WARNING: I use fast reblog so I often do not tag spoilers - I'm sorry in advance.
Hi I'm Kristen, she/her, adult.
This is my main blog where I post a bunch of random stuff from various fandoms and other things.
reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.
Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn’t over. They’re shifting from “world health emergency” to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO’s announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.
of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do
To be clear, this means Covid is now ENDEMIC. Which means it’s part of the permanent illness ecosystem.
So wash your hands, wear a mask if you’re ill and can’t stay home (but try to stay home that’s for the best), and keep on top of your Covid boosters. It’s also not a bad idea to carry wet wipes for high-touch areas, because people are fucking gross.
thats not a “zine” that is an “art book” and you are scaring the hoes (discouraging people from zinemaking by associating it with hefty sleek professionalism instead of extremely diy no resources low cost artistic communication) by mixing up these words
let’s get back to making this shit by hand, I’ve been meaning to do some of these for my comics characters but my brain was always like ‘but you haven’t actually made the comic no one’s gonna know these fuckers’ u know what too bad I’m gonna make em anyway
-> here’s how to fold an 8 page zine from 1 paper with instructions that didn’t make me feel like I was back in a trigonometry lecture [LINK]
hello!!! this is a reminder that if you’re someone who is weird about Kids Being Too Old To Be Out Trick or Treating that one you should stop it because what do you have against innocent fun and two there’s a girl in my class who is about as tall as I am (5’5) and could easily pass for an 8th or 9th grader but in fact just turned 10 last week so really you actually have no way of knowing how old a child is and it is Weird As Fuck to try and gatekeep who gets candy based on your potentially very incorrect assumptions!
idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate in my head how many hours of work equal one pair of pants, let alone how many hours of work equals the fun thing I want to do next month.
I feel a cough coming on, because I work in a drug store, and all of my customers are sick. I always feel a little bit sick, now. I can’t afford to eat well enough to keep my body healthy. Cough medicine is worth two hours and 20 minutes of work. Our store probably bought a case of cough medicine for they price we’re selling one box. If this cough gets worse, I might have to call out, which will cost me more than the medicine in the long run- but that doesn’t give me the money to buy the medicine right now. I stock a case onto the shelf. I don’t buy any.
A mom wrangling three crying, sick kids enters my line and sets two types of children’s medicine down, says they’re both on sale and thank god for that. I ring her up, and she gets very quiet, because she misread the sign, and her total is twice as high as she was expecting. Her youngest screams in the cart, because she’s burning up with fever. Her mother very quietly asks, please, she’s so sorry, if I could please take the more expensive one off her total.
I agree, I move the box below the counter, and when she’s not looking, I slip it into her bag. I pray as hard as I can that if she notices the “mistake” she says nothing, because I so desperately want her to have that medicine. The store has lost profit at the cost of a child’s health. I don’t bat an eye. This is a terminable offense. If I’m presented with the same situation tonight, I’ll do it in a heartbeat.
The myth of evil employees stealing from the company falls apart the second you realize the company would shoot you dead to make a profit. This isn’t two equal players, one of whom is stealing from the other. This is someone fighting for survival versus someone fighting to make an extra million. It’s not equal.
“Trump won by successfully cementing the idea that the nation’s capitol is ungovernable under the weight of constant and unbearable political chaos, thus setting up his 2024 case that only an autocratic strongman — a “Red Caesar” handed dictatorial power to override the stumbling blocks of constitutional democracy — can fix it. Pulling strings from hundreds of miles away, using the keypad on his mobile phone as his dagger, Trump over the last week has shown the destructive power of his intimidation regime, despite its limitations. The Mar-a-Lago exile might not have the juice to get an ally like his bullying mini-me, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, elected speaker, but it was easy for Trump to unify Capitol Hill Republicans through fear.”
