Neiha Lasharie

Comic, Page 1: P1: Outer space, showing several distant planets and a star, focusing on a foreground ringed planet that appears to have oceans and continents with large visibly man-made alterations, including bridges and a central trench of city circling the planet. Narration: "There are 11 billion sentient life forms on this planet. Uncountable artificial intelligences, consciousnesses stored in the core, more arriving every day" P2: A hand touches the top of an alien-looking casket. Narration: "One less, now." P3: The face of an alien person with an expression of grief, with pupil-less eyes, distinctive cheek markings, a metallic hoop around their neck, and a cloak, referred to from now as "MC". P4: Another person appears behind the first, with a floating holographic display of information in front of their face. Other person: "I take it you are aware of the duty the late Vhixyr is trusting to you?" MC: "Yes, I was told long ago."

Page 2: P1: MC is pictured silhouetted from behind, standing in front of a far-future city, full of other citizens and glass transport tubes in the sky stretching into the distance. Narration: "Out of over 11 billion, me." P2: (Blank) Narration: "Despite Vhixyr's insistence that I was just the best fit, I always wondered-" P3: MC's foot stepping on a panel. Narration: "I wondered if my dear grandparent harbored some secret resentment," P4: MC standing in front of a doorway, raising a hand to a glowing panel on the wall. Behind the doorway is swirling shapes and light. Narration: "...or if they just thought I was the only one who could forgive them for this life-long burden?" P5: MC walking on a transparent bridge through a void filled with swirling light. Narration: "But really, all that mattered-" P6: (Blank) Narration: "Is that there are five of them. ...of us."

Page 3: P1: Two arch-shaped desks with small cylindrical devices with 3 bulbs protruding from them, and a fan-shaped holographic display behind them showing a wave-form. MC: "I wasn't expecting your equipment to look so... ancient?" P2: A zoomed out view of the room, showing MC speaking to a larger smiling alien with an arch-shaped structure on their back, referred to from here as Council 1. Council 1: "For taking vibrations in the air. Ancient traditions, after all." P3: From behind MC, still speaking to Council 1, who is pointing at their own mouth. Council 1: "And I see you've been practicing your oral language!" MC: "No small effort - but we need to be able to speak this way for a full cycle after all." Council 1: "You get used to it." P4: Showing MC now. Council 1: "I trust you have now... viewed it, as well?" MC: "...of course." P5: Zooming out, showing both MC and Council 1, and another person in the back of the room by a large holo display. This person (Council 2) is slim, wearing a dark sleeveless shirt and a large brace over their shoulders. Council 2: "As of now, Earth has reached 89.3% of its sun-cycle." Council 1: "Then we will begin."

Page 4: P1: From left to right seated at the desk in front of holo displays, Council 2, Council 1, and a third Council member with a robe and a U-shaped brace framing their head, all with somber expressions. Council 1: "Today we welcome Thonriel, third grandchild of Vhixyr, to the order of T'ddub. Thonriel has the terrible and honorable charge of speaking first today, as our order convenes for audiograph number 0X7B65D. -ahem- So... what did you think?" P2: Thonriel (MC), wearing a grim expression and slamming their hand down on their own desk. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is still a bad movie."

The council convenes once more
#deathblart

Oh WOW this will be a fun fun read!!

For some flabbergasting reason, the coolest people follow me on here. I might as well take advantage of this and ask, apropos of nothing (👀):

What do you wish you would have known when you were applying for a PhD in international law?

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and other lies I tell myself

Halloween is a great example of what community could look like year-round and yes that includes cute babies in costumes.

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth

Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown [Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Sydney), researching anti-communicst state violence in the Philippines] Anaïs Mitch…

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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Ninjas Against Terror – The Akatsuki and the Challenges of Defining Terrorism in International Law [Shpresa Salihu is a graduate assistant and PhD candidate at the Chair of Public International Law and European Law (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)] ‘We are both ordinary men, driven to seek …

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like sorry but my nani's sister is also my nani and i'm not going to call her my great aunt in english or whatever THAT'S MY GRANDMA TOO!

LET'S GOOOOOO

Can confirm, cat and baby have an uneasy alliance (ok, enthusiastic on the part of baby; cat is uneasy) which consists largely of having established a scientific committee for gravity experimentation.

Similarly, Pinterest is UNUSABLE. Anytime I'm looking for a reference picture, it's some uncanny valley pastiche. Awful.

I do think we need to talk about the manufacturing of the erosion of the rule of law, even if that’s extremely awkward to say, because this is it.

🇵🇰 VIDEO: No pause for food delivery riders during Pakistan's monsoon

Abdullah Abbas wades through Lahore's flooded streets, struggling to push his broken motorcycle and deliver a food order on time. Abbas says he has no choice despite the monsoon conditions.

Our kid started teething at five months and never stopped, and we ultimately ended up sleep training at 13 months. It was LIFE CHANGING for everyone involved but I still occasionally trauma-cry when he wakes up earlier than he should.

8 by rights, but who’s counting…anyway, the GOAT ❤️

As a Lahori myself, I feel both confused (I didn’t know we had unique pigeons??) and seen

Desperately needed this wow

I’d hate for people to know where I’m from then, damn.

READ THIS: By opening and using this product you agret to be bound Ayall do not agree to be bound, please return this product immediately, IN PEEL BACK K

The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

This explains a lot

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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

i grew up on these streets

I've also said things blithely while biting into a scone, why isn't that ever reported on? :(

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

Now @justsecurity.org

I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.

Time has run out

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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”

Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.

Man, I wish Ursula K. Le Guin was still alive.