Nathaniel Downes

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Someone said 2005 death valley broke a heat record it set in 1973. And since then that 2005 record isn't even in the top 10 of recorded breaking heat the place has seen since. Scary

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Yakuza Fiancé is here to do some crimes this October on Crunchyroll!

Crunchyroll to Stream Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii TV Animewww.animenewsnetwork.com New visual unveiled for October anime

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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding. So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability

"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC.. Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."

Thousands of Black children with sickle cell disease struggle to access disability paymentswww.cbsnews.com New data show how one federal safety net program has been out of reach for thousands of children who need it most.

Die Hard. (No joke, it was based on the book "Nothing Lasts Forever", which was a sequel to "The Detective", that had a movie adaptation in 1968, starring Frank Sinatra)

name a sequel that's better than the first film.

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There are so many reasons to hate Jeff Bezos but what Amazon did to ComiXology is easily in my top 5

It is possible I will be angry about what Amazon did to Comixology for the rest of my life. I read and discover so, so much less without that incredible website to browse. The kindle store version isn’t even “we have comixology at home,” it’s “you don’t get to have comixology, eat a dick”

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Heartbreaking, yet practical signage at Sherman's Bookshop in Bar Harbor, Maine! #kidlit #barharbor #indiebookstore

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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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When I worked in Minnesota in the legislature, there were bills every year to legalize fireworks. And there would be hearings. And people would be like, “Pfft, who testifies against this? Busybody neighbors?” The actual answer was firefighters and doctors, mostly. Especially eye doctors.

Horrifying. All, if you know young ppl who will use fireworks these next few weeks, please do what you can to either discourage them entirely or make sure they use them safely. Hundreds of young ppl will be in the ER with firework injuries this month. Many of these injuries will be life altering.

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Here it comes. The next part of the ongoing and accelerating coup. if the democrats try to replace Biden the republicans will not allow that person to appear on the ballots. We are in a coup this is not politics.

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If I'm going to survive a global pandemic and a recession and we are running headfirst into fucking fascism then goddamn it, I want a DECADE of decadence and hedonism first

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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

American Government-by-Lawsuit Is a Disasterprospect.org Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.

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I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops sayarstechnica.com Cops want more access to OnlyFans to detect more child sex abuse, report says.

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there are literally TWO TICKETS LEFT for the new york show of BURY YOUR GAYS book tour see if you can get them buckaroo www.eventbrite.com/e/chuck-ting...

Chuck Tingle: Bury Your Gayswww.eventbrite.com Join us for a launch event with bestselling author Chuck Tingle for a discussion of his new horror novel Bury Your Gays.

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Bubblegum Crisis hits different these days...

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Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, 61, at his clerking job in Los Angeles, 1975

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Right about now, in 1863, came one of my favorite moments of the Battle of Gettysburg. Division commander Maj Gen Alex Hays, of Pittsburgh, seeing that his division had smashed the rebel attack, kissed his aide-de-camp, grabbed a reb flag, mounted his horse, and rode his line dragging it behind him

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entirely unclear why the founders set up a system where the congress could remove someone from the office of the presidency for conduct that was absolutely, unquestionably and at all times legal

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Everything wrong in the world is the fault of the British Empire when you think about it.

technically, the United States is very much Britain’s fault

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

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The nephew is currently devastated and his life is over he will never experience joy again because his father sent a text saying he was trying to buy him a piranha for his birthday and then sent a correction 3 min later that it was actually pinata

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"As an Indian don't you support Rishi Sunak" I very much do I think he is a crown jewel of England and therefore should be kept locked in the Tower of London and only taken out once a year for public display

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hey everybody remember to share #GoodNews too

🚨 BREAKING: The Tory party is set to suffer total annihilation, according to a final mega poll. Full story: trib.al/BeoNk1z

UK election: Tories set to suffer total annihilation, final mega polls predicttrib.al Keir Starmer’s Labour will romp to victory, according to pollster YouGov.

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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

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My plan to destroy the Tesla fleet:

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this would absolutely work on Teslas, because they don't have radar or lidar to bounce off the picture of the tunnel in order to confirm that it is in fact extremely solid

My plan to destroy the Tesla fleet:

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brought the four year old to a public splash pad this afternoon and he had a blast and so did every other kid there anyway sometimes I think about the people who filled in or drained public pools rather than allow them to be used by kids of a different race and just how fucking evil that is

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UHF in 4K is out TODAY from our good friends at Shout! Factory