You Sunshine, You Temptress.

Life.

[weaver-z]

Will Smith was just banned from the Oscars for 10 years for slapping a guy. Unrelated but here's an IMDb list of the most famous actors and directors who signed the letter asking for the statutory rape charges against Roman Polanski, who is not banned from the Oscars, to be dropped.

[maya-hawke]

SIMONE ASHLEY as KATE SHARMA Bridgerton | 2x08: The Viscount Who Loved Me

[insanityclause]

[kaelio]

Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs

The company was launched out of stealth last year.

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company (MCCPDC) is a registered pharmaceutical wholesaler and purchases drugs directly from manufacturers, bypassing middlemen to lower the price of more than 100 medications, it said in a statement.

For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.

MCCPDC CEO Alex Oshmyansky reached out to Cuban with an idea for a low-cost generic drug company in a cold email. It was launched in January last year. They were motivated in part by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shrkeli’s outrage-producing price hike of the lifesaving drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per tablet while Shrkeli was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Cuban told Forbes last year the pricing for generic drugs was “ridiculous.” He said he decided to put his name on the company to “show capitalism can be compassionate and to send the message I am all in.” It’s not clear how much he had invested in the company.

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Reblog to save someone an entire paycheck, or more, on the pharmaceuticals they need.

[alwaysatomicconniseur]

Gods, I want this to be true so badly.

[kaelio]

It is true. Mark Cuban is doing this in part because he wants to run for President in 2024 if Biden doesn’t run again (Mark ran in 2020). He’s a Democrat and “I personally made medication affordable” will give him an immense edge. He’s far from perfect but this is a good thing he’s doing. Also he seems to genuinely believe this stuff, but either way, site’s up and operational and you can start any time.

[mishafletcher]

just so people understand what a big deal this is, i ran some fast price comparisons. goodrx is an app that offers discounts on medications for which you have to pay out of pocket, whether because your insurance doesn’t cover them or because you don’t have insurance. if you don’t have insurance, goodrx is often about as good as it gets, so i’m using their prices for my comparison.

please note that prices are location dependent on goodrx—it shows you the options at pharmacies near your location. i’m in pittsburgh, pa; if you’re in a different part of the country and you try this, you may get slightly (or wildly) different numbers. 

fluoxetine is generic prozac. thirty 20mg capsules costs $12.80 at my cheapest local pharmacy. costplus has it for $3.90.

atorvastatin is generic lipitor. thirty 40mg tablets is $10.95 at my cheapest local pharmacy. costplus has it for $4.20.

omeprazole is generic prilosec. thirty 20mg capsules is $13.90 at the cheapest local pharmacy; $4.20 at costplus.

aripiprazole is generic abilify. thirty 10mg tablets is $17.73 at the cheapest local pharmacy (and $260.60 at the most expensive—and that’s with a discount, still, yikes); $6.00 at costplus. 

lamotrigine xr is generic lamictal xr. thirty 25mg tablets is $36.59 at the cheapest local pharmacy; $8.40 at costplus. 

maybe that doesn’t seem like a huge discount, but the goodrx prices change *all the time*—last time i used it to buy fluoxetine, which was in the last couple of years, it was $31. also, many people are on multiple medications, or have multiple people in a household taking multiple medications, and $5 off every prescription adds up real fast. 

this is an objectively fantastic thing and a huge deal, and i hope they’re wildly successful.

[prismatic-bell]

HE HAS MY PRESCRIPTION ON HERE FOR $4.20.

THE CHEAPEST I CAN GET IT IN PERSON ANYWHERE IS $13 AND THE STANDARD PRICE FOR THE GENERIC IS $82.

TAMIFLU IS ON HERE FOR UNDER $4. IT’S AN ANTIVIRAL USED TO TREAT SEVERE CASES OF INFLUENZA AND REGULARLY COSTS OVER $100.

There is a medicine on here called Valcyte, it’s an HIV medication, he’s offering it for $100.20 which sounds outrageous (and I mean still kind of is but wait for it, wait for it) UNTIL YOU REALIZE ON GOODRX IT’S LISTED FOR $179 AS THE ABSOLUTE CHEAPEST PRICE I CAN FIND AND MY LOCAL WALGREENS SELLS IT FOR $1,009 FOR A MONTH’S SUPPLY.

This man is literally going to save lives. Jesus christ. I could cry.

[star-trekkin-across-theuniverse]

Heads up for my Americans.

[jiangshi]

people who leave their phones set to military time are fuckin war criminals how do you look at 16:05 and go wow i can understand that . fucking bootlickers whats next? you gonna go join the army??recruit me?

[virieu]

americans be like ok i cant count past 12 actually

[styloff]

I’m not sure if dumb ppl reported her or if she deleted her account on her own but Glenn’s Twitter account no longer exists after her supportive tweet about Coachella yesterday 😒

Seems she was harassed into deactivating. Vile little fucks with nothing better to do except bully people who have never been anything other than supportive of harry. I wish all larries and other woman haters the worst.

[styloff]

They aren’t because the guy behind coachella has donated to some questionable charities. But even queer publications like Them point out that many queer and outspoken LGBTQ allies play coachella and the festival is known as a safe space for queer people. So, you know, the usual issue of holding Harry to a significantly higher standard.

The guy behind coachella has his hands in a LOT of stuff, and if you're a music fan who's gone to concerts (yes even some of the most recent LOT shows) you have supported AEG, and so has your fave, in some fashion undoubtedly. So hop of the high horse kids. Anyhow, yes, the Them. article about it was quite good.

How Coachella Is Trying to Correct Its Anti-LGBTQ+ Mistakes

Coachella has become a showcase for queer talent — but the festival's owner has donated to anti-LGBTQ+ causes.

[styloff]

I don’t put a lot of stock in twitter call out posts. I saw the most awful one after Bob Saget died and any evidence to the contrary was met with “the Olsen twins are obviously lying when they say he never did anything to them”. Anytime anything Harry is announced, there has to be a reason to not support it. I did see a lot of people responding to the Coachella thing saying people need to have the same energy for everything that guy has his hands in.

I'm so tired. I've never seen a fandom that actively jumps to hate every single thing the object of their so called affection does. I've been on twitter more lately bc tumblr is boring me to tears and I needed some action, but I think I'll come back to my hidey hole here lol

[styloff]

It’s funny how they were all upset for him last year for not being with his mom . But now they also wanted harry to go to with gemma and her boyfriend(one household) with Anne (another household ) and their extended family (probably 1-3 different households ) for Christmas like they did in 2019 just because they want some harry pictures . It’s truly funny how they think harry in London wouldn’t just be like the same thing as him travelling because shocking these people don’t live in the same house or not even the same city . They wouldn’t have a problem with him doing that in London or Italy if Olivia wasn’t there . That’s their only problem

Yeah. Take one element out of it, and they'd all be jerking themselves off about it

[styloff]

They stalk anyone related to Harry and Olivia and then insist that the information they found out through invasive, obsessive behaviour is being “forced” on them and is “PR”—do they really not realise that no normal person is stalking a celebrity’s mother’s Instagram likes and triangulating it with said celebrity’s girlfriend’s sister’s boyfriend’s Instagram posts to figure out said celebrity’s location (anything over one possessive apostrophe is phishing it on the stalker front!). Even if they are papped—still not PR! still unnecessary to insist that Harry on holiday is some grand threat to the human race rather than something that they personally find upsetting, because we all know that fans were perfectly happy for multiple families to meet up on holiday providing it was England (because Louis lives there/obsession with “London Harry”) and/or Olivia wasn’t involved (see also, obsession with “London Harry).

Mhmmmm

[styloff]

Its so embarrassing seeing them leave hateful comments on the instas of random family members who they have creepily tracked down. They are just so invasive and obsessive, they've lost the plot. The guy's account I saw is small & active so you know he's reading every one and its fucking mortifying! How does harry explain these weirdos to new people 😭

I dont even know. It's fucking awful and I'm ashamed I have to be even remotely connected to these awful people by having to share a fandom with them. It's gross and they're gross

[styloff]

This time around I’ve seen lots of negatives about Olivia, but even more so about Harry. I get it, we’re in a shit time and it feels like it’s never gunna get better. But as someone from the US (and particularly in an area which isn’t very safe) where literally most people I know went to another household to celebrate for the e holidays or even traveled…and maybe it’s not the best thing, but some people are genuinely at the end of their rope and need to be with family. And I know a lot of people still took precautions to be able to travel (testing multiple times, masking, social distancing, and even isolating some beforehand). We don’t have good testing here. Meanwhile, where Harry and his fam are from have steadily had easy access to testi if and hang out the at home tests like candy. So I’m sure they took every precaution they could. I don’t know. I’m not saying we don’t hold people accountable, but I really feel like (knowing what he has access too) he was probably way safer about things than most people I even know who tried to be careful this whole pandemic

At this point in the shit, I'm not judging anyone as long as they're getting vaxxed and boosted as they are able and are taking reasonable precautions. Harrys p good at it. He just did a 42 date tour without any positives or spread amongst band or crew. We are at the point where it was botched so much at the beginning, we will have to live with it probably always now and asking people to never travel or see their families on holidays is too much to ask from people doing their best for so long.

[styloff]

People for the past 2 months: omg Christmasrry, he finally gets to spend the holidays with his loved ones again 🥰

*Harry spends the holidays with his loved ones*

Same people: not like that 😒

[unicornamy]

So Harry and Louis have never come out to say they are dating, and yet you believe they are.

Louis has come out to say Freddie is his son, but you want dna confirmation.

can you explain the logic in this? i know you get angry and abuse your anons when they ask you a question you cannot answer, but i would like your take on this.

the reason you want the dna confirmation is because its the only goal post you have. freddie has been seen with Louis, he has been to the UK, he has met his family from Louis side. dna is the only goal post that is yet to move. you cling to it because you know Louis is not going to bend to your ultimatum, even if did the dna test, he will not say 'oh there is doll lady on tumblr i need to show this dna for her to believe Freddie is my son'. he loves his son and he does not care that a doll lady on tumblr does not believe him. you actually do not matter to him one bit, if you were to stop being his fan today, he wont even feel a thing, you are as insignificant to him as you are to your girlfriend. you can stop buying his music, merch or whatever it is he sells, and louis will still have a career, he will have fans who love his music and do not think he owes them shit.

its weird how you think you are significant in louis' life, he does not give a damn about you, and if he was to meet you, and talk to you for a second, he would loathe you. you are one ugly woman.

DNA is the only goal post because that's literally THE only proof of paternity LMAO.

kudos to you for posting off anon so people know who to block tho!

[im-a-colourless-sunshine]

I mean they hit the nail on the head. You still couldn’t answer the question and decided to talk around it.

Who are you to ask for a dna test for a child that doesn’t concern you at all? Do you walk up to strangers and ask them whether the child they are with are theirs and if so do they have a dna test to prove it?

I can’t imagine how weird your life must be to obsess and create scenarios about other peoples life, in your head to keep you preoccupied? Are you truly that bored with nothing to do that you obsess over whether a stranger, that you don’t know personally, has a child or not?

[thomashelbyswife]

Yes it will

[mr-styles]

Harry Styles Hits Career High With Love on Tour’s Nearly $95 Million Gross

Harry Styles wrapped his Love on Tour on Nov. 28 in Long Island, N.Y. After 42 U.S. shows, Love on Tour closed with $94.7 million and 719,000 tickets sold.

The trek began on Sept. 4 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas with $1.7 million and 13,400 tickets sold. Sold-out and among the strongest arena earnings of the year until that point, it was still a relatively modest start for the shaggy-haired boy-bander turned gender-bending pop superstar. By the end of the run, he was averaging $2.25 million and 17,100 tickets each night.

The tour’s earnings and attendance highlights — as is often the case for mainstream arena runs — were in New York and Los Angeles. Styles played five shows at Madison Square Garden, altogether earning $13.8 million and selling 93,700 tickets. That included three shows on Oct. 3-4 and 16 with support act Jenny Lewis, and another two shows on Oct. 30-31, branded Harryween, featuring Orville Peck.

In California, he played three shows at Inglewood’s The Forum (Nov. 17 and 19-20), serenading a combined 50,700 fans to the tune of $6.6 million. Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville each follow with more than $4 million each from respective double-headers in September and October.

Styles sprinkled Billboard’s 2021 year-end Boxscore charts with the year’s No. 3 tour, placements on the Top Boxscores ranking for the MSG shows, and a finish as the Top Pop Tour. Those charts cover shows played between Nov. 1, 2020-Oct. 31, 2021, meaning that Styles’ $64.7 million annual total excluded his 13 November shows, which brought the tour’s final gross to nearly $95 million.

Those November shows not only include The Forum’s trifecta, but a closing show at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y. on Nov. 28. The venue only opened nine days prior, and Styles provided the arena its second musical performance, after a benefit show headlined by Chicago. That finale earned $3.2 million, the highest single-night gross of the entire tour.

Love on Tour was Styles’ second headlining trek on his own. Harry Styles: Live on Tour played arenas throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe in 2017-18. That trek’s five-continent, 74-date sprawl still was surpassed by his recent tour, confined to the U.S. (for now) by prickly international borders due to the evolving global response to COVID-19. Love on Tour earned $63.7 million worldwide by its closing show in L.A. on July 14, 2018, dwarfed by the $94.7 million take of Love on Tour in 2018.

Both tours follow an extremely bankable half-decade as a member of One Direction. The pop group had evolved to global stadium status by 2014’s Where We Are Tour and 2015’s On the Road Again Tour. But an apples-to-apples comparison of Styles’ U.S. tour and the American leg of 1D’s On the Road Again gives a significant advantage to the soloist. In 17 stateside stadium dates, One Direction earned $57.5 million, just 61% of Love on Tour’s final gross. When the world opens its doors again, Styles’ domestic pace may lead the way to bigger global success than ever.

[imaharrie]

I’ve been laughing at this for 10 minutes