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i don't know anything about ever crisis but god. look at these fucking dweebs (source for gif)

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(The Washington Post)

For those who don't know, the US Supreme Court just ruled that states are allowed to enforce trans healthcare for minors. Undoubtedly, this will trigger a wave of other states that either hope to pass or have already passed policies to do the same. This is going to kill children, and harm more in long-lasting ways.

So, how can you help?

FUCKING VOTE. I don't care if you don't like Biden, he's not the only one on the ballot. Vote representatives into your city council who will turn our city into a sanctuary city. Vote for governors and state reps who will, even if they don't pass new protections, oppose bans being pushed through. Chsllenge and kick out conservative incumbents who are banking on their races being obscure enough for people to not vote in.

Anyone telling you voting is useless is either lying to you or grossly uninformed and think saying this is the edgy new take that will make them look hip and informed. Yes, the system is broken. But short of burning the whole thing to the ground (which personally I'm not a fan of as I quite enjoy having like. Roads and the FDA) what we can do is to change it for the better, by starting with the local races and working our way up.

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Your Tumblr username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?

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a comic about a truck

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Centaures by Eugene Fromentin (1868)

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Cyd Charisse as Maria Corvier Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) dir. Roy Rowland

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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I’m not lying. This played out in one of those dreams between snooze alarms.

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

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In my teens I didn’t want children. The thought of sharing my body reviled me. I found babies VERY off-putting. I didn’t see myself in the role as a mother. People would always chuckle and tell me I would grow out of being a tomboy and my body would make it more appealing.

Well, fast-forward 20 years and in a one in a million chance because of my PCOS and endo, I did end up pregnant. I thought about it long and hard. I did finally conclude that I would embark on this motherhood thing as a bit of a social experiment because I was with a partner I loved and trusted (not an easy thing). He never wanted to be a father, either, but we gave it a shot and while there have been struggles, it has been phenomenal being parents. You grow and learn a lot about yourself but it requires a tremendous amount of self-sacrifice that I wouldn’t wish on anyone in the world as it currently is for many of us.

Regardless, I count myself lucky and that’s even taking in to account life-altering gestational diabetes, crippling postpartum depression, literally giving up my career for almost a decade, and my body has changed in ways I can’t undo… I wouldn’t goad, coerce, or force anyone down this path any more than I would force someone to play Russian Roulette with a loaded gun. It’s more than just “awww!! But babies!” (Babies are still awful, but toddlers can be cool as hell). Community doesn’t look after one another like we used to and going through pregnancy/having a child is the most glorious and awful thing in a person’s life.

Don’t do this to kids.

stop telling your teenage daughters who say they don't want kids that they'll change their mind

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We haven’t had a field trip in a while! Tradition calls for brown bag art when we do, though! MLP is circulating among the youth again. My youngest used to be ride or die for Pinkie Pie but now she’s all in on Rainbow Dash.

Gouache on brown paper.

#mlp #rainbowdash #lunchbagart #brownbagart #gouache

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