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First Words
Yes, so yesterday during our tiny quake, while the glass walls in my place of employ were shaking in fits, the first thing that my brain caused to come out of my mouth, and cheerfully spoken was:
"If there's a blinding flash, don't look at it!"
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Your Random Insane Pokémon Moment Of The Day
With Fukushima turning, inexorably it seems, into the location of the next S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, it is hard to not feel a little guilty these days in still taking pleasure in the silly contributions that Japan has added to the rich mulch of Internet culture.
Well, I say fuck that shit, here's some goddamn, motherfucking Pokémon insanity!
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Remorse
williambanzai7 is a photo collage and graphic design artist who contributes to the exceptionally interesting Zero Hedge financial website. Remorse is from his latest set of images.
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Chernobyl: A Liquidator's Tale
Liquidators -- the name coined for the 600,000 to one million workers pressed into service decontaminating the ghost city of Pripiyat during the Chernobyl disaster. Natalia Manzurova is one of the surviving Liquidators and she tells a powerful story of her experiences in an interview at AOL.news.
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I Watched C-beams Glitter In The Dark Near The Tannhauser Gate.
Every day since the reactor disaster in Fukushima got rolling, I foolishly start my morning wondering if today will be the day I hear that the criminal fools running TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) finally got a grip on the situation and that things are getting better and not worse. Today was not that day. Kyodo News is now reporting neutron ( Read more... ) -
Rescue Fuzzies
Yea, every disaster has to have several reports on rescue dogs, here's one. This is as close to anything resembling Cute Overload as I come, so sue me.
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Psydoll: Notes From Japan
nekoipie, the lead singer for the Tokyo based cyber-goth/industrial band Psydoll, has been putting up some increasingly distressing posts on her LJ. Anyone curious to read a first person account of the fresh hell going on in the aftermath of the tsunami and the ongoing nuclear disaster in Fukushima should give her LJ a look. If you feel up to it, I am ( Read more... ) -
The Battle of Chernobyl
As the nuclear disaster in Fukushima continues to provide a global scale dose of daily perspective for anyone paying attention, and anyone making the effort to filter out the glass brittle happy talk provided us by an endless army of government dick steppers and corporate media bots, the last big atomic cluster fuck, comfortably 80's distant ( Read more... ) -
Sorry, Friends Only For Now
This post is not for my friends so much as anyone who is curious about me and might want to be a friend. My LJ was public for a very long time, but because of some realspace weirdness that was just starting to spill into LJ, to keep things from going further, it seemed the most sensible course was to lock my journal down to friends only. The ( Read more... )
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