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Knowledge is empowering

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#we know this #we've known this for decades #and yet it's as strong now as it ever was #teach us to identify it at school #teach us to be critical of powerful voices #teach us to reject hate and seek to understand each other

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#cats #kittens #scary

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"They shouldn't socially transition until after 25"

So trans people magically aren't adults at 18 like cis people!?!?!????

[sarcasm] Wow yeah that sounds good and like something a normal government would say. Hope this isn't a dangerous precedent that will be used to repeal rights from other minority groups

#uk politics #trans rights #cass report

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Random bee behavior fact for those who wish to read, just because I feel like it and because it’s late and I’m stalling on sleeping:

Bumblebees may seem like passive, cuddly, and docile creatures, but they won’t hesitate to defend themselves if they feel as if their warnings aren’t being read or taken seriously.

I.e. the photo and diagram below, when a bee feels threatened they will raise one or more of their legs into the air, signaling to whatever or whomever may be bothering them as a message essentiality saying: “hey, back off, too close!”

species pictured: bombus pascuorum, bombus impatiens

If their defensive posture goes unnoticed or ignored, they may be pushed into defending themselves by stinging (which is also a stressful experience for not only one such as yourself, but also for the bee.) If you ever find yourself getting close to a bumblebee while taking pictures, walking close to them, or just admiring them, remember this posture! If a bee does this, it is simply asking you to take a step back as it feels it is being threatened.

Now you can understand and use this knowledge to your advantage if you ever come across one in the future. (Of course, because it’s very hard not to anthropomorphize animals, I do have to admit that they do look pretty cute when doing it. Just remember to respect them though!)

#bees

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People have lost track of an essential aspect for MILFs: they are supposed to be old enough to be YOUR mom. Not old enough to be a mom, but to be your mom. If you’re calling a 30yo a MILF you gotta understand you’re implying you’re twelve years old. Which is fine but you probably should know that’s what your saying.

I am 46, and so if you’re in your 20s, I’d be a MILF to you. If you’re 35, I’m not a MILF I’m A Little Bit Older Than You.

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 Leonora Carrington, Tarot Cards, 1960s

book available at 50wattsbooks

#leonora carrington

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Hermann Landshoff, Leonora Carrington, Andre Breton, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp, New York, with Morris Hirshfield’s painting Nude at the Window (1941) at Peggy Guggenheim’s town-house, 1942

#well i never #that's... #hmmmmmm

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genuinely, knowing a reasonable amount about the different kinds of "AI" and how they actually work behind the scenes, i do not believe we're capable of making a program that can provide meaningful story-level feedback anytime soon. that requires an ability to critically synthesize information and an ability to understand subjectivity that we have never, ever managed to replicate with a computer. we still can't even get AI to understand recipes or simple jokes - we aren't remotely close to it understanding story.

Thanks for sharing this.

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i'm sure people have sent you the answer 293 times already too but just in case, the water texture is a default photo filter on the tumblr photo editor!

WE HAVE A PHOTO EDITOR?

#for a minute there i thought we were heading to the colour of the sky

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EVERYTHING. IS SEX. EXCEPT SEX. WHICH IS POWER. YOU KNOW POWER. IS JUST SEX. NOW ASK YOURSELF WHOS SCREWING YOU!

#janelle monae

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The virus responsible for the Spanish flu set the stage for a wave of Parkinson’s disease decades later. People born during that pandemic had a threefold increased risk of later developing Parkinson’s.

The Epstein-Barr virus, once called the kissing disease, can lead to cancer, diabetes or multiple sclerosis decades later. An innocent flu-like infection can later erupt into a debilitating condition known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. And so on.

“The idea that a virus that produces acute infections can also cause chronic disease is not new. We just ignored it for 100 years,” said Al-Aly.

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Why So Quiet about Long Covid?

#and yet they kept saying let it rip #herd immunity #our governments don't care about us