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warmhappycat · 2 days ago

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Yeah, I really could not stop thinking about the exchange in OP’s post.

There are really only 2 explanations for being an anti-vaxxer, right?

You’re either stupider than a pile of bricks, or you’re a eugenicist, yeah?

If you’re stupid enough not to know or gullible enough to not believe that deadly diseases used to kill a lot of people, that’s one thing.

But I don’t think that’s most people. Most people are actually pretty smart, I think, even if their other traits tend to hide it.

Which leaves eugenics. You know measles kills people, you know Covid kills people, you know mumps and pertussis and whatever else kill people, but you just don’t think it’ll kill you, or your children.

Which is wrong, and dumb, but more importantly - if you know that, and oppose vaccines and other mitigation efforts anyway, then I can only conclude that you’re ok with it killing people who don’t (can’t, can’t afford, don’t have time, can’t access) do whatever the thing is that you think is protecting you and your family.

You feed your kids raw milk or whatever, and you think this will protect them from measles. Lots of children’s, little babies’, parents don’t do this. Are you ok with them dying?

Your kids are vibrant and healthy. You’re sure their natural immune system could fight off Covid. Lots of kids are disabled though. Are you ok with them dying?

Your family says their prayers and goes to services and never sins, and you believe your deity will deliver you from whooping cough. You also believe that it is part of your sacred mission in this life to bring people, who were born as sinners, into the faith, lest they go to hell. Are you ok with them dying and going to hell before you ever even talk to them? Are you ok with their parents dying, just because they didn’t find your deity as compelling as you do?

All of which is to say nothing about how abhorrent it is that all of this nonsense started because people thought it was better for their children to die than to “get” autism.

Unless someone is stupid to a degree that I’m not sure actually exists, then I think the only explanation for this behavior is some degree of eugenicist belief, no? “People who don’t live their lives like I do deserve to die. I don’t owe them anything.” Right?

It took almost a decade to do that too. We're entering year 5 of covid. It's global and airborne. Mask up.

#anti-vax bullshit #TW: anti-vaxxers #get your vaccines #get your updated Covid shot #a new one just came out in fall 2024 #vaccinate your kids #eugenics #eugenicist #TW: eugenics

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silverskye13 · 9 months ago

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Doing my best Etho cosplay today

#spazzcat barks #dad is getting surgery and im still sick #so i get to hide in a back corner of the hospital waiting room with a mask on #it is a blue mask but shhhh shhhh we can pretend its black #i oughtta grab a couple extra tbh it would be nice to run some errands without feeling radioactive #its really nice though having access to masks and hand sanitizer again #i actually really liked that about COVID times #my life wasnt massively changed like most people #i still went to work #my classes were online but i was often on campus because i had no work space at home #the only difference for me was masks and the fact that no one else was ever alone #i was in these massive direlect spaces #very zombie apocalypse #anyway anecdotes aside #i like having readily available masks and sanatizer again #it feels comfortable #im not paranoid im going to wreck someone's life for the next week by getting them sick #I Have Steralized Myself #*around not alone

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tea-cat-arts · 6 months ago

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Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

#svsss #scum villian self saving system #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #the fact that people think scum villain #-a series that examines and criticizes common tropes in fiction-#is somehow against criticism or being a little hater is wild to me #especially since shen qingqiu never gets punished for being a hater #heck- he's still a little hater by the end of the series #he mostly gets punished for treating life like a play and like he and the people around him are characters #(or in other words- he suffers for denying his own wants and emotions and his own sense of empathy)#I think some of y'all underestimate how much writing/art is inspired by creaters being little haters #like example off the top of my head-#the author of Iron Widow has been pretty vocal about the book being inspired by their hatred of Darling in the Franxx #I think my interpretation of Shen Yuan's transmigration is also supported by the fact that this series is an examines writing processes #side note- though i understand why people say Shen Yuan is lazy and think its a valid take it still doesnt sit right with me #i am probably biased because my own experiences with chronic pain and depression and isolation #but ya- i dont think Shen Yuan is lazy so much as he is deeply lonely and feels purposeless after denying parts of himself for 20ish years #like yall remember the online fandom boom from covid right?#being stuck completely alone in bed while feeling like shit for 20 days straight does shit to your brain #the fact that no one came to check on him + he wasn't exactly upset about leaving anyone behind supports the isolation interpretation too #+in the skinner demon arc he describes his life of being a faker/inability to stop being a faker now that he's Shen Qingqiu #as “so bland he's tempted to throw salt on himself” and “all he could do is lay around and wait for death” (<-paraphrasing)#bro wants to be doing stuff but is stuck in paralysis from repeatedly following scrips made by other people #another point on “Shen Yuan isn’t lazy” is just the sheer amount of studying that man does #also he did graduate college- how lazy can he really be #he doesnt know what hes doing but he at least tries to actively train his students #and he actually works on improving his own cultivation + spends quite a bit of time preping the mushroom body thing #+he's experiencing bouts of debilitating chronic pain throughout all this #but ya tldr: Shen Yuan's transmigration is an encouragement to write and not a punishment and also i dont think its fair to call him lazy

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icewindandboringhorror · 3 months ago

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On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

#polls #tumblr polls #I'm mostly in the 0/1 - 25$ category. Maybe the rare month is a bit over $25 if there's something specific going on like birthday.#Which I'm NEVER eating in an actual restaurant (erm... covid... plus I just hate restaurant environments. i would rather pickup #the food and bring it home to a peaceful quiet environment that I control lol). But more typically like stopping by a grocery store deli #section or something. I don't have coffee that much. And I can't eat fast food much due to my health issues/diet restriction stuff #so if I'm out like coming back from an appointment and I start feeling really sick and weak. I know that a hamburger will just #blow up my system and cause nausea or something. So I try to pick the breadiest most #neutral looking turkey sandwich at the safeway deli to eat during the hour ride home or whatever lol #I actually kind of wish I could do stuff like get food more often vecause it would take the burden of cooking everything off of me #but.. alas... Money... and Health Things... T o T #I still wouldn't do it ALL the time but like... once a week instead of once a month or something.. or maybe turning into a coffee #person.. I do love drinks A LOT .. i am a drink person who will have 5 different drinks sipping on at all times #But i just have to make them all myself mostly lol #And I cant really have too much coffee since it will make me sick. so like.. teas and juice mostly #When I inevitably become a millionaire by never using social media never networking and only finishing one #sculpture every 5 months which I dont even post about or sell - then I shall... get more drinks..#I will somehow wean my body onto coffee and drink one a day solely for the ritual of it #Though even then... I would still probably just like.. buy the mateirals to make it at home or something #Like if you had a million dollars you could just buy a kitchen grade ice cream machine and other stuff to make your own milkshakes and #coffees and smoothies and bubble teas. Genuinely I think even if I were a BILLIONAIRE I would still look at playing likr $8 for a single #coffee and go .. uh.... I could just buy the equipment to make this and then save that money. PLUS. its in my house now so no need to #have to leave. I can make my own drinks in the comfort of home. .. ideal..#Like no matter how rich I ever got I would still have the lingering scroogey stinginess. like i am NOT paying for that. I will jus #make it myself. Especially if it was an Everyday thing. Anythign thats part of my routine I try to optimize and make as efficient as #possible... ANYWAY.. In an IDEAL world I would get treats. but probably not that much. as on a daily basis it would start to get #to me and I would just save up to buy kitchen machinery if I was rich lol

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just-your-average-tangerine · 1 year ago

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Was forced to watch a truly incredible (derogatory) thing recently.

A young person on twitter, adamant that transandrophobia doesn't exist on the grounds that 'no one is killing/raping/assaulting trans men'.

Several people responded, including some linking articles about murders and assaults on trans men and a couple op-ed style pieces of trans men talking about their own experiences.

Said young person responded with "I'm not reading those its triggering and I'm a minor"

So let me see if I've got this correct, you are knowingly refuse to acknowledge reality because it's upsetting to you and then you're going to turn around and deny that very reality because you refuse to acknowledge it because it's upsetting?

#like I'm sorry but willful ignorance is not a winning argument?#transandrophobia #its things like this that really have me convinced that we're never actually going to fix this shit #i was talking to the woman who runs the lgbt center i was going to #shes been running it in some capacity for about 30 years now #and she was saying that ever since they reopened after covid they have a problem getting people to keep coming #and its mostly because young people will come a few times and then something makes them uncomfortable and they never come back #but the things that make them uncomfortable are things like 'a homeless kid came to get a shower and a meal'#or 'the donated instruments in the music room arent good enough quality and they dont want to use poor people instruments'#those are both real examples btw #i hate to be the one to say it #but you cannot form community if you refuse to be uncomfortable sometimes #op

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cator99 · 2 months ago

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I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

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hazel2468 · 1 year ago

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“Inaccessibility has a massive impact on disabled people, especially people with mobility issues and those who use aids like canes, walkers, wheelchairs, service animals, etc. and these things are often ignored and should not be and you are right to be angry about it.”

And

“Even within the disabled community, there is a disgusting amount of dismissal and yes, ableism directed at people who have needs related to mental illness/mental disorders- to the point that other disabled people will refer to those of us with invisible disabilities, chronic illness, and mental disorders as abled and tell us that our needs are lesser and that is not okay.”

Are statements that must co-exist.

#disability #actually disabled #like i have disabilties that limit my ability to move and get around #and also mental disorders #and i a HATING IT that I am seeing like #ofher disabled people being like #’no one cares about your sensory needs’#’attention deficit isn’t a disability try being REALLY disabled’#like guys cut it the fuck out #if you are mad at a lack of accessibility- AND YOU SHOULD BE #idk how to tell you that other disabled people aren’t your fucking enemy #my mobility isn’t severely limited all the time no #but i have chronic pain and breathing issues made worse by covid #that mean on Bad Days? stairs ain’t happening #and 90% of where i live becomes inaccessible #and thats for ME so like #yes be mad about tht you are right to be #but fucking stop acting like other disabilties aren’t as disabling #just because they are disabling in different ways #they impact us differently yes but we’re all disabled in some way #and putting down people who you think aren’t disabled enough?#fucking stop it

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averlym · 1 year ago

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"careful, or i'll quote that"

#adamandi #was going to be normal but then this scene popped into my head and played on loop and like #guys this scene just makes me Miserable. they're so friends now they're so happy and funny and then later in the show #she manipulates him and he tries to kill her and like. my god beatrix vincent friendship. omg.#im so. it kills me. i realise these arent the most accurate character styles but i Had to get it out. oh my god. literally the other day i #i was like ''oh haha im not going to directly draw scenes from the show im going to be Thinky and Extra'' but no actually sometimes the #the scenes from the show just hit. this line the delivery the Situations it kills me. im so hnnghghf about them #something also maybe about rewatching media knowing the whole plot and the extra Tragedy it all brings also. like to know the ending will #break your heart (but be also some sort of stunning catharsis) and to watch it all!!! again!!!! aaagh.#fun facts about the first time i watched adamandi proper after looking through the tumblrs and half-spoiling it for myself.. i went in with #the strangest assumptions of portia dies/ vincent makes a virus that kills the other nominees instead of actually stabby stabby and the #new invented biological thing would make him the winner a-la frankenstein style //. quincy cuts off his hand????? i am not sure where any #of these came from T-T but im glad i was wrong on literally every count.#miscellaneous brainrots from re-watching.. in the very very start i think vincent is wearing a mask in word to the wise?? like it was probs #a covid safety thing but it makes me go teehee for some reason. like the whole infectious thing was foreshadowed LMAO (approx 35 seconds in #also the balloons. and the admin. and the balloons. the way it's horrific and the balloons gently rain down #and you can see them bounce in the stunned silence. ooo that little detail. what a moment.#also at this point? i have been noticing the little inconsistencies in actions btwn shots but a) they're not seeable unless you're looking #Closely like i was for specific moments as references.. and b) it makes u think about the inconsistency of theatre as a medium and how nth #is ever delivered the same two ways which is really just !!!! to me. smth smth so so many ways to intepret characters and how everything is #always in flux every single cycle. theatre medium my beloved.#last side note from now: i am so abnormal about the marmorius society members who were phaethon nominees in their own right and instead #perished helping ambrose with HIS project. like. that is some sort of love there isn't it? like???? yes they're all bullies and awful but.#i've been reaching tag limit really quickly with all the recent posts. rambles i guess. so so many thoughts. well actual tags now i guess!#vincent aurelius lin #beatrix valeria campbell

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ghoul--doodle · 5 months ago

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I feel incredibly guilty for not responding to anyone’s attacks on art fight so far

I PROMISE I’m not ignoring anyone my immune system is just fighting for her life rn I promise

#today was a bad day health wise but that hopefully means I am near the end of the decline #currently I can’t sleep cuz I keep sneezing #like really bad sneezes 5-6 times in a row #drawing or doing much of anything right now is really exhausting and hard #I’ve been joking about it but I’m. actually kinda miserable rn JGSHFKDH #burst into tears twice today bc of this shit. I’m exhausted.#i mean I had covid before and that was bad but this feels worse

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doctorwhoisadhd · 7 months ago

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one thing about me is i have no idea what i know because i have no idea what is like a normal amount of knowledge about anything

#its literally not even that im insecure. i just dont know what people are as a general rule going to know #and specifically its always that i think i dont know something and it turns out i have a significantly larger amount of knowledge about it #ari opinion hour #literally one time my friend asked me abt community bands / how to find one to play with and i no joke genuinely started off my answer like #So disclaimer i dont actually know that much about community ensembles or have really much experience with them at all #and then proceeded to go on a nice long tangent complete with how to find them‚ types of ensembles to look for‚ what organizations might #run community ensembles or keep lists of them‚ and then provided this friend with at least TWO DIFFERENT LISTS where they could #find ensembles to check out #and then i stopped and realized id written a Whole Thing which in turn made me realize #that‚ Actually‚ I Have Like EIGHT YEARS Of Experience Playing In Community Ensembles. So What The Fuck Was I Talking About #particularly because i first started doing that in 5th grade meaning i have literally been playing in community ensembles for one (1) fewer #year than i have been playing my instrument. because the 8 years was counting by semester and doesnt include covid years #(at this point its 18 semesters / 11 years)

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acedavestrider · 3 months ago

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does anyone have any advice on how to feel alive again

#me @ me: no one cares #sorry to keep depression posting i just dont know what to do #its hard to stay positive when everything feels so fucking bad all the time #covid shit is stressing me out. election shit sucks so bad. my health is bad my mental illnesses are mental illnessing #and if one more person at my stupid fucking job makes a fucking comment about my fucking mask im actually going to start killing #im so serious. i really cant do this anymore #why dont people care about other people it makes no sense #why are people so fucking horrible to each other. everything is so fucking horrible #one of my coworkers literally right now has covid and on our zoom call he was like well the vaccine wouldnt have done anything anyways #are you sure about that??? because you sound like you cant fucking breathe #idk i just feel hopeless and bitter and exhausted and like nothing will ever be okay ever again. and im At Work.#how are you supposed to combat this. what are you supposed to do.#no amount of cognitive fucking behavioral therapy is going to fix the fascism or the climate change or the pandemic or the or the or the #like literally why bother. it doesn't matter nothing matters!#i just want to go home #but then when i get home im like fuck. i really want to go home.

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oodlesodoodles · 9 months ago

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poking thru and reading bits of aftermath again so i might just...... -squeezes inkpen and sweats

#I actually had a panic attack the first time i read it #Because i had recently gone through a rough bout of covid #Iykyk #I just like the parts where hermann has ptsd really #Have i ever written about aftermath here? I dont think i have #Its written ssoo differently than dcwt and im not sure i like it better but also? Its better for a quick read #Less soliloquizing and waxing poetic so theres less undergrowth to machete through #so to speak #But maybe its losing something without the undergrowth? How can i know whats going thru their minds witout them noting the colr of the floo

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seaofreverie · 2 months ago

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The Me who bought tickets to see TMBG in february 2023 and the Me who's going to actually go to the show next month are two completely different people

#slash extremely negative #it's funny to actually live this whole sort of cliche of: the time between buying tickets and going to the show can be so absurdly long #with what was supposed to be my 1st 'real' concert no less #'i bought the tickets as a teenager but i'm going to see them in my 20s etc' and stuff like that #and then when it gets rescheduled too... well. a year and 9 months is in fact a pretty long time!!!#and i'm not even talking about rescheduling due to covid because god at least i didn't have to deal with that i guess #(it IS funny though that by the time the 30th anniversary of flood tour ends #flood will be 2 months away from turning 35. so yeah lmao a lot happened in the meantime huh)#anyways day two of going crazy going insane for no reason other than well i guess that's just my life now!!!!! 😃😃😃#me when i say i'll stop documenting my rapidly progressing mental breakdown online and then keep doing it anyway #but idk maybe this will heal me in some way. my only hope rn no joke #and my mom actually seemed to be unsure if i we should book the hotels and stuff because. ig i'm this obviously unwell even over the phone #but BY GOD this is the only thing i can really look forward to right now i really need this to survive #(trying to forget how i was doing in september of last year when they rescheduled the tour #and i couldn't even be sure if i'd ever get to see them in the end lollllll #and at the heights of my tmbg obsession this was my number 1 dream. i mean it still is)#also i think i'm finally entering my tmbg autumn era now with some more frequent listening after not doing so for a while #how could i let myself pretty much forget that i love tmbg??? and that their music is so good and makes me happy???#they're still my fav band of all time just like they were back then. THAT didn't change at least #it's just that now they share that spot with sparks also lol. can't choose between them and why should i anyway #what else. ig i just hope i get the energy to finally draw tomorrow at least #because if i don't turn the ideas i have into reality then they will never become real! and that would be so sad #so maybe this can be my main reason to continue for now. whatever #goosepost

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nydescynt · 2 months ago

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hey what was that about your cracker barrel monitor???

LMAO so tl;dr I worked at the CB hq, they let me go when covid hit, i came back briefly + worked remote and then they let me go VERY soon after bc "covid is getting bad again"

I did return my laptop obvs, and I tried to return my monitor, but I'm guessing they'd laid off the ppl who would've normally handled tech returns so no one ever responded to me trying to set up a dropoff. I probably could've pushed harder but like. Fuck em I had a new job mixing paint to worry about

#in fairness CB was actually really cool to work at otherwise. lotta free food and candy samples #but getting laid off TWICE put a damper on my opinion of them lmao #the first time: totally understandable they were laying like everybody off bc food business during covid is awful #but bringing me back for TWO WEEKS was insane. i left a different stable job i was about to be promoted at for it #so i think a monitor is the least they could leave me with

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winter-hoof · 2 months ago

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What in the actual fuck do you mean it's been 2 years since I moved back to Upper Michigan ?????????

#i really don't know where my life is going. i've lost all ability to process time since covid happened. TWO YEARS ?????? aaaaa #it's so weird b/c my life in wisconsin feels like a distant memory now like did that even happen??? i spent 10 years of my life there????#i talked a lot of shit about it back then & it's not that i actually think wisconsin or eau claire are bad. they're pretty cool honestly #i just didn't want to be there & felt trapped. i was so miserable & homesick for michigan. i never felt like i fit in or belonged there :(#the last 2 years have been really rough & full of a lot of illness and death and grief and no i still haven't found a job b/c of all of it #but i really am so fucking happy to be back in michigan & the UP. this is it for me. this is where i'm happiest & where i fit in. it's home #just kinda wish i had never moved away or that i could've moved back way sooner :/#p

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wizardnuke · 3 months ago

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bf says ive been going thru it and doing really well at that. bursts into tears.

#im like a toddler that needs a nap except ive badly needed a nap every minute of every day for a week because covid #and im trying really hard #im actually really okay. i don't have my first math test for another week and two days and if i did terrible on #the bio test today my lowest test grade gets dropped and it's okay. it's okay. it's okay.#i am recovering and working and in a class that is very hard for me and i miss simon so bad. i was too tired to drive last weekend #and couldn't go the one prior to that bc covid obviously #it's okay it's okay it's okay #also im getting the depo provera shot in november. i'm fully over it #also the fatigue is getting better by the day. it's okay. it's okay #getting the shot. seeing si on friday. my math prof is very kind and understands that i'm struggling and wants to help. fatigue is getting #better. turns out i don't have work tomorrow. im gonna play valo w seity sometime soon that will be SO fun.#new comfy desk chair. im gonna put something on and work thru my math hw and submit questions without feeling bad about it #it's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay. im being sooo brave.#he also said it's insane that i've had to work this week because i'm very much still symptomatic. it got me really good this time #the initial sickness wasn't nearly as severe as the last time i had covid but this one is more drawn out #im still having sinus symptoms/pain on top of the fatigue. cried in my car both days that i worked 👍 it's okay. it's okay

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