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So I'm rewatching Kuroshitsuji because why not, and my god, I forgot Book of Circus existed (because when it got released it was after I stopped following the series).

My god that scene with Sebastian and Beast, holy shit. It got 29 year old me regressing straight back to my closet horny 14/15 year old self.

Truly pray for me if I ever encounter the supernatural and they're even the least bit charming, I'd be the first to just sign my entire soul away.

#late night ramblings #also forgot how brutal late 2000s-early to mid 2010s anime is #now a days theres the occasional gore filled horror show or maybe a more mature seinen with dark themes #but the implications of ciel's experiences hits a whole different note when fully understanding the setting and ways horrible adults can ac #looking back from my adult point of view i probably should not have watched this back in middle/high school #but then again you could say that for a lot of stuff that I watched (and read and wrote)

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#late night cat posting

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Plush Plushi the Pallas's cat from Munich wishes everyone a wonderful Sunday! 😺🥰

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just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone

🔁 pls reblog for sample size

#have done all of these alone #tbh prefer doing most of them alone at this point #but then again ive never really traveled with a group outside my family or my at-the-time boyfriend so maybe friend travel is way better #also should add hiking/camping to this list since a surprising amount of people will travel alone but not hike alone for whatever reason #even though hiking alone is leagues better than group hiking in 99% of situations (the 1% is when an emergency occurs)

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personally i think you should be able to afford a place to live with a part-time job

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#late night cat posting #i wanna pet the wild cat but ethics say i cant :(

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Yuzu Katou

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖

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this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious

#40 i think #if we're counting being within the physical boundaries of the state #about 10 of them i just drove through part of for like a few hours at most #but if we're only counting doing something other than just driving (aka stopped for a meal etc) than it drops to like 30ish

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Cover of The Cat Who Loved the Sea by Rhoda Goldstein, illustrated by Len Ebert. 1968. Source.

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I am begging people to learn the hierarchy of controls.

so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.

however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:

it's an individual mitigation, not a systemic one. the best mitigations to make public life more accessible affect everyone without distributing the majority of the effort among individuals (who may not be able to comply, may not have access to education on how to comply, or may be actively malicious).

it's a post-hoc mitigation, or to put it another way, it's a band-aid over the underlying problem. even if it was possible to enforce, universal masking still wouldn't address the underlying problem that it is dangerous for sick people and immune compromised people to be in the same public locations to begin with. this is a solvable problem! we have created the societal conditions for this problem!

here are my policy focuses:

upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems for all public buildings. appropriate ventilation should be just as bog-standard as appropriately clean running water. an indoor venue without a ventilation system capable of performing 5 complete air changes per hour should be like encountering a public restroom without any sinks or hand sanitizer stations whatsoever.

enforced paid sick leave for all employees until 3-5 days without symptoms. the vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through industry sectors where employees come into work while experiencing symptoms. a taco bell worker should never be making food while experiencing strep throat symptoms, even without a strep diagnosis.

enforced virtual schooling options for sick students. the other vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through schools. the proximity of so many kids and teenagers together indoors (with little to no proper ventilation and high levels of physical activity) means that if even one person comes to school sick, hundreds will be infected in the following few days. those students will most likely infect their parents as well. allowing students to complete all readings and coursework through sites like blackboard or compass while sick will cut down massively on disease transmission.

accessible testing for everyone. not just for COVID; if there's a test for any contagious illness capable of being performed outside of lab conditions, there should be a regulated option for performing that test at home (similar to COVID rapid tests). if a test can only be performed under lab conditions, there should be a government-subsidized program to provide free of charge testing to anyone who needs it, through urgent cares and pharmacies.

the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).

masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.

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Look my religious trauma is barely a drop compared to even the most casual of religious families but holy shit this just put my whole relationship with authority when I was a young kid into the words I couldn't find back then.

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#late night cat posting

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So like a neighborhood but it's centered around a tram stop that goes directly to the city center and has multiple low rise apartments and cute cafes around the station and further from it are some multi family and single family houses but like they go up to the woods which were preserved and kept as they built the neighborhood

#depending on time it takes to city center also add a grocery store for when i am too lazy to take the train for food shopping #also an abundance of non-hostile architecture seating

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Jennifer Gennari b.1983. American animal portrait painter. "Kylie" Family pet portrait. Oil on panel.

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jfc the divorced alcoholic flat mate from Ireland is only now chasing down utilities for December. Its one thing if he did it through email or whatever, but he's doing it through the other flat mate (who moved to Galway the same time I left).

He has my email. Even if he deleted those emails, he could ask the landlord for my email.

(also why wait this fucking long for 230 euros)

#hopefully this is the last time I have to deal with him