Hi, my name is zack

This last couple weeks have been really hard on my family and me

We lost two cousins due to COVID complications, both of them where pretty young still, around 30

Their passing leaves a hole on their mother's heart, who lived with them and who depended on both of them financially

To add to the pain, one of them leaves behind a daughter

Last night the youngest one passed away, and his family was hit with the cost of the cremation

They need 500$ to pay for it

So im asking for donations as i want to help them and i am the one that haves a bigger reach

I appreciate any reblogs this post gets

And please, wear your masks, my cousins where essential workers and they had to deal with a lot of people on the daily

By wearing your mask you can help stop spreading the virus

Thank you for your time

honestly my experience as a trans man who doesn't pass (and probably never will tbh) has very much been one of falling through the cracks. oftentimes i'll be dealing with large mainly cis organizations with deeply ingrained transphobia who don't see me as a man at all but as a woman who is failing at being a woman. naturally they aren't thrilled about this so i deal with a lot of misogyny for that reason. but then i go to activist/advocacy orgs for support dealing with that kind of treatment and in a weird attempt to affirm my gender they're like "actually you're a man so you don't deal with gendered discrimination". this specific situation - powerful institutions seeing me as "confused woman" vs. activist communities seeing me as "privileged man" creates this catch 22 where i am never properly supported by either of them and left to fend for myself. this is also why the whole "women and nonbinary people" thing weirds me out so much because it implies that if i just IDed as nonbinary rather than as a trans man and kept everything else the exact same suddenly this discrimination would be gender based.

anyway. oppression is a nuanced thing and i think it's important to listen to trans men about our experiences.

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Ben Shapiro is a week away from posting something like "cancel culture has gone mad. my wife left me and took the kids"

Like to charge reblog to cast, y'all!!

i saw a millennial ignore a friendly tortoise who need help crossing the street. when i confronted him, he said “who needs turtles when you have iphone apps.” reblog if you would help the friendly tortoise

Where do I download the app to help this tortoise

the app is called, … going outside. thank you

There’s still been users still getting their accounts hacked and used by the Ray Bans bot. It is still a threat.

⚠️DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK IF YOU ARE TAGGED IN IT. It’s tagging masses of people in one go and targeting them directly now. Even using trusted users who were once a follower of yours.

APPARENTLY this is still an issue!

I’ve been getting recent reblogs saying more accounts have been hacked this way. Please be safe and DO NOT click that link!

Date this was reblogged and marks it as still an issue: 6/23/2021

I’m so used to boomers ruining social media platforms but these fine gentlemen singlehandedly made tiktok worth it.

I love everything about this. They all Get It. They’re doing this comedy thing RIGHT.

Hes chummed the waters, and i Garuntee ya the sharks are starting to circle! sjjsjs this mess is Almost enough to make me start using twitter just so that i can see the fall out in real time

hi!! Can anyone help me get this fan for my parents? they’re elderly and the heat isn’t good for them. The total for it is $53.85!

PayPal.me/AKirk432 (use friends other wise it gets put on hold)

Venmo: @sunnyrains93

Cashapp: $sunnyrains93

Like I get that it's a dick move if it's not necessary. But if you break down in tears because you have to actually go to work you're a massive fucking pussy.

It's more like they were given a brief, happier, healthier alternative to being stuck inside a small space for 8 hours a day for a year and a half and going back to that is realizing how awful it really is.

Calling someone a "pussy" for breaking down in tears over being subjected to fresh, unreasonable misery is contributing to the problem of letting corporations dictate our lives and sounds a lot like deep throating the boot. (Aside from the casual misogyny of saying tears, Feeling Things, and apparently not wanting to go to work are feminine and not something a manly man would do).

Dude literally had a year of freedom. He could go outside, go to the park, stay home, just generally go where he pleased. Like a fucking adult who understood he had work to do, and obviously still got it all done because he hasn't been fired or "laid off". Now he's got a collar back on his neck and a chain keeping him at a desk between a set of beige walls and an equally boring ceiling, which was there before, but now he sees it for what it is. And why is it there? Because his boss has a deep insecurity about letting people work without oversight. Because his manager starts to look a little redundant if people can do their jobs without touching base, attending meetings, and generally doing stuff that makes said manager look like a Leader and not just a pen pushing busy body. Because there's people who think "this is the way my parents did it, and their parents did it, and presumably (but actually not) how their parents did it, so it's good enough for me and you, and let's have no more talk of this change nonsense".

This is why there's talk of a literal Great Resignation coming, as people who've come to appreciate their freedom give the bird to unreasonable bosses who want them back in an office. And other people who actually preferred the structure and routine of the desk look for another one when their own bosses decide to keep the work-from-home model going. Covid has caused a cultural shift, and ridiculing our fellow man for wanting something better is the stupidest thing you can do.

Like I get that it's a dick move if it's not necessary. But if you break down in tears because you have to actually go to work you're a massive fucking pussy.

It's more like they were given a brief, happier, healthier alternative to being stuck inside a small space for 8 hours a day for a year and a half and going back to that is realizing how awful it really is.

Calling someone a "pussy" for breaking down in tears over being subjected to fresh, unreasonable misery is contributing to the problem of letting corporations dictate our lives and sounds a lot like deep throating the boot. (Aside from the casual misogyny of saying tears, Feeling Things, and apparently not wanting to go to work are feminine and not something a manly man would do).

Dude literally had a year of freedom. He could go outside, go to the park, stay home, just generally go where he pleased. Like a fucking adult who understood he had work to do, and obviously still got it all done because he hasn't been fired or "laid off". Now he's got a collar back on his neck and a chain keeping him at a desk between a set of beige walls and an equally boring ceiling, which was there before, but now he sees it for what it is. And why is it there? Because his boss has a deep insecurity about letting people work without oversight. Because his manager starts to look a little redundant if people can do their jobs without touching base, attending meetings, and generally doing stuff that makes said manager look like a Leader. Because there's people who think "this is the way my parents did it, and their parents did it, and presumably (but actually not) how their parents did it, so it's good enough for me and you, and let's have no more talk of this change nonsense".

This is why there's talk of a literal Great Resignation coming, as people who've come to appreciate their freedom give the bird to unreasonable bosses who want them back in an office. And other people who actually preferred the structure and routine of the desk look for another one when their own bosses decide to keep the work-from-home model coming. Covid has caused a cultural shift, and ridiculing our fellow man for wanting something better is the stupidest thing you can do.

The whole year proved that people still get enough work done without going in person and we know all that commuting is hell on the environment. There actually ought to be a push to “ban” physical office work; absolutely no business should be able to force you to go somewhere if your work can be done from anywhere at all.

Whenever I do worldbuilding I try to keep this image in mind

i hate this fucking site so much *clicks reblog*

Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.

Ah, the Mary Suez.

hundreds of years of language evolution and innumerable events had to line up in the exact right order for that pun to make sense.

This.

Sometimes people are just soooo close to getting it.

Check out accidentally left wing on twitter it’s gold

same energy

also check out r/SelfAwareWolves

This reminds me of the antivax nursing student who couldn’t find enough sources for her antivaccine paper

Sometimes people are just soooo close to getting it.

Check out accidentally left wing on twitter it’s gold

same energy

also check out r/SelfAwareWolves

This reminds me of the antivax nursing student who couldn’t find enough sources for her antivaccine paper

AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania

as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.

this is fucking MURDER.

insulin has been mass produced (from animal extracts) since -1923-. slow acting insulin has existed since the ‘50s, and ‘human’ genetically engineered insulin (derived from E. coli bacteria) has existed since 1982.

insulin treatment for diabetes is not some new or ‘unproven’ treatment. according to beyondtype1, “Humalog rapid-acting insulin came on to the market with a list price of $21 a vial in 1997.” adjusting for inflation, a vial these days should cost about $34 at most. instead, it costs over $300. there is NO reason for it to be steadily gaining in price to the point that diabetics are unable to afford their lifesaving medication, other than the sheer inhuman greed of pharmaceutical manufacturers.

let me reiterate: life without insulin (for Type 1 diabetics in particular) is a slow and painful death sentence. the ability to treat diabetes is a relatively modern phenomenon that has allowed countless people to live full, healthy lives. we should be expanding full covereage and access to insulin to diabetics the world over, and it should be FREE.

Have y’all heard about Open Insulin Foundation?

“ We’re a team of biohackers with a variety of backgrounds, and skills, and relationships to insulin and diabetes from many cities and countries around the world, including Oakland, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Paraiba, Brazil; Dakar, Senegal; Yaounde, Cameroon; and Puerto Rico. We’re working to develop the first practical, small-scale, community-centered model for insulin production to make insulin accessible to all. We envision a world in which communities in need have local sources of safe, affordable, high-quality insulin, and where people living with diabetes and their communities can own and govern the organizations that produce the medicine they depend on to survive. 

What We Do

We are creating an open-source (freely available) model for insulin production that centers on sustainable, small-scale manufacturing and open-source alternatives to production. We are developing protocols to produce short-acting (lispro) and long-acting (glargine) insulin, working on developing open-hardware equivalents to traditional production equipment, are researching sustainable regulation pathways to bring our insulin to the public, and are building capacities for local, small-scale manufacturing.

How Do I Participate?

Our work would not be possible without the support of volunteers, interns, and community advisors. We welcome people of all backgrounds from all over the world to bring their enthusiasm, time, connections, and experiences, both in life and in work. Our volunteers promote us on social media, build equipment, run experiments, write reports and blog posts, facilitate meetings, connect with other organizations and groups, meet with experts in the field, run virtual events, and contribute in designing tools, resources, and methods of all sorts.

Potential Partners

We welcome collaboration with other groups that share our mission―community labs, academic institutions, patient advocacy groups, and NGOs.

Donate

Your donation will help us get closer to our goal. With a healthy financial situation, we can pay for lab supplies, acquire lab equipment, recruit scientists, and pay for consultation fees for regulation and manufacturing experts.”

Open Insulin Foundation

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