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yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety
(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)
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One of the funniest things in Leverage is where they go through a whole bunch of plans to ensure the item is deemed a fake and then it turned out that none of it mattered because the bad guy had already paid off the appraiser to say the item was real 😆
“Williams’ victory feels especially well deserved because Shane Hollander is not an easy character to portray. As we wrote in our review of the series, Williams delivers “a masterclass in micro-expressions and physical restraint.” Shane spends much of the story fighting against himself, suppressing emotions he barely allows himself to acknowledge, and Williams manages to communicate entire emotional arcs through a glance, a tense jaw, or a slight shift in posture. Every crack in Shane’s carefully constructed armor lands with devastating impact because of the work Williams puts in throughout the series.
Seeing that performance recognized on one of Canada’s biggest stages feels incredibly rewarding. Williams’ win is also historic in its own right. At just 25 years old, he became the youngest performer ever to win Best Lead Performer, Drama, at the Canadian Screen Awards, accomplishing the feat on his very first nomination.”
I think it's funny world-building how like, so at the center of Life we've got Water. Arguably The most important resource. Colorless transparent substance that molds to any container and we die without it and quickly. And all organic functions of society hinge on its availability. Could fight a ton of wars over this thing.
And well beyond organic life, modern society's great human invention is the Electronic Magic. Our greatest minds invented the Electronic Magic and it sends information around the world instantly. Our infrastructure our economy our modern life, minute by minute by minute, hinges on utilizing the great Lighting Technology.
BUT ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ DO NOT. DO NOT EVER. get the magical Elixir Substance of Life and Living and Healing, Water, IN the Electronic Device. The water keeps you alive critically but it KILLS the Electronic Device instantly and catastrophically. This Says something.
forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that
yeah I have political reasons for it now but my original and still most powerful reason is "I am not getting out of this bed one single second before I have to"
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love is a beautiful wonderful multifaceted nebulous thing that shouldn't be reduced to the strict bounds of Tier One: Romance and Tier Two: Friends. get weird with it. love your friends deeply, wildly, passionately and platonically. cowards
Leen Hijaz, a Palestinian Muslim valedictorian at Clayton High, tried to end her graduation speech with a call for humanity. Instead, she wa
Holler and Hammer:
Principal Melissa Hubbard got up and crossed the stage when Leen Hijaz, Palestinian, Muslim, early graduate, valedictorian, tried to finish her speech by naming Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan, and families ripped apart by ICE. Leen tried to say every person deserves dignity, safety, and the chance to dream.
That was the line that made Hubbard stomp across the stage and shut her down in front of the whole crowd at Nixon-Fowler Stadium for Clayton High School’s graduation on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
The ceremony did not stop there. Less than five minutes later, Senior Class Vice President Cecelia Trader stepped up, asked the audience to bow their heads, and opened with a Christian prayer: “Dear Heavenly Father.” Hubbard stayed seated. A few minutes after that, Student Body Vice President, Mallory Kuykendall introduced senior class president Gates Hale through his church work and mission trips, then Gates quoted Proverbs 3:5-6 and told the graduating class the Lord had a purpose and path for each of them. Hubbard stayed seated. At the end of the ceremony, Allison Lowery, Student Body Historian, closed the night with a prayer and a Bible verse. Hubbard stayed seated for that, too.
The approved part of Leen’s speech was the kind of graduation talk schools love, because it doesn’t ask anyone anything risky. She welcomed students, staff, families, honored guests, and the whole Class of 2026. She talked about hard work, growth, memories, sacrifice, perseverance, parents, guardians, teachers, coaches, loved ones. She told her classmates to be proud. She said they will always be Comets. She gave the school the safe version, warm enough for the program, broad enough for the bleachers, careful enough to slip past whatever adult hands were holding the gate.
Then she said, “Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say.”
That was the part she left out of the official draft, because she already knew exactly how this place works and who gets to speak.
“Every single person here has a voice,” her written speech says, “and we are privileged to have the freedom to use it when so many people around the world are suffering and struggling to be heard.” She named “the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan, and so many other countries around the world,” and “the families being torn apart by ICE.”
Then came the line she was trying to finish.
“My point is, we were not given a voice so we could stay silent in the face of suffering. Every person deserves dignity, safety, and the chance to dream for their future just like we do. As we all move forward, I hope we choose to speak up against oppression, support one another, and use our voices to bring compassion and humanity into the world.”
That’s all she tried to say.
Dignity, safety, compassion, and humanity. That is what Principal Melissa Hubbard could not let finish. Not a threat, not a disruption, just the wrong truth from the wrong mouth in the wrong county.
Leen Hijaz is Palestinian. She is Muslim. She graduated early, a junior with the highest GPA at the school, and was valedictorian of the Class of 2026 at Clayton High. She did not walk onto that stage as a prop in somebody else’s culture war. She walked up there carrying a life that most of the room had never had to understand.
Leen did not keep the final lines separate because she misunderstood the rules. She kept them separate because she understood the rules too well.
In our interview, she explained that the approved part of the speech was written to do what graduation speeches are usually expected to do. She wanted “to make a good impression.” She wanted it to be “a reflection of everything that we’ve gone through the past couple of years.” She kept it “very simple” and “something that everyone could relate to.” That was the safe speech. The warm welcome speech that thanks everybody, offends nobody, and lets the ceremony keep moving.
The second part came from somewhere else.
“I wanted something to be spread about the awareness about everything that’s going on in the world,” Leen told me, “because I knew that they weren’t going to bring it up, especially because I am Palestinian.” Then she said the part that should embarrass every adult pretending she is just some kid who doesn’t know what she is talking about.
That is why she wrote it. She did not write it because it was a political talking point she learned from a TikTok clip. That was a student explaining why the final part of her speech mattered to her, why she wanted to name suffering beyond Clayton, beyond Johnston County, beyond the comfortable little ceremony adults wanted.
That is also why she knew it would not survive approval.
Her senior quote for the yearbook had been “From the river to the sea,” and Clayton High made her change it. Leen said it was “apparently too political” and “too offensive.” She did not describe it as a threat. She described it as “just a simple phrase that a lot of Palestinians say because of our ethnic cleansing.” That experience told her what the school would do if she submitted the final part of her speech. Nobody had to spell it out. The lesson had already been taught.
That lesson did not stop with the yearbook.
Clayton High has student groups like Turning Point USA and First Priority Christian Club, and Leen was blunt about how that looked from where she stood.
Clayton High School in Clayton, NC has a graduation speech that is going viral worldwide, and it's because valedictorian Leen Hijaz-- a Palestinian Muslim-- used her valedictorian speech to call out ICE's atrocities and suffering worldwide in Congo, Sudan, and Palestine.
As Hijaz was about to close her speech, Melissa Hubbard-- the school's principal-- rudely snatched the mic from her. On top of that, her diploma was unjustly withheld.
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USA Today: Valedictorian's speech cut after unscripted immigration comment
The level of mental hoops that guy had to jump through to say to his wife, "No, honey! Of course I wouldn't be cheating on you! Sex during gaycations doesn't count!"
Don't worry honey, all the other men on gaycation aren't real people and they stop existing after. Hey, where's all the homophoboa coming from suddenly?
In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.
You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.
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The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.
Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?
From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.
seconding these tags by @ragsy:
#if the social consciousness has decided that duckduckgo is the Only Othet Search Engine#might i suggest 'go duck yourself'
in modern day it's very easy to look at batman and be like "WHAT was this guy doing. Insane choice. You do NOT have to fight crime this way" but then you learn literally anything about the US in 1900-1939 and you're like "oh a batman terrifying people would have actually for real improved the situation"
"what did batman do to improve Gotham in ANY WAY that Bruce Wayne couldn't"
Batman is breaking into your landlord's apartment and and saying they would be seeing Batman EVERY NIGHT until they got running water in the apartment building, there are literal plague rats running around
Batman is solving crimes the police ignore due to sexism and racism, finding the perpetrators, and dangling them off a roof, promising if they ever do that again, he will also dangle them off a roof again
Batman is breaking into mafioso bedrooms, tying them up, gluing 500 individual feathers onto them, then taking pictures and sending them to every big newspaper chain in the country to remind people that the ones they're afraid of are still only men
Then he finds police officers on the take and glues feathers to all their uniforms so they can't walk around without everyone knowing they are also associated with the chicken mafia, what a loser.
He is seeing violent crime happen on the streets and swooping in to get in the way as it is happening. Extortion, assault, murders-- get good, assholes, your crime is witnessed and you have been punched in the face, AND he's going to tip off the police commissioner who last year started listening. He is blowing up a mobster weapons depot so they have fewer guns on the street.
Bruce Wayne can help when the system is working. And Batman gets to work when the system does not.
so called feminists: "actually women are naturally inferior at everything, including quiz game shows, beauty pageants, chess, and video games. we need a society that is segregated so that anyone who would ever have to potential to win against a woman is eliminated. this is actually far better than organizing sports into weight classes or different athletic/skill level based categories that ignore sex, like what wrestling and video/board game tournaments already do. I cannot accept the reality that men and women are the same species. this is actually how we truly protect women. by calling them weak pathetic losers who could never win against even the worst opponent, and preventing them from even playing at all."
actually conversion I had with one of these nerds:
me: "so you think men are better at literally everything, even things that do not require any physical ability whatsoever?"
terf: "yes! those should still be segregated by sex! males should not be playing against women ever. it's an unfair advantage"
me: "so my brother has an unfair advantage over me when playing fucking monopoly?"
terf: "yes. males are statistically better and managing finances, while women are irresponsible and lenient with spending money."
hey guys. I think the people who are literally unironicly saying "women are bad at money. this means they suck at board games" aren't actually feminists
No joke, that was the rethoric the Francoist regime in Spain used to justify women being legally underage regardless of age and unable to open bank accounts without their husbands or fathers permission. That law was effective until 1975.
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As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore
Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people
I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history
You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again
Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation