skorpione

he/him ☆ my art

[skorpionegrass]

hello! i go by skorpione (skorpi), rein or rain !! he/him but idrc

i’m not very diligent with tagging stuff so browse with caution and ask me if you need something tagged

common tags: my art | textposts | reblogged art

my carrd! please read before asking any questions!

i do commissions on ko-fi and VGen! (currently on hold)

[skorpionegrass]

the piece i made for My Little Fanzine (which you can read here!)

[dumpster2001]

Winx Club 💫

[calibratedgallow]

happy portal/team fortress 2/my little pony friendship is magic/ fallout day

[katagawajr]

https://www.supportlrc.app/

here’s the link for the lebanese red cross ^^ any donation helps

[bluesturngold]

if the .app URL makes you hesitant since it's a nonstandard top level domain, pressing the donate button there redirects to: https://donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/lb/supportLRC/~my-donation

redcrossredcrescent.org is one of the official domains used by the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies, and various red cross/red crescent organizations globally make use of the international federation's fundraising tool rather than hosting their own (a relatively recent example is the red cross in ukraine while they were responding to the impact of the russia conflict)

just wanted to let you know you can donate in confidence!

[sca-nerd]

My friends who have never experienced flooding, and who are about to deal with it from this storm, please remember:

1. NO. YOU CANNOT MAKE IT THROUGH THAT WATER ON THE ROAD. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'RE DRIVING. TURN. AROUND.

2. DO NOT GO WADING THROUGH THE WATER. EVEN IF YOU JUST WANT TO SEE HOW DEEP IT IS. THAT. WATER. IS. CONTAMINATED.

3. IT IS CALLED FLASH FLOODING FOR A REASON. THE WATER RISES AND SURGES IN A FLASH. STAY. HOME.

4. If you're at risk of flooding, raise up any of your belongings now. Put the legs of tall things in buckets. Know where your important documents are.

5. Stay safe.

[systlin]

Don't EVER EVER FUCKING EVER drive through flood water. NEVER. I don't CARE if you think you can make it. I don't CARE if you think you know the road.

ROADS WASH OUT FLOODWATER IS DEEPER THAN IT LOOKS. Don't drive through it! Never!

[thewordsofdw-deactivated2024110]

Bernie Sanders preparing resolutions to block $20B in US arms sales to Israel

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing a series of Senate resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel.

[airoehead]

call your senators urging them to vote in support of this resolution! especially if they're democrats! urge them in your own words about how much this matters to you. if you want to go even further about it, threaten to withhold your vote in the election unless an arms embargo denouncing Israel is made!

[chromaticabrasions]

also u can rb art with characters u don’t know. btw. i see lots of art with ocs or obscure characters not get appreciated cuz ppl don’t know the characters. u don’t have to go there to reblog the art 🫶

[coffinvows]

hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man

[coffinvows]

some of you drive me insane. i am not speaking about the usa or the state

i feel like i have the right to be very upset at the people who after reading this blatantly ignore me mentioning georgia as my country, with the flag and assume it's the state. please educate yourself you are making yourself look deeply ignorant this is very upsetting and frustrating. fucks sake

[iheartvelma]

To be fair most Americans don’t know what their own state flag is, much less any of the others, so the fact that some people wouldn’t recognize 🇬🇪 as Georgia is sadly understandable. You have to be a bit more verbally explicit and say “the former Soviet republic” or something.

For the record, this is the flag of Georgia, the US state, which, surprisingly, is a take on the Confederate States stars-and-bars flag.

Its previous one incorporated the Confederate battle flag (aka the Dukes of Hazzard / KKK-associated one).

Georgia, the country, has the “five-cross” flag, adapted from the banner of the medieval Kingdom of Georgia (12th century).

Also, Georgia, the country, is here. It’s a mountainous land located between Russia to the north, and Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan to the south.

[hollow-keys]

Oh my fucking god can Americans just fess up and say "My bad" rather than telling a queer person from a non-western nation that they have to keep the US American audience in mind and cater to their colossal ignorance by identifying themselves with their forner colonizer, the fucking Soviet Union, while mourning the massive and total loss of what rights they had and the immediate murder of a high profile trans person? Why don't you go tell Americans from Georgia (the state) to clarify that they mean the state instead? Or better yet, go fuck yourself.

[trapny]

I think it was just meant to be an explanation of why people are confused?

Idk man I think the ignorance might be a product of our environment and not a personal failing that we should be shamed for.

[unofficial-estonia]

how would YOU like it if we started calling US the former colony of the UK?

ignorance can be overcome. admitting you are wrong is not a failure of the character.

[melgillman]

A four page comic about drawing, drawn for the Portland Public Library's newest exhibit, "Why We Make Comics: Reflections on Storytelling".

If you live in Portland ME, you can see this comic, as well as three others drawn by Isabella Rotman, Caroline Hu, and Liz Prince, on display from October 6th to December 31 at the library!

[psychotic-gerard]

trump makes a blatantly lying comment about how haitian immigrants are eating “pets” and the white left is frothing at the mouth to turn it into a “hahaha funny meme”, without thinking of the horrific implications that a statement stating black people are coming to eat [inferred: white] people’s pets went unchallenged and is now actively being spread as a “joke”.

[psychotic-gerard]

like if you film your dog or whatever and go hahahahah a haitian is gonna eat you i should be allowed to kill you without consequences

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Never Forget the Reign of Terror waged against Muslims (and by extension, Sikhs profiled as being Muslim) in the nearly two decades following 9/11.

[nokiabae]

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

[sleepy-milkbread]

I’m in the last 47.33% 

I shouldn’t have taken that test

[pearlnareff]

[fluorescentbrains]

empathy gets treated as this universally positive thing but we forget that empathy often equals pain, and pain often activates fight or flight behaviors. a lot of my most asshole moments as a person were motivated by a twinge of empathy that was too painful to engage with in that moment, so i became aggressive and mean, NOT compassionate and helpful

[fluorescentbrains]

“knowing someone else is in pain, is painful. therefore, the person who is in pain is hurting me. i have to defend myself against the person who is in pain” <- a more common line of emotional reasoning than you might think

[fluorescentbrains]

this is also why showing people shocking and graphic videos of children dying can sometimes have the complete opposite effect from what you intended.

[ayeforscotland]

This is absolutely catastrophic.

[bingusthefourth]

Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs

Sign the Petition

Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the Publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive:

Internet Archive has created a petition/letter to publishers asking to restore access to everything (500,00 items) removed from the library. Please sign it.

[metamatar-deactivated20250401]

i hate us copyright for policies ruining the internet

[thoughtportal]

Opinion Here’s how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need it

When the public health emergency around covid-19 ended, vaccines and treatments became commercial products, meaning companies could charge for them as they do other pharmaceuticals. Paxlovid, the highly effective antiviral pill that can prevent covid from becoming severe, now has a list price of nearly $1,400 for a five-day treatment course.

Thanks to an innovative agreement between the Biden administration and the drug’s manufacturer, Pfizer, Americans can still access the medication free or at very low cost through a program called Paxcess. The problem is that too few people — including pharmacists — are aware of it.

I learned of Paxcess only after readers wrote that pharmacies were charging them hundreds of dollars — or even the full list price — to fill their Paxlovid prescription. This shouldn’t be happening. A representative from Pfizer, which runs the program, explained to me that patients on Medicare and Medicaid or who are uninsured should get free Paxlovid. They need to sign up by going to paxlovid.iassist.com or by calling 877-219-7225. “We wanted to make enrollment as easy and as quick as possible,” the representative said.

Indeed, the process is straightforward. I clicked through the web form myself, and there are only three sets of information required. Patients first enter their name, date of birth and address. They then input their prescriber’s name and address and select their insurance type.

All this should take less than five minutes and can be done at home or at the pharmacy. A physician or pharmacist can fill it out on behalf of the patient, too. Importantly, this form does not ask for medical history, proof of a positive coronavirus test, income verification, citizenship status or other potentially sensitive and time-consuming information.

But there is one key requirement people need to be aware of: Patients must have a prescription for Paxlovid to start the enrollment process. It is not possible to pre-enroll. (Though, in a sense, people on Medicare or Medicaid are already pre-enrolled.)

Once the questionnaire is complete, the website generates a voucher within seconds. People can print it or email it themselves, and then they can exchange it for a free course of Paxlovid at most pharmacies.

Pfizer’s representative tells me that more than 57,000 pharmacies are contracted to participate in this program, including major chain drugstores such as CVS and Walgreens and large retail chains such as Walmart, Kroger and Costco. For those unable to go in person, a mail-order option is available, too.

The program works a little differently for patients with commercial insurance. Some insurance plans already cover Paxlovid without a co-pay. Anyone who is told there will be a charge should sign up for Paxcess, which would further bring down their co-pay and might even cover the entire cost.

Several readers have attested that Paxcess’s process was fast and seamless. I was also glad to learn that there is basically no limit to the number of times someone could use it. A person who contracts the coronavirus three times in a year could access Paxlovid free or at low cost each time.

Unfortunately, readers informed me of one major glitch: Though the Paxcess voucher is honored when presented, some pharmacies are not offering the program proactively. As a result, many patients are still being charged high co-pays even if they could have gotten the medication at no cost.

This is incredibly frustrating. However, after interviewing multiple people involved in the process, including representatives of major pharmacy chains and Biden administration officials, I believe everyone is sincere in trying to make things right. As we saw in the early days of the coronavirus vaccine rollout, it’s hard to get a new program off the ground. Policies that look good on paper run into multiple barriers during implementation.

Those involved are actively identifying and addressing these problems. For instance, a Walgreens representative explained to me that in addition to educating pharmacists and pharmacy techs about the program, the company learned it also had to make system changes to account for a different workflow. Normally, when pharmacists process a prescription, they inform patients of the co-pay and dispense the medication. But with Paxlovid, the system needs to stop them if there is a co-pay, so they can prompt patients to sign up for Paxcess.

Here is where patients and consumers must take a proactive role. That might not feel fair; after all, if someone is ill, people expect that the system will work to help them. But that’s not our reality. While pharmacies work to fix their system glitches, patients need to be their own best advocates. That means signing up for Paxcess as soon as they receive a Paxlovid prescription and helping spread the word so that others can get the antiviral at little or no cost, too.

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[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Holy shit, please reblog this. This is incredibly useful information! Paxlovid not only helps reduce the severity of covid but also goes a decent way to preventing long covid. I cannot stress this enough — even if you think this isn’t relevant to you because you’re perfectly healthy, you could get covid TOMORROW and permanently have long covid a month from today if you got unlucky.

And, of course, if you suspect you have covid, take a test or see a doctor ASAP. Paxlovid MUST be taken within the first five days of developing symptoms. The Paxcess copay card seems really easy and quick to fill out, though!

[chingaderita]

SEPTEMBER 1ST UPDATE

As you can see, mold is still advancing, we're waiting for September 2nd when the mister whose going to do the repairs comes. You can see we're losing furniture to the mold. Cleaned and tried to save some but the bed is wood idk what to do.

We did meet our last goal but later he told us he didn't add the materials to the budget so we need to get between $5,000-$6,000. That was a fuck up from him but still got to pay.

I also injured my right knee and left ankle, lost my recent job that same day and had to pay with the donations for medical attention and medication.

My partner is recovering from a double extraction, we spent way more in transportation, medication and after care supplies since he can't open his mouth.

Not to mention I'm still unemployed and together with my partner we're the main providers for a family of 9 people, some multiple disabled, and 7 rescue cats.

We need food and water, already lost count of the days we've been without water supply, but month 6 for sure

The neighborhood is collecting signatures to press for the authorities to restore supply but I'm very pessimistic about it.

We're also down 2 beds, so we only have a queen size bed and a couch for 9 people to sleep in.

Proof post is not updated since I sold my phone in an emergency and I can only update through my partner's sometimes, so I'm mostly offline nowadays.

Last post

About the fire

Proof compilation

Kitty post

$25/$925

Pay•pal Ko•fi

Hoping to cover the extra materials to get rid of the mold, my meds, water and food for a week, transportation for job interviews and cat litter.

[chingaderita]

Nothing so far :(