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okay now I'm curious and I dunno if this is really such an archaic foreign thing to young people today or if I'm just out of touch

Please reblog, I'd love to see a lot of responses!

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Sounds like it'd be therapeutic enough to justify the cost, to me.

i didn't have anything to take my anger out on so i just sat down and played a shooter for nine hours.

it didn't help.

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Why wasn't it BIG tumb news when the HeLa court case got settled LAST YEAR. A significant part of modern medicine was a direct result of the stolen cells and the lack of compensation or settlement up until horrifyingly recently.

While i was in school this was still actively being fought. The audacity of the company to claim it was outside of the statute of limitations WHILE STILL BENEFITTING FROM IT IN THE ORDER OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

Which luckily because of previous court precedents was already a null argument specifically because of them actively benefitting

The Lacks family says they may go after other companies that use the cells as well and i think they should

I hate how much of the medical system, not just the US but as a result worldwide. Is built on unremediated racism and many other prejudices that still permeate the medical systems at this very moment

This SHOULD have been a monumental occasion oh so high and mighty "be aware of racism" "fight for equity everywhere" tumblr. And yet i recall no boom in the topic within the week it was posted.

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you can be both employed & way too online. it’s called “posting on the clock,” and actually, it’s praxis.

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"kung pow penis," a phrase commonly used in reblogs to indicate utter disdain for OP, has twelve letters, each of which (traditionally) must be supplied by a different user. the unanimity of disdain indicated by these twelve unrelated users has strong parallels to the requirement of unanimity for a jury—also traditionally of twelve—to arrive at a verdict. in this essay i will

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Oh hey, samesies. Almost, anyway.

context

my calligraphy sideblog is @calligraphy-creature

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submitted by @calligraphy-creature

??? THE CONTEXT??? OH MY GOD??? 

op how does the smell of raw egg not make you gag i dont understand 

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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Probably something along the lines of "Bloop"

Humpback Whales Are Approaching People to Blow Rings. What Are They Trying to Say?

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youre never alone. bacteria

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So, because I forgot to ever update on this, and I actually remember the event this precipitated:

Less than a week later I wound up finding a place that did that 10-patty burger, demolished that shit, and a week after that got myself kicked out of a CiCi's Pizza (an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet restaurant) for eating some 50-60 slices in one sitting.

God I was at that restaurant in Annapolis yesterday that serves those 4 lbs milkshakes and these two dudes were just finishing one together and people were asking them for tips and they were like “you have to get like mint chocolate chip or something because if there’s no texture it gets too boring to finish” and all I could keep thinking was that it can only be a matter of time before some god wipes this town off the map and we will have earned it with our disgusting hubris

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anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF