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Occoquan Bay - a surprise under every dumpster lid. Pro tip from one of my fellow volunteers, grab a long piece of wood and prop it in the dumpster to help the critters out. . . . . . I used to work here as a Wildlife Refuge Ranger but now working as an Assistant at US Fish and Wildlife HQ I don’t get to enjoy these sorts of days anymore. I decided to head back to volunteer at the visitor center and was so happy I did. #nationalwildliferefuge #occoquanbaynationalwildliferefuge #volunteer (at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co0SHyfpzXtKKBACQTHJmnzxbl3SAWW4wnBWR40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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OSCAR ISAAC Saturday Night Live

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The bad hospital experience that led Aminta Kouyate to become a doctor.

Going to the hospital isn’t fun, it’s when people are typically at their most vulnerable.

And for many people of color, traumatic encounters with the health care system are a reason to avoid going to the doctor. But for UC medical student Aminta Kouyate, it sealed her decision to become a physician.

Aminta was an undergrad at UC Berkeley, tackling general chemistry and physics, when she woke up at 5 a.m. with debilitating abdominal pain. Doctors first suspected appendicitis — but when the imaging showed her appendix was fine, “the tone in the room changed immediately,” Kouyate said. She was left for five hours by an open exit door in a hallway in just a thin patient gown.

“I was told I could leave at any time because they were not going to give me what I was looking for,” she said. “They thought I was there to seek pain medication, that I did not actually have a medical emergency.”

Finally, a Black nurse noticed her sitting in the hall and made sure the doctors addressed her problem and gave her the care she needed. But the experience left its mark.

“Nobody should ever have to have to feel this way,” she said. “I thought to myself, ‘If I have anything to do with it, nobody’s ever going to treat another patient like this again.’”

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I can hear the emotion in the “no”

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I didn’t know what I wanted to valentines day but now I do and I can’t have it because snow ),:

When Valentine’s Day and the Super Bowl are this close together, heart-shaped pizza does the trick!

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All glory and praise to the Superb Owl on this, the day of their reckoning 😌

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Americans didn’t always place their hands over their hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Originally, after saying “to the flag,” you were supposed to hold your arm straight out toward the flag with your palm facing up. Most people were too lazy or awkward to turn their palms up, and it looked more like a Nazi salute - so the gesture was officially changed in 1942.

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One of the things I appreciate the most in Arcane, that it seems to me that isn't spoken enough about it, is that the show is explicitly anti-war and anti-vilolence. Most of the characters don't enjoy hurting others, the harm and the fights are out of need. Violence isn't the first choice. They don't gloss over death and pain. Jayce kills a children in a situation where he almost had no choice, it was an accident but still he immediately realizes that violence only brings pain. Powder is terrified watching the others fighting. Vi keeps staring at her bloody hands with regret and sadness. Caitlyn is disgusted finding out the guard had been violent on Vi countless times, even before they grew closer. Even when Zuan asks a high price to pay the council chooses peace. Jayce and Viktor strongly refuse to use hextech to build weapons.

Even when characters like Silco and Ambessa seem to have a reason to use violence, as they claim their need for power as self defense the narrative counterpoints their pov with actual need for violence as self defense (Vi is the most obvious example but there's also the firelights that boycott Slico to protect others)

I just think that in today's media, saturated with fights for the so called "greater cause" where nobody is asked to question their choices (as violence is portrayed as the only option) is still hard to find something that proposes peace over and over again as a mean of resolving conflicts. I don't want to take away anything from action movies. This is just me wondering why peace was never an option.

Violence isn't the only answer, what we need as Arcane shows us, is just people caring for each other, putting their personal interests aside if they know it means that someone will suffer from them. The message literally is:

In the pursuit of greatness we failed to do good

Because greatness might improve lives in the future, after a process, but doing good means saving lives without waiting for an hypothetical discovery, is recognizing everyone deserves a good life in the present and working to achieve it.

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This doggo has invented a new game 

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Laws that made it illegal for blacks and whites to be buried in the same cemetery, that categorized people into quadroons and octoroons, that punished a black person for seeking medical attention in a white hospital. Some may claim that slavery has ended. But tell that to the inmates who are kept in cages and told that they don’t have any rights at all.

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When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes

LES MISÉRABLES (2012) dir. Tom Hooper

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living in the united states is supremely fucked up cause we're one of the richest, most powerful juggernauts on the planet, but your average citizen has relatively infinitesimal access to that wealth and power, and very little they can do to improve things.

being poor in the US still makes you rich by some global standards, but often times The American Experience is like..... you're a passenger locked in the baggage hold of a very long train that's going very fast. and the people driving the train are running it off the rails and shouting CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS CHOO CHOOOOOOOOO as they thoughtlessly bulldoze this train through everything in its path. you want very badly to get off the train or bludgeon the conductors with a crowbar, because you don't like where it's going, but you're handcuffed in a duffel bag and the conductors have barricaded themselves in the engine cars with all the food, medicine, and tools that could be used to help you out.

and UNDERSTANDABLY the rest of the world is like "what the FUCK is wrong with that train??? it must be stopped! there are so many people on the train why is nobody breaking into the conductor's booth and stopping it??!" but most of us are just squirming for basic survival in the last few cars while billionaires sit on top of the train sniping anyone brave enough to crawl up from the cargo hold, all while shouting that you're lucky to be on such a luxurious, successful train at all.