I’m honestly not particularly enjoying the epic dirtbag left joke of covid-19 as “le boomer remover” since it falls into the classic american generational war politics mess of thinking that all old people are wealthy conservatives, and also it just kinda comes off as this uh, bizarrely homicidal cope for people who are upset with the results of the democratic party primaries.
I happen to be in the at-risk demographics not due to age, but because of my general health. Some of the jokes I’ve seen have been less than inspiring in terms of seeing who my comrades are.
like, the second i saw these jokes flare up i was like “cool, everybody doing this is either cishet or completely disconnected from the lgbt community” since one of the at-risk demographics are immunocompromised people, which anybody with a passing knowledge of lgbt history would know are a significant group within our community, and like, even if they weren’t, wishing danger and death on huge numbers of people with health conditions solely to get back at some old conservatives comes off as some social darwinist eugenics shit.
The whole thing is *absolutely* some eugenics shit. Thinking that disabled & chronically ill & HIV+ people dying is a desirable thing is literally straight up eugenics ideology, idc if they call themselves leftist or not
I can’t believe “it’s a bad thing to wish for people’s death, even if you are ideologically opposed to them” is a discourse we have to be having.
A of all, meeting out death in retribution always catches the innocent as collateral damage— you only have to look at the justice system to see that.
And B of all, wishing for the death of an entire class of people has a lot of names, but “justice” isn’t one of them! Consider the orientation of your FUCKING heart!
“Just don’t touch your face,” they tell us, as if I don’t wear glasses that slide down my face and need to be adjusted roughly every 75 seconds.
SO!
the “don’t touch your eyes” thing is a hard habit to break!
but, your local femme has a tip: mascara. if you rub your eyes while wearing mascara, you get All Kinds of Unpleasant Clues That You Fucked Up! gritty texture on your fingers and eyes. smears. shame.
don’t want to LOOK like you have make up on? no worries. mascara comes in a variety of colors, including clear.
this is literally the wildest reaction ive seen about tom hanks being tested positive for covid19. also he was shirtless while he said this. this is what happens when you name your son chet
I was down at the grocery store earlier and they were totally out of anything resembling disinfectant, so for anybody in the same situation stressing out about COVID-19 here’s a PSA.
I used to work in a microbiology lab that studied the kind of bacteria that can actually kill you, and had the whole rigmarole of “how to not accidentally cause a disease outbreak” training while I worked there. You know what the standard disinfectant is for wiping down a lab bench on which you’ve been working with actual tubes full of live pathogens?
1 part household bleach and 9 parts water in a plastic spray bottle.
If you’re the kind of person who cleans with bleach this is probably barely going to look like anything (because basically everyone who uses bleach to clean uses way more than they need to), but trust me, this is what scientists who make their living handling germs that can kill them consider an adequate amount of bleach to kill absolutely everything.
Just don’t use it immediately before or after other cleaners because bleach loves to react with things to make noxious gas.
P.S.: Plain old soap will also reliably kill coronavirus.
Anonymous asked: How do you do online movie nights? Do you use some sort of website to sync up the movies? Do yu have discord open or something to chat while you're watching? I've been thinking of doing this with some friends who live far away and I'm curious of your methods.
Discord has a very handy “go live” feature you can use to share your screen in a voice chatroom! Syncing up the movie/show is also very doable with something as simple as a countdown (which I think is how we did it back in the ollllld DS9 watch party days).
Piggybacking off this to sing the praises of this really remarkable and seamless feature Discord has natively! (As a reminder, Discord is free!) In your server, once you have a voice chatroom set up, hop into that guy and look for the new Go Live! icon in the bottom left.
Once you hit that, it pops up a window that asks what application (or whole screens!) you want to share with your friends.
Just pick the window with the movie you want to share (or the screen, if you want to share the whole thing), and it’ll ask you to confirm. Hit Go Live & you’re up!
Once you’re up, a little LIVE icon pops up next to your name in the chat, and your stream window displays in the bottom left. Friends can double-click on your name to join your stream. Sound is transmitted and everything! (The host does control the master volume, which is affected by their own in-app volume controls, so they need to make sure it’s turned up, but the watchers can turn it down individually as well.)
Quality-wise, it’s been EXCELLENT for us. It’s certainly a little pixelated in high-action scenes, but it’s extremely watchable and subtitles have never been an issue in terms of visibility or quality. It’s been tons of fun and way easier than going through those shady group chat rooms like rabbit, or trying to get five people to hit PLAY at the same time.
Highly recommended! It’s been basically seamless so far!
Wall street bailed out again, Sanders’ California win, Europe’s banned, don’t shake hands. blame it on the gays again. Telepreacher’s got a con, Detroit turns the water on, Polls closed, we’re hosed, bring the fucking zombies on!
Don't give up. Unless you have to for a little while. Then don't panic. CONTAINS: Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons, Critical Role, History, Current Affairs, Space, Cats, and Etc. Adult.
