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It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.

I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you're essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn't ordinarily care about

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i don't actually give a fuck whether fatness is an indicator of health because health shouldn't indicate a moral high ground. being healthy isn't some pinnacle of human achievement, it's not morally superior. and being unhealthy isn't a moral failing and shouldn't mean you're less worthy of kindness, justice, and a good life. signed, a chronically ill person who will never be "healthy" at any weight.

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Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.

Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.

Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.

And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.

So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.

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The flip side of the post-World War II cries of “Never again” was an unspoken “Never before.” The insistence on lifting the Holocaust out of history, the failure to recognize these patterns, and the refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have all come at a high cost. The countries that defeated Hitler did not have to confront the uncomfortable fact that Hitler had taken pointers and inspiration on race-making and on human containment from them, leaving their innocence not only undisturbed but also significantly strengthened by what was indeed a righteous victory.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

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badweird feelings

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They should invent a new kind of body that doesn't do that

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Every time I look at a specific set of Irish maps that show the decline of Irish speakers between 1800 and 2000 I want to SCREAM

In 1800, almost three quarters of our island is depicted as Irish speakers, with the British dominated Pale region (Dublin and surrounding areas) not speaking Irish.

In 1850, shortly after the famine, the graphic recedes right back to just the west coast of Ireland, showing the population of Irish speakers.

And the reason is the Famine. An Górta Mór, the Great Hunger, our genocide. So many people died, and even more emigrated and they never taught Irish to their descendants because we were so hated that to acknowledge yourself as Irish, as an Irish-speaker meant you would have far less opportunities in life, so we lost our language.

And almost two hundred YEARS after the Famine, we've regained our population but not our language.

I love Irish so incredibly much, it is the language of my heart and soul, mo teanga féin álainn, and I will never, not in a thousand lifetimes, forgive those who enforced a Famine on my country, who exported corn and grain to other lands when my people were starving.

Ireland had food, it had crops, the Irish people laboured in our fields to grow crops and the British put it all on ships to feed the rest of their Empire and not us.

I will never, ever, stop being angry about the Famine and until the day I die, I will speak Irish for all of mo shinsirigh, mo chlann a fuair bás gan a dteanga dúchasach, and I will speak it for myself because is linn na Gaeil, agus is í Gaeilge ár dteanga aoibhinn álainn féin.

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“girls support girls” no. girls protect girls. I could hate a girl to death and I still wouldn’t take my eyes off her drink at a party, I could hate her like she was the devil but still I wouldn’t make her go back to a man that was beating her.

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Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

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“They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war”

Sticker spotted in San Antonio, Texas

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Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

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The worst thing about this peri menopause shit is that I am EXTREMELY interested in 🍆. As a sapphic, this is very upsetting.