SPREAD THE WORD!
There is smth enormously dispiriting seeing the race to save the submersible separated in the nyt headlines listing by barely a sentence from the greek mass migrant drowning scandal
today a first grader walked up to me, set a piece of paper down on the table in front of me, and said “homework time! it’s your homework.” and i said “alright, what do i have to do for homework?” and he said “hmmm… draw the best dinosaur you can do.” and so now i have that on my plate for the evening
Next Pixar movie is going to be called Colors. It will be about different colors living in color city
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 ]
One of the worst parts of current internet culture is that it makes good old fashioned complaining so difficult. I don’t wanna cancel anyone or bully anyone, I’m not trying to form a hate mob I’m not calling anyone out, i just wanna bitch about something. Because complaining is fun, good for you, even. Is that too much to ask? Where is the room for shooting the shit?
gotta give credit to gravity falls for having a cartoon explicitly set during the summer but going
“hey we wanna do a halloween episode”
“but it’s summer”
“the town has a regional not!halloween called summerween fuck you”
I just want to bring to everyone’s attention that summerween is june 22nd ok bye
Reblogging this so that nobody misses Summerween