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I feel like Bucky might commiserate with another young lad, who fell from a very high place and lost a hand.

When we finally drive the British away

Lafayette is there waiting in Chesapeake Bay

How did we know that this plan would work?

Finally done!

There’s two versions - Day and Night, and I can’t decide which I like more.

for example i’m still seeing a lot of posts saying “pray for the people killed in the Japan tsunami and the Mexico earthquake”. as i write this there are no immediate reports of damage or injury in japan. and the same is true of mexico. Reuters even say re japan: “the Pacific Tsunami Center said there was no threat of tsunami from the quake”.

(to be clear: this post dates from 11.35 am UK time on 14/11/2015.)

the eiffel tower turns its lights off every night and donald trump’s gross tweet about gun control dates from the charlie hebdo attack. (the bbc have a good article debunking some of the widely-shared social media things from last night: “#Paris: the power, the horror, the distortions”.) the gif of the eiffel tower going out dates from january: i.e. also in memoriam for the charlie hebdo attack. (think about the chronology on this: last night’s attack would literally still have been going on when the light man at the eiffel made the decision to turn it off, which would be absurd.) The latest is that IS has claimed responsibility but ppl are working to confirm the authenticity of the statement (because that’s how journalism works).

I live in the middle of it. 19 people died in front of the bar I go drinking twice a week, and my friend the barmaid was hidden behind the bar for two hours. One of my best friend lives rue Bichat and heard the gunfire from his window. I know a family trapped in stade de France. I should have been drinking in Republique at 8PM yesterday, where they started shooting.

Yeah I get it. We are freaking out.

But please, stop spreading only the bad stuff. Stop the pictures and videos of bodies in the street, of yelling and blood. Stop talking about refugee’s hate, and islamophobia.

Talk more about the people that yelled in the street the number of the code to their flat when victims where running everywhere to bring them to safety. The man that opened the window of his flat to victims of the Bataclan stranded on the roof.

Talk about the man that went back to help a stranger pregnant woman, and the kid that was carried to safety by a total stranger worried he could be trampled by the crowd.

Talk about the social media, the hashtag #porteouverte to get people out of the street and #voyageavecmoi to help people afraid to travel alone because of their religion/skin color.

Talk about the taxis that stayed in the street, bringing people home for free all night, and the bus drivers that helped evacuate the Bataclan.

The people crowding the blood centers, so much that Paris now has to send them back home.

The people in their home, terrified and in shock, and only waiting for the possibility to crowd the street and show them that we are afraid but not broken, and together.

There are handfuls of people that will take out of this tragedy all the bad lessons, the wrong evidences.