Quicklinks: 30 January – 5 February 2023

I’ll start this set of links off with this beautiful 150-year-old tree from Japan.

150 year old wisteria tree in Japan

📸IG godive2000 pic.twitter.com/peY98R8tad

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) January 31, 2023

Imagine if you went walking in the forest and then encountered this fantastical creature!

In the wilderness pic.twitter.com/LIuKLdid02

— Tobias Gremmler (@TobiasGremmler) January 30, 2023

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Anoka’s war on gay teens

I strongly advise everyone to read Rolling Stone article on LGBT kids in Anoka, Minnesota. Below I’ve included a number of quotes from the article.

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Sam’s death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years….

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Surprisingly, the six-member board voted to adopt the measure by a four-to-two majority, even borrowing the memo’s language to fashion the resulting districtwide policy, which pronounced that within the health curriculum, “homosexuality not be taught/addressed as a normal, valid lifestyle.”

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Minnesota Family Council president Tom Prichard blogged that Justin’s suicide could only be blamed upon one thing: his gayness. “Youth who embrace homosexuality are at greater risk [of suicide], because they’ve embraced an unhealthy sexual identity and lifestyle,”