Prince Harry spent 'twice as much time' attending court case then he did coronation.
I can't believe that Sky News would do an entire piece about this, but then again, they're obsessed with Harry & Meghan.🤷♀️
Prince Harry made the rounds during his visit to The Warrior Games; besides taking in the game, he also met with some of the veterans who will be representing team USA at this years Invictus Games. Harry also gave a speech at the Naval Air Station North Island.
"The final day of competition for #WarriorGames2023 was extra special with a visit from Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex. Prince Harry spent time with athletes and their families, and watched the Sitting Volleyball Finals as the 2023 Warrior Games came to a close."
“If certain newspapers were prepared to go to those lengths to bug my hotel room, little old me, you know, a jobbing actress, please don't tell me that they did not do that on a major industrial scale with Prince Harry and the Royal Family for years.…" Denise Welch on Loose Women
This is the most tragic family I’ve ever read about. The betrayal, manipulation, deception and competition broke my heart. I know there are two sides to every story, but Prince Harry’s life experience is one of the loneliest and most abused I can imagine. Daily lies. No love.
It's kind of messed up that these guards are forced to play in the grueling, unprecedented heat with no accommodations or support in the name of "tradition".
Yet William had his wedding uniform altered because of the heat...... in April.
he what???? @sussex-sweetheart Where was this reported?
Also just get rid of the bearskin
It was in the Daily Mail and Telegraph at the time. Apparently he was worried about "passing out" so he had his uniform made from custom material.
Spotted: Prince Harry was seen at the Warrior Games today. Prince Harry's attendance at the Warrior Games back in 2013 inspired him to create the Invictus Games.
Prince Harry made the rounds during his visit to The Warrior Games; besides taking in the game, he also met with some of the veterans who will be representing team USA at this years Invictus Games. Harry also gave a speech at the Naval Air Station North Island.
It's kind of messed up that these guards are forced to play in the grueling, unprecedented heat with no accommodations or support in the name of "tradition".
Yet William had his wedding uniform altered because of the heat...... in April.
he what???? @sussex-sweetheart Where was this reported?
Also just get rid of the bearskin
A friend of mine was at Pulse that same night. She got sick to her stomach and left about an hour before the shooting happened.
I didn't know she'd left early when I heard the news. It's nothing like the experience of actually being there, but Pulse is burned into my mind because of it. I can't even describe the fear I felt, I'd never wish it on anyone.
Thank you for sharing the reminder of it, it's so important people don't forget
Holy fuck.
I was going to the University of Central Florida when Pulse happened.
UCF is in Orlando.
Specifically, I was in NYC, because I was in the last morning before flying back to Tampa for a fellowship. I saw the initial NYTimes alert as it came in and went to sleep, because it was past 2 and I had to be awake at 4:30 for my flight and shootings in Florida were becoming so terribly common. I had classmates in the library at FSU when there was an active shooter, I’d had an active shooter scare on campus the year before.
I went to sleep and woke up to a different world.
I watched a lot of friends and colleagues cover the event, and I felt sick to my stomach, because there was a Pulse flyer in the bag I got from Pride the year before, the first Pride I ever attended, and I threw that bag out because I didn’t feel safe to bring it home.
I have a friend who was supposed to be there that night.
I did not cover the initial aftermath. I was in Tampa, I was working. I was living in a dangerous home. When I wanted to go to the memorial we had a week later at St. Pete Pride, my good conservative Christian father called me a heathen and a whore for being openly bi and told me I couldn’t use the car to drive there, so I swallowed my pain and went to support a friend at her father’s funeral, which happened the same day as St. Pete Pride.
I was in Orlando for the six-month anniversary, though, and I covered that.
For many, it was the first time they’d been back to the club since it happened. I watched a survivor cry and cling to the doors of the club. I listened to an entire crowd sing I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and that song has never been the same to me since. I heard a member of the cloth tell me that my community was holy, that those lives were holy, and I’ve carried that with me since.
I was there maybe two hours before I started crying so much that I was unable to keep reporting. One of the photographers told me to buck up, in so many words, because it was hard for everyone, so I removed myself from the site and went to the Wendy’s across the street.
I cried for a half hour, got myself something to help deal with everything and to thank the Wendy’s for the use of their parking lot, cried another half hour, calmed down enough to drive -- while still crying -- and then went home and reported on what I had just seen.
I want to go to a club again. I hadn’t been to one in a bit before Pulse, and I would like to go to one now, but I don’t know that I’ll ever feel safe enough. Even going to LA Pride last year felt dangerous, felt risky, felt like I was playing with fire.
I go anyway. I have to.
I’m lighting a candle tonight, for the 49, for the survivors, for those who didn’t really survive that night, and for everyone else whose life changed that terrible night.
The Orlando Science Center had a display in their walkway of rainbow paper hearts, colored by the local queer community. Seven hearts per string, seven strings per row; 49 for each row. After a few years when the paper hearts faded, they were replaced with hearts that look like glass or maybe crystal. (Probably actually plastic, for safety, but they look pretty.) Everyone entering and leaving walks below a rainbow of light and color, 49 hearts at a time.
As you approach downtown Orlando, there are murals and artwork in beautiful rainbow colors on random buildings. Storefronts. Taco bars. My favorite shows 49 doves, all in rainbow colors, flying towards the sky. Pulse itself has been turned into a shrine, of course, and there are always candles and fresh flowers there even years later, but that's not the only building that's been transformed.
And in my local CVS on the corner, in the back, if you go to the pharmacy window you can see the poster still displayed commemorating Cory. There's been so much turnover, I don't think anyone works there now who worked with him, but it's still up. They remember that he lived, that he had a smile for everyone and made people's days better even if he only interacted with them for a minute. That he mattered.
They are not forgotten.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) dir. Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, Rodney Rothman
Never gonna know them, but shoutout to the healthcare workers who are breaking the law to help their patients get life-saving care. I'll never see an article about you because knowing you would risk everything including jail time. Nurses who lie on medical records so their patients can get abortions. Doctors making up shit so their patients can have HRT.
Wherever you are, you are keeping your promise to help your patient.
My mom is dead so she can’t get in trouble for this.
Many years ago when she was still healthy enough to work, she was the manager at one of those select-your-own-tests labs. They didn’t take insurance, which meant they had no insurance department, which meant it was actually cheaper sometimes than even getting the same test elsewhere WITH insurance, so her clientele often came in with doctor’s orders, and it is about one such patient I’m about to tell you. He was four years old and had leukemia.
At 3am the day my mom did his labs, she got a stat call. “Stat call” means “drop everything, contact the doctor, these numbers are outside the acceptable range and urgency is required.” She woke me to drive her to the lab so she could try to get in touch with the doctor on the way and say “I live five minutes from the lab I want you on the phone as soon as I get those numbers from my email.”
The doctor did not pick up.
Standard protocol at this point is to wait 20 minutes and call again, repeat until you get an answer.
My mom was not allowed to interpret lab numbers. She didn’t have the official credentials. But she was a medical assistant and had self-taught a lot of medicine to make herself a better MA (call it unofficial continuing education), and she took one look at this little boy’s numbers, and she had to make a judgement call. That call ended up being “Mrs. X, this is Catie from [lab name]. I received a stat call for your son and can’t reach the doctor. I’m not legally allowed to interpret these numbers for you. But pick an ER, I will call them and send the numbers and have them waiting for you. Go NOW. Don’t wait. I cannot stress enough how urgent it is that you GO RIGHT NOW.”
Had she chosen law over life, that little boy would have been dead by morning.
Instead she risked years in prison and being stripped of her license to practice. She got cupcakes and a thank-you card instead. As far as I know, the boy went on to make a full recovery.
When I think of my mom, this is what I want her to be remembered for. Nobody could ever know while she was alive. I want everyone to know now.
(And if you’re a 14-year-old on this website in 2023, and this sounds eerily corroborative to a story your mom has told you, and you grew up in Arizona, hi. My mom would love to meet you if she was still alive. But in her absence, will you tell me how you’re doing? I’ll tell her the next time I get up to her grave. She’d like to know.)
Pls do not reblog anything with the old disability pride flag, it does cause seizure and migraines, please use the new one which was created by the same person with the feedbacks of many other disabled people.
This is the safe one:
Dont use the zigzag one, your making disabled space inaccessible for a part of the community.
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combatbooty
1) they expensive bruh 2) none of us kno the dif btwn a fucking diamond and some fancy ass glass ur capitalist rock hierarchy has no control over us
kid-communism
3) mostly mined with slave labor
4) we get excited when our date buys us an appetizer, we don’t even comprehend people buying us rocks that would force us into debt for ten years
5) They aren’t actually that rare and the price is artificially inflated.
Pro tip from a former Jared’s salesperson: You want a sparkly white rock that will look like a diamond to the untrained eye and will literally cost the price of a nice dinner for two? Created white sapphire. They’re lab grown and cost *pennies* to make, so you can get a 1 or 2 carat white sapphire for like… $30-80 probably. You can get one as huge as you like, perfectly clear, perfectly flawless. And no one will ever be able to tell the difference except a professional appraiser. Also, sapphires are the second-hardest gemstone (right after diamonds) so they are very durable! Very unlikely that they’ll chip or crack. Get that bitch set in sterling silver and you are GOOD TO GO. Whole thing should cost you less than $200 unless you get a fancy band with a lot of extra stones. Of course, created sapphires come in every color of the rainbow, so if you want something more exciting than plain white, you TOTALLY CAN.
Created sapphires and silver: The poor Millennial’s engagement ring.
everythingcanadian
THANK YOU EX-JARED’S BASED GOD.
I’m so glad this came across my dash
From 3DBearnadette on tweeter...
okay i looked into this and apparently this isnt even just dracula the wolfman and frankenstein's monster like. they're DESCENDANTS of them who are normal guys who turn into a vampire a werewolf etc. they do this to "atone" for the actions of their ancestors.
this is them normally and they apparently transform by slapping their hands together and shouting WACKO and this is called the "drak whack." dracula is alive too. they call him Big D.
Tumblr should have added an epilepsy warning community label or something like that. I think it would make things easier both people with epilepsy and for people who tag posts.
Don't worry, You can trust me with the city budget, just let me in there. Come on, just let me have the budget. I will totally not gut the police budget to build a centralized mass transit network and new libraries. I will definitely not do that, just let me in there please. Come on let me have access to the city budget for 5 minutes. That's all I ask.