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Dissimilarity Index

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Musicker in Jawbreaker Reunion and Long Neck, Bird Enthusiast and Aspiring Ecologist, DJ, Dog Fan. I can jump pretty high, too. https://jawbreakerreunion.bandcamp.com/ https://longnecklass.bandcamp.com/
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USA. New Jersey. 1983. Downtown Manhattan with World Trade Center towers, seen from ‘lover’s lane’ in New Jersey. By Thomas Hoepker.

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aestheticate

for all my canadian gardening peeps

if you have any space to garden, whether it’s an actual garden or just some pots on a balcony, please do consider this source for some beautiful summer flowers that will also make bees very happy.

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parakavka

AMERICAN LINK

get yourself some bee seeds!! 🐝🌻

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The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

I’m so glad they aren’t around

omg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive either

Praise natural selection

I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution

The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion

I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?!  I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!” 

Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!

And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.

Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.

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sashayed

GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.

this is so relevant to my interests 

It wasn’t just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground sloths…

THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.

We’ve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.

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anneriawings

DON’T FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING

AMBULOCETUS WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS

BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN

AND THEN THERE’S MY FAVORITE, ZYGOPHYSETER, WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES

IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH

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gallizfrey

The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, don’t forget how giant the bugs were.

I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post

Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They haven’t found signs of its extinction

scientists: “we haven’t seen a megalodon in quite some time now, let’s just hope it’s exstinct”

All of my fears in one post.

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rbnhood

Well, y'all can just rock me to sleep tonight.

This post made my skin crawl

i however am 100% ok with the giant sloths. everything else can go fuck itself

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sixpenceee

Here are a couple of amazing woman scientists and engineers from AsapSCIENCE and their instagram page! As a woman in science I feel the need to remind every girl out there how powerful and intelligent they really are especially because in the US we have a gross person for president who loves to downplay and degrade woman!

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heavytitty

8/10 uneducated (read: no college degree) white men voted for trump, 7/10 uneducated white women voted for trump, 49% college educated whites voted for trump, 48% white millennials voted for trump, 53% white women in general voted for trump, 58% of all white voters voted for trump; do not be talking out ya fucking neck bout some “fuck non-voters, fuck radicals, fuck third party” nah fuck white people and yalls disregard for humanity. gather ya brothers and sisters before u come at any non-white person sideways lmao.

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An Ontario Court judge wore a “Make America Great Again” hat in his courtroom the day after the U.S. election to mark president-elect Donald Trump’s “historic” victory, according to a source in the room.
Ontario Court Justice Bernd Zabel arrived at the John Sopinka courthouse in Hamilton on Wednesday morning wearing Mr. Trump’s signature campaign hat, according to the source, and addressed the numerous lawyers, police officers and defendants. Another witness in the courtroom did not dispute the details.
The incident has prompted an outcry from legal observers who say Justice Zabel’s political display undermines the public’s confidence in judicial impartiality. And they are particularly upset because Mr. Trump has made disparaging remarks about women and minorities.
“The clerk said ‘all rise’ and the door opens and Justice Zabel comes out. He is in a black silk robe with the crimson sash and the white tie. He has a poppy on his lapel. And he is wearing a scarlet-coloured baseball cap that says Make America Great Again. And we all stand because we are supposed to stand when the judge comes in and he looks at everyone and said he was wearing the hat ‘because last night was an historic occasion,’” the source told The Globe and Mail.
“He took the hat off and put it on the bench so everybody could look while he continued his court business. He didn’t put it away. It was sitting on the bench.” Mr. Zabel then came back with the hat after morning break, the source said.

This is white supremacy.

This is why so, so many people do not and cannot trust the legal system.

Contact judge Bernd E. Zabel:

Central West Region, Court House, 45 Main St. E., Hamilton, Ontario L8N 2B7

Phone: 905-645-5310

Fax: 905-645-5373

You can also contact Ontario’s attorney general:

905-645-5252

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do-over

Okay, a point of clarification or two.

One, contacting the Ministry won’t help. The justices are independent. The Ministry just signs their paycheques.

Bernd Zabel is an Ontario Court Justice in the Central West Region.

His administrative Regional Senior is The Honourable Sharon M. Nicklas.

Her boss? Is found in the Office of the Chief Justice, The Honourable Lise Maisonneuve; Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice.

But if you actually want to *complain* about His Honour’s behaviour, contact the Ontario Judicial Council.

From the site:

Making a Complaint

If you have a complaint of misconduct about a provincial judge or a justice of the peace, you must state your complaint in a signed letter. The letter of complaint should include the date, time and place of the court hearing and as much detail as possible about why you feel there was misconduct. If your complaint involves an incident outside the courtroom, please provide as much information as you can, in writing, about what you feel was misconduct on the part of the judge or justice of the peace.

How are Complaints Processed?

If your complaint is about a judge: The Ontario Judicial Council will write to you to let you know your letter of complaint has been received. A complaint subcommittee, which includes a judge and a community member, will investigate your complaint and make a recommendation to a larger review panel. This review panel, consisting of two judges, a lawyer and another community member, will also carefully review your complaint prior to reaching its decision.

Written complaints should be mailed or faxed to:

For a complaint about a provincial judge:

The Ontario Judicial Council P.O Box 914 31 Adelaide St. E. Adelaide Street Postal Station Toronto, Ontario M5C 2K3 416-327-2339 (FAX)

For a complaint about a justice of the peace:

The Justices of the Peace Review Council P.O Box 914 Adelaide Street Postal Station 31 Adelaide St. E. Toronto, Ontario M5C 2K3 416-327-2339 (FAX)

Write them and if you don’t receive the written response letter from the Ontario Judicial Council, write them again. Flood their office with letters.

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