“Whilst the definite cause of the wildfires is unknown, the weather conditions created a deadly environment for a fire to spark. Scorching hot weather in Greece has dried out undergrowth and foliage, making any flames easily able to spread. Wind speeds of up to 50mph have also contributed to the spread of fire. Authorities are also employing a drone to scan the area the fires have come from, to rule out any suspicious activity. How far have the fires spread? The fires are on the east coast of Greece and have spread across residential areas and towards beaches. It is not yet clear how many acres of land have been covered by the flames but strong winds have fanned flames stretching as wide as four miles near Kineta, local officials said. An Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesman said: “The wildfires in Greece are northeast of Athens in the Penteli area and 50km west of Athens.“This area isn’t a main destination for UK tourists. People on holiday in the region are advised to monitor news reports and follow any advice or instructions issued by the local authorities, their travel company or their accommodation providers.“
You can try to donate here if you want, though the source isn’t actually very known, I actually saw that right now. They haven’t said anything about that in the news, though I believe it may be trustworthy.
btw a relief fund is being set up by the hellenic red cross http://www.redcross.gr/ which you can donate to through the following bank account:
Children’s art in media: fully-colored, stylized but recognizabke figures with backgrounds and aesthetically textured and messy crayon coloring that
Children’s art in real life: an anguished disembodied head floating on one side, a massive sea of amorphous red scribbles taking up half the paper, ‘SAM’ written in enormous shaky letters overlapping everything, partial figure of a dinosaur abandoned before drawing the legs
in a movie this would be a fully-colored crayon drawing of a ranger standing in front of an arch that said “Jurassic Park” but instead it is two dinosaur skulls floating in the abyss while a ranger’s head is swallowed by his own enormous speech bubble and I adore it
Part of my job is literally making those dumb kids drawings in film/tv AND LET ME TELL YOU, the reason why they’re never like actual kid art is because 1. None of us art goblins remember what weird shit kids think of when they draw so we rely on bad reference images and the random stuff we remember drawing 2. We have so much muscle memory that it’s legit difficult to make ‘bad’ art 3. It’s a legal nightmare to use actual kid art most of the time so one of the dept art goblins makes it 4. The colour is because it adds contrast and draws the eye; usually we’re working with nice art supplies with a full spectrum of colours and trying to tone it down to look as bad as possible but failing miserably because it’s just not in us to do it.
This is the funniest fucking professional problem I can imagine.
I’d love to see the results of like… trying to commission children to make art for film and TV. “Draw a happy family!” “Okay!” [chird churns out three weirdly proportioned humans and a yellow amorphous blob with a speech bubble shouting something unintelligible] “Oh uh… it’s very. Nice. Can you tell me who the yellow person is?” “That’s Spongebob. The family is happy because he came to their party.”
Let’s do a thought experiment. Say you are a white racist politician, and you want support from white racist voters, but you cannot afford the backlash that would occur if you started talking about immigrants from a non-white country as a pack of subhuman barbarians. How do you get the support of racists?
The traditional solution to this problem is called a dog whistle. You use rhetoric which is not racist on the surface level where everyone can hear it, but between the lines where only your “dogs” can pick up on it. This gives you some plausible deniability, so it is quite popular.
But if that is too subtle for you, you can just say the racist rhetoric, and then put a fig leaf over it, in much the same way painters from antiquity would paint naked men and women and then cover their genitals with conveniently placed foliage. To put a fig leaf over racist rhetoric is to use racist rhetoric, and then hedge it or qualify it to a subset of the population of the race that you think that you can get away with smearing. Instead of calling all people from a non-white country animals, call the members of a gang from that country animals. Instead of saying that all the immigrants from that country are murderers and rapists, say that immigrants from that country are murderers, rapists, and, you assume, some good people.
The fig leaf works because people in general only want unambiguous racial bigotry to be treated as racist, when that is not strictly necessary to turn people against members of that race. When you reserve the moniker of animal for non-white criminals, and when you mention murderers and rapists whenever you talk about non-white immigrants, you are creating an atmosphere where people openly associate non-white people with criminality and animalism, even if you qualify your statements every time.
They did it, they beat the final boss of video games.
The dictatorship if the Gamertariat
also get dead cells because despite the collection of terms used to describe it it’s actually the one example of them that pulls it off well + it’s going to be fully released as 1.0 on like august 7th or some shit, not that it matters. it’s already a fairly complete game and will have free updates + dlc in the future.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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