Sieveplayer - Sieve's

fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the "potential bots" many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!

I read that entire intercept article and that is something for the history books bc I went in there possibly expecting to come away with at least one source corroborating a rape or rapes but nothing more. Instead, there was no secondary sources no forensic evidence that was used to corroborate any of the "witness testimony" instead the use of the word "screams" in the title of the infamous NYT article itself is from a guy who claims to have seen multiple rapes but backtracked to one rape and then backtracked again and said he only heard but was looking away.

I think palestinian journalists like Ali Abunimah and palestinians, in general, were treated with such vehemence for picking apart these articles. I remember when they first came out, there were literal quotes premising the onslaught of "first hand accounts" that "no forensic evidence has been provided" when journalists asked the Israeli first responders for the evidence. And for pointing that out, we were called unfathomably cruel and naive for believing rape didn't occur when that was not our main critique. The "story" was the alleged claim that Hamas militants used rape as a weapon of war which there is no evidence for. Their objective was to retrieve hostages to go into army bases and retrieve weapons. There is no evidence of an "order" to use rape as a tool of terror. We had an israeli woman say in an interview that when hamas militants entered her home they said something like "we are Muslims we won't hurt you" in English and then asked for a banana and left. These are rehearsed statements that offer more evidence that there was no such instruction to "allow" rape to be use in fact, the opposite.

And it truly is amazing to me that Palestinian sources are treated with such skepticism. And palestinian journalists are not "real journalists" because of their inexperience as if being on the ground experiencing the genocide in real time is not evidence enough, but a real journalist treated a story that requires a serious and impartial investigation like she was manifesting the evidence to come to her and demanding therapists whose relationships with patients require confidentiality to give her "proof" that rapes occurred in mass amounts

Ok this wikipedia article is pissing me off so much 

the tumblr experience is that you're flirting with a local trans girl for a week or two and are just about to schedule a date except then her blog gets nuked before you can add each other on discord and then the broken tumblr search makes it impossible to find her new blog

anyway uhh mae if you see this hiiiiiii 👉👈 i still really wanna go to the reptile zoo with youuuu

hii, i wanted to ask what you didn't like about ringworld, i was going to start reading it, but now i'm wondering if i should just not lol

I didn't like.. most of it, tbh.

It's very misogynistic and has a weirdly lukewarm/probably for the best :/ stance on eugenics, the characters are either complete cartoons, or truly awful people. The protagonist is just a vile person, but in that author self-insert way where he can only be validated, Teela is written like a precocious child and cocksleeve for the protagonist (and when she disapears, a new cocksleeve immediately replaces her.))

The aliens are also really stupidly written, the carnivores are warlike meatheads and the herbivores are pathetic and cowardly. The exploration of the ringworld isn't even fun because when they get there they mostly run past all of the inhabitants because they determine theyre just stupid savages and need to keep looking until they find civilized people, which was very jarring and frustrating after finishing several of Le Guin's Hainish books.

The scale of the ringworld is cool, and they way puppeteers look is cool. That's about it.

ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be "let's talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!" got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr

my mental image anytime i see someone leave this comment