If nothing else before this had locked in that this era of Doctor Who was going to be incredible – this episode was it.
No Moffat-isms that made the Doctor or the Companions the special center of attention, nothing. The Doctor didn’t interfere, didn’t give Rosa Parks the magical courage to be a hero for standing up for what she believed in, nothing. The Doctor and her companions were just there, involved but just background to the amazingly powerful thing that Rosa Parks herself did.
it really is amazing that people can see how straight people historically classifed being gay as a mental illness and know now that it was Completely Not True and based entirely on oppression and othering the LGBT community, yet still turn around and be like ‘my cis doctor said that being trans is a mental illness so it is! fuck transtrenders!!’ like you’re really gonna just fall for this again. really
He would come to work at Bletchley Park in his pajamas and sometimes used a tie as a belt
He chained his tea mug to the radiator next to his desk because he was convinced someone would steal it due to the lack of cutlery in wartime England
He briefly brewed ale in Hut 8, the same room in which he decrypted Nazi codes, before someone higher up made him stop
He broke the chain on his bicycle and instead of fixing it or getting a new one he calculated exactly how many times he could peddle from point A to B before the whole thing fell apart.
He also refused to share this number so nobody else could use his bike.
He joined Home Guard (which was kind of like the army reserves) during World War II as a hobby because he wanted to learn how to shoot a gun, and once he learned that he straight up stopped going.
They told him if he didn’t continue with his shifts he’d be persecuted under military law, and he told them he wouldn’t be, because he had just written “NO” on the terms and conditions sheet when signing up.
He was sent to codebreak in America for awhile and he was overwhelmed by Americans being friendly and chit-chatty so he ended up talking loudly about how he’d been propositioned by a (fellow) gay man at his hotel so everyone would be weirded out and leave him be.
He had a teddy bear named Porgy he would practice his speeches to.
Honestly so much of his life was amazing and tragic but he was also just a weirdo nerd and I love him so much
i think the hip new trans thing to do should be choosing as inconvenient a name as possible. like, you have a sibling of the same gender? choose their name. choose ur parent’s name. choose ur pet’s name. choose ur best friend’s name. make ur name a common noun (that isn’t already a name like lane is). call urself “chair.” open the dictionary to a random page and point, now That’s ur name. have a different name for each day of the week
Good morning I’m Swim and I’m here to be fucking nuisance
whats up my name is nineteen i’m nineteen years old and i never learned how to read
Make no mistake. Trans people, especially trans women, are the canary in the coal mine. If the United States government manages to pass legislation making it essentially illegal to be trans again, mark my words it WILL continue on up to sending us right back into McCarthyism and the “kill or imprison anything you disagree with or dislike” policies of the 1950s (not that that hasn’t already been happening under the radar, but it’s going to be More).
There really are people out there who are acting like suggesting genetic testing to “confirm the identity” of a group of people isn’t a wildly dangerous thing for a government to start doing. This is not a door that should be opened.
The system is corrupt and voting people in doesn’t fix it but y’all literally reblog shit every day that could be fixed with local policy that is already fixed in other states and counties. You can literally vote and also do grassroots work and community work and revolutionary work ALSO. Like they don’t cancel each other out you are not being w revolutionary by not participating and hurting disabled and elderly people in your community and students etc. by not voting locally like shut the fuck up
Also voting a LOT will fix things. If everybody was voting in every election they could, from school board to president, real change can happen. People can’t just vote for president and maybe senate and then claim that voting is pointless.
And I would argue that voting locally is even more important overall! So few people vote in their local elections that your actions there can make an utterly huge difference.
Your local government controls the water you drink; I’d say that’s fairly important
One of the reasons I feel so comfortable using Tumblr over other social media is because this site is clearly too incompetent to be evil.
The basic business model of a social network is to harvest commercially valuable personal data and sell it, most famously via targeted ads. Anyone visiting my blog can clearly see that I am a queer furry who’s into video games and art. And yet I am only served ads for funeral homes, Bible story DVDs, and the current president’s reelection campaign (in 2018 for some reason)
Needless to say my click through rate has not been very good
The generic Adrenaclick will cost $109.99 for two doses, compared with $649.99 for the same amount of drug in an EpiPen. That’s good news, both for financial and safety reasons: STAT reported last year that some parents and institutions had begun filling up syringes with epinephrine as a cost-cutting measure, a DIY solution that could pose great risk to the children who may have eventually needed injections. A more affordable alternative will help ensure safer epinephrine injections.
That’s assuming, though, that the people who need these devices know exactly what to ask for when they’re sitting in their doctors’ offices. Otherwise, they’ll still be stuck with the overpriced product. Here’s why: The mechanism by which Adrenaclick injects the drug is slightly different from EpiPen’s mechanism, so the Food and Drug Administration has ruled that the two are not therapeutically equivalent. That distinction is important because it means a prescription for an EpiPen cannot be filled with Adrenaclick. If you want the cheaper option, you have to have an Adrenaclick prescription.
You must ask your doctor for an Adrenaclick prescription!
I also found a coupon from Impax on 0.15mg and 0.3mg epinephrine injection, USP auto-injectors, which appear to be the generic version of Adrenaclick; these coupons cover up to $100 per pack for 3 packs of these injectors (6 total injectors).
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