Hands. Off. Yemen. This Is Collective Punishment Simply For Stopping Ships From Passing THEIR OWN Waters.

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A million people marched in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa today, in solidarity with the people of Palestine and in protest against the US-UK strikes on the Yemeni people.

I love when dogs and cats just let you pat the shit out of them and they enjoy it so much. Like yeah dude real quick I just need to play you like a bongo and they’re like god yes I’ve been waiting for someone to play me like a bongo

This. I have not seen ANY videos/pictures/media showing destroyed buildings in israel like I have seen in Palestine. We have seen Palestine being totally leveled: bombed hospitals, houses, schools, everything. But you know what I have not seen? The same in israel. And do not even try to say "oh khamas controls israels media!!!". How? Because thats makes you sound like an antivaxxer flatearther 💀 so your opinion is automatically worthless and waste of space.

Like people make it sound like what happened on oct 7 was like The Rumbling yet I havent seen anything of that level. Yet you could think that it happened in Palestine because of all the evidence.

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The Intercept

The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé

“Screams Without Words,” the New York Times story about sexual violence by Jeffrey Gettleman, Adam Sella, and Anat Schwartz comes under fire

The New York Times, however, does have rules and norms. Schwartz had no prior reporting experience. Her reporting partner Gettleman explained the basics to her, Schwartz said in a podcast interview on January 3, produced by Israel’s Channel 12 and conducted in Hebrew.

Gettleman, she said, was concerned they “get at least two sources for every detail we put into the article, cross-check information. Do we have forensic evidence? Do we have visual evidence? Apart from telling our reader ‘this happened,’ what can we say? Can we tell what happened to whom?”

Schwartz said she was initially reluctant to take the assignment because she did not want to look at visual images of potential assaults and because she lacked the expertise to conduct such an investigation.

This is stunning.

The fear among Times staffers who have been critical of the paper’s Gaza coverage is that Schwartz will become a scapegoat for what is a much deeper failure. She may harbor animosity toward Palestinians, lack the experience with investigative journalism, and feel conflicting pressures between being a supporter of Israel’s war effort and a Times reporter, but Schwartz did not commission herself and her nephew to report one of the most consequential stories of the war. Senior leadership at the New York Times did.

Schwartz said as much in an interview with Israeli Army Radio on December 31. “The New York Times said, ‘Let’s do an investigation into sexual violence’ — it was more a case of them having to convince me,” she said. Her host cut her off: “It was a proposal of The New York Times, the entire thing?”

“Unequivocally. Unequivocally. Obviously. Of course,” she said. “The paper stood behind us 200 percent and gave us the time, the investment, the resources to go in-depth with this investigation as much as needed.”

The whole piece is quite long, please go read it yourself, it's quite definitive.

wait wait can you explain more the new thing in tumblr that makes it harder to post long fics, i barely heard of it rn

Okay SO i did some digging into the topic. Mind you, this isn’t super extensive, just ~20 mins of scouring around on tumblr.

The format for text posts has changed on tumblr to NPF (Neue Post Format). It’s the thing that allows us to give use colors and tiny text on mobile. It has benefits, but it also has some drawbacks...

The above was taken from this article all about NPF. You can also find the link to the article through Tumblr’s official blog, @changes , which posts updates to the sites pretty regularly. There’s a post from Feb 19 that indicates they’re still rolling out the new format. The big scare around the situation is in the first two points in the NPF limits. Authors that primarily use tumblr are concerned that this new format will limit the amount of content we can squeeze into one post. This was my initial concern as well!

250 content blocks or less in a single post — This is basically saying we can fit 250 paragraphs into one post

4,096 characters or less per content block in a single post— This is saying that each paragraph needs to be less than 4,097 characters. Since a post can have 250 paragraphs, that’s a total of 1,024,000 characters.

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS, an 11.3k fic of mine has about 200 paragraphs (not necessarily 5+ sentences, merely new paragraphs that sometimes contain only one line of text). AND that fic has ~63,800 characters— meaning, if i’m understanding this right, we have no need to be this concerned... unless you write really long fics like me and enjoy splitting paragraphs to that amount.

EVEN SO, this feature is only mandatory on mobile (through the app)!! If you make a post on pc tumblr, it will not automatically use this NPF feature— you actually have to toggle it (meaning you have to make a conscious decision to use it) on the post in order for these limits to apply.

TLDR: You only have to worry about NPF if you’re a strictly mobile blog, and if you write really, really long fics in singular posts.

I think the game should let me kiss the boy on my Home screen. Would improve player experience in about 200%