Butterfly Path

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it's the end of the world... don't you know that yet? (space is the place)

Nausicaa en Teto on her shoulder says: "This despicable war! Not even a shred of decency, of even questionable righteousness! Can't they see that they're just rushing down the path to self-destruction?"
Flora Purim's Butterfly Dreams LP, Milestone records 1973. Featuring Flora, Airto, Joe Henderson, George Duke and Stanley Clarke
A new Gallup poll asking Americans if their sympathies are more with Israelis or Palestinians in the Middle East situation. Result is 41% say Palestinians vs 36% Israelis
A response to a study asking for comments on how to improve informed consent documents using AI: if a research study involving human subjects does not have the resources to engage qualified professionals to write its informed consent texts, then maybe it's not a study worth undertaking.
Some old Ottoman rifles from wikipedia creative commons
a simple light blue sign that says "billionaires will not make your life better" in black sans serif font
Panels from the comic "The Miners" by Tom Keogh. They say: mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. In the early 1800s it was a slave job. Constant cave-ins killed miners. Mine owners reacted. An owner says, "slaves are too expensive to lose in mines." The slave owners had the most powerful lobby in Washington politics. Ireland was in the midst of a famine. The slave lobby pushed for large scale Irish immigration for mining. An owner says, "When a mine collapses we can get lots more free Irish." From Wobblies, edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, Verso Books.
a simple poster with a monotone lime green background that says "it's the billionaires, stupid" in lowercase black type