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The thing about the destiel news meme is that I actually think it's great.
It does let you know that something has gone on in the world. But it's such a short format that it could never even pretend to give you all the relevant information about that thing. It usually provides less detail than the average headline, so it's not actually reporting, it's more like shouting a head's up across a crowded room. Still lets you know that something has happened though.
The very fact that it's a goofy and irreverent fandom meme also serves as a perpetual reminder that using social media to get news is a bad idea. Now that you know something has occurred, go read an actual article from a real source to verify it and get the details. It's an alert system with a format that never lets you forget that alerts are not articles, and that this website is not beholden to any kind of journalistic integrity.
I love it, the comments on destiel news memes are almost always full of people saying that they saw it and then rushed off to go verify the news with a reputable source. Do you know how often more "serious" format news stuff on this site just leaves people complacently certain that they've been given accurate info? Way too often. I wish half as many of those news updates had people commenting that they left tumblr to go double check it.
it still makes me go insane that somehow no social media site bothers to implement interleaved text and images. Fediverse cannot support it broadly, Bluesky can't handle it, Facebook can't do it, Twitter can't do it, fucking, LinkedIn doesn't do this, somehow only Tumblr has this, and it barely even counts as a popular social media site.
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Moreover, overpopulation is an ecofascist myth specifically scapegoating ‘developing’ nations in the global south for climate disaster.
In reality, populations only rise so sharply as people begin to receive better access to healthcare and maternal and infant mortality in particular decrease. Eventually, as healthcare access is more evenly distributed through a population and people on a larger scale are able to access family planning care, the population stops increasing and levels out and decreases.
Which is why so-called ‘developed’ are all now manufacturing a crisis about population decline and not having enough bodies to fill out the labor force while simultaneously fearmongering about overpopulation in racialized groups. It’s eugenics shit.
This video is almost 10 years old and is so good at educating against ecofascist ideas of overpopulation. Makes me angry 10 years later we're still dealing with eugenics
existing online while caring abt animal welfare and knowing that a wild animal in a house is not having its needs met and a proper facility for taking care of big cats isnt gonna let people cuddle with them means that every now and then people online post the rough equivalent of a dog being kicked and you always have to choose between swallowing that upset and being the Unfun Asshole who goes "hey why is that raccoon wearing a pink collar"
No, you don't want that otter. No, that is not a pet. No, that up close encounter where you can pay to cuddle with an otter is probably not ethical. No, I'm pretty sure that channel with a guy and his pet otters is not a legitimate "animal rescue", stop recommending it to me.
Yes, the otter is cute. Please admire them either from a distance, or behind a barrier at an accredited facility. Thank you.
.....no I'm not going insane seeing how flooded social media is with unethical otter content.
The recent popularity of otter cafés in Japan caused a rise in animal trafficking & poaching of these otter species in Asia. Asia isn't an exception: the same will happen anywhere. The more popular an exotic wild species is as a "pet", the more it encourages poaching & trafficking. Even if you can give your exotic animal the best living conditions (which is always more complicated than with a domestic species), this factor will always remain
If you want a pet, you want a domesticated species. If you want a domesticated mustelid (the family otters belongs to), we have one: it's called a "ferret"
Yes, they do require specific care you need to learn about (like any animal, wild or domestic), no they don't look exactly like otters (it's the closest you'll get in domestic animals though)
But they're a lot more adapted to live in human houses, and they're not at risk of being poached in the wild. Mostly because like dogs or domestic cats, they don't exist in the wild
I’m going to add to this that you also really do not want to swim with or cuddle otters. I am very foot-stompy on this point right now because the shitty reptile zoo that closed near me just reemerged as an otter-cuddling petting zoo.
All of the issues of supporting less ethical encounters and driving the illegal pet trade aside (other people already covered them, yay), have you seen those teeth? The ones that rip through fish like butter?
North American River Otter (The Des Moines Register)
Asian Small-Clawed Otter (Knockhatch Adventure Park)
Do you want wet slippery stinky chaos gremlins with those teeth anywhere near your soft fleshy parts? No. No you do not.
People get bitten by wild otters and it is a big enough deal to make the media when it happens! There’s a bunch of examples of serious bites at this link. They mostly avoid people but when they feel threatened they can fuck you up.
Seriously. There is a reason that people who work with otters, professionally in credible zoos and aquariums are the least likely people you will see reaching in to sneak a skritch. They only contact their otters in heavily trained situations using very thoroughly positively reinforced tactile cues.
You really do not have any reason to go do pay to play snuggles or swims with otters. If you do want to get closer to them than just looking from outside an exhibit, there are accredited facilities that will allow you to observe up close or tong-feed while protected by a barrier. Do that instead.
i was going to put this in the tags, but decided id post it fully for more visibility.
hello! i am a wildlife rehabber & educator in the state of california. today, i am driving a non releasable bobcat 5.4 hours south to his permanent home at another wildlife center. this is the second bobcat we have had like this in the last 6 months. not counting before that, and not counting previous residents.
at my other center, over the years, we have had no less than 7 habituated ex-'pet' coyotes, and 10 or more habituated foxes, both from backyard feeding & illegal keeping.
these animals have been surrendered, abandoned, or seized by fish and willdife. i have 6 years of experience working with them. the treatment of wild animals as pets and at bad facilities sickens me because of how badly it affects how visitors view our animals.
did you know there was an increase in illegal trade of endangered slow loris species after a video of one being pet went viral?
yeah. it's that bad. the videos and photos out there might seem harmless just to share, especially if they're from reposters which wont support the original- but the actual treatment of these animals is horrible. any time you've thought "well it's just a few centers / videos, whats the harm? animal abuse happens all the time." it's far, far worse than that.
if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite
Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed
this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.
try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.
there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.
also note this is a PARASITIC infection. most diarrhea-causing pathogens you expect to contaminate your greens are bacteria (e.g. e. coli and salmonella), which are a different domain of organism altogether. cyclospora is a protozoan, which is bigger and more complicated than a bacteria (for reference, malaria is also caused by a protozoan). bacterial diarrhea can be dangerous, but you might also expect to weather it and survive unscathed. do NOT fuck with PARASITIC contamination. you should be scared of this one!
Only high temperatures will kill cyclospora. It resides in what is like a shell, which is highly resistant to water and most cleaning chemicals. The substance it uses to cling to food is so strong we don't even fully know what its limits are. It may be best to avoid fruits and veggies you can't cook. Scrubbing only works if done hard enough and on foods with no hiding places (Like cucumbers and grapes). Peeling the skin off is your best bet at avoiding it however, scrubbing is not guaranteed.
Thank you OP for posting! Usually washing does work on most sicknesses, just not this one.
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"Unicorn Overlord." "Triangle Strategy." "Octopath Traveler." "Bravely Default." These are not meant to be video game titles... These names are meant for racehorses.
People in the notes think I am making fun of video games. I am not. I am expressing appreciation for the names of horses. I am playing Pocket Card Jockey and naming my horses after JRPGs right now btw
The real horror of a Stepford Wives situation isn't 'the suburbs are creepy' or even 'conformity is creepy' or 'I don't wanna be replaced by a robot'
The horror is the idea that you might choose to spend your life with somebody only to realize they don't actually want a partner and friend, somebody with ambitions and thoughts and joy. They want somebody productive, compliant, and sexually available, and all your internal life is nothing but a barrier to that. That the person you love only loves what you do for them, and the less of the an actual person you are, the happier they are.
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Fun fact, i live near the stadium. But my uncle? Oh my uncle used to live rgt in front of it, like super fans would camp out in his building garage bc it was in the same direction as the players entrance.
He couldnt even move the car during game day, and sometimes even during non game days bc people wouls try to see the players b4 and after practice.
Shane would have been dealing with this shit since he was 18/19.
Sidney Crosby once talked how he always wore a cap during game days and his parents wouldnt say his name in public bc otherwise he'd be harassed by parents of the other team. At 12.
Shane and Ilya have the kind of skill that would have been making waves since before they were teens.
Oh this is really interesting insight.
The dedication of sports fans continues to blow my mind. I have seen that Sidney Crosby faced a lot of harassment growing up which is. Bonkers to me. Like he’s 12 and grown adults are coming from him.
Shane and Ilya’s childhoods and the role fame played n them is one of those other details that I wished was a little bit more fleshed out in canon. We got a little flash of it in the show that not everything was sunshine and rainbows when Shane mentioned to Rose that he’d faced kidnapping threats before—which could have all happened when he was an adult, but I personally headcanon that some where when he was younger and started making waves.
We know that Shane and Ilya were big deals by 2009. They’re described as two of the most talked about prospects in the world. But canon just kind of ends there. We don’t really know what form that attention took or when exactly it started or what their relationship with fame is. But if we take their real-life counterparts’ as inspiration, then their fame has fascinating implications for the pressures on their relationship.
Sidney Crosby has been in the news for his hockey ability since he was seven years old. When he was 13, they tried to sue to get him into a league that was above his age level because he was that good.
When he was in minor hockey—not even junior leagues, minor—he did this interview with CBC where he talked about how other players would try to injure him, how he was being verbally abused by the parents of the other team, and about how he’d have to try to keep people from recognizing him between tournament games so the abuse would stop. He moved to fucking Minnesota for a time to get away from the abuse.
Like. Sidney Crosby is a Canadian national hero. He’s a question on their nationalization test. He has the Order of Canada. The man is a legend. Canada loves their hockey boy so much. And he plays for goddamn Pittsburgh.
What happens if Canada’s most special hockey boy gets drafted to its most hockey city, home of its most dedicated hockey fanbase? What happens if that guy revitalizes his team and brings the Stanley Cup home to Canada for the first time in nearly two decades?
Legitimately, can Shane Hollander even go to the grocery store? How many stalkers has he had? When was the last time he’s touched his own wallet in Montreal city limits? Has the Prime Minister name dropped him in a press conference?
How many little kids have told him they want to grow up and be just like him?
Then consider Ilya. What about his public image in Russia?
Hockey is a very big part of the Russian identity, and I do not mean from a cultural standpoint. I mean from a state propaganda standpoint.
Hockey is regularly used by the Russian government to promulgate a nationalist ideology. Athletes are figures you rally around. The Russian government personally promotes athletes as ideals to its citizens to inspire national pride. Look at how much better, faster, stronger we are. The KHL is so entrenched in Russian propaganda that multiple countries are trying to stop their own citizens from joining that League.
The fact that Ilya plays in America instead of the KHL would not insulate him from his role in state propaganda. Sending its hockey players to play abroad is part of Russia’s global playbook. They go out and they beat Western athletes on their own playing field and then Russia pushes their achievements to their own citizens. Look at how much better, faster, stronger we are.
Ilya is based off of Alexander Ovechkin. Ovechkin has fucking Putin’s cellphone number. He was part of Putin’s last presidential campaign. Putin personally sent that guy a gift at his wedding. When Ovechkin broke the record for all-time career NHL goals, Russia immediately incorporated it into a state propaganda push. If you are a big enough Russian hockey player, you are part of the Russian national identity. It does not matter if you don’t play in Russia.
Ilya isn’t just some Russian hockey player good enough to go pro. He is the best hockey player to come out of their country, possibly ever. He is neck-and-neck with some Canadian fuck for the title of greatest hockey player in the world. He is one of the greatest hockey players of all time.
And he’s a guy who was raised by a controlling, abusive family that was heavily involved in the government.
His dad worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. That’s Russia’s federal law enforcement agency. It reports directly to the president. And all of his dad’s goddamn medals suggest that he was no small fish. Ilya and his dad have scenes where they are mingling with members of Putin’s cabinet.
There is absolutely no way that Ilya has not been heavily featured in Russian state propaganda. He was the best of the best. His family was already involved in high-level government activities. He is best friends with the daughter of Russia’s Minister of Sport. And he did not have control of his own image. His family was too controlling for that.
This is bigger than him just being a Russian hockey player. Because he isn’t just some Russian hockey player. He is the Russian hockey player. He is the guy that Russia has been pushing to its own citizens as the guy they should all aspire to fucking be, and they have been doing it since he was goddamn 17.
So what does Russia do if Putin’s favorite hockey player defects from the goddamn nation so he can be with his gay lover, the Prince of Canada?
Suddenly it’s not as simple as just choosing to be together. Because there are two very powerful countries invested in each of them. And they do not want the two of them together.
#people have been killed by the state for soooo much less than what Shane and Ilya have done#there’s an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to suspicious deaths we’re pretty sure were Russian assassinations#the sociopolitical pressures on this relationship are mind boggling and it compels me so#two princes of warring kingdoms defect from their countrymen for the freak gay sex#AND THE LOVE#no but seriously the Russia thing is not minor Jesus fuck it is not minor#Ilya Rozanov’s existence poses a challenge to Russia’s sense of nationalism and collective identity#they have been peddling him as the pinnacle of Russian ideals for a fucking decade#and then they find out he’s stealthing as the demographic that they are :forcibly disappearing and murdering/#the sheer suffocating global pressure on their relationship is fucking mind boggling#both of them are tied to their respective country’s sense of national identities#and they are challenging the ideals and norms of the very thing that people admire them for#how do you find a place on the fucking planet where jt ks#*it is safe to be with that person?#lovers have never been more star crossed they drive me INSANE#‘why doesn’t Ilya just leave Russia if he doesn’t want to be there’ /will Russia fucking let him leave/#my hot take this fandom may not be ready for is that Ilya was not fucking participating in Pride nights#my in-show evidence is that he’s fucking /alive/#do you think he gets to public defy the mandates of Russia with fucking rainbow tape and then not get fucking shot by his brother?#Ilya was an opt out it would not have been safe for him to participate in that (via @polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup)
This! Post-outing, Ilya will have to be SO careful. He won’t be ordering coffee at coffee shops because of the risk of the FSB pulling an Alexander Litvinenko on him. And God only knows how his meals will be handled in hotels, if the FSB is gunning for him.
And no, there’s no way he got to participate in Pride nights prior to being outed. Too dangerous when he doesn’t have Canadian citizenship yet. It’s actually a little startling that the Irina Foundation hockey camps include Max Riley as a coach without Ilya getting blowback from Russia over it. Since Max Riley is a trans man who used to play for Canada’s Olympic women’s hockey team before his transition.
Russia will be pissed at him just for being the captain of a team that (as of February 2021) contains an out gay player in the form of Troy Barrett. Even though they don’t realize Ilya’s support is a big part of Troy deciding to come out. And he probably sold it to the Russian ambassador as “Sir, what can I do? Front office has decided to support him, it wasn’t my decision. Obviously I won’t be wearing the jersey or using the tape.”
When a month later Ilya himself gets outed, his life will be in danger. And it will stay in danger.
Alexander Litvinenko - Wikipedia
Every other Russian playing in MLH will be required to denounce Ilya.
Svetlana will never be able to go back to Russia to see her family again. Her father’s career will be torched because the state can’t get at her. The Russian government will presume she was bearding for Ilya all along, and blame Sergei for not spotting it.
Even Sasha and his family might end up in the crossfire. So hopefully he already has French citizenship. I know Sasha and Ilya hadn’t interacted at all for seven years prior to Ilya’s outing. But people will remember how Ilya, Svetlana and Sasha were a trio as teenagers, and draw the correct conclusion as to whether Sasha and Ilya were sexually involved at the time.
Also, I bet when Ilya was playing in Boston, he was expected to show up at the Russian consulate in Boston to be paraded around as a shining example of Russian masculinity. At least the consulate in Boston was probably small and didn’t have that many events.
Once he moves to Ottawa, he’ll be expected to show up at all the events the Russian Embassy in Ottawa hosts (as long as he doesn’t have a game). An embassy will have more staff and more events than a consulate.
He will have to manage the Russian ambassador and that guy’s staff carefully, knowing full well that some of the “trade attaches” are probably actually FSB instead of real diplomats. And knowing that even the real diplomats are likely homophobic. All the while keeping his relationship with his longterm boyfriend a deep dark secret.
And I bet he’s under more scrutiny in Ottawa than in Boston. Because if he was in the USA on a work visa that can’t lead to citizenship (probably) and then when he moved to Canada he got permanent residency (that must have been a condition of him signing with them), it looks like he’s not 100% committed to Russia.
Ilya is an excellent liar. He probably passes it off as “Well, I want to coach after I retire and if I have dual citizenship I can coach in Canada more easily.” But he would still be viewed by the Russian government as a hockey superstar who seems to have one foot out the door. Because he does!
I’m sure Ilya obediently shows up for photo ops with Putin, and obediently opts out of Pride Nights. He needs to do both to avoid even more scrutiny by the Russian government. But the government will realize that he has will have dual Canadian and Russian citizenship in a few years.
If Ilya has any sense, he started moving money out of Russia ever since 2017, which the government would know about. And they’d also know both his parents are dead, he doesn’t speak with his brother, and he’s already set up a trust fund for his niece. The Russian government has a lot less leverage over him than they did when he was in Boston and Grigori was still alive.
He clearly doesn’t give a shit about Alexei. He might give a shit about his niece, but they’re not close on a personal level. And he’s already provided for her financially. Now, they don’t realize how much they need leverage over Ilya, or what huge and unpatriotic secrets he’s hiding. But even though they have no idea why he’s making contingency plans in Canada, they would be aware he’s done so.
The cover story about the rivalry turned friendship and the charity is holding, so nobody suspects he and Shane are together. But all the same, he must be viewed less favourably than back when they assumed he would of course return to Russia after retirement. So yeah, he would definitely be expected to show up for events at the Russian embassy unless he has an excellent excuse. To prove that he’s still a patriotic Russian citizen and avoid them looking into his life more closely.
No wonder he’s under fucking stress during The Long Game, and so is Shane. No, Shane didn’t grow up in a police state. But he’s an intelligent man of 29, and he’s entirely capable of reading books about how Putin and Russia operate. He’s not a sheltered 22 year old who doesn’t pay attention to politics like he was in Sochi. Given Ilya’s situation, Shane has to care about/pay attention to Russian politics.
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