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[icon of Quentin Coldwater, a frog, by @fishfingersandscarves]

[ratboybubs]

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arab.org - clicks generate funds that go to gaza

gazaesims.com - purchase e-sim cards for gazans without internet

gofundme.com/f/careforgaza - sends funds to displaced families in gaza

piousprojects.org/campaign/2712 - provides hygiene kits for women/girls in gaza

[donnabrutta]

The founders of Jane, an underground network in Chicago, US that assisted people in getting abortions. From the left moving right: Martha Scott, Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Abby Parisers, Sheila Smith and Madeline Schwenk.

Martha Scott was 19 in 1965, when her friend's sister became pregnant and Scott helped her find a doctor to perform an abortion. The group connected individuals seeking abortions with doctors, and later, performed abortions themselves. Their clients were informed they were not doctors, but doing abortions themselves allowed them to keep costs low. They made people aware of the services through signs with slogans like "'Pregnant? Don't Want to Be? Call Jane." The group operated for seven years and performed an estimated 11,000 abortions; no deaths were ever reported.

Quote from Scott: "You're messing around inside somebody else's body. It's not necessarily given that you won't do harm. It wasn't perfect, by any means. But we were dealing with women who really didn't have other options."

Quote from Galatzer-Levy: "I hadn't had so much as a speeding ticket [when I joined]. But abortion really was the front line, it was where women were dying."

In 1972, two women reported Jane because their sister was seeking an abortion, and the women believed it was murder. All seven founders were arrested. Six months later, Roe v. Wade was decided and the charges were dropped. Read more here (link).

[formlines]

The Transformation of a Haida Boy into a Killer Whale, Member of eagle Clan, and Personal Crest Shark 25.4 x 12.7 x 29.2 cm

Alfie Collinson

[nyantara]

argillite and abalone shell sculpture!!!

[ot3]

looking for animal references on image searches has always kind of sucked but it's much worse after AI image generation technology has begun to actually past muster, which is why i always just go straight to inaturalist. can't recommend this highly enough. you get to both find out about niche species you've never even heard of and also see some really good photographs like this one

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[sadclowncentral]

just showed the gate agent the Wikipedia article for Mussels instead of my boarding pass. don't text

[hillbillyoracle]

give me the beat boys and free your plums I wanna steal some of the icebox ones this is just to say

[elbiotipo]

Carl Linnaeus invented the binomial nomenclature system of modern taxonomy with the publication of Systema Naturae in 1735. This has made a lot of biologists very angry, and it is widely regarded as a bad move. As such, to eternally dunk on Linneaus and the curse he brought on us, we put an "L." after the name of every species he described, so he can take it.

[miss-m-calling]

Luke Marston, First Woman (yellow cedar)

[wintercorrybriea2]

Billie Holiday with her dog Mister, photographed shot by Carl Van Vechten, 1949

[shesnake]

Tony Leung photographed by Eddie Wang for City Magazine, 1999.

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

The San Francisco scene in iwtv isn’t even that crazy looking back like that’s just half of what happens when you go over to a dude’s place for the first time

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

Him: You wanna smoke?

Us after smoking:

[elokitties]

connor storrie is the brightest pupil at the lee pace school of women needing gay guy dick

[heppileppi]

siphonophore mermaid and greenland shark mermaid

[fellahimedia]

I think since rules dont matter anymore that they should bring back cabo verde into the finals like when x factor used to bring back eliminated contestants

[televisionforwhales]

You'll see a post like "we need to explode England" or "new idea: everyone breaking that man's legs" and think "oh did something serious happen or is this about the World Cup again?" And the truth is that it is about the World Cup. and it is that serious

[amanitaphalloides]

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

[amanitaphalloides]

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[yesterdaysprint]

Harrisburg Telegraph, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1881