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.
after what happened with tiffany g and what’s happening with audrey r this year, I’m convinced there will eventually be an organized effort to put people who hate what OTW stands for on the OTW board. i’m not saying these candidates were insidious, but there are fanatics of various kinds who will begin to pay attention to these board elections and attempt to swing them in their favor.
Again, I don’t think tiffany meant anyone ill will, and I do think audrey had specific expertise to bring to the table if she wasn’t a gd professional republican. but the fact that OTW members have now been blindsided TWICE in this way says a lot about how certain govs, corporations, and religious fanatics could infiltrate OTW. the recent DDOS attack was NOT trolling, it was one step in a long term strategy to destroy AO3. Things will get worse.
Alright, it looks like the shit’s about to hit the fan. The full names for OTW Board Candidates have been released, and it looks like Audrey Richards recently ran for political office as a Republican. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Audrey_Richards
Based on what happened last year with Tiffany G, I want to make something clear: This is not a plot by the Republican party to destroy AO3.
Audrey Richards is an OTW volunteer in good standing. She wouldn’t be able to run if she wasn’t.
Also, if the Republican Party wanted to destroy AO3, they’d have Tucker Carlson or whoever put the site on blast and whip up the Conservative hate machine against the site. That hasn’t happened because I don’t believe that the drivers of the Republican Party are aware that the site exists.
What’s happening here is that in the Republican Party, Audrey is small fry enough that affiliation with AO3 hasn’t become a career liability for her. But, seriously, given how fascist the Republican Party is these days, I would not advise anyone who loves the site to be affiliated with the U.S.’s Republican Party. That’s peak Voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party behavior!
She answers variations of I Don’t Know to a LOT of questions (which none of the other candidates do) and has some definite clunkers of answers. I won’t be voting for her, but that was already the case based upon her answers.
professors who have only interacted with other academics for years: “what do you MEAN you don’t know multi-variable calculus yet??”
professors with small kids: “thank you for not putting the lab equipment in your mouths when I turn my back”
Bringing this back to share that one time I slept through part of a zoom meeting with my PhD advisor (who has a toddler) and he told me it was fine, that just meant I was a good sleeper
Professors who work with graduate students: if you finish the multivariate calculus work this week you can put one (1) piece of lab equipment in your mouth
Once had a professor whose previous career was giving educational zoo tours to children, so he’d say stuff like, “now let’s meet our friend, acidic keratin!”
in high school I was in the child development class where we ran the preschool. Class ended and I moved onto the next class, an art class. Sit down next to my friend who was working on a serious piece and casually asked for my thoughts on it, looking for serious critique.
Preschool mode had not turned off so I looked at it, clapped my hands and said “WOW Really great work! Amazing!”, in that same kind of voice you’d say to a toddler who presented you with a random scribble on a piece of paper.
Friend loved the reaction at least lmao.
hey i saw these tags and i think i’m about to kiss you on the mouth rn
People doing the “opposites attract” trope with Hobie where the “opposite” in question is always somehow someone who is a literal cop or otherwise associated with cops. Is insane to me. That is a Black anarchist who lived under a fascist government I don’t think that’s the kind of opposite he’d be attracted to buddy
It’s the same problem with enemies to lovers tropes, because people don’t seem to understand that the two parties in question have to be equal in power for it to work
