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“In 1984, when Ruth Coker Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend with cancer.

During one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS.

On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room.

In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, “Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming!”

Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a “sinner” and already dead to her, and that she wouldn’t even claim his body when he died.

“I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, “Oh, momma. I knew you’d come”, and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, “I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Ruth later recounted.

Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him

and held his hand until he died 13 hours later.

After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family’s large plot.

After this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them.

Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, “They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here’d come the money. That’s how we’d buy medicine, that’s how we’d pay rent. If it hadn’t been for the drag queens, I don’t know what we would have done”, Ruth said.

Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family’s plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.

For this, Ruth has been nicknamed the ‘Cemetery Angel’.”— by Ra-Ey Saley

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Keynote Address at ADL’s 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate

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There’s a tunnel near my house that I walk my dog in and the acoustics are great so here is part of Into the Unknown ft. My dog Maverick as the “Secret Siren”

How many times we gotta tell yall it's {noun} of color not POC {noun}

The End, by Alister Lockhart.

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Indoor-Outdoor Restrictions on Walking Pokemon

As I’ve watched Pokemon fans lament how badly they want to see a return of the “walking with one’s own Pokemon” feature, I’ve considered it important and relevant to dig into how people walking publicly with their teams could cause problems and also be a source of relaxation for trainers. In the anime, we often see traveling with Pokemon at one’s side normalized after the first few seasons. However, it should be noted that when Pikachu wouldn’t return to his Pokeball in the first few episodes, it was originally odd enough behavior to warrant questions from a number of other characters. With an inherent conflict already present in the canon, we’re left with the freedom to re-imagine how this practice would work. So, where does the truth lie in terms of what would be acceptable, and how does that apply to a real-world setting?

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hey wait a sec are we calling this pact thing the Midwestern Allience, or are we the Great Lakes Bloc Plus Kentucky now?

…They did what… to you? No. I will make them pay. You’re fucking mine. And nobody, nobody, lays a goddamn finger on you.

Scientists on an expedition to sample a deep-sea trench got a surprise when their traps brought back seven giant crustaceans glimpsed only a handful of times in human history.

The “supergiant” amphipods are more than 20 times larger than their typical crustacean relatives, which are generally less than a half-inch long, and thrive in lakes and oceans around the world. The largest of the seven specimens was about 11 inches long.

The pale, leggy creatures were found 4 miles down in the Kermadec Trench, off the northeast coast of New Zealand, one of the deepest trenches on Earth.

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Image credit: © Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, UK.

My look is attractively ambiguous. Am I cute? Am I ugly? You don’t know . You need a second opinion .

Does anyone else remember when ru paul was called out for his blatant transmisogyny and in his twitter apology used the trains flag instead of the trans flag?

Because I think about that constantly

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