bodies of water, consuming metal substances suspended inside. This behavior can cause metal poisoning if the snails carrying these materials are consumed by predators, but can purify the waters they reside in of dangerous metals such as copper, which can prevent contamination of local sources of water, so long as it is performed in moderation.

While mud snails can be massive carriers of local parasites, some parasite species struggle to adapt to them, causing them to be largely unable to exploit them adequately. Due to the mud snail being capable of out-competing local invertebrates, these parasites can quickly lose access to the species they commonly prey upon, reducing their chances of reproduction considerably. This could result in the decrease or eradication of certain parasites, preventing damage that those species could cause.

It is also valuable to acknowledge the methods by which invasive species can be combated and potentially suppressed. Another species of apple snail (Pomacea canaliculate) is invasive to regions including East/Southeast Asia, and can reproduce rapidly through rapid sexual maturity and a rate of two-to-three birthings per year. To counter these reproductive rates, a common pet kept in China, the invasive red-eared slider turtle (T. scripta elegans) was tested against the apple snails. The result was that when subject to predation from the turtles, the reproductive rates of the apple snails went down, subject to stress and pressure which reduced chances of egg production and survival. This is directed thusly toward egg populations, with only 20% of eggs laid successfully hatched, and the remaining juveniles were far more vulnerable to predation. The red-eared slider turtle and apple snail both inhabit China, which could potentially reduce the negative impacts these snails have on the environment.

These examples paint a very valuable picture as to the nature of invasive snails: not only do these snails still have benefits, but the local ecosystems they invade can and will resist in any available capacity. It also shows that these snails are still, at their cores, natural and viable parts of the ecosystem, simply misplaced from the environments where they belong.

            How does any of this apply to you, the reader? Well, let us remember our goal: acknowledging and understanding the detriments of invasive snails. With what we have learned, the answer is to apply this information in study and ecological work. To ecologists, this means carefully measuring the impacts invasive species have on pervaded ecosystems and discovering the extent of them. For malacologists, this means using these principles to understand, predict, or influence how an ecosystem interacts with invasive snails. For the rest of us, it typically means volunteer work, assisting in projects countering, studying, or otherwise handling invasive snails, helping others with what we are far less capable of confronting.

            One final question needs to be answered with our conclusion: what does negligence do for invasive snails? Specifically, would simply ignoring snails as a whole in most every ecosystem be an adequate response on our part, so we might not cause damage due to a lack of knowledge? The answer is no. Most every invasive species on the planet, from ants to birds, has been introduced intentionally or unintentionally by humans. The sheer volume of human development and industrialization often guarantees that, regardless of intention, nature will be entangled with our works and oftentimes transmitted between different biomes as we move between them. Common amongst examples of these are epidemics/pandemics, such as the Black Plague, COVID-19, and the Spanish Flu. In each instance, a disease presiding in one region is spread through humans, typically through conflict or commerce. The result was, of course, rampant outbreaks and mass death, an outcome derived from cross-contamination humans propagated. Regardless of our choice, we will, at some point, cause damage if we neglect our surroundings in the wake of progress.

            By starting with a basic question, we worked towards a more critical understanding of a wider issue, going from simply pondering the environmental damages caused by invasive snails to identifying the more complicated aspects of their behaviors and impacts. A clear thought process emerges: by learning about snails, we understand their benefits, their detriments, and the ebb and flow of both in nature. By asking a simple question, we sowed the seeds for the argument for encouraging the study of and interest in snails.

Citations:

Jing Guo. "Predation risk affects growth and reproduction of an invasive snail and its lethal effect depends on prey size.” National Center for Biotechnology Information. Pablo Martin, Chunxia Zhang, Jia-en Zhang, Manabu Sakakibara, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 14 November 2017, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5685626/. 14 February 2024.

            Alonso, Á., Collado, G.A., Gérard, C. “Effects of the invasive aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1853) on ecosystem properties and services.” Springer. Edward P. Levri, Rodrigo B. Salvador & Pilar Castro-Díez, Springer, 17 January 2023, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-022-05116-z#citeas. 14 February 2024.

            Chase M. O’Neil. “Invasive snails alter multiple ecosystem functions in subtropical wetlands.” ScienceDirect. Yuxi Guo, Steffan Pierre, Elizabeth H. Boughton, Jiangxiao Qui, vol. 864, ScienceDirect, 15 March 2023, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722080421?via%3Dihub. 14 February 2024.

[bloodenjoyer]

tagged by @mircallasgrave thank youu ^____^

1. are you named after anyone? nope!! my deadname took SOME inspiration from a girl in the 60s who had some connection to a band (<thats all ill say) baz is just short for basil which came from nowhere particular...i DO also go by judy though and that definitely is partly inspired by judy from the secret history

2. when was the last time you cried?

maybe a few days ago i kept thinking of doomsday/rose tyler in general and was getting really emotional about it . my actual problems im more inclined to repress though

3. do you have kids?

nope!

4. do you use sarcasm a lot?

yes but also no. the answer is no but yes. I am always being completely honest and completeyl joking. i am never entirely sincere but ever joke i make secretly rings true at its core

5. what is the first thing you notice about people?

man idk

6. what color are your eyes?

green or hazel im not sure

7. scary movies or happy endings?

silly question

8. any special talents?

i dunno i can do this weird thing with my right shoulder that makes it look dislocated

9. where were you born?

california!

10. what are your hobbies?

media consumption LOL movies books music etc...like...idk. sometimes i try to play instruments (i did play flute for years but im a bit rusty now, and i play bad guitar sometimes), same w drawing im j not very good at it. and writing. Whatever. im a bit of a jack of all trades useless creative type tbh

11. do you have any pets?

dogy i love her so much

12. what sports did/have you played?

violently hated sports growing up and im pretty physically ....unfit so i never did sports. i guess i do like swimming though and im decent at it

13. how tall are you?

same height as rod serling

14. favorite subjects in school?

history philosophy literature english. Oh anything humanities i suppose

15. dream job?

actor LOL but genuinely nothing at all

tagging @bivampires @gingersnapsunleashed @frankiecorleone <3

[thelreads]

Horse meat is actually safer for you than most animals as horses have a higher body temperature, so the diseases that survive there aren't well adapted to humans. They aren't optimized for taste or quantity, though. Source: The Elusive Samurai, from the horse man who loves horses, ally of the samurai who decorates his armour with his 2d waifu.

Sure, but still, in the U.S. it is absolutely unfit for human consumption, because of the uncontrolled administration of hundreds of dangerous drugs and other substances to horses before slaughter. A few examples are dewormers, antibiotics, painkillers, steroids, and diuretics, most of which are labeled “Not for use in animals used for food”. Horses that have been put down by a vet are also unfit for human consumption, as the toxin from the lethal injection will still be in the meat, also there's Phenylbutazone, or Bute, which is a common painkiller that most horses will encounter at some point in their lives, and if these horses are slaughtered, their meat has the potential to cause cancer or other fatal diseases in humans.

Outside of the U.S. the situation might be different, but in the end, horse meat is less nutritious than beef, and Horse milk, a common beverage in Central Asian countries like Mongolia, is also less fatty than cow’s milk. More precisely, it has around three times less fat content, which sure, might be desirable for some people, but in general you're paying more for something that will fill you less.

...

how did we even got to this topic

[rmhashauthor]

Cauliflower is unfit for human consumption. It tastes like a wet cardboard box someone farted in.

Also, I don't like Ranch dressing which is apparently a carnal sin in the Midwest. Milk and lettuce do not go together. Salad dressing in general - if I wanted soggy lettuce I'd be a manatee.

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

[netsolwatersblog]

Among Many Who Is The Top Commercial RO Plant Manufacturer In Faridabad?

In essence, a Reverse Osmosis (RO) water treatment or filtration plant is a treatment facility that effectively eliminates or get rid of a range of wide spectrum of pollutants or impurities, organic matter, & hazardous heavy (toxic) chemical compounds from raw feed water. The end product is fresh, safe, secure, & purified water that is acceptable & suitable to a desired extent or degree for approx. or nearly all industrial as well as few commercialutilizations or applications.

The leading producer of industrial & commercial reverse osmosis (RO) plants in Faridabad, Netsol Water provides you with the best equipment & an ISO-accredited (approved) RO system or facility.

We have the ability to reasonably modify the water plant systems & facilities we produce in order to meet the specific needs of our customers. We provide completely & semi-automated solutions to satisfy our customers' needs.  

Because our Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant is composed or made up of chrome steel & other high-grade strong elements-metals, the water plant system will endure longer (i.e., Lifespan, & Durability).

Currently, the company is manufacturing equipment for a Reverse Osmosis plant systems that can generate or produce water at a rate of 100 - 500 Litres per Hour (LPH) & is appropriate for utilizing in a range of industrial settings & companies.

In Faridabad, Top leading Manufacturers of commercial Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plants can be listed as:

Following is a directory list of the finest commercial Reverse Osmosis plant manufacturers in our nation, Faridabad, we will be guiding you with them as:

NETSOL WATER: One of the top producers of equipments, apparatuses regarding water & WasteWater Treatment Plant systems or facilities is Netsol Water. With its own production facility or unit located & headquartered based in Greater Noida, it began its journey & started its working operations in the year 2012. Netsol Water is the best commercial ro plant manufacturer in faridabad at best affordable price.

It treats organic green sustainable waste, its Wastewater, & raw water for a number of large enterprises, including Sleep Well, & various commercial business start-ups, hospitals, educational institutions like universities, colleges, & schools.

COMMERCIAL RO PLANT: Due to the firm or company's lacking in providing with much more innovative & pleasing design, the COMMERCIAL RO PLANT’s Reverse Osmosis (RO) water purifier has fallen from in ranking of being the finest water purifying plant facilities integrated with gadget or devices & systems that can recover & recycle water upto 75-80 % percent that are accessible in NCT including Faridabad.

URBAN RO PLANT: The Urban RO Plant is one of a kind RO system firm or company subsidized under Netsol Water. According to USEPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) regulations & standards, its silver nano-technology along with copper additives effectively destroys viruses & bacteria.

URBAN STP PLANT: According to the facts we gained while researching numerous companies & organizations, the worldwide brand known as Urban STP PLANT is one of the finest & greatest water-purifying plant facilities.

Conclusion

Water plays an important role in everyone's life. Not only is it essential for people, but also plants & animals. However, freshwater levels are rapidly decreasing because of excessive water consumption & the release of industrial & domestic garbage.

For human utilities, it is consequently imperative to utilize other water sources, such as river water. The need for Netsol Water's commercial RO plant purifiers arises because different types of water are wholly unfit for human consumption. Netsol Water, a commercial RO plant manufacturer located in Faridabad, assists with large-scale water filtering. It allows many approaches to remove various types of impurities from water.

[georgiancraftsman]

Golf courses usually have ponds they use in addition to using water that is unfit for human consumption to water their courses. They generally do not take water from the same water sources your city uses to give you water for your everyday use. That being said golf courses in deserts are retarded

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

[commercialroplants]

Top Commercial RO Plant Manufacturer In Faridabad

In essence, a Reverse Osmosis (RO) water treatment or filtration plant is a treatment facility that effectively eliminates or get rid of a range of wide spectrum of pollutants or impurities, organic matter, & hazardous heavy (toxic) chemical compounds from raw feed water. The end product is fresh, safe, secure, & purified water that is acceptable & suitable to a desired extent or degree for approx. or nearly all industrial as well as few commercialutilizations or applications.

The leading producer of industrial & commercial reverse osmosis (RO) plants in Faridabad, Netsol Water provides you with the best equipment & an ISO-accredited (approved) RO system or facility.

We have the ability to reasonably modify the water plant systems & facilities we produce in order to meet the specific needs of our customers. We provide completely & semi-automated solutions to satisfy our customers' needs.  Commercial RO Plant is the best commercial ro plant manufacturer in faridabad at best affordable price.

Because our Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant is composed or made up of chrome steel & other high-grade strong elements-metals, the water plant system will endure longer (i.e., Lifespan, & Durability).

Currently, the company is manufacturing equipment for a Reverse Osmosis plant systems that can generate or produce water at a rate of 100 - 500 Litres per Hour (LPH) & is appropriate for utilizing in a range of industrial settings & companies.

In Faridabad, Top leading Manufacturers of commercial Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plants can be listed as:

Following is a collective list of the finest commercial Reverse Osmosis plant manufacturers in our nation, Faridabad, we will be guiding you with them as:

NETSOL WATER: One of the top producers of equipments, apparatuses regarding water & WasteWater Treatment Plant systems or facilities is Netsol Water. With its own production facility or unit located & headquartered based in Greater Noida, it began its journey & started its working operations in the year 2012.

It treats organic green waste, WasteWater, & water for a number of large enterprises, including Vedanta, NTPC, Sleep Well, & several additional business start-ups, hospitals, educational insititutions like universities, & schools.

COMMERCIAL RO PLANT: Due to the firm or company's lacking in providing with much more innovative & pleasing design, the COMMERCIAL RO PLANT’s Reverse Osmosis (RO) water purifier has fallen from in ranking of being the finest water purifying plant facilities integrated with gadget or devices & systems that can recover & recycle water upto 75-80 % percent that are accessible in NCT including Faridabad.

Conclusion

Water plays an important role in everyone's life. Not only is it essential for people, but also plants & animals. However, freshwater levels are rapidly decreasing because of excessive water consumption & the release of industrial & domestic garbage.

For human utilities, it is consequently imperative to utilize other water sources, such as river water. The need for Netsol Water along with Commercial RO Plant's commercial RO plant purifiers arises because different types of water are wholly unfit for human consumption. Netsol Water & Commercial RO Plant are a commercial RO plant manufacturer located in Faridabad, assists with large-scale water filtering. It allows many approaches to remove various types of impurities from water.

[ravenslament]

pre history- all of human history. this knowlage has been lost to the people, but essentially volcanic hellfire kickstarted an ice age which killed most of everything. tree lines pushed to tiny temperate strips between continental ice sheets stemming from the poles and dry deserts around the equator. also some mushrooms mutated thats important

the ancient times- 4000 years of living in the caves. only known by upper valley historians. lower valley mythos says they just were created from the upper valley.

the below ground times:

- an advanced group of civilizations that had gone through a similar history on a similar planet as irl humans existed, and due to a dramatic warming and subsequent dramatic cooling event, the planet is now mostly covered in ice and the oceans are very low.

- some human groups survived, notably one in the eastern usa (which would eventually migrate to become the valley people) and one in the congo jungle.

- the group in eastern north america survived the cooling event by moving into the cave system. they brought fire down with them, and had an eternal oil flame which should never go out. they got drinking water from subterranian lakes and rivers. they also brought with them knowlage of domestication and breeding animals. they bred salamanders for food, as well as some bugs and fish. also mushrooms, but just for food at this point.

- once situated they started mining and building things from the caves around them. they made forges from the occasional lava river and used those to melt metal to create rails for easier transport theoughoit caves. they grew out their hair and used it to make threads and rope. clothing was made with human leather. first this was out of neccessity by people who could not buy oil for a fire for warmth, then much later became a cultural thing of it being a way of honouring your ancestors by wearing them.

- eventually through the mining and raik system (over Thousands of years) people made it to the pacific north west.

cultural belief shifts throughout the below times (not what happened- what people at various times Thouhgt happened):

- started out with

year 0- initial emergance from the upper valley caves

- metal is a young child. she lives in the caves and due to circumstance does not leave like others. she grows up eating mushrooms mostly, as thats what the cave people had essentially domesticated. (probably the nuclear mushroom mutation or whatever helped with this) she also eats bugs probably thats like the only other survivors

- oh people also ate dead people too. if they were healthy enough. hair also became an important resoruce bc it could be made into thin fabric. human lether was used for most thick fabric needs.

- theres also snake like lizards. they really only have feet for holding onto rocks they dont walk on them they slither. humans are keeping them as pets feeding them bugs and breeding them for protection since theres no materials down there other than stone and bodies

- metal grew up in the graveyards at the bottom of the caves, where dead bodies unfit for consumption were thrown to feed the mushrooms. usually people with nowhere else to go ended up down there. they grow the mushrooms that most other people eat.

- metal was a bone collector. she among others would go through the mushroom pits gathering bones of people and animals for general use (tools etc)

- skulls of the unknown werent used for anything as they were usually cracked, so metal collected them.

- point is metal grew up with a close connection to mushrooms that feed on people, and noticed that mushrooms would kinda grow on living people and feed off them if they lived in the graveyards long enough

year 7

- metal is maybe 20? doesnt really matter.

- people were quickly exploring and moving out of the caves and the demand for the graveyard mushrooms was running out so people left the graveyard for other work.

- metal stays behind even when the siesmic activity gets so bad gas leaks start killing people in the deep caves where they are. most of the people still down there are people who cant get out for whatever reason.

- metal starts noticing that the people with mushrooms growing on them dont hwve bad effects from the toxins, like the mushrooms are eating the toxins.

year 15

- since her friend (ghost) has been slowly dying from the fumes, and as the last two people down there, metal manages to create a breed of mushroom bred into of ghosts blood that will keep the body alive so that his soul doesnt get pulled into oblivion. basically his body becomes one with the mushroom which overtakes and eats the whole graveyard cave to become one living entity.

- people infected with the spores from this entity function kinda like they bave rabies. my version of vampirism.

- anyways, metals body gets progressivly taken over by the mushroom and shes basically a zombie made of spare bones and mushrooms held together with metal joints (reason for name) but shes still alive due to inbreeding with the mushroom? mutated slightly magic mushroom. dont worry about it

year 40?

- groups of people have travelled down the valley to explore and later in search of food. some people stay near the original caves, livinv above ghe water now though. they still eat mostlybmushrooms humans and lizards. they raise the lizard snake thingd also. calling them dragons from now on.

- theres a settlement formed from an explorers camp at the end of the valley where it meets the ocean. this area is river delta with seasonal flooding from the glacier runoff that comes through the valley, surrounded by steep cliffs and beyond that high mountains or the ocean. so people build homes in the roots of the giany petrified tree. there isnt a lot of sunlight but the rich water and soil make for some plants that live of their roots. nothing that needs too much sun. there are mushrooms there though. this will eventually evolve into the main city.

year 60ish

- metal has been forced to leave the og caves because of rising groundwater levels. the vampiric mycelium is still there, stemming from ghosts skeleton. ghosts spirit is detached and following metal around. metal explores the caves and eventually finds a mineshaft with an abandoned forge, which had been obviously used to make the metal rails for the minecart tracks n stuff. left by the proto upper valley people thousands of years earlier. she restored the forge also. dont worry how maybe someone helped her idk. or she alresdy knew forges well. probably that?

- looking for food she ends up eating the mushrooms growing off of her body and realizes theyre psychedelics

- on an insane amount of shrooms due to using them as a food source she realizes that she can mix molten metal with blood similarly to how she mixed blood with mycelium to connect them. magicy enegery stuff dont worry about it

year 100

- a small refill station in the middle of the valley that was oroginally just a box of food and supplies becomes more of a general trading store and eventually a small town based around the port. they live on the cliff ledges

- the upper valley gets more disticnt from the lower valley mostly due to still living in the split in half caves with the now almost drakon-like salamanders

year 1200

- a proto-raven learns from Dark what happens to souls after they die (rebirth) and tells the upper valley what goes on. this begins the myth snd worship of Grim as the soul collector. really hes the memory collector but mythologically speaking hes the grim reaper. he doesnt actually kill but people think he does.

year 2000

- people in the upper and lower valley worship Grim kinda? they pray to him for a good next life, basically. fortune for the future. they know he can hear what they tell crows so crows gain a sacred status.

year 5000

- metals so old it doesnt even matter.

- anyways, raven is born.

- he lives in the upper valley until hes 10 when the crows (directed by metal/grim?) convince him to float down the valley fjord during the melt season to the tree city (main city)

- he ends up drifting into portside and gets caught in the fishing nets. meets ty (12 when raven is 10) and a few years later scars (11 when raven is 12) who is mute from his throat getting slashed and gets kidnapped a few months after showing up at nets. kidnapper was his fathers gang who mostly sold women and children. scars is stuck with them until hes 23 when raven destroys the gang on metals orders and finds scars and kyah (10 at the time) among others. raven recognized scars from nets and got him a cleanup job working for metal in exchange for shelter food and protection. kyah goes to the unofficial kids shelter run by meg (dust is there along with val and some others)

[shortfactoz123]

Over 5 Lakh People In War-Torn Gaza “One Step Away” From Famine, Warns UN

Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, where no humanitarian group has been able to provide aid since January 23, the World Food Programme warned Tuesday, as Israel wages war on Palestinian group Hamas.

With a dire humanitarian emergency unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the main UN aid agency there struggling to cope, other bodies have called for help in reaching the thousands of Palestinians in desperate need.

“If nothing changes, a famine is imminent in northern Gaza,” WFP’s deputy executive director Carl Skau told the UN Security Council, while his colleague from the UN humanitarian office OCHA, Ramesh Rajasingham, warned of “almost inevitable” widespread starvation.”Here we are, at the end of February, with at least 576,000 people in Gaza — one-quarter of the population — one step away from famine, with one in six children under two years of age in northern Gaza suffering from acute malnutrition and wasting,” Rajasingham said.

Some 97 percent of groundwater in Gaza is “reportedly unfit for human consumption” and agricultural production is beginning to collapse, warned Maurizio Martina, deputy director general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Aid is ready and waiting at the border, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said Tuesday.

“WFP colleagues also tell us that they have food supplies at the border with Gaza, and with certain conditions they would be able to scale up feeding up to 2.2 million people” across the Strip, Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

“Almost 1,000 trucks carrying 15,000 metric tons of food are in Egypt ready to move,” he said.

But Israeli forces are “systematically” blocking access to Gaza, said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for OCHA, in Geneva earlier Tuesday.

All planned aid convoys into the north have been denied by Israeli authorities in recent weeks.

The last allowed in was on January 23, according to the World Health Organization.

The main UN aid agency in Gaza, UNRWA, meanwhile, is “at breaking point,” its head said last week, as donors freeze funding, Israel exerts pressure to dismantle the body and humanitarian needs soar.

The Security Council must take action, the other agencies told the 15-member body.

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