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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 1 year

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TX State Rep Makes Emotional Plea for Gun Reform After Deadly Mall Shooting

"There is no safe place in America anymore" — This Texas state rep made an emotional plea for gun reform, two days after a massacre at an outlet mall that killed 8 people.

"There's no school that's safe, there's no shopping mall that's safe, there's no library that's safe," state Rep. Gene Wu (D) continued. "Not because of books. Not because of trans kids who want health care, but because of [guns] that people own."

Yesterday, Wu's colleagues in the TX state legislature voted to advance bill that would raise the legal age to purchase assault weapons from 18 to 21, in a win for several gun safety activists who protested at the Capitol that afternoon.

#us politics #news #now this news #videos #youtube #texas #Allen Premium Outlets mall shooting #mass shootings #mass shooters #2023 #Gene Wu #gun violence #gun control #gun rights #texas house of representatives

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joe-england · 1 year

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#education #florida #ron desantis #politics #america #crt #republicans #students #schools #censorship #protest #now this #nowthisnews #now this news #nowthis #lgbtq #transgender #health care #gender affirming

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bumblebeeappletree · 2 years

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'In order for teachers to be able to best support every student, they need to be able to recharge from their day' — This educator explains how teacher burnout happens, and how others can avoid it

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#worldteachersday #teaching #education #Politics #News #NowThis

#now this news #now this #solarpunk #burnout #teachers #schools #educators #teaching #education #USA #we need to give teachers less hours and better pay #we need to give them all the supplies and support that they need #we can do better #Youtube

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troythecatfish · 8 months

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intersectionalpraxis · 2 months

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#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #current events #palestinian liberation #palestine will be free #children of gaza #end the occupation #end the genocide #ceasefire now #ceasefire #gaza strip #gaza #gaza news

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thedisablednaturalist · 3 months

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Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo

Shes just a fucking baby

Baby with a 60% successful kill rate

#wrenfea.article #theres a video in the article #her name is gaia and shes 8 months #shes part of the AZA breeding program #i now have a reason to visit utah #leetle baby gorl #black footed cat #conservation news #conservation #zoos #animals #also the highest successful kill percentage for big cats is like. 25%#so 60% is fucking crazy

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ohnoaname · 5 months

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So LGBTQ+ is now completely illegal in Russia. I wonder if anyone going to talk about that. I'm so tired

#I'm an extremist now)#yay #fuck this country honestly #russia #news #lgbtqia #lgbt #ohnotalking

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tomi4i · 2 months

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hamletthedane · 3 months

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I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

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cyborgrhodey · 10 months

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THE BANANAS ARE GAY

THESE BANANAS

THE BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE GAY

BELATED HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE

#somebody shut me up #this news is 4 years old but forgive me i only learned of it now #THE BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE GAY YALL thats my childhood

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Mother of Nashville School Shooting Survivor Makes Plea for Gun Reform (Warning: Distressing)

'Mommy, the shooter's dead but more can come?' A parent whose son survived the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville describes what the last 3 weeks have been like for her family, especially her son

#us politics #news #youtube #videos #2023 #covenant school shooting #mass shooters #mass shootings #gun violence #gun control #gun rights #school shootings #distressing #now this news #Tennessee

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never-ending-fanfic · 3 months

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No thoughts, just that these two photos of Bisan are 7 months apart

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bumblebeeappletree · 2 years

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'We make freedom real. We make autonomy real.' — These activists break down why everyone should fight for trans rights, and what some of the biggest misconceptions of the movement are

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#transrights #lgbtq #trans #Politics #News #NowThis

#now this news #now this #solarpunk #trans rights #lgbtq+#lgbtq #trans #trans activist #activists #activism #Power Players #Youtube

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historyandmemes · 4 months

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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report Thursday by the U.N. and other agencies that highlights the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s bombardment and siege on the territory in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The extent of the population’s hunger eclipsed even the near-famines in Afghanistan and Yemen of recent years, according to figures in the report. The report warned that the risk of famine is “increasing each day,” blaming the hunger on insufficient aid entering Gaza. “It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed.” ... At the start of the war, Israel stopped all deliveries of food, water, medicine and fuel into the territory. After U.S. pressure, it allowed a trickle of aid in through Egypt. But U.N. agencies say only 10% of Gaza’s food needs has been entering for weeks. (Dec. 21, 2023 | Source)

DON'T LOOK AWAY.

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intersectionalpraxis · 3 months

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Palestinian people who are suffering immensely in so many ways are still taking the time to rescue and help animals in Gaza for months now... and those who turn their backs on what is happening to Palestinian people... ya'll disgust me.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free palestine #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸#free gaza #current events #war on gaza #gaza news #gaza strip #gaza #gazaunderattack #gaza genocide #end the genocide #end the occupation #ceasefire now

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renthony · 2 months

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From the article:

NASA has released a free, original tabletop role-playing game, and it’s one part educational experience and another part sci-fi/fantasy epic with magic and dragons. The crux of The Lost Universe, the organization’s first TTRPG,involves a mystery: What would happen if the Hubble Space Telescope disappeared? It’s a simple premise and one that hides the complex backstory underscoring the events of the role-playing game. Without getting into the weeds, the game takes place on a planet called Exlaris, which was once thrown into chaos when a black hole moved too close and kicked it out of its orbit. The planet has since gone back to some degree of normalcy and is now almost completely dedicated to academia. In one city, a scholar named Eirik Hazn made a spell to connect with Earth to study the Hubble Space Telescope, which has famously collected data on black holes. However, the spell and telescope are stolen by a dragon, and researchers working on the project have been disappearing, so the players — Earthlings who worked on the telescope at NASA who were brought through a portal to Exlaris — have to save the day. The official 44-page gameplay book is available to download for free on NASA’s website. You can play it in a party with 4-7 players, but you may need to fudge a few things to graft this narrative onto your TTRPG system of choice. The book says it’ll take around 3-4 hours to get through the adventure.

#NASA made a tabletop game???#NASA????#I gotta play this now #NASA #tabletop gaming #gaming news

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