this-is-neery:

cactusspatz:

jhscdood:

systlin:

systlin:

Had a doc appt (just my yearly checkup) a couple days ago and I asked her about checking to see if my measles vaccine from when I was a kid was still good, since I’d heard it could lose effectiveness over time. She nodded and had a lab done and turned out I was NOT still immune to measles, so got my booster today.

Get your vaccines, folks!

“I have a question about a vaccine,” I say, and the look of ‘god fuckin dammnit not again’ that flashed across this poor doctor’s face, followed by abject relief when I said “I’ve heard that the measles vaccine can lose effectiveness over time and I’d like to make sure mine is still good.” says everything really. 

“Oh thank god,” she literally said. “Yes of course. That’s true, and we can do a blood test and see. If you don’t still have antibodies we can get you a booster scheduled.” 

“That question goes poorly a lot, doesn’t it,” I say. 

“You have no idea.”

Note: In some cases, you may not even need to do the blood test in order to get the measles booster. I walked into my local CVS pharmacy and said, “I was born in [YEAR] and I have no idea whether I got the single-shot or two-shot series. My coworkers keep having babies, tho. Can I have the measles booster?”

And the pharmacist said, “YES YOU MAY, THAT WILL BE ZERO DOLLARS AND THANK YOU”

More info here: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html

“If you’re unsure whether you’re immune to measles, you should first try to find your vaccination records or documentation of measles immunity. If you do not have written documentation of measles immunity, you should get vaccinated with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. There is no harm in getting another dose of MMR vaccine if you may already be immune to measles (or mumps or rubella).“

(p.s. Please also get your tetanus booster every 10 years, it also contains the whooping cough vaccine so if you are ever in the vicinity of babies, please make sure your Tdap is up to date)

(p.s.s. I’m sorry, I’m a public health professional, I can’t help it)

When my doctor sister was pregnant, she was like “Ya’ll have to get your MMR and Tdap boosters before hanging out with my baby, non-negotiable” and I couldn’t agree more. Get a tiny needle stick, and prevent some babies from getting seriously ill or dead, ffs.

Even if you’ve been getting your booster shots, take a moment to make sure it was the TDAP and not just tetanus! For a while there, people were getting tetanus boosters with no pertussis (whooping cough). My hometown’s had several outbreaks of whooping cough in the past six months.

reactionpicarchive:

shiftythrifting:

Spotted in Toruń, Poland

pulmonary-poultry:

nabulos:

terror-billie:

ernmark:

I’m running a pre-bought campaign in a sci-fi setting

Totally not-shady NPC: I’ll need you to retrieve my secret cargo from the abandoned spaceship, but it’s very private, so don’t look inside–

Player: Is it a girl in a box?

NPC: …What?

Player: This is a sci-fi story, and there’s a box you don’t want us to look into. There’s only ever one way that ends, and it’s always with a girl stuffed into a box.

Other Player: Hey, we don’t even know how big it is. It could just be a cigar box.

First Player: Okay, you’re right. It could be a bunch of sex toys. How big is the box?

NPC: It’s… uh… six feet long by three feet wide by three feet deep…

First Player: Ugh. Okay, fine. Somebody pack a crowbar and a spare set of women’s clothing. We need to go get this girl out of her box.

uhhhhhhh…….

One day I’m going to run a sci-fi campaign of some kind and there will inevitably be a girl-sized box that the players are not allowed to open

And when they open it instead of a girl there will be 12 possums that immediately escape and create possum-related mischief until they can be put back in the box.

meshkwahkihaki:

meshkwahkihaki:

idk what shit-eating truscum needs to hear this, but your rhetoric directly harms people with culturally-specific genders. i’m native and two-spirit, that label describes my gender and my attraction. i use they/them pronouns and your “nonbinaries and cringey stargender trenders aren’t valid” bullshit is getting old. our languages were demonized and erased, our gender and attraction labels along with them. my experiences with dysphoria exist because of colonialist ideas of gender. we have been forced into arbitrary ‘male’ and ‘female’ categories by colonizers for centuries and truscum rhetoric perpetuates racist colonialist violence against natives.

your experiences are not universal, you’re not forwarding justice for trans people, and you’re definitely not an ally to natives or other people of color. you’re just a fucking colonizer. 

non-natives, reblog this post

zerocapitalism:

zerocapitalism:

by making people think boycotts are the primary objective during an important strike you’re setting them up for failure. you’re trying to convince them they can do something to amazon by not consuming their products for two days. that’s not how anything works.

people keep asking “wont amazon just make a bunch of money after the boycott when everyone goes back to their regular habits”

the function of this boycott was NEVER to hurt amazon, it was ALWAYS to stand in solidarity with workers WHO WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO HURT AMAZON when amazon learns the people will stand in solidarity with the workers.

This isn’t just about amazon either. Workers organizing themselves is always big. 

Talk of unionization among low income workers is becoming a popular topic. This is an incredible turn of events in the united states. I have not been alive to see the general public speak positively of unions until now.

the more low income workers we see striking, the more people we see standing in solidarity with striking workers, the more benefits we all get.

when you can no longer treat the capitalist’s lowest tier of worker as dirt all other jobs have to increase their benefits to compete.

heterophobicmaxanne:

anarchapella:

Hey if you’re doing anti-ICE actions even with above ground groups like Never Again, don’t talk about being there on the internet.

Being effective means minimizing state repression. Don’t snitch on yourself and your friends so you can show up another day.

also do not under any circumstances stream live videos on twitter, instagram or facebook or post pictures from the protests showing non-pixelated photos of participants. police and other law enforcement institutions do monitor social media, and if you’re a dumbass who does these things for social media clout and so your friends can see how radical and cool you are, you are putting yourself and others in danger.

asmileisamask:

ndrs:

sarah531:

invenblocker:

nekodalolita:

myrling-art:

afusionoffandoms:

chefpyro:

fandom for an American TV show: don’t watch it online! watch the show on TV when it airs so the ratings go up! show your support!

me, a mere European: 

fandom for an American TV show: then at least watch it for free on their own website and support them through ads and hits

me, a mere European:

fandom for an American TV show: ok fine, then AT LEAST buy the DVDs when they come out and support the show through that!

me, a mere European:

FUCKING THIS OMFG

Do you want piracy? Because this is how you get piracy.

fandom for an American movie: please go see this underrated, important movie on opening day so execs will know how much people love it!

me, a mere European, looking up the release date: This movie is playing at 5am, on a Monday, in a city 100 miles away, down a sewer

fandom for an American TV show: it’s on Netflix!

me, a mere European: *American Netflix

me, a mere Australian: *all of the above*