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He’s so damn cute. Black boy with beautiful heart…

#BlackPride

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Playing castle crashers with young daughter.

Her: I cut his body off.

Me: cut his body or his head off?

Her: no his body. You cant cut a head off, thats where the thinking happens.

Me: fair enough.

Her: can we have some pickles for a snack?

Video game adventires with tiny me.

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i’m so inactive i’m sorry 

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If age taught me one thing its: Days are long, years are short.

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when “no means no” comes up, you hear guys say “oh, but sometimes girls play hard to get” and like…. i guess, yeah.  men & women both can be really bad at being honest about what they want.  but just consider your options.

the other person says “no” and means “yes” –>  you back down –>  they learn that if they want something, they have to clearly express themselves

they say “no” and mean “no” –>  you back down –>  you’ve successfully respected their boundaries 👍👌

they say “no” and mean “yes” –>  you ignore them –>  you’re perpetuating a pattern of bad communication & ignoring boundaries 👎 & given that you aren’t a mind reader, it’s really just luck that you haven’t coerced an unwilling person into sex

they say “no” and mean “no” –>  you ignore them –>  you’ve committed sexual assault 🚨🚨🚨 do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars

unless you care more about getting laid than not assaulting people, respecting people’s “no”s is a win-win situation.  don’t be a potential rapist

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The next time I see one of those “millenials will be photographing the end of the world” posts I’m gonna scream because let me tell you, I just went through a natural disaster and Snapchat literally saved people’s lives. Thanks to snapchat I knew exactly what roads were flooded, what stores were open, what my HOUSE looked like (since I wasn’t there), and which shelters I could go to. People were snapping/tweeting asking to be rescued and THEY WERE. I didn’t get my news from the tv, I saw it in real time on social media and I will never not be grateful for that.

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ok so for my students’ final project, i’m having them select any text they’d like and produce a new edition of it, one that’s targeted towards a different audience than the text in its original form. their edition has to include a critical introduction as well, explaining the changes that they’ve made to the text and to its material form, challenges they encountered, etc.

i’m reading the project proposals now and there are so many good ones – a cnn article on “alternative facts” re-edited to work as a kindergarten lesson about political engagement, rewriting a piece of the californian legislation family code so it’s legible to non-experts or ESL parents, “no fear hegel” (kill me), a version of cat in the hat for high schoolers that includes peritext explaining its connection to the cold war, etc. but i just got to this one: “Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined the underlying feelings of aggression and angst in modern American middle schoolers with the manipulative and cunning nature of Machiavellian philosophy?” 

he’s editing the prince for preteens.

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based on a thing i heard at school

David: Everything changes eventually!

Max: Except for the American public school system 

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@EVERYONE IN ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG AND FLEMING ISLAND, FLORIDA

IF YOU DON’T HAVE WATER, WICKED BARLEY BREWERY IS OFFERING TO FILL UP CONTAINERS TO 20 GALLONS PER PERSON

PLEASE REBLOG THIS, EVEN IF YOU HAVE WATER, SO PEOPLE CAN SEE THIS

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The claim that the PETS Act requires hotels/motels to shelter your animals is false.

Let me explain.

Why Was The PETS Act Passed?

The PETS Act was signed into law on October 6th, 2006.

The bill was brought forward after the events of Hurricane Katrina. Before and during Katrina, there were no evacuation measures for pets set in place when natural disasters occurred in the United States. None. At all. Because of that, it’s estimated that about 70,000 pets were left behind. It’s believed that 15,000 of them were killed.

Images of families leaving their pets behind made international news. One in particular showed a young boy being torn away from his beloved dog, Snowball. Aftermath pictures showed dogs stranded on car roofs and cats swimming to get to safety. The loss and horror was so high, lawmakers decided that evacuation efforts for pets, as well as people, were necessary during future events.

What Does The PETS Act Do?

The Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act allowed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to create guidelines for state and local emergency services to use in regards to pets and families with pets during natural disasters. If states wanted FEMA funding, they needed to create emergency plans that:

Allows pets to stay in state or federally funded shelters during natural disasters.

Allows families with pets to enter community shelters with their animals.

Allows rescue operations specifically to save household pets and service animals.

States that included pet rescue and relief efforts in their emergency planning would continue to get FEMA support. Community shelters that allow animals can even be reimbursed for their care later on.

Why Does The PETS Act Not Apply To Hotels/Motels?

The PETS Act only applies to government agencies.

Hotels and motels are not government or state run entities. They are exempt from the law and are not required to shelter animals during natural disasters. It is not illegal for them to turn away pets if it is against hotel policy.

Why Is This Important?

Many people are reblogging the original post without checking how accurate the sources are, if any sources are even provided. Some people in the path of a hurricane may read and believe said information without finding out the truth until they arrive at a hotel. There were reports of a family having their dogs turned away from a hotel during Hurricane Harvey.

Some families may choose to leave their pets in the car and stay into the hotel themselves. Others may lie and then sneak their animals in anyway. Others, still, may leave and try to find more accommodating shelter somewhere else. Either way, this is added stress to an already stressful situation. And it can be dangerous.

If families decide to leave and look for different shelter, they could get stuck in flood waters. It only takes a few inches of water for cars to start floating. If they start floating, they can be dragged through the currents and into extremely flooded areas. Something like this happened during Hurricane Harvey. Six people in one van died because their car was submerged in flood waters after the family members tried to escape the area.

During times like this, proper safety and shelter information is a must. You should always double-check everything before you reblog it when lives are on the line. You don’t know who’s reading it. You don’t know who will believe it. You don’t know what that misinformation will cost someone.

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“I still cant feken run”

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When they said it might sing, this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.

I think my dinner is possessed.

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Melissa Villaseñor’s impression of Kate McKinnon

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Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

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