The Mercurial

Librarian. Bard. Lifelong amateur. Work in progress. I probably know a lot of things. I never have a plan. Always traveling with hope. (Pronouns: he/him)

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[comicbookcovers]

Happy Father's day!

[theorganasolo]

Mark Hamill in continuity polaroids for Star Wars

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[liberalsarecool]

Zohran Mamdani is using New York City to show the world how progressive policies work for everyone. #DemocraticSocialist

[contemplatingoutlander]

Well, he's showing the 21st Century US how progressive policies work. The rest of the wealthy, developed nations already know how well they work. And Americans in the 20th century when FDR and LBJ were presidents understood how well they worked.

Reagan and the GOP spent 50 years brainwashing Americans into thinking that the government is the enemy, and we will all be prosperous if we give the rich tax breaks and let the money "trickle down."

And so now we have Trump, who gave the rich huge tax breaks, which led to a spiraling deficit, and Trump cutting back on Medicaid, ACA support, SNAP, and other social benefits in order to have enough moneyto fund ICE, his war, his ballroom, etc.

When are working class MAGA going to realize they've been played by decades of GOP propaganda?

[hamkittens]

my favorite genre of star trek photo: character(s) on an accidental pride flag background that really resonates with them

my collection grows

if anyone has any more please send em

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[kaonicks]

Support Lili (kao) ❤️

Support Lili (kao)

My roommate has been out of work for awhile and we are really struggling. We recently got an eviction notice and are behind rent $1900.

I am a type 1 diabetic and also cannot afford medicine. I used to be on disability but was denied it despite appealing.

Please if you can reblog or help, I would super appreciate it.

[kaonicks]

$1700 short still please share or help if you can. my roommate just got a new job contract but wont get paid until after the deadline

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[cartoongoblin]

In the Grey

TIL the term “Sensualarian” and discovered that it best sums up how I feel about relationships. I also realized that I don’t like the word itself and would never want to label myself with it. It sounds clumsy and icky to me. From the wiki: “Sensualarian refers to someone who ‘blurs’ the lines between the types of relationships (romantic, platonic, sensual, sexual, etc). They do not fall into…

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machine uses image recognition to detect lice on fish and then uses laser to blast the parasites.

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[katjohnadams]

Walking down 4th Street and a UFO pops up, zaps away your joint pain, you can't explain to anyone and just have to keep living your life

[dumbpuppyfag]

UNGRATEFUL tech companies are saying things like "turn off your ad blocker" and "we need your photo id" instead of "thank you so much for not just pirating our shit, youre so handsome"

[cartoongoblin]

Brain Keeps Falling Down, Down, Down

Today is a bad ADHD day. When I say it’s a bad ADHD day, I don’t mean I’ve been fidgeting with a pen while I tell fifteen overlapping stories in five minutes, constantly getting distracted by something in my peripheral vision. Truthfully, I like those days. I may not have much focus, but I have energy and interest to spare. Today is one of those days when my dopamine needly is fluttering over E…

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[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas