#it's important to get vaccinated

[ahappyphjl]

no dapg videos for a week and i’ve accepted i need to just rewatch all their videos on a loop to cope until they upload but it’s fine like it’s totally fine i’m Fine

[who-is-page]

I had a project I wanted to get done and published for labor day weekend, but then I got my covid and flu vaccines and they metaphorically kicked my teeth in. It's day #3 and everything is STILL pain.

[orcelito]

Tally still isn't quite back to 100% yet, but she's recovered a lot in general. Every time she does one of her normal habits that she'd stopped doing while she was sick, my heart just squeezes with gratefulness. Stuff like her yowling like I died after I go to bed, her climbing onto my lap while I'm sitting on the toilet and/or watching me from on top of her litter box, her jumping onto furniture, her getting up in my face and sniffing my breath as I slowly blow air at her, her trying to eat the plants, her PLAYING.... and of course, her eating.

I also discovered the coat rack toppled over onto the couch after getting out of bed today - surely her doing. Didn't break anything so im just glad she's back to being at least some semblance of a chaos demon, even if she's not totally recovered yet.

It's the little things, sometimes. All her little habits, some harmless and some annoying, that make up who she is and her presence in my life. When all of these stop, so she's just a lump on the couch, barely eating and barely getting up... it was unsettling. And worrisome.

But I've got my baby back. She's still not super high energy, but she's got enough to feel like herself again. And I'm so, so grateful.

[toadsrbutch]

naming animals at work is such a difficult job 😔 “can you look up people who died of dysentery? he’s so particular looking and looks like he has to be by the sea for his health” “this one is caprisun and the other is kool-aid” “he’s a distinguished little man. let’s name him Frederick” “you’re a white dog so you’re blizzard. oh shit. you actually respond to that” etc etc

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Update 3: drove the asshole home bc I was so sure he was fr gonna die if he drove himself lmao. Poor dude looked so miserable, like bro was either holding back while we were working or he got worse the second he was able to relax, bc there wasn't a single moment of silence the whole drive back, dude was just curled up in the passenger’s seat shivering and being so fucking symptomatic. Like he was doing that thing where you basically cough all of the air out of your lungs then doing that rattly little inhale and then repeating, like it was Not Good 😬 0/10, hated being there to experience that in person, I was horrified, I want all of that to stay in audio recordings where it can't hurt me lmao. And he wasn’t sneezing a ton, but when he did, he stifled them until I told him to quit it bc the last thing he needs is a fucking ear infection on top of whatever the hell is already wrong with him, and even when he stopped, he was so congested that they sounded kinda stifled anyway 😭 like it's all objectively hot and I would've loved it had I just read it and not experienced it first hand, but unfortunately I'm a massive germaphobe and had to sit three feet away from this guy all damn day. So I bleached the hell out of my car and scrubbed myself down in the shower three times and I still don't feel like anything is clean enough, but I'm tired so it's gonna have to do for now lmao

[reidosratos]

translation: "yes, you will get vaccinated!" (brazilian meme, sorry)

[wildpeachfarm]

not to make light of a sobering situation but we CANNOT let Dream or George get mpox otherwise the other one will ALSO get mpox 😭

Don’t worry I think they are both locked in the dream team frat house and probably too tangled up in each other to even bother going outside

[googiesarakaya]

so you called your Rep re: Trump foreign aid cuts/USAID freeze and now you’re running on adrenaline from the phone anxiety! the next step is, if you can, donate.

full disclosure, i work in fundraising for a large-ass intl medical nonprofit. i am not a medical professional!! but! if you want, i can give you a good idea of how your money is being spent in the more reputable international NGOs

USAID and US foreign aid in general has an oversized impact around the world and even being frozen for even 90 days will literally lead to millions of people dying. that’s not a hypothetical. that is simply the world and system we live in. but you don’t have to be complacent abt that.

i can’t and kind of don’t really want to tell you who to give to because truly only you can decide that.

but i would say the most important and really impactful thing you can do is give unrestricted gifts. that means you’re not asking the org to put it into a specific program.

no ones gonna be mad at you if you do, but when shit like foreign aid cuts or the global gag rule happen, suddenly an NGO cant provide abortions or run vaccination campaigns because they were relying on US funds for those programs and all their other money is has been earmarked for pediatric care only. and if they’re not shady, they have to go through a derestriction process that delays your money being used.

but when you give unrestricted, the org can use your money where and however they need it.

and it’s a little scary giving unrestricted, i get it! how do you know those orgs aren’t wasting it on champagne or pocketing it. the answer is you won’t!

you have to trust that the org is doing its job and that’s hard! you have to do some research and read through some annual and financial reports if your eyes can withstand it. you can also use sites like charitynavigator.org or another charity watchdog to see how they’re rated (charitynavigator is a fave bc its free and has a HUGE pool).

and if you don’t have money to give, sharing posts on your social media platform of choice is truly helpful. think abt it as money saved for the org on having to pay Meta for ad space.

hell, get back on facebook and post there specifically because the majority of donors are still boomers who loves facebook minion memes.

this is all to say, it’s overwhelming and terrifying how fast the consequences of these absolute losers’ actions are coming at us and the world. but that doesn’t mean you need to make it easy for them. make them fucking work for their stupid goals. make it annoying and hard to be ignored. be kind of an absolute bitch about it.

[sybaritick]

prev rb I think one of the reasons I bring up the massive degree of global inequality so much is that being able to acknowledge and accept the reality of it (and that by living in the US or another rich country we are tremendously lucky materially) is a type of political litmus test. I don't mean that I think everyone in the US is doing great materially (aware of the amount of poverty in this country). But it is a difference in kind.

Because it is such an unflattering reality (that we all benefit considerably from this inequality, and that benefit is unearned/by accident of birth), being able to acknowledge it without self-flagellation and without concluding we should destroy the US/global economy/etc (responding to something causing harm by destroying it when destroying it would make the situation worse and cause more harm) is a positive sign to me, I guess something like maturity. To say something like The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. And to look at how we can make those improvements.

[overcaffeinated-aro]

I got an email from my grandpa today and all the draft responses I’ve been working on in my head sound like an 18th century letter that’s going to have to travel for months to reach him.

pandemic year 5 really has me feeling like me and a very small handful of people I know are living on an entirely different plane of existence than everyone else

[takethistoyourstardust]

i'm getting my updated covid shot today bc i will have tomorrow free to feel Fuckin Miserable

[manicpixistonergirl]

was in the middle of making summer rolls when the side effects of my covid shot hit me like a freight train

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Also hoping things at work pan out the way they're looking bc it's so surreal to know I'll be in a position where people are gonna be looking up to me

[ohello0]

I don’t watch the news often but when I catch bits and pieces I’m dumbfounded

In NY they want to rehire health care workers fired for refusing to get the covid vaccine back in 2021….we’re still in one of the biggest surges since the start of the pandemic….

The whole reason is because there’s a shortage of HCW…..maybe there’s a shortage because they keep dying or getting disabled from covid like the rest of the US workforce

[miodiodavinci]

diseases that will having a man whimpering:

covid

[yeahyouresocool]

they should invent a parent that you can trust and rely on