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[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

"It is a blameless crime when a vampire kills a medical professional."
-@acarboni #ColdestOpens

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@DustinCanFly So happy for you guys! You two are going to be wonderful parents. Congrats! ♥️

[Lillymo Games @LillymoGames]

Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege is out now for $9.99 USD on Steam, Xbox, PS4/PS5, and Switch.

[Lillymo Games @LillymoGames]

It feels like just yesterday we hit 12,000 wishlists... 🙃 Crazy! Thank you!

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@DustinCanFly I definitely agree, Man. I’m not hyped for this or anything like that, but as a huge fan of the books, it’ll be cool to (as you say - hopefully) get a much more faithful adaptation.

Agree that Goblet is the worst movie but there’s also the horrible ending of 7 part 2…

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@daniel_rollins @SiWroteThis @EvanThePoet @DustinCanFly

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@Namistai25 @VincentSaVega @DustinCanFly I guess the post being in ALL CAPS didn’t give it away. 😂

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@LillymoGames Hell yeah! Can’t wait!

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@toastysofa @longislandviper @LillymoGames I should have known. Haha.

[Colin Moriarty @longislandviper]

We (at @LillymoGames) have no real interest in working on someone else's IP, but I would 10,000% make an exception for G.I. Joe. As you know, the brand has been a lifelong obsession.

@Hasbro, let us make an 8/16-bit 2D side-scrolling action game for GI Joe. We'd do you proud. <3

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@longislandviper Hell yeah!

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@DustinCanFly How is Brad 7’10” when his parents are shorter than Dustin?…

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

The Tale of Two Contagions

In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.

This was an entirely new patient population.

Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.

The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.

Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.

Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger.

And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.

Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier.

And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.

Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.

And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.

The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans.

And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.

Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness.

Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.

And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

I swear I’m not crying

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@GenePark Praying for good news, Man. You got this!

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@Neil_Druckmann Can’t wait to see the gameplay for this! Looks dope!!

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

Been going to the gym for the first time in a while and gotta listen to the Dukes while I’m here!!
@DefiningDuke #HealthIsWealth

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@DustinCanFly Love hearing this, Man! So glad to hear you guys are treating yourselves to another trip and can’t wait to see you back on Sacred. Take care, Man.

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@GenePark Happy to hear it, Man!

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

@DustinCanFly So sorry to hear this. You guys are in my prayers, Man…

[Alex Gates @MeestaAlex]

Is a baby not DLC? - @mamamicah93 😂