what should my header be

putting carbonated water in my super soaker and spraying it at dogs (they absorb the bubbling nature of the liquid and begin to ascend into the sky) (thousands watch in awe) (no one does anything) (the sight is, in essence, divine)

under socialism we will make it illegal to name illnesses after countries

Okay genuinely the damage that naming the Ebolavirus has done to tourism in the DRC, an already impoverished country, is devastating. No one wants to visit the Ebola River. Coronavirus is named after a shape. There are so many ways to name a pathogen or disease without harming the people of the region where it was discovered.

it also discourages even informing people of the pathogen, scientists and doctors who are the first to inform people for their safety have to go in knowing the racism and racial namings that will happen just because they tried to protect and inform people. even when the naming isn't a race or place people get racist to the discovery place as it happened with covid, therefore even more so when it's named after places

the WHO's best practices for the naming of new human infectious diseases, issued in 2015, states that diseases should not be named after locations, specific people, occupations/cultural indicators, or associated species. this is why "monkeypox" was renamed to "mpox" when it became a significant public health threat, and why covid-19 isn't called like "the wuhan coronavirus"

Cabaret is a movie about how queer joy is NOT resistance

Friendship won’t save you love won’t save you coming out won’t save you passing won’t save you money won’t save you going to the club won’t save you getting fucked up wont save you going on vacation won’t save you having a kid won’t save you getting an abortion won’t save you music won’t save you sex won’t save you fun won’t save you etc etc. At a certain point you have to either start killing people or get outta there

ok google how do i propose deeper friendship and intimacy to my mutuals without feeling like a pervert predator

hey. can we DM? do you want a voice message? do you want to see a picture of my face? do you wanna call? do you wanna get off on call with me? do you wanna consider us friends? do you wanna share secrets? do you wanna hint vaguely at where we both live to gauge how far we are from each other? do you wanna meet? do you wanna hang out? do you wanna fuck? do you wanna hold hands and kiss? does this make me creepy? is this too far? do you wanna kill me. i'm really sorry

MY biggest fear as an artist: thunderstorms. thunder loud and scary

Leaving your mark on the culture is winning. Being imitated en masse is winning. This person fears success

sometimes people will insist a character is butch/masc and then you look at the character and they’re just fat. or muscular. or black. or indigenous. or some combination of the above.

it seems like in bdsm the "rewards" and the "punishments" look very similar. this concerns me a great deal, because it points to a system of misaligned incentives. if we're not careful, it's even possible that a rational actor could deliberately violate regulations, because the penalties for rule violations are in fact incentivized. one shudders to think of the consequences of such an arrangement

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.