#donor support

[humansolidarityday]

CERF High-level Pledging event for 2024.

The High-level Pledging Event (HLPE) on the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for 2024 aims to mobilize financial resources to ensure the CERF is well-placed to effectively provide time-critical, life-saving humanitarian assistance in response to the exponentially growing humanitarian needs.

Agenda:

Opening segment: This will include opening remarks by UN Secretary-General Mr. António Guterres and remarks by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (USG/ERC) for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Mr. Martin Griffiths.

High-level panel: a distinguished panel will focus on CERF's role in meeting the urgent life-saving needs of people in crises.

Statements and announcements: Member States and partners to announce support and pledges to CERF for 2024 and potential additional top-ups for 2023. Interventions should be limited to two minutes each.

Closing segment: Closing remarks by Mr. Martin Griffiths, USG/ERC, OCHA.

CERF is a dependable and predictable funding mechanism for the most urgent and critical humanitarian action. It is often the first funding source in new and rapidly escalating emergencies, and one of the few funding sources in underfunded emergencies. Strong, reliable and inclusive donor support is essential for CERF to remain fit for purpose and be able to adapt continuously.

In the context of an unprecedented growth of humanitarian needs, a fully-resourced CERF at US$1 billion, as endorsed by the General Assembly in 2016, is essential to ensure efficient, coordinated assistance reaches the people most in need.

[harbingersecho]

grif's surgery but just a little more... obvious?

I actually rly rly ADORE frankengrif but I don't have an in-show reason why he'd have extensive long-term allogeneic skingrafts on his face 😔

[composeregg]

Honestly as someone who is partially adopted,

The fact that the doctor didn't go to the biological mother, let her walk away, didn't need to find that information, is so...

My mom was a single mother for a few years, because my bio father didn't stick around. My dad is the one she married, the one who raised me, the one who celebrates adoption day with me.

Ruby has her family. I get wanting to know, wanting to understand, and it's clear she does want that, but she doesn't need that. Her mom makes the point of being glad she didn't find anyone because she's ruby's mom

And there's not enough stories out there where that's just accepted. My biological father tried to get in touch with me when I turned 19 and I told him to fuck off (well, i didn't respond so my mom did with my permission), because he's not my dad. I don't have an interest in seeing him, in getting to know him.

"Aren't you curious?" No, not really!

I get the idea of wanting Ruby to secretly be alien-ish since we dont know her genetics but... there's something special to me, for her to be an ordinary girl. A foundling, adopted. Her biological relations not mattering because her family is the one she HAS

That means a lot to me

[pynkhues]

It is interesting with Antoinette. I could see it being that Lestat genuinely had affection for her, even if he would certainly have killed her had Louis personally asked him to -- or it could be that she was just familiar, and he wanted the closest thing to intimacy he could get, so someone who knew him was better than someone who didn't. And the whole possibility that she reminded him of Gabrielle in some ways...

(x)

Yeah, I totally agree, anon.

I actually unfortunately suspect that Antoinette isn't a character the show will really come back to, and I think I'm one of three people that cares about that, haha, but where I tend to land on her relationship with Lestat is the fact that neither Lestat nor Louis actually have any friends.

That's not to say that I think Lestat and Antoinette were just friends, I don't, they obviously fucked a lot (which like, also comes down to the fact that Lestat doesn't know how to have friends he doesn't fuck, haha), but I do think the reality is that Lestat and Louis have very different racial and cultural contexts, hobbies and areas of interest which aren't things they can easily share with each other, especially not in early-1900s America, and I think that's a bigger factor in their relationship breakdown than either will admit to.

It's why Louis' able to reconnect with Jonah so quickly - they might be leading different lives, but they have more overlapping factors than they don't, whereas he and Lestat have less than they do - and for Lestat as a white theatre kid, he needs to be around other performers. I think with Antoinette, she's obviously a talented vocalist and an ambitious artist, and I can see that genuinely just being company that Lestat wants to be close with. They probably talk shit about crap theatre they've seen and do vocal runs together and fuck, and honestly for a part of Lestat, that would lowkey be a dream relationship, haha. Do I think they have a deep emotional connection? No, but given even Louis' willing to admit she's talented, and his own complex relationship with not succeeding as an artist, I wonder how much that factors in to his portrayal of her and his insecurities around their relationship (to say nothing of the fact that she's both white and a woman).

This feels like it's going on a hundred tangents, haha, but my point is maybe they'd step out on each other less or descend into unforessen levels of chaos and destruction if they both had a few friends they could talk about their identities and niche interests with!!

[misslisamiray]

Second "after blood center, before failed attempt to get eclipse glasses" pic from Monday. Yes I brought Rick Bear with me again, because, see below.

I've mentioned before that blood/platelet donation is getting harder for me because my veins don't want to cooperate. What I haven't mentioned is: this is causing my brain to revert to almost-as-bad-as-when-I-was-a-kid level fear of needles. Which sucks just as much as it sounds like it does. And well, bringing him helps. Even though I do leave him in my backpack so he isn't in the way. 😅

So if you ever want to donate blood, feel like a plushie will make you less nervous, but feel silly taking one, I hope you remember this post. And that even 40 year olds who've been donating for almost 19 years can:

1. Love what they do, but hate/be afraid of the few seconds the needle stick takes.

2. Bring plushies along to help with that.

[conspiring-limabean]

I would never deny science (though there are also valid reasons these studies might be dubious) but the thought of this theory is so fucking funny to me

bring back bloodletting 😍

[moldwood]

my abbot posting is actually phase 1 of my organ donor propaganda. phase 2 is i start making abbot organ donor buttons

[airsignaura]

yk what… i need 2 rant for a min:

[arrowsperpetualcringe]

Milgram be like: this doctor had the audacity to fucking exsist should we sentence him to death?

[barnbridges]

not to be um... siding with the catholic church on something. but yall agree with surrogacy for the WRONG REASONS and it shows.

[mzminola]

"a canon character other than the Drakes is Tim's bio parent" is a fun sandbox to play in but the half-joking focus fandom gives it due specifically to Jack & Janet having inconsistent hair colors (Crystal does too, guys) drives me up the wall a bit.

My hair is currently purple and blue. Purple and blue. Do you really really really think it is that improbable that Janet Drake has tried out different 'natural' hair colors through the magic of bleach and dye?

Do you really think it's so improbable that Jack has? Especially since he went gray during the coma?

[arolesbianism]

Harold tell your son to post some selfies I need to draw him stat

[novelcsanchez]

Aortic Aneurysm Awareness

On my previous blog post, I explained that my mother is diagnosed with Thoracic Ascending Aortic Aneurysm and had undergone repair for it. Her surgeon and attending physician were quite happy with my Mama’s progress considering how delicate her condition was post-surgery. Mama had a prolonged stay in Surgical ICU due to some respiratory complications. The doctors were all saying the same thing,…

[fruitgoat]

My Dad tested positive (again) this morning. He started feeling poorly yesterday and as he’s the kind of person who barely noticed a headache when he was having aural migraines bad enough to send him to ER, I scampered off the couch and out of the house pretty damn quick. Based on the timeline, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me - I’ve coughed and sneezed more since getting home from vacation but we were all sure it was just allergies and I’ve tested negative. We’re currently pretty sure the culprit is the 24 hours spent at his 55th (?) high school reunion over the weekend. My Mom has surrendered to the fact that she’s going to test positive by tomorrow. So I’m sitting here in The Annex dithering. 500 yards away and now banned from entering my parents’ house.

(And I’m mad because the embossing power is not adhering correctly so I trashed at least a half dozen cards and that means I have to redesign my Rosh Hashanah cards and now they’re probably going to arrive late. But that’s a completely different issue.)

[canisonicscrewyou]

fb + instagram algorithm trying SOSO hard to get me to become a sperm donor.

[misslisamiray]

After 3 failed attempts, at 3 different blood centers, with a different thing going wrong each time, I finally had my first successful platelet donation of 2024 yesterday!

And yes, surprising no one, I brought the bear (my Emotional Support Rick, as he's been dubbed by some folks at work, which is accurate 😅).

Happy belated Valentine's Day!!!