shoutout to international students who didn’t grow up speaking english but are now doing complex readings and writing essays in their second/third language and being held to the same standards as native english speakers, i never hear anyone talking about it but that’s hard as fuck
This is the Brazilian Pinkbloom Tarantula. They grow to a length of 9 cm, although specimens of 11 cm have been recorded. Females are dark brown/black but mature males have this incredible purple/pink hue that makes them highly prized in the arachnid aficionado community. (Source)
Mary Jane Rathbun, Inventor of the Marijuana Brownie.
In the 1980s, Mary Jane was baking over 4,000 brownies a week for Californian AIDS patients after she realised it eased their suffering and depression. Despite multiple convictions, she remained an active marijuana advocate until the day she died.
I had to fact check this and her Wikipedia page made me like her even more:
“She was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended Catholic school. At the age of 13, she was involved in an altercation with a nun who tried to cane her, but Rathbun fought back.”
“Social activism appealed to her from a young age; she traveled from Chicago to Wisconsin to campaign for the right of miners to form unions. In the late 1940s, she worked as an activist promoting abortion rights for women in Minneapolis.”
“Rathbun often appeared in public wearing polyester pantsuits, and she was said to have a ‘sailor’s mouth.’”
some heroes wear polyester pantsuits
IS SHE WHY ITS CALLED MARY JANE???
wine mom? vodka aunt? no, no, this is weed grandma
HAUSVIABEJSBAKMSJDK WHAT IS THIS OMFG I LOVE HIM 😭
Imagine staying over at their place for the first time and shitting yourself in the middle of the night because you think james earl jones is meowing at you from the door
