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There is something uniquely terrifying about the idea of rasing a happy human while you are so sad yourself

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Had an INFURIATING transaction this evening. This lady came in to exchange 3 bras that were too small, which is no problem. She got measured for her actual size and picked out another bra, again, no problem, although she was upset that I wouldn’t reopen the fitting rooms for her. At first she wanted to try and reorder the bras, then no, then she did, but only one was available in her size. I started the order, price adjusted the item, and when I gave her the total, she asked, “why do I owe you anything?” “Ma’am, I gave you a refund, this is a separate transaction.” “But I returned three bras!” I tried to explain that she still had to pay for her web order, but after going back and forth and calculating everything in front of her and trying to make her understand that she has to pay for things, I cancelled the order, gave her the one bra she’d exchanged for, and told her to have a good night. My hands were shaking, I was so angry. They don’t call it Retail Hell for nothing, but sometimes I really wish I was allowed to call people stupid to their faces because HOLY FUCK that was a stupid interaction.

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I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

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Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.

Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.

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Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.

So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.

They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.

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Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.

So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.

auroranibley

It gets better.

Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.

Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.

And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.

Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.

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we joke about tumblr’s pjge (post john green era) but it is legitimately wild that a) a social media site allowed others to edit your posts for five years, and b) that we all agreed to use the honor system about it until mr. green arrived

roboco-san

fjsgskshsjgsi

bethne

if he’s not out of office by march i say we just rob him

roboco-san

why wait we know his KY address and we know he's not there

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teknikrevolt

56blogsstillcrazy

why chloe moretz eating spaghetti from wooden boxes?why everyone lookin in the camera??WHY SOME DUDE SUCKIN DICK???

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Why is her date using chop sticks

justcariii

Wtf is this lmao

zendayasauntiewig-blog

we’ve been having a full on debate about this picture at work and I’m so tired

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im like 90% certain the dude sucking dick is from a different picture so who put him there

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???????

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The funny thing is, those two are photoshopped into THAT picture as well

stebbyfrenchguy

where are they from send them home

tsunglasses

This is absurd because the original image is by far the most surreal one

theehorsepussie

The holy trinity

heritageposts

date of origin: 14th of april, 2016.

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f is for friends who do stuff together

u is for you and me

n is for nothing in the world could have ever prepared james potter for realising that peter had sentenced him, his wife, his baby to death. peter pettigrew, always a bumbling happy little boy, somewhat insecure, somewhat oddly placed between james and sirius, but nevertheless a true friend, a real brother. james loved him and would have gone to the ends of the earth to protect pete, would have died to save him if he were given no other choice. but peter, peter willingly left his best friend, wife and child to voldemort. nothing could have ever surpassed the weight of james’ heart as he realised, the last thoughts that raced through his mind as he fell to the floor. his trust had never faltered.

mymedlife

The Tuskegee experiment was a US govt. funded clinical study that withheld adequate treatment from a group of black men with syphilis for “research purposes.” Although originally projected to last 6 months, the study actually went on for 40 years.

To learn more: link.

We can do better.

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And if that doesn’t sound bad to you, read about tertiary syphilis and neurosyphilis. This is a horrible disease, and to subject people to syphilis when a treatment exists is a crime against humanity.

The scientific community has benefited greatly from the abuse of black people and black bodies. So much scientific research depended and depends on the proliferation of HeLa cells; a particularly durable line of human cancer cells that were taken from an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Her cells made it possible for Jonas Salk to test the polio vaccine. They were used for research that eventually progressed to what we know as the Human Genome Project. They literally sent her cells to space in the 1960s to see how human tissue would be affected by zero gravity. Meanwhile, Henrietta Lacks died at 31 from cervical cancer and was buried an unmarked grave. Her family was poor and did not know until the 70s the extraordinary (and highly profitable) research that had resulted from her mother’s cells.

You can read her story in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

sweetoothgirl

APPLE PIE WITH A PURPLE BLUEBERRY CRUST

lady-feral

Omg

higglety

Why is the lighting on this so dramatic? Is this an eldritch pie? Is it poisoned? Is it magic? If I eat it will I see visions of the future? Will I astrally project into a blueberry?

setheverman

don’t worry, you’re still in the “early life” part of your wikipedia page

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#this is the positive version of this post #it is friendly and brings luck

radiqueer

one fairly common experience of gifted children is wishing for pain. wishing you had some great big horrible thing in your past so that you can justify the pain you’re in, and so that you’ll deserve help. it’s exhausting and it fucks you up and to anyone out there who feels like they haven’t suffered enough to get help: you’re allowed to want help. you’re in enough pain. you deserve to feel better

rexieboii

holy shit yeah

sizvideos

Deadpool’s instructive video may save your testicles

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This is both entertaining and really important.

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Yo if you’ll reblog the boob campaign, you can damn well reblog Deadpool discussing bollocks.

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Deadpool is canonically riddled with cancer this is actually such an appropriate campaign

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sixthrock

Wait is this the same cat from that “my cat always looks like she just found out her husband died at sea” tweet??

IT IS

repmarktakano

This remarkable line of questioning from Congresswoman Suzan DelBene demonstrates just a few of the ways that the GOP tax plan treats corporations better than people.

Under the Republican plan, corporations are still allowed to deduct state and local taxes. Workers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct business expenses. Teachers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct more than $10,000 in property taxes. Homeowners are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct moving expenses. Families are not.

And this is on top of a $1.5 trillion corporate tax cut.

Let’s be clear, this is not a “middle-class tax cut.” Working families get the crumbs and the super-wealthy get everything else.