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Mary Borsellino

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Nonbinary writer (any pronouns fine) and Japanese -> English editor, fandom tragic.

  1. Terry Pratchett wrote a lot of profound things over the years, but I think this quote from "Wintersmith" is some of his best work. This is after a funeral:

    "Tiffany sat on a stump and cried a bit, because it needed to be done. Then she went and milked the goats, because someone had to do that too."

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  2. Remember folks who do NSFW art commissions and are unfortunately beholden to Paypal:

    List your artwork as 'digital goods' or 'digital commission' in your invoices.

    They don't gotta know shit. Ain't their business.

    Mailman doesn't ask what you got sent in the mail, neither should Paypal.

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  3. "This would kill a Victorian child on contact" buddy, that kid grew up with heroin in their cough syrup and arsenic in their wallpaper. A Victorian child would probably kill YOU on contact.

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  4. The "kidult" debate mostly annoys me not cos it indulges emotionally stunted adults (though I'm sure it does in some ways) but because a lot of unequivocally adult media is also absolute dreck and the binary gives it a kind of free pass

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  5. Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.

    At the height of a meningitis outbreak last year among gay and bisexual men in New York City, Demetre Daskalakis, a wiry AIDS doctor and gay health activist, spent late nights and early mornings in the city’s sex clubs and bathhouses. There, he would strip off his leather jacket and, in his muscle T-shirt, talk the men around him into letting him inject them with meningitis vaccines.

Dr. Daskalakis was given the go-ahead and free vaccine by the city, after city officials found that their own efforts to infiltrate the clubs and house parties, where the meningitis was believed to be spreading, were mostly met with suspicion and hostility. The vaccination campaign ultimately reached at least 16,000 people and was credited with curbing an outbreak that some feared would become the next AIDS epidemic.

    there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

    “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

    RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

    “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

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  6. Yeah we can’t have real fucking kinder eggs in the US because kids might eat the toy but the suicide chat it is nbd

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