neville park @nev@social.coop

love too have a temporary "pseudo-vaginal canal"

Anne Hilborn: "I am having a serious WTF moment over here on finding that not only do opossums have 2 vaginas, 2 cervixes and 2 uteri (which I knew ) BUT THEY GIVE BIRTH THROUGH ANOTHER COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TEMPORARY VAGINA THAT CLOSES UP AND DISAPPEARS AFTER BIRTH.
W.
T.
F." https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/1013862257346908160

Source (PDF): https://www.uaex.edu/environment-nature/wildlife/docs/The_Opossum_Its_Amazing_Story.pdf

In Indianapolis, an Episcopal church, Christ Church Cathedral, puts the Holy Family in a chain-link cage. On Twitter, they urged solidarity with immigrants and refugees in detainment, adding the hashtags #EveryFamilyIsHoly and #CadaFamiliaEsSagrada.

https://fox59.com/2018/07/03/indianapolis-church-puts-holy-family-in-ice-detention-in-bold-statement-about-immigration-policy/

(Via @rustbeltrebel@twitter.com)

“Danish politics is just about Muslims now. They want us to get more assimilated or get out. I don’t know when they will be satisfied with us.”
https://nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/europe/denmark-immigrant-ghettos.html

Meanwhile, local political leaders and other public figures are making racist noises about the need for more policing, instead of examining their own role in perpetuating the root causes of gun violence - poverty, marginalization.

Neville out

The deaths have been followed by friends and community members' tributes on social media, and the typical gross trend of reporters jumping in their DMs for quotes. This has sparked criticism from Black Torontonians who wonder why the (overwhelmingly white and non-Black POC) media is only interested in covering them when they are killed.

Over the weekend, two Toronto rappers - the rising star Smoke Dawg and Koba Prime of Prime Collective - were shot and killed outside a downtown club. A vigil for Smoke Dawg took place yesterday.

Their families are taking donations for their funerals; you can find links at the beginning of the article here: https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/wjbv75/toronto-music-community-mourns-after-smoke-dawg-reportedly-shot-and-killed

#toronto #news #RIP

Oh hell yeah it's an /r/relationships man-child poop thread https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/8vnby4

halfway through _The Obelisk Gate_ (the second in the Broken Earth series) and it's so good

There's also some drama and conflicting statements around a misleading staff briefing note that overstated the cost of light rail, under political pressure to twist the data to support a subway extension. Anyway Toronto transit clusterfuckery is too much to explain here

Context for non-Torontonians: the previous TTC CEO was ousted after telling then-mayor Rob Ford that light rail was more efficient than subways. Byford was brought in with much bombast - #ThingsAndyDid was a satirical hashtag. He got the TYSSE (the subway extension to York) done in time and modernized some aspects of the TTC. I'm sure the organization is better off. However, the transit system itself is permanently underfunded and will continue to get worse for the foreseeable future.

Wait, one last quibble:

> If safety were an absolute value in transportation policy, the national highway speed limit would be fifteen miles an hour.

It would be 18.6 mph (30 kph).

> Byford has not heard from de Blasio since his arrival, in January. “Bit weird. I should ring him up

> “Last week we thought we had an organ. It turned out to be a biohazardous spit sample”

And the anecdote about Miguel!! Okay enough blathering.