(coworkers reacting with laughing emojis to my slack messages) This is great. I am going to get a good grade in being a coworker, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve,

a little disconcerting to see this quake a bit further down the island chain. i am very much not a geologist or seismologist but hopefully it doesn't continue to happen!

and tsunami warnings for prefectures along the northern east coast of the main island and east coast of Hokkaido.

huge earthquake this evening in Japan - magnitude 7.4 (5/7 on the Japanese scale. already a lot of aftershocks and tsunami watches and warnings going up

i think i caught this as a kid at a shady golden corral on the east side of Cleveland

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teaaaa

haha ewww you're gonna get the rude label

life sucks. i'm tired of shivering like a chihuahua all the time

hey this is really cool. the FDA has sat on banning formaldehyde in straighteners, relaxers, and the like because (surprise!) it mostly affects people of color. I hope this passes and forces the FDA to actually do shit for once

me + long walk + short pier = ??? the possibilities are exciting

looool

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Comic cover with the title "What Does HIV Mean?" by Jordan Collver & Jaime Garcia Iglesias featuring a patchwork quilt.

Comic Page 1: A young man accompanies his boyfriend in a clinic waiting room. His phone pings with a reminder for an upcoming Queer Sewing Club session. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye outside the clinic and arrives at the sewing club, holding a Vintage City bag and waving to the instructor. He pulls out an old denim jacket from the bag and and excitedly tries it on. It's covered in badges/patches and a bit tattered but still cool. He feels good in it, but the instructor notices and appears shocked with recognition. TEXT: Most gay men in the UK have been touched by HIV in the UK in some way, whether they live with the virus or not. A central strand running… through the community… but unique to each person. Today, people with HIV can live full and healthy lives. Although there is still no cure… [background sign]: CLINIC thanks to medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and effective anti-retroviral treatments, HIV is a preventable and manageable condition. [phone message]: Reminder: Queer Sewing Club - 1hr And people living with HIV can’t pass on the virus. [building sign]: CLINIC ENTRANCE For many young gay men who have grown up having these options, it’s the only reality they’ve known. [handbag]: VINTAGE CITY “When I first came out… coincided with PrEP becoming more available.” (Caleb, 30, white, HIV– on PrEP) Clinic visits for testing, prevention and treatment are part of everyday life. “The issues of sexual health […] lots of people in the queer community go through as a rite of passage” (Tyler, 35yo, HIV neg) Seen as a matter of routine and responsibility. But it wasn’t always this way.

Comic Page 2: A colourful 80s flashback of the instructor as a younger man wearing the same jacket... it was his! He looks up anxiously at an imposing hospital building and is ushered in through the back entrance by medical staff in PPE. He sits alone in the waiting room. We next see him standing in the middle of a lively dancefloor surrounded by men dancing and chatting. He turns to his right and sees a man unravelling like a spool of thread, followed by a closeup of him stitching a badge onto his jacket with that same colour thread. He turns to his left to see another man in a different colour also unravelling, followed by another badge in the same colour. He is left holding several different coloured threads with a jacket covered in badges. Now he is sitting at a table with a small group of other men who are happily painting some protest signs. Some chat, while one lovingly puts some paint on another's nose. TEXT: Far from it, when HIV was first identified in the early 80s… [sign]: HOSPITAL it was a matter of life and, very often, death. [sign]: STAFF ONLY [sign]: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE For many gay men who lived through the 80s and 90s, HIV represents fear, loss, grief – “The AIDS Crisis.” “Literally loads of my mates died in the eighties… I was just going onto the scene at that time and the people that you would bump into…” “…suddenly they just wouldn’t be there…” “and no-one really talked about it.” (Brian, 56yo, white) “It was a fear-filled time… But…” “…there were still times when people showed incredible love to each other… I think it would be wrong to see the whole of the 80s and 90s in one big black cloak of doom and gloom. It wasn’t that.” (Paul, 64, white)

I've just been given the go-ahead to share the new comic I made with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social about his research!

"What Does HIV Mean?" 1/2

Please stay alive
Just being alive means you're pretty much a success

生きていてくださいっ
生きてるだけでおおむね成功ですっ
失敗なんてないんですっ
無理せずありのままでいてくださいっ
だからこれからもちぃたん☆と皆さんはおおむね成功ですっ☆

♩テレビやSNSは〔夢は叶う、諦めないで、前を向こう〕ばかり。
本当は毎日不安だし辛いことばかりなんだ。
辛い時は辛いって言っていいよ、逃げてもいいよ。
キミの声は聞こえているから。
生きてることだけでおおむね成功だから♩

I have faith we can do this quickly and keep our attention on a couple things tonight 🫶🏾

Akram, his siblings, & their mom have a short window to access their home *or else they’ll be homeless.*

With the giving circle, they only need £100 for a partial payment *on Friday* chuffed.org/project/help...

For the record: cool city! I mean only the airport

yeah that's how we all felt about PHL lol

used to, but ngl it was kinda a bummer

How did I NOT know Creepy Nuts was at Coachella?!? I would have sold several body parts just to see them and I haven't fucked with a music festival since like 2014

damn dude. damn.

Ooh now bsky is fooling me into double posting lol, I see you bsky

[wheezy grandpa voice]: back in my day, the bluesky just worked. You just logged on and "posted the shit' as we used to say. Yes, it was twenty aught twenty three, what a time

my jaw is just hanging

I think I'm going to spend the rest of my afternoon lying on the living room carpet. It's going to thunderstorm and I have a lot of Thoughts.

i can basically categorize every job i'm seeing into 4 groups: retail/food service; exploitative gig jobs (uber, doordash, etc.); hyper-specific to an industry; or AI training (which i consider a separate exploitative gig job because it's gonna dry up at some point, whether you like AI or not!)

hahaha it doesn't seem possible that every time i job-hunt, i find less prospects, and yet!

Fuck, this is pure dot-com vibes.

one of the problems most US americans aren't thinking about. this is the start of a huge, huge global crisis just over the horizon.