RustyBertrand

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2024-12-18 17:25:58 UTC

Not today satan.

2024-12-15 06:36:57 UTC

What does it mean?
#signs #catsofmastodon
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2024-12-15 00:30:16 UTC

It's dark out, must be nighttime or daytime.
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2024-12-14 01:04:43 UTC

The meaning of Xmas:
In Norse #mythology Yggdrasil, the World Tree, is the trunk wedding the heavens, the underworld, and earth. This tree represents the place where the sacred enters the profane. The universe is supported by this tree that towers from the netherworld to the apex of the heavens.
Oðinn sacrificed himself on the tree for wisdom, and was resurrected after 9 days.
Wreaths in pagan culture had a mediating role, by helping a bearer to get closer to a specific deity. Plants, which were braided in wreaths, could have been dedicated to various deities: oak to Zeus, laurel to Apollo, herbs to Ceres, vine to Dionysus, and myrtle to Venus.
Candy Canes originated in Germany and were introduced by a Cologne cathedral choirmaster in the 1670's. In 1859 Amalia Eriksson, Granna, Sweden, devised the manufacture of alternating red (peppermint) and white striped rock candy in 1859.
Gift giving was part of pagan traditions that stretch back thousands of years — long before Christianity entered the mix.
So when you are running around trying to get the 'perfect gift', stop yourself, take a deep breath and remember you are celebrating Oðinn, Zeus, Apollo, Ceres, Dionysus, Venus and Mithras.

2024-12-06 15:57:58 UTC

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2024-12-06 15:15:06 UTC

Most were unpaid workers.
https://www.techspot.com/news/105735-ceo-fires-90-staff-missing-meeting-many-unpaid.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawG_8-ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYwGqAD-eGbDJFEP0ZSTxGwaz1OrYtYv8nl-84DzAqV40MZIVwMJ51kNIQ_aem_4i19NcQxtV21d7LrIzXJwA
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2024-12-05 13:19:12 UTC

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to #genocide, Amnesty International report finds
Human rights group says #Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/05/israels-war-in-gaza-amounts-to-genocide-amnesty-international-report-finds?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-12-02 23:23:58 UTC

If Hekla goes off before the glaciers rebuild, it will completely cure global warming.
No private planes either. Air not included.
The Ragnarok #volcano, myth-maker, eater of the sun, famine, darkness, war, endless winters, creator of mini ice ages.

2024-12-02 22:39:30 UTC

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The search is methodology, the answers arent. They were already there.

2024-12-02 22:20:17 UTC

I got into a little scrape, is this normal?
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2024-12-02 21:39:47 UTC

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Good trouble. An anarchist. That's super dangerous though. The US government has super high penalties for forgery.
Unless you're selling subprime mortgages.

2024-12-02 21:11:16 UTC

“Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This white waitress came up to me and said, ''We don''t serve colored people here.''
I said, ''That''s all right, I don''t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.''
About that time, these three cousins came in. You know the ones I mean, Ku, Klux and Klan.
They said, ''Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin. Anything you do to that chicken, we''re gonna do to you.''
So I put down my knife and fork, picked up that chicken, and kissed it.”
- Dick Gregory, comedian and activist (Oct. 12, 1932 - Aug. 19, 2017)
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2024-12-02 20:34:18 UTC

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Why not protect #Ukraine?
Because Ukraine is largely Jewish and the Zionists need settlers.

2024-12-02 20:27:38 UTC

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We went down that rabbit hole already, that area was controlled by the Moors.
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2024-12-02 20:04:21 UTC

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St Nicholas was a Moor, probably also Klingon.
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2024-12-02 19:01:37 UTC

“The story of villains is much more entertaining than the story of heroes, because monsters are not born, they are made.”
They do not emerge from the void or darkness by themselves, but they are shaped by circumstances, by the wounds of the world around them.
They reflect the deepest of human pain, rejection, loneliness, misunderstanding.
A hero is defined by his acts of bravery, but a villain is the result of a heart that was once pure and ended up corrupted.
The monsters, in their tragedy, show us what could happen to us all, if the world turned its back on us.”
- Mary Shelley

2024-12-02 13:42:02 UTC

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So they blew up our volcanoes for nothing.
Testing those drill bits near magma.
https://www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-continent/europe/iddp-1-iceland/

2024-12-02 13:21:58 UTC

We Won: Norway forced to pause plans to mine deep sea in Arctic
Small Socialist Left party threatens to block budget
Environmental groups described the news as a “historic win” for ocean protection.
Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters, an area greater than the UK, for deep-sea minerals.
“After hard work from activists, environmentalists, scientists and fishermen, we have secured a historic win for ocean protection, as the opening process for deep-sea mining in Norway has been stopped,” said Haldis Tjeldflaat Helle, a deep-sea mining campaigner at Greenpeace Nordic.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/02/norway-deep-sea-mining-mine-arctic?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-12-02 12:52:09 UTC

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I can't pronounce it either way anymore. The word makes no sense anymore.
Does that ever happen to you, repeat a word too much and it starts to get weird.

2024-12-02 12:43:46 UTC

All the people I brought over from Twitter are there. 4.7k followers deleted. And I can't contact them. And they cannot see me. I'm unsearchable.
Like, my real friends. Completely cut off. Behind a wall.
Even Twitter didn't do that.
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2024-12-02 02:02:53 UTC

“Your exact errors make a music
that nobody hears.
Your straying feet find the great dance,
walking alone.
And you live on a world where stumbling
always leads home.
Year after year fits over your face—
when there was youth, your talent
was youth;
later, you find your way by touch
where moss redeems the stone;
and you discover where music begins
before it makes any sound,
far in the mountains where canyons go
still as the always-falling, ever-new flakes of snow.”
–William Stafford, "You And Art"

2024-12-02 01:52:01 UTC

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I wanted to do that here in Iceland. A giant geothermal geodome greenhouse. GGGG.
Hmmm, have to rethink that name. Doesn't quite roll off the tounge.

2024-12-02 01:42:22 UTC

"It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting high technology from weaponry to livingry."
-Buckminster Fuller
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2024-12-02 00:17:41 UTC

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The snow is not from a geothermal, mineral rich underground spring.

2024-12-01 23:38:06 UTC

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A friend was talking about Wolverine and I was like, "I miss Adam Ant."
"Wtf does Wolverine have to do with..."
"Come on, where do you think they got the adamantium from?"
It took a second, but I enjoyed it.

2024-12-01 22:56:30 UTC

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Children can't consent. 3k is nothing. What were their options?
Consent or ???

2024-12-01 22:50:54 UTC

If I had people to talk to, Id start pronouncing invalid like invalid.
"Your receipt is invalid."
My whole life feels like a sketch that never landed. People really thought I was daft instead of getting all the word play and humour.
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2024-12-01 22:42:57 UTC

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Correct. My meme is invalid.
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2024-12-01 22:28:26 UTC

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2024-12-01 22:14:02 UTC

UK: More than 600 #Brazilians deported by Home Office on three #secret flights
Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK
The Home Office has never before removed any nationality in such large numbers on individual #deportation charter flights. It is thought that children have never before been removed on these flights.
According to freedom of information data seen by the Observer, the three flights were on 9 August, when 205 people including 43 children were removed; 23 August, when 206 people were removed, including 30 children; and 27 September, when 218 people were removed, including 36 children. All the deported children were part of family units, and many of them would have been settled at school and are likely to have spent most if not all of their lives in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/01/brazilians-deported-home-office-secret-flights-uk?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-12-01 21:58:33 UTC

Don't forget to send out your Christmas cards before the holiday rush!
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2024-12-01 21:54:52 UTC

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
-Charles Bukowski

2024-12-01 21:52:07 UTC

Another #photo from work during #Reykjavik Snowmageddon 2015.
The pool was packed.
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2024-12-01 21:22:46 UTC

Fluffy Icelandic wool hats for sale.
Can be made to order, Icelandic moss palate, Northern lights, volcano...
My disability came in €1k short this month. They are probably already on vacation, have to fix in Jan.
I just gave them 2k last month, now they want another 1k before the end of the year, on top of 1k rent. Late stage capitalism. 10% intrest rate.
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AAakesson
#mutualaid
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2024-12-01 19:07:54 UTC

TUI #Boeing 737 suffered 'serious incident' above UK with 187 passengers on board
The Boeing 737-8K5, registered G-TAWD, was bound for Kos in Greece from Manchester Airport on October 17 last year when the incident took place.
(Yet the stock continues to rise. The invisible hand has an agenda.)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tui-boeing-737-serious-incident-9757188

2024-12-01 18:40:38 UTC

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Smurf Jesus?
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2024-12-01 18:08:43 UTC

How do we follow back?
#mastodon used to show when someone followed me. I thought I had no new followers, now I see this.
It doesn't say which are mutuals and which to follow back.
I have to click on each individually?
Did they lock something on my account?
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2024-12-01 17:31:47 UTC

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It's called Jul here. It coincides with Xmas.

2024-12-01 17:10:50 UTC

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Yeah, stealing music in the 90s.

2024-12-01 17:07:19 UTC

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Yay!
I love finding new old stuff, can't travel with a TV, untill recently, so I was out of touch, and no TV growing up.
Just seeing the world with a boombox, homemade tapes and a guitar. A double cassete boombox, btw!
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2024-12-01 16:56:37 UTC

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Of course my horse.
Hogfather, yes, the book.
Long time ago.

2024-12-01 16:46:54 UTC

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Is it good?

2024-12-01 16:41:41 UTC

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"I am not a merry man!"
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2024-12-01 16:40:45 UTC

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The Yule lads are projected onto city streets downtown. They slam doors, lick your spoons and steal sausages.
The giant lit up Christmas #Cat in the main square is quite threatening.
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2024-12-01 16:33:39 UTC

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That part is in "Dracula Untold", the child abduction "programme", drives Vlad to revenge.
It's kind of good. Not child abduction, the movie.
So you're saying Santa was a Klingon?
Jk
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2024-12-01 16:06:37 UTC

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OK.
"Undesirables"
There it is.
But you know, each to his or her own.

2024-12-01 15:58:45 UTC

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There must have been a confusion early on, cuz we were both saying the same thing.
I didn't understand the part about the problem of there being no POC, I thought that was part of the point.
After they kill all the "usual suspects" gays, Jews, disabled, POC, they turn their inquisition onto their own rich white women, enslaving the middle class for breeding.
It would be like complaining that there are no Jews in a movie about the SS.

2024-12-01 15:48:28 UTC

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Overall no, we're in freefall.
But personaly, most people don't know that. Everyone has a different image of the world, some are just, um... limited.
Children grow up.

2024-12-01 08:34:31 UTC

Wellness influencers introduce ground breaking trend of boiling your raw milk before drinking it.
Not satire.

2024-12-01 07:06:26 UTC

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Ahhh, ok. I was talking about the book.

2024-12-01 06:55:21 UTC

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2024-12-01 06:53:52 UTC

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Nope. The black cat is up instead of a tree. Her 12 sons, one for each day of Christmas are the themes. Grýla's sold everywhere.

2024-12-01 05:38:03 UTC

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Several parallels to Grýla exist in the North Atlantic region, and these are generally associated with mumming and disguise traditions.
Terry Gunnell hypothesizes that Grýla may once have been associated with similar disguise traditions in Iceland, although such practices have not survived to the present day.
In contrast to later depictions of Grýla, no explicit mention is made of Grýla's gender. Not all counterparts to Grýla identified by Gunnell are female figures, and it is possible that Grýla was originally conceived of as a male monster rather than an ogress. In one seventeenth-century poem about Grýla, which depicts her as wandering between farms in summer rather than at Christmas, she is described as a #hermaphrodite #mythology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla

2024-12-01 05:22:35 UTC

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We make up myths because reality is too ugly

2024-12-01 05:12:09 UTC

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I'm not used to the bias in articles like this, I guess everything is now put out with an agenda. Its not just information, they repeated Turk so many times that my mind easily switched from Moor to Turk, I tend to repeat words I just read, then notice afterwards. "Hey, I used that word twice in one sentence."
If everything is true, then nothing is true.

2024-12-01 05:05:25 UTC

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Anyhoo, he is painted as black.

2024-12-01 05:02:53 UTC

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Thats what most dystopia is, what would happen if the shit we do to poor people were done to us?

2024-12-01 04:57:44 UTC

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but you hate it?

2024-12-01 04:55:09 UTC

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"Saint Nicholas [270-310] was once Bishop of Myra ("Myrrh"), a town now called Demre. Anatolia, the territory of modern Turkey, has been the heartland of human civilization since 7,000 BC. Patara, to the west of Demre, had been visited by St. Paul and St. Luke in 55 AD on their way from Miletus to Jerusalem; perhaps from this early date, a Christian community was established at this major Roman Lycian port."
You're not saying they were white before the war?

2024-12-01 04:51:09 UTC

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"Then, if the youngster was really bad, they'd put him in a sack and take him back to Spain."
"Saint Nicholas would kick you?"
"Well, not anymore," Oscar said. "Now he just pretends to kick you."
"And the six to eight black men?"
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/around-the-world/customs/netherlands/sedaris
Lol.
Iceland has evil mother Gryla, she has a giant child eating cat and 12 children, their pajamas look like white Santa's getup. (maybe an origin?)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla

2024-12-01 04:31:02 UTC

Saint Nicholas was a Turk. It is well known. He may have also been a Klingon.
Santa Claus: How a Bearded Black Bishop Born in Turkey Became America’s Favorite White Saint.
https://therealblacksanta.com/teach-the-children
Americans are freaking out about black santa.
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2024-12-01 04:18:47 UTC

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Iceland now, but travelled my whole life till I messed up my neck.

2024-12-01 04:17:25 UTC

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https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/113575306786457563

2024-12-01 04:12:02 UTC

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Locutus is the past participle of the Latin word Loquor - to speak. Officially it means “Spoken” which might not be the best version of the word for the purpose - Picard is to become the spokesman or “human face” of Borg assimilation of humanity.

2024-12-01 04:04:56 UTC

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Its about what has happened throughout history to women, set in an evangelical modern American setting.
Everything they do in the movie, has happened to women and minorities in our history.
But it happens to white people. So they feel it.
Sami are white, but share the same DNA with Inuits and Russian #indigenous, even the Japanese first nations. Still fighting for our land, sterilised by the scandinavians. Slaughtered by the Russians and Germans.

2024-12-01 03:22:19 UTC

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I didn't know it was Harlan Ellison. I probably missed a lot when I was younger.

2024-12-01 03:17:44 UTC

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https://kolektiva.social/@RustyBertrand/113574200986871286

2024-12-01 03:10:16 UTC

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2024-12-01 03:08:13 UTC

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I should see it again.

2024-12-01 00:16:10 UTC

The last bit still cracks me up.
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2024-11-30 23:51:55 UTC

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I watched all of Stargate when my dad died. Just needed some comfort. It worked.

2024-11-30 23:41:05 UTC

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I understand you. I use the bot, becuse my eyesight is bad on some days and I'm really bad at image descriptions, because I think in pictures. They link up.

2024-11-30 23:17:13 UTC

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2024-11-30 23:00:35 UTC

Happy Birthday to Billy Idol who turns 69 today!
#Photography by Ben Cook.
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2024-11-30 22:26:09 UTC

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The cop has the cannister or mace. He is spraying a lone Palestinian in the face. The man is simply standing on the side of the road with s flag.

2024-11-30 22:21:42 UTC

Meanwhile, in Reykjavík...
Don't stop talking about #Palestine
#Iceland is actively deporting them, during their #genocide.
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2024-11-30 21:01:17 UTC

Maybe that's what is so addictive about #StarTrek
They believe women. There is no eyerolling, shaming, the whole THING we have to go through every time we assert ourselves, or want to introduce a new idea.
No weak feminine grovelling voices, trying to keep the peace. Speaking in a high pitched baby voice to avoid the rage of man.
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2024-11-30 20:19:30 UTC

More #blacklisting on #Mastodon
#blacklist
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2024-11-30 19:52:32 UTC

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Thats the fucking problem. It dissapeared.

2024-11-30 19:30:44 UTC

"Afghan Girl” – Steve McCurry, 1984
National Geographic
She thought someone would come to save her after the photographer's friendliness. Betrayed, given hope, so American pain pornographers can feel something in their padded bubble, beneficiaries of a fascist global regime.
Those children who expose their pain in these new #cult documentaries, really believe that someone will now help them. They do not help.
They collect pain, feed it to numb souls. Americans don't ever know who they are bombing right now. Or care.
But. Oh, those poor kids, how horrible... bla bla bla...
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2024-11-30 18:41:19 UTC

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Snow days.
#Reykjavík #photography
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2024-11-30 18:11:53 UTC

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Also, the terms are clear, I can be sued for using it.

2024-11-30 18:10:58 UTC

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I found it boosted (by me) on FB in 2011.

2024-11-30 17:51:27 UTC

An amazing piece of sculpture by the artist Frances Bruno Catalano, which symbolizes the vacuum created by being forced to leave your land, your life, your people... for any reason.
#exile #occupation
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2024-11-30 17:50:20 UTC

J. Marion Sims was a gynecologist in the 1800s who purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments.
He repeatedly performed genital surgery on Black women WITHOUT ANESTHESIA because according to him, "Black women don't feel pain.”
Despite his inhumane tests on Black women, Sims was named “the father of modern gynecology”, and his statue currently stands right outside of the New York Academy of Medicine. #BLM
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2024-11-30 17:10:18 UTC

In 2011 the stupid Republicans had nothing to fight but Starbucks Christmas cups. FFS!
I'm just posting this because the terms and conditions are hilarious.
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2024-11-30 16:47:52 UTC

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History is the future. Probably.
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2024-11-30 15:55:44 UTC

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2024-11-30 15:52:13 UTC

No news about the 5 black men that burned themselves alive in a #US prison?
The ultimate #protest
Nada? No liberal outrage?
Damn. Cold fucking regime. #uspol

2024-11-30 15:46:08 UTC

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You can kind of see the snowflakes that are clumped together.
I got on the wrong bus and ended up somewhere I couldn't recognize, thigh deep in snow. Almost a meter came down while we were at work. Nothing was recognisable.

2024-11-30 15:32:10 UTC

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It's paywalled, I've contacted them for a free link. #longcovid

2024-11-30 14:48:02 UTC

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#Israel put out a statement yesterday saying new Hamas recruits were running all the aid coming into #Gaza. The only reason they would say that is an excuse to bomb aid centers and trucks.
NEW recruits, so just anyone, known or unknown.

2024-11-30 01:42:36 UTC

Tell me something I don't know. Damn.
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2024-11-30 01:33:20 UTC

The snow falls gently into the hot pools
The steam tries to push it back up
They forget they are made of the same stuff
I used to be a lifeguard here #photography #Reykavik #geothermal
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2024-11-30 01:15:29 UTC

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Its right infront of my face, but in the photo, I see that I never put art in my frames, I just left them how I got them. And I still havent turned my grow light into a #startrek shuttle craft.

2024-11-30 01:00:25 UTC

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I grow stuff.
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2024-11-30 00:49:44 UTC

3,000 tons of reefer?
Port of Reykjavik, #Iceland
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2024-11-30 00:39:32 UTC

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It sent out tentacles made of nerve endings to feel itself up.

2024-11-30 00:15:16 UTC

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Lol. It only works with the "mankind" version of "man". Bertrand Russell uses it a lot.
I'm just interested, because it changes the feeling, from narrator, to participant.

2024-11-30 00:09:41 UTC

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True. We IS us. Lol.