I've been pretty consistently getting third place every race in Mario Kart ever since me & my dad & brother started playing together regularly (early 2020) and I just figured it was because I sucked but then me and dad switched controllers for a race and he was like "???? Ashland this thing is very broken". So we got new controllers and now I'm winning very regularly. Like just absolutely crushing them. It's been very funny.
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Letter to Mayor to get Police Out of Schools
Send to: https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/city_organization/mayor/contact-the-mayor and your city councillor
My name is ___________ and I am a ___________ in (ward). I am writing to you to ask that you remove the School Respurce Officers from Edmonton’s schools. SROs are discriminatory, they feed the school-to-prison pipeline, and they make students feel less safe. Programs that actually help students should be instituted instead.
SROs discriminatorily and disproportionately target Black, Indigenous, and poor students. They harass students and sometimes even resort to violence over small, petty matters. This is unfair and creates a hostile and unequal environment for marginalized children, where they cannot learn as well as their white or middle class peers.
The SROs also arrest children, sometimes over petty crimes. This leads the child to be traumatized and often for their life to be ruined. Being in jail at an early age has proven to cause many psychological and behavioural problems in people for the rest of their lives.
Children should never be arrested. Children make mistakes, including some very stupid mistakes. It’s what children do. They will not learn if they get arrested or treated punitively. They will learn if they are taught why their actions are bad and how they can do better.
Programs that help students learn and actually educate them should be funded instead of SROs.
The SRO program is also a huge drain on the school board’s budget, and that money could be better spent on other programs, such as supports for neurodivergent and disabled students, mental health therapists, or programs for students at risk.
The SRO program terrorizes marginalized students and the money can be better used to actually help children learn and grow. Please work to cut the SRO program in all schools.
“the colony can regenerate injured parts or continue growing after being broken apart. Unless all individual clones are killed at the same time, a colony can theoretically live forever”
This thing is fucking mythical
If anyone has trouble understanding what this is, it’s the same group of animals as sea squirts, creatures related to us vertebrates that reduce down to a hollow bag of jelly by adulthood. The surface of the pyrosome is just thousands of tiny squirts connected in a sheet of jelly kind of like chain mail or sequins :) there’s nothing but water inside, it’s like a windsock.
I will always reblog this.
I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.











