Still No Comic Sans :(

i learned about a stupid looking bird today and i cant stop laughing

its called a crested satinbird (cnemophilus macgregorii)

heres another picture of it yelling

fuuuuuck (my friend @ne0nwithazero allowed me to post this)

Ube City Manhole Cover Yamaguchi Prefecture by David Dexter

I finished watching a documentary called Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul that was about two ex-citizens of North Korea who had very different takes on their country than what we usually hear from popular defectors.

We all hear the stories of North Koreans starving during the famine but what we're hardly told is that the US wanted them to starve and made it worse by placing sanctions to destabilize the country. Even former president Jimmy Carter admits this yet we still wonder why North Koreans hate America so much.

Another thing talked about in the film was that many defectors are paid to lie and exaggerate their stories by South Korean intelligence agencies and American organizations. I am by no means a tankie but this made me question how much of the propaganda we see about North Korea is actually true. Here's the link if anyone's interested: Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul

Since sanctions are mentioned, here are two articles on the negative impact they have on NK civilians.

Warning for discussion of child death in the second article.

Kim Ryon Hui, the woman from the documentary, has spent nearly a decade trying to return to the DPRK. All she wants is to be reunited with her family, including her daughter, who still lives in the North. 

here’s an article about her from the guardian

here’s another article from CNN (2015), where reporters got in touch with Kim’s family in Pyongyang

In 2021, Kim was again indicted on national security charges

because sharing letters from her daughter on social media is apparently a threat to the “free and democratic order” of South Korea

from Reuters: 

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June 5th can't come fast enough

tomorrow im really gonna give it my nothing

tomorrow im really gonna give it my nothing

/hj is the funniest earnest tonetag in the world even without the handjob joke because it's ostensibly meant to clarify tone for autistic people, but the tone it's clarifying is "unreadable level of ambiguous seriousness that requires social context beyond what text can convey /glhffgt"

I'm half joking, which either means that I'm presenting sincere beliefs flippantly to avoid backlash, that I'm completely lying about what someone like me would say, that I'm presenting a mix of true and false statements, or that I'm loaning out a socially acceptable opinion to nudge you back in line /hj

Today, I survived death once again…

I had only gone out to bring some food for my family, when a missile struck near a charity kitchen. In just a second, I could have been another name on the list of martyrs.We live in tents. No safety, no enough food, no clean water. We die on the way to find a meal… and we die if we go without it.

Speak about us. Don’t forget us.

Every post, every word, every donation—might be the reason one of us stays alive a little longer.

paper cut woodcock :)

more photos! inspired by my digital illo which was inspired by cut outs hehe haha

I feel like ODD being an official disorder in the DSM should be the thing that makes everyone go “hm” about how psychology is practiced

[looking a child directly in the eye] i diagnose you with Shitty Bitch Syndrome. this makes it legal to do medieval german tortures to you by the way

cmon man

I sent my inner child to work at a steel cable plant to make some extra cash and it got mangled in an industrial accident and died in the hospital so I really don't have to protect it or whatever anymore. good luck with your self care stuff though

by fomajc on instagram. im losing my shit over this

one detail i think is important to point out: if you look at the video frame by frame, you will see that his pants come off

sure do

well I used the "AHHHH LOOK AT ME IM GONNA HURT MYSELF" negotiating tactic way longer and with way more success than the united states government when I was 14...so much they literally gave me a diagnosis for it of "borderline personality disorder"...but no one cares about young women's achievements