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The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

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Bye Boop-O-Meter. You will be missed.

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tumblr today :D <3

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This is literally so engaging I was meant to do homeworks but stuck in this fucking app

#me too #the deadline is tomorrow but booping is today

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People like to pretend I will "get better" so they do not have to think about the deadly lie they are living. Abandoning disabled and high-risk people to preventable death is eugenics.

To clarify, this is NOT just an American issue -- think of the "pan" in pandemic.

The MSKCC Library

The People's CDC (weekly weather reports on COVID in the U.S.)

Image IDs available in Alt Text and written out below:

Image ID begins. A black and white cartoon comic titled Pandemic Year 4. This is panel 1. A boy with short hair — Joey, the author of the comic — is holding a Christmas wreath and handing it to his boyfriend, a boy with long hair and a beard, who is standing in a window while decorating. The text reads: This year, my boyfriend and I got fresh pine wreaths from the farmer’s market — our fist big Christmas decorations together!

Panel 2. A hand holds pine needles. Cartoon stink clouds radiate off of the pine needles. The text reads: I break pine needles between my fingers and it smells hideous. Pain shoots through my head.

Panel 3. Joey stands in front of a table on which there are various foods. He looks disgusted and is covering his nose and mouth with his hands. The text reads: This is how I have lived since my February 2020 COVID infection. COVID caused brain and nerve damage, making everything smell and taste like rot. The condition is called parosmia, and it has no cure. Eating is a nightmare.

Panel 4. Joey’s boyfriend, a taller boy with long hair and a beard, puts his hand on Joey’s shoulder. They are shown from behind and are both wearing backpacks and winter coats. The text reads: Last week, my boyfriend walked me home from work midday after I had a near-fainting episode. I wear a heart monitor full-time. Doctors say I’m “too young”.

Panel 5. Joey is shown from behind, sitting sadly and gazing out a window. The text reads: I’ve literally been isolated from the rest of the world for four years. One COVID infection destroyed my life, and I can’t risk another. How can I get you to understand? After becoming disabled by COVID at 19 years old, I have been completely shut off from the outside world.

Panel 6. Joey stands in between two maskless and anonymous figures. Joey looks uncomfortable and is crossing his arms and gazing at them. He is wearing a respirator mask and goggles. The figure on the right is holding a bag labeled “food Joey can’t eat”. The text reads: “Friends” and family who have seen the depth of my suffering for four years have stopped masking and can’t be bothered to care. Family Christmas meant that I had to reiterate daily that I would not and physically could not eat at restaurants.

Panel 7. A drawing of an open laptop, next to which lays an N95 mask. On the laptop, a headline from the Washington Post is displayed. The headline reads: Covid kills nearly 10,000 in a month as holidays fuel spread, WHO says. The comic text reads: This winter has been the 2nd highest peak of the pandemic, with at least 10,000 Americans dying of COVID in December. Playing pretend at “normalcy” is profoundly violent and deadly. Under the comic frame, a citation reads: The Washington Post, January 11, 2024. This is an undercount, as there is no more COVID tracking in the U.S.

Panel 8. A drawing of Joey gesturing at an educational chalk board with a pointer. He is wearing a respirator mask, goggles, and a sweater vest. The text reads: COVID is a virus that causes long-term damage to your organs and nervous system. It’s also a Biosafety Level 3 pathogen, like tuberculosis, meaning that is can be lethal upon inhalation and requires special and serious PPE in Laboratories. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has a digital library of research on COVID impacts. https://libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts/Home

Panel 9. An anonymous figure behind an oration desk is trying to cover a pile of bones behind them. On the pile of bones is a flag that says: Just keep buying and working! The text reads: You are being led to enact violence on your community members by a government who is sacrificing you on the altar of capital. You should be terrified.

Panel 10. A drawing of Joey’s head from the side. he is wearing a respirator mask. The text reads: There is no neutrality in a mass-death and mass-disabling pandemic. Wear a mask or forever be complicit. The comic is dated February 3, 2024. Image ID ends.

#reference

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I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

#reference

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I feel like the first time Chell sees herself in the reflection in forever would be pretty jarring

#ooh good thought #portal #art

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Someone call in empathy quick quick

#disco elysium #art

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Feeling nostalgic for........ them 🥹

Doug weighs like what, 130 lbs soaking wet? Chell has to hold back when she lifts him up or she'll fling him through the fucking ceiling

#if only these two got to talk to each other #portal #art

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Night View by Mıgırdiç Civanyan (Armenian, 1848–1906)

#art

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Look how far we’ve come

#portal #art #beautiful!

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long day of portaling 😮‍💨

#chell! #portal #art

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Nureyev getting a coffee from Jet for Juno??? Will live rent free in my head. I've missed jupeter so much

#so many Nureyev moments that I loved in this episode #and yes! your tags! I was thinking that might be his wish too #juno steel #the penumbra podcast #tpp season 5 #tpp spoilers

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Juno Steel took "be gay do crime" a little too seriously

#yet he still manages to be silly and goofy #i love that for him #juno steel #the penumbra podcast

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SEND THE HAM FIGHTER-CRAFT FOR ANOTHER MISSION

Failed.

#i didn't know kim could do this! #oh man #oh kim #disco elysium

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reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton

#hadestown #still probably my fave!

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Thinking about how self-referential the 14th Doctor is (eg the courtroom scene being a reference to something from old who) and how in the 50th anniversary, the 10th Doctor was called the one who remembers. Perhaps this time he isn't just the one who remembered. Maybe this time he is also the one who learned. He's open with how he feels but careful about hurting people he loves. He knows what it is like to be old and tired and knows what it means to grieve and celebrate a life in the same moment. He is sly and quick and silly. A lot of the time, early on, we see Doctor's struggle to comprehend the world from their new view, even sometimes unable to fully grasp their own identity. 14 didn't really have that. He hit the ground running, being everything that each of the Doctors before him were and everything they've taught him how to be. He is the Doctor who learns.

I dunno, I could just be waffling but it's a fun idea I had.

#doctor who