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Master of None - 2x08 - “It’s not like this was my choice. It’s just who I am.”

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2015 Santo Wines Assyrtiko

Assyrtikos bring out my smug mug, especially when I’m surrounded by pretty springtime flowers. Pretty straightforward on the nose with lemon, apple, pear, and mineral notes. Much the same on the palate but a bit more stony and mineral. 

3/5 bones

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Assyrtiko

13% abv

Santorini, GREECE

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Seriously so happy about this.

THE BOYCOTT IS OVER!!! ALL OF OUR MUSIC (AND A FEW OTHER TREATS) NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER AT OUR SHOP WWW.RISCSTORE.COM DIRECTLY FROM US!

SHORT VERSION: CHECK OUT ALL OF OUR SELF-RELEASED ALBUMS ON CD & VINYL AND SOME MORE TIDBITS AT https://riscstore.com/collections/preorder-2017

LONG VERSION: This is it! If you’ve ever hesitated to buy a Streetlight CD or record due to concerns about where the money would be ending up, or due to our self imposed boycott, ALL THAT IS OFFICIALLY OVER! Our artist-owned label, Pentimento Music Co. is today re-releasing brand spanking new versions of all of our albums (except Keasbey Nights, more on that later this year) along with some extra goodies.

We’ve made a lot of sacrifices and borrowed a lot of money from a lot of kind people to make the recent purchase of all of our masters possible. Many of you offered donations; we don’t want your charity, brothers and sisters, we’d rather you guys support us by buying legitimate copies of the music that we make. We’ve always encouraged file sharing and ethically pirating music, and we still do! If you can’t/don’t want to buy anything to support Streetlight, we say ENJOY OUR MUSIC ANY WAY YOU CAN, whether that is via shopify’s free tier, pirated mp3’s, coming to a show, WHATEVER. But if you’d like to help the band and ensure our future is full of new tunes and shows, feel free to buy a cd or vinyl record, or one of the packages we’ve put together, and have confidence that every single penny you send our way goes towards paying down our new piles of debt, and towards future Streetlight releases, all of which will be entirely self funded and released via Pentimento!

You can buy any album on CD or vinyl, or you can save some cash and buy a collection that includes ALL THE CDS or ALL THE VINYL. If you’re feeling particularly generous and collector-y, we’ve set up two “ALL OF THE THINGS” Bundles that include either all the cds or all the vinyl records, as well as a 5 color, hand numbered screen printed poster by the one and only SCOTT BENSON, a t-shirt with the poster art on it (and the art, for the record, is super awesome, just ///// HEAD OVER TO fb.com/smanifesto to read the rest!

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Happy National Pretzel Day from Seinfeld!

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One day Ronnie Sidney, from Tappahannock, Va., was goofing off with his classmates in math when one of them threw a football at the board — and it landed a little too close to the teacher. Sidney says the ninth-grade teacher, visibly frustrated, turned around and said, “ ‘None of you are going to college.’ ”

That was a pivotal moment for Sidney. Not only did he feel stigmatized as a special education student diagnosed with ADHD, Sidney says he’d also felt discriminated against in school as an African-American.

By the time of the incident with the football, he’d already spent seven years in special education, feeling like he was bad at school. But Sidney says, instead of letting the teacher’s outburst get to him personally, it motivated him to graduate high school, then college and eventually get a master’s degree in social work at Virginia Commonwealth University.

His Teacher Told Him He Wouldn’t Go To College, Then He Did

Illustration: Kelsey Wroten for NPR

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tbh saying "what kind of white people shit is this?" is racist and you should shut the fuck up

what kind of white people shit is this 

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The bumblebee was officially added to the endangered species list.

 Please:

Go plant an organic flower native to wherever you are

Leave your “weeds” alone they probably aren’t hurting anything

Stop using/buying Roundup and all other insecticides, herbicides, pesticides. 

If you have a bee problem (which almost never happens) call a local beekeeper! They will remove them safely free of charge

Bumblebees usually nest underground and just wanna be left alone! They won’t hurt you. To prevent destroying their habit during hibernation, avoid mowing yards until April or May. If you do mow, raise the blades to the highest setting

Please save my fat clumsy fuzzy friends I love them and they’re very good pollinators.

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Selena was released 20 years ago on March 21, 1997

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Here’s a classic big city dilemma (sorry suburban folks): It’s late at night, the weather is bad, and you’re hungry. Your favorite restaurant is less than a mile away, but you don’t want to leave the house, and you don’t want to pay a $5 delivery fee — plus tip — for a $10 meal.

So, what do you do?

Back in the old days, you would have braved the elements — or learned to plan ahead. But those days are coming to an end, at least in Washington, D.C.

A fleet of about 20 autonomous, knee-high robots recently has appeared on the sidewalks of the nation’s capital, and they’re out to revolutionize hyper-local delivery in big cities. Their mission? Bring takeout food from restaurants to hungry customers at home — while keeping the delivery cost to around a dollar.

Hungry? Call Your Neighborhood Delivery Robot

Photos by Meg Kelly/NPR

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Dan Diamond’s Twitter thread comparing Trump to Arrested Development is fucking me up

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8 Formidable Facts About Bees

Let’s hear it for the bees! (Let’s give the bees a ha-aa-aa-aaand!)

Spring is (supposedly) on its way, so we want to send a little love and appreciation to all the bees out there, making our everyday possible. Join us in celebrating these 8 reasons to celebrate our tiny, but mighty friends.

1. Bees make our surroundings beeee-autiful. In addition to pollinating our crops, bees are responsible for pollinating all of the things that make spring sing. And they’re no novices - they’ve been producing honey from flowering trees (fruit trees, nut trees, and bee-yond) for 10-20 million years! From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce

2. Bees are social insects. Honey bees live together in large, well-organized family groups and engage in a variety of complex tasks not practiced by solitary insects. Communication, complex nest construction, environmental control, defense, and division of the labor are just some of the behaviors that honey bees have developed to exist successfully in social colonies. And they are not the least bit lazy: one single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce

3. Bees are above words. They communicate through ‘dance’ and pheromones. By performing what’s referred to as the ‘waggle dance’, bees can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations. From the TED-Ed Lesson Why do honeybees love hexagons? - Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson

4. Bees make great wingmen. Bees are very busy little matchmakers. The bees’ side of the whole “birds and the bees” business is to help plants find mates and reproduce. Today, around 170,000 plant species receive pollination services from more than 200,000 pollinator species, a good many of which are bees! In return, flowering plants are an abundant and diverse food source for pollinators. For instance, fossil records suggest that bees may have evolved from wasps that gave up hunting after they acquired a taste for nectar. From the TED-Ed Lesson How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos

5.Bees put food on our tables. Bees pollinate our crops on an industrial scale, generating over one-third of U.S. food production. Their work alone has contributed an estimated $15-20 billion of value to the U.S. agricultural business. From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce

6. Bees can totally pack up a car better than you. Honeybees are some of nature’s finest mathematicians. Not only can they calculate angles and comprehend the roundness of the earth, these smart insects build and live in one of the most mathematically efficient architectural designs around: the beehive. Charles Darwin himself wrote that the honeycomb is a masterpiece of engineering. It is “absolutely perfect in economizing labor and wax.” From the TED-Ed Lesson Why do honeybees love hexagons? - Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson

7. Bees are hooked on coffee, too. When bees pollinate coffee plants, they consume low doses of caffeine from the coffee flower nectar, which means that bees are **BUZZZZZING** from a caffeine high just like us, AND helping us to get our coffee fix on the daily! From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce

8. Honeybees are disappearing at astonishing rates. Not to be a **buzzkill**, but here’s a not-so-fun fact. In the past decade, the U.S. honeybee population has been decreasing at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Bee mortality rates in commercial production have more than doubled in the last decade, and in 2015, 40% of bee colonies were reported lost in just a single year. There are a variety of factors causing Colony Collapse Disorder, and scientists everywhere are working to prevent further loss of bees. Keep reading to see how you can help. From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce

Love bees as much as we do? Well, let’s give the bees a hand, for real! Plant some bee-friendly flowers this spring and remember, when bees have access to good nutrition, we have access to good nutrition through their pollination services. 

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Lovin’ these Arizona backroads and wild flowers, so nice around here 🌸

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Moonlight cast backstage during the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California.

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I remember when I was 6, and bursting with excitement at the wonders of the world, which were just waiting for me to discover them.

I remember when I was 10, and feeling like I must be the smartest kid in the world, because nobody else my age seemed to understand me.

I remember when I was 14, and stepping cautiously into a strange and unknown world, where everyone made up their mind about you with one look.

I remember when I was 16, and finding some confidence in my place in the world, in spite of the voices that told me I didn’t belong.

I remember when I was 18, and brimming with hope about taking on the world, when I finally had the ability to shape it myself.

I remember when I was 20, and wondering what to do to make my mark on the world, or whether I was even capable of doing so.

I remember when I was 22, and struggling to find a way to create my own world, full of experiences that bring me joy and comfort.

I wonder if when I’m 24, I’ll be reinvigorated with confidence and hope enough to finally face the world, ready to offer all that I can to make it a better place.

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Two decades ago, only about 9 percent of children’s books published in the U.S. were about people of color. Things have changed since then, but not by much.

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I care about the problems of men. I care that the patriarchy tells men that they have to be stoic beasts incapable of emotion. I care that the patriarchy tells men that they are lust-filled monsters incapable of controlling their own libidos. I care that the patriarchy tells men that they cannot be raped or assaulted because the patriarchy believes women are too weak and inferior to be dangerous.

Feminists did not do this to you, other men did.