#the goddamn news

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i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

[azuneekun]

the dick must be insane

[telivanistoolateparty]

🏮IF YOU IGNORE THIS, YOU ARE DOOMING MY FAMILY TO DEATH

Hello, I am Aseel from Gaza

Please donate to save our life

I apologize for what I am about to ask. I have a heavy and exhausted heart. Unfortunately, the situation became difficult after my father injured, and my father's health condition deteriorated

donation of only 20$ from each person, 20$ will save my family from death in Gaza

I lost part of my family, my home and everything

I do not know whether I will survive or die in this war, but I know that your help will contribute to saving my family from death.

My campiang vatted bu @90-ghost

https://gofund.me/16fe6e48

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[diabolicjoy]

you can start learning anything you always wanted at any point in your life. & how nice it is to remember that

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as far as i can tell, no one reports on this because the claims were reviewed by Louis Appleby and found unsubstantiated. Appleby leads the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness and, as far as I can tell, has no reason to lie for the NHS.

The story seemed credible to me as well when I originally saw it, but I don't think without any kind of response from the whistleblowers or the Good Law Project it can be upheld in good faith anymore.

This was published weeks ago, yet I haven't seen a single mainstream news source covering this massive scandal. Read the full article here: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-youth-suicides-covered-up-by

[blessyouhawkeye]

my favourite mdzs/cql character dynamic will always always be jiang cheng and lan wangji. born to be mortal enemies forced to be in laws is the funniest relationship of all time. that brief establishing shot in cql episode 2 of them sitting in a tea house at different tables, facing away from each other, not talking is like a sister to me. wei wuxian's death turned a mutual disdain into outright hatred and now sixteen years of boiling rage down the drain because wei wuxian had to get RESURRECTED like an IDIOT and now they have to MAKE NICE and try their utmost not to THROW THINGS at each other at FAMILY DINNERS. which they have now because LIFE SUCKS. such an unparalleled dynamic that i'll be thinking about until i die.

[nohoney]

bakugou can’t stand your beat up sneakers. they’re kinda worn out but not quite falling apart. the laces are a far cry from the pristine white that they used to be, there’s scuff marks all around the shoes, and you complain sometimes that your heel gets a little bit blistered when you walk around in them too long. but still, you wear them because they’re easy to slip on in just three seconds and they are still pretty comfy.

and it’s not like your shoes are limited edition or whatever; it’s your basic design that everyone wears.

it’s why bakugou gets a little annoyed that you keep saying that you’ll eventually get a new pair but you don’t. he’s been with you the past few months and you‘ve yet to actually follow through on finally changing out your old sneakers to a new pair.

so he goes out of his way to just do it for you himself. he comes to your apartment with the shoe box and hands it over to you. “here, can you please stop wearing those beat up pairs now?”

you hold the left shoe up and awe over it, “oh wow, i almost can’t believe that this is what they look like brand new! has it really been that long for me?”

yes, fucking yes.

you try them on, stepping in place for a few seconds before looking down at the shoes with a small frown. “they feel funny.” you comment.

“what they feel is new.” bakugou shoots back.

you shrug a little but make a face that says you’re right.

“let’s go for a walk to break them in.”

it sounds like a good idea so you’re happy to walk out the door and get your feet used to them. however bakugou ends up having to carry you on his back because the new shoes started to hurt a little only fifteen minutes in.

but much like a new relationship, it takes a bit of time to break in and get used to them. slowly you wear the new sneakers for a bit longer, this time with better maintenance as bakugou insists that you wipe your shoes clean bi-weekly so that they maintain their appearance and washing them when needed. and then they become as comfortable as the old pair, slipping on easily as bakugou waits by the front door with keys in hand for the both of you to do errands together.

[medusaesque]

Kim's itchy trigger finger

So, Kim reaches for his gun often. Very often. sometimes for the most ridiculous reasons- opening the bear fridge, the experiment in the church, a note from Klaasje.

This one is just from being anxious going into the communist reading group. Kim doesn't want to be the kind of cop who draws his gun constantly, who shoots instinctively, but he is, or at the very least it's very difficult for him to stop himself from becoming one.

Perhaps the most horrifying example is with The Pigs-

Even if he KNOWS the gun isn't loaded, even if he knows it's safe, the instinctual muscle twitch could have ended in an unnecessary death. Kim is very well aware of that fact, and it's horrifying to him. @shufflerock-jam has this really good post about it, where they wonder how many of Kim's kills were unnecessary. "Something about a pair of traumatized cops, one fighting against shooting himself and one fighting against shooting everyone else".

At the end of The Pigs exchange, if Harry says she tried to kill him, Kim begins to interject, but stops himself and agree this situation could've been very bad. Then Empathy chimes in- 'He's trying not to think about how bad it could have been had the gun been loaded.' Which is the heart of the issue, right? that leads us to Eyes-

This is such a fascinating background to give Kim as a character- not just losing his partner, which gives him the trauma and survivor's guilt that lead to this unhealthy relationship with his gun and frankly with death in general, but losing his Eyes, and having that not interfere with his shooting. Kim doesn't need to see well to hit, he doesn't need to think. It's all in his hands, a reflex. A reflex that nearly took an innocent life. That might have taken one before.

His awareness of looming danger, to him and to his partner, is fueling his version of Hand/Eye Coordination to have him constantly on edge, his whole body is like a loaded spring, always prepared to make sure it doesn't happen again. Then it does-

In his nightmare scenario, leaning over his partner's bleeding body, Kim only needs one word to shoot without a second's hesitation. He's never not ready to take that shot. He doesn't need his Eyes.

Harry is distraught to discover he's killed before- his body remembers it. He wants a drink to soften the feeling. Kim however is impressed with how little he's killed- especially coming from the bloody murder unit. He wants to be 'one of the good ones' (Kim's adamant belief in the possibility of a Good Cop is a whole other can of worms) the kind of cop he would think highly of. Kim is disgusted by cops who kill like it's a game. Espirit gives us a vision of a cop exactly like that, who kills so often it doesn't feel like anything anymore. In a way that is completely mechanical- no thought, no feelings, just a thing your body does. Not unlike the way Kim shoots- like a spring unloaded. Kim has 6 confirmed kills before the tribunal, double the amount Harry has. He doesn't react the same way though-

It's doesn't bother Kim that he has killed, even if he declines to elaborate on it, and he seems to frown upon (or worry about) Harry's destructive coping mechanism. If they're unable to save Ruby, he says "Control your emotions. We did our job. This won't be the worst thing that happens on this case… believe me. You can't let this break you." When you wake up after the tribunal, he doesn't dwell on the lost lives on either side. Harry's skills call him a killer, a bloodstained killer, but when he tells Kim he also killed he simply nods. He's smoking though. I'm not saying that Kim is heartless or careless, he's rattled by nearly blowing The Pigs' head off, very sorry for the lives lost during the case, and clearly hunted by death, having been surrounded by it for his entire life. But I do think death is a part of the job for him- not just possible civilian causalities, but his own potential death. He speaks plainly about how he might die in the lie of duty, and he narrowly avoided it more than once, with others dying in his place..

He walked into the line of fire with harry expecting for of them to die, and his quick fingers on the trigger made it so they lived another day. Even if more ghost joined the list that hunts him in his sleep, he is alive. He goes on. He can't afford to fix this habit, as much as he wants to.

So it's so horrible and so touching that when Dros asks "What have you done?" Kim says-

It's a tragedy, really. A wartime orphan who wanted to be a revolutionary pilot and played with Franconigerian knights, who grew up to be a cop, a job that slowly shapes his body into a killing machine. And when you ask what he does, what you both do, he says keep people alive.

[writingtoolofdubiousintegrity]

One bombshell allegation in the recently unredacted sections shows that Amazon used a secret algorithm, "Project Nessie," to inflate prices and net $1 billion in excess profits, The Hill reported. Between 2015 and 2019, the company used Project Nessie to raise prices on thousands of products it predicted its smaller online competitors would price-match, allowing Amazon to reap the excess profits without undue risk that consumers could find lower-cost versions elsewhere, the FTC said. Once the higher prices spread from Amazon to rival retailers, Amazon would keep them elevated. […] Amazon stopped using Project Nessie in 2019 "in the face of regulatory scrutiny," The Hill reported. Still, it considered experimenting to improve the algorithm's effectiveness in 2020 and 2021, with a goal of turning it back on. In early 2022, the lawsuit said, one executive asked about turning "our old friend Nessie" back on to boost profit for the company's retail arm. "There are no technical barriers to Amazon resurrecting — or even expanding — its use of Project Nessie, just as it repeatedly has in the past," the FTC warned.

Amazon is being sued by the FTC and 17 states for being an illegal monopoly

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on the one hand, I'm sure it sucks for my old hometown that its busiest, most central bridge took 9/11 as an opportunity to collapse on itself and take down not only one of the more important artery roads, but also a good chunk of the heating network

on the other hand, it did give us this incredibly funny quote from the city engineering service as to why no one saw this coming

Man steckt in so einem Bauwerk halt nicht drin.

[calathazar]

warning shot

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i personally like that every single word is the exact opposite from "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney"

My husband and I were watching CNN update live as the jury verdicts came out in Donald Trump's hush money trial. GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS!

I haven't been able to watch any of it because even just looking at his face makes me ill, but good. I hope all his appeals fail. I hope this actually means something. (Mostly, I just hope he croaks)

[ruubesz-draws]

Godzilla but it's GTA

Poor Tiamat... they did her dirty :(

It's okay Tiamat! I'll make your gijinka look beautiful!

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x01 - “Heavy is the Crown” ↳ "I know you doubt your merit of your birthright, Caitlyn. There's wisdom in that. But remember: You're a Kiramman."

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