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please enjoy my retweets of things you’ve already seen

[Miranda @DoomScroling]

Brittany Watts is being charged with a 5th degree felony for "abuse of a corpse" after miscarrying in her home.

OH does not have laws regarding handling of miscarried fetuses, yet they are attempting to prosecute Watts & make a case for fetal personhood.

H/T @leesie7172015

[noorii 🔮🍉 @nooriireads]

The little boy who died with an unopened packet of biscuits in his hand. The baby girl who died with an uneaten croissant in her fingers. The boy who was playing football with his friend when his head exploded.

All those Palestinian children had futures. And now they’re dead.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

My heart breaks. This CNN report is very difficult to watch. But we should watch. Because these are the stories that need to be told.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The language of dehumanization:

🇮🇱 - Children
🇵🇸 - People under 18

🇮🇱 - Civilians
🇵🇸 - Collateral damage

🇮🇱 - Women and children
🇵🇸 - Human shields

🇮🇱 - Hostages
🇵🇸 - Prisoners

🇮🇱 - Killed
🇵🇸 - Died

🇮🇱 - Attacks
🇵🇸 - Explosions

[ً @kdramarchive]

do not watch stranger things when s5 comes out. do not talk about it, do not share it. this is who youre supporting if you do. its time we deplatform zionists like this who use their fame to promote violent pro-israel propaganda.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Ministry of Health informs that 39 Palestinian infants in incubators & in intensive care in Al-Shifa Hospital have died due to the lack of oxygen

[eat soup @jasminericegirl]

yeah teenage girls are starting to be harassed with deepfake porn of themselves by their male classmates. y'all are sick. deepfake porn needs to be criminalized and anyone making nonconsensual porn of real people, especially children, should be sent to jail I'm not joking

[flamin nora @katieogunsakin]

caesar when brutus stabbed him

[Yoshi Yoshitani working on an Oracle Deck @yoshisquared]

I swear to god every author who was raised as an only child please watch this to understand siblings, I am in tears

[𝕛𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 @heyyitsjanea]

so he tried to kiII a family of 3 because the baby was being a baby??

his future shouldn’t just be in “jeopardy”

it needs to be completely gone

he has no future

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[P. Puck @PeaPuck]

A collection of cute designs from the distant past

1/10

[Lancesico 🇱🇨 @Bornakang]

That was unexpected lmao

[Rua M. Williams @FractalEcho]

This is not an email I ever expected to receive or send.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[carter hambley @carterhambley]

okay. did she say anything about me

[Jesse McLaren @McJesse]

Decided to use my 3D printer to figure out how the hell we’re doing this.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Just massive kudos for the person who created this Halloween squirrel feeder https://t.co/urlKXsR5ot