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[one-true-houselight]

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[covid-safer-hotties]

"Masking has been politicized" doesn't capture the full truth of what's going on.

Masks have been identified as the visual trigger for a problem, not the solution to multiple pressing public health issues.

To please right wing elements in the desperate hope of stealing *checks notes* fascist support for an openly fascist party, the center-right Democrats in the US with Joe Biden as their figurehead worked to downplay the continued necessity of masking even as studies on viral genetics find that vax-only methods for controlling covid cause more rapid and effective viral immune escape to become dominant, does little to actually prevent spread of the illness (especially in enclosed spaces), and has showed that doctors are willing to toe a political line instead of following scientific and medical best practices for halting the spread of a communicable disease which is still killing more Americans than breast and prostate cancer combined.

People who refuse to mask in public spaces, stay home when sick, use tests, or otherwise refuse to take covid seriously as a public health threat have shifted politically to the right.

People who mock and belittle those still taking precautions have adopted political positions identical to the "cough in my mouth" pandemic deniers of 2020 and are pushing full blown eugenics about who should be allowed to safely navigate public life.

"Has been" implies a past tense, an end to the pattern. Masking *contines* to be politicized. A public health tool has been narratively relegated to the bin of "public health tools that don't work" as it continues to be roped in with ideas like enforced distancing and face shields to prevent the spread of airborne illness.

Public health agencies refuse to take the scientifically confirmed threat of aerosols spread just by breathing seriously, pushing handwashing as the number one prevention for illnesses that can linger on poorly ventilated indoor air for dozens of minutes to dozens of hours given the right conditions.

This is a global effort to deny responsibility for a continuing crisis as covid continues to spread and long covid rates have skyrocketed, especially in children where the condition has surpassed asthma as the leading chronic illness in children. This is a failure by medicine to keep up with science and remain apolitical. This is a failure of public health to act in the defense of all. This is the normalization of fascist eugenics in daily life.

"Masks have been politicized" is trying to say ^ all of that ^

Mask up. Keep us safe. Keep you safe.

[moldavite]

hopefully i'll get to do something other than endure soon. that would be really nice

[wizardarchetypes]

let me tell you about having unrestricted internet access as a teenager and becoming ‘tumblr famous’ and not mentioning it to your mom simply because it didn’t seem important until a stranger asks for a photo in public in front of your mom. like oh yeah sorry mom by the way i’m really big among other insane teenagers holding on by a thread.

[wizardarchetypes]

my mom didn’t care but she started telling random adults i was “famous on the internet” and i never knew how to stand when she said that so i always struck a gay little pose

[wizardarchetypes]

next they’d ask for my “website” so they could check it out and my mom was like (with genuine support) “my understanding is we wouldn’t like it ♥️”

[phalaropus-lobatus]

you ever be listening to music and go “wait i like this song” like obviously dude it’s on your playlist

[wordfather]

i am not immune to a well choreographed fight scene with a fun song in the background

[oliviawhen]

A small harbinger of spring.

[accessible-art]

[ID from Alt: A painting of a red and white corgi holding a cherry blossom branch in a museum. They're standing in front of a big painting of a bare tree in winter. The color of everything but the corgi and branch is cool blue-grey. End ID]

[byjove]

Donald Trump desperately trying to initiate the Red Scare 2 but no one giving a fuck is hilarious to me. The GOP has already villainized and fearmongered about immigrants, transgender people, DEI hires, ANTIFA, etc. and introducing a new supervillain hiding amongst us just isn’t working. I wish there was a communism WAS the greatest threat to America.

[byjove]

During yesterday’s speech he said something to the tune of “The communists want to seize your house and give it to your neighbor.” which shows how out of touch he is, how advanced his dementia is and how the Red Scare tactics of the 1950s are not applicable to the 2020s because no one owns their house anymore and most of us would prefer our house being owned by our neighbor instead of our landlord.

[byjove]

The Red Scare tactics of the 1950s are sooooooooo outdated in today’s world. Saying shit like “Under communism, the government will assign you a job and you will not get to pick!” would make 85% of my generation be like “That sounds awesome, I’m so sick of AI job interviews, just got rejected for the job I applied for shoveling elephant shit at the zoo.”

[monstermoviedean]

truly no video game moment will ever surpass the part in portal 2 where glados says "well, this is the part where he kills us" and wheatley says "hello, this is the part where i kill you" and you unlock the achievement titled "the part where he kills you" (description: this is that part) and the chapter title appears on the screen and reads: chapter nine: the part where he kills you

[monstermoviedean]

truly no video game moment will ever surpass the part in portal 2 where glados says "well, this is the part where he kills us" and wheatley says "hello, this is the part where i kill you" and you unlock the achievement titled "the part where he kills you" (description: this is that part) and the chapter title appears on the screen and reads: chapter nine: the part where he kills you

[monstermoviedean]

truly no video game moment will ever surpass the part in portal 2 where glados says "well, this is the part where he kills us" and wheatley says "hello, this is the part where i kill you" and you unlock the achievement titled "the part where he kills you" (description: this is that part) and the chapter title appears on the screen and reads: chapter nine: the part where he kills you

[monstermoviedean]

truly no video game moment will ever surpass the part in portal 2 where glados says "well, this is the part where he kills us" and wheatley says "hello, this is the part where i kill you" and you unlock the achievement titled "the part where he kills you" (description: this is that part) and the chapter title appears on the screen and reads: chapter nine: the part where he kills you

[monstermoviedean]

truly no video game moment will ever surpass the part in portal 2 where glados says "well, this is the part where he kills us" and wheatley says "hello, this is the part where i kill you" and you unlock the achievement titled "the part where he kills you" (description: this is that part) and the chapter title appears on the screen and reads: chapter nine: the part where he kills you

[eraserheadadult]

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

[mal-studyblr]

hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

[shewalksonstars]

Learn from my mistakes

[eilooxara]

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

[one-true-houselight]

[id: three art pieces from the Portal franchise. First a PotatOs (a potato with GladOs in it). The second is Wheatley. The third is a plush companion cube. /end id]

Hi! I am selling these designs on some pins, keychains, and stickers! I also have a Wheatley with a cracked lens/eye. Check out my store!

LMK if you have questions, comments, advice, etc

I sell other stuff too :)