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Kidpostin 

Without eye protection, UV radiation from sunlight can reflect off snow and sunburn corneas, causing nausea, pain and temporary blindness. White settlers would sometimes be stricken snowblind without even understanding what was happening.

Fun fact: the first sunglasses were invented by the Inuit and Yupik people to prevent snowblindness. They were carved from spruce driftwood, caribou antler, walrus ivory, bone and other materials. They work by reducing the amount of light that comes in rather than by filtering. They can also improve visual acuity.

Nurses to strike in 4 states 

@interneteh I'm usually more of a libertarian socialist but on the first of the month I'm a maoist

Bill Maher, please retire already and leave the limelight for an eternity. :chick_dotdotdot:

Why Aren't More Lesbians Hitting On Me? And Other Important Questions

Meet Oskar, latest addition to the family, he and D'Artagnon seem to not mind each other, but still a bit early to have them cohabit. ;)

I have the music from A Boy And His Blob stuck in my head because I have a powerful brain

ME, AGE 10: Hey, mom, I want to buy a CD, but I'm not sure if you'll let me, because there's a swear in the title.

MOM: What's it called?

ME: Candy a-word. It's by a band called Orgy.

MOM: A band called WHAT?

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Sunbeam City 🌻

Sunbeam City is a Libertarian Socialist solarpunk instance. It is ran democratically by a cooperative of like-minded individuals.