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One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

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A Song Of Mice And Fire

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You know what?

My ancestors would have wanted pasteurization, vaccines, antibiotics, disinfectants, birth control, psychiatric medications, pain management, anesthesia. My ancestors would have wanted to be able to keep their loved ones around longer, and not lose them too early/too soon to childbirths, injuries, bacterial infections, mental illnesses, and diseases that are curable and/or preventable in our modern day life.

Modern medicine saves lives.

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put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs

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maybe it's because i was raised catholic but churches shouldn't look like furniture stores

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i really admire couples who fight in public. it takes a special kind of hate to say “you never listen. i don’t know why i bother talking to you. youre like a bad dog” to your wife in a mod pizza

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my favorite video of all time ever

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Controversial opinion incoming but I'm tired of hiding it. Dorren is so pretty and yet anytime I talk about it I get silenced but NO MORE!!

Plus look at how well she's drawn in the advancement tests promotional art! SHE'S GORGEOUS!!

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i'm really sad right now, does anyone have that post about the 4chan forcefem bridget tulpa?

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It's my birthday!

Here's another picture of my dog, Sparrow!

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So on the off chance Drump spontaneously dies from a golfing accident or something we’ll have JD Vance as president.

See, I hated Mike Pence but he was a known variable. I know his deal. Vance though? I feel like he’s smart but he’s also maleable to whoever pays him the most. He’s less predictable. I think he’d sell the country out for one corn chip but who’s holding the corn chip?

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just wanted to say that i'm seeing headlines everywhere say "floridians rejected an amendment to secure abortion rights" and that is NOT TRUE.

we voted ~57% to enshrine abortion rights in the florida constitution. amendments for our state require a supermajority, aka 60% to pass. this is bullshit and we were set up to fail.

the entire time, our governor Ron Desantis' officials were pressuring and threatening media outlets for publishing anything supporting this amendment.

don't believe the bullshit headlines. floridians wanted abortion rights.