Between Two Lungs

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linkedsoul
tayorswift

i know all eyes are on the presidential candidates for this election, and rightfully so, but some very wonderful and important things are happening statewide that should be celebrated and highlighted, so here’s a few:

  • Florida passed Amendment 2, which will raise minimum wage to $15/hour by 2026
  • South Dakota, Montana, Arizona and New Jersey all passed an amendment that legalized marijuana 
  • Utah will now be removing gendered language in the Utah Constitution and will replace it with gender-neutral language
  • California passed Prop 17, which restores voting rights to previously imprisoned citizens
  • Delaware elected Sarah McBride, the first ever openly trans state senator
  • Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones are the first ever openly gay black members of congress
  • Cori Bush is the first ever woman of color to win a seat in Congress in Missouri
  • Mauree Turner became the first non-binary state lawmaker in America and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma state house
  • Oregon has become the first state to decriminalize all drugs (small amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs will have lesser punishments, similar to traffic tickets, and no jail time.)
  • Kim Jackson is the first out LGBTQ+ state senator in Georgia

UPDATED WITH MORE GOOD NEWS:

  • Shevrin D. Jones is Florida’s first opnely LGBTQ+ state senator
  • Jabari Brisport became New York’s first gay Black member of the house
  • Arizona flipped blue for the first time in 24 years
  • Michele Rayner-Goolsby became the first Black LGBTQ woman in the Florida Legislature
  • Voters in Colorado overwhelmingly rejected Prop 115, a state ballot measure that would have banned abortions after a fetus reaches 22 weeks gestational age. In rejecting the initiative, Colorado remains one of the most progressive states in the country on reproductive rights
  • Arizona will now send two Democrats to the Senate for the first time since 1951, thanks to the win of ex-astronaut Captain Mark Kelly.
  • Democrats have flipped the senate seat in Colorado, with the win of former Gov. John Hickenlooper
  • Mississippi is removing the confederate flag from their symbology
  • Marie Newman, who has been titled ‘a leader of the pro-choice movement’, will now represent Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District in Congress
  • Nevada became the first state to protect same-sex marriage in it’s constitution
  • Immigrant rights activist and former public defender José Garza won the race for District Attorney of Travis County, Texas
  • Michigan passed Proposal 20-2, which requires police to have a search warrant to access a person’s electronic data and electronic communications.

EVEN MORE UPDATES:

  • Washington approved Referendum 90, which requires all school districts to provide age appropriate, comprehensive sex ed at all grade levels
  • Colorado passed the first paid family/ medical leave program
  • Mississippi passed an ammendment that legalized medical marijuana
  • Denver overwhelmingly voted to pass Ballot Measure 2J. which lifts the city’s more than 30-year-old ban on pit bulls
  • New Mexico became the first state to elect all women of color to our House delegation
  • Vermont elected the state’s first openly transgender legislator, Taylor Small
  • Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, all won re-election in the House
  • Nebraska passed a constitutional amendment to the state constitution that closes the loophole of the U.S. Constitution’s 13th Amendment that allowed slavery as a punishment for crimes
  • Rhode Island passed a measure to rename the state, officially naming it Rhode Island and not The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, due to connections to slavery
  • Oregon passed measure 109, the first state to legalize psilocybin (mushrooms) for mental heath treatments
  • Hawai’i elected native Hawaiian Kaiali’i “Kai” Kahele, a Democrat, to the House of Representatives. He is one of 6 Native members of the House who will be sworn in in January
  • Utah passed legislation that removes language from the state constitution that allows the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments (no more prison labor!)
wallaceevolution
wallaceevolution

The Cuban crocodiles are among the most intelligent crocodiles/reptiles known to us. Their ability to learn has made them, for a long time, extremely interesting for zoos to have and study. This presence in Zoos and crocodile parks allowed scientists to note one of the most remarkable behaviors in any reptile: Pack-hunting. 

At Gatorland, in Florida, USA, the fact that these crocodiles were mostly kept together allowed this observation to be made. But why would a crocodile, that lives on an island and is arguably one of the largest animals on it, need to hunt in a group? Probably because it hasn’t always been the biggest. 

125,000 years ago, in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean, lived a genus of ground sloths that might have constituted prime prey for these mostly-terrestrial crocodiles. The largest of these sloths was the Cuban species, Megalocnus rodens, which reached a weight of nearly 90 kg. Dwarfed by its South American distant relative Megatherium americanum, it still constituted a large grazer of the archipelago. 

While today, the Cuban crocodile is limited to eating small mammals and fish, its behavior is still fine-tuned to hunt these dwarf giants.

morganathewitch
fi-n-n: “ I only met one other homosexual in the army. That was in Le Havre in 1917. We was on the boat coming home. I don’t know how these things work, whether it’s through conversation, or whether it’s the attitude of the individual concerned, but...
fi-n-n

I only met one other homosexual in the army. That was in Le Havre in 1917. We was on the boat coming home. I don’t know how these things work, whether it’s through conversation, or whether it’s the attitude of the individual concerned, but we seemed to come together, see. All of a sudden his arm was round my neck and this, that and the other, and then, of course, one thing led to another. And that was Phil, my affair that I had for seven years. When I come out of the army we stuck together. I was living at the time in Ilford. I rejoined the army in 1920, then I went out to Germany. I was living with Phil at the time and I saw him when I came home on leave and we kept a flat together. I was in the army because the army was my life at that period. He was somebody just like a wife to come home to…

… I don’t think our friends or family knew, yet they had a very good suspicion. Phil and I often talked about it, only he said, well, he says, as long as we love each other, what’s it to do with other people? And that was the true situation.

Text: First person account as told by Gerald, born 1892, Norfolk, England.  Excerpted from Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967, Jeffrey Weeks and Kevin Porter (eds)

(story found thanks to: www.woolfandwilde.com)

wilwheaton
liketheghost

so is it a thing in (american) english to use “texas” as a word for like, something that’s out of control or chaotic, or as like, “crazy”? like “that party last weekend was totally texas!”

because that is a thing people say in norwegian and i just think it’s important for americans to know that?

galesofnovember

this is the best thing I’ve ever heard

minnielikes

i’m sorry wHAT

copperbadge

This is like the time I found out that in Israel “Ma po ze, Chicago?” (What is this, CHICAGO?) is a saying for when people are acting unruly. 

perilegs

in finland if something is far away or in an unknown place we can say that “se on huitsin nevadassa” (it’s in nevada) you can also politely tell that you’d wish someone to fuck off by wishing that they’d go to nevada

what-even-is-thiss

It’s good to know that other languages do the “pardon my French” thing.

vbartilucci

Well, when we say “Gone South” we mean it’s broken beyond repair, so…

morganathewitch
menofcolorinfantasyart

From Olympus

Photo: Ana Martinez 

Styling and Creative Direction: Mario Ville (Kattaca) 

Makeup design and make up artist: Lewis Amarante for Kryolan and Pankr0 

Makeup and hairdressing: Sergio Jiménez 

Models: Ricardo Nkosi, Mary Ruiz, Lewis Amarante, Aya Gueye, Juana Mum, Karina Soro, Ruben Buika, Virginia Buika, Isabella Menam, Oliver Lewis, Megane Mercury, Mendes Vieira, Claudia Duharte, Taylor Oscar Ruiz, David Durrant, Marina Gomes, Oscar Chibuike, Guille Gibbs, Lil Bambina, Elian Coiscou and Tigi.

therestlesswitch
losethehours

Moves as smoothly as an ocean liner.

obeekris

I couldn’t tell what it was at first, but that wasn’t what I was expecting

talkativetiad

i thought it was an otter, then i thought it was a shark, and let me say i was wrong both times

distractedkat

There’s literally no way to guess. There’s no way at all to guess

smallest-feeblest-boggart

i showed this to my mom, my aunt, my grandma, and the minute the quarantine ends this is going to become my go to dinner party conversation starter

a-book-of-creatures

Sea serpent

grizzlybearofficial

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Moose are pretty good swimmers and they swim enough for Orca Whales to pose a significant threat.

wetwareproblem

My favorite moose fact is the cryptid herd in New Zealand. We know they’re out there, but nobody has seen one in over half a century.

In New Zealand.

harleyeve

Hi I’m sorry. I usually don’t insist that people elaborate on their comments but-

What the everloving fuck are you talking about???

wetwareproblem

In 1910, a herd of 6 females and 4 males was released in Fiordland. The last confirmed sighting was in 1952, and it was considered marginal territory for them, so it was presumed they had died out.

Until some moose hair was found in 2002.

This lead to extensive searches and installation of automatic cameras - none of which have caught an actual moose, though bedding and rub sites have been found.

The current theory as I understand it is that they’re living off of rich seaweed beds in the area.

justalurkr

Reblogging for the cryptid moose

thebyrchentwigges

NZ moose sighting in early 2020, everything you could want from a cryptid sighting

therestlesswitch

@spiritspodcast o.O