#19:51

[elicatkin]

Damn! I've not been online much for the last week and I missed the leftover cat/fish October Daye preorder pins going on sale at Sevenish Magpies and they're all sold out.

I'm so disappointed, they are so pretty.

Some of the earlier pins are still available here, for folk who want them:

[thrassisfras]

The gang experiences aging

[zoe-oneesama]

Nathalie’s Subtext: “Can we PLEASE think of LITERALLY any other way.” Gabriel’s Subtext: “No~”

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[admiralgiggles]

Riding off into the sunset.

[tomorrowusa]

Four years ago today (March 13th), then President Donald Trump got around to declaring a national state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration had been downplaying the danger to the United States for 51 days since the first US infection was confirmed on January 22nd.

From an ABC News article dated 25 February 2020...

CDC warns Americans of 'significant disruption' from coronavirus

Until now, health officials said they'd hoped to prevent community spread in the United States. But following community transmissions in Italy, Iran and South Korea, health officials believe the virus may not be able to be contained at the border and that Americans should prepare for a "significant disruption." This comes in contrast to statements from the Trump administration. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Tuesday the threat to the United States from coronavirus "remains low," despite the White House seeking $1.25 billion in emergency funding to combat the virus. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange” Tuesday evening, "We have contained the virus very well here in the U.S." [ ... ] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request "long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency." She also accused President Trump of leaving "critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant." "The president's most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the front lines of this emergency. And now, he is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check," Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday morning. "Our state and local governments need serious funding to be ready to respond effectively to any outbreak in the United States. The president should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities." She added that lawmakers in the House of Representatives "will swiftly advance a strong, strategic funding package that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also called the Trump administration's request "too little too late." "That President Trump is trying to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola -- which is still considered an epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration aren't taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," Schumer said in a statement.

A reminder that Trump had been leaving many positions vacant – part of a Republican strategy to undermine the federal government.

Here's a picture from that ABC piece from a nearly empty restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The screen displays a Trump tweet still downplaying COVID-19 with him seeming more concerned about the effect of the Dow Jones on his re-election bid.

People were not buying Trump's claims but they were buying PPE.

I took this picture at CVS on February 26th that year.

The stock market which Trump in his February tweet claimed looked "very good" was tanking on March 12th – the day before his state of emergency declaration.

Trump succeeded in sending the US economy into recession much faster than George W. Bush did at the end of his term – quite a feat!. (As an aside, every recession in the US since 1981 has been triggered by Republican presidents.)

Of course Trump never stopped trying to downplay the pandemic nor did he ever take responsibility for it. The US ended up with the highest per capita death rate of any technologically advanced country.

Precious time was lost while Trump dawdled. Orange on this map indicates COVID infections while red indicates COVID deaths. At the time Trump declared a state of emergency, the virus had already spread to 49 states.

The United States could have done far better and it certainly had the tools to do so.

The Obama administration had limited the number of US cases of Ebola to under one dozen during that pandemic in the 2010s. Based on their success, they compiled a guide on how the federal government could limit future pandemics.

Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

Of course Trump ignored it.

Unlike those boxes of nuclear secrets in Trump's bathroom, the Obama pandemic limitation document is not classified. Anybody can read it – even if Trump didn't. This copy comes from the Stanford University Libraries.

TOWARDS EPIDEMIC PREDICTION: FEDERAL EFFORTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OUTBREAK MODELING

Feel free to share this post with anybody who still feels nostalgic about the Trump White House years!

[aboutzatanna]

Not sure why this myth of 'Zatanna was a teen originally in the 60's' persist. Even in her introductory arc she states "I saw my father! For the first time in twenty long and lonely years'. That puts her in her mid-20's at best (same age as Babs prior to her de aging) and the Teen Titans were very much teens during that period.

Source: Justice League of America Vol 1 #51

Only change that happened was that later on, her Whos Who was updated so her father disappeared when she was 18 then she spent an unspecified number of years looking for him.

Even before the childhood friendship with Batman was incorporated into comics, she was treated as an older woman.

Source: Green Arrow Vol 3 #19

I mean, enjoy your AU's, adaptations, fanfics and fan art. But this claim that Zee was always a teenager like in YJ is just false.

[cleanfloss]

may you be forgiven

[jtl-fics]

happy WIP wednesday! more TBD please?

5/22/24 WIP Wednesday (Closed) | TBD

When he'd had that thought Andrew had almost left the Court entirely, the horror of having a thought that likely would have aligned with Kevin's own perspective. There was, in fact, no likely about it as he had heard Kevin say the exact thing he had thought about his own starting position.

Andrew shook his head slightly to rid himself of the thought.

If the guy got better that meant that Andrew had less work to do as the starting goalie. It was never about striving for a better team, only Andrew's own lack of care for the sport.

Either way, the defensive line for the Wolves was decent. Even he had a hard time tracking the interceptions they frequently managed.

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[lonestarflight]

"Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a 'For Sale' sign refering to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire. Astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV, who also participated in the two EVAs, is reflected in Gardner's helmet visor. A portion of each of two recovered satellites is in the lower right corner, with Westar 6 nearer Discovery's aft."

Date: November 14, 1984

NASA ID: 51A-104-04, 8451228

[elicatkin]

[klaudia2646]

Goodness the weather has turned nasty all of the sudden. Last night it was windy as hell I was hoping we were not going to loose one of those old trees but everything looked good as of this morning.

We got the Christmas tree out, I usually don’t decorate this early but Michael is coming for Thanksgiving with Wesley and Joplin and we’ll exchange presents. So, much to my dismay, I am decorating for Christmas early. I’ll see if we have time to put up the outdoor decorations. Maybe we can do that on Black Friday while they’re here.

[thrassisfras]

I'm running out of room on my "small art I've made" shelf

[captainsavre]

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[preselimoon]

[themadvigilantist]

🇵🇸so anyway heres a list of regenerations fcs being replaced that may have resources for rp usages (i'll have to look up later but i may need help for alternates) some of which i thought i had but didnt due to family events at the time*🇵🇸

V is:

replacing katy perry with kehani

replacing kiernan shipka with amerie

replacing scarlett johansson with may calamawy

replacing isla fisher with monica bellucci (for now)

replacing lindsay lohan with ???

replacing caity lotz with ???

replacing selena gomez with ???

replacing demi lovato with ???

replacing julianna margulies with ???

replacing 👀rihanna👀 with ??? (yall gonna have to dig deep because im already eying megan thee stallion)

replace lady gaga with angela bassett, now ✨️dr. angela bassett✨️

replacing mary elizabeth winstead with gina torres

Villain Muses is:

*note: since dantalion is a shapeshifting muse, its easier to just stop using christina ricci as one of the forms they'll shift into.

*note: since einzelgänger creates "meat suits" or human disguises via westworld-coded androids of her own design, its easier to not use aubrey plaza.

Vin is:

replacing aidan gallangher with melissa barrera

replacing neil patrick harris with ??? (i thought i took you out thats how lil i use u)

replacing brendon urie with ??? (i thought i took you out thats how lil i use u)

replacing stephen amell with ??? (i thought i took you out thats how lil i use u, even worse i forgot you was ever an regeneration fc 🤭)

replacing harry styles with yungblud (dominic harrison) [yes he was my backup immediate i just need to update that tag on laptop]

replacing wilmer vanderama with ??? (literally anyone else oh my god i forgot he was there its been so long jfc)

replacing grant gustin with ??? (though again real stumped on this one)