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I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

You will however, understand exactly what they’re saying from the context of the video

And you will get to hear this person’s wonderful laughter

Celestial Oak I painted this over a month ago and totally forgot to post it lol

I love the idea of each acorn containing it's very own universe 🌌 I've also been designing some acorn lanterns, photos coming soon!

Today, two rockets struck a house near our tent. My children were terrified, trembling and crying uncontrollably. They are living surrounded by danger, explosions, rats, insects, and constant fear. Instead of enjoying a peaceful childhood, they are growing up burdened by fear and trauma.

As a mother, it breaks my heart to see them suffer while I am unable to provide the safety they deserve.

Please help us leave Gaza and reach a safe place. Every donation and every share gives my children a chance to live with safety, peace, and hope. 💔🙏🏻https://chuffed.org/project/173104-save-my-family-in-gaza

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Intersex bodies do not need correcting, intersex bodies are not unnatural. Intersex people deserve autonomy.

I hope everyone finds a job like that honestly. Work you enjoy and find meaningful and that you keep coming back to. They say that once you retire, your health declines faster actually.

Which seems wild, given how gentle and hopeful his movies tend to be. But I think that's kind of the point for him. He uses his films to find comfort and joy in a world that he knows can be painful and difficult. Making hopeful and joyful films is a calling and a distraction, it's aspirational.

It's why we get memes like this-

He's also exactly the embodiment of this-

“I was born in 1941… and had a strong feeling in my childhood that we had ‘fought a truly stupid war’. Many times… I heard adults speak boastfully of the horrible things they had done on the Chinese continent. At the same time, I also heard about the extent of the horrors of the air raids [on Japan]. I heard many stories and I started to think that I had been born in a country that had done stupid things and I truly started to hate Japan.”

Before this revelation, however, Miyazaki said when he was a teenager he often argued with his father, trying to make his father acknowledge his responsibilities in the war as someone who managed a factory where they made war planes. He and his father often argued about this, because Miyazaki's father himself had no patriotism and merely did the work for the good money it brought in (which ties into Japan's economical difficulties before the war which is too much history to go into here) which meant he could remove himself emotionally from his work, whereas Miyazaki wanted him to acknowledge his part in the bloodshed. I cannot find direct sources to say otherwise, but I believe he also managed to reconcile this part of his father's life, as Miyazaki has grown to love planes and flight for their own sake, removed from their function as tools of war. Which he illustrates in "The Wind Rises".

He sometimes speaks of a Japan he hopes for in the future. One that turns further away from Nuclear power and instead refocuses on strengthening Japan's bonds to its natural landscapes and beauties.

“… I started to understand just how much I love the plants and the natural world of these islands. If there were no people, I thought, the Japanese islands would be unbelievably beautiful. I became aware that it wasn’t the nation or the rising sun flag that I loved, but it was the land that is truly special.”

The doomer Miyazaki memes are funny... but they also make me a little sad. Because they are true, but most people forget why.