Three bird-sized red dragons poking around a bag of marshmallows. One has its paw on a marshmallow that it's completely burnt to a crisp.

Anyone need help roasting marshmallows? :3

Israeli Military Attacks Handala in International Waters, Abducts 21 Unarmed Civilians The Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirms that its civilian vessel Handala, en route to break Israel's illegal, genocidal blockade on Palestinians in Gaza, has been violently intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters about forty nautical miles from Gaza. At 11:43 Palestine time the Occupation cut the cameras on board Handala and we have lost all communication with our ship. The unarmed boat was carrying life-saving supplies when it was boarded by Israeli forces, its passengers abducted, and its cargo seized. The interception occurred in international waters outside Palestinian territorial waters off Gaza, in violation of international maritime law. Handala carried a shipment of critical humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza, including baby formula, diapers, food, and medicine. All cargo was non-military, civilian, and intended for direct distribution to a population facing deliberate starvation and medical collapse under Israel's illegal blockade.

Human Rights Defenders Aboard Handala, by country: United States: Christian Smalls - Amazon Labor Union founder; Huwaida Arraf - Human rights attorney (Palestine/US); Jacob Berger - Jewish-American activist; Bob Suberi - Jewish U.S. war veteran; Braedon Peluso - Sailor and direct action activist; Dr. Frank Romano - International lawyer and actor (France/US). France: Emma Fourreau - MEP and activist (France/Sweden); Gabrielle Cathala - Parliamentarian and former humanitarian worker; Justine Kempf - Nurse, Médecins du Monde; Ange Sahuquet - Engineer and human rights activist. Italy: Antonio Mazzeo - Teacher, peace researcher, journalist; Antonio "Tony" La Picirella - Climate and social justice organizer. Spain: Santiago González Vallejo - Economist and activist; Sergio Toribio - Engineer and environmentalist.

Australia: Robert Martin - Human rights activist; Tania "Tan" Safi - Journalist and organizer of Lebanese descent. Norway: Vigdis Bjorvand - 70-year-old lifelong justice activist. United Kingdom / France: Chloé Fiona Ludden - Former UN staff and scientist. Tunisia: Hatem Aouini - Trade unionist and internationalist activist. Journalists Aboard Handala Morocco: Mohamed El Bakkali - Senior journalist with Al Jazeera (based in Paris). Iraq / United States: Waad Al Musa - Cameraman and field reporter with Al Jazeera. The attack on Handala is the third violent act by Israeli forces against Freedom Flotilla missions this year alone. It follows the drone bombing of the civilian aid ship Conscience in European waters in May, which injured four people and disabled the vessel, and the illegal seizure of the Madleen in June, where Israeli forces abducted twelve civilians, including a Member

of the European Parliament. Shortly before their abduction, the Handala's crew affirmed that they would be hunger-striking if detained by Israeli forces and not accepting any food from the Israeli Occupation Forces. Israeli officials have ignored the International Court of Justice's binding orders that require the facilitation of humanitarian access to Gaza. The continued attacks on peaceful civilian missions represent a grave violation of international law. "Israel has no legal authority to detain international civilians aboard the Handala", said Ann Wright a member of the Freedom Flotilla's steering committee. "This is not a matter of internal Israeli jurisdiction. These are foreign nationals operating under international law in international waters. Their detention is arbitrary, unlawful, and must end."

BREAKING: Israeli military attacks humanitarian aid vessel Handala in international waters 30 miles from Gaza — in violation of maritime law — and has abducted 21 people on board, including U.S. citizens.

The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.

For anyone in the UK:

Against a gold rippling background, the book cover for THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson, the design has a woman's golden head rising from waves scattered with orcas. Tangled in the woman's hair are fishhooks, fishing line and skeletons along with other sea debris. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

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Comic of a smiling sloth hanging in a tree: Am I lazy? Or is capitalist work culture based not on efficiency but on the impossible area of eternal growth draped over an outdated structure of unending exploitation barely restrained by successive workers rights movements which sought to limit the number of hours an employer could force you to work in exchange for a basic survival rate?

Just a reminder, you can use this link to access Google's "web" search results, which does not generate an AI query that will lie to your face and torch the planet.

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For me, it is the way you think you have had the reveal and then, several chapters later, there is an even more in your face reveal, which he seems to have intended for when you would connect the dots.

😍😍🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

I was expecting more of a SkyNet scenario tbh

Okay we have all cried about yoongi wanting his hand held but have you considered … cat yoongi wanting his paws held

'But Dad...I want to go fight!'

'Too bad, my son! You can fight after you've courted, married and impregnated someone.'

'But the fight it starting now!'

'Then you had best be quick about it!'

I wish you tea today

But do you have tea?

This man has been doing good for decades, but also, damn, does he know protest messaging and optics. He's got his one-sentence, clear summary of what he's there to protest and he is going to make sure everyone hears it.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

You don't need serotonin - you need atmosphere

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.

P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Still thinking about this and I believe he would leave public bookmarks on AO3 with ratings, but not in a toxic way. It's weratedogs rules, where everything is above 10/10.

"Author writes a great plot and spends paragraphs on how hot LWJ is. Which, fair. 13/10."

Still can’t get over the Japanese calling the paper band around books “obi”s, I propose we rename book jackets “book kimono”s

More Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers Because millions of free-to-use images are just the tip of the iceberg

Writer and colourist @jordanacosta.co has a resource of pictures for writers to use rather than AI rubbish

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I just saw a TikTok that said "congratulations, only one more set of period cramps until BTS are back" 😂😂😂

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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i know i was there when the deep magic was written but could you cite some of it to me to get me back on track, my memory is sooooooooo bad, forgetting birthdays left and right here

Post by @dduane · 1 image 💬 170  🔁 288  ❤️ 596 · Peter Morwood · I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry. I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have t…

I know with Peter Morwood's sudden passing Diane Duane is going to need more help staying housed. She did quietly mention her ko-fi in her announcement on Tumblr (here: www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...) and I hope if there are other efforts to support her afoot they are shared widely.

Legend of Fei is the heartwarming coming of age story of a woman leaving home, murdering a ton of people, gaining a devoted service sub, and listening to everyone she meets tell her stories about her hot grandpa's solid gold dick

DIDN'T TAKE LONG. This is what you call "committing to the bit."

jin in a red leather jacket, black wig with a white streak in the bangs. his nails are painted as he rests them gently over his lips. he looks off camera with a scar on his nose.

jimin in a black leather jacket and gray shirt. his blond hair is in his eyes and his lips are parted as he looks past his shoulder.

yoongi with a black leather jacket and long black hair. he holds onto a mic as he sings

and if they meet?

For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier