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#to listen

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in the dark corners of our world, secrets wars are waged by forgotten legions…

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i have been constantly in tears over this newly hatched duck i found on instagram last night

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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

#just a little over 2k usd left to go !

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someone posted footage of that morshu at the twins game people have been talking about

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hey can i ask for some australian music stats? its all good if not idk how the information is collected and stored, so idk if this is possible, but if it is and its easy enough to do, i just wanted to know possibly the top 5 best known australian artists, and the bottom 5 known australian artists

Good question! We don't keep track of individual country stats, buuuut we don't get a lot of Australian submissions anyway, so I just looked at every poll in the #australia tag.

Top 5:

AC/DC (94.7% Yes) Sia (87.3% Yes) The Wiggles (77.7% Yes) Tame Impala (76.8% Yes) 5 Seconds of Summer (71.9% Yes)

Bottom 5:

Our Carlson (0.3% Yes) Malcura (0.5% Yes) feedtime (0.6% Yes) ANNAKYE (0.6% Yes) Ciggie Witch (0.7% Yes)

#AC/DC?? #ok i forgive myself for not knowing these bands are australian on account of not listening to them #but was anyone gonna tell me dot jpg

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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#HI . HELLO

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Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.

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UNITED STATES VETOS PALESTINIAN MEMBERSHIP TO THE UNITED NATIONS

In a vote today in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on a resolution to grant membership into the UN for Palestine was vetoed by the United States.

The vote for Palestinian membership was supported by the vast majority of UNSC members, with 12 votes in favor, one against, and two abstentions.

US representative to the UN for Special Political Affairs, Robert Wood, argued that Palestine could not be admitted as long as Hamas controlled the Gaza Strip, echoing Zionist arguments over Palestine's membership, at one point arguing, “there are unresolved questions as to whether [Palestine] meets the criteria to be considered a state," without ever mentioning the Israeli occupation that makes such criteria unlikely to ever be satisfied.

Palestine is currently a "Permanent Observer State" without voting rights at the United Nations.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

#why is the us allowed to do this 😑 #(rhetorical)

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sometimes for fun i search my hometown on ao3 and see what insane fanfiction people have set there and judge the accuracy of their locations and travel estimates

#ok so im Not the only one who does this aobduekfor #for some reason the list of places ive lived is mostly just kpop bandmembers passing through #no explanation. not enough material to really properly assess #maybe id have more luck casting a wider geographical net #but unfortunately I was sequestered away in my youth and have no concept of the outside world 😑

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this guy suuuucksss he can't catch anythingggg

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Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

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Buckle up, European and Foreigner Tumblypoos, because I'm about to learn you a thing about AMERICA.

You see these delectable motherflippers? These are called STATES. You stupid foreigners might not be able to wrap your head around this, but basically they're administrative subdivisions of the country.

And here's the thing: They are totally heckin' different from each other! For instance, New York:

Looks TOTALLY DIFFERENT from Kansas:

And they both look TOTALLY different from California!

So before you make fun of an American for not knowing where tiny third-world countries like "Check Republic" or "South Korea" are, maybe think about how much we have to learn about the unique regional differences in our OWN country. Maybe you should think about AMERICA more.

#yeah its super beige LMAO #beige levels heretofore unseen by humankind #most cities in oc have their own attempts at a cohesive aesthetic and many slash most of them suck #but none is more successful in the thoroughness of this endeavor than irvine #nevertheless i could open g maps and find you 100 photos just like this in this county alone in 10 minutes