happy international women's day

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

I think about this take more often than I'd like to.

She a furry (froggy?)

Fuck Macron and all of his bullshit, but good on him for stating the on the record. Regardless, and I cannot emphasize enough, fuck Macron.

Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns

Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns https://theonion.com/experts-point-to-long-glorious-history-of-successful-u-1819575498/

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

Trump Wins $60 On Kalshi Betting He’ll Bomb Iran WASHINGTON—Saying he just had a “gut feeling” about the U.S.-backed airstrike, President Trump announced Monday that he’d won $60 on Kalshi after betting that he would bomb Iran. “The odds were agains...

“The odds were against me, but somehow I just knew that betting on an airstrike ordered by the president of the United States would hit,” said President Donald Trump

The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.

the official pokemon account posted a reference to twitch plays pokemon and idk whats getting to me more the amount of people not getting it in the replies or the fact that TPP is 12 years old now

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer.

In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

please to not give in to despair. if you want to start somewhere you can help, a donation to Doctors Without Borders is a great place to start

Blaming people opposing genocide is a play in favor of the fascists - sacrificing any group of people for who they are to preserve yourself or your own will always support the fascists. And fascism will always win, when people vote in the mistaken belief voting to harm others will save themselves.

pov: eunie xenoblade revives you #Xenoblade3

Frieren bravely explores the concept of being a weird old person who has to talk to normal young coworkers

People keep marveling that Epstein got away with it and positing elaborate conspiracy theories about how he skirted consequences. The truth is that he painted his victims as prostitutes who happened to be underage and his creepy old buddies agreed he was the victim.