Reblogged sorrelchestnut
serial-unaliver-deactivated2024
we're running out of scenarios I fear
the booktok scenarios are now becoming.....ADA compliant?
2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241
Let’s bond over OSHA regulations
Reblogged iampikachuhearmeroar
rose tyler hated her shitty job, wore £1 mascara, charity shop sweatpants, boxed hair bleach, couldn't keep her room clean, hated rich people, was called a slag by the queen, constantly chat shit about her mum, slapped a guy that made her mum cry, astonished herself when she could do maths, 19 year old runaway, and the most beautiful woman on my tv 2005 - 2006
Reblogged hotvampireadjacent
26 March 2025
In a statement provided through her attorney, community activists said that Ozturk was “ambushed” by ICE agents on the way to an Iftar dinner with friends after leaving her apartment. Neighbors reported that unmarked cars had allegedly been surveilling the location for two days before apprehending her on the street, the statement said. Community activists said they did not know yet where Ozturk was being detained.
In an email statement sent to the Tufts community Tuesday night, Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the school received reports that the student was taken into custody outside an off-campus apartment building in Somerville, though the email did not identify Ozturk by name.
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Ozturk does not appear to be a leading figure of the Pro-Palestinian protest movement at Tufts. But according to Ozturk’s attorney, the student’s photo and other identifying information were recently posted on Canary Mission, a website that documents individuals and organizations it considers to be antisemitic. Pro-Palestinian protesters say the site has doxxed and targeted them.
In March 2024, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed in the Tufts Daily, the university’s student paper, criticizing the university’s response to the Pro-Palestinian movement and efforts by members of the student body to sever its ties to Israel.
In the videos released on Wednesday, Ozturk is seen walking on the street in daylight when six plainclothes officers approach her, forcibly take her phone and backpack, and place her in handcuffs. The officials, some with badges around their neck, all have their faces covered in the video.
“Is this a kidnapping?” asks a bystander, who appeared to be recording the arrest.
The recorded footage of Ozturk’s arrest began circulating on X, formerly Twitter.
In separate security camera footage, released by local television station WCVB, the agents can be heard responding: “We’re the police.”
The bystander can be heard saying: “You don’t look like it. Why are you hiding your faces?”
Thirty-year-old Ozturk was detained on Tuesday as she left her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on the outskirts of Boston, on her way to break her Ramadan fast with friends.
“It looked like a kidnapping,” said Michael Mathis, a 32-year-old software engineer whose surveillance camera picked up the footage of the arrest. “They approach her and start grabbing her, with their faces covered. They’re covering their faces. They’re in unmarked vehicles.”
she was on the phone with her mother while she was taken and can be heard screaming "mom, i'm being kidnapped" because that's what was happening!
Reblogged hotvampireadjacent
26 March 2025
In a statement provided through her attorney, community activists said that Ozturk was “ambushed” by ICE agents on the way to an Iftar dinner with friends after leaving her apartment. Neighbors reported that unmarked cars had allegedly been surveilling the location for two days before apprehending her on the street, the statement said. Community activists said they did not know yet where Ozturk was being detained.
In an email statement sent to the Tufts community Tuesday night, Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the school received reports that the student was taken into custody outside an off-campus apartment building in Somerville, though the email did not identify Ozturk by name.
…
Ozturk does not appear to be a leading figure of the Pro-Palestinian protest movement at Tufts. But according to Ozturk’s attorney, the student’s photo and other identifying information were recently posted on Canary Mission, a website that documents individuals and organizations it considers to be antisemitic. Pro-Palestinian protesters say the site has doxxed and targeted them.
In March 2024, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed in the Tufts Daily, the university’s student paper, criticizing the university’s response to the Pro-Palestinian movement and efforts by members of the student body to sever its ties to Israel.
In the videos released on Wednesday, Ozturk is seen walking on the street in daylight when six plainclothes officers approach her, forcibly take her phone and backpack, and place her in handcuffs. The officials, some with badges around their neck, all have their faces covered in the video.
“Is this a kidnapping?” asks a bystander, who appeared to be recording the arrest.
The recorded footage of Ozturk’s arrest began circulating on X, formerly Twitter.
In separate security camera footage, released by local television station WCVB, the agents can be heard responding: “We’re the police.”
The bystander can be heard saying: “You don’t look like it. Why are you hiding your faces?”
Thirty-year-old Ozturk was detained on Tuesday as she left her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on the outskirts of Boston, on her way to break her Ramadan fast with friends.
“It looked like a kidnapping,” said Michael Mathis, a 32-year-old software engineer whose surveillance camera picked up the footage of the arrest. “They approach her and start grabbing her, with their faces covered. They’re covering their faces. They’re in unmarked vehicles.”
Reblogged knitmeapony
if USPS has a million fans, I'm one of them
if USPS has 5 fans, I'm one of them
if USPS has 1 fan, that is me
if USPS has no fans, I'm no longer alive
if the world is against USPS I'm against the entire world
till my last breath I support USPS
I joke but actually USPS is the literal lifeline for so many housebound disabled people who receive lifesaving medications through it- especially housebound people in rural areas. so many private shipping companies do not serve rural areas. try getting anyone else to drive hours into the middle of nowhere to deliver. try it. not all disabled people live in urban areas. USPS saves disabled lives ‼️ without USPS many housebound disabled people will die.
USPS is a disability rights issue
Reblogged iampikachuhearmeroar
"The Fifth Element" costume design by Jean Paul Gaultier
Reblogged duranbong
[“How zombie fungi are able to control the minds of their insect hosts has long puzzled researchers. In 2017, a team headed by David Hughes, a leading expert on fungal manipulative behaviors, infected ants with Ophiocordyceps in the lab. The researchers preserved the ants’ bodies at the moment of their death bite, sliced them into thin pieces, and reconstructed a three-dimensional picture of the fungus living within their tissues. They found that the fungus becomes, to an unsettling degree, a prosthetic organ of ants’ bodies. As much as forty percent of the biomass of an infected ant is fungus. Hyphae wind through their body cavities, from heads to legs, enmesh their muscle fibers, and coordinate their activity via an interconnected mycelial network. However, in the ants’ brains, the fungus is conspicuous by its absence. To Hughes and his team, this was unexpected. They anticipated that the fungus would have to be present in the brain to exert such fine control over the ants’ behavior. Instead, the fungus’s approach appears to be pharmacological. The researchers suspect that the fungus is able to puppeteer the ants’ movements by secreting chemicals that act on their muscles and central nervous system even if the fungus does not have a physical presence in their brains. Exactly what chemicals these are isn’t known. Nor is it known whether the fungus is able to cut the ant’s brain off from its body and coordinate its muscle contractions directly. However, Ophiocordyceps is closely related to the ergot fungi, from which the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann originally isolated the compounds used to make LSD, and is able to produce the family of chemicals that LSD derives from—a group known as “ergot alkaloids.” Inside infected ants the parts of the Ophiocordyceps genome responsible for the production of these alkaloids are activated, suggesting that they might have a role to play in the manipulation of ant behavior.
However they do it, these fungal interventions are remarkable by any human standard. After decades of research, and many billions of dollars of investment, the ability to regulate human behavior using drugs is anything but fine-tuned. Antipsychotic drugs, for example, don’t target specific behaviors; they just tranquilize. Compare this with the ninety-eight percent success rate of Ophiocordyceps in causing an ant not just to climb upward or perform its death bite—these always happen—but to bite onto the specific part of the leaf with the best conditions for the fungus to fruit. To be fair, Ophiocordyceps, like many zombie fungi, have had a long time to fine-tune their methods. The behaviors of infected ants don’t pass without a trace. Ants’ death grips leave distinctive scars on leaf veins, and fossilized scars push the origins of this behavior back into the Eocene epoch, forty-eight million years ago. It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have been minds to manipulate.”]
merlin sheldrake, entangled life
Reblogged ghostblogging
she's so cute, how do I talk to her
This reminds me of the image i made after seeing one of these bad boys in the wild a bit back. True beasts of beauty.
Reblogged ghostblogging
Israel returned to war again. The bombing is everywhere. We are being exterminated here and the whole world is silent.
In a moment, 400 people were killed, most of them children and women.
There is no food, no drink, and no way out of this hell.
We are dying before your eyes please, don’t leave us alone! Save us, do something protest, donate, participate.
Reblogged ghostblogging
404+ Palestinians MURDERED in less than a day.
Reblogged ghostblogging
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They bombed near my friend's house, 50 martyrs.
I can't do anything else about his situation but ask you to support him.
If you can, please also help my other friend. If there's still a chance to get them out before it's too late I'm going to take it.
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Bats getting glamour shots
These are mostly photos by José G. Martinez-Fonseca and i spent way too long trying to identify all these weird bats so here goes:
Reblogged gunsandfireandshit
so jason isaacs hangs dong in White Lotus huh…
i mean that’s not how i would say it
fixed it