Alexander the fake

[the-uncanny-dag]

[gabe-dasha]

It's been almost 48 hours. I have processed the finale. I'm past my grievances. I've ran out of the conventional stages of grief and I'm currently on the secret 6th one. It's time for memes

[insomniac-arrest]

you can say this for Steven Universe, it was a wellspring of femme blorbos that people chewed on like dogs guarding their toys

[komorebigold]

Uhhh. How'd that happen?

[More Comics]

[quixoticclown]

Don't know how many Irish followers I have especially after the explosion from Tywinposting but I'm debuting a new show in February as part of the Scene and Heard Festival in Smock Alley, Dublin. The show is about my diagnosis with Ulcerative Colitis and the grieving process associated with chronic illness. Also there's a burlesque dancing segment if that intrigues you.

[hope-for-the-planet]

First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat

From the article:

“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.

[doctorprofessorsong]

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

[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 if 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.

[animentality]

[paladinwhatsit]

conformitygate has breached the wwe premises

im laughing so hard

[covid-safer-hotties]

[soguwoad]

halfway through the game, experience so far💀💀💀

[covid-safer-hotties]

[shaveyoureyebrows]

THIS IS INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE THAT CAN BE USED TO DESTROY ANY INDIVIDUAL IN COURT. USE THIS IN YOUR NEXT COURT CASE TO INSTANTLY CONDEMN YOUR OPPONENT (item removed from inventory upon use)

also I stole the artstyle from @bubbleverseart and I don't feel bad about it lmaoooo

[covid-safer-hotties]

[quixoticclown]

Wrote a new blog post about autistic burnout and the workplace.

https://open.substack.com/pub/autisticlicense/p/autistic-burnout-why-the-pain?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=trw9f

[quixoticclown]

Not now kitten. Daddy's overstimulated.

[ID: Image of man in oodie and glasses from a deeply unflattering angle / end ID]