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Anonymous asked:
what are your favourite sites to read poetry on?
- poetryfoundation
- poets.org
- the paris review
- read a little poetry
- the writer’s almanac
- words for the year
- best-poems.net
- the merwin conservancy poetry section (when i need my merwin fix)
the first three also have a daily newsletter you can subscribe to which i wholeheartedly recommend i do love receiving emails when it’s the poem of the day :-)
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Art by Alariko
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There was a proposal a while back to have a Eurovision-style tournament with all 50 US states and I’ve been thinking about that. What a total bloodbath that would be. Absolute carnage
they already did it and it was unfortunately boring and bad
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i’m a pick-me girl but with old people
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i hope oceangate gets sued to hell for violating basic safety principles in pursuit of profit, i hope a teenager doesn’t die a horrible death, and i hope the world pays much more attention to the fact that 500 migrants died that same horrible death last week in a completely preventable sinking that was engineered by bureaucratic racism and cruelty. where were their millions of dollars and manpower hours in rescue efforts?
In case, like me, you as an American, have consumed very little news media and had not heard of what OP is referencing there are two stories currently occurring: a dinghy carrying 39 migrants capsized off the coast of Spain, and last week over 300 Pakistani magrants died when a similar thing occurred off the coast of Greece.
The response has been minimal (at least in mainstream American news), and many Human rights orgs have been (rightfully) criticizing the response from both Spain and Greece regarding any rescue operations and the overall handling of migrants in these recent cases and in older ones.
Additional Info / News Readings on this (all in English):
- Grief shrouds remote Pakistan mountain village after Greece migrant boat tragedy [ CNN, updated 2:20 AM EDT, 6/21/23 ]
- ‘Like Doomsday’: How Hope of a Better Life Ended on a Boat in the Mediterranean [ NYTimes, updated 1:10 PM EDT, 6/21/23 ]
- Greece boat disaster: BBC investigation casts doubt on coastguard’s claims [ BBC, updated 6/18/23 ]
- Dozens of Migrants Bound for Canary Islands Feared Dead as Boat Sinks [ NYTimes, 3:00 p.m. EDT, 6/21/23 ]
- Two found dead off Moroccan coast after rubber dinghy carrying dozens of migrants sinks [ WashingtonPost, 12:20 p.m. EDT, 6/21/23]
- At least 35 people feared dead after dinghy sinks en route to Canary Islands [ The Guardian, 12:03PM EDT, 6/21/23 ]
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According to NBC here in the US, the missing titanic sub has been found. As debris. Off the bow of the Titanic wreckage.
And it looks like the sub suffered what we all suspected, and what was undoubtedly the more merciful of the two options: a catastrophic implosion from the pressure.
Also, more info has come to light about the fishing trawler with the hundreds of migrants that sank cataclysmically off the coast of Greece, indicating that the greek coast guard knew about the vessel AND how much trouble the vessel was in, and were towing it at a speed that made it capsize, at which point they unhooked the tow line and watched the trawler sink without helping the passengers to safety. Despite a bunch of other ships trying to help as well throughout the whole ordeal.
So a lot of people are dead, all because of regulations (and the lack thereof) regarding sea-faring vessels and rescue protocols. People shouldnt be allowed to make a business charging a ton of money for a ride on an uncertified, unsafe, un-seaworthy ship going deep into the ocean with no distress beacon or tether to the mothership. People also shouldnt be allowed to enact laws that criminalize the ferrying of refugees, which then force the refugees to hitch rides on fishing trawlers, and which also prevent people from helping those fishing trawlers full of refugees due to fear of legal consequences.
Hopefully BOTH of these events spark changes on an international scale in terms of what is legally allowed to be sailed, who is legally allowed to be the passengers, and what the rescue protocols are in the event of disaster for any seafaring vessel, illegal or not. It shouldnt be just the global 1% who get 24/7 search parties and remote-operated submersibles helping rescue them.
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*coughs* Friendly doll person here.
So Mattel came out with different Barbie body types a couple years ago, right? There’s your normal body, but there’s also Curvy, Petite, and Tall now.
Around the same time, they came out with the Made to Move body, which has a ton more articulation than your normal Barbie.
Customizers love the Made to Move body, because hey, a lot more fun positions to put a doll in for photographing. But now Mattel has started making the Made to Move dolls with the additional body types from above. We’ve gotten a Curvy Made to Move doll so far, afaik.
This Queen Elizabeth doll, though? Is the first time there’s been a Petite Made to Move body released by Mattel. So customizers were buying it up not out of any care about Queen Elizabeth — but they were buying it to pop her head right off and use the new body for other dolls!
The thing i like the most about tumblr is learning tiny details about communities i would otherwise not even be aware of. thank you for this info
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This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. I would have LOVED to see that
three types of people
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a baby gouger. call that a gouger gaga
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if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality
the lush impenetrable jungles of massachusetts
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