EU officials have deemed this “the worst ever tragedy” in the Mediterranean. But this shipwreck is not an aberration or an inevitable accident. It is the direct result of Greek and EU practices and regulations that have made entering Europe and seeking asylum increasingly impossible, forcing people to take more and more dangerous routes. It is the product of years of political decisions that have turned the Mediterranean into a graveyard.
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“When you see a dead body and next to it a serial killer, you know what happened. When you see a shipwreck and next to it the Hellenic Coast Guard you should know too.” Wrote lawyer Dimitris Choulis on Twitter. He has spent years representing asylum seekers on the Aegean islands who have made the journey by boat.
In a statement, Alarm Phone similarly pointed the blame to Greece’s practices on the border: “People on the move know that thousands have been shot at, beaten, and abandoned at sea by these Greek forces. They know that encountering the Hellenic Coast Guard, the Hellenic Police or the Hellenic Border Guards often means violence and suffering,” they said. “It is due to systematic pushbacks that boats are trying to avoid Greece, navigating much longer routes, and risking lives at sea.”
okay fine you can have a few more, as a treat.
part one
(friend birthday special set)
Been watching Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout. (Normally, I avoid isekai, but I needed some fluff to go with my current heavy servings of Banana Fish, Attack on Titan, and the Pluto manga by Urasawa.)
Three episodes in, and it's pretty fluffy... but it has me regularly laughing my head off.
Then this happened...
...and now this series is giving me Thoughts.
i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like
AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE
so yeah blah blah remember how i mentioned a protege au
[day 81] the fact that the hearts are literally just what tango saw when he spotted jimmy… insane
Shirt that says "you are not immune to propaganda" + baseball bat labelled "propaganda"
absolutely bonkers that “teen sex, kills!” and “time eats all his children in the end.” and “sexy cat women from zolar” and “it took a horrible accident for me to realize how goddamn wonderful everything is” and “i want to be that fucked up girl” and “you’re just sailing through space, there’s no up or down, so beautiful and strange, but it’s more than spinning ‘round” and “my song will only have profanity in chorus” and “from ashes i was made, and ashes i return, and so i walk alone, and wonder why?” and “porno is magical” and “you knew all along i could never do it… choose myself.” and “for being a spielverderber” and “i would gladly take my seventeen years over nothing” are all lines from the same show
Climate crisis is coming for all of us. We need to vote for people who are not insulated from reality via donor bribes.
We need a robust EPA. The current Supreme Court wants to end the EPA and Federal power to regulate our air and water. Never forget.
Get involved. Vote.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Eyooo! you can call me Leo or Tommy(he/they) asks + dms open don't like don't read:p
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