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@ my American followers: how do you guys feel about the parents of the Oxford shooter also being arrested/facing charges? What sort of precedent do you think it might set? Is it effective?

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You know what’s weird seeing an older lady with a fat ass. You feel wrong for looking but you can’t help it. Like she got wrinkles and gray hair but that ass is sitting. Good grief.

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Hey so like. Y'all know that you can actually form substance abuse problems and addiction with marijuana right?

Like it's far less likely to end up killing you (pretty much impossible) or seriously harm your health than alcohol or hard drugs, but you can still have a problem with it. You can absolutely become dependent on it to the point that it interferes with your functioning and/ or finances which is what addiction is.

People who struggle with this deserve to be taken seriously and given the same support as alcoholics, not made fun of by people who make being a stoner their entire personality.

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By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

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The jaguar (Panthera onca), listed by the IUCN as Near Threatened, ranges from northern Mexico through Central America, the Amazon Basin, and into northern Argentina. Ecologists had never properly counted jaguars in Mexico before, making it difficult to design a conservation program in the iconic cat’s northernmost ranges. The alliance created by Ceballos and his colleagues used the results of the first Mexican jaguar census in 2010 to create a national strategy endorsed by government policy and scientists alike.

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Ceballos expected jaguar populations to stay the same or decrease between 2010 and 2018. Instead, estimated numbers rose by 20%, from roughly 4,000 to 4,800 animals. Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula hosts about 2,000 jaguars, with others spread throughout coastal and inland habitats across the nation.

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Morato notes that other wildlife and ecosystems will benefit from these efforts.

“The jaguar is an umbrella species,” Morato told Mongabay. “They need a large amount of area, so if we need to protect a viable population of jaguars with at least 50 individuals, we are going to have many other species protected [within that area].”

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If this wasn’t ridiculous enough, the DCCC is the official campaign arm of the Democratic Party. They’re asking to lose at this point.

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people also talk about sex like there are some complicated insider info only super good sex havers know. when are we going to start calling them out lol. sex is like at most 5 things that you can do like 3 or 4 different ways. sex position jokes are for 13 year old boys who would spend money to fuck a warm melon, they are loudly infantilizing if you pay your own taxes LMAO

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A collection of 100+ books of significance to anarchist and radical feminist history and theory.

(The original compiler is unknown but the links are available in pdf, epub and mobi for any ebook readers, and it's just good to have so many titles in one place, it's been useful for me and I've never seen the links around Tumblr so. ❤️)

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On this day, 5 December 2019, the first of numerous strikes by French public sector workers began in protest at proposed cuts to pensions. The government of Emmanuel Macron wanted to cut workers’ pensions, increasing normal retirement age for many public sector workers from 62 up to 64, after previous reforms had increased it from 60. The strike severely disrupted transport, schools, fire services and even shutdown the Eiffel Tower, while hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, in some places clashing with police. Opinion polls showed that a 69% of people in France supported strikes, with support especially strong amongst younger workers. Many transport workers remained on strike for six weeks, while other groups of workers, like ballerinas, took sporadic action until the government agreed to suspend its plans in January, pending a report later in the year. Pictured: striking ballerinas give a public performance to other strikers. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1869374639914344/?type=3

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Lmao I was in the change room at work and was taking selfies and this lady comes up to me and we get to talking and then she’s like “you work here right? You look so good what are you doing? How much do you weigh right now?” So I tell her I’m ive just been living my life but working out more and that I’m 135lbs and she makes this face and is like “oh but that’s still a little heavy isn’t it?” Ma’am????? Ma’am????????????

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It turns out airstrikes alone are just as militarily limited as they were back in the 1940s, when terror bombing accomplished little in the fight against the Nazis and Imperial Japan. Years of strikes in Yemen and Somalia achieved nothing but further destabilization of those beleaguered countries. Only in support of ground forces — as strikes were sometimes used to support the Iraqi military and Kurdish peshmerga in their fight against the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017 — is air power even tactically effective. And in the process of defeating ISIS, Trump’s callous disregard for human life led to a botched 2017 airstrike in Mosul that killed 278 civilians, the worst death toll from a single American attack in the entire Iraq conflict.

To my considerable surprise, Biden seems to have internalized some of these lessons. Immediately after taking office, he set up a new system requiring White House approval for any strikes outside of active war zones (and later published Trump’s loose rules that enabled so many civilian massacres). Now that the occupation of Afghanistan is over, that requirement applies almost everywhere, and it appears Biden is extremely reluctant to grant approval. Where Trump oversaw more than 1,600 air and artillery strikes in Iraq and Syria during his first 11 months in office, Airwars reports just four during Biden’s term so far. Strikes in Somalia fell from roughly 75 last year to fewer than 10 this year, with no civilian casualties. And in Yemen, the annual total dropped from about 18 to maybe four, with fewer than 10 casualties of any kind. (Precise figures are unclear because some strikes are classified.)

That’s a major shift — and this is probably the first you’ve heard of it.