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As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

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wow.

robotsandfrippary

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

foxy-voxy

All of this applies to Lake Michigan, as well. The rips aren’t as big, but they do happen. We lose tourists every year.

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I will never forget that the hulking sports anchor for the local Duluth news once rescued a kid from a rip tide on Park Point. (And when I say this guy was hulking?? I mean STACKED.) But he gave passionate interviews after bc even he barely made it out alive. That shit has stuck with me ever since.

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friendly reminder: do not fight the rip tide. You will not win. Swim parallel to the shore till you’re out of it. Float and take breaks as needed.

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wrap it up covid I wanna be in an interactive science museum

it looks like his lecture series got more popular!

basileafpitch

This has probably been done but

sheisraging

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Keynote Address at ADL’s 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate

socialistexan

“I’ve searched my conscience, and I can’t for the life of me find any justification for this, and I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument”

ruffboi-mags

I… have to admit i was kind of gobsmacked to realize that’s the borat guy, but his point is eloquent and good so keep kicking ass, dude.

j-sillabub

Despite being known best for his comedy characters, Sacha Baron Cohen is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he earned a history degree after writing his undergraduate thesis on the American civil rights movement. His mother’s family were German Jews and his father’s family were Ashkenazi Jews; he is also the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. He understands this issue all too well.

someoneidontknow

Jorge Gonzalez, suffered a broken neck, and a compressed spine at the hands of 3 sheriff deputies in Texas. He couldn’t even hold his head up for this mugshot…so they had to hold it up for him. They actually thought the mugshot was more important than a hospital visit.

After a deputy tripped him he hit his face hard and went unconscious. They tased him couple of times “to wake him up”.

He was left paralyzed neck down, went through a series of surgeries, and was in ICU on the ventilator for over a month after the arrest.

According to the hospital he went over 26 hours in Hidalgo County jail without necessary medical attention that could have saved his life.

boywizard-moved

Here is a petition to fire the officers who killed Jorge Gonzalez

thetearsofunfathomablesadness

Here is his family’s gofundme for medical bills, rent, legal fees, and other such financial needs

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The Texas Rangers are investigating an incident involving the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office after the family of a man who died last month

“Deputies advised Gonzalez he was being placed under arrest for violating the emergency management plan, according to the complaint. He was also informed he was going to be charged with public intoxication.”

These cops beat a man to death because he was outside.

There are inconsistencies in the report and they fail to provide details about how he allegedly resisted arrest. Nevermind that nothing in this report - not a shelter-in-place violation, not drinking, not resisting arrest - justify multiple people ganging up on one person, breaking his neck, and failing to obtain medical care.

This man died because police are the institutionalization of prejudice and brutality, and this country requires you have papers to be treated like a human and insurance to live.

They didn’t even take him to the hospital in an ambulance.

lorencio420

Please sign the petition to get the 3 cops fired.

And if you can, donate to the Gonzales family!!

Both are SOO CLOSE to reaching their goals!!

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What a concept

antifashaming

Turns out that when you humiliate stupid people instead of making martyrs out of them, they lose interest in doing stupid shit pretty fast.

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one direction: no man left behind

awed-frog

Met an old teacher today and we got talking about ‘the good old times’ and ten minutes into the conversation I jokingly said the one regret I have from middle school is that I never won anything at her magnificent tombolas? Because, like, she used to hold this game about once a month so we’d learn the numbers in French and it was never big prizes, but as a 12-yo I desperately craved them - a cactus-shaped eraser, a bright blue notebook with slightly larger-than-usual squares, a set of coloured pens - and never ever got a single one of them.

(Actually spent a good few months thinking I was genetically unlucky and researching ancient family curses with my grandma.)

So today I don’t know what I was hoping for - nothing, really?

(I mean, that part of me that’s still twelve was probably expecting this sweet old woman to have a set of glitter stickers in her purse and just go ‘You know what, you’re right - I’ve been saving this one for you all these years, here you go’ but I’m a solidly rational person and I know that’s stupid.)

No, I thought we’d just laugh and it would be a good shared memory and that would be it. Instead, my teacher got flustered and a bit embarrassed and explained the game was rigged. It was never about learning French at all. She’d just noticed some kids couldn’t afford even basic stationery, so she’d buy a few half-fancy items every month with her own money just for them. She didn’t want them to feel different or left out. And obviously the way she used to walk around in the classroom, looking over our shoulders - it wasn’t to prevent cheating. It was because she was cheating herself, wanting to see which number a particular child needed to get a Minnie Mouse pencil case.

Guys - the world is fucked up, but so many people out there are just good and kind and humbly heroic it honestly gives me hope.

It’ll be alright, you’ll see.

witchaj

The school I used to work at held a competition every year, right before Thanksgiving. The winner would get a whole turkey. The kids had to do their best turkey dance and the judges would walk around and pick the finalists. There was music and balloons, it was fun. One year I got asked to be a substitute judge and that’s when I found out the winner was already planned. They knew who needed that turkey the most and that kid was going to have the best turkey dance no matter what.

caroldanversenthusiast

The Emmy’s snubbing the amazingly talented trans women and non-binary actors on Pose ....... a show about trans people... and only nominating a cis man from the show just doesn’t sit right.

THEY DESERVE RECOGNITION FOR THEIR TALENT

youfitinmypoem

i haven’t really seen anyone on here talk about this so i thought i’d share cause this is absolutely upsetting and scary and we need to do something about it!!!!