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Scientist's accidental discovery makes coral grow 40x faster

There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank.

It typically takes coral 25 to 75 years to reach sexual maturity. With a new coral fragmentation method, it takes just 3.

“Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them…or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.”

Holy SHIT

YouTube: “Judging by your recent watches, we recommend: Why Are So Many SJW Characters Mary Sues?”

Me, who has been watching nothing but monstergirl ASMR roleplays for the past three days: “How do you keep finding me?”

Facebook is launching a Patreon-like “Fan Subscription” thing and it’s got red flags all over it already.

One part of the terms is that they get a lifelong, transferable license for your content, which persists even if you stop using their service. They can transfer or sub-license it to third parties, and you can’t stop them, because you agree to that when you sign up.

Another is that once they start taking a cut, which they will once this launches officially, they can take up to 30%. For comparison, Patreon takes 5%. So you sign up, you post content, they raise the fee, you decide it’s no longer worth it and stop using it… and they get to keep using your content anyway.

You can read more about it here. But basically, the takeaway seems to be that this is another example of Facebook trying to make their own version of a good thing, and turn it into a worse thing, and sell it to you as the best thing ever. Don’t buy it. Please, please, do your research before you sign up for anything.

The Rainbow Railroad is helping gay men escape Chechen concentration camps. They need our help.

WHO THEY ARE:

“Rainbow Railroad receives hundreds of requests for help every year from countries where LGBT individuals are open targets of violence. Because the volume of requests is so high, we focus our efforts on assisting LGBT people who have faced physical violence or face an imminent threat of violence, imprisonment, or death. We have been successful in helping individuals from the Caribbean, Africa and Middle East where we have local networks to support and validate cases.”

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO HELP?

“The costs range as every case is unique. Sometimes the individual has the resources to help themselves and they just need information and support from us to make a move.  In these cases, the cost to Rainbow Railroad is staff and volunteer time to research and provide information.  In cases where they need financial support to get to safety, it costs about $5000 to cover flights and other related costs.”

You can donate at the following link: https://www.rainbowrailroad.ca/donate

If you can’t donate, please reblog/like to signal boost!

Photographer Mattias Klum from National Geographic gets close and personal with a lion.

If you care about trans youth at all please read this

Right now there’s a petition going on titled “Save 6-Year-Old James From Chemical Castration”. Luna, the youth in question, has faced emotional abuse from her father (cutting her hair, refusing to call her by her pronouns, etc.) Jeffrey so her mother, Anne, took him to court to defend her daughter and won the case (note that the case file listed on its website mentions nothing about supposed ‘chemical castration’, it only mentions that the mother is trying to help her daughter by getting her a psychologist). Here’s an excerpt from the case file:

I don’t know what the dad is trying to achieve with this other than form a smear campaign against Luna and her mother and spread transphobia but if you can I highly recommend you report this petition before this man does any more damage.

Thank you for your time.

EDIT:  Apparently they’re trying to make money off this too so thats fun ig

According to cutestat their website’s domain name seems to be registered by GoDaddy and they seem to be running on Wordpress, perhaps it would help to alert them about this too.

Mistake

I'm vegetarian i ordered a veggie buger from buger king the put no meat on the warper didn't have a second thought. Got home and open it. There. Is. No. Buger. Two buns. Tomatoes. Onions. Lettce. Ketchup. Mayo. Pickles. No veggie bun. It's getting redone right now.

so i know that fyre festival is now mostly seen as funny meme of rich kids being scammed but please don’t forget that billy mcfarland hired 200+ Bahamian locals to work grueling hours day and night on the island for weeks with completely unrealistic expectations for this festival and in the end abandoned the island and ran home without paying any of them

so in all seriousness, billy mcfarland is a monster needs to like…….go to jail