Student blocks deportation of Afghan asylum-seeker by refusing to sit down and let the plane take off

mostlysignssomeportents:

Elin Ersson is a 21 year old Swedish social work student who boarded a
plane at Gothenburg airport yesterday and refused to sit down until an
Afghan asylum-seeker who was to be deported that day was offloaded and
allowed to remain in Sweden.

Ersson livestreamed her protest, which was planned when she and other
asylum activists learned that the man was due to be deported. Ersson
tangled with stewards who insisted that she stop streaming and sit down,
and passengers who wanted the flight to take off – as well as
passengers who supported her protest.

Eventually, the Afghan man was spared deportation and removed from the
plane, to applause from the other passengers. The crew declined to use
force to remove Ersson.

The Swedish government is performatively demonstrating its toughness by
deporting asylum-seekers in the runup to an election. A Swedish police
spokesman said that they would deport the man at a later date.

https://boingboing.net/2018/07/25/we-shall-not-be-moved.html

genatrius:

fluffy-critter:

edensmidian:

pr1nceshawn:

Street Art: Before & After.

I love these…..

Chaotic Good

My favorite part is that these are going to be someone’s neighborhood landmarks. “Turn left at the saxaphone player,” “yeah I work in the shop right next to the Princess Leia fire hydrant,” “if you pass the shady guy selling watches, you’ve gone too far.” The urban and suburban worlds are so funny of random infrastructure points that you’re just supposed to ignore, like those big metal wiring cabinets on the side of the road and all those backflow preventers all over the place. With just a little paint, now they have friendly, comprehensible meaning.

stubbornseedling:

ralfmaximus:

This question & answer from the Helsinki conference does not appear in any official transcripts – Russian or American. It is the only omission or “mistake” in the transcript.

The exchange now exists only in the recorded video.

Somebody doesn’t want you to know this happened.

Yep, it’s real. Here’s a couple sources. I wish I could say ‘I can’t believe it would be so blatant.’

CNN

Independent 

tricyclepilot:

cedrwydden:

hallandoates1970topresent:

tapireye:

can’t stop loving

medieval art

who could forget such classics as

Fish with Human Feet, Disgruntled that Life on Land sucks Just as much as it did In Water

Nuns Enjoying Their Yearly Harvest

A moknkey doing That Thing whilst Hedgehog looks on

Forlorn Cat with Vulva plays Mandolin

Them

Queen Cheats on Husband with Weird Serpent Man

and my favorite

Derrick You Leave your Sister Alone she is Your Family Now

It’s Just a Flesh Wound

Man Is Weirdly Unimpressed by Thirteen-Armed Woman

Dude, Put Some Fucking Hose On!!!

This Guy

I think the thing you are missing in this post which is the most important are the 14th – 16th century Dutch pilgrim badges seen here: 

Who cares about anything else in history when you can excavate in the Netherlands and actually find these, apparently there have been hundreds if not thousands brought up from rivers throughout the country. 

linaofthemyscira:

lithuanianblood:

shitposts-n-shenanigans:

lucifers-embodiment:

leto-gkika:

shitposts-n-shenanigans:

This fucking site: hey net neutrality is about to die :((( please help us :(((( boost and rb everything you see even if you’re not American :((((((((( we’ll have no wifi :(((((( we need you!!!! :((((

Non-Americans: okay

Non-Americans: hey greece is basically on fire, 150 people are wounded, 53 are killed and our nature is being destroyed. we’re suspecting arson. can you please reblog some posts and help spread awareness?

This fucking site:

Allow me to elaborate on how bad things are here. 7 places are burning at the same time while in Μάτι and Κίνετα the fire not only burned trees but because off the strong winds(80 kilometes per hour) it burned houses, it burned people. Firefighters and volunteers do whatever they can with the little gear they have as always because why on earth would the goverment give money to firefighting vechiles, canadairs and literally anything else that could be useful in this country when we know that every summer someone wants to burn forests so they can build whatever they want. Anyways, people started running away once some firefighters managed to warn them to evacute ( something that others should have done because these people have to keep working so they can prevent the fore from doing anymore damage ). People started running to get to the beach which was their only hope, unfortunately some people with their families were trapped once the fire circurled the area around them leaving them with the only thing to do, wait for their end. Charred bodies were found locked in embrace the next day. Now the people who reached the beach had to wait there so they could be transferred from there to the port of Ραφήνα. Here’s a photo :

While the boats reascued people from the beach they also retrived 19 more from the sea and 10 bodies (I am not sure for the number). That’s a small peak off what has happened the fires haven’t stopped while there are many revivals of the fires. Here’s an article if you are interested http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-24/greece-fires-survivors-fled-into-sea-to-escape-flames/10031316

Let me add more information on the matter.

The deaths are officially at 79 by the most recent official announcement. Places like Mati, Kineta, Chania, Neos Boutsas and more are being burned to the core.

Minimum help is being given by neighboring countries. Officially 2 aircrafts from Italy and 2 from Cuprus whipe some are expected from Romania, Hungary, Spain.

There are abouy 31 people registred as missing in a web site while that doesnt mean those are all the people missing.

If you know people you know or suspect are missing call 199, the fire department.

If you are looking for someone missing don’t call hospitals, call 199, the fire department.

People got burned alive in their cars, in their homes.

Cars are literally melted by the fires.

The victims include children, thankfully the ones that survived are shocked, of course, but safe and in the hospital. The number of kids in the hospital ‘Παίδον’ (Pedon) in Athens is 11; 12 exited yesterday, and the kids left are expected to leave today.

The suspicion of the fires falls on arson. It something that Greece has suffered from a lot throughout the years. Yet we are never prepared for most of our problems whether it has to do with natural causes or not.

The situation is horrible. If you can’t help anyway else, reblog to spread awareness on the matter!

If you ppssibly can donate here:

https://www.thehellinicinitiative.org/donate-to-greece-wildfire-relief-fund/

Honestly this is so much more helpful than my vent post (which I didn’t expect to blow up the way it did). If y’all are gonna boost something, boost this instead.

rebblogging AGAIN, because Greece, South Europe in general, needs help. 

HEY YOU PEOPLE LOOK AT THIS AND SPREAD IT

selchieproductions:

so fed up with people complaining about Gaelic spelling.

English spelling is essentially the combination of what happened when the ghosts of Shakespeare and Caxton staged an orgy with a Frenchman on a torn piece of paper, but do go off on Gaelic, why don’t you.

elodieunderglass:

vasilissalied:

mysleepykisser-with-feelings-hid:

A JEWELLED GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED CHARKA SHAPED AS A BIRD, marked Fabergé and with the workmaster’s mark of Anna Ringe, St. Petersburg, circa 1896, with scratched inventory number 2661. Of rounded form, with gold-mounted cabochon red stone eyes, nephrite beak and claw feet, engraved with the Russian inscription ‘Christmas Tree, 4 January 1897’

@elodieunderglass an unsettling thing with legs?

that’s a great cup I’ll take 20

ithankthevirgin:

I went for a walk with my two suitors. I stumbled and accidentally fell into the river. The suitors ran to help me but since they both wanted to be a hero they pulled me in different directions. Finally, thanks to the miracle of the Virgin of Guadalupe I managed to get out by myself and didn’t drown. Then I decided to not go out with any of these idiots.