#but not very good at public access

[expressionbean]

if my dog could talk it'd be like this:

my dog: hey owner

me:

my dog: lay down!!!

me: k but-

my dog, putting his full weight on me: you are Laying Down Right Now

[canisalbus]

Vasco and Machete are absolutely adorable, your style is so lovely and you draw the softest beds I’ve ever seen in any art ever

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[alexcabotgf]

not to be true crime posting on main but i think i'm falling down the wm3 rabbit hole again

[villainsidestep]

wait tho…. the public needs to know how jay feels abt maelstrom’s murder(s?)…..

[icewindandboringhorror]

finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

[thedisablednaturalist]

Unfortunately all chatgpt is good for is interview/job application stuff which I think says a lot about the hiring process as a whole

[floofyfluff]

literally just saw a post complaining about the state of public transit but like. full of people saying they couldn't transport 4x8 sheets of plywood on it solo. complaining about transit taking them 45 min to commute vs a 15 min car ride. upset that if they worked in the suburbs and lived in the city they had to drive to work to avoid a lengthy train commute. mad that it smelled like piss and was crowded. enraged they had a 10 minute walk from their train stop to work (walk that was seemingly acceptably safe but apparently the CLOSER stop was 'dangerous.' i assume bc someone sleeps on a bench there) sorry the entire world doesn't have the population density of fucking tokyo but grow up????

[brother-emperors]

I ADORE your art. I love how you use color and just your style is SO jgpgdgdjldfjtuzifs

Anyways, I'm curious if you went to school to learn art or you taught yourself!

I did go to art school, but it wasn't to learn art! I went to art school to learn how to. uh. make comics. specifically, the technical, production, and business aspects of it! (also thank you!)

[wickedhawtwexler]

access to art and music classes should be a human right

[larrythefloridaman]

captains! with a little bonus Casual:

[ashmcgivern]

Hello hello yes Zeal has picked up a boyfriend >:]c

This Halfling is named Zala Neograss! Z met him in the Wintering Isles where he was giving a presentation about a specific comet at an educational summit. His specialty is cosmological meteorology and is working towards proving that celestial bodies have an arcane affect on the planet. It's knowledge that is sort of passively known (and certain extra planar entities have told Zeal its absolutely a thing), but he's working on getting empirical data for it. Zeal is VERY excited to be talking to someone as smart as Zala is because someday Zeal wants to go to university for Planar Physics. The two had to part ways shortly after their first meeting but have been keeping in contract daily with a pair of sending stones.

Zala lives in Fae Fang which is just a ferry ride away from the Fae Isle - where the group attended that fancy party. Since he was finally in the neighborhood Z hopped over to visit for almost all the days they were in town. Zala shared some of his research, did some stargazing in his crazy telescope, did a fuck ton of research together on misc things Zeal needed to figure out, and crafted a bunch of new magic items together.

They've since parted again since Zala isn't really an adventurer, but now Zeal has an upgraded sending stone and will continue to keep very close contact. :>

[the-trans-dragon]

As a person who can hear and speak, the amount of times I wish people knew ASL is astronomical. I could ask customers if they need anything, from across the store, or tell them we are out of stock, or direct them to whatever they’re looking for. I could tell my manager I’m heading home without walking across the entire sales floor and getting caught helping a customer for another ten minutes.

People in public could chat quietly in the waiting room at my doctor’s office, to help the environment be quieter and less overwhelming for me as an autistic person.

[smute]

ok as promised here's the sex paper

[regicidal-defenestration]

I could fix them (Overhead company (get some fucking data protection in there))

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[thoughtportal]

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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