heads up: if you have rude things to say to people who didn’t know the information you do, please keep it to yourself. we learn through teaching, not through shame.
any comments about how people dying of covid-19 is due to poor hygiene is getting blocked. washing your hands is to protect not only yourself, but other people who are at infinitely more risk of dying from the virus than you, much like how people who don’t get vaccines aren’t the ones dying from preventable disease, it’s the ones who CAN’T get vaccines who have it spread to them. those people’s immune systems can’t take a vaccine in the first place.
here’s a handy chart on the best practices for hand washing! a large part of people don’t do it correctly and it’s not always life or death, but with the incredibly infectious nature of COVID-19 it doesn’t hurt to familiarize yourself with the proper way to do it!
handwashing can dramatically lower the risk of contracting coronavirus because it’s an enveloped virus, it’s specifically surrounded in a lipid (fat) and the majority of soaps are designed to break up grease and fat bonds which means if you break up that outer layer? the virus dies! it’s not super hardy without that outer layer, so washing your hands beyond just physically removing the virus, kills it as well if you use soap.
It’s an old tradition that during a leap year women could propose to men. This was usually depicted as old or ugly women trapping men, but some art focused more on the role reversal and could be quite cute.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.
Miss Lemon, did you not grow up with Leap Day William? He lives in the Mariana Trench? He emerges every four years to trade children’s tears for candy?
sure cats 2019 is an abomination unto the lord and should never have existed, but I don’t think any of you were prepared for the absolute hell that would have been unleashed on us all if it had been good. there would have been catsonas. there would have been so much nsfw cats fanart. a dangerous rift in the veil between furries and non-furries would have been created with no way to seal it again. there would have been new and terrible kinds of discourse we’ve never even seen before and now mercifully never will.
this was for the best.
hjfg trying to find a new specialty doctor is like pulling teeth
i finally found one who takes my new insurance and they’re insisting that they need my pcp’s referral to see them, but my pcp is not the one who was doing bloodwork and prescribing things for my hypothyroidism, it was my old endocrinologist, and me trying to explain that resulted in me being put on hold for twenty minutes while they figured that out, and they came back with ‘we need a referral from your pcp and 6 months of medical records and bloodwork already completed’ and i’m just like half-hysterically saying ‘yeah sure got it okay’ but i DON’T got it, it’s NOT okay, i’m so exhuasted and i run out of pills in two days so fuck me i guess
In recent days, there have been a number of posts on tumblr about third party apps that host AO3 fic on them. A lot of people are worried and even more people are pissed.
There is no need to send in emails to AO3 Support or to the Policy and Abuse team. They are fully aware of the situation and are probably drowning in emails right now.
These apps work as a sort of skin for the AO3 site itself. They don’t download works and redistribute them. They provide an access point to AO3.
The developers of these apps are making money from the app itself (through tips and subscriptions - both voluntary), which wouldn’t exist without the free content created by AO3 authors. Since people post their work to AO3 because it is free to access and hosted without ads, authors are understandably angered by this.
Because these apps are basically just a portal to the site, a DMCA notice will not apply in this case. All works currently hosted on AO3 will show up on these apps, because these apps are simply letting you view AO3 through their interface.
Woodsign company apps (including MCU, Harry Potter, Sherlock, Creepypasta, and more):
These apps seem to curate some fic from the various fandoms and rehost it. They allow users to read offline, so it’s possible they are redistributing it. In this case, a DMCA takedown might be effective.
This app developer is also making money by hosting fanfic that was written and posted for free on AO3. They have put up a paywall so that you can only access the complete fic if you pay for it or rate the app in the App store.
If you want to post a negative review, consider saying things like:
* these fanworks are free already at archiveofourown.org * you can kudos, comment, bookmark, subscribe, and mark to read for later for free with an archiveofourown.org account * you can also download fics to read later in various file formats - both pdf and formats that are usable by ereaders * archiveofourown.org is a website with full mobile browser accessibility. Anything you can do in this app, you can do on the site - for free, and without ads * the Archive is a fully-licensed non-profit organization run by volunteers, unlike this for-profit app
There is no official AO3 app. The website is mobile friendly and if you want to have quick button access to it, you can Add to Homescreen on your phone and you can click in just like you would on an app. None of these third party apps can provide you with AO3 support. Only AO3 can do that. The best version of the site will always, always be the site itself.
If you’ve read this far, please signal boost so that AO3 Support can get fewer tickets. And if you love AO3, consider donating to them. They accept donations year round, not just during their pledge drives.
in fact, the trump administration recently weakened the endangered species act in general so that people now have to consider the financial cost of saving a species that may or may not be declared endangered.
remember that an endangered species isn’t governed by like the UN or something, it’s an invention of the american government to protect at-risk species—and they’re redefining what an endangered species actually is, so people don’t have to consider them anymore.
they’re redefining what an endangered species actually is, so people don’t have to consider them anymore.
Guys! Guys guys guys! WHAT THE F*CK THIS IS THE VERSION YOU NEED TO REBLOG.
Here is a link with more recent info. the article linked by previous person was from 2017. This one is from this year and highlights the changes and effects.
The biggest change is that protections will be given based on economic considerations. Allegedly, this is to reduce the burden on the american public, which is funny, considering certain things we won’t unpack right here. Have a look, see for yourself.
