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STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

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A drone captures an elephant herd sleeping while migrating across China. - Author: kooneecheewah on Reddit

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If you're in NYC and you haven't voted yet I'm gonna need you to go tomorrow and rank Zohran Mamdani #1. Tomorrow is the last day for early voting and then you won't get a chance again until Tuesday. It's extremely important that we elect Zohran.

His platform centers the following:

Affordable housing

Freezing the rent

Fast and free busses

Department of Community safety

No cost childcare

City owned grocery stores

Taxing corporations and the wealthy to pay for all of this

Here is a direct link to the platform with more details.

DO NOT RANK CUOMO.

Andrew Cuomo is a rapist. He's a Zionist who is literally on Netanyahu's defense team against the ICC. And his primary interest is upholding the status quo. He's backed by billionaires and landlords. NYC cannot afford a mayor like this.

If you are registered to vote in NYC I'm begging you to do so. We have a real chance here

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Just a little PSA for all our mental health (and chronic pain*) spoonies out there! A lot of doctors neglect to mention this little side effect, which means a lot of us are suffering extra from the heat without knowing why.

*Many psych meds are used to treat chronic pain as well, if you didn’t know!

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Hummingbird found shelter in the rain - Author: HaloWhimsyy

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A vampire digital scrap book background I made

((Theme idea thanks to @graveyardmoons ))

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the new Countess of Crimson Death, Dread Sorceress of the Thornwood. her grandma died and her mom is dealing with medical issues so she had to quit her job and make sure that roving "adventurers" or invaders from the nearby kingdom don't think that the town is fair game just because the original Countess is dead.

she mostly gets by on intimidation (which works surprisingly well, she inherited a lot of clout from grandma) and when she isn't dealing with her new duties she really wishes she could go back to her old life. she misses teaching. she's happy that she got to see her last batch of kindergartners graduate before she quit but visiting as a special guest for dark arts lessons isn't the same as being in the classroom every day :(

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Larping is painful actually because once you come home your thoughts are overtaken by the larp and all the characters in the campaign but there’s no fics or fanart or anything because there’s a total of forty people in the world that know about it and you can’t talk about it to anyone including the other larp people cause they intimidate you so you just sit with your brainworms and suffer

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requesting your favorite pictures and fun facts about bluejays! (shh don’t look at my url)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, ONT, Canada

Blue Jays have passed the mirror test, recognizing themselves in the mirror, which many birds are not able to do.

Blue Jays typically mate for life.

Blue Jays are one of the birds know to let ants crawl on them, to remove parasites, and dead skin and feather... this is called "anting".

Blue Jays are very social birds, and often live in flocks of closely related birds, feeding and migrating together.

Blue Jays have enigmatic migration patterns, some years not migrating at all, and other years migrating to totally new areas.

Though they are not known for it, Blue Jays cam mimic the calls of other birds, other animals, and human made sounds.

photograph by Jadwiga Dabrowski

Western KY, USA - photograph by Mike Blevins

Eastern U.S. - photograph by Andy Raupp

ONT, Canada - photograph by Harold Hutchings

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, and Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes, get into a Kerfuffle, MI, USA

photograph by Kevin Dunham

Eastern U.S. - photograph by @jocelynandersonphotography

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absolutely amazing things happening right now. I had to triple check that these were real

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me, a normal person: I'm going to make a design based on my cat

Her name is Girlfriend <3 <3 <3

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(Sound on.) Bonus clip today: Penguins navigating stairs.

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so true

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Hey, trans folks out there in the US who are scared about losing your gender affirming care: Join the satanic temple. You don't have to actually be a non-theological Satanist, you can just say that you are, and under TST's third tenet (right to bodily autonomy) you will have a solid option of using religious freedom as a court defense. They have an expert witness program, in which a satanic minister with legal experience will help defend your right to your gender affirming care in court if needed, and a nearby congregation will even help you look for options for lawyers and help you understand the legal processes involved. They are currently working on a legal strategy to fight anti-trans bills across the country. Sign up for their mailing list. You Don't Have To Be A Satanist To Do This, they will just help you. They have won so many cases in regards to reproductive rights that they have a very solid foundation for being able to fight effectively on this front too. If you are already in need of help, you can contact them and they'll walk you through it. Congregations are already working on a state by state basis to protect your right to bodily autonomy.