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I'm keeping an eye out for heat stroke in my area and I can't figure out what a full body flush would look like on dark skin since all the pictures are just fake training pictures. Anyone have video/pics of a heat stroke flush on black skin?

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Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Be sure to check out IAmDSharp!

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Komodo Dragon

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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Reached out to a biologist to request some info about an extinct species of freshwater shrimp and the email she sent in response was not only lovely and helpful but also kind of poetry to me? People who study invertebrates are actually the most hopeful and compassionate scientists that we have.

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In addition to all the absolute (deliberate?) misunderstandings of female empowerment that are on display in these attempts to force women into the dumbest version of influencer femininity, I need to also point out that only a fucking suburbanite thinks that so-called "real country girls" don't do any manual labor. Have you ever set foot in the actual woods you total rag

It's still so incredibly twisted how if a woman doesn't wear makeup or has "masculine" interests (which is a stupid concept on its own) people not only attack her and assume she only does that to appeal to men* but also act like they're being feminist for doing so.

If anyone at all should be getting called a pickme I could at least understand if it was misogynistic tradwives or something, not just women who don't fit in with gender conformists.

*A lot of men seem to actually prefer it when women wear makeup and act "feminine" actually. That's the gender role that gets enforced.

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Beyond providing something to cite, the other benefit of doing "water is wet" type studies is that, like, it's not impossible for people to be reductive about their own experiences. I can think of any number of situations where "everybody knows" that all members of group A experience B, and plenty of members of group A will themselves tell you this is obviously the case, but then somebody actually does the work and it turns out to be substantially more complicated than that.

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going to bat for the concept of internet addiction as someone under 80 is spectacularly funny

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"gambling addiction" is kind of like if people regularly opened pits with spikes at the bottom in public areas and made lots of money from people falling into the pit and so they started greasing the edges and putting these pits in every public space and lobbying to be allowed to install them in people's homes and when someone fell into the greased spike pit in their house they said "oh thats so tragic, they had an addiction to deadly spikes, we obviously support everyone having a safe and healthy responsible relationship with the greased spike pits we're building"

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Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally (x)

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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See the thing is that I do really like fantasy and as a result I am so very aware that fantasy as a genre has been white dudes' playground for a very long time. And as a result even entries that I find incredibly engaging in other ways tend to fall desperately flat in terms of racial diversity, and so I am usually happy to snap up whatever I can get.

But.. it is also quite noticeable, these days, when there are no black people present. I have been (slowly) working my way back through Children of Morta which I very much have been enjoying. And, there sure are people of color in the various NPCs that need rescuing. But the family in itself? Is entirely white.

Now I can forgive it a little when it comes to being a family thing if only because as a mixed race individual I am so very much aware that people will not think about the possibility of a mixed race family unless they are forced to or unless they themselves are mixed race. So the mom, dad, and three children plus the grandma and uncle? Yeah sure fine whatever.

But then we're joined by the uncle's estranged son who is a hulking giant. And then we're joined by a "tribal woman" shortly after. And, you know, I understand hesitating to have either of those be people of color due to then falling into some pretty fraught stereotypes... but then my next thought is that you could have avoided fraught stereotypes being your only POC depictions by simply having the family... be people of color.

This is furthered by the devs stating that the Bergsons have a "non-specific ethnicity". That is all well and good. But why does opting out of stating ethnicity always look so... pale? If you mixed every single person in every single country in the entire world all together, the majority of what you would find are various shades of brown, not white. It is really very few countries that your average person is so specifically a peachy color, and those countries have very specific ethnicities as the dominant group.

This is especially true when other characters are not pale skinned- but they are (largely voiceless, as the unseen Narrator voices all of their lines) NPCs that exist only to either sell you things, be saved from oncoming doom and destruction in the form of various brutal monsters, or enemies in their own way especially in the incredibly sandy and Agrabah-ish levels which is its own problem.

Which means there was an active choice to make the playable good guys only family characters white, when the rest of the world is so varied in color, and when there are enemies who are decidedly less so. And saying that they have "no specific ethnicity" does not fly when ethnicity is clearly depicted elsewhere within the story.

I have to be clear that I do really like this game, and that it is a visually stunning masterpiece with a wonderful story, and I'm enjoying the journey.

But it is something that I notice whenever it comes up, game after game after game. At some point, it gets exhausting. This family could be black, and there would genuinely be no difference in any of these characters. So why make the choice for their non-specific ethnicity to still be a white one? Why continue to make white the default?

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Jean Ritchie 1958

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Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, India

photograph by Rajesh Chaube

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Unmarked masked men (aka secret police) claiming to be ICE arrested Brad Lander, the NYC comptroller and current mayor candidate, and refused to identify themselves or produce a warrant when asked.

Shits bad, y'all

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They're not really yours until they're covered with notes. Go forth and annotate.

someone convince me that downloading PDFs is not actually the same thing as working on my dissertation