witchesheal: “If a person cannot solve a conflict with a friend, how can they possibly contribute to larger efforts for peace? If we refuse to speak to a friend because we project our anxieties onto an email they wrote, how are we going to welcome refugees, immigrants, and the homeless into our communities? The values … Continue reading

Hey… this is a really dumb question… 😅 Say I was getting tested for HIV at a free clinic, and I placed my Iphone facedown on its screen on the table people get tested on. Hypothetically, say there was dried blood or HIV particles on the table that made contact with my phone’s screen and hours later I scratch my face that has open open wounds. Could dry blood or particles from a testing table stick on my phone’s screen and then pass to my fingers which I used to scratch my face? 😅

von–gelmini: enoughtohold: not a chance. think about it. that would make HIV almost as easy to get as the flu. if that were how HIV were transmitted, who wouldn’t be HIV positive? HIV is transmitted through sex (virtually exclusively penetrative sex), needle sharing (and in the past, blood products/transfusions), and mother-to-baby (if the mother is … Continue reading Hey… this is a really dumb question… 😅 Say I was getting tested for HIV at a free clinic, and I placed my Iphone facedown on its screen on the table people get tested on. Hypothetically, say there was dried blood or HIV particles on the table that made contact with my phone’s screen and hours later I scratch my face that has open open wounds. Could dry blood or particles from a testing table stick on my phone’s screen and then pass to my fingers which I used to scratch my face? 😅

Do you see a solution outside of accreditation for the problems of sub-par surgeons? Informed Consent is essential, but it also brings out a lot of shitty dynamics of marketplace capitalism to our issues. For example, there is a well known top surgeon who leaves bad results and who has passed the surgery off to a new doctor day of. But his patients have signed away their legal rights to class action. How can he be stopped?

As it is, gatekeeping and diagnosis doesn’t protect us from any of the dynamics of marketplace capitalism, it just makes those things slower and more expensive. We can fight the effects of capitalism by collective action, by making truthful information about shitty doctors easy to find, by organizing against those who screw us over. It … Continue reading Do you see a solution outside of accreditation for the problems of sub-par surgeons? Informed Consent is essential, but it also brings out a lot of shitty dynamics of marketplace capitalism to our issues. For example, there is a well known top surgeon who leaves bad results and who has passed the surgery off to a new doctor day of. But his patients have signed away their legal rights to class action. How can he be stopped?

punk-solas: queeranarchism: thepeoplesmanifesto: queeranarchism: mindfulwrath: Here’s a hot take: villains should be relatable. Not every villain, not every time, and certainly not to everyone at once, but there should be moments. We should, occasionally, be able to see ourselves in the bad guys, be able to understand how they got there. Because it reminds us not … Continue reading

thepeoplesmanifesto: queeranarchism: mindfulwrath: Here’s a hot take: villains should be relatable. Not every villain, not every time, and certainly not to everyone at once, but there should be moments. We should, occasionally, be able to see ourselves in the bad guys, be able to understand how they got there. Because it reminds us not to fucking … Continue reading

mindfulwrath: Here’s a hot take: villains should be relatable. Not every villain, not every time, and certainly not to everyone at once, but there should be moments. We should, occasionally, be able to see ourselves in the bad guys, be able to understand how they got there. Because it reminds us not to fucking go there. … Continue reading

I want white men to know that fascists will kill them.

queeranarchism: I want ‘apolitical’ white men to know that fascists, once they have complete control of the state, will kill them. This may not seem obvious as fascists usually aren’t talking about killing you and that isn’t among their main intentions. But they will kill you.  Maybe fascists will kill you because you were disobedient. … Continue reading I want white men to know that fascists will kill them.

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