Postrigbite

Another schoolgirl in critical condition hospital. The Iranian regime is killing kids.

Iranian government is attacking and killing their own people also aiding Russia's genocide against Ukrainians and shot a Ukrainian airliner down. The people of Iran and Ukraine are pushing back against their tyrannical oppressors and fighting for their freedoms.

#SlavaIranianProtesters

#SlavaUkraini

It looks bad in Iran tonight.

Armed police is shooting randomly at everything that moves in Tehran.

Even my friend who had a good working VPN tells me their internet is fucked.

That means fewer information getting out.

It seems the more support the protests get, the harsher the regime responds.

They don't have any qualms to kill and incarcerate their people.

On the other hand, politicians, the influential and wealthy are sending their own kids abroad right now.

the total number of detainees during the nationwide uprising in Iran is estimated at 6,000.

in this post I will talk about some of them.

(tw:beating) this is Armita Abbasi. she is 20 years old, she was last seen in a hospital after her arrest because she was reportedly beaten with a baton. her whereabouts are unknown.

this is Saeed Heleichi, an Arab poet and activist. he was arrested on October 19.

this is Soheil Khoshdel, a 17 yo protester who was arrested and sent to a correctional center just because of protesting.

this is Samane Asqari, a children rights activist. the police officers introduced themselves as employees of water department so they can enter her house and arrest her.

this is Badi' Khaze'i. he was arrested alongside his friends. after realizing that he's a follower of Baha'i religion, the police transferred him to Evin prison of Tehran which is 792 miles away from his hometown.

Elnaz Rekabi, a climber who refused to wear the hijab in a competition is reportedly under house arrest.

(tw: beating and torture) this is the moment of Hossein Ronaghi's arrest. he has been arrested several times over the past 20 years. this time he was arrested for being interviewed by an anti-regime broadcasting station. he was violently taken away by the police in front of a courthouse. he was going to turn himself in but he was still beaten by the police. both of his legs are broken and he has been tortured for days without any treatment. he's also on a hunger strike.

this is Atrin Azarfar. she's a Kurdish graphic designer who was arrested on October 19. her whereabouts are unknown.

this is Fatemeh Sepehri, a political and women's rights activist. she was arrested because of her interview with an anti-regime tv station. she has been kept in a solitary confinement since September 21.

this is Niloofar Hamedi, a journalist who reported Jina Amini's murder and shared a photo of her parents. she's been arrested for doing her job.

say their names, talk about them.

I cannot impress on young women enough, regardless of anything else about politics, having the ability to vote codified (and regular elections to vote in!!) is historically bananas abnormal, and only exists because of lots of hard work by lots of regular people. I'm not saying you have to like your lot or have some sort of jingoistic hard on while you skip to the ballet box, but like full on distrust ppl that want you to think voting is some loser sport only the hivemind do. the other option is, you know, like, serfdom. or other horrible shit lol. and you know fuck it, if you don't wanna vote, whatever not my business. but don't believe for a second that voting is the enshrined old school unquestioned institution that it isn't. like it super duper isn't. that doesn't mean it can't be improved, of course! but it's not the way a good chunk of powerful people would actually choose for us if they could decide. bezos already runs his amazon warehouses like a 13th century fief lord as far as he can he would love to do more of that actually. he's not restraining himself where he can out of the goodness of his heart like. he would reinvent the company store tomorrow. he would pay in Amazon bucks to buy Amazon goods yesterday. He would install an Amazon Tribunal head by Amazon Pope to resolve all conflicts and they would all resolve with King Bezos having divine power by virtue of the fact that he has power and you would just be fucked and bezos would love that actually. as an example.

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

the majority of the whump community

say it!!!!