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I love asking people how their parents met. You always get an interesting reply. My best friend’s parents met on the relatively new internet in 1999. My other friend’s parents met at Burger King when one was the manager and the other was a regular customer. My parents met at the beach because they were neighbors in their rental houses, mom was on a church trip and dad was getting blackout drunk every night with his friends next door.

Tell me how your parents met in the tags.

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Kyle MacLachlan, Catherine Coulson, Michael Ontkean | Twin Peaks

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[bananapeppers]

The "diagnosis" misappropriates medical terminology to shield officers from accountability. (Méabh O'Hare, Joshua Budhu and Altaf Saadi | July 17, 2020)

warning: police violence and antiblackness, with discussion of misogynoir and sexual violence including death (in excerpt below)

Charles V. Wetli, a forensic pathologist, first used the phrase “excited delirium” in 1985 to explain a series of sudden deaths in cocaine users, occurring primarily in police custody. Wetli also used the term to describe the deaths of 32 black women in Miami during the 1980s, proposing that a combination of cocaine use and sexual intercourse had led to their demise. He posited that, with chronic cocaine use, “the male of the species becomes psychotic and the female of the species dies in relation to sex,” stating, “My gut feeling is that this is a terminal event that follows chronic use of crack cocaine affecting the nerve receptors in the brain.” Later, however, police attributed the deaths to a serial killer, and evidence of asphyxia was found upon reexamination of the corpses.

Despite these shaky origins and the lack of grounding in medical science, this concept — of a febrile, agitated state often culminating in death — has persisted, advanced by law enforcement. The features of this purported condition, as listed by the American College of Emergency Physicians, betray its entanglement with law enforcement, including “bizarre behavior generating phone calls to police,” “failure to respond to police presence” and “continued struggle despite restraint.” Several analyses have found that the majority of deaths attributed to “excited delirium” are associated with the use of physical restraint. Some emergency-medicine doctors who are proponents of the diagnosis have been criticized for having conflicts of interest with the stun gun industry. And the manufacturer of Tasers has helped popularize this diagnosis to help attribute Taser-associated deaths to other possible causes.

h/t Mad in America

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Ororo serving looks for @xmenofcolor day 2 

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[ID: colored digital artwork of Ororo Munroe standing with her eyes closed and a long stemmed purple flower in one hand. She’s pushing back her long braids with her other hand and tilting her head to the side.

Ororo is wearing a tight purple dress made of shiny fabric with lacy ruffles down the front on either side of the long cutout down the center of her chest. Her eyeshadow is purple, the thin bracelet on one wrist is silver, and her acyrlic nails are light blue. end ID]

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AIDS quilts

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He ‘buries’ coffee because he doesn’t like the smell. 

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Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler

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pbs kids alignment chart 4 2000s kids who didnt have cable😎😎tag urself !

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to an unknown recipient wr. c. early 1862

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racist teens having their college offers taken away and racist adults getting fired from their jobs? we love to see it. face the consequences of your words and actions