#<- precautionary

[skadoodler]

grian specialises in casually dropping hints and not elaborating afterwards

[fanofthelamb]

wowowowow awesome look at me doing... things... idk when ill finish this, or how long it will take. i just know id rather be doing this than being in anchordeep because DAMN!!!

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[halorvic]

The danger is clear and present: COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise. Unfortunately, Long COVID is now being considered a long-term chronic illness — something many people will never fully recover from. Dr. Phillip Alvelda, a former program manager in DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office that pioneered the synthetic biology industry and the development of mRNA vaccine technology, is the founder of Medio Labs, a COVID diagnostic testing company. He has stepped forward as a strong critic of government COVID management, accusing health agencies of inadequacy and even deception. Alvelda is pushing for accountability and immediate action to tackle Long COVID and fend off future pandemics with stronger public health strategies. Contrary to public belief, he warns, COVID is not like the flu. New variants evolve much faster, making annual shots inadequate. He believes that if things continue as they are, with new COVID variants emerging and reinfections happening rapidly, the majority of Americans may eventually grapple with some form of Long COVID. Let’s repeat that: At the current rate of infection, most Americans may get Long COVID.

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LP: A recent JAMA study found that US adults with Long COVID are more prone to depression and anxiety – and they’re struggling to afford treatment. Given the virus’s impact on the brain, I guess the link to mental health issues isn’t surprising. PA: There are all kinds of weird things going on that could be related to COVID’s cognitive effects. I’ll give you an example. We’ve noticed since the start of the pandemic that accidents are increasing. A report published by TRIP, a transportation research nonprofit, found that traffic fatalities in California increased by 22% from 2019 to 2022. They also found the likelihood of being killed in a traffic crash increased by 28% over that period. Other data, like studies from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, came to similar conclusions, reporting that traffic fatalities hit a 16-year high across the country in 2021. The TRIP report also looked at traffic fatalities on a national level and found that traffic fatalities increased by 19%. LP: What role might COVID play? PA: Research points to the various ways COVID attacks the brain. Some people who have been infected have suffered motor control damage, and that could be a factor in car crashes. News is beginning to emerge about other ways COVID impacts driving. For example, in Ireland, a driver’s COVID-related brain fog was linked to a crash that killed an elderly couple. Damage from COVID could be affecting people who are flying our planes, too. We’ve had pilots that had to quit because they couldn’t control the airplanes anymore. We know that medical events among U.S. military pilots were shown to have risen over 1,700% from 2019 to 2022, which the Pentagon attributes to the virus.

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LP: You’ve criticized the track record of the CDC and the WHO – particularly their stubborn denial that COVID is airborne. PA: They knew the dangers of airborne transmission but refused to admit it for too long. They were warned repeatedly by scientists who studied aerosols. They instituted protections for themselves and for their kids against airborne transmission, but they didn’t tell the rest of us to do that.

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LP: How would you grade Biden on how he’s handled the pandemic? PA: I’d give him an F. In some ways, he fails worse than Trump because more people have actually died from COVID on his watch than on Trump’s, though blame has to be shared with Republican governors and legislators who picked ideological fights opposing things like responsible masking, testing, vaccination, and ventilation improvements for partisan reasons. Biden’s administration has continued to promote the false idea that the vaccine is all that is needed, perpetuating the notion that the pandemic is over and you don’t need to do anything about it. Biden stopped the funding for surveillance and he stopped the funding for renewing vaccine advancement research. Trump allowed 400,000 people to die unnecessarily. The Biden administration policies have allowed more than 800,000 to 900,000 and counting.

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LP: The situation with bird flu is certainly getting more concerning with the CDC confirming that a third person in the U.S. has tested positive after being exposed to infected cows. PA: Unfortunately, we’re repeating many of the same mistakes because we now know that the bird flu has made the jump to several species. The most important one now, of course, is the dairy cows. The dairy farmers have been refusing to let the government come in and inspect and test the cows. A team from Ohio State tested milk from a supermarket and found that 50% of the milk they tested was positive for bird flu viral particles.

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PA: There’s a serious risk now in allowing the virus to freely evolve within the cow population. Each cow acts as a breeding ground for countless genetic mutations, potentially leading to strains capable of jumping to other species. If any of those countless genetic experiments within each cow prove successful in developing a strain transmissible to humans, we could face another pandemic – only this one could have a 58% death rate. Did you see the movie “Contagion?” It was remarkably accurate in its apocalyptic nature. And that virus only had a 20% death rate. If the bird flu makes the jump to human-to-human transition with even half of its current lethality, that would be disastrous.

[kidovna]

happy birthday to the comfiest of all comfort characters ever!!

(companion post to)

[columboscreens]

[hotchipsauce]

just learned mitch pulled kniesy up by his jersey when he got hit… and that’s on mother

[handledwithgloves]

draco is SO “what? like its hard?”

after a montage of him studying, practicing, and holding himself to high standards

[princessanneftw]

Princess Anne is in hospital in Bristol after sustaining minor injuries and concussion following an incident on the Gatcombe Park estate yesterday evening.

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

ngl I'm genuinely tired of the "every time you repost x a transphobe gets unalived" memes (and this is the only time i'm using unalived willingly). so I figured I'd make a meme thats similar except it actually focuses on the trans community itself and making them smile! oh and maybe donate to a trans person today while you're at it

(And yes that is my actual cat. His name is Bruno)

[angelshizuka]

I've seen people talk about how the Stolas in demonology is WAY older than the Stolas in HB is.

We already know how the Goetia family sees their members as "replaceable" when they step out of line and make "precautionary heirs" despite being all-powerful hard to kill immortal beings. So, I can't help but wonder if our Stolas isn't even the original Stolas and Paimon just had another kid after the last one "got dealt with", gave it the same name and job, and called it a day. And then gave Stolas the responsiblity of the precautionary heir, because he already has enough kids "to deal with".

Wheter that's the case or not, I definitely like the idea.

[fofi42]

Theme park theme

Taskmaster s18e08

[dp-time-police]

"I hope you're not teaching my daughter this new lingo."

"... Too late for that one."

[hanafubukki]

People have mentioned Idia making machines to use on us during sexy times and I'd like to up it with: future STYX Idia using then on us in one of their testing/exam rooms because of all the features they have and when done being too out of it and forgetting to clean up so other staff end up walking in on it in the morning. They all have general knowledge about this kink of your guys' from this happening once in a while. Also would secretly be turned on if Idia decides to record it using the facility's various angle cameras and again being too hazy to select the correct folder to save it in and not renaming it or locking it, so the next morning when staff are going to review the last test they ran and pull up the latest video.....they quickly have to exit the video. Uncomfortable and not very good in a work environment, but they can't help but deep down be partially happy that the boss' son has found love.

Hello Anonie 💚🌸🌷

Omg those poor staff members 😂 unless they are into that kind of things lolol

Hopefully, his mother never finds out or he’ll definitely never hear the end of it if book 7 says anything.

Makes me wonder if it’s a kink for idia at that point? Since he’s kind of being reckless about the files and where he does it.

Because, tired or not, he seems the type to not let others see that stuff. But maybe he discovered a new kink? 🤔

[wemlygust]

Anti-GOP Fic Defense Project

Given the Situation^TM, which could lead to efforts - whether through the U.S. legal system or through soft-power influencing tumblr - to ban queer content, or purges of so-called "explicit" content which may be taken to include queer content, and given tumblr and other sites (like fanfiction.net and livejournal) HAVE abruptly and without warning purged fic before (both actually explicit and fic that was wrongly labeled as such): Can we work out an agreeable and doable method of archiving multi-author tumblr-hosted fics, especially including the speculative, branching what-if chains that follow prompts, which usually are NOT currently backed up anywhere? I believe archiveofourown.org to be the safest host, by far, for this purpose, because it was founded by and for fans for exactly this reason, owns its own servers, is a nonprofit funded purely by donations, protects its fic and authors with its own legal team, and it's committed to its policy of absolutely never censoring any fanworks or tags. Also in favor of ao3: I have seen people post fic on ao3 in choose-your-own-adventure style, with clickable links (presumably added directly via html?), which could be a good format to store multi-branch, multi-author fics, as compared to storing the branching fanwork in a linear series of chapters (though that may also work). But, how to handle authorial consent for archiving from all the multiple contributors to a multi-author fic? Do we archive and allow anonymization (e.g. a contributor can have their name removed or blacked out from the archived copy), or just archive and orphan it and say welp, these were public posts, and the total fanwork only makes sense when all parts of it are presents, so they must all stay public in order to meaningfully preserve the whole work? Ao3 also allows fics to be orphaned, so someone could post an archive copy of the tumblr fic, then orphan it, so that it cannot be deleted or edited by any particular user. This would prevent a situation where 1 contributor, or 1 random archiver, controls the archive copy of a particular fic unilaterally and could make edits to it without the consent of the contributing authors. But it would also prevent any anonymization of the contributing authors. The only alternative to a tumblr-to-ao3 archival project that might serve to preserve fic in the event of anti-fic calamity that I can think of currently would be if there is an easy method of downloading tumblr reblog chains (as local html?) and we just have a big drive to get as many people as possible to download and back up fic. This method would spread the archive copies all over the place, but it would be disorganized, some fic may end up lost, and accessibility of the fic would be much less. What are your thoughts about this? Am I missing obvious alternatives? Do some of you not even want the multi-author reblog fic to be preserved at all, preferring it to be ephemeral? (I'd find that deeply boggling but people are nothing if not sometimes deeply boggling.)

[tiny-katara]

why is everyone targeting zutara shippers recently omg 😭 literally had a z.kka come to my blog despite me having posted a post saying why must we fight.. both ships are so nice.. AND I GET INSULTED

literally do not remember how old this is but i think there are just surges where the antis get really proud of themselves for how much hate they can spread and then they've completed their work of ruining harmless fun and go about their business until the next time they get a bit of energy

anyway hope this helps have fun anon with zutara as you should <3

[rederiswrites]

Y'all are so sure Varric dies and I like...have no idea why, tbh. Like, yeah he says "take care of the team", because he *expects* to die, because he figures there's a high chance Solas will kill him. Which Solas then does not do! He fucking knows it's last words and that's why he said it (dramatic hoe), but the thing he was expecting didn't happen.

And everyone keeps saying his story is finished and I honestly also don't know what you're looking at there, either. He's got two acts so far: unchallenged moderate, unwilling acceptance of responsibility. And they've set him up for a perfectly logical third: intentional leadership. It won't be that simple, and maybe he dies at SOME point, but there's no reason to kill a beloved character early in a game with a protagonist and playerbase that are not particularly attached to him yet. They won't sell Varric's life so cheaply!

I'm not saying Varric won't die. I'm saying I musta missed something cuz I have no idea why all y'all are convinced he will.