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mei and her trophy wife appreciation post

Shane comes out of the closet sometime after Scott does, and in some random, lighthearted interview, they ask him what he's looking for in a man. And Shane's just, off-hand like, "Well, he'd have to have at least one Stanley Cup. Obviously." And when he gets a good reaction from that, he keeps going, like "Needs to be amazing at hockey. Definitely needs to be at least an All-Star, if not a captain. Hot too. If he can't bench-press me, I'm not interested."

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

"You hold more leverage than a cancellation could ever give you, and it works in the opposite direction. A donation that disappears is invisible. It shows up as one anonymous line in a spreadsheet, gets blamed on the economy or a bad fundraising email, and teaches the institution nothing.

"A donor who speaks up is much harder to wave off, because donors are handed a door that the Foundation’s own staff and volunteers aren’t. You should walk through that door instead of slipping out the back.

"In practice, that means writing to the Board of Trustees, whose job is to hold leadership to account, and telling them in your own words that your support has always been a matter of trust, and that trust depends on how an institution treats the people who build it.

He's a middle school teacher.

And you're just like....are they all fucking with me?

d: hana-chan, domestic violence is wrong. do you get it now, yuru? hana-chan's the scariest person in this house when she gets mad. h: if you know that, why are you always making me angry?

The oldest, deepest and most extensive whale graveyard yet discovered has been found in the south-eastern Indian Ocean, with fossils dating back more than 5m years. Whale falls – the term for dead whales that sink to the ocean floor – are not uncommon, but most have been found at depths of less than 4km (2.5 miles). By contrast, the newly discovered necropolis reaches depths of more than 7km, and extends hundreds of miles across the sea floor. The largest carcass discovered by the researchers was a five-metre long skeleton of an Antarctic minke whale. They also encountered remains of extinct species including a fossilised skull from a species of beaked whale called Pterocetus benguelae, which was dated to 5.3m years ago, and another fossilised skull from a new species the team have named Pterocetus diamantinae. Jon Copley, a professor of ocean exploration and science communication at the University of Southampton, who was not involved in the work, said: “It’s an exciting and rare discovery – not only the world’s deepest known ‘whale-fall’ colony of deep sea animals, but also such an abundance of modern whale skeletons and fossils in this particular location.” “Finding a ‘whale necropolis’ where there are nearly 800 skeletons per square kilometre is a surprise, and the mix of whale types is a puzzle,” Copley said, noting that it included some shallow-diving filter-feeding species such as Minke whales as well as many bones and fossils of beaked whales, which are very deep-diving hunters. “As the researchers suggest, such a necropolis probably results from being on a migration route for filter-feeding species, while also a good place for the hunter species to dive deep for squid, but perhaps pushing them perilously close to their limits as they dive into this crack in the ocean floor,” he said.