May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

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“Google Earth on Steroids”: New US Army Tech Can Look Inside Buildings

This is what i feared when i was little and now here it is

Gotta find out if your 19 year old wife is banging the mechanic working on your busted Charger somehow.

A reminder to everyone gettin hype about Gaster

Please don’t get mad at Toby Fox if he does a Gaster reveal and he:

- Doesn’t look the way you expect him to

- Isn’t related to Sans (and/or Papyrus) in the same sense you thought he’d be

- Has a different personality/background/character traits compared to how your favorite fanfic potrays him

Keep in mind that almost NOTHING about him is actually known besides what his followers say about him! Even his supposed “sprite” is never confirmed or denied to actually be him; everyone just collectively assumed that it was. So just try to keep an open mind as to what Gaster’s creator has intended for him from the very beginning! Embrace the things you don’t expect with excitement and new fan theories, not disappointment and anger!

And most importantly, have fun! Happy (almost) Halloween, everybody!

i dont care how “gay” a show is like if they never explicitly express it then i dont think its like, valuable, rep… like if these dudes aren’t kissing, fucking, or talking about actual explicit romantic feelings for each other… the bar needs to be raised… “gay representation” that can be plausibly denied as close friendship is boring and frustrating and cowardly writing!

this pride month let’s take a moment to celebrate these heroes

if Gilbert Gottfried isn’t voicing this slamming power bottom then what are we even doing here

happy pride month moomin accidentally calls his gf “snufkin” while snufkin is down south pretending snow mounds are moomin

THAT'S FUCKIN G A Y

30 Minute Speedpaints (6 of 9) - Diana Franco

now we know the source fellas please appreciate and acknowledge the artist for all ur memes

‪Yay, it’s Pride Month today! Here’s a little story from my coming out. Here’s to being proud and a little more seen. 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.everythingisgoingtobeokcomic.com/the-odd-girl-out/‬

Lmfao we’ve run out of money for food and we’re out of the country until the 18th. Excellent planning, mother. Hope your last ditch attempt to pray my gay away is worth us starving to death in Mecca.

If anyone can afford to help me and my idiot family have money for food until we get back to Canada on June 18th, I’d really appreciate it.

I hate that I have to ask because I didn’t even want to be in this situation in the first place, and yet it’s up to me to try and fix my mom’s mistakes. I really can’t wait to be free of her hopefully within a year’s time.

My PayPal is sa.bouraleh@gmail.com

Today was the last day we had enough. We now only have 3 riyal, which can’t get you a damn thing. RIP us lmao

On the plus side, all three of us have a cold! Thank you, universe, for gifting us with that. Mighty generous of you!

Anything helps!!

I’ve gotten a handful of generous donations, but this is still far from something that can sustain us until the 18th. Please don’t assume a lot of notes directly translates to a lot of donations. Thank you so much for signalboosting, if you can donate anything, please consider doing so!! Thank you!!!

So there’s a little under 20 days left until I’m back home and we’ve got enough money for food for the next handful of days. After that, there’s a little under two weeks we still need money for food. Anything anyone can spare would be appreciated so much. Thank you!!

PayPal

It’s Pride Month, I’m gay, help your fave twink out pls 🌈

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New trend I’m kickstarting:

Anime girls holding signs calling weebs out on their bs

Since I got suspended from Twitter, I’ll put these freshly-made new additions here

This version deserves to be spread, too

so many weebs are raging about this lol

You can have mine too!

We are one day into pride and the new excuse is that the orange and pink flag is aphobic. The real hatred of lesbians on this website is palpable. Pick a flag and shut up.

If youre not a lesbian please feel free to reblog but dont add any dumb comments or talk over lesbians thanks!

Is it acceptable to say “my life has gone down the drain and I’ve lost so much weight stressing out because Thanos snapped my cats and also I’ve been heartbroken can you please commission me because vet Bills teeth Bills health Bills G-d I wish I was dead”

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Happy pride you guys I was almost homeless again yesterday, if anyone wants to help out a brown trans guy who has chronic pain keep him and his disabled parents off the streets you are all in my heart for the rest of my life

Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.

Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.

happy pride month know your history

JOHN BROWN DO IT AGAIN

JOHN BROWN DO IT AGAIN

JOHN BROWN DO IT AGAIN

JOHN BROWN DO IT AGAIN

Imagine looking at the inhuman act of slavery and thinking John Brown was wrong. There is a term for that. Slavery sympathizer.

“But he also brutally murdered several people in support of a political or social cause – basically the definition of terrorism.“

Unlike the US Civil War, which (as is well-known) was entirely bloodless.

Collected on This Day: Poison Ivy

Watch out for poison ivy!  Both because it is a fascinatingly cool plant but also a potentially dangerous one.  This flowering specimen of poison ivy was collected on May 31, 1903 by John Shafer (first curator of botany at Carnegie Museum) and O.P. Medsger in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern PA.

Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) is a woody vine found in forest understories, but does especially well on forest edges. It is very common in urban and suburban environments. It takes many forms, climbing high up a tree, along the ground, or even a short shrubby thing. The leaves take a range of shapes, but as the adage goes (“leaves of 3, let it be”), it has three leaflets.

Poison ivy is known by many for its chemistry, producing a class of organic compounds call urushiol found in the plant’s sap and on leaves/stems/roots that cause a nasty rash to those who touch it. Not all people have a reaction (but most are sensitive), but don’t be too confident - it can develop with repeated exposure.  Incredibly itchy, the rash can become a serious health issue if infected, and especially if its oils get in contact with your eyes, face, or throat.  The rash can appear days after exposure and can last for weeks.

Research indicates poison ivy will get more poisonous with climate change, both in terms of growth and producing higher quantities of forms of urushiol particularly toxic to humans.  

It is often considered a “weed” because of its fear-causing rash, but it is native to eastern North America.  The species has a wide distribution across our region, and across the world (native subspecies in China). Although native, the species seems to be getting more common as we create more forest edge habitat.   The colorful foliage can be quite beautiful in the fall, and the berries are a food source for birds and other animals. Humans seem to be the only ones allergic to it.

Poison ivy is often confused with other non-poisonous and poisonous plants. Some common confusions are 1) Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), a vine in the grape but different leaves, and not with leaves of three and 2) Box elder maple (Acer negundo), a tree that has compound leaves unlike most stereotypical maples,  but with samaras (aka “helicopter” seeds).    

Poison ivy and some other rash-causing plants are in the cashew family (Anacardiaceae) – which also includes poison oak (not found in Pennsylvania, but in western USA), staghorn sumac (not rash causing), poison sumac (rash causing, but you likely won’t come across it unless in very wet habitats)….and even a few familiar species like  pistachio,  cashew, and mango (some people are allergic).    

What an amazing plant.  

This specimen image is now publicly available online: http://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=12232529&clid=0

Check back for more! Botanists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History share digital specimens from the herbarium on dates they were collected. They have embarked on a three-year project to digitize nearly 190,000 plant specimens collected in the region, making images and other data publicly available online. This effort is part of the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project (mamdigitization.org), a network of thirteen herbaria spanning the densely populated urban corridor from Washington, D.C. to New York City to achieve a greater understanding of our urban areas, including the unique industrial and environmental history of the greater Pittsburgh region. This project is made possible by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 1801022.  

Mason Heberling is Assistant Curator of Botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.

All I did was brush up against some and now my fingers are all red and sting ;(

Vintage on disability rights.

Don’t let the black and white trick you. The Capitol Crawl was in 1990. This is not ancient history.

This was in 1990.