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even worse, this post is already a year old. since january there have been more mass shootings than there were days in 2023 in america

[Image description: a tweet by Heidi Stevens. “Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.” Below, a photo of the cover in question, from the New York Times Sunday Review. On a black background, the same phrase repeats over and over: “Authorities said the gunman was able to obtain the weapon legally.” Under each repetition, the location and date of a different shooting, with the number of people killed. Only shootings between 2015 and 2022, where the gun was legally obtained, are listed. This is enough to completely cover the page, in average size font. End ID. /]

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

It is important to note that this is their CURRENT range. Like all megafauna their range is significantly smaller than it once was and giraffes WERE in fact native to Egypt, but went locally extinct around 600 AD.

While many local extinctions of giraffe populations were due to human activity, in this case it was natural climate change as the Sahara dried up that killed the Northern Giraffes (the species including the Rothschild's, West African, Kordofan, and Nubian subspecies) of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Libya.

"a pharmacist at a Walgreens chain in Oakland refused to hand over his hormone replacement medicine due to their “religious beliefs”."

......

I'm sorry

He did what now?

Perhaps someone should explain to this hateful little cunt what being employed in the service industry means

It means you do what your fucking told

When I walk into McDonalds I don't expect to have some whiny little cunt tell me "I'm a vegan so I can't morally sell you a Big Mac"

If this brainleess cross burning little dipshit wants to bitch and whine about his "Morals" and "Religious beliefs" he can fuck off to whatever sub-reddit he and the rest of his basement dwelling nazi buddies hang out in and cry his eyes out about it there to the rest of the snivelling little dateless wonder fuckboys that make up his pathetic friend circle

He's employed to do a fucking job. If he won't do his job he should be fired immediately and replaced with someone who will do what they are being paid to do

If his "Religious beliefs" dictate that he can't do said job he can fuck off to the unemployment line and have fun waiting to see if his imaginary friend shows up with bread and fishes to feed him while he's out of a job

I absolutely encourage anyone who encounters worthlss transphobic trash like this pharmacist to do everything in their power to get these little cunts fired from their jobs because "people" like this bigot shouldn't be allowed to work in pharmacies

Or anywhere, really

There's only one Walgreens on Telegraph in Oakland: 5505 Telegraph. It's this one.

Not far from Children's Hospital. Part of a shopping center with Noah's Bagels, Round Table Pizza, and a post office.

If you're local, it's definitely worth calling or stopping by to ask which of your normal purchases, especially medications, might not be available based on the religious biases of some of their staff.

And keep pestering them until that pharmacist is fired. And they say so publicly.

The news article mentioned the victim's name but not the pharmacist's. (This is a liability thing; journalists have to be very careful about whose names they throw around or they or their news host can be sued.)

Walgreens needs to become aware that (1) they are going to be subject to a whole lot of very annoying calls (and possibly visits) until they declare that bigotry in their staff is not welcome, and (2) it's a really bad idea for patients to be unwilling to tell pharmacists anything about their condition, and this guy is undermining public trust in the medical profession as a whole.

A medical professional who can't do their job for "religious reasons," if they can't just fire the person, should have to make it very very clear to customers that they provide limited services.

Maybe they can wear a button that says "I WILL NOT HANDLE SOME MEDICATIONS," possibly with a nice list that can be handed out on request. Of course, the pharmacy would need to always have another person on hand for their shifts; they can't have someone working alone who can't serve the customers, but as long as they're always paired with someone who can, it's not a problem.

("Just fire the asshole" is by far the preferred route. But he may actually be looking for that; he may have a neo-nazi legal team ready to jump in and sue the company for firing someone "based on their religious beliefs.")

Doing research today, particularly focusing on old Colorado legends, and I found a story about a woman nicknamed Rattlesnake Kate. Apparently she killed 140 rattlers in a day, a good portion using a metal “No Hunting” sign when she ran out of bullets. She then proceeded to skin them and turn them into a dress. Later she opened a snake farm.

Given that I found this story in one of those questionably researched, self-published books you find in roadside gift shops, I figured it had to be a little oversold, right? So off to the internet I went and. Nope. Not oversold. There’s pictures. The dress is now in a museum.

damn, girl made a necklace to go with it, she knows how to accessorize

Saw this post a while back and realised, wait. I’m in Colorado. And today I had the time to drive up to Greeley to see it.

Not only did she make the dress, but she also made a headband with 37 rattles on it, and covered the shoes with snakeskin and rattles, so it all matches.

The museum also has the gun she used, although not the “No Hunting” sign.

She’s buried in nearby Platteville, under the name “Rattlesnake Kate”, by her request.

In Jan 2022, the Denver Center for Performing Arts premiered a musical about Rattlesnake Kate composed by Neyla Pakarek, who used to sing in the Illumineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aTiy0d_WA

the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they're pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they'd butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.

where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall

Senpai says you’re welcome

Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.

There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.

And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom:

ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit’s back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

you understand

Oops, my hand slipped–

humanizations of websites have returned. nature is healing, capitalism is the virus

THE FANART

the details tho lmfao

1) is that. is that none pizza with left beef

2) two wine glasses. either Tumblr has Company (Twitter?) or they were EXPECTING company and had it ready for Reddit’s arrival.

either way, Plot Thickens

I mean we did know shit was gonna hit the fan over at Reddit and were preparing for the influx of new users so like.

biden 2024 - making things work

This is why I honestly feel like Biden was the best possible choice in a shitty situation, even with his age and potential health issues. Because if nothing else, he is NOT REACTIONARY. He is methodical and dedicated. Do I wish he acted a little faster and with more of an eye towards progressive policies? Obviously yes. But given the choices, and given everything else that's happened, Biden has absolutely made the best of a bad situation. Sometimes you don't need a hero, you need a fucking repairman to come and just make it work until it can be fixed. And he's a damn good repairman.

Okay, I’ll give him the W for this one.

I feel like they should just print this out and hand it to any reporter dumb enough to ask about recovering bodies

^ that pairs really well with this quote too

my favorite part about this mspaint is how succinctly it depicts the Titan. it was just a fucking tube with titanium endcaps.

do you want to see a submersible that's capable of reaching the titanic and has been in operation since 1964? yes this has been in operation for almost 60 years:

look at how this thing was designed with safety in mind:

the part where the crew sits is entirely made out of titanium, and it's a sphere. why? because a sphere has less weak points than a cylinder. it's more or less uniformly strong in all directions

if you look at other deep sea subs that support a crew and you'll notice a pattern. while their superstructure that is not pressurized may vary, the pressurized compartments are spherical. take a look at this pretty comprehensive list of manned deep-sea submersibles and click through to some that are on the list of the deepest dives

I referenced the Alvin first because it was famously used to explore the titanic but the list goes much deeper (remember the titanic is at about 4000m depth)

Here's a cutaway of the Challenger. Notice anything?

the titanium sphere used to house the crew?

now look at the Titan:

its an accident waiting to happen.

the Alvin designed 60 years ago is still diving to the depths beyond the titanic, and has completed around FIVE THOUSAND DIVES because it was designed with safety in mind

the Titan got crushed into a billionaire smoothie maker because the CEO who commissioned it designed it to carry as many paying customers as possible for the lowest cost, and by his own mantra of "safety gets in the way of innovation"

you can't innovate your way around physics! the physics that led to the design of the Alvin in 1964 are the same physics that made gogurt out of you and your passengers mr stockton rush. no amount of free market entrepreneurial spirit is gonna make your tube go super saiyan at 4000m and prevent the mathematical certainty of physics from taking your life

When your friend has so much himbo spirit he rigs himself a gaydar to be a better wingman.

my man here m a d e his own gaydar. he. he fucking. he made a gaydar. he made a gaydar, thought this through and put together a system specifically to find gays. he made

I’m reblogging this again for a bigger audience, and it’s really funny to me that the tags on this come in only 2 kinds

i can’t just explain to a normal person that the thing i love about anakin skywalker is that you can visibly track him from, “i am a person, and my name is anakin,” to him kneeling to palpatine, and allowing palpatine to do whatever he wants to anakin, to the only other person in the galaxy that anakin cares about, as long as palpatine never leaves him. vader would forgive palpatine genuine and actual torture before he forgave palpatine for dying, and very literally does. in the text. he waits to kill palpatine until luke begs him to because the idea of living without palpatine - someone who took anakin’s life and entirely redesigned it, who has done unimaginably horrible things to him since he was nine - is still that intolerable. and then i STILL have to read people on the webbed site going “but did anakin even learn any lessons at the end of ROTJ, did he even do anything different to earn that redemption” and it drives me CRAZY like it drives me CRAZY like you guys have to be saying this shit to drive me personally CRAZY

surgery without anesthesia is torture. sensory deprivation is torture. you don’t have to see materials outside of the films to understand that the way palpatine treats vader is torture; you don’t have to see materials outside of the films to understand the way palpatine approaches anakin as a child and then manipulates his way further into anakin’s confidences is child abuse. it just is. it already is that bad, without even digging into the excess (the wealth!) of materials that take what is already horrible and make it worse; i don’t need to reference the comics that include vader being operated on while palpatine’s Besties TM watch, or the novels that indicate that the noise of the respirator mechanism was so loud vader couldn’t sleep (which is torture!), or the comics that indicate palpatine just lit vader’s ass up with lightning because it was fun, and he could, and there is seemingly absolutely nothing he can do that will break vader’s loyalty to him. it is the story of the dog licking the hand that beats it, over and over and over again. the OT describes vader as seduced by the dark side; his fate as one that yoda calls suffering; the emperor literally that vader belongs to him. this is not a case of “it’s only in the EU!” it is right there on the screen in front of everyone.

and i will never not be rendered overemotional by the fact that in all of that, in over thirty years of palpatine dictating every individual factor of vader’s existence, of supplanting everything in his life so wholly that vader’s universe revolves only around palpatine and what palpatine wants, the only thing vader truly disobeys him for, the fucking line that palpatine crosses, is about luke. like goddamn holy shit what are you fucking talking about “he didn’t learn anything to earn that redemption” goddamn holy shit this is the ultimate catharsis of the entire saga and your nerdy ass is like “hm, i don’t think he could write me an essay about how losing people you love is inevitable because he just saves luke” but he has to kill palpatine to do it you ksjdflkahglkhlkHLHDSLKGHS KNUCKLEHEAD

This is what I'm talking about when I say "You don't really want a pet wolf, they already make a wolf you can keep in your house and it's called a dog."

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

there are francophones debating if "can it" properly conveys how strong the french term is

IMO it's like...."shut your fuckin trap"

This is a "if a classroom heard their teacher say they'd start hooting and hollering" type of curse; nothing to be appalled by but SO unexpected. And definitely a curse.

hey!! why you lying on the ground like that??

bad day??

oh!! okay..

I'll stay here and keep you company..

is that alright??

DONT USE THE PIRATE BAY PLEASEEEE I BEG YOU.

Use 1337x.to rarbg or rutracker, highly moderated public torrent trackers, because Pirate Bay has long been shut down, unmoderated, and cloned by some shady actors AND use Mullvad VPN (or any other vpn but mullvad is the best definitely) to protect your ip address while you torrent, bind it to qbittorrent and do not use utorrent anymore either because it is littered with adware.

OR if you don’t want to pay for a VPN, use direct download or streaming sites. Please y’all just take one pass through on the r/piracy or r/freemediaheckyeah mega threads to find whatever you want for free and also not infect your computer with Trojan viruses.

^^^ yes!!! Thank you sm.

If any of those terms made you go ????? and you think pirating must be So Hard, I wrote a verbose but easy to follow guide a while back for total beginners!

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

This might be my favorite

This is mine