jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

I guess the closest equivalent I've experienced to USA's "Pledge of Allegiance" school-indoctrination is when the school year was nearing ending and we were training to sing the "national anthem" for the graduation ceremony,
but when we asked "what if I don't want to 'live and die in the Nordic Countries' as the lyrics go?",
the answers from all teachers I recall were along the lines of "well, you can just... sit and not sing that then" and almost always there were kids loudly interjecting an objection in that line, so it became "Yes, I do NOT(!!!) want to live and die in the Nordic Countries!"... and that was fine too.

11-year-old was suspended, arrested and taken to a "juvenile detention center" (child jail)... after refusing to stand for "Pledge of Allegiance"
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/02/14/mother-upset-after-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-pledge-of-allegiance

No pledge under coercion is binding,
yet the indoctrination-machine of USA feels so insecure, it keeps doing this to children, which is virtually unheard of under non-authoritarian States.

God no, someone is hacking nature!

@Ferretsyndicate @Are0h Why are Right Libertarian’s so afraid of a healthy populace?

@Ferretsyndicate if people dying and living shorter lives due to lack of health care isn't an actual emergency, what the fuck is

#critterposting

Recent paper shaking things up! Xiphosura, or horseshoe crabs (fig1), as the sister group to arachnids, which is to say that whatever animal all arachnids evolved from, its closest relative was the ancestor of horseshoe crabs.

This new analysis suggests that XIphosura is actually nested within arachnids and their closest relatives are the Ricinulei (Fig2).

This new placement means that either there was multiple terrestrialization events for arachnids OR horseshoe crabs are a terrestrial lineage that returned to the water.

Heres a link to the abstract, the paper is unfortunately paywalled: https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syz011/5319972

anyway, here's the fun fact of the day

TONIGHT WE SMOKIN' PUFFISH

@danishcookies society condoning domestic violence is also a factor in mass shootings, as nearly every mass shooter has a record of committing domestic violence.

personally running an expired/extra prescription drug drive as a ruse to get a bunch of prescription drugs.

How can y'all call yourselves communists if you're not even a switch?

If you domme someone into domming someone else that’s called playing domminoes.

Today's mood:

unisex - you can only have sex one time in it (not reusable)

asexual - reproduces without a partner

bisexual - a thing that happens twice per sex

homosexual - having sex at the same time as your partner(s)

heterosexual - having sex, but not at the same time as your partner(s)

pansexual - having sex with everyone and everything in the world simultaneously

metrosexual - having sex exclusively while on public transportation

"Excuse me, is this guy bothering you miss?" I ask myself, motioning to the man who's talking to me.

Dectective Pikachu has now been rated NC-17 for "flagrant, uncontrollable ass-eating"

PROFESSOR: so tell me why are you all are taking this class on social media?
EVERYONE: *some variation on “I like instagram and want a job”*
ME: I’m interested in the ways social media allow companies to assert ownership over organically formed communities… *tents fingers* and how to put a stop to that
PROFESSOR (nervous): …ok

I saw a new gender-word today that I'm already kind of in love with:

Femby!!

https://twitter.com/hourlyFox/status/1096457873570316289

and I would have gotten away with it if it werent for that meddling claque and their talking cat !!

Welp. I have been hit with one too many unexpected expenses and I'm officially Broke for the rest of the month. If you've got a couple bucks you can toss toward groceries, I'd really appreciate it.

https://paypal.me/joyeusenoelle
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