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Twitter dudebros truly are in a class of their own. Playstation/Santa Monica studios posted this gif of Kratos:

(Based on a GIF of Jason Momoa btw)

And the dudebros are loosing their goddamned minds in the comments

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

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Dad got four months in jail, mother for house arrest for three months.

Pretty lenient considering they let an infant suffer needlessly.

Remember when that black mother left her kids in the running car to go to a job interview? She was sentenced to 18 years of probation. Wow..

Remember the black mom who left her kids IN A FOOD COURT for a job interview & was charged with child abandonment? Wow. Interesting

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Cuban Painted Snails (Polymita Picta)

“Their colours come from their diet, lichen and mosses rich in minerals that give the shells these stunning colours. They differ according to the particular mix of plants that each snail has been eating.” - David Attenborough

Attenborough‘s Life In Colour

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TST Little Beans Triops (tadpole shrimp)

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And this is one of the many reasons why police are not welcome at Pride.

At the very best, the police are conditional supporters who would turn into enemies as soon as the law says to.

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Lifelike Rhinoceros Beetle Plush at Curious Nature

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New animals just dropped. E.g.

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A new day, a new bean

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I need each and every person who sees this to pay attention to what is going on with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The same SCOTUS that refered to tribal land as a territory of the state is about to hear a case that might overturn ICWA.

ICWA allows Alaska Natives and Native Americans control over the adoption and foster care placement of Native American and Alaska Children. In practice what this ensures is that if a Native American or Alaska Native child cannot be raised with their parents', the extended family will be given custody. If the extended family cannot care for the child, the child is placed with a family in their tribe or, barring that, with a family who is Native American or Alaska Native.

This act is important for two reasons:

For centuries, Native Americans and Alaska Natives were forcibly assimilated into White culture. From the 1800s to the late 1900s, children were taken from their families and either adopted out to White people or put in boarding schools. If parents refused, they were sometimes incarcerated, and they could lose custody of their other children. There are cases where tribes would hide their children and tell people who came that they had none...so the white people started showing up uannounced. The children sent to these schools were abused. Some were murdered. And survivors still live with the trauma. ICWA was passed to stop this...but not even 50 years after it being passed, it's at risk.

Native Americans and Alaska Natives are constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty. We all know the government picks and chooses when it wants to honor that, but Native Americans and Alaska Natives are supposed to have sovereignty. The idea that one country can step in and tell sovereign tribes and nations that they are not allowed to control the placement of their own children should be absurd. The U.S. doesn't tell Britain what to do with their foster care system...but the SCOTUS knows that Native Americans and Alaska Natives don't have an army or navy like Britain does. Because of this the SCOTUS believes it has the right to violate years of precedent and treaties. It knows that it will be protected no matter what it decides.

So I'm asking people to keep an eye on ICWA. I'm asking them to boost the signal. And I'm asking them to protest if it falls.

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Loungin’ around

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walks out of a US public school with my child furious because they didn't actually have a LGBT brainwashing class