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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

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The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

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No offence but some younger queer people heard "nonbinary is not a third gender" and interpreted that as "no nonbinary person identifies as a third gender".

And some people heard "nonbinary people are outside of the gender binary" and interpreted that as "no nonbinary person identifies as a binary gender. no nonbinary identifies as both 100% a man AND 100% a woman because that's not outside of the binary". (????)

And some younger nonbinary people seem to have internalised "well I'm nonbinary and I don't feel that way so you're wrong", even though the entire point of being nonbinary is that there's literally infinite ways to experience gender.

What I'm trying to say is, there's an identity entirely built around not fitting into narrow boxes, and yet a hefty chunk of our own community seems hellbent on forcing us into boxes anyway.

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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btw! I was made aware that many people don't know that we're boycotting Eurovision this year, so.

we are boycotting Eurovision, as per BDS guidelines.

don't watch the stream, don't engage with the videos, don't post it about it on social media using hashtags that are going to trend.

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

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ALL OF THESE REQUIRE GETTING OUT OF BED

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

Continue Reading.

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It's important to drink a lot of fluids when you're sick so that your body has the raw materials to generate gallons of snot.

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I think it has just always been easier for people to look at things that do not scare them, i.e. university students protesting in tents, rather than see the real, unsettling, horrific, true images coming out of Gaza and internalise them as a REAL event that is happening to REAL people.

A genocide is never going to be easy to stomach, but you have to bear witness anyway

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the sour patch company killing the idea of a collaboration between themselves and Philadelphia cream cheese by implying that a sweet-yet-sour cream product would never work, yet turning around and several years later having their food alchemists create a sweet-yet-sour creme to fill oreos with has the same feel as a scientist in a small state university research lab making a major breakthrough that would change the world, only to have a large company buy the findings, shelve the data for several years, and then finally sell a bastardized version of the initial discovery to the wider public at a high markup instead of using the knowledge for public good

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I mean, we all knew, but thanks for admitting that you wanna surpress freedom of speech and the spread of information?

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I have been waiting all year to post this.

#this is so funny #because i debated bringing my winter coat with me today #it was like 34 F when i left the house this morning #IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS COLD #and normally isn't

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