Starting with last year’s “Bathtub Geralt” cake, I’ve decided that each subsequent birthday, I have to make a meme cake of my favorite game. Hence, this year’s theme should come as no surprise… 🤣
Happy Bear-thday to me! 🥳💜
Feat. @DaveJonesActor in wildshape 🐻
The most tiresome people on this hellsite insisted that a safety feature to protect against impersonation was a status symbol, had it turned into a status symbol, then didn't like the status it signified. Truly, amazing.
@KCDefender From what I can dig up, he’s still in custody, and they’re still investigating… Let’s make sure they know we won’t accept anything less than a murder charge.
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.
In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023: https://t.co/6m49h5g7tn
In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future.
Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.
boundary: “i don’t feel comfortable with this behavior bc it makes ME feel insecure. therefore *i* will have to leave bc of MY emotions and how *i* have to manage them”
not boundary: “YOU are doing stuff i don’t like so YOU have to change your behavior or it’s boundary crossing”
Mother: *doesn’t want to have a baby, gives them up for adoption instead of having an abortion*
Gay couple: *adopts child with the agreement of the mother*
Baby: *doesn’t get aborted, gets to grow up in a happy loving family*
Twitter Third Reich: 😡😡😡
I sure do. Here in Shenzhen, young women of my age and background had two options. Sex work for the arrogant Hong Kong businessman who came over the border and treated Shenzhen like their own private brothel, or work on the factory line for a pittance making things for Americans to slap their labels on and resell for massive profits. We’d make a 1 dollar for every 10 they did off of what we made. No choice; we didn’t know how to design what the West wanted or market it to them if we did.
They knew things we did not, and we were told if we knew those things, and used that knowledge- well, that was stealing. They owned ideas and had pieces of paper we never agreed to saying no one but them was allowed to have those ideas.
But late at night, we took those things apart, we figured out how they worked, and how to make our own. We studied English and translated videos for each other, learned culture, learned what people wanted and would buy, and English just barely good enough we could sell it to them ourselves. A few of us even got good enough to improve on those things- to innovate.
I see little girls in Shenzhen now, and they’ve got all the options in the world, they’ve got their own ideas, and I see how enraged that makes some who think we should stay beneath them forever. I see your politicians desperately scramble to deny where we are and scramble to put us back where we were. To restore those “good old days” when everyone knew their place- before we got all uppity.
I know they’ll fail, and I smile for that little girl and all the ones like her because no one’s going back.
@Edoardocosta0@Ryan0nMars@pearlythingz 1. Ask any abused spouse, it is NOT easy.
2. And then what is the other spouse supposed to do, stay married to someone in jail and never be in another relationship? Fuck you
@natgrace79@KerridwinR Except many trans people can’t get the support they need and die by suicide… not sure I want to worship a god that chooses that life for us
here's Roger Waters exposing the absurdity and depravity of the smear campaign being waged against him by the very same people who are idolizing literal Nazis