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I saw this specific pokemon gif on here

And now I've seen something I cannot unsee, and I have to know if I've been wrong my whole life.

Is the reddish circle on Digletts face a nose with a shine mark on it (what I've believed my entire childhood until now)???

Or is it an open mouth with a tongue and a little snaggle tooth on the side???

Please, dear God, I need answers 0_____0

Or /maybe/ win 1 MILLION DOLLARS!

When you deactivate on tumblr.com they send you to the plinko machine to be incinerated

Howdy folks, the Senate will be considering the first ever resolution blocking arms to Israel. This is huge and historic; it would block government contracting and about $20 billion in arms and support. This is an uphill battle, PLEASE urge your senators to support S.J.Res114-115. This is maybe the most important piece of legislation relating to Palestine that we have ever gotten and we must seize this opportunity.

This doc has information on the resolutions and their process, as well as sample messages and a phone script you can use. Please, use this moment to hear witness for your neighbors.

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Arms Embargo: Act Now

On September 25, 2025, Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont) introduced two joint resolutions: S.J.Res.114-115. If passed, these resolutions woul

I was a fencer for YEARS, and this is so beyond disgusting for SOOOOO many reasons FIRSTLY, as many people have pointed out, fencing is *typically* a coed sport. The ENTIRE time I was fencing I was almost always fencing against cis guys, who were older and more skilled than me, who were significantly bigger than me, who were generally stronger than me. You know WHY they let the poor little "girl" spar against the big strong boys?... BECAUSE IT DIDN'T MATTER. IN FACT, my coaches typically regarded it as an ADVANTAGE. The factors that go into making a good fencer, if anything (if you were a bioessentialist in the late 2000's, or a reformative feminist of that time) were more likely to be traditionally "female" traits... Being consistently smaller than your opponents is an advantage. There's less space on your torso for them to hit you, and they aren't used to having to aim so low- while you're always used to aiming high. Up until fairly recently, the narrative was that "women" were better at building lower body muscle- which is what almost all of fencing training focuses on (alongside core strength, but not as much). whether or not that's true, it was widely enough believed that pretty much every sport that focused on leg strength as opposed to arm strength was considered female dominated. The same can be said for speed, another important trait for fencing. being light on your feet, being able to jump, lunge, retreat, riposte in quick succession- speed of movement that is fostered by strength of the thigh and calf muscles. These are... once again... traits that are typically considered easier to obtain for "female" athletes. And this isn't even getting into the psychological aspects of martial sports. Do you know how many training matches I've lost to little kids- who I basically let kick my ass with a foil, and suffered my coaches straight up mocking me for it- because I was afraid I was going to hurt them physically or break their confidence in some way? Do you know how many matches you have to win, as a smaller- and weaker- challenger, before you're opponent starts to take you seriously and will actually spar with you? And for many people, who learned the sport through private clubs and classes, who never had the opportunity to lose their personal biases in favor of competitive edge- they will continue to lose because they will always underestimate us, or they will learn better and finally give us a challenge.

The other two traits that are most likely to give you a advantage as a fencer have nothing to do with the athlete's sex at all. For instance, across most martial sports; no one likes sparring with a fucking southpaw! We're difficult, and force our opponents to quite literally invert all of their training and practice in real time during matches. My coaches used to make their competitive teams spar with me to learn how to properly parry someone with an opposing dominant hand- and it didn't matter how much better trained they were, until they learned how to properly handle me I would almost always win. Are you gonna tell me some garbage about handedness being a gendered trait? HAH! and what about reaction time? Does extra testosterone make you block quicker? Disregarding the fact that testosterone levels vary in literally everyone... The idea is just straight up laughable. Imagine living in the world these people live in for a moment- where being born a "man" makes your eyes track movement quicker. It would suck to be these people so bad... This woman has shown a clear misunderstanding of the sport and the training required to excel in it, alongside everyone who has bought into her rhetoric. I don't even care if she's a grifter. I don't care if she has no actual actionable opinions on trans people, and if it was all "about the money". She has left a stain on my sport and the spirit of competition. She is a hypocritical transphobe, co-opting symbols of resistance from another disaffected minority to draw social and psychological targets onto a group of people that has never wanted anything but to be allowed to live our lives- and if she's doing it for money then I respect her even less than if she truly believed in her actions. and I'm frankly disgusted that this sort of bigotry has managed to infect my sport, which I have always considered equalizing and respectful... With all of my heart, I hope that her cruel, nonfactual, cowardly, unsportsmanlike behavior gets her banned from any subsequent competition- and I hope she serves as an example to the rest of the fencing community and its supporters that bigotry should NEVER be accepted in sport... And mostly, I hope her opponent- who I'm certain has had a social spotlight shined on her in a way that no one deserves- can find some peace after this, that hopefully the community at large can come together to reassure that she is welcome in her sport and its communities...

Fencing is typically a co-ed sport. This is transmisogyny in its grossest form.

But this story gets so much worse. The trans woman who she refused to fence only finished in 24th place. Stephanie, the forfeiter, also beat *multiple* cis men in a regional match just one week earlier! And conservatives just paid Stephanie $5k for her kneel. Why is nobody talking about this?

Okay

That's it

it's time to pack up and move on-

too many people know me here now- gotta go somewhere else

Good while it lasted- but can't stay here

(for the person who lives with me, this is a /joke/ I just had someone with three degrees of separation recognize me and my work gossip and considered dunking my head in the deep fryer)

Middle East Eye

Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah

Israel is setting up 'complex network' of checkpoints to prevent 'military age' men from fleeing Rafah assault, senior western official tell

Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity. The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault. The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps. The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war. The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”. Relatives of many of the men photographed recognised them and said they had nothing to do with Hamas. Israel's military was later accused of staging footage of men surrounding weapons. “Israel considers every male a Hamas fighter until proven otherwise,” Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East told Middle East Eye. “It’s not a sound move. Cordoning Rafah is a daunting task and good luck separating fathers and sons from their families.”

i....found a rare shoegaze tape. legit. band does not exist online. tape is at least 20 years old. This is so Sam