Peanuts, November 13, 1964
Y'ALL THIS IS THE NEW WHITE HOUSE MONKEYPOX COORDINATOR HOLY SHIT
Biden really said "I think we need a raging queer leather daddy doctor to run the country's monkeypox response" and he was RIGHT
yeah this is based
Oh fuck that is a good call: that's a gentleman whose career started while AIDS was in full swing within his community, who has championed harm reduction approaches to infectious disease, and who is pointed in his insistence on destigmatizing high risk communities rather than setting himself apart from them. This is someone who understands harm reduction and meeting people where they are without judgement, which is precisely the attitude you want to have when you grapple with a stigmatized epidemic.
Here's an article about his appointment to director of HIV/AIDS prevention from February 2021. Look at his career: he's been working in HIV/AIDS nearly his entire adult life and career. He's been working on increasing public health within stigmatized populations by focusing on harm reduction that entire time. Hell, this is someone with the institutional memory to remember Anthony Fauci's piss poor treatment of HIV during the Reagan administration and carry a grudge because the man didn't go far enough.
By the way, this is absolutely an example of harm reduction in terms of exercising your right to vote: there is zero chance that an advocate like Daskalakis would have been appointed under a Trump administration, but the incoming Biden administration installed him in the previous director position (which he still holds, as he adds monkeypox to his case load) as early as late 2020, before Biden was even properly inaugurated. That doesn't mean this administration is perfect or that we can't continue to agitate for better change, but it does mean that things are better and fewer people are going to die. That's basic harm reduction in action: you focus on survival for the most people as your metric, you take the route that results in the best outcome for the situation you have, and you do not ever let the imaginary perfect become the enemy of the tangible better.
Fuck, this is delightful good news. Well done Dr. Daskalakis, and all the best of luck to you and yours!
i went to recreate it on the sims
the floorplan
exterior
realized i forgot to screenshot the other side of the room but you get the idea. not a participant of the tradition so i hope its accurate to what one would expect of the babygirlfying of old men room
right behind it is the kitchen, with all the utilities needed for a fast, quick meal made from scratch, dark colored for convience 😍
the abortion room, self explanatory
the vampire lounge, complete with a set of glasses but only murky red wines to drink
world's smallest recreation of the saw bathroom, and the autism room. it doesn't have windows on the floorplan so i took that as a soundproof room to relax in, or to blast the music as loud as you need. it can be redecorated up to the individual's taste. same does not apply to the saw bathroom
and outside, the werewolf transformation patio with all your werewolf will need for a successful night, and the hrt tea/cocktail garden
I've been making and selling work for over a decade and I'm still astounded that i can basically be like "yeah these are my OCs the Jester and the Librarian they're gay and in love and they're on a mug :)" and that's my job?
That being said, don't monetize work to legitimize it - I did out of necessity and still have such a sense of imposter syndrome about everything! Like, do what you're passionate about within your capacity and don't let anyone minimize it, its important because its something that brings joy/happiness/fulfillment to you and that alone is enough.
Ai Weiwei, “Chandelier” (2015)
On This Day in Cryptid History
March 3rd: On 1972, at around 1:00am, Loveland police officer Ray Shockey claimed to have seen a 3-4ft frogman walking across Riverside Drive. This was the first official sighting of the Loveland Frog, one of the strangest creatures in cryptozoology.
foo-foo!! she debuted in 1979, and she appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of the muppet show. she is miss piggys dog n she speaks only in barks n other dog sound effects.. i think she's perfect.. here are more pictures of foo-foo she is so special
a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features
That’s just how black cats be
This is peak character design and you cannot convince me otherwise
Big flowy cloak with legs ✨✨
shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’
when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu
Actually that’s pretty standard size for a micro pig. Pigs are ENORMOUS, dude. The average pig on a farm is 7 feet long and over 700 lbs. A normal pig would be much bigger than Hilton.
EDIT: This is a photo of the world’s smallest recognized breed of pig, the kune kune. I’m sorry cartoons lied to you all.
This is the pot bellied pig, another famous “small” breed.
This is your average adult pig.
Big ole’ pigs.
Wild boars can feed people for a very long time! I believe this one was 1800 lbs. (largest piggy ever was about 1,984 lbs)
I NOW KNOW WHY WILD BOARS WERE SO DANGEROUS IN THE DARK AGES HOLY SHIT; RICHARD III I TAKE BACK ALL THE TRASH I TALKED ABOUT YOUR HOUSE CREST GOOD GOD THAT’S TERRIFYING.
Fun fact:
You need special spears with a cross brace for killing boar because they’re so fuckoff tough. If you stab a charging boar through the mouth it will simply keep charging at you. Hence the cross brace.
So princess mononoke wasn’t even exaggerating their depictions of wild boars. Good to know.