vampireapologist:

i love jane eyre but honestly imagine being friends with that bitch. like imagine trying to convince her to leave rochester and she’s like idk and you’re like he called u ugly???? he keeps his secret wife locked in the attic???? wake up???? and then you think she finally has it sorted out and she calls you a few months later likeĀ ā€œhis wife killed herself and burned down the house so it’s cool we’re getting marriedā€ like !!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU GO TO THAT WEDDING!!!!!!

tilthat:

TIL Domino’s Pizza’s delivery sales during the televised O.J. Simpson chase were as large as on Super Bowl Sunday

via reddit.com

And no wonder:

ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN, as well as local news outlets, interrupted regularly scheduled programming to cover the incident, with an estimated 95 million viewers nationwide;[37][38][31][39] only 90 million had watched that year’s Super Bowl.[23] While NBC continued coverage of Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets at Madison Square Garden, the game appeared in a small box in the corner while Tom Brokaw covered the chase.

EPA Glyphosate ‘Safe’ Levels May Be Dangerously High

rjzimmerman:

Excerpt:

A new study on glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup—one of the world’s most widely used weedkillers—is fueling persistent concerns about the pesticide’s impact on sexual development, genotoxicity and intestinal bacteria, even when exposure is limited to a level currently considered ā€œsafeā€ by U.S. regulators.

While the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), and California have classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen, U.S. and Europeanregulators have continued to authorize farmers to use it, and Republicans in Congress have even threatened to cut off funding to the WHO over the issue.

Researchers at the Ramazzini Institute in Italy collaborated with experts from the U.S. and Europe to conduct the new crowdfunded pilot study, which will be detailed in three peer-reviewed papers set to be published in the journal Environmental Health later this month. They exposed rats to glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) in drinking water at the ā€œsafeā€ level set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a three-month period, ā€œstarting from prenatal life until 13 weeks after weaning.ā€

ā€œThe results show that GBHs—even at doses deemed safe and over a relatively short exposure time (which in human-equivalent terms correspond from embryo life to 18 years of age)—are able to alter certain important biological parameters, markers chiefly relating to sexual development, genotoxicity, and alteration of the intestinal microbiome … especially in females,ā€ according to the study’s website.

Daniele Mandrioli, associate director of the institute’s cancer research center, explained to the Guardian that this ā€œshouldn’t be happening,ā€ and noted that in humans, ā€œdisruption of the microbiome has been associated with a number of negative health outcomes, such as obsesity, diabetes, and immunological problems.ā€

EPA Glyphosate ‘Safe’ Levels May Be Dangerously High

thecringeandwincefactory:

whyyoustabbedme:

FOURTEEN!!! Years old!!! And 17years!!! He’s 31 and missed ALL HIS 20s He can NEVER get those back.

And there’s no safety net here to help him reintegrate into society. He probably didn’t have much of an opportunity to take classes or anything while incarcerated. His incarceration alone will probably held against him by potential employers for the rest of his life, regardless of formal exoneration. I’m sure he’s got a host of mental issues now after 17 years behind bars, no one’s gonna help him with that.

What the fuck’s he supposed to do now?

Messing with people’s lives like that is bad enough in any case, but railroading kids is a level of its own.

Man jailed at 14 for murder he didn’t commit weeps in court as he is cleared 27 years later

Mr Bunn, from Brooklyn, was released on parole in 2009 but continued to fight to clear his name.

He was cleared after a retired detective who investigated Neischer’s murder was accused of manipulating evidence, coercing confessions and giving misleading testimony in multiple cases.

Mr Bunn and his friend Rosean Hargrave, then 17, were convicted of killing Neischer on the testimony of lone witness Robert Crosson, another correction officer who survived the shooting.

The teenagers were placed in a photo line-up by detective Louis Scarcella, a disgraced former star detective whose casework has prompted a large-scale review by Brooklyn’s district attorney. Dozens of cases linked to Mr Scarcella are under investigation and several convictions have been overturned…

Mr Hargreave, whose murder conviction was thrown out in 2015, will also not face a retrial.

feynites:

writing-prompt-s:

You’re a mystic who runs a shop full of mysterious artifacts and potions and you’re sick of uninformed middle-aged suburban moms asking for energy crystals and herbal weight-loss mixtures while throwing around made-up terms.

When a middle-aged woman rolled into my shop and told me she
was looking for ichor, I didn’t think much of it at first.

You get all kinds in a shop like mine, and doubly so when
you put up the right signs on your door.
The signs that let certain kinds of people know they’re welcome, not
just the collectors or the curious or the new age mystics, looking for this
root or that crystal or wanting to gawk at a jar of old bones, but the less
innocuous individuals as well. Ā The kind
who mean business when they come looking for their… less run-of-the-mill
specialities.

Keep reading

This is not for you.

ladydrace:

This is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can’t do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway.

For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder:

– Posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who have money. Not your broke ass, still worrying how to buy food next month.

– Posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who have energy to care. Not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails.Ā 

And, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don’t pay/reblog/signal boost/care? Those posts can fucking die in a fire.

TL;DR: Posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give?Ā 

THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU.Ā 

cumaeansibyl:

jadedownthedrain:

I love Burnum Burnum ā¤ļøšŸ’›šŸ–¤

more about Burnum Burnum

text of the declaration:

The Burnum Burnum Declaration England, 26th January, 1988

I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia do hereby take posession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo – ā€˜a fresh start’. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovreignty over this domain. For the more advanced, bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.

We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of your 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganninni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilise your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.

Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.

Burnum Burnum.