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The Best News of Last Year

1. Belgium approves four-day week and gives employees the right to ignore their bosses after work

Workers in Belgium will soon be able to choose a four-day week under a series of labour market reforms announced on Tuesday.

The reform package agreed by the country’s multi-party coalition government will also give workers the right to turn off work devices and ignore work-related messages after hours without fear of reprisal.

“We have experienced two difficult years. With this agreement, we set a beacon for an economy that is more innovative, sustainable and digital. The aim is to be able to make people and businesses stronger,” Belgian prime minister Alexander de Croo told a press conference announcing the reform package.

2. Spain makes it a crime for pro-lifers to harass people outside abortion clinics

Spain has criminalized the harassment or intimidation of women going for an abortion under new legislation approved on Wednesday by the Senate. The move, which involved changes to the penal code, means anti-abortion activists who try to convince women not to terminate their pregnancies could face up to a year behind bars.

3. House passes bill to federally decriminalize marijuana

The House has voted with a slim bipartisan majority to federally decriminalize marijuana. The vote was 220 to 204.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, will prevent federal agencies from denying federal workers security clearances for cannabis use, and will allow the Veterans’ Administration to recommend medical marijuana to veterans living with posttraumatic stress disorder.

The bill also expunges the record of people convicted of non-violent cannabis offenses, which House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, “can haunt people of color and impact the trajectory of their lives and career indefinitely.”

4. France makes birth control free for all women under 25

The scheme, which could benefit three million women, covers the pill, IUDs, contraceptive patches and other methods composed of steroid hormones.

Contraception for minors was already free in France. Several European countries, including Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway, make contraception free for teens.

5. The 1st fully hydrogen-powered passenger train service is now running in Germany. The only emissions are steam & condensed water.

Five of the trains started running in August. Another nine will be added in the coming months to replace 15 diesel trains on the regional route. Alstom says the Coradia iLint has a range of 1,000 kilometers, meaning that it can run all day on the line using a single tank of hydrogen. A hydrogen filling station has been set up on the route between Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude.

6. Princeton will cover all tuition costs for most families making under $100,000 a year, after getting rid of student loans

In September, the New Jersey Ivy League school announced it would be expanding its financial aid program to offer free tuition, including room and board, for most families whose annual income is under $100,000 a year. Previously, the same benefit was offered to families making under $65,000 a year. This new income limit will take effect for all undergraduates starting in the fall of 2023.

Princeton was also the first school in the US to eliminate student loans from its financial aid packages.

7. Humpback whales no longer listed as endangered after major recovery

Humpback whales will be removed from Australia’s threatened-species list, after the government’s independent scientific panel on threatened species deemed the mammals had made a major recovery. Humpback whales will no longer be considered an endangered or vulnerable species.

Climate change and fishing still pose threats to their long-term health.

Some other uplifting news from last year:

A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient

California 100 percent powered by renewables for first time

Israel formally bans LGBTQ conversion therapy

Tokyo Passes Law to Recognize Same-Sex Partnerships

First 100,000 KG Removed From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

As we ring in the New Year let’s remember to focus on the good news. May this be a year of even more kindness and generosity. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2023!

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Interest Check: FFXIV OC Discord

Hello, adventurers! This is an interest check to see if anyone in the FFXIV community would be interested in joining or helping create a discord server focused on the sharing and development of FFXIV OCs! There are so many fabulous original characters in this community, and I personally would love a place to discuss and learn about other peoples’ characters as well as share my own, to a more targeted audience than my followers here or on twitter.

It wouldn’t be a server for roleplaying, but roleplayers would certainly be welcome! It also wouldn’t be restricted to Warriors of Light specifically, but would welcome any characters that exist within the world of FFXIV. It would be welcoming of OC x NPC ships as well as OC x OC ships, and would have channels where users could share their art, writing, etc featuring their characters. And people who don’t necessarily create lore or stories for their own characters but want to learn about others’ characters would be welcome as well!

If anyone has any questions, or would be interested in moderating this thing with me (I do have experience as a mod of a server that had upwards of 200 users in its hay day but would like additional help and perspectives) feel free to leave a reply on the post or send me a message! 

Please reblog this post to show your interest and help the interest check spread! Thank you in advance for your time <3

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tumblr is the safest social media to open in public bc nobody recognises its interface. if u recognise it thats ur problem

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Happy aniversary you dumb fucks @staff

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MAUL + ALIASES (insp)

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Panera has just released a line of swimsuits that say only SOUP in huge letters on them and I thought of you

PANERA? BREAD??

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You’ve been visited by the Halloween moose. May god have mercy on your soul.

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i often wonder how many ppl from 2012 tumblr are still active on here

are u also still here, lurking in the shadows????

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I had a dream I was able to time travel and I went like 10,20,100,1000,2000 years into the future but the instant I went to 4,000 I got stuck in a time dilation jail set up by the American government in the year 3,877 in which anyone that tried to time travel back or forth across May 23, 3877 while on Earth would end up stuck in this time dilation chamber trap to stop time travelers but like it was so crazy and mismanaged because it was legit capturing like every single time traveler ever and the place had only been open for 12 minutes and was already getting overpopulated with nonstop multiple recursive instances of this one other guy trying to break previous versions of himself out of this god damn time traveler jail

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I’m sorry, I probably should have just scrolled by cause don’t want to be dragged into weird ahistorical lgbt tumblr discourse but what in the fuck are some of you talking about

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full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

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The Fellowship of the Ring, dir. Peter Jackson (2001)

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This is the post of 8 glimmer, reblog to buy your guardian a chicken nugget

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Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin BROWN EYES (っ◔◡◔)っ ❤ THE MANDALORIAN (2019– ) | Chapter 15: The Believer

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*epic latin chorus*

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Soon, he will be back with me.