Fuck Terfs :)

Refused to hand over medicines to be distributed by shelter staff

Refused to be separated from their child/ren

Shelter has a curfew that is incompatible with their job

Shelter does not have accommodations for their disability

Shelter requires attendance of religious services - possibly including open participation in them

Shelter does not have food that meets their dietary requirements and will not allow them to prepare their own food

Shelter is a hotbed of disease

Shelter does not prevent sexual abuse, from either other residents or staff or both

Shelter demands payment - it's free if you have no income, but if you have Social Security or job payments, they demand some of that

Shelter has limited beds and you need to be in line by 4pm for when the doors open at 7 to get a chance at one of them.

PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES

Someone will probably love you for who you are.

   If not, you’ll still find friends,

friends who, given time, or given warning,

   will probably gather around you, hold your hands,

and wrap you in soft coats and blankets till the violence

   inside your body ends.

Someone will probably love you for who you are,

   not just for who you labor to be.

Maybe you’re lost in your skin today. Maybe you’re burning

   and wish you could tear it all off. Please don’t. You are variously

a marvel, an athlete, a wilderness, a source of warmth

   and a way to learn from fear.

When you have claws, your claws are yours, your ears

   bristle and are yours; your irises

are citrine, pure, and yours. They let you see

   through smog and pine thickets and into the future, where

you need no chains to feel secure,

   and someone will probably love you for who you are:

then you will know each other’s scents

   and nuzzle or lope together. But for

now, you have friends,

   who are not going anywhere. Please

stay here.

Okay, let’s start with this disclaimer: if you have a problem with a black cis-man calling out racism in the transgender community, then too bad. Erin and a lot of nonblack trans activist community have already got caught up with associating with Keffels and co-signing misogynoir. Today, I’m looking out for my blackness. Fuck everybody else with the exception to Palestinians and Native Americans. Fuck everybody else tho.

The biggest issue with white trans-activists is the same with white feminists: you are white. And you underestimate how much that clouds your perspective. Looking at the comments of Erin’s skeet, and it’s crazy how long it takes for someone to point out that black hairstyles have been legally prohibited in workplace settings or in general. There are laws to police the way we dress still up today.

Not to mention that every non-white American racial minority can share the same stories of American society dictating social attire racially. Native Americans had their long hair cut in boarding schools aka reeducation camps. No hijabs laws were passed. I could go on.

Erin, this isn’t “North Korean” shit. This is and always has been American shit. And because of your reluctance to actually engage with anti-white supremacist movements, you say blithely racist shit like this and look like a whole ass clown.

Not seeing constant acts of resistance doesn’t mean it isn’t happening all around you all the time. Some very effective methods require silence and secrecy.

in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.

people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.

My ward is the respiratory ward - CF is one of the things we specialize in.

Since this med came out we haven't had a SINGLE CF admission to the ward

There used to always be a CF patient spending a couple of months with us at a time

There's a man who is 23 years old who I was sure would not survive his next admission (aim saturations 85% is end stage lung disease)

There's a set of the local frequent flyers that we all know so well

Except

No we don't

On the CF specialist ward (with reasonable staff turnover)

Half the staff have probably never even seen a CF patient

Additionally, it should be noted that metrics like life expectancy are in no way a guarantee of... Anything. There are significant outlier CF patients who are at an advanced age now despite the odds due to a variety of different factors, having lived the majority of their lives before the development of modulators.

Mashed banana: best added to compliment flavors of whatever it is you're baking (peanut butter, chocolate) make sure it's MUSHY and ripe

Apple sauce: again, best with complimentary flavors (cinnamon, brown sugar) use unsweetened and have the rest as a snack

The big boy champ, ground flaxseed: flavorless, though it does darken your batter/ dough a bit. Bags found next to cornstarch and almond meal, etc. Instructions on how to use right on the bag! Make sure to let the flaxseed water combo sit in a separate bowl until it has the consistency of mucus 👍

Ingredients (per egg you're replacing)

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

2 tbs flour (gluten free flour blends work just fine)

3 tbs water

Folks someone just made the most amazing thing I've seen in ages

yessssss

six foot turkey has entered the chat

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this: