littlematchagirllll

free palestine 🇵🇸

[littlematchagirllll]

that white cop really saw a man set himself on fire, and decided the best course of action was to point a gun at him. even as the man lay on the ground, and other responding officers tried to put out the fire, the cop kept a gun trained on the man. truly a diseased way of viewing other people and the world. guns are just the solution to everything for them

[littlematchagirllll]

i understand aaron bushnell. the feeling that drove him to that point, i feel it too.

[littlematchagirllll]

omg... sometimes i'm jealous of the fantasy land that liberals like this live in.

[fullyarmoredbattlesturgeon]

[feminist-space]

World Health Organization

MEDIA ADVISORY

NEW: COVID19 variant of interest JN.1

Geneva, 19 December 2023 -- Due to its rapidly increasing spread, WHO is classifying the variant JN.1 as a separate variant of interest (VOl) from the parent lineage BA.2.86. It was previously classified as VOl as part of BA.2.86 sublineages.

WHO advises people to take measures to prevent infections and severe disease using all available tools. These include:

-Wear a mask when in crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated areas, and keep a safe distance from others, as feasible

-Improve ventilation

-Practise respiratory etiquette - covering coughs and sneezes

-Clean your hands regularly

-Stay up to date with vaccinations against COVID-19 and influenza, especially if you are at high risk for severe disease

-Stay home if you are sick

-Get tested if you have symptoms, or if you might have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 or influenza

For health workers and health facilities, WHO advises:

-Universal masking in health facilities, as well as appropriate masking, respirators and other PPE for health workers caring for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients.

-Improve ventilation in health facilities

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[fittingoutjane]

The WHO just advised universal masking in health facilities. This is a big change and should be front-page news everywhere! Bring it to the attention of everyone!

[nymph1e]

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

[transgeoffrickly-deactivated202]

every time someone talks about someone "faking disability to live on welfare" or anything to that effect i think about how my mom worked in law and directly knew of a case of a guy who had terminal brain cancer with an estimated few months to live and got rejected the first time he applied for disability income. like, he was 100% going to die and that wasn't disabled enough to not have to jump through a million hoops and get lawyers involved. non-disabled people "living off of welfare" is such a non issue because i cannot bring myself to care about the like, 3 people who maybe successfully do it compared to the thousands of people rejected who need aid

[steakplissken]

Ronald Reagan successfully campaigned on the idea of Welfare Queens: poor, non-white (although that was just implied by their names and locations. Cant be too obvious!) women who were milking America's postwar social service system by having a bunch of kids (so child support), getting Disability, Unemployment, and Food Stamps from Decent Hardworking Probably White Americans but then spending their cash on furs and cars and houses.

We've never recovered. The idea of fraud in welfare is so insanely prevalent that it's almost impossible to get any welfare in the first place, and the abuse generally happens from administrators or employees, not recipients.

[sephirajo]

When I applied for ssdi and got my court hearing they were literally trying to claim I faked my blood tests. (Luckily the judge didn't buy it. I still read her judgment from time to time.) They tried to say I could still work despite more pages of evidence signed by my doctor than make up war and peace. And all of that and I get 1300 a month. And only that much because of my son.

This program is meant to kill you quietly away from where the public might see your corpse.

[arctic-hands]

Yeah when I had my SSI hearing (by phone in my lawyer's office during lockdown), they had some "expert" who had never interacted with me and that I didn't even know existed until then, whose only importance was that he was trying to discredit me and list the jobs he, whom had never even spoken to me before, thought I could do instead of getting SSI.

The absolutely funny thing is that his only recommendation was "laundry folder" and I can only believe that the judge was also thinking "where the fuck can someone work as a laundry folder without having to carry heavy laundry baskets around on a jacked spine and frail knees?"

It worked out in my case but it's seriously fucked up that the process includes a complete stranger who only exists in this situation to prove you're a faker and conning the system out of *checks paperwork* a whopping nine hundred and fourteen dollars a month.

[littlematchagirllll]

i have never seen public opinion on a politician completely flip as fast as it has for john fetterman. his stance on israel has single-handed killed any likability that endeared him to left-leaning voters

[littlematchagirllll]

everyone around me is acting completely normal. my roommate wouldn't have even known about what is happening is gaza if i hasn't told her anything. people in my classes at university continue like it is business as usual. i am an international relations major for god's sake, and i have not heard israel or palestine mentioned in any of my classes. one kid in my biology class said he didn't even know anything was happening "in israel" until this week. no one talks about what is happening.

i am watching a genocide happen in real time. i feel like screaming and crying and fighting. i am full of anger and rage and grief over what is happening to the palestinian people. they are being murdered. every video i see is harrowing. there are not even words to describe the destruction. men, women, children, families being slaughtered. they are begging us to listen, begging to have their voices live on.

and the people around me are continuing on like nothing is happening. they are looking the other way. they ignore a genocide because it isn't convenient. god may forgive them, but i never will.

all my prayers for the people of palestine.

[ladyshinga]

[albertserra]

It’s giving “let’s make up some info about aliens to distract people while we commit war crimes” or perhaps some other awful action around the climate

[littlematchagirllll]

[boypussydilf]

this, btw, is a major oversimplification & exaggeration of what happened

what we have is testimony from a few former military officers with claims about interactions with ufos & finding non-human biological material (which also is me simplifying it a bunch, you can literally just look up “us congressional hearings” or whatever phrasing you like and read about it yourself)

this is not the same as “alien life has officially been confirmed”

[littlematchagirllll]

i just wanted to make a silly meme about what was going on, but i wanted to reblog this to add context

[littlematchagirllll]

[depsidase]

[unhinged-jackles]

source

A target letter is a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice or a federal prosecutor that you are the target of a criminal investigation

Jack Smith is Special Counsel for the US Department of Justice

[keeperofseeds]

"writers deserve attention more than actors" literally only 2% of actors can pay the bills with acting. For every megastar on screen there are a dozen other people in the shot who are SAG. Acting gets so glamorized but there are SO MANY people in SAG who NEED residuals to live on. Background Party Girl #4 needs her check too!!!! There are people who play recurring characters on syndicated shows who cant afford health insurance!!! Ke Huy Quan gave an oscar winning performance and LOST HIS HEALTH INSURANCE the next year.

[animentality]