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[lurkiestvoid]

You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're making you more hateful and depressed.

(This essay was originally by u/walkandtalkk and posted to r/GenZ on Reddit two months ago, and I've crossposted here on Tumblr for convenience because it's relevant and well-written.)

TL;DR: You know that Russia and other governments try to manipulate people online. But you almost certainly don't how just how effectively orchestrated influence networks are using social media platforms to make you -- individually-- angry, depressed, and hateful toward each other. Those networks' goal is simple: to cause Americans and other Westerners -- especially young ones -- to give up on social cohesion and to give up on learning the truth, so that Western countries lack the will to stand up to authoritarians and extremists.

And you probably don't realize how well it's working on you.

This is a long post, but I wrote it because this problem is real, and it's much scarier than you think.

How Russian networks fuel racial and gender wars to make Americans fight one another

In September 2018, a video went viral after being posted by In the Now, a social media news channel. It featured a feminist activist pouring bleach on a male subway passenger for manspreading. It got instant attention, with millions of views and wide social media outrage. Reddit users wrote that it had turned them against feminism.

There was one problem: The video was staged. And In the Now, which publicized it, is a subsidiary of RT, formerly Russia Today, the Kremlin TV channel aimed at foreign, English-speaking audiences.

As an MIT study found in 2019, Russia's online influence networks reached 140 million Americans every month -- the majority of U.S. social media users.

Russia began using troll farms a decade ago to incite gender and racial divisions in the United States

In 2013, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a confidante of Vladimir Putin, founded the Internet Research Agency (the IRA) in St. Petersburg. It was the Russian government's first coordinated facility to disrupt U.S. society and politics through social media.

Here's what Prigozhin had to say about the IRA's efforts to disrupt the 2022 election:

"Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere and we will interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we know how. During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once."

In 2014, the IRA and other Russian networks began establishing fake U.S. activist groups on social media. By 2015, hundreds of English-speaking young Russians worked at the IRA. Their assignment was to use those false social-media accounts, especially on Facebook and Twitter -- but also on Reddit, Tumblr, 9gag, and other platforms -- to aggressively spread conspiracy theories and mocking, ad hominem arguments that incite American users.

In 2017, U.S. intelligence found that Blacktivist, a Facebook and Twitter group with more followers than the official Black Lives Matter movement, was operated by Russia. Blacktivist regularly attacked America as racist and urged black users to rejected major candidates. On November 2, 2016, just before the 2016 election, Blacktivist's Twitter urged Black Americans: "Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein. Trust me, it's not a wasted vote."

Russia plays both sides -- on gender, race, and religion

The brilliance of the Russian influence campaign is that it convinces Americans to attack each other, worsening both misandry and misogyny, mutual racial hatred, and extreme antisemitism and Islamophobia. In short, it's not just an effort to boost the right wing; it's an effort to radicalize everybody.

Russia uses its trolling networks to aggressively attack men. According to MIT, in 2019, the most popular Black-oriented Facebook page was the charmingly named "My Baby Daddy Aint Shit." It regularly posts memes attacking Black men and government welfare workers. It serves two purposes: Make poor black women hate men, and goad black men into flame wars.

MIT found that My Baby Daddy is run by a large troll network in Eastern Europe likely financed by Russia.

But Russian influence networks are also also aggressively misogynistic and aggressively anti-LGBT.

On January 23, 2017, just after the first Women's March, the New York Times found that the Internet Research Agency began a coordinated attack on the movement. Per the Times:

More than 4,000 miles away, organizations linked to the Russian government had assigned teams to the Women’s March. At desks in bland offices in St. Petersburg, using models derived from advertising and public relations, copywriters were testing out social media messages critical of the Women’s March movement, adopting the personas of fictional Americans.

They posted as Black women critical of white feminism, conservative women who felt excluded, and men who mocked participants as hairy-legged whiners.

But the Russian PR teams realized that one attack worked better than the rest: They accused its co-founder, Arab American Linda Sarsour, of being an antisemite. Over the next 18 months, at least 152 Russian accounts regularly attacked Sarsour. That may not seem like many accounts, but it worked: They drove the Women's March movement into disarray and eventually crippled the organization.

Russia doesn't need a million accounts, or even that many likes or upvotes. It just needs to get enough attention that actual Western users begin amplifying its content.

A former federal prosecutor who investigated the Russian disinformation effort summarized it like this:

It wasn’t exclusively about Trump and Clinton anymore. It was deeper and more sinister and more diffuse in its focus on exploiting divisions within society on any number of different levels.

As the New York Times reported in 2022,

There was a routine: Arriving for a shift, [Russian disinformation] workers would scan news outlets on the ideological fringes, far left and far right, mining for extreme content that they could publish and amplify on the platforms, feeding extreme views into mainstream conversations.

China is joining in with AI

[A couple months ago], the New York Times reported on a new disinformation campaign. "Spamouflage" is an effort by China to divide Americans by combining AI with real images of the United States to exacerbate political and social tensions in the U.S. The goal appears to be to cause Americans to lose hope, by promoting exaggerated stories with fabricated photos about homeless violence and the risk of civil war.

As Ladislav Bittman, a former Czechoslovakian secret police operative, explained about Soviet disinformation, the strategy is not to invent something totally fake. Rather, it is to act like an evil doctor who expertly diagnoses the patient’s vulnerabilities and exploits them, “prolongs his illness and speeds him to an early grave instead of curing him.”

The influence networks are vastly more effective than platforms admit

Russia now runs its most sophisticated online influence efforts through a network called Fabrika. Fabrika's operators have bragged that social media platforms catch only 1% of their fake accounts across YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Telegram, and other platforms.

But how effective are these efforts? By 2020, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were run by Eastern European troll farms tied to the Kremlin. And Russia doesn't just target angry Boomers on Facebook. Russian trolls are enormously active on Twitter. And, even, on Reddit.

It's not just false facts

The term "disinformation" undersells the problem. Because much of Russia's social media activity is not trying to spread fake news. Instead, the goal is to divide and conquer by making Western audiences depressed and extreme.

Sometimes, through brigading and trolling. Other times, by posting hyper-negative or extremist posts or opinions about the U.S. the West over and over, until readers assume that's how most people feel. And sometimes, by using trolls to disrupt threads that advance Western unity.

As the RAND think tank explained, the Russian strategy is volume and repetition, from numerous accounts, to overwhelm real social media users and create the appearance that everyone disagrees with, or even hates, them. And it's not just low-quality bots. Per RAND,

Russian propaganda is produced in incredibly large volumes and is broadcast or otherwise distributed via a large number of channels. ... According to a former paid Russian Internet troll, the trolls are on duty 24 hours a day, in 12-hour shifts, and each has a daily quota of 135 posted comments of at least 200 characters.

What this means for you

You are being targeted by a sophisticated PR campaign meant to make you more resentful, bitter, and depressed. It's not just disinformation; it's also real-life human writers and advanced bot networks working hard to shift the conversation to the most negative and divisive topics and opinions.

It's why some topics seem to go from non-issues to constant controversy and discussion, with no clear reason, across social media platforms. And a lot of those trolls are actual, "professional" writers whose job is to sound real.

So what can you do? To quote WarGames: The only winning move is not to play. The reality is that you cannot distinguish disinformation accounts from real social media users. Unless you know whom you're talking to, there is a genuine chance that the post, tweet, or comment you are reading is an attempt to manipulate you -- politically or emotionally.

Here are some thoughts:

Don't accept facts from social media accounts you don't know. Russian, Chinese, and other manipulation efforts are not uniform. Some will make deranged claims, but others will tell half-truths. Or they'll spin facts about a complicated subject, be it the war in Ukraine or loneliness in young men, to give you a warped view of reality and spread division in the West.

Resist groupthink. A key element of manipulate networks is volume. People are naturally inclined to believe statements that have broad support. When a post gets 5,000 upvotes, it's easy to think the crowd is right. But "the crowd" could be fake accounts, and even if they're not, the brilliance of government manipulation campaigns is that they say things people are already predisposed to think. They'll tell conservative audiences something misleading about a Democrat, or make up a lie about Republicans that catches fire on a liberal server or subreddit.

Don't let social media warp your view of society. This is harder than it seems, but you need to accept that the facts -- and the opinions -- you see across social media are not reliable. If you want the news, do what everyone online says not to: look at serious, mainstream media. It is not always right. Sometimes, it screws up. But social media narratives are heavily manipulated by networks whose job is to ensure you are deceived, angry, and divided.

Edited for typos and clarity. (Tumblr-edited for formatting and to note a sourced article is now older than mentioned in the original post. -LV)

P.S. Apparently, this post was removed several hours ago due to a flood of reports. Thank you to the r/GenZ moderators for re-approving it.

Second edit:

This post is not meant to suggest that r/GenZ is uniquely or especially vulnerable, or to suggest that a lot of challenges people discuss here are not real. It's entirely the opposite: Growing loneliness, political polarization, and increasing social division along gender lines is real. The problem is that disinformation and influence networks expertly, and effectively, hijack those conversations and use those real, serious issues to poison the conversation. This post is not about left or right: Everyone is targeted.

(Further Tumblr notes: since this was posted, there have been several more articles detailing recent discoveries of active disinformation/influence and hacking campaigns by Russia and their allies against several countries and their respective elections, and barely touches on the numerous Tumblr blogs discovered to be troll farms/bad faith actors from pre-2016 through today. This is an ongoing and very real problem, and it's nowhere near over.

A quote from NPR article linked above from 2018 that you might find familiar today: "[A] particular hype and hatred for Trump is misleading the people and forcing Blacks to vote Killary. We cannot resort to the lesser of two devils. Then we'd surely be better off without voting AT ALL," a post from the account said.")

#propaganda #psyops #disinformation #US politics #election 2024 #us elections #YES we have legitimate criticisms of our politicians and systems #but that makes us EVEN MORE susceptible to radicalization. not immune #no not everyone sharing specific opinions are psyops. but some of them are #and we're more likely to eat it up on all sides if it aligns with our beliefs #the division is the point #sound familiar? #voting #rambles #long post

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is being creeped out by the entire concept of indirect kisses

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#aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod axel #kissing cw #yeah no it's like. actually that's just called Gross imho #like. generally speaking i recognize that if you're so close that you are okay with - for example - drinking from someone else's cup #you probably already have a hell of a lot of exchange of germs anyways #but uhh no thank u. i don't trust y'all #my disabled ass does not need more germ exposure from the average person #(i recognize that germ exposure to a certain degree can be good but this is more in the context of 'my immune system is not good') #(and specifically 'i can't find hard evidence on it but i do see science enough that it would make sense - even if not studied yet - that #my fibromyalgia flares around times when my immune system has to work particularly hard')

[moongothic]

So I have a Crocodile theory that I've been sitting on for a while. I have absolutely nothing to prove any of it whatsoever, and the only thing that really propels me to believe in it is that I think it would be cool if it were true.

I think Crocodile may have gotten his start as a cabin boy for the Rocks Pirates the same way Shanks and Buggy got their start with Roger. The trust issues would naturally follow from the way the Rocks Pirates probably turned on each other immediately following Rocks' death during the God Valley Incident. Seeing the crew you grew up on turn in on itself would make anyone wary of trusting others I think. It might also explain a portion of the animosity he had for Whitebeard as well. Obviously a lot of it comes from their clash during Croc's warlord days, but it might explain why he was so eager to go after Whitebeard in the first place. Him being at God Valley would also provide a solid point where he could have run into Ivankov, and potentially where Ivankov could have gotten some dirt on him, depending on whatever that dirt ends up being in Canon.

Even wilder speculation, but I think Mihawk might have been there as well. The two just seem to have this weird, unexplained rapport that doesn't yield itself to a whole lot of options other than a previous connection. They get in a fight at Marineford, and Crocodile walks away alive despite him being well below Mihawk's level. Croc feels it's enough to just let Mihawk know he's "in a real bad mood" and that seems to do the trick. Mihawk is the first person Crocodile talks to about his Cross Guild venture, and Mihawk doesn't take long to take him up on it. And Mihawk, in general, also just kind of lets Crocodile talk at him a lot for someone who was introduced to us as a person who would hunt you down for just interrupting his nap.

Like I said, I don't have a shred of evidence for any of this at all, but I do think it would be cool, and might explain a few things.

"Would be cool if true" THIS IS WHAT FUN THEORIES ARE BASED ON 👏👏👏 We're HERE to get EXCITED about COOL IDEAS

Honestly I much prefer "random cabin boy for Xebec" over Xebec's son on just vibes alone, but also it'd make Crocodile losing interest on Whitebeard in Marineford much more palatable. Because if Whitebeard betrayed his dad on top of kicking his ass then surely he wouldn't assist in saving Ace, regardless of what his relationship with Luffy and/or the Revs may or may not have been. But if he was a cabin boy, yeah, that'd give him the trust issues but without it being THAT personal

Not sure if Mihawk would've been on the same ship though... IDK looking at the bby Shichibukai art, bby Hawk looks quite messy and disheveled compared to bby Croc- if they were raised in similar circumstances on Xebec' ship you'd think their art would look about the same. Also if I'm not misremembering, Crocodile would've been 9 during the God Valley incident, and Mihawk is 3 years younger than him so he would've been just 6. I dunno, if anything I'd be more willing to bet money on Moria having been on the ship with Crocodile instead (since he would've been like 13, and based on bby Moria's art he looks like he kinda matches with Crocodile, that said there's nothing to prove the two have any kind of shared history whatsoever)... But yeah, if Mihawk was 6 at the time, I kind of doubt they were BOTH on Xebec's ship

That said. I'm fucking sure Crocodile and Mihawk have SOME kind of shared history. There's gotta be fucking SOMETHING, at SOME POINT, because yeah, as you said

Crocodile telling Mihawk he's in a shit mood is a passable warning to give to from like One Dangerous Warlord to Another, but it takes on a whole different tone if they knew each other a bit closer

Who knows, maybe they were both cabin boys on the same ship for someone else a few years later though, hell, for all we know Mihawk could've been on Crocodile's crew for a time

Also based on Kuma's flashback, we do see Kuma visit Mihawk's island in chapter 1099, and in 1100 when Mihawk sees the news of Kuma joining, he's awfully quiet. So if Mihawk and Kuma may have known each other even just briefly, yeah. Why the fuck couldn't Mihawk and Crocodile have some history too.

There's also this bit from Croc and Hawk's phonecall that interests me

The "..." in the flashback panel

Like it's very normal for Oda to signal a character is thinking about something without saying anything about it by doing the little "..." (for example, Robin would've been well-aware of Moria as she did work for a Warlord herself, making this panel from Thriller Bark quite interesting), hell the phonecall flashback both begins and ends with Mihawk having simple "..." thought bubbles as he's thinking back to it

But the fact that he's Having A Thought about Crocodile being like "we're the same bro"... Oh they gotta have somekinda shared backstory somewhere, they've gotta, surely

And indeed, despite the fact that the two aren't supposed to trust anyone, they sure seem to trust each other enough to start a marine hunting organization together

(Also an interesting detail that, since we know they both hate the Marines a lot, so them starting an organization with that shared goal is just. Yeah. Interesting.)

One additional note I wanted to make because I just noticed this while browsing the Wiki; of the OG Warlords Mihawk is one of the few who we have no idea when he joined the Shichibukai, the only other one being Moria

I really would be curious to hear when and how Mihawk joined, 'cause for all we know, he might've joined around the same time Crocodile did, which would definitely be interesting...

Man. Like I'm not particularly interested in Mihawk's backstory on its own, but if his backstory was somehow tied to Crocodile's... Oh I'd absolutely love to hear it. ODA PLEASE, SPILL THE BEANS

#Moon posting #OP Spoilers #OP Meta #Sir Crocodile #Mihawk #Asks #Long post #It would be like super fucking cute if it turned out the two were like childhood friends or something #Who just drifted apart with time #I dunno I am not immune to CrocHawk #Sidenote if I do get an Extended Crocodile Flashback I'd love to see the who were the actual original 7 Shichibukai WG hired #'Cause if I'm not mistaken the Government specifically came up with the Warlord system during the begining of the Great Pirate Era #Meaning it's very likely the system has only been around for 22-24 years #Which means it is very possible Crocodile could've been one of the OG-OG seven #Would love to see that line up one day just for the hell of it

[sevenrs]

i have this "anatomy of the brain" poster in my room and noticed one of the cells looked like an overseer. so i have done some digging

microscope images don't really look like overseers or the diagram on my poster, but i did learn something

the cell was a microglia cells are the immune system of the central nervous system. they are the brain's and spinal cord's first responders to threats and normally help brain regulation, maintain neural networks, and help in repairing injuries. honestly if you know what macrophages are, these cells are them but more specialized

and like macrophages, microglia cells are also known to scavenge. they find foreign material, dead and/or injured cells, brain-specific problems, and clean them up

iterators have a lot of brain/neuron imagery, so i feel at least some of this is intentional. i think the scavenging is a coincidence but interesting nontheless

#broadcast.txt #fun fact my special interest is the immune system #not any specific reigon but all of it entirely #i do not know all the names of every different type of macrophage or dendritic cell or whatever #but golly gee i love those cells #i made ocs out of it hehe

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Currently searching up a list of foods with Vitamin K not to better my own health but to find out which foods might make Gallifreyans have mild to severe reactions 🧐 @fatelesschild

#doctor who #classic who #dw #new who #vitamin k #gallifreyan #gallifreyan anatomy #and physiology #@fatelesschild #specifically the immune system post #why study for comparative anatomy when you can study gallifreyan anatomy #EGGS???? #the might have a reaction to EGGS???? #new headcanon accepted the doctor must scour the earth for egg-free products #i keep on trying to cite this document but like how would you even cite a tumblr post in cse name-year #thirteenth doctor #twelfth doctor #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #time lords #ninth doctor #eighth doctor #seventh doctor #sixth doctor #fifth doctor #first doctor #fourth doctor #second doctor #third doctor #dr who

[soldier-poet-king]

No one in my family (save my nonno and myself) got the new covid shot or the flu shot and it's just HMMMMMMMMM I get sick easily (always have) and it's been worse since I had covid and I'm also the only one who takes public transit everyday and it's just. Hm. Hm. HM. I definitely Do Not have a sore throat this morning that I am Increasingly Stressed About bc it isn't going away

#the duality of fran #lowkey im genuinely angry with them #i tried to bring it up and they either. didnt care (bro1) #or were weirdly almost a conspiracy theorist abt it (my mother) #which is bonkers. we got all our vaccines as kids #idk why my mother is SO hung up on annual flu shots specifically #and now that the quote unquote marketing around the covid shots is like a flu shot #shes suddenly not getting that either #MAAM. MAAM. I HAVE A FRAIL IMMUNE SYSTEM. COVID IS NOT JUST A BAD COLD #THE SHIT IT DOES TO UR BODY. IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN JUST A COLD. EVEN IF IT FEELS THE SAME #MY IMMUNE SYSTEM IS PROBABLY NEVER GOING TO RECOVER FULLY. #and i was already easily sickened by even just the common cold. idk why. nothing is wrong per se my immune system is just. a lil baby #ANYWAY. im just. the only one still wearing masks in crowded areas (subway) or getting my shots #i mean i also didnt get the hpv shot bc my mother insisted it was a sex thing. it isnt #SO I STILL DONT HAVE IT #which i keep forgetting to ask my doc abt

[femmeofarc]

i hate when someone makes a genuinely good critique of patriarchy and then terfs are like yasss so true its because of the Trans

like no shut up it’s actually not!!! 😝😝

#and i feel like a lot of lgbtq ppl my age get pushed more towards liberal feminism as a result of this shit #like naurrr #i promise you that choice feminism is actually not the way to go about shit #and then like i feel like it allows a lot of unchecked misogyny in queer spaces #not from a specific positionality or identity just In General because nobody is immune to social condoning that all genders face that #tell them that women are not to be seen as people #i see it from everybody and even in myself in the past #like raughhh dont piss me offff #misogyny isnt just Bad People its a belief system fed to each and every one of us

[froody]

days without shitting blood uncontrollably: 0

#tmi / #unsanitary / #AND I HAD BEEN DOING SO MUCH BETTERRRR #hi new followers I have ulcerative colitis my immune system attacks my colon specifically my lower colon #back to the gastroenterologist I go I guess

[louisdelac]

biggest compliment I’ve ever been given in my life is someone saying i seemed like “the kind of person who would have caught the black plague, but you would’ve survived it”

#something about the combo of ‘well you would’ve caught it for sure. but it wouldn’t keep you down’ is so #like. it’s such a specific compliment. immune system not good enough to avoid it but the second i caught it it’s shutting that shit down.

[zeb-z]

qBad this, qForever that, when did everyone forget about unreliable narrators?

#like listen. alright. bbh I get it. but the feeling he’s feeling of being soooo targeted and that the system is already corrupt is like #he’s taking it incredibly personal yknow? and I respect it. I also agree with his general view of not wanting leadership w federation backin #In the first place yknow? but like everyone look at me and level with me. qBbh is such a hypocrite and I won’t hear another word of it ofjsj #qBad apologists I see it I get it but like. to say everyone has had this coming and bad is treated so poorly on the server like?? #have any of you seen half the stuff bad pulls? have any of you met foolish even entirely unrelated to bad??? y’all are acting like bads - #- getting the foolish treatment rn. which is how qBad is feeling! but guys! unreliable narrator come on now!!! #and the thing about qBad is that he is all about pushing other people’s buttons but when it comes to him? he can’t always handle it. there #are exceptions to this rule ofc but he can be quick to react. if this was a rule specific about say foolish? #or Roier even? Cellbit? bad would jump on the chance for the ‘meme’ #he’s aggravated about the presidential position in the first place and is feeling targeted and is going 0-100 #which is the classic qBad and I respect that! it makes him a fun character! hes just an unreliable narrator and we all gotta remember that #idk man #Cellbit’s convo with him about the electoral process really shows that if you were watching one of their POV’s #the chair bit was salt in the wound to be clear and funny as hell but everything else #I dunno I just have been seeing a bunch of takes that are like I get it I see your passion. but qBad isn’t this saint you make him out to be #anyways I cannot wait to see what comes of this ✌️ #edit: forever isn’t immune to this either btw! but he’s trying at least #mcyt #qsmp #bbh #q!forever #z speaks

[mariemariemaria]

The new channel 4 documentary on the miners strike is fantastic. It covers different points of view, from the striking miners, to working miners, to the women in striking communities, to the police. It also shows how the Battle of Orgreave on 18th June 1984 was planned and initiated by the police, and how the media (BBC and ITV) covered this up and showed only the police's side, while positioning them as being the victims of miners' violence (which was very minimal to non existent in reality), who simply retaliated because the "restrained...traditional British policing way" (I have to laugh) didn't work.

I also didn't know until watching this that Gareth Peirce, who represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, also defended mineworkers who were victims of police brutality at Orgreave. What a woman!

#british history #working class history #miners strike #acab #im so interested in this period of history + chose this topic specifically as part of a british history module last year #so im really glad that this docuseries was made for the 40th anniversary and i hope it is never forgotten #and i often think about how miscarriages of justice against working class british people are exactly the same as #british miscarriages of justice against irish people. i was thinking this when watching #at one point an interviewee even says something like 'obviously i'd seen this happen in northern ireland but i never expected it to #happen in england!' and the way the police acted obviously made me think of what they did in the north of ireland #and the gareth peirce connection just confirmed it. but how many people saw those connections? #how many of the miners who were beaten by police saw the same things happen to irish people but didnt care? or thought they deserved it? #this isnt to blame them..they were fed lies that the irish were terrorists...but it suggests to me that this oppression is connected #also similar is how RE the post office scandal a lot of people were shocked that british justice had failed #a man in the drama even said that it was britain and he was british and that british justice wouldnt let them down #and you just think like...do you not know what british 'justice' did to innocent irish people? do you think they deserved it? #did you think you were immune because you were british? in ireland we know there is no such thing as british justice. #but british people never seem to learn this history lesson #what a better world it would be if working class british (and irish) people could recognise our similarities and joint sufferings as a #result of the british state. its quite frustrating to watch british people constantly put faith in their gov/justice system #learn from your own history!! they dont care about you!!

[pocketramblr]

So iirc the only thing we know that he needs to drink citrus drinks as fuel but there's no mention of anything else so it's probably blood providing lubrication in his engines as weird as it is to think about

I need to Stop thinking about it every possibility that crosses my mind is gradually getting more horrifying and all roads lead to "ok so if you don't need to mess around with the engine to add oil or anything and it's all normal blood through your body then how did y'all figure out the remove the exhaust pipes to grow faster ones somehow"

#also do you think the orange juice thing is maybe a placebo effect #like what's in the oj SPECIFICALLY that makes quirk go zoom #if he ate an orange would be be even more concentrated and stronger power? #or is it just like. he needs fructose to burn energy and oj was the easiest tastiest way to get that quick #head. in my hands. #pocket talks to people #anon #someone else pointed out the stain thing so yeah guess he at the very least has a normal blood system #even if he's got something alterted and filtered just around his engines or if it's just. straight blood there too #so that's gonna be a no on 'oil based blood immune to water based blood bending' hmm alright

[startersword]

WELL YOU GUYS MY PARENTS GOT ME SICK SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

#wanwan #I SAY MY PARENTS BUT SPECIFICALLY MY MOTHER BC MY DAD HAS LIKE THE WORLD'S CRAZIEST IMMUNE SYSTEM #It's just a sinus infection thankfully but I'm still so fucking pissed off bc i did absolutely everything I could #to not get sick and I STILL DID

[revvywevvy]

Happy birthday!! I'm sorry that you got sick today of all days too 💔💔💔

Thank youuuuuu ;; yeah, of all the times for this to happen ofc it had to be today 😔

#ask #mutual interactions #//agh where's that one video that's like 'so your gonna bring me a birthday gift to my birthday party on my birthday?' #//i forgor the specific words but yeah i am hitting my immune system with a glass. why does my body have to be mean me </3

[the-trans-dragon]

Some shingles information, since I’m doing research into it

If you got a shingles vaccine before 2017, there is a newer one and it’s recommended in addition to a past vaccine. For “50 and older” but also for “19 years of age and older who have weakened immune systems.” It’s also worthwhile to get it even if you never had chicken pox and/or got the chicken pox vaccine!

0.12% to 0.34% of younger adults get shingles yearly. As an example, in population of 10,000 people, there will be about 12-34 cases every year.

About 1/3 people will get shingles in their life, and the vaccine prevents most people from getting shingles, and prevents virtually all severe cases.

So!!! Next time you’re at a doctor office or pharmacy, I encourage you to ask about it! Even if you don’t want it, you might be able to share what you learn with someone who does want it, and you could help someone get vaccinated before they experience shingles 💜

#sorenhoots #something something tumblr’s aging user base BUT IM 25 :S #I should make it a personal quest to just. ask my doctor next time about every vaccine that is recommended for people #and specifically for people with lower immune systems #since CLEARLY mine is not a well-prepared thing #like idk if I got chicken pox before my vaccine? or after? vaccine immunity can wear off but chicken pox vaccine are #known to last decades at least—lifetimes! though in some cases they have seen decreased immunity happen in 6 years in one rare case #I guess it depends on what other viruses you get. and of course we have no idea how covid affects the immune system in the long run #AND I do have fibromyalgia which some doctors argue is a immune system issue #so 🤷 idk just go ask if you can get the vaccine and how to get it and then #maybe get it or maybe just encourage other people to do so