managed decline

aquicomotolosdias

a-state-of-bliss

Robert Wun Fall/Wint 2024

muramaasa

IDK HOW IVE ONLY JUST THOUGHT OF THIS

What if the Bright Queen is so eager to execute Verrat not just because she's inclined to believe Essek after his 'conversion', but also because she has her own reasons to want Verrat gone?

After that meeting with Leylas, Verrat says to Essek that her rage seems different, and seems like he's about to imply she isn't of sound mind before he's interrupted. And combined with the implication towards the end of the season that Leylas has typhros, that very well could be true, and she evidently would do anything to keep people from discovering this secret. Verrat is extremely perceptive, having noticed something off about Dierta, so who's to say that he wouldn't notice it with Leylas too?

So that has me thinking, maybe Leylas knows Essek is lying to get Verrat into trouble (though perhaps doesn't know the full extent of it), but feels more secure having the self-absorbed, grieving Essek at her side, than the attentive, dutiful Verrat?

forsakenwitchery

Locations: Kryn Dynasty's lands
The Mighty Nein | season 1

ICE agents and militarists should be the ones suffering, not Palestinians and immigrants

Why can the world be so exhausting and heavy and unjust

meesehands666

rustmarty

galactic-empress

Donate to Support a family to continue creating life despite war, organized by Chloe Paterson

Haifa, a girl named after one of the most beautiful Palestinian… Chloe Paterson needs your support for Support a family to continue creatin

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Please help my friend Haifa!

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Update: Haifa’s tent was destroyed by strong winds and she only recently found an apartment to rent to have warmth and safety in this harsh winter. She is still working for the same NGO, The Palestinian Women’s Development Studies Association, helping to alleviate suffering despite enduring so much. My love and admiration for her resistance is immeasurable.

malenkaya-glosoli

motasem-family

My name is Motasem from Gaza 🇵🇸🍉,

a father to a small child who asks nothing from this world except the most basic needs for his family—milk for my baby and safety.🥺

Today, I am unemployed, living a harsh reality after our homes were destroyed and we were stripped of the simplest necessities of life.

My child urgently needs baby milk and diapers, and I am unable to provide them amid extreme prices, siege, and destruction.

Gaza can no longer endure this suffering, and its children are paying the heaviest price.

Any support, no matter how small, can make a real difference in the life of an innocent child.

From a heart weighed down with pain, I reach out my hand to you… hoping that compassion can still find its way to us.

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My name is Motasem, and today I write these words with a burden in my heart that no one could bear. The war has taken everything from me. I

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ludinusdaleth

i will always be confused by people who hate artagan for choking out vax like that wasnt the funniest sequence in the entirety of c1. an archfey walks up to you and says he'll bend reality for you if he can kill you so he can learn if he has a choking kink and he kills you and goes "damn i dont actually. anyway"

widogast-ta

foldbaron

Finally, it has returned.

full mask off I don't know what's going on anymore but I'm so critical role deprived that I'm gonna watch anyway

No ICE No War

i-suggest-weed

fuyupersimmons

yeah. i've got the wikipedia page for rat. on cassette.

i-suggest-weed

emberglowfox

my housemate's cat is super chatty so i've just started responding to him

pheenic

errorschacha

Looking at what national news outlets are up to right now, one might not realize a whole major US metropolitan area is, you know, sort of under attack by paramilitary forces. Wild.

zoyasayshi

im sorry the What is being What now???

errorschacha

While it's not going unreported entirely, what's been happening in Minnesota and in Minneapolis–Saint Paul in particular since Renee Good was murdered is not getting the attention it should be.

There are already 2000 gangsters from DHS deployed, and "hundreds" or "1000" more are on the way, depending on which Trumpland person you ask. As a point of reference, the Twin Cities' actual police total just under 1200 (600 in Minneapolis and 590 in Saint Paul according to the depts' sites).

The feds there are more or less attacking people at random. They've gone door-to-door for "citizenship checks" (completely illegal). They've knocked doors down when residents haven't complied (obviously also completely illegal). In addition to abducting and brutalizing the immigrants they come across during their rampages, they've done the same to US citizens of color and are also harassing, stalking and physically attacking observers.

Here are some local sources:

ICE intensifies Twin Cities operation after killing of Renee Good, protests (MPR News—link won't embed)

Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists (MPR News—link won't embed)

U.S. Border Patrol agent knees man in face in Minneapolis as other agents hold him down • Minnesota Reformer

A U.S. Border Patrol agent kneed a man at least five times in the face while several other agents held him pinned facedown on the pavement i

Minnesota Reformer

Below are some videos from observers. I'm linking to Bluesky because that's where I saw them, though many are originally from/also available elsewhere. I apologize for the rancid formatting below but it was the best I could do quickly-ish. The images are previews; click the links in the timestamps to watch.

Elliott Payne (@elliottpayne.org) January 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM

Mickey Kuhns (@mickeykuhns.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM

Dumb Meg (@dmbmeg.bsky.social) Jan 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM (You need to be logged in to see this—while it's unclear what happened to the victim in this one, there's no reported death so far; CW for heightened violence)