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if i see someone doing a kink that i think is yucky i just grimace and walk away. not my business. just ignore that. dont need to say anything.

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Article date: August 27, 2025

By many measures, the coronavirus is a thing of the past. Masks have been stored away. Social distancing is just a vague memory. Interest in vaccines is waning. COVID, for many, feels like an inevitable annoyance, like the flu. Then, each summer, we get a rude reminder. The season of travel and fun continues to bring a spike in COVID-19 activity, far less profound than during the height of the pandemic but enough for people to notice and worry. This summer’s jump is being fueled by the subvariant XFG, nicknamed “Stratus.” “As we learn more about COVID, we are seeing that it has two surges a year: the late fall/early winter and in the summer, so we expect this trend of increased cases in the summer to continue,” said Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, the regional chief of infectious disease at Kaiser Permanente Southern California.

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Article date: August 26, 2025

The American College of Cardiology issued new guidance Tuesday that recommends adults with heart disease get vaccinated against respiratory illnesses, including RSV, COVID-19, pneumococcal infection, shingles and influenza. Just weeks out from cold and flu season, the recommendation marks a departure from official U.S. guidance as the Trump administration makes moves to limit vaccine access, particularly for COVID-19 shots. People living with heart disease are already considered a high-risk group, “no matter what their age,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a spokesperson for the college and a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He said vaccine-preventable infections can be more serious in people who have underlying chronic heart disease and can disrupt their care. “It can cause more heart failure, and some of these infections predispose actually to heart attacks,” Schaffner said. “Of course, those are things every cardiologist would like to prevent on behalf of their patients.” Cardiologists are urged to either vaccinate their patients themselves or to make a strong recommendation for patients to get vaccinated, the new guidelines said. Vaccination rates for infectious diseases like COVID have declined in recent years. In a KFF poll published Aug. 1, 6 in 10 U.S. adults said they were not likely to get the updated COVID vaccine, a steep decline since the pandemic began five years ago.

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Article date: August 25, 2025

Before becoming a school nurse in Austin, Texas, Becca Harkleroad assumed mandated childhood vaccinations were just part of back-to-school. “It never occurred to me until I was a school nurse that immunizations could be such a controversial topic,” said Harkleroad, executive director of the Texas School Nurses Organization (TSNO). The controversy has only gotten more divisive in recent years, she said, leading more parents to exempt their kids from receiving mandated vaccinations before heading back to school due to religious or philosophical reasons. In the 2024-2025 school year, 17 states had more than 5% of kindergarteners claiming a nonmedical vaccine exemption. Depending on the state, not every school building has a nurse on site. But if they do, the extra workload to handle those exemptions typically falls on them, Harkleroad said. “What we try to do is prepare our nurses as much as possible to have those hard conversations… To hear what parents say and respond in a nonjudgmental way,” she said. “A kid is a parent’s most absolute precious treasure. Of course, they’re going to question everything they do.” As nonmedical exemptions rise across the country, vaccine rates among kindergarteners are steadily decreasing. In the 2019-2020 school year, only three states reported that less than 90% of kindergarteners were vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella. Last year, that figure rose to 16 states.

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Article date: August 27, 2025

The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday, but imposed new restrictions on who's eligible to get receive them. The agency is limiting the updated shots to people who are at risk for serious complications because they are 65 or older or have other health problems. Until now, COVID vaccines had been available to anyone 6 months and older regardless of their health. The decision is expected to make it harder for many people, such as healthy children and healthy younger adults, to get a shot ahead of the expected winter COVID surge. That's already generating confusion and apprehension that harkens back to the early days of the pandemic, when people often had to frantically search for a shot. "I'm feeling a little déjà vu," says Clare Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers. "There's a lot of anxiety about being able to get the vaccine." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to weigh in soon with influential recommendations on who should get inoculated. But the CDC has already dropped guidelines that call for all healthy children and healthy pregnant women to routinely get vaccinated – a decision many doctors and public health experts say is especially alarming. Federal health officials say the changes are warranted because most people have so much immunity at this point. They also question the vaccines' safety and effectiveness – doubts dismissed by most public health experts and contradicted by a large body of scientific evidence.

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I really wish people would talk about how bad it is that trans people are being stripped of healthcare access without being either truscummy or basically implying "so you should just kill yourself." If I see another post that boils down to, "life isn't worth living if you can't get HRT and surgery," I'm going to scream.

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joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

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never meet your heroes . unless your hero is jaheira. she’s dope as hell

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We've been watching more Buffy. I am completely incapable of remembering Principal Snyder's name without having to think about it for a second, because we just keep calling him Principal Quark.

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[img: photo of a mechanic service receipt. Relevant text reads: "Recommend new front brake rotors and pads, $389.99 plus tax. Recommend new air filter and a new cabin filter, $39.99 each plus tax. Customer declined."

Thanks to everyone that helped me pay the bills this month, I was able to take Johnny the Car in for his overdue oil change (we were under mileage but six months overdue)! It was even cheaper than I had budgeted for, which was great!

Especially when the guy regretfully informed me that my brake pads and rotors were "90% eroded, please get this fixed A S A P, I'm sorry it costs the same as your actual literal monthly payment."

[paraphrased, slightly embellished by my vehicular despair]

The cabin filter, I'm not concerned about; that's something significantly less expensive and I know how to take care of that myself.

Everything else? Uh. Yeah. I need some help on that front. I was really hoping to avoid needing to crowdfund so soon, and enjoy a little less than two weeks of begging-free time, but here we are. Such is life.

So I need to come up with roughly $450 to cover the brake rotors, pads, and the air filter.

As always, only if you can, only if you're willing, but boosts are always super helpful <3

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love handles study

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"narcissist", "sociopath", "psychopath"...

it would be nice if more people, rather than using like... diagnostic language, instead said what they meant

like, for example

instead of "narcissist", if you are talking about someone who is a self obsessed asshole, you can instead say... "self obsessed asshole".

or instead of "sociopath", if you are talking about an asshole who doesn't care about other peoples feelings, you can say "asshole who doesn't care about other people's feelings"

or, yknow, just... call them an asshole.

like. rather than basically medicalising "being an asshole" and essentially framing "being a horrible person" as an innate part of having certain neurodivergence stuff, if someone is being an asshole, you can just. call them an asshole.

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reminder that using narcissist as a label for people you dislike is ableist!!

reminder that “how to manipulate/isolate narcissists” is not only ableism, but literal abuse!!

reminder that pwNPD are not your enemy!!

much love to everyone with narcissistic personality disorder!!! <33 /p

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Narcissistic personality disorder is so funny like yes I find everyone absolutely disgusting and vile and unworthy but that’s actually a projection of how I am aware I am the most disgusting, vile, and unworthy of them all. Except that isn’t actually true and I am the shining beacon of hard work and worthiness that all human beings should strive for except I lied again I really am as foul as I described before but oh gotcha again I’m actually perfect and

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reblog with a spoiler for your wip with zero context. no context allowed.

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[img: photo of a mechanic service receipt. Relevant text reads: "Recommend new front brake rotors and pads, $389.99 plus tax. Recommend new air filter and a new cabin filter, $39.99 each plus tax. Customer declined."

Thanks to everyone that helped me pay the bills this month, I was able to take Johnny the Car in for his overdue oil change (we were under mileage but six months overdue)! It was even cheaper than I had budgeted for, which was great!

Especially when the guy regretfully informed me that my brake pads and rotors were "90% eroded, please get this fixed A S A P, I'm sorry it costs the same as your actual literal monthly payment."

[paraphrased, slightly embellished by my vehicular despair]

The cabin filter, I'm not concerned about; that's something significantly less expensive and I know how to take care of that myself.

Everything else? Uh. Yeah. I need some help on that front. I was really hoping to avoid needing to crowdfund so soon, and enjoy a little less than two weeks of begging-free time, but here we are. Such is life.

So I need to come up with roughly $450 to cover the brake rotors, pads, and the air filter.

As always, only if you can, only if you're willing, but boosts are always super helpful <3

PayPal | (link) Venmo | (dovesndecay) Cashapp | ($dovesndecay)

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"I tricked people into thinking I'm a good person by ... performing the acts of a good person"

yeah well i tricked people into thinking i'm a remotely functioning adult with my expansive vocabulary despite being taken out of school in 4th grade and subsequently taught nothing about how to exist in the world beyond what I absorbed through something called "osmosis jones"