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Colorado has voted to fund universal free school lunches by raising taxes on people earning more than $300,000 a year. Any excess funds can be used to fill in the gap for federal cuts to SNAP food aid

knitmeapony

Via bsky: this is how it looked on the ballot. A simple idea simply explained.

highways-are-liminal-spaces

My mom went to four different bodegas before finding two copies of the absolutely iconic “The Red Apple” new york post for me and my best friend. This is my new favorite historical artefact that I own.

highways-are-liminal-spaces

Apparently everyone else in manhattan also woke up and immediately went to their local bodega to buy this HUAC-ass paper for their friends and family to frame.

tlirsgender

What do they put in turtlenecks that makes them feel so slutty despite covering as much of your skin as possible

derinthescarletpescatarian

One of my chickens passed on yesterday and all I can think of is "I'm sorry that rats dug into your grave and ate you."

derinthescarletpescatarian

The dedication in @pangur-and-grim's new book

thegoodvybe

“ooooohhh” i say as i still dont understand

parasitoidism

Being a weird little girl as a kid provides two options to you: becoming transgender or becoming a weird adult woman. Both of which are things the world needs more of

nordfjording

^what he said

nordfjording

schwazombie

"One doesn't need to make things unnecessarily complicated at the outset. He who raises his right arm at a slant forcefully and repeatedly while standing on a political stage at a political speech in front of a partially extreme right public is performing the Hitler salute. There is no need for 'allegedly' or 'similar' or 'debated'. The gesture speak for itself, it is documented on video. Whoever then wants to reinterpret it, whoever doesn't want to see (i.e., refuses to recognize) the Hitler salute, does so on their own behalf."

(sorry I am really bad at translating but this is roughly what it says, for my non-German speaking mutuals)

happymiffy

librarycard

ppl who werent changed forever by youre gonna go far kid by the offspring when they were like 11 and insanely impressionable you just cant understand me

rogha

derinthescarletpescatarian

For anyone who hasn't heard You're Gonna Go Far, Kid by The Offspring:

termagax

about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

termagax

women are also feeling lonely and alienated from communities en masse women are also expected to stifle their mental health for the sake of perfomance at work, in relationships, for children ect women are also expected to work extremely hard to maintain a perfect body and perfect health and are punished for being fat/having hair loss/having health issues especially those that affect ones sex life women are also insecure women are also neglected by parents and teachers and authority figures women are also scrutinized for having emotions and punished for not meeting the gendered expectations of our class and expected to climb upwards and overcompensate while being punished for signs of poverty and we get the added bonus on top of, yknow, being women. your emotional issues are not a Crisis Attacking Manhood theyre the way our society is fucking built you just dont see women as people

antiquesintheattic

we should be getting iced coffee and going to creepy and musty antique stores together why must we be separated by our screens…

thegaymertrainer

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

crocketthoughton

rowark

So basically, Dolly the sheep was an accident. They were trying to clone sheep cells, and they ended up unintentally generating an embryo, which turned out to be viable, hence we got Dolly.

The method they used proved unsuccessful in primates, and the risk of cloning primates (and thus humans) outweighs the benefits (because there really aren't any real benefits, scientifically speaking), so they don't do it.

Where it's most likely to be used is in agriculture, cloning livestock embryos.

What they use cloning for is stem cells. Cloning adult cells to create stem cells means they don't need embryonic stem cells, which is probably the most important thing that came from cloning research in the past 25 years.

The reason it was so important was that it proved that you didn't need an embryonic cell to clone live animals. The nucleus of an adult cell contains all the DNA you need to clone, because Dolly was cloned from an adult cell, which was previously unheard of. Now they know that adults cells can be reprogrammed back to an embryonic stage, and was a major breakthrough for stem cell research.

So basically, we don't hear about cloning anymore because they aren't doing anything that is so exciting it will capture the world's interest, like Dolly did. But it was a major scientific breakthrough that is still very important.

andmaybegayer

One of my favourite cloned animals is Kurt, a Przewalski's Horse who was cloned from the preserved samples from a horse that died in the 90's so that he can hopefully introduce some additional genetic diversity into the Przewalski's Horse population. Oh hey there's actually two clones of this one horse now, the second one is Ollie who was born last year. Kurt is now about four years old. Last I checked he was at the San Diego Zoo.