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nichole

@nerdfighternichole

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How do you feel about Destiel? (The two men who announce the news here on Tumblr)

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Oh yeah that seems like a really good fucking issue for this coffee company to weigh in on.

This coffee company is political because all economic activity is inherently political.

And so this coffee company understands that it has to take certain positions that will alienate a percentage of its customer base. But that does not mean this coffee company needs to run around throwing about opinions about Destiel on tumblr.

I am a coffee company that donates 100% of its profit to charity, and in order to survive and grow, I must not now nor ever proffer an opinion on the Great Ships Of Our Era.

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hey coffee intern, I've got a coffee question! been thinking about buying an awesome coffee club subscription for my mom, but she's told me before that she doesn't like coffee that's "too strong". I'm not a coffee drinker myself, but she pretty much exclusively drinks dunkin. in your opinion, is awesome coffee club coffee Strong Coffee?

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Coffee is generally made "strong" not by the kind of coffee but by the amount of ground coffee used to make a cup or pot of coffee.

That said, I suspect your mom means that she does not like her coffee too burnt--that is to say, she is not looking to experience ONLY the "coffee" taste in coffee, but is also looking for other flavors.

Both our roasts have complex flavor profiles because our beans aren't burnt, so if she's looking for more of a coffee and chocolate-flavored coffee, I recommend Octavia, and if she's looking for a lighter flavor profile with many tasting notes, I recommend Calypso.

Thanks for working to improve your mom's coffee life. What you're considering is a lasting and beautiful gift.

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I just read the article you posted a while back about TB (heads up- it said the gift article link has lapsed or some such). Did J&J ‘evergreen’ (be allowed to be evil) or was it allowed to become generic?

Relatedly, how do you manage empathy fatigue? I deal with OCD too and it screams at me that I have to care about and do all the things all at once. How do you choose where to put your time and energy?

(Also, when I get the coffee subscription for my husband’s birthday, which version should I get?)

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  1. For me empathy fatigue sets in when I careen my attention from this crisis to that one to the next one to the one after that, always feeling overwhelmed by each emerging problem but never having the time or attention to devote myself to one problem or another.

I'll give you an example. In 2014, a horrific ebola epidemic swept through Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The world paid attention to it. Everyone was talking about it. And then .... it ended. At least in the global imagination. Money dried up. The world moved on to the next crisis.

That's not to say the next crisis wasn't important. It was important. But in Sierra Leone, the ebola crisis wasn't really over even after people stopped contracting ebola. 15% of Sierra Leone's healthcare workers had been killed by ebola, and the already fragile healthcare system plummeted into what one Sierra Leonean physician described to me as "a state of collapse."

And so the crisis remained a crisis even after the world's attention shifted. 1 in 17 women in Sierra Leone were dying in childbirth. Over 10% of kids born died before the age of five. Tuberculosis killed thousands every year despite curative treatment being available.

And this is when Hank and I finally, belatedly realized that responding to crises in the news was not adequate. Instead, we would need to commit the kind of long-term attention and long-term support that long-term crises demand. This means making difficult choices--there is also high maternal and child mortality in countries other than Sierra Leone, but we choose to focus on Sierra Leone because we see an opportunity to make a difference, because the government is serious if limited in its commitment to improving healthcare and educational opportunities, and because we had to make a choice or else we would be overwhelmed by the many causes.

What about the other causes? Well, we trust people to work on those causes. We believe in their importance. And we support their work by doing ours as well as we can, and trusting they are doing theirs as well as they can. I still get overwhelmed. I still get depressed. But I find that the deeper I go into my particular areas of interest--global healthcare delivery, health care accessibility, ending TB, fighting maternal mortality--the better I feel personally, and the more good I feel like I'm able to do.

2. Johnson & Johnson has not abandoned their secondary patents on bedaquiline but they have committed to allow generics to be available in most countries, even those where the secondary patents apply. Unfortunately this deal leaves out many countries that need generic bedaquiline, including Ukraine, which is absolutely unacceptable. So progress has been made, but the progress (as is so often the case) is inadequate. The fight goes on.

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I really, really, really try to center my writing and activism in love. Even the anger must be grounded in love, and in a belief that all people--even those I disagree with--deserve to love and be loved. This is what I'm called to do by my faith, but I also think it leads to better writing and more effective activism.

But if one more motherfucker calls me a groomer I am going to lose my fucking shit i swear to god.

Somebody came up to me today at the Tate Modern and said they liked the anthropocene reviewed and i said thanks and then we chatted for a while but i think they were uncomfortable because i was crying.

And i just want to belatedly let this person know that i was crying not because I was sad or worried but because after seeing the Hilma af Klint show, I was so moved by the desperate and doomed and beautiful attempts by artists to restore the broken world.

So relatable 💖

Hank made a video about his experience doing D20 and in it mentioned that he went out and bought clothes that made him look a little bigger than he actually is to play The Fix and I love him your honor.

I clearly still dk how to Tumblr, but right now I feel pressure (my own I'm sure) to be *positive* like, all the time on much of my other media which has led me to... Never talk about things that have me stressed unless my groups can solve them? And not every problem can be solved by a well meaning person on social media, as much as we'd like them to be.

It's been one year as of today since I left my family. A year ago I was tucking my 2 stepkids into bed, letting my 3 dogs outside, and then climbing into bed w my husband (dysfunctional and broken as that relationship was).

Now it's just me and one dog. And I'm sad. It was the right choice, best for all esp me and the kids, and god the decrease in affection (dopamine? Seratonin? Oxytocin?) is enough to make one struggle, but...

The silence. The "you're on your own kid" feeling (even if I always have been)... The lack of helping a whole ass family get thru the day. Being needed.

I keep telling myself it will get better. But I've just gotten more numb.

I live w 2 great friends, have one more in town. My dog is the best, tho a lil neurotic lol

But I'm lonesome. And afraid to ever trust someone like I tried to trust my husband again.

I don't know how much more of myself I can lose and still be me?

Sorry if this was depressing, please feel free to unfollow me here if this isn't the content you were hoping for, as it may be what this place gets from me. 💖

i know people make these kinds of posts with fictional characters a lot but like. hank green truly is one of The Most Guys Ever. like. he's one of the earliest youtubers who is still on there. he's a 43-year-old tiktok star. he's a science educator. he got cancer and his response was to make a tier list of the press's coverage of his cancer announcement. the president of the united states sent him a message of support and he told the president that he was pissing out the cancer. years earlier he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and his response was to write a polka song about it. he created vidcon. he's the ceo of a company that produces a shitton of educational series (well, not acting ceo at the moment due to the aforementioned cancer). his guitar says "this machine pwns n00bs" on it. he invented 2D glasses. one of his earliest videos to get popular was about animal sex. between him and his brother, he was known as "the science one" (or "the music one") while his brother was "the writer one," and then he wrote two new york times bestselling novels. his most controversial opinion is that butt is legs. he's done so many things that there is a website dedicated to counting the number of days since he started a new thing. he and his brother use their internet following to (among other things) fight maternal/infant mortality in sierra leone. he has a baked bean furby. hes even bisexual

In 1998. his Winter Park High School classmates named him “Best Dancer.” He’s had an album on the Billboard Charts, and he won an Emmy for a web-based adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. He co-founded DFTBA.com, the Awesome Coffee Club, the Awesome Sock Club, and Sun Basin Soap--but doesn’t make money from any of them. Instead he’s led these brands to donate over $5,000,000 to a hospital in Sierra Leone. His companies, when he stepped down as CEO due to the cancer, had over 115 full-time employees, all of whom receive a living wage and good benefits. His production company, Complexly, has made educational videos with 5 billion total views, and helped hundreds of millions learn through SciShow and Crash Course. He is the sweetest dad to the world’s most amazing six-year-old, and the spouse of one of the funniest people you’ll ever meet, and he is loved--ferociously--by his brother. He truly is among the Most Guys Ever.

One of the weird things about 21st century life is that in every majority-christian nation, the system is set up so that people with the most resources receive the most care and support. So, like, if you go to a hospital and you have a lot of money, you get treated first.

But in the Christian sacred texts, God is extremely clear about how social orders should be set up, which is that the last should be first to care and support. So the poor and marginalized should have access to the best care and support, and whatever resources are left after the poor are well-supported should be used in service of those who aren’t poor.

I think it is weird that God is so unambiguous about this, and people are so unambiguously into God and God’s will for us, and yet we don’t do much to amend these systems.

(We ARE better at providing care for the poor than we used to be, which is why there is so much less poverty today than there was 30 or 50 years ago. But it’s utterly obvious that we do NOT have a system that offers preferential care and support for the poor. Instead we offer preferential care to the rich–which feels so natural and inevitable to us that I often can’t see past the confines of this injustice. But it isn’t natural or inevitable. There was a time when monarchy felt inevitable, after all.)