When is society gonna bring back tea parties? I don't wanna go to a bar, I want to sit at a round table in a floral dress, drink tea and eat cake !!
Some Florida students are opting to skip class for part of Friday, choosing to learn a banned history lesson instead.
Hundreds of high school and college students across the Sunshine State are walking out of classrooms as part of a protest organizers say is against the state governmentâs censorship and erasure when it comes to race and gender identity in education.
At noon, theyâll check their voter registration status, send a letter to local school board members and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis pledging theyâll use their vote to defend studentsâ rights, and take part in a five-minute banned history lesson that will focus on censorship and historic figures in Black and LGBTQ history.
Itâs all part of Walkout 2 Learn: a youth-led statewide walkout and rally in defiance of Floridaâs crackdown on lessons surrounding race and Black history along with a string of anti-LGBTQ laws that are impacting students.
spotted in a pub in continental Europe
How do I make this flag a trans flag
That fucking rules
[ID 1: An ad for Strongbow hard cider showing a nearly-topless white woman wearing an unbuttoned and mini-skirted riff on a British naval uniform. The woman is pouring cider out of a glass bottle held at her crotch into the mouth of a sweaty white man laying between her legs. In her off hand she is clutching a British flag and the background is full of orange smoke. The caption says "Here to conquer your thirst."
ID 2: The same ad with the blue, pink, and white trans flag instead. End ID]
if you hear someone havingng an emotional moment in the bathroom and crying in a closed stall the best thing you can do for them in that moment is shake the door really loud and growl
Two Ontario residents have created a website that allows tenants to anonymously rate their landlords.
The Rate The Landlord website has grown in popularity since its launch three weeks ago, and now has more than 1,500 reviews from tenants..
The two co-founders â who CBC News agreed not to name over concerns for their safety â said they decided to build the platform because while tenants have to provide a lot of personal information when leasing a property, there is a lack of transparency when it comes to landlords.
Taggingz: @politicsofcanada
Go Girls Go! | First Dyke March in Washington DC, 1993
Iâm stealing tags from @aethersea bc they deserve to be seen
According to some statistics it looks more like teaching sex ed (including consent) in school makes more young people realize they don't want to have sex yet or at all or don't want to do some specific sexual activities (also obvious from the increase of popularity of asexual-spectrum identities). Allegedly, young people who have accurate information about sexual activities and access to contraception, on average become sexually active later and are less likely to be affected by STIs or unplanned pregnancies.
Conservatives oppose sex education because it makes it harder for them to molest children
(Thatâs not a joke, thatâs just a fact.)
I am disappointed I won't be able to convince them to make catgirls, but given my love for putting Doom on things, it's probably for the best that I didn't get hired by that biotech company trying to cure blindness.
Although "Geordi LaForge's visor except it plays Doom" sounds awesome to me, it's probably less cool for people who just want to be able to see
i couldn't think of a better way to communicate this so its this . my struggle
since the gun emoji was taken from us iâve just been building my own contraptions
đŠđŞ đŞ Â Â đ§° it might not look like it but i just got your ass with a thingamajig
What's the most useful thing you learned while you were living abroad?
90% of people will stop thinking about you after you leave their field of vision.
9% will after 20 minutes.
0.9% will after 48 hours.
so like. if youre sweaty and disheveled and someone sees you and you feel uncomfortable. like. its fine. if they saw you again tomorrow there is a near guarantee they would not remember you at all.
car conversations so good bc of removal of eye contact expectation. let us all learn from this
catgirl starts hacking and iâm like âNoooo no no noâ and carry her by the armpits to somewhere with linoleum
-St Augustine, on Alexander the Great
-This girl
They are both right
Itâs interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole âyou need a doctorâs note to excuse your absence of even one dayâ combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like âyouâre still contagious even after the fever goes awayâ, and the overwhelming message of âif you donât struggle through it, youâre a failure!â
On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. Iâve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.
Hereâs a fun story:
The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my townâs was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didnât just âpostponeâ a surgery at one pointâ when I was fifteenâ to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.
So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said âyup, youâve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.â
So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, âno, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.â So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.
A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like⌠a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.
So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. âAh, well perhaps they didnât know,â you may very well say. âMaybe his parents didnât notice!â No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.
The kidâs parentsâŚâŚ.. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didnât want to risk hurting his precious âperfect attendanceâ record. They figured that since he wasnât, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.
Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he âcouldnât afford to missâ. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.
This entire attitude needs to die. Itâs dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because theyâre afraid of flunking out.
And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! Itâs 2019 and weâre flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like âactually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless americaâ
Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctorâs note.
this is what those in literary academia call âforeshadowingâ
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