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Happy New Year 2019-2020

The new year art returns for the turn of the decade… thanks for sticking by me so long yall

@ectoplasmfear @king-ghidorah @official-gaythoughts @red-myles @cosmicdetective @thedersiteswarm

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Not particularly active anymore but would like to say the Tories are terrible.

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doctor who meme | nine scenes [3/9]

↳ “You’ve been in that skin suit too long. You’ve forgotten. There used to be a real Margaret Blaine. You killed her and stripped her and used the skin. You’re pleading for mercy out of a dead woman’s lips.”

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White supremacist trying to form a straight-pride parade accidentally lets truth slip at city council meeting

This is like something straight out of Parks and Rec

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Philadelphians debate whether parks and rec centers should use anti-personnel weapons that indiscriminately target children

The “Mosquito” is a high-pitched tone generator designed only to be audible to children and teens, and not to adults, in whose ears the nerve cells that detect these high tones have died off.

In Philadelphia, 30 city parks and rec facilities have deployed these anti-personnel weapons under the rubric of deterring “loitering” and “vandalism” (20 other US cities have also deployed these weapons, according to Vancouver-based manufacturer Moving Sound Technologies).

The use of these weapons has sparked a public debate, with Philadelphia City Council member Helen Gym decrying the use of “sonic weapons” in an city that is “trying to address gun violence and safe spaces for young people.” Gym decries “ideas that are funded by taxpayer dollars to turn young people away from the very places that were created for them.”

Part of the debate was sparked by older people whose high-range hearing is still intact; one 27-year-old woman says that she’d had a constant headache since a nearby park installed the weapons.

Mosquitoes have been controversial since their launch in the mid-2000s, with clever teens turning the tones into ringtones that were inaudible to their teachers and other authority figures. They were very popular in the UK, spurring petitions for their removal from public libraries. They came to the USA in 2008.

The weapons have been condemned by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, who said that they violated the rights of children. When the weapons were installed in DC’s Gallery Place Metro in 2010, the National Youth Rights Association had them removed.

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/torturing-children.html

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This is the funniest fucking shit I swear

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hmm…

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i always laugh whenever we have to centrifuge bacteria because imagine you’re just chilling in some broth with your buds and then someone comes along and puts you in a tube and spins you at fucking 14,000 rpm

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Second referendum memes 👀👀👀

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The single funniest thing I’ve seen in 2019 (sound on)

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Dogs Living The Good Life.

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Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”

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We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.

1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.

2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking

3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.

4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.

5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.

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you are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeeeen