See those feathers? The skeleton they found was so well-preserved that scientists were able to examine the pigment cells in the feathers and compare them to those of modern day birds.
And they were able to do this with such accuracy that they know the coloration of this dinosaur. In life it looked something like this.
It just baffles me that we know the color patterns of an animal that has been dead for 161 million years
They found a prehistoric chicken that wears adidas swear pants my god
HE JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE CATS AND GIVING THEM BETTER NAMES AND SHOWING US BETTER PICTURES THIS MAN AND HIS CAT FAMILY ARE AMAZING I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH
The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”— Mignon McLaughlin
YouTube’s algorithm…I mean yes this is about flat-earthers, and we all like to laugh about them, but something has to be said about the fact that conspiracy theories are spread so easily to impressionable youth at a GLOBAL scale. And its not just flat-earthers, it’s Naziism, it’s anti-Semitism, islamophobia, it’s all the terrible radicalization that is happening. It’s all connected, and it’s so so easy to become radicalized because of YouTubes algorithm.
honestly if a vampire ever “sparkled” in public no ones going to think they’re not human. they’re just gonna be like “damn that’s a lot of body glitter. man look at you being you, right on. you do you boo, freedom of expression.”
Vampires can go out in the sun now thanks to fenty body lava
I think one of my least favorite types of responses to people speaking up on sexual harassment and sexual assault is are articles like “in wake of weinstein, men wonder if hugging women still ok”, and comments like “this is why men don’t pursue women anymore”, “i don’t wanna work with women cause i don’t want a lawsuit”, or “i don’t even look at women anymore cause everything is sexual harassment”. this is a particular brand of rape culture, men acting as if women are overreacting, as if men don’t have the basic social skills to know the difference between wanted and unwanted advances, as if women simply setting boundaries is “cramping their style” and “emasculating” them, as if the rules of respecting women are super confusing, so confusing that they’re supposedly forcing men not to interact with us altogether.
this is an act they’ve been putting on for decades: playing stupid, pretending not to know better and then getting upset when we tell them what “better” is. if that doesn’t show you how emotional and emotionally manipulative they are, i don’t know what does.
“There’s a reason for this plague of know-nothings: The bumbler’s perpetual amazement exonerates him. Incompetence is less damaging than malice. And men — particularly powerful men — use that loophole like corporations use off-shore accounts. The bumbler takes one of our culture’s most muscular myths — that men are clueless — and weaponizes it into an alibi.
Allow me to make a controversial proposition: Men are every bit as sneaky and calculating and venomous as women are widely suspected to be. And the bumbler — the very figure that shelters them from this ugly truth — is the best and hardest proof.”
2,000 US schools use textbooks from Abeka, BJU Press and Accelerated
Christian Education (ACE), including tax-funded charter schools across
America; students who learn from these texts are taught that God wanted
Protestantism to flourish in North America and that Catholocism is not a
true faith; that it was better Africans to be enslaved and come to
“know Christ” than to be free but not Christian; that evolution is
untrue; that humans and dinosaurs lived together (and that Noah brought
baby dinosaurs on the ark); that the Loch Ness monster is real; that
“abortion, gay rights and the Endangered Species Act” are part of a
“radical social agenda”; that nonwhites are inferior (60% of the
tax-funded scholarship students at charter schools come from racialized
minorities and are thus taught that they are racially inferior to their
white schoolmates).
The materials are meant to be administered by people without teaching
credentials – many charter schools do not require these – with all
instruction delivered through easy worksheets that ensure that even
qualified teachers can’t improve the educational experience. In Florida,
atudents who attend charter schools on scholarships are not required to
take standardized exams that might uncover gaps in their education.
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