[dilf-phoenix-rights]

Casts spell called “please be alright. I love you.”

[fursasaida]

adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline

[justshareefastuff]

7 Reasons you might be procrastinating and how to solve them:

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Helps on 1,193 days- thank you

[triplesuns]

Thank god I saved this from gayporntattoos before it got deleted

[alnitaks]

juliaedwardsmakeup

[annina98]

[cheese24k]

[clambistro-deactivated20161211]

Ahh, it’s back

[julierthanyou]

i have disproportionately strong feelings about this.

[panvani]

Inside I'm Hollow: Political Lesbianism and Utena

After the sexual revolution, who gets left behind? (An analysis of Beauvoir, Ikeda, and that one Doechii article.)

This idea that attraction and happiness are intangible and easily obscured is one that is articulated in practically every female character of Utena, because Utena is willing to address what both Beauvoir and Ikeda were reluctant to acknowledge: patriarchy does not care whether a woman wants it or not. The girls of Utena are each dragged into the patriarchal apparatus, some joyfully, some kicking and screaming, but the outcome is always the same.

[roundhouz]

I have a habit of riding something out long past due n having someone else do the hard work of broaching the subject for me which is cowardly to say the least I think I’d rather voice every bad thought/hunch I have than do that again

[roundhouz]

Also I know I have issues but it’s super embarrassing watching someone try to let you down gently after you know feelings have passed …… bitch I won’t shatter let me move on

[roundhouz]

I have a habit of riding something out long past due n having someone else do the hard work of broaching the subject for me which is cowardly to say the least I think I’d rather voice every bad thought/hunch I have than do that again

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

The ancient crypts beneath St. Michan's Church in Dublin, Ireland

[mindflamer]

honest to god we've got to start naming the elderly as a vulnerable group & calling their disabilities, disabilities. we sugarcoat and distance these things by only calling them "elderly," "old & frail," etc. most of them are disabled.

too many people completely separate disability from themselves in their mind. it's something that happens to other people. other sad people i don't want to think about. are they really even people, it's too much to bear thinking about that happening to a person... those background characters over there. it would never be me, i can't cope with thinking about that possibility.

this mass denialism of the fragility of the human body (YOUR human body) has created a whole category separate from the disabled - the "elderly." since anyone can join it if they live long enough.. no they can't be disabled. that's scary, and worse it's political. so they are just "old." so what they lost their hearing, their mobility, their heart function? that's just how it goes for old people. as if that's not a person as real as you. as if you wouldn't be devastated if that happened to you today (and it can btw). as if you won't be when it's your turn to be old, and disabled.

simultaneously the disabled are dehumanized as not people, and the elderly are dehumanized as not disabled. so the illusion of disability as separate can be upheld.

[artsekey]

Listen to me. I. Will die. On this hill.

My grandparents lived to 98 and 103. Read that again— 98 and 103. My grandmother died 5 months ago and was born in 1923.

She was extremely wealthy. My grandfather left her millions. She paid about 13,000 a month for her care.

And her nurses abused her. She could do nothing. She could not speak for herself, feed herself, clothe herself, and the humiliation they made her endure was disgusting. When she tried to express discomfort, they gave her drugs to “keep her calm” (keep their shift easy). We fought like HELL to hold that fucking place accountable. The only reason we were aware is because we hired a private nurse on her behalf, too.

The elderly are a massive, extremely vulnerable, and disabled group. You cannot leave them out of your advocacy, you cannot leave them out of the conversation. “They’re loud, they smell, they’re opinionated, they’re rude, they make me uncomfortable”. I don’t care. I don’t care! They need your advocacy too! I want you to think, if my grandmother— who was in the best retirement home she could afford, with a personally hired third-party nurse to step in where the other carers failed, had such abhorrent care… what about everyone else? What about all the elderly who don’t have a support system?

Don’t leave them out.

[milfsisyphus]

easier for the owner of LED headlights to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.

[edwincarrasco]

[capacity2]

Is it really that serious

[coughloop]

Just watched a bug give up and die

[segamascott]

[covid-safer-hotties]

Impact of vaccination on Omicron's escape variants: Insights from fine-scale modelling of waning immunity in Hong Kong

COVID-19 vaccine-induced protection declines over time. This waning of immunity has been described in modelling as a lower level of protecti

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Vaccination does lower case counts in hospitals, but it also helps to fuel new variant's immune escape if not paired with preventative measures like masking and air filtration.

Abstract COVID-19 vaccine-induced protection declines over time. This waning of immunity has been described in modelling as a lower level of protection. This study incorporated fine-scale vaccine waning into modelling to predict the next surge of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In Hong Kong, the Omicron subvariant BA.2 caused a significant epidemic wave between February and April 2022, which triggered high vaccination rates. About half a year later, a second outbreak, dominated by a combination of BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, began to spread. We developed mathematical equations to formulate continuous changes in vaccine boosting and waning based on empirical serological data. These equations were incorporated into a multi-strain discrete-time Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed model. The daily number of reported cases during the first Omicron outbreak, with daily vaccination rates, the population mobility index and daily average temperature, were used to train the model. The model successfully predicted the size and timing of the second surge and the variant replacement by BA.4/5. It estimated 655,893 cumulative reported cases from June 1, 2022 to 31 October 2022, which was only 2.69% fewer than the observed cumulative number of 674,008. The model projected that increased vaccine protection (by larger vaccine coverage or no vaccine waning) would reduce the size of the second surge of BA.2 infections substantially but would allow more subsequent BA.4/5 infections. Increased vaccine coverage or greater vaccine protection can reduce the infection rate during certain periods when the immune-escape variants co-circulate; however, new immune-escape variants spread more by out-competing the previous strain.