(RT PLS!!!!) In the last couple nights of Ramadan, please please please donate and/or share my friends' family's GoFundMe to evacuate from G A Z A!!!!! They're a little over halfway from their goal, please help them!!! https://t.co/3LCrhrNzpt
Knowingly denying your disabled child tools that can help them exist more comfortably in this world - because you either don't want them to 'look different' or want them to 'learn to cope without' - is abusive, actually.
The more people who wear high quality masks, the less hosts there would be for viral replication. I feel like that is a very basic concept and I wish people could understand it.
My advice from my cardiologist at Mt. Sinai’s Post-Covid Center, someone who’s always worn an N95, was what convinced me to get the covid shot after my bad experience with my GP. This is what she wrote to me:
People really do not understand how utterly dire it is. Not just for new grads but for everyone. A friend keeps getting declined for jobs b/c she has ��too much experience”. Another one has been unemployed for 1.5 yrs & cannot even get a call back. She has a PhD, mind you.
Eugenics was always profitable. It's why white supremacists like Trump, Dr. Oz, pharma companies, and celebs are pushing weight loss drugs like Ozempic and GLP-1 for mass consumption, brands like American Eagle have nazi ads about 'perfect jeans', and genocides are happening.
Twitter makes user locations public. Users immediately discover many high-traffic MAGA accounts are astroturfing offshore accounts located in the Third World pretending to be American. Twitter turns off the feature within hours. Interesting.
"Fuck AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way — I don’t get it ... what the fuck are we doing?"
— Rian Johnson
(via @THR)
I once knew a guy whose dad used to be a six figure salary big bux finance guy and then at 45 just quit everything and became a literal carpenter because he needed meaning in his life and that meant doing real work not just moving numbers on a screen. Anyway his business became super successful and he became big bux carpenter instead. Indicating to me that if you are genuinely smart you can make money anywhere so you might as well do something fun.
Marriage, divorce, adoption, and changing jobs are considered qualifying life events that trigger a special enrollment period for your health care.
Becoming pregnant is not considered a qualifying event.
The Healthy MOM Act - which I just introduced today - would change that.
men are the real gold diggers. they expect you to give them your body, play maid, cook their meals, raise their kids, clean their mess, pamper their fragile egos, and take the brunt of emotional labor, all while holding down a job and splitting the bills