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my new theory: covid had to become 'just a cold' culturally because more research is coming out all the time about how you don't wanna get sick in general, it can absolutely fuck up your life, and people realizing that will inevitably result in people demanding changes to the way things work.

the thing that they don't want you to know is that these acute sicknesses, common viruses and colds, can either cause direct damage or create the circumstances that lead to long term, often complex health problems down the road. by 'they', i mean the people who have a vested interest in putting all our bodies through the meat grinder of late stage capitalism 'business as usual', no matter the circumstances.

i don't have a lot of spoons to write about this today and i'm brain foggy so i'm not gonna be the most eloquent but

think about the implications if your boss making you come in sick can lead to your coworker developing parkinsons or ms or heart damage or cancer. if people knew these things, they would absolutely not take the business as usual shit we're doing right now. people would demand paid time off. people would demand universal healthcare. people would demand so much more.

for example, just saw this recently.

but it's also not just this. conditions like MS and parkinsons, even cancers, among others have been linked to viruses, like for one, epstein barr. (epstein barr is mono, by the way).

cancer, y'all. certain viruses, including covid, increase your likelihood of getting cancer.

if we all really understood this, i believe more of us would be masking up. i don't want this for any of us and it's important to know these things.

i don't think that there is necessarily a global conspiracy to keep this from us, obviously donald trump and joe biden have gotten covid a billion times and are suffering because of it, obviously some of it is just plain ignorance but it is true that the powers that be have a vested interest in us not understanding this.

and if you aren't familiar with the long term damage covid causes:

my new theory: covid had to become 'just a cold' culturally because more research is coming out all the time about how you don't wanna get sick in general, it can absolutely fuck up your life, and people realizing that will inevitably result in people demanding changes to the way things work.

the thing that they don't want you to know is that these acute sicknesses, common viruses and colds, can either cause direct damage or create the circumstances that lead to long term, often complex health problems down the road. by 'they', i mean the people who have a vested interest in putting all our bodies through the meat grinder of late stage capitalism 'business as usual', no matter the circumstances.

i don't have a lot of spoons to write about this today and i'm brain foggy so i'm not gonna be the most eloquent but

think about the implications if your boss making you come in sick can lead to your coworker developing parkinsons or ms or heart damage or cancer. if people knew these things, they would absolutely not take the business as usual shit we're doing right now. people would demand paid time off. people would demand universal healthcare. people would demand so much more.

for example, just saw this recently.

but it's also not just this. conditions like MS and parkinsons, even cancers, among others have been linked to viruses, like for one, epstein barr. (epstein barr is mono, by the way).

cancer, y'all. certain viruses, including covid, increase your likelihood of getting cancer.

if we all really understood this, i believe more of us would be masking up. i don't want this for any of us and it's important to know these things.

i don't think that there is necessarily a global conspiracy to keep this from us, obviously donald trump and joe biden have gotten covid a billion times and are suffering because of it, obviously some of it is just plain ignorance but it is true that the powers that be have a vested interest in us not understanding this.

and if you aren't familiar with the long term damage covid causes:

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

An alternative app store:

Let me give it a go!

-Naruto doesn't just eat until he's full. Given the opportunity, he'll eat until he literally, physically can't anymore. He never had enough food growing up, which skewed his perception of how much a person is supposed to eat. He figures that as long as the food is still coming, you're supposed to eat until you can't get anything else down

-He's awful at making conversation. It was rare for anyone to talk to him. He was yelled at, scorned, occasionally talked at, but an actual conversation? He has no idea what regular people talk about. Instead, he tends to voice his thoughts out loud no matter what they are— something he used to do alone in his apartment when things felt too quiet.

-In that vein, he also asks wildly inappropriate and personal questions. He has no context for social norms or boundaries other than what he's observed secondhand, which hasn't been nearly enough.

-He isn't sure what love is. He thinks he knows, but it's hard to tell. He's never been shown it. He was never taught what it feels like. Naruto wouldn't recognize love if it hit him in the face.

-When he's nervous, he doesn't cope with a hobby or self assurance. He has a tendency to hide instead. Scramble up into the branches of trees and hide in the leaves, curl up under his bed, hide in the nearest closet. He associates being nervous with danger, and has a flight response as a result.

-If someone is angry, Naruto's automatic response is to get smaller. It doesn't matter if it's him they're angry at. If someone is upset, he shrinks himself down— not even fearfully, necessarily. He just thinks that's what the best and safest thing to do is. It simply makes sense to him. Afraid or not, if someone is upset, you hunch in on yourself.

-Naruto thinks it's normal for people to be angry or upset with him as a default. When someone actually gets mad at him for a reason other than "you're a monster" he can't comprehend it. He doesn't connect his action to their anger. Sakura is mad at him not because he's loud and annoying, she's mad at him because he's Naruto, and people are always angry at him for nothing.

-If you asked him "do you know what you did to upset me?" the changes are, he wouldn't have a clue. Perhaps a guess, but chances are it wouldn't be a right one.

-Naruto will just pick shit up and try to eat it out of the trash. They're passing a dumpster and there's a half eaten sandwich on top? He'll try and shove it in his mouth. Kakashi just about loses his mind the first time he sees him do it.

-Kakashi tells him to think of their team as a sort of family, but Naruto has no frame of reference for that either. That's why he's so intent on bringing Sasuke home. He doesn't take it as a figure of speech, he takes it as fact.

-He can't often put names to his emotions. It's simply another thing he wasn't taught— he associates the names of emotions more with facial expressions than actual feelings. If he's smiling, he must be happy, right? He doesn't realize at first that expression doesn't necessarily equal what's going on inside your head.

-He spent a lot of time on the streets at night, and his night vision is all the better for it. Naruto can see incredibly well in the dark and prefers it, feeling safer. He doesn't realize it's weird to walk around or sit quietly in his pitch black apartment.

-Naruto wears orange because growing up, he learned that bright, colorful things tend to be poisonous. Bugs, berries, certain plants. Predators would avoid them, thinking they were too dangerous to touch. Naruto adopts the color thinking it may work for him too.

AU where Naruto, single as can fucking be, decides he's ready for a kid. Not being in a relationship, he has absolutely no way to get one and would never ask someone to carry one for him— this leaves him with one option.

Throw in a modified sexy jutsu here, a little Kurama powers there, a seal or two, and boomshakalaka. He's ready to carry it himself! Great! Now he just needs someone to put one in him and he's like, totally set!

Who does he know who doesn't have any complicated clan affiliations, who has no known health problems, decent chakra reserves, is strong, relatively attractive, smart, marginally stable, fully functioning, and who he trusts?

Meanwhile kakashi is so horny about him 24/7 he feels like a chained up werewolf

I'm just imagining he does this all without consulting Sakura, who isn't stupid OR blind, so when he drops the news she's just out here like 🧍

Meanwhile, Kakashi is having every territorial feeling ever in the whole entire fucking world and has simply stopped trying to hide it. And what frame of reference does Naruto have for pregnant people and their partners? Literally the vaguest construct, and he trusts Kakashi, so surely this must be totally normal. Why would his completely ordinary sensei who's completely a regular and well-adjusted guy ever be a total weirdo???

He forgets about the promise on and off, more focused on training at first then fighting in a whole ass war.

But things settle down eventually and life isn’t quite so chaotic. he even has a chance to breathe now that sasuke isn’t running away with the creep that bit his neck or towards his brother.

He abruptly remembers the promise when he overhears Ino talking about her cousin having kids and immediately flips out.

Hes so behind! He was supposed to be married! With a kid! How is he supposed to meet his great great grandchildren now?!?! What if he dies? What if Kurama dies!? There’s no one to pass him to in Konoha and he can’t just be out there anymore!!!!!! He’s a hermit!

Cue intense week of invention where he creates a seal based transformation jutsu so he doesn’t accidentally drop it mid-term and have to start over again.

Anyone that tries to come interrupt him get tossed outside (if they try to make him leave) or snarled at (try to interrupt him). Kakashi has to issue a don’t bother Naruto rule for a few days after he almost broke Kiba’s arm from literally throwing him out of his apartment and down onto the pavement.

When kakashi goes to see Naruto about it he gets teeth bared at him and it scratches the Hatake part of his brain just right.

The fact that’s the last image he has of Naruto before he’s literally throwing himself at kakashi and asking to be bred does not help his resolve at all.

———

Also Naruto who thinks his team is soooooo normal. Totally average. Everyone else is kinda weird too so no way he’s having kids with them! What if it’s hereditary? He can’t risk it!

So he needs the most normal dude around. Someone that can teach their kid not to be super weird and lame like so many of the other Konoha nin.

KAKASHI!

Naruto runs his ass into Kakashi’s office, circles the chair with Kakashi in it, and hums.

He jumps up on the desk and leans forward until his forehead is touching Kakashi’s.

Hmmm. Good. He didn’t lean back.

He inhales for good measure too.

Ooooooo. Not bad. He even smells good. Weird he didn’t notice that much before.

Imagine Naruto, raised in the red light district for all that the word “raised” has never really applied to him, starting to think about pregnant people and their partners but THAT is his reference for it.

His expectations and preparation period is interesting to say the least.

He doesn’t have any pretty clothes. Thats like a requirement for this right? He’s pretty sure it is Kurama!

His closet is promptly piled up with clothes that while pretty, have a few particular connotations to them that naruto completely misses. Thats just what women wear when they’re walking near his apartment.

Kakashi stares at them for a while and has to do some breathing exercises for SEVERAL reasons.

———

I imagine the ANBU straight up falling into the floor like flies they’re so shocked by what Naruto said

———

OMFG imagine Kakashi’s stomach absolutely dropping when Naruto first says the you’d be a good dad thing because ooooooooooh no. Oh no oh no oh nooooooo. His crush does NOT see him as a kinda father figure. Oh god no. Please no.

I like to imagine that Naruto hasn't consulted anyone else, bar Kurama, on this. Why would he need to? This is HIS plan to start HIS family, and he and Kurama have it covered. He's got his seals in place, he's got a father picked out, he's got pretty clothes now, and he already knows from growing up near the Red Light district what he's supposed to do– he's set and ready to go.

And Kakashi finds out that Naruto hasn't told anyone else. It buzzes in the back of his head and it occurs to him all of a sudden that one, this is definitely his in. That if he's going to be a selfish, greedy, awful man and get what he wants, this is literally a straight shot into his life's greatest dream. Great! Amazing! He's already salivating!

But two, if Sakura or anyone else finds out prematurely, Naruto's whole plan will be shot down. Beyond all the potential complications that could arise with a man being pregnant, there's just no way she or anyone else would approve. Worse, there's a chance Naruto might listen. Insert Kakashi trying desperately not only to hide it until he can get the deed done but also trying to, you know, actually get the deed done.

The only problem with this is that once Kakashi starts, he can't stop. All these territorial feelings start to bubble and swell in him. Naruto so much as breathes near another person and Kakashi starts twitching, because this is all new, and fresh, and it could all go away, and Naruto is going to have his baby.

Bonus plot twist: Sakura is mildly disturbed but doesn't actually give a fuck as long as Naruto is happy.

BONUS BONUS plot twist (plot point? You tell me): Naruto's hind brain figures that before he gets pregnant, he and Kakashi need to smell alike first. Like, obviously. Duh. Basic rule. Cut to him sneaking into Kakashi's apartment to steal his clothes, sleep in his bed, use his shampoo and body wash, pilfer his sheets.

Lyin Biden

I am going to get ahead of this right now before 2028 comes around and you weak motherfuckers start suggesting this dickhead to me and other more qualified folks. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn’t do enough to stop Biden’s internal campaign to test his initial favorability with memes. I don’t give a fuck about the lesser evil because the lesser evil aided and abetted two genocides, and drastically increased the reach of ICE and the overall police state that we are living in, but people like me(check the handle) will always endure no matter who wins these fraud ass elections. So when I see this fucking reprobate post his antagonisms against Trump to feed the lowest common denominator of brunch liberals who simply hate Trump, I’m like:

And to any of you Gruesome Orbiters who want to call me a paid psyop, unfortunately no one is paying me. It’s all pro bono publico, baby. I hate this motherfucker, and it’s real hater eating hours over here.

Your hard reduction is really harm redistribution. Let’s fucking go!

The NIMBY King of California hates homeless people. Seems to have taken a liking to punishing the houseless to a particularly absurd degree instead of examining why there are so many houseless people. As one of the articles noted:

The primary causes of homelessness are the inability to afford housing and the severe shortage of affordable homes. In California, for every 10 of the lowest-income households, there are just two apartments that are affordable and available to them.

Or how he blocked funding to menopausal treatments which Halle Berry said succinctly:

"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either."

He also vetoed Data Privacy bill that would have allowed Californians to opt out of data collection services and vendors with a single click.

He countered Trump’s National Guard surge by sending swathes of state and local police to crack down on Californians.

He called the illegal detainment of Kilmer Abrego Garcia “a distraction” and wanted to shift the focus on Trump’s trade policy as if ICE being used as a secret police isn’t more pressing.

I’ve been saving up my updates because I didn’t want to not go in half-cocked when I make these. It’s the autism in me. And honestly, I am not a Californian and no one hates Gavin Newsom more than Californians across the aisle and all political ideologies.

So a lot of my trans allies have noted that I did not mention any of his offenses towards their community. I just want to ensure you that I ain’t forget. I wanted to wait for it to build up.

Gavin Newsom has fell into the trans athlete hysteria that has been a dog whistle as he stated in an interview with Charlie Kirk. Note that he is only doing this in accordance to Democrats as a whole turning their backs on trans rights seeing the issue as too difficult to defend.

Trans folks are abnormal according to Gruesome and centering any platform defending them on any nominal level is an anchor that Democrats should discard from their necks.

Gavin has done a lot of legislative work in support of trans people such as protecting them from being outed as transgender in schools, ensuring that incarcerated transgender people are sent to the prison of their associated gender, and turned California into a sanctuary state for families seeking gender affirming care.

Lately, however, he has quietly(legislatively) turned the corner on his support of trans rights.

And then he would then sign the most pro-trans rights bill of any governor in the United States(according to him and Ezra Klein.

Point is that Newsom is a politician. If the block gets too hot on trans rights, he will verbally agree with transphobic sentiment while legislatively support them mostly. He will throw you under the bus to score political points.

If any of my 🏳️‍⚧️ followers or viewers want to chime in or if you are more educated than I am on the subject, let me know.

Moving on.

Let’s sprinkle some genocide denial. Gavin Newsom supports Israel and AIPAC has received donations from him. Very tone deaf.

And he is spineless.

But sure we already knew that. He is a liberal.

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Golden Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus luteovirens), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, endemic to the Fiji Islands

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Orange Dove (Ptilinopus victor), male, family Columbidae, endemic to Fiji

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im going to bring this back

and some people, surprisingly enough, are not going to be good people, and they might say mean stuff to you to make you mad and sad.

don't stream your walk home from school or work

don't share private info about OTHER people in relation to you (younger sibs, parents/partners in unique jobs, YOUR OWN CHILDREN, your neighbors, your coworkers, etc.)

don't give out your full name including middle names and suffixes like "Jr", e.g. things that can legally identify you

and for godssake NO SEXUAL INFO or PICS <<< this goes for minors, but the rest of you aren't suddenly safe from predators and consequences either!

stop giving away all the info that could hurt you to people you have never met and should not trust