Terminally ill (possible cure on the horizon), I don't enjoy ask/tag games sorry, Peacenik Zionist, I have zero tolerance for anti-arab posts and you will catch a block... I probably come across as argumentative, I'm just very direct. If we're mutuals and you think I've overstepped but don't want to say publicly, DM me (I'll hear you out without confrontation, just be polite)
Header Nivrah Bein HaShmashot flag by @yell-hound and approximation of myself with picrew.me/KZ's_dolls
Boundaries:
I block/report scammers and business solicitation in my DM's, replies and ask box, even given the benefit of the doubt I don't know you.
Porn posts should always have a linked attribution, we should know who's body that is and for sex workers how to buy their content. In this house we respect sex workers as sole trader business people.
Varda, age 30+, Sephardic Jew in 🇦🇺, intersex, gender: אנדרוגינוס or genderfluid (maybe idfk) for simplicity, any pronouns, autistic, terminally ill (with a possible cure on the horizon), incest survivor, PTSD, pacifist, sex work decrim and sex workers rights advocate... Sometimes NSFW/horny on main.
🇮🇱Israel has a right and mandate to exist, 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Ukraine is European, 🇦🇲 Artsakh is Armenia, 🇮🇱🕊️🇵🇸 peace is worth striving for, I support a two state solution, 🎗️🎗️🎗️ we brought them home.
NIF works for equality, justice, and peace for all people who call Israel home. The only future is a shared one.
Donate to <U24 The Initiative Of The President Of Ukraine> to support the people of Ukraine.
Donate to <ANERA> to support people in Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Donate to <UNHCR Rohingya Crisis> to support Rohingya refugees.
Donate to <Khartoum Aid Kitchen> to help save lives in Sudan.
If you would like to help me save the money to replace my roof, the sheet metal is rusting through and I can only patch the leaks for so long... I will be eternally grateful 🐱
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More about my disease and other miscellaneous stuff below the cut.
Here's the Wikipedia for my disease...
I'm not going to die immediately. I can apparently expect at least two or three years (18-30 months from the 1st of March 2025, and my more recent treatment schedule promises more, though the testing is limited)
but I hope to beat the odds and it's possible that if a couple of really exceptional recent cases are harbingers of a trend that I could have twenty years or possibly even more with new treatment plans or advances in medicine.
A hopeful indication that I might have more than the 2-3 years indicated to me with my diagnosis, a long term survival patient in Japan.
Marburg type multiple sclerosis (MS) is diagnosed with its “acute and fulminant” clinical course. Case reports of “Marburg MS” include varie
A possible future cure, but only one successful test case at present and not specifically in my disease.
This single-patient case report expands the indications in which CD19 CAR-T cell therapy
demonstrates unprecedented clinical efficacy, achie
Putting the Jewish Values and Disability Rights link here just because
This book, created by the Jewish Funders Network, grounds disability rights in Jewish values.
Putting the Jewish Language Project link here just because
An introduction to Jewish languages around the world, past and present, including longstanding ones, like Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Yiddish,
Pictures of the little treats and luxuries your gifts have have bought me 💓💓💓
^chopsticks are colour coded for meat and milk, TV from donations for home hospice comfort items
The Gemara asks: Is it so that one is always punished for his ancestors’ transgressions? Isn’t it written: “He visits iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and fourth generations” (Exodus 34:7). And it is written elsewhere: “Fathers shall not die for their children, and children shall not be put to death for the fathers; every man shall die for his own transgression” (Deuteronomy 24:16). And the Gemara raises a contradiction between the two verses. The Gemara resolves the contradiction: This is not difficult. This verse from Exodus, which states that God punishes descendants for the transgressions of their ancestors, refers to a case where they adopt the actions of their ancestors as their own. While this verse from Deuteronomy, which states that descendants are not punished for the actions of their ancestors, refers to a case where they do not adopt the actions of their ancestors as their own, as it is stated: “I visit iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and fourth generations of my enemies” (Exodus 20:5).
Brachot 7a.26-27
You’re punishing people for having the wrong ancestors. That’s dick behavior, and it’s not our way.
Measles killed Rebecca Archer's daughter Renae slowly and silently over a decade. She has a message for the growing number of parents hesita
This girl was killed by measles 10 years after she contracted the disease too young for the vaccine, because measles is an evil disease that we fought to eradicate from our communities with the vaccine for a reason.
Article below the cut
When Rebecca Archer's five-month-old daughter Renae got a temperature, turned pale and struggled to breathe, she called an ambulance.
They were taken to hospital straight away, where Renae was diagnosed with measles. The next day they were discharged and Renae went home with a drip.
They isolated for a week and Renae fully recovered. That was in 2013 and there was a measles outbreak in their neighbourhood near Manchester in England's north-west.
Vaccine uptake had dropped and cases were spreading fast among infants because they are not usually vaccinated against the virus until they turn one.
Rebecca wanted to vaccinate her child, but she was too young. Now, with some preventable diseases on the rise again in Britain, Australia — where diphtheria has broken out — the United States and other countries, Rebecca has a warning for other parents: your child could die without a jab.
When Renae got sick, it did not take long for her to recover. Rebecca did not think much more of it.
What she did not know at the time was that measles can cause life-threatening complications, some of which can take years to surface.
For the next decade, Rebecca says Renae developed normally. She said her "kind" and "bubbly" daughter excelled at school and made people laugh.
But the measles virus she had contracted as a baby stayed in her body. It was silently replicating in her brain, with deadly consequences.
"In the July before her 11th birthday, I got a call from the school to say she'd had a seizure," Rebecca said.
That was the first sign that something was wrong. Doctors thought it was epilepsy and referred her to a specialist clinic.
"She kept complaining of a headache and the kids being too loud around her … then the following week she had another seizure," Rebecca said.
The seizures continued and her behaviour was changing, becoming increasingly uncharacteristic.
She started snapping at her brothers and sisters, needed help showering and was hallucinating. For two months, Renae was in and out of hospital, but doctors were stumped.
"She was just getting weaker. She was struggling to keep her eyes open; she slowly stopped eating," Rebecca said.
"She was in ICU for around a week. She had a breathing tube and she was no longer talking."
An MRI showed swelling on her brain, which worsened within a week. But it was not until days before her death in September 2023, that doctors finally worked out that Renae had subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE).
The disease is a rare but progressive — and fatal — complication of measles and usually takes seven-to-10 years to produce symptoms.
The answer came after a lumbar puncture and blood tests showed the measles virus was still in her body.
Heavily pregnant with her third child, doctors told Rebecca and the family they had to think about turning off Renae's life support.
She had a C-section the next day then returned to Renae's bedside as she slowly slipped away.
"She was struggling and was distressed. I think that was the worst part," Rebecca said. "I was sat in the room thinking I just want her to be at peace.
While this is a rare complication of measles, many others are much more common and severe in young children.
Of those who contract the virus, a fifth of children will be hospitalised, one in 20 will get pneumonia, which is the leading cause of death, while one in 10 will develop an ear infection that can lead to permanent hearing loss.
'Vaccines a victim of their own success'
The UK is again in the throes of another measles outbreak with vaccination rates dropping every year since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken away Britain's "elimination status", which means the virus is now spreading locally.
As a consultant epidemiologist at the UK's Health Security Agency, Vanessa Saliba has been at the forefront of the measles resurgence in the country.
She said most of the cases were unvaccinated children under the age of 10.
"What we have seen in the UK over the last decade is a year-on-year decline in uptake for our routine childhood immunisation programme," Dr Saliba said.
She described measles as the "canary in the coal mine" because when vaccination rates fall it returns with a vengeance, given its contagious nature.
"It will show up when your vaccine uptake rates fall, even if it's a small decline, and it will show you the communities and populations that are not protected by the vaccination," Dr Saliba said.
"The drivers for the fall in uptake are complex and multiple, and the evidence suggests that one of the most important drivers for that fall and uptake is actually access to health services and access to information about immunisation."
Turning around the downward trend and regaining Britain's measles-free status, Ms Saliba said, would take years of public health work rebuilding trust in the community and improving access to vaccines.
The government has now reduced the age for the second dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to 18 months to ramp up protection for young children.
The United States is on a similar path to the UK, with its worst measles outbreak in decades last year resulting in the deaths of two young, unvaccinated schoolgirls.
Professor Margie Danchin, from Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, says the same trend is playing out in Australia, which now has the lowest measles vaccination coverage for children in a decade.
"This is now a serious threat in Australia; we don't want to see a death of a child or adult in Australia like we've seen in the US," she said.
The federal government's Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) shows under-vaccination hot spots in northern NSW, the Gold Coast and parts of WA, with pockets in Melbourne and Sydney.
Since the 1970s, Australia has had a nationally funded vaccination program for measles.
Over four decades of public health messaging, the country finally eliminated the virus and gained measles-free status from the WHO in 2014.
But Professor Danchin said that, with recent research showing vaccine hesitancy and misinformation on the rise, those decades of work were being undone.
"The main barriers were loss of trust in the information that was provided by their doctor or nurse and concerns about vaccine safety," Professor Danchin said.
"In terms of access last year, it was mainly parents not being able to afford the costs associated with vaccination but also, concerningly in Australia, not being able to get an appointment with a GP," she said.
Low measles vaccination rates are alarming for paediatricians like Professor Danchin and other public health experts and the AIR shows numbers are down for many diseases.
"Vaccines are really a victim of their own success. We've seen and enjoyed such low rates of vaccine-preventable diseases like the measles … and now we're seeing whooping cough, flu, diphtheria, measles cases coming back," Professor Danchin said.
"As a paediatrician of 30 years, I had never seen a case of diphtheria and yet now in Australia we have 267 cases of diphtheria already."
Australia recorded its first diphtheria death in almost a decade last month as cases climbed to their highest level since a major outbreak in 1991.
Meanwhile Rebecca Archer knows nothing will bring her daughter Renae back, but she remains determined to make sure other families don't suffer the same pain.
"[I'm] just angry, really, and sad that parents don't understand they're putting their children in a potential life-threatening situation," she said.
"She was my best friend. She was my first-born. She just had the most infectious smile. And she made everyone around her happy."
There's got to be some tight pussied tboy twink out there who refers to himself as "the bear trap" and thinks he's the funniest motherfucker in the world
So my friend is facing homelessness but was quite pessimistic that she could make up $2500. She thinks it would be, and I quote "immoral to take people's money" because the debt is unpaid bills, rent, and late fees.
Obviously I disagree with that assessment. She's been seriously depressed, anxious, injured (I said hospitalised but she didn't go for fear of the expense, she probably needed it though) after a suicide attempt though she says she actually wasn't trying to kill herself when she walked into traffic out of work from burnout... And more.
However I think that while we might not be able to immediately fix the homelessness issue, we can prevent the debt issue from spiralling into a bigger problem.
If you would like to help, I will pass on any donations directly to her, and I will tag her if I can wrangle permission out of her.
Permission Wrangled... @sufficient-tenacity, she's in a bit of a self sabotage thought loop. So please tell her here that she is deserving of help, and @sufficient-tenacity you're going to take it and not try to convince people that actually it's wasted on you. You deserve good things.
paypal.me/vardacassr
As is Tumblr law, ignore the dead name on my PayPal if you open it
Hey, I'm the friend, I know my account probably has less reach, but Varda is being so incredibly kind to me by doing this.
To tell more of the story, I was severely underemployed throughout most of 2025 and ended up underwater with rent and utility bills. In early 2026 I vacated my rental and moved in with my girlfriend. Shortly thereafter I landed a full time job that was really great until my brain decided to shit the bed on me. When my mental health flared up in February, I lost my job after walking into traffic for the second time in a week. The plan was for me to take the time I needed to get back on my feet for good. I've unfortunately only just recently restarted therapy and gotten medicated again, and I've remained out of work because I'm winding up in death spirals on a pretty regular basis and I don't want a repeat of February. Donating here would improve the chances (though I should clarify, it by no means guarantees) that I am able to remain with her and focusing on improving my mental health instead of having to start back at square one with guaranteeing my continued survival. Maslow's hierarchy and all that jazz.
I don't know if stupid pearl clutchers know this, but the largest cohort of people who need diapers/nappies, has traditionally been babies, and it is a long established norm to put images of the target customer demographic on the packaging.
If people can't detach their sexualisation of continence aids from the children (and adults) that need them, that's their problem and actually they are the one who needs to stop projecting their sexualisation of children on diaper packaging as something the rest of us need to care about.
I mean, regardless it's a baby... My niece is 4 and runs around in her underwear all the time, especially when it's hot, I think I would be right to say "what the fuck is wrong with you, please move far away from the child" if someone said it was a sexually explicit to be acting like a 4 year old.
When I have (as discussion not instruction) brought up the amount of fabric my child wears outside with them, their response to the potential of being viewed as dressing innapropriately for their age is to scream at anyone making that suggestion "STOP SEXUALISING MY BODY I'M A CHILD YOU FUCKING NONCE"
Anyway I think they're on the right track and we should perhaps normalise that towards anyone causing a fuss over the amount of coverage on an age group known to prefer running round in the buff.
It is debated that the word may come from the word "nance" meaning an effeminate man ( and probably also trans woman), this became Nancy and Nancy boy, while Nonce already existed as criminal slang, and both Nonce as Paedophile (colloquial British) and as good-for-nothing/useless (criminal slang) are possibly a broader use of the preexisting Lincolnshire word of the same pronunciation meaning "good-for-nothing". We don't actually know the origin of the word nonce despite the Oxford dictionary confidently asserting the Nance origin for decades, which I think is more indicative of the queerphobia in British academia over the decades than proof of etymology.
That said, Nonce isn't a word that I personally use, it's not a term that is widely used in Australia and I tend to prefer to be specific with my language.
What's extremely "funny" (as in once almost caused a very nasty misunderstanding with my UK counterpart at work) is that not only does the US not have that term, we have conserved the older unrelated word "nonce" for temporariness - "for the nonce" and its children in mathematics and related fields.
Yeah that would do it 😂, there are a lot of uses of the word Nonce in the academic sense, as in "nonce words" in literature and "cryptographic nonce" in cryptographic mathematics, or phrases like "for the Nonce" as in for the singular person (accolade).
However these do seem unlikely to be related to the colloquial use in British slang today.
this is an incredibly awful take what???? obviously if they don't feel bad about it then yeah but almost everyone has had ancestors that have done terrible things to people. especially in the us which is where most gerim do their conversions
All of Western Civilisation has been doing awful shit to Jews, including slaughtering Jewish communities for more than 2000 years. IMO no descendant of a person who was complicit in the holocaust needs to feel uniquely responsible for the evils of their forebears, any more than any Spaniard needs to feel uniquely responsible for the Spanish Inquisition or deportations and forced conversions of the Alhambra Decree.
They like everyone alive need to get their shit together and join the work getting a hold of societal and personal Antisemitism.
But the actions of their ancestors aren't a reason why they should be denied the opportunity to learn and convert.
Call me mad, but I am 100% certain that the lettuce contained the parasites before it ever arrived at taco bell. Also the same lettuce is definitely being sent to KFC and Subway. It is however useful because from what I see Americans already like to joke about Taco Bell giving them gastric distress, so it's a guaranteed headliner.
I see a law suit from the Taco Bell parent company in the future for the damages incurred by singling them out like this.
I don't know if stupid pearl clutchers know this, but the largest cohort of people who need diapers/nappies, has traditionally been babies, and it is a long established norm to put images of the target customer demographic on the packaging.
If people can't detach their sexualisation of continence aids from the children (and adults) that need them, that's their problem and actually they are the one who needs to stop projecting their sexualisation of children on diaper packaging as something the rest of us need to care about.
I mean, regardless it's a baby... My niece is 4 and runs around in her underwear all the time, especially when it's hot, I think I would be right to say "what the fuck is wrong with you, please move far away from the child" if someone said it was a sexually explicit to be acting like a 4 year old.
When I have (as discussion not instruction) brought up the amount of fabric my child wears outside with them, their response to the potential of being viewed as dressing innapropriately for their age is to scream at anyone making that suggestion "STOP SEXUALISING MY BODY I'M A CHILD YOU FUCKING NONCE"
Anyway I think they're on the right track and we should perhaps normalise that towards anyone causing a fuss over the amount of coverage on an age group known to prefer running round in the buff.
It is debated that the word may come from the word "nance" meaning an effeminate man ( and probably also trans woman), this became Nancy and Nancy boy, while Nonce already existed as criminal slang, and both Nonce as Paedophile (colloquial British) and as good-for-nothing/useless (criminal slang) are possibly a broader use of the preexisting Lincolnshire word of the same pronunciation meaning "good-for-nothing". We don't actually know the origin of the word nonce despite the Oxford dictionary confidently asserting the Nance origin for decades, which I think is more indicative of the queerphobia in British academia over the decades than proof of etymology.
That said, Nonce isn't a word that I personally use, it's not a term that is widely used in Australia and I tend to prefer to be specific with my language.
