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ramonajp:

Rest in Peace, Leonary Nimoy. 

ramonajp:

Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, photographed Feb. 8, 2015 by Sunny Martini

SWOON. 

Indeed.

micdotcom:

Watch: If robberies were treated like rape, this is how absurd it would sound

This is why so many victims don’t report their assaults.

shadesofmauve:

Finally, I can inhale my drugs like all the cool kids.

(Doc says that whatever I had before, right now I have Post Crud Fake Asthma. So I’m getting not-quite-asthma meds until my lungs stop constricting for no freakin’ reason. And for some reason the inhaler needed designer colors). 

The designer colours are awesome*, because when people come into the ER and you are discussing meds, and they’ve no fricking clue what inhalers they are on, you just ask what colours they are and lo…all is revealed. Unlike with tablets where they go “oh, I take a small green one at night and then a yellow one and a blue one in the morning…I think one of them is for my heart…our my blood pressure…or is it my cholesterol”

*Otoh, I understand that cannula colours are not standardised in the states, so it may be that inhalers aren’t as standardised either…

anarchoace:

PHOTOS: Transgender Elders Show Us The Meaning of Survival

In the many years that Jess T. Dugan, a Boston-based trans photographer, has spent capturing images of gender-variant people, she says she’s consistently noticed a striking absence in both art and social sciences: imagery of older trans folks.

“And,” Dugan explains further on her website, “those [representations] that do exist are often one-dimensional.” So Dugan set out to fill this gap, teaming up with social work researcher Vanessa Fabbre since fall 2013 to develop the evocative photo project, “To Survive on This Shore.” In the recently released collection, diverse trans elders ages 50 to 86 are pictured at home or in meaningful spaces, gazing unapologetically into the camera, as if asking the viewer to look deeper into their unique context and life story.

(Full Article)

burntcopper:

deducecanoe:

last-snowfall:

gehayi:

or a adinfinitumxx:

appropriately-inappropriate:

doyouthinkaboutme:

memeguy-com:

years later House is still as relevant as he ever was

I wasn’t vaccinated and never got sick so

And I swam and didn’t drown.

Anecdotes aren’t evidence. The reason YOU specifically didn’t get sick is because of something called Mass Immunity.

That means that since everyone ELSE is vaccinated (you’re welcome), there’s nowhere for the virus to establish a hold.
That mass immunity is the only thing that keeps people who CANNOT vaccinate—like the immunocompromised—from catching it.

The second that people stop vaccinating, that immunity disappears and the disease resurges, as is clear from the fact that the US is currently experiencing an epidemic of a disease that was projected to become extinct in our lifetimes.

Get immunized. There’s no reason not to.

Considering that there’s a whole host of people in my age range who weren’t vaccinated enough (even I was missing the second dose of MMR until recently) getting the measles and the mumps I think it’s ridiculous that we’re arguing over a life and death situation. Literally, do you want to live or die?

Also, even if you weren’t vaccinated and never got sick—at least not visibly—that doesn’t preclude the possibility that you picked up a virus and passed it on without knowing it. 

Maybe you had…oh, let’s say measles. But you had no symptoms. Or maybe you had a fever,  or sore eyes, or a harsh dry cough, but that was it. But nothing that said anything was seriously wrong. And in the meantime, you went about your business. Maybe you waited for a bus with an old man, or shared an aisle at the store with a pregnant woman and her wailing one-year-old, or attended a party with your friends.  

And the disease you didn’t know you had? That passed on to the people you met, or to people that they met. The disease you didn’t know you had was passed to a friend at that party, and she passed it to her mother and father, they passed it to their workmates, and now two offices are sick with your measles. The old man you saw at the bus stop? He got pneumonia as a result of the measles you passed to him. The pregnant woman from the store? She miscarried. Her baby, who was too young to be vaccinated? She developed encephalitis and died. 

You’re not the only one who’s being protected by your vaccination. You’re protecting everyone else as well. That’s the fucking POINT of vaccination.

In fact, asymptomatic people are the most dangerous of plague vectors. They’re invisible.

Two words: Typhoid Mary.

seriously, this was like, the absolute first thing we were taught about rubella (german measles) as why we were going to get vaccinated at school.  because it’s most infectious when you’re still asymptomatic (like several other diseases) and hello, want to go near a pregnant woman and thus be responsible for what’ll happen?  DIDN’T THINK SO.