anyways happy pride to all my high risk queers out there, to all my disabled queers for whom events aren't accessible to, to my immunocompromised folks who can't risk attending events where people aren't masked or taking covid precautions! happy pride to my fellow cripqueers that want to be out there fighting and celebrating with their friends and family and can't because it's not safe for them to do so– you're not alone and you deserve to celebrate too. we all do.
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When a person belonging to a minority group says or does something bad, you are, of course, free to criticize them. But it still does not give you the right to be a bigot. Noah Schnapp sharing stupid, careless, and uninformed geopolitical opinions deserves to be called out, but it does not mean that you suddenly get to tell him that he should have been gassed by Hitler or killed by anti-Jewish hate groups or terrorists — both things I've read on Twitter and on Tumblr. It does not justify you calling him homophobic or antisemitic slurs.
"But he deserves it!" you argue. First of all, why do you think so? What makes it okay for any person to be given the green signal to get called slurs, or have people advocate for them to get hatecrimed? And more importantly, you are only signaling to your Jewish friends that you are actually capable of antisemitism. Same thing goes with your queer friends, or any friends belonging to a minority group. When you justify one form of bigotry, even to just one person — you justify all forms of bigotry.
So if you find yourself doing any of these, ask yourself why it's so easy to slip into bigoted rhetoric instead of simply focusing your criticism on what a person did/said.
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remember wc18 when everyone was making neymar rolling on the ground memes those were simpler times
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kinda sucks as an immunocompromised & high risk person that i have to deal with people's negative reactions to me masking & refusing to go into crowded places unmasked
because now it's gauche to care about covid
i know humans are social animals but we also have enough cognition to understand when our emotional impulses are at odds with our knowledge of a situation!!
so why after all these studies and statistics is it considered embarrassing to try not to get or spread the single most disabling disease of our time??? a disease that has killed so many people, directly and indirectly??
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you're in my blood, like holy wine (chapter 3)
I am very sick and I needed to smash these two together to make myself feel better, so please enjoy Lena finally losing the fight against falling in luuuuuurve
"I wasn't expecting anyone to see me," Kara says quietly. She's fidgeting with her hands, but she stops and puts them in her pockets when she sees Lena looking at the movement.
"Do you often fly around my house at midnight?"
"Yes," Kara says without an ounce of shame. "I like to make sure you're safe."
Lena hadn't been expecting an answer so honest, and it kicks off a storm of confusing, chaotic emotion. What remained of her resolve to push Kara away starts to crumble. Kara is so concerned with Lena's welfare that she checks in on her regularly, when Kara is the one in danger simply by proximity.
Simply because Lena loves her.
"What you said. About…a connection between us," Lena says, standing up from her chair. Her legs feel unsteady. She grasps the balcony railing for balance. "You're not wrong. I do feel it."
Kara's breath catches. "You do?"
Lena nods. "But it's not…it's complicated. There's so much we don't know about each other. So much that –"
"I'm Supergirl."
Read it here!!
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The Biden administration on Friday proposed tighter limits on the online prescription of some medications, including the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug Adderall and highly addictive opioids such as oxycodone, a partial reversal of policy changes made during the coronavirus pandemic.
The new regulations, which would require health care providers to have at least one in-person visit with patients before prescribing or refilling certain drugs, would take effect after the public health emergency for Covid ends on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a statement.
The proposal will undergo a 30-day period of public comment, after which the D.E.A. will issue a final rule, the agency said.
Heads up: If you started testosterone (a schedule III controlled substance) via telehealth during the pandemic and you've never seen your provider in person, the Biden administration is probably going to fuck you over later this year.
Go to the link below for more info:
There is a link at the bottom you can follow to submit a comment on the proposal (but at this time the link doesn't appear to be working, for me at least).
Edit to update:
It has been pointed out to me that the MSN article above misrepresents the DEA proposal on telehealth regulations; the proposal is NOT a ban.
Please check out the most recent reblog of this post and the link below for clarification on the proposal:
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