Foul Fire Rebel

Gah, disclaimer: Tumblr’s preview destroys the quality on this. 

Still not over the RWBY s3 finale.

If your look through my "foster kitten" tag, 99% of those were born to feral moms. 99% of kittens you find up for adoption in any shelter are going to be from feral moms.

This is a parasite that usually causes about 3000 cases of illness per year in the USA, Michigan currently has reported about 2900 (the confusion about “Michigan outbreak” is because Michigan is the first that caught an uptick in cases and has been very proactive about trying to trace them). Last official update from Massachusetts was 18 cases here centered in Greater Boston. The CDC recommends NOT assuming there are no sources of the parasite in your state even if no cases have been reported.

It isn’t an unknown illness but it is an unusual quantity of cases, and the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down the source after weeks of tracking is what makes it particularly concerning this year (harder to contain).

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(ignore the line going through it, my screen is small and the Internet Archive apparently doesn't handle that great):

So that's our bar -- 73.5 percent.

Note: they ethnically cleansed Nagorno-Karabakh when they took it over. And I mean it:

Oh.

Well.

I'm sure this happened entirely peacefully.

(the Manchus also committed genocide, it's worth noting, but the Hakka are a subgroup of the Han, and I'm talking about extermination of ethnic minorities.)

Er. Well, then.

Which, of course, happened entirely peacefully.

Well, at least the Ustase carried out their genocides (of Serbs, that is--they were cool with the Jews and Romani being exterminated) in ways that didn't make the Nazis squeamish?

Oh.

Maybe the Fang were the first people there--

Oh. I see.

They don't even bother to list anyone else!

Well I'm sure that's all peaceful.

(on the clarification: there have been a lot of Yazidi genocides)

Ah.

@librastrai has a lot of information on Ireland's treatment of it's Minceiri/Irish Traveller population. Spoiler alert: it's. Not good.

Yes, I know I switched sources. Sorry.

Well, perhaps they--

Ah.

POLAND JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. No wait, I can't say that because that is a big part of how they're so homogenous. But seriously:

It's honestly somewhat impressive! That level of ethnic cleansing of Jews (and others) takes genuine effort!

Meanwhile, according to the same source as Poland:

Oh.

Please note that this only includes genocides in modern-day Russia.

If you want to learn more about the Circassian genocide, may I humbly recommend: past me!

Also other resources I have on Russia's genocides: here, here, and this one on the Crimean Tatars.

I'm sure their takeover of Siberia was lovely and peaceful and doesn't have a whole section on the Wikipedia page for genocide of indigenous peoples.

I mean, look at this section of the Wikipedia page for genocides in history (WW1-WW2)

(Amnesty International's reliability is of course dubious, but this isn't about Israel, and also, may I present to you the rest of this??

I'm going to end here, although I note this does not include the Holodomor, Kazakh deaths (in a similar event to the Holodomor), pogroms of Jews (which were primarily carried out in the Pale, which deliberately did not include much of modern Russia) or their ongoing genocide of Ukrainians today.

I cannot emphasize enough that Russia is a colonialist empire with one of the worst track records on human rights of any country in history. Russian history is deeply entwined with oppression of other ethnic groups, and it has been for a long time. Russia's borders are not natural, its expansion was not inevitable. Anyone who is anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist and anti-genocide should make Russia a primary target.

Oh.

Similar principle as with Russia and Japan -- this is only within the borders of Turkey.

Yes, that is who Cenk Uygur named his organization after. (Do you think he means to compliment Israel when he accuses it of genocide? "Oh look, you're just like the Young Turks! I love the Young Turks!")

By the way, Turkey officially denies that Kurds exist. Also Turkey refuses to let people name their children names with q, w, and x. Why? Those are all common letters in Kurdish. Children in Turkish schools, all of them, must pledge each day to be a Turk.

Also, they migrated (invaded?) in the mid-medieval period

I wasn't able to get into this in the Russia section, but there were a lot of Ukrainian massacres of Jews. It was really pogrom central. To be fair, I don't know offhand how many were committed by ethnic Ukrainians as opposed to ethnic Russians, so I'm not going to go into too much detail, but let's just say that the one thing everyone in the Ukrainian civil war could agree on was that Jews should be killed.

And finally:

Seriously, the list of Cham-Vietnamese wars is...long.

he really likes to watch the printer print. It seems like he thinks there’s some kind of creature in there that I have the mysterious power to summon that he can then hunt for sport?

he sticks his entire arm inside the printer and breaks it if I don’t put some kind of physical burrier between him and the printer but like he purrs so loud when it starts printing and will beg harder for people to print things than he will for treats.

he just loves hunting the printer so much. he even tried to climb inside the place the paper comes out of the printer when he was a kitten.

No matter where he is in the apartment if the printer makes a noise he sprints full speed. He also knows which button to press to get the printer to print like the ink levels info and alignment sheet, so you have to make sure it’s off or locked up or he will print nonstop himself and then attack the printer and jam it.

is it inconvenient that my cat is obsessed with the printer? yes, but damn if it’s not also adorable.