#tw current events

[incorrectbatfam]

[windwardrose]

If someone put this in a fantasy novel at the inauguration of a bizarre despot we would think it too contrived

[theyshapedlikefriends]

No crab plushie party today... 😔

[bekolxeram]

I'm not American, but I've been following the Southern California wildfires closely. My thoughts go out to all the victims. Check out how you can help here, or how to get help if you're one of those affected here.

But today I want to talk about drone activities in wildfire stricken areas.

I've seen aerial photos depicting the aftermath of the LA wildfires going around online aviation communities. I browsed through the instagram account of the original poster, they are a professional photographer documenting the ongoing disaster to garner attention for the victims and the first responders working 24/7 on the ground. Their drone photos seem to be a misguided attempt at citizen journalism.

But before I could fully react to this piece of information, news came out that a drone collided with a firefighting aircraft.

The aircraft involved is C-GQBE, a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper sent in by the government of Québec to provide aerial firefighting aid. It collided with a civilian drone while on an air attack mission in the afternoon of Jan 9, resulting in a small punctured hole on the leading edge of one of its wings. Luckily, the drone didn't hit any major component crucial to flight safety, it merely damaged the skin, and no life was lost in this incident.

It may seem like easily fixable, but aerial firefighting aircrafts go through unusual stress due to rapid and frequent fluctuation of altitude and weight, any damage to their skin has to be repaired and thoroughly examined before they're allowed to be airborne if you don't want them to fall apart mid-air. That's why C-GQBE has been grounded since the incident on Thursday.

One of the major factors hampering fire containment effort is the strong gust preventing firefighting aircrafts from doing their job safely when the fires first started. Firefighting pilots are now working tirelessly to delay the spread of fire as much as they can before the winds pick back up in a few days. Please do not fly unnecessary aircrafts into the air and make their work more difficult. They're racing against the clock here.

Even if, for some reason, you must deploy drones near the wildfires, please check the FAA Temporary Flight Restriction map beforehand and make sure you never fly into those areas. Otherwise, it would be a federal crime, punishable by up to 12 months in prison and up to $20,000 penalty in civil court.

Firefighting pilots are risking their lives, flying as low as 100 feet above ground to make an effective air drop in hopes of containing the fire. It's not ordinary circumstance.

All the news helicopters congesting the LA airspace have got it. They're livestreaming the whole thing. Your service is not needed in this area.

[dark-nymph3t]

NEVER get used to the videos of innocent civilians dying. NEVER get used to the videos of innocent civilians being tortured. NEVER get used to seeing the violence that is perpetuated against the Palestinian people everyday. YOU SHOULD NEVER GET USED TO SEEING IT. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE LOSING THEIR LIVES.

[feelslikedrowninghere]

I'm not pro AI, but god, a video of Zelenski throwing a punch to Donald Trump would be therapeutic. Donald Trump is an imbecile and everyone that voted for him is responsible for what's to come. Fuck Trump and fuck Putin. Ukraine deserves so much better.

[wemlygust]

Download Wikipedia Maybe?

If you are concerned about media preservation due to current events in the U.S. Direct link to latest SQL and XML downloads. Ctrl + F to find the file you want on that page. Choose a "multistream" version, because this way you can use an offline wikipedia reader to open and read individual articles without having to decompress the entire database (which would require WAY more storage space). The wikipedia how-to page linked at the top of this post recommends this file: pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 (this is about 19GB when compressed, but expands to 86 GB ish when decompressed) Which includes the current versions of all English Wikipedia articles, but not their talk pages, not user pages, and not past revisions of the articles or their edit histories. You'll need to choose a different file if you want the talk pages or etc (I like to have the talk pages for tiny or controversial articles, myself), but I haven't managed to find a multistream version with the talk pages yet. This file is a (I think) non-multistream version with talk pages: "pages-meta-current.xml.bz2"

[luxurybrownbarbie]

I’m going to be honest with you. I’m not sure how we mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually move forward after witnessing genocide and collective punishment occur in real time like this. I don’t think we’ll ever forget the powerlessness we feel, the pain, the anger, the sadness. I don’t think anyone will ever be the same, nor should we be.

[incorrectbatfam]

The Batcomputer is safe from the global IT outage because Bruce is too paranoid to use anything besides his own software

The Watchtower, on the other hand, has been grounded

[windwardrose]

I knew the Black Hawk pilot whose name was just released. She was my classmate from first grade through eighth. Sunlight to my awkward shadow, playing ball with the big kids and always good at everything. She had a terrarium full of frogs and her hair was gold when the light found it and she wore the green elven-cloak her dad made her for years and years. We sat next to each other most always and I went to her birthday parties and counted frogs in her basement.

I don't know what exactly she was doing in the dark over the river that night but I can't believe it was anything but her very best.

[theyshapedlikefriends]

URGENT HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY CHILD

Dear humanity,

Please Help Me – My Son May Die at Any Moment.

I'm Amal, a mother of three children, living under the weight of the genocide taking place in Gaza. 🍉

Here’s my story, and I’m reaching out with a hopeful heart 💔✨, hoping someone will feel what my family and I are going through.

My son is suffering from a severe and life-threatening injury after being shot by Israeli drones. He urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza.

Time is running out, and we are facing a critical situation. I am asking for your generosity to help us save him either through a donation or by sharing this urgent plea with others

I beg you, i kiss your feet, to help my son. My son may die at any moment

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺

Mohammed deserves to live a happy and healthy life, just like every other child on this earth.

So I humbly ask you to donate even a little or at least reblog this appeal.

Please Donate now:👇

https://gofund.me/2f20a398

Ddonate Via Paypal 👇

https://www.paypal.com/donate

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[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Moon: Did you hear about that tin can that went down to visit the Titanic?

Sun: Yes, we’ve all seen the memes.

Eclipse: It’s hilarious.

Blood Moon: Wait. Visit the Titanic? Lunar was in that tin can!

Lunar, floating in the middle of the ocean: GUUUUYS! I DON’T REMEMBER HOW I GOT HEEEEERE!

[estr3lla-cl0ver]

I hate the news sm. It’s like bla bla, government announces depression in Universal Credit, bla bla

I wanna watch cbbc, this is way too grown up and boring! :(

[pastelalleycat]

To those of you who weren't raised Christian, I need y'all to understand that the Bible, if taken fully literally and sprinkled with conspiracy for flavor, is a strong propronent for queerphobia, Zionism, and even anti-semitism. Many of the political figures in the USA right now, especially right-wingers- the ones who want to label transgender folks as pornographic and protests for Palestine as illegal, are devout Christians / Christian nationalists. The kind of Christians who say everyone is made in the image of God in one breath, then practice supremacy and hate in the next.

I'm not saying that all Christians are bad people- although I disagree with many tenets in the Bible, I do believe Christians are capable of being good. What I'm trying to say is that the worldwide civil rights crisis we're seeing now and have seen in the past is inextricably tied to the Bible as the USA views it. Ironically, a book that claims to promote peace and worldwide unity has caused more wars and division than solutions. By the way, all of these wars, according to the Bible, are supposed to lead to the Rapture, in which people who believe in Jesus go to heaven while everyone else suffers the apocalypse on Earth. Also, Jews stay behind to warn everyone in the last days, and only a third of them will actually "convert" and survive.

...Yeah. Some political leaders have sided with genocide all this time, just in not so many words. It's more of a complacency- because if things keep getting worse and worse, they're supposedly closer to the Rapture they so desperately want.

I have been in more churches more times than I can count. Although my conservative family would never want people to die for existing, they accept the Rapture as a difficult part of their faith and actively look forward to Jesus's return. These beliefs trapped me and it was so fucking difficult to get out of them. It hurts to see my half-century-plus parents believing it.

In short, this component of discrimination is so, so important and it needs to be addressed.

[waywardsunlight]

really, 1500 Jews killed and you want to “free Palestine” and let me guess, “from the river to the sea”. Can Israel be allowed to exist?!

Israel is an oppressive state that was created in the 1940s! Over 750,000 Palestinian people were forced from their homes in the Nakba. (AP News) Jewish people live in Palestine too and have for hundreds of years. Thousands of Palestinians have died (including Palestinian Jews, Christians, Muslims, and more), there isn't one side to the deaths which is why there should be a ceasefire, and Free Palestine is the direct request for Israel to cease the apartheid laws that they're currently using to oppress people, as well as the active bombings. Israel is currently taking ground from Palestine and intentionally pushing them out, making Palestinians to leave their homes so that Israel can take what they have left.

I personally don't have the answer for what they should do about Israel, but I have personally stakes in that I have Israeli friends who had to decide whether or not they were going to leave Israel (and their families that live there) or serve as an oppressor and to my knowledge, all of them have gotten green cards/ are going for citizenship in other countries because Israel has mandatory military service. I hope this is informative, because that's why my blog says Free Palestine! :D

[infernal-general]

Politics tw below the cut, don't read if it triggers you! I just needed to get this off my chest too badly, and I've made sure it's tagged accordingly.

Probably the first and only time you will catch me posting about irl politics, the everythingist KKK tramp isn't even in office, but I've already had enough:

Setting aside the

Violation of the Constitution regarding freedom of speech

Deliberately isolating Americans from outside perspectives, people, cultures, education and worldviews

Culling the app having the fastest and widest reach regarding news, true news, not the bullshit headlines I've seen (Right of free press, anyone??)

Blatant censorship wrapped in a 'tHeY aRE stEaLInG yOUr DAtA' as if Facebook hasn't been doing that shit for tale long as time

American billionaires benefiting from slaughtering their biggest competition in the market and able to force more people into underpaid slave jobs

If I see you posting good riddance/people will have to get a true job/onlyfans hoes-bots are gone; I will block you without a second thought.

I am European, online sex worker with an OnlyFans, Fansly and soon to be other paid platforms and a stripper. I've never used TikTok to promote my sites, but I am livid, worried on behalf of those who do/had done. And OF models aren't the only ones suffering from this, millions found a job and advertising on that site from singers, bakers, YouTube reaction channels, all those which are SFW instead of 'being online hoes'. Content creation be it porn or baking a Michelin star worthy dish IS work. Content creation is work and almost everyone gotten used to being entertained for free to the point they don't see it as a job.

Are most of the influencers annoying? Yes. Are there scammers and misinformation? Of course. Does that give a government the right to ban an app where people make a living, have fun or educating others? Absolutely the fuck not. And the reason why there are so many small, medium sized businesses, self employed people is because the economy and the job market had failed them long ago. Was it my dream to become a sexworker? No. Does it give me more flexibility regarding time and income, freedom, freedom of expression, opportunities, ability to set & enforce my boundaries and take breaks when I'm sick/not feeling well without the fear of getting fired than any other 'normal job' would ever have? Yes.

Those currently celebrating the fall of TikTok, because how dare other people be talented, smart, creative, determined, attractive, resilient enough to make a living without two jobs (bitch, it's actually 7-8 being the 1. Model, 2. Makeup artist, 3. Stylist, 4. Social media manager, 5. Editor, 6. Being the PR of the brand and interacting with people, 7. Marketing; and with me the 8. Being a dancer with all the workouts, stretches, practice, high self maintenance that come with it.), those people blindly and willingly signed away their rights in their precious Constitution with applause and malice to see people fall.

No matter if they are an erotic content creator, or a comedian, or a fitness instructor. But those people, when the holier than thou fascists start really banning free porn will be up in arms yelling about their rights.

And if trump ends up 'saving the day', that's simply a circus act for the people to feel gratitude and secure younger voters. After all, HE wanted this platform gone the most. He does not get the credit of being the 'savior' & I bet the TOS will have drastic changes with censorship if the app ever returns to the Divided States of America.

Anon hate regarding this will be deleted and blocked on sight; I don't entertain strangers for free.