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ZAINAB JIWA AS GERALT OF RIVIA

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I'm seeing a lot of the same arguments and thoughts about this election as we had in 2016. I don't want to see that repeated. Neither do you. So we have to come together and vote in record numbers. We defeated MAGA once. We have to do it again.

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When I was little my parents used to tell me that "You should only have a partner when you intended to marry them;" I never wanted to marry, that's been a fact since I can remember, so it bears to say I came to the conclusion "I'll never have a partner"

When I was growing up my peers told me that having sex was amazing, they tried to express how attraction felt "It's like wanting to eat someone with your whole body;" I never felt that, people told me I just had to wait, I'm still waiting.

As an adult I entertained the idea of having a companion, someone to share my life with and I was told it made absolutely no sense, "A relationship is like you live with your best friend but you also have sex, if you don't have sex there is no sense."

I internalized it, it grew on me and eventually, I stopped trying to make sense to all and made my peace for a loner life.

I met someone, he was my best friend, I didn't want to eat him with my body, but I wanted ti carve myself inside him. I was clear and told him that I understood very little about cues and intentions, he said we were best friends, doing things best friends did...we were not, it took me a while to understand and a lot of heartache to accept I had been taken advantage of for years. That's when I realized with my therapist I am also autistic.

I was sent to this earth without a user's manual, without compass and without decoder.

I was put here to be autistic, asexual and aromantic. And once I found a reason why, when I found connection to the LGBTQ+ community, I was told I was wrong, I should get checked, maybe it's a hormone imbalance...

That was the first time that I actually felt I wasn't human (a term actually used upon me through time,) so I gave up, I gave up on trying to find familiarity, comfort, understanding.

This year is the first time that I feel myself valid, there are books and fanfiction with characters that are aro or ace or both, Tumblr is trending my labels, I see aroace butterflies, aroace moons, aroace dragons. There are others like me out there, but even better, there are others out there not like me, that still see we exist!

Yesterday I read a line that said "You should not be expected to come with a warning for people to love you" I cried cathartically for a good while.

Is this post about woe is me? No, is this about me wanting people to validate me? Strangely no.

This is cathartic, letting something off my chest, but this is also a plea to everyone to be kind, to not segregate people if they are different than you, to be kind to others in general; To let allos a little bit into the mind and life of someone that is even a tinier minority and try to not repeat mistakes onto the next generation, this generation even, we're never too late.

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Oooof. What a terrible cover. Go listen to Brandy's original jam, Sitting on Top of the World.

✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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For those who have overactive guilt complexes like me…

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oh he 100% doesnt know what year it is

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Opinion Here’s how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need it

When the public health emergency around covid-19 ended, vaccines and treatments became commercial products, meaning companies could charge for them as they do other pharmaceuticals. Paxlovid, the highly effective antiviral pill that can prevent covid from becoming severe, now has a list price of nearly $1,400 for a five-day treatment course.

Thanks to an innovative agreement between the Biden administration and the drug’s manufacturer, Pfizer, Americans can still access the medication free or at very low cost through a program called Paxcess. The problem is that too few people — including pharmacists — are aware of it.

I learned of Paxcess only after readers wrote that pharmacies were charging them hundreds of dollars — or even the full list price — to fill their Paxlovid prescription. This shouldn’t be happening. A representative from Pfizer, which runs the program, explained to me that patients on Medicare and Medicaid or who are uninsured should get free Paxlovid. They need to sign up by going to paxlovid.iassist.com or by calling 877-219-7225. “We wanted to make enrollment as easy and as quick as possible,” the representative said.

Indeed, the process is straightforward. I clicked through the web form myself, and there are only three sets of information required. Patients first enter their name, date of birth and address. They then input their prescriber’s name and address and select their insurance type.

All this should take less than five minutes and can be done at home or at the pharmacy. A physician or pharmacist can fill it out on behalf of the patient, too. Importantly, this form does not ask for medical history, proof of a positive coronavirus test, income verification, citizenship status or other potentially sensitive and time-consuming information.

But there is one key requirement people need to be aware of: Patients must have a prescription for Paxlovid to start the enrollment process. It is not possible to pre-enroll. (Though, in a sense, people on Medicare or Medicaid are already pre-enrolled.)

Once the questionnaire is complete, the website generates a voucher within seconds. People can print it or email it themselves, and then they can exchange it for a free course of Paxlovid at most pharmacies.

Pfizer’s representative tells me that more than 57,000 pharmacies are contracted to participate in this program, including major chain drugstores such as CVS and Walgreens and large retail chains such as Walmart, Kroger and Costco. For those unable to go in person, a mail-order option is available, too.

The program works a little differently for patients with commercial insurance. Some insurance plans already cover Paxlovid without a co-pay. Anyone who is told there will be a charge should sign up for Paxcess, which would further bring down their co-pay and might even cover the entire cost.

Several readers have attested that Paxcess’s process was fast and seamless. I was also glad to learn that there is basically no limit to the number of times someone could use it. A person who contracts the coronavirus three times in a year could access Paxlovid free or at low cost each time.

Unfortunately, readers informed me of one major glitch: Though the Paxcess voucher is honored when presented, some pharmacies are not offering the program proactively. As a result, many patients are still being charged high co-pays even if they could have gotten the medication at no cost.

This is incredibly frustrating. However, after interviewing multiple people involved in the process, including representatives of major pharmacy chains and Biden administration officials, I believe everyone is sincere in trying to make things right. As we saw in the early days of the coronavirus vaccine rollout, it’s hard to get a new program off the ground. Policies that look good on paper run into multiple barriers during implementation.

Those involved are actively identifying and addressing these problems. For instance, a Walgreens representative explained to me that in addition to educating pharmacists and pharmacy techs about the program, the company learned it also had to make system changes to account for a different workflow. Normally, when pharmacists process a prescription, they inform patients of the co-pay and dispense the medication. But with Paxlovid, the system needs to stop them if there is a co-pay, so they can prompt patients to sign up for Paxcess.

Here is where patients and consumers must take a proactive role. That might not feel fair; after all, if someone is ill, people expect that the system will work to help them. But that’s not our reality. While pharmacies work to fix their system glitches, patients need to be their own best advocates. That means signing up for Paxcess as soon as they receive a Paxlovid prescription and helping spread the word so that others can get the antiviral at little or no cost, too.

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Oh hello Woodley Park-Zoo. How I don't miss riding that contraption every day.

like a fool i have always forgiven the dc metro system every time it fucks me over because the stupid sexy 70s brutalist aesthetic is just too swag i am sorry

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RB for big orchestra

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When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

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have you ever shipped something so hard that you become irrationally happy and make a sound akin to steam escaping from a kettle everytime they so much as stand next to eachother

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