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I shouldn’t need to build an account to book a hair cut

What's one "boomer take" you actually agree with (either political or non-political)?

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so the cursed sword has been making a lot of sense lately

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Sometimes the solution to your problem really is a big bowl of pasta.

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Dancer and actress Vera Ellen 🩰

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Bodell went a bit crazy in his testing. He inserted a real machinegun bolt from a real STEN submachinegun and replaced the toy’s fake barrel with a real STEN barrel, which did not fit until the technician “wrapped it with a few layers of electrical tape to make a tight fit, and press fit the machinegun barrel.”

Of course, then the magazine wouldn't fit. So, he hand-fit a single round into the weapon and fired it, thus allowing him to declare it a firearm. Of course, firearms aren't illegal. Making your own isn't illegal either. However, Bodell decided that it was a machine gun by definition and used that to prosecute Adamiak. Now, he couldn't get the thing to run full-auto. He couldn't even fire a single round from it as it was configured. Adamiak bought a replica STEN, just the same as a lot of us would since we can't afford the real thing. Someone at the ATF modified the weapon all to hell and back, got it to fire a single round, and decided that was enough. And the ATF wonders why gun rights advocates wouldn't urinate on them should they find themselves engulfed in flames. I mean, I wouldn't break out the marshmallows in a case like that in case the toxic stupid would get on the marshmallows and poison me. Based on the NFA's definition of a firearm, which Williams gets into, nothing Adamiak had qualified. The supposed modifications performed that even allowed the gun to fire were, in fact, done by the ATF themselves. They made it into a gun in the first freaking place! Bodell is the one who should go to prison for making a machine gun if anyone. A former ATF agent is pushing back on Bodell's description, pointing out that the replica had not been modified in any way. Hopefully, this can somehow be used to fix this absolute travesty of justice.

A guy got 20 years because he bought a non-firing, replica gun and the ATF modified it out the ass to fire a single bullet once and declared it an illegal machine gun. You think you hate the ATF enough, but you don't.

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Book Fore Edge Paintings // Maisie Matilda

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Bug 182 be like:

🎸🦗 🎶 🥁🐜

🎶 🎤🐛 🎶

🎶All the🎶

🎶Crawl things🎶

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James Stewart photographed by Ted Allan (1936)

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Happy Valentine's Day 💘

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I’m divided. When I did pro life activism I had people following me around threatening me with rape at rallies. It’s a thing they genuinely wish would happen to you. And no one on the pro choice side gave half a damn to stop them. It’s one of the reasons I didn’t go back once I moved, the pro choice movement threatened me often enough my hackles just raise instinctively at this point. Is it fair to everyone on that side? No. But it’s not as rare for them to make threats like this as they pretend.

I think all pro-lifers should be raped, forced to have the baby (no exceptions), and become forced to raise it for 18-20 years just to see how it feels

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it's so fun seeing all this poetry on tumblr about "gods" when everyone's concept of a "god" is just a superhero who'll die from a lack of attention, and mine is a maximally great being.

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I think all pro-lifers should be raped, forced to have the baby (no exceptions), and become forced to raise it for 18-20 years just to see how it feels

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ain't no way

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It was 1969. Several months before, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated, and riots were erupting in black neighborhoods across the nation.

Racial segregation had ended as far as public drinking fountains, public transportation, and public schools, but there was a new battleground - public pools. Many public pools were off limits to blacks. Police were routinely called whenever a black person supposedly trespassed into a pool. Still fresh in the memories of both black and white protestors was the infamous incident in the summer of 1964 in which a hotel manager dumped acid into a pool of black and white bathers.

In this explosive environment, Mister (Fred) Rogers quietly did something at that time that was quite unthinkable - he not only hired a black man to take on a regular role in his children’s television program, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” - and asked him to play a police officer - but, he would also regularly invite Officer Clemmons to cool his feet in the same pool - together. 

It even surprised Francois Clemmons, who played Officer Clemmons. Fred Rogers had approached Clemmons after hearing him sing in a church. He asked him to join him on his show, to be a police officer, which was a radical idea at that time - a black police officer keeping families safe in the Neighborhood.

Clemmons would remember:

“I grew up in the ghetto. I did not have a positive opinion of police officers. Policemen were siccing police dogs and water hoses on people. And I really had a hard time putting myself in that role. So I was not excited about being Officer Clemmons at all.”

He was even more surprised, and moved, when Mister Rogers on a hot day invited him to join him in soaking his feet in a wading pool.

Clemmons remembers: “He invited me to come over and to rest my feet in the water with him.” He continued, with emotion, “The icon Fred Rogers not only was showing my brown skin in the tub with his white skin as two friends, but as I was getting out of that tub, he was helping me dry my feet.”

Francois Clemmons was the first African-American to have a recurring role on a kids TV series, and he would continue to have that role for the next 25 years. 

Years later, in 1993, Officer Clemmons would make his last appearance on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. In a touching moment, Mister Rogers would again invite Officer Clemmons, again joining Rogers at a wading pool in the front yard. This time, two grown men, one white, one black, as they soaked their feet together, discussed and sang a song about the different ways people say “I love you.”

Clemmons would remember that the scene touched him in a way he hadn’t expected.

As they said their goodbyes, with Mister Rogers thanking Officer Clemmons for joining him, Officer Clemmons would emotionally respond, thanking Mister Rogers and saying:

“I like being a human being right here and now.”

The Jon S. Randal Peace Page

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glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.