Queer as in Fuck You

Well, this is a very strange story.

I woke up today to a story from Norway about Ahmed Al-Khatib being interrogated by the Norwegian police while in the country to participate in a panel during a politics festival. I saw this tweet from Henrik Beckheim, who is a Jewish-Norwegian podcaster:

What Ahmed said is very logical. Israelis and Palestinians must live in peace with each other, yes. There’s no other way. Neither side is on the verge of disappearing or giving up. Hamas is terrible for the Palestinian people, yes. Many Palestinians in Gaza agree! I agree. Ahmed himself also discussed the incident in a post, saying that officers asked him “increasingly inappropriate questions”:

find it truly bizarre that the Norwegian police would have interrogated Ahmed. There is copious information that is publicly available that shows what Ahmed’s political alignment is: pro-peace. Pro-Palestine. Pro-coexistence. Anti-violence. When did these become dangerous ideas?

you see what I mean when I say western people who claim to be pro Palestine are not pro Palestine, and in fact are just bigots cynically appropriate Palestinian issues? This is disgusting.

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She exchanged woman’s for man’s attire, and, no longer the most modest of maidens, began the life of a warlike rover. Enrolling in her service many maidens who were of the same mind, she happened to come to a spot where a band of rovers were lamenting the death of their captain, who had been lost in war; they made her their rover captain.

is this real? / i thought pro wrestling was fake? wrestling is 'fake' in that the fights are choreographed and the winner is predetermined, but the physicality is very real. there's no way to 'fake' getting whipped with a metal chain so hard it leaves welts.

why ARE they chained? this is a specialty fight called a 'dog collar match' where both participants are, you guessed it, fitted with dog collars which are then chained together.

is this legal? / how can this be allowed? why wouldn't it be? they're both consenting adults who planned and agreed to it.

but they could be seriously hurt! they know, and they accept the risk. pro wrestlers are well aware of the injuries possible in their line of work, and they do it anyway because they're crazy people.

IS there aftercare? of a sort, yeah - there's a medical team on hand to patch everyone up, and lots of coworkers backstage to give them a 'job well done!'

why are they wearing thigh highs? they're kneepads/shin guards for protection. looking like sexy thigh highs is just a bonus side effect!

ok, but why's that guy in a shiny speedo? personal preference. wrestlers can design their own outfits and some prefer full coverage long tights, while others wear less to show off the gams.

is that cm punk? yup! he unretired last year.

The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.