“Ok I’m gonna say it… I’m a radical I believe that deaf children deserve a family who can sign in an official language. I believe that all children deserve ASL AS THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE. I believe parents who deprive their deaf child of ASL are actively neglecting their child.”
23 Nuns Fight For the Survival of an Endangered Mexican Salamander
This is the Lake Pátzcuaro salamander. It is a critically endangered
species. Overhunting, habitat destruction, and invasive exotic fish have
brought the salamander to the brink of extinction. Recent studies
revealed that fewer than 100 are left in the wild.
But a group of 23
nuns in Mexico teamed up with other International experts to try and
save the species. The nuns live in a convent nearby and have used the
salamanders to make cough syrup for more than 150 years. Now they’re
breeding them not only to keep their tradition alive, but also to save
the amphibians from extinction.
Lake Pátzcuaro in Mexico is the only
place in the world these salamanders can be found. Experts say the nuns
will play a pivotal role in the survival of the species.
Reblog if you are a greedy gay hoarding refracted light all for your greedy gay self
I totally am, but also: I have a story. The time: 1995. The place: a small liberal arts college. We decided to participate in “denim day” which was a widespread event wherein on National Coming Out Day, you would wear denim to indicate SUPPORT FOR the LGBT community. Our support group made posters that were very, very clear about this. Wearing denim did not mean that you were coming out, it meant you supported anyone around you who might.
I have never seen so many suits and khakis IN MY LIFE. People who accidentally wore jeans went home and changed.
The community took it as a rebuke. We drew in closer to eachother, and felt unwelcome everywhere we thought we had friends before.
And I had people later tell me “You know I support you, just… I didn’t want anyone to think I was.” First off, I DON’T know you support me. Not if you refuse to, for one day, change nothing about your life to show it. Second off… why is that such a terrifying thought to you?
I remember before rainbows were a “gay thing”. They were everywhere. Church walls next to arks. School walls next to sunshine faces. People have VOLUNTARILY abandoned every other use. I have HEARD PEOPLE SAY they just couldn’t use rainbows anymore because people would think of “gay stuff.”
So I know this is a joke, and a stolen one at that, but you’ve done this to yourselves. If someone is so terrified of being perceived as queer that they will INSTANTLY abandon something they like if it has queer germs on it now or something, then they don’t deserve refracted light.
Maybe help us change the world into a place where being mistaken for queer would be just a thing to chuckle about and you can have refracted light back.
The LGBTQ+ community didn’t steal the rainbow. The straights abandoned it.
It is arguably the nation’s first systematic analysis on the use and consequences of militarized police forces.
Many police leaders view their SWAT teams and other militarized units as a necessity for police and public safety, especially for “high-risk” hostage situations or active shooters. Between 1997 to 2014, the Department of Defense transferred $4.3 billion in military equipment to local law agencies.
But police militarization may also work against law enforcement in the court of public opinion, according to the report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.
The study found that merely seeing militarized units can erode public
confidence in law enforcement and give off the impression that a police
department is overfunded…
Goliath groupers can weigh up to 800 pounds! Once plentiful in the Florida Keys, these enormous fish were overfished almost to the vanishing point before regulations prohibited their harvest in U.S. waters in 1990. Now Goliath grouper populations are on the rebound in protected places like Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
(Photo: Nick Zachar/NOAA)
[Image description: A close-up view of a Goliath grouper’s head.]
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