soft! butch!

ive been getting a lot of people really worried for this axolotl so i thought i’d clarify: she’s fine. she’s moist on the puppy pad so she won’t dry out and the x ray only takes a few seconds. the x ray was because she had an internal gut blockage due to the wrong substrate being used. they took another x ray after giving her barium to determine where in the gut it was, but the barium lubricated her gut enough that she passed the blockage with no invasive surgery and she’s completely fine. here she is not-flattened

Yes this man still gets to compete with multiple sexual assault allegations while Sha’carri was disqualified over weed. It’s also worth pointing out that are a paralympians who were forced to withdraw because the paralympic board would not provide more than one assistant for all the deaf and blind paralympians. Yet they can give this man his own constant supervision and private hotel room and training space in order to keep him from assaulting more women.

He's being allowed to compete, despite allegiations from multiple women fencers - including Team USA members who now on top of the stress of their events have had to contend with his presence on the team. Fuck the IOC and fuck USFA. Fencing as a sport has suffered from a lack of accountability and consequences for athlete misconduct for way too long - pretty well highlighted by this particular paragraph from Business Insider's article on Hadzic:

sun showers are so pretty!