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My friend Jen, the personal trainer, is really sick in hospital. She's been struggling with bronchitis for a few weeks, then got admitted Monday with a collapsed lung which they suspect she's been walking around with for a month. They drained 3L of fluid from her lungs and her liver was going into failure. After numerous tests including an emergency biopsy, she's been diagnosed with tuberculosis and has started treatment.

(Continued - asking a fun favour)

meta 

Use it or don't, that's up to your instance rules, but actively undermining the content warning system is ableism and only serves to make you look like a prick :dont_at_me:

musing on my nationality, nlpol, racism 

Me: I'm not indigenous so I'm not really Canadian, just bad at being Dutch
Netherlands: *has throngs of racists defending the Zwarte Piet "tradition" violently*
Me: ...maybe I don't want to be good at being Dutch either

Y'all better never misgender Godzilla's daughter ever again!

Out of curiosity and lots of people are doing it, does anyone here have a crush on me?

Meta hot take: Mark wants you to treat CWs like headlines 

If you're worried about important stuff not getting seen because you're putting it behind a CW, treat the CW like a headline or email subject line. You'll get engagement from the type of folks who would engage regardless, but you'll also put that seed of information into the heads of those who may skip over an un-CWed post on a topic.

That way you're getting the jist of your point across while also warning folks about the specifics.

other people asserting their identity in a way that's uncomfortable or confusing to you does not constitute "erasure" of yours, even if there's a bit of overlap

Reminder that aromantics exist and are valid 💚

Sorry heteros, but pride month isn’t ending. We’re heading into pride month 2 baby

Find a cool product on #Amazon?

That company exists OFF Amazon, too.

1) #DDG company name.

2) Order from their site.

2a) Can usually find a 10% code!

3) Still get product in 2-8 days.

4) Company avoids losing 25% margin share to Amazon.

5) You avoid giving money to #Bezos.

This got a lot more attention than I expected for a random cutepost, the moth plush is Squishable's Mini Rosy Maple Moth, coming out in mid-July

squishable.com/squishables/min

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