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Happy National Bullying Prevention Month.

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The best thing to eat to gain serious mass is your feelings.

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🎶Haaaaasa diga eebowaaaiiiiiii🎶

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Best workplace comedy of all time.

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Trying to convince myself that I can see muscles in the mirror.

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“It was all a dream…” is soap opera bullshit, and while the horror episode was well done, it doesn’t fit. And the idea of a black and white world? Ugh. It felt like they had a bunch of spec scripts to get through and decided to use Strange New Worlds to do it.

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I agree. Even Tuvix wrangled with the question of who gets to live better than that time travel nonsense this season. It’s such a fundamental sci-fi exploration (BSG meditated on it all the time) that it’s infuriating that they just glossed over it.

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SNW actively annoyed me. We now have 16 more episodes of Trek on TV for the foreseeable future and they wasted over half the season on gimmick shows. I like creativity and alternate settings, but only when used to really explore Trek’s themes, like DS9’s Far Beyond The Stars. SNW didn’t do that.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the weekend I saw these two referred to (separately) as Stellår Skateboard and Billiam Eyelash, so those are their canon names now.

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Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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"Yeah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that would be great. I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo.”

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“Yeah. Yeah, I got the memo. And I understand the policy. And the problem is just that I forgot the one time. And I've already taken care of it, so it's not even really a problem anymore.”

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“Yeah, hi. Uh, we're sort of having a problem here. Yeah, you apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports." “Oh, yeah. I'm sorry about that. I forgot.” “Yeah. See, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now, before they go out. Did you see the memo about this?”

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I used to live in Cincinnati but I’m 2500 miles away now, and I have basically no reason to fly back to KY, OH, or IN these days. I really do like where I live, but there are some things I miss about the Midwest.

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The term “Patient Zero” has an ugly and problematic history, originated from a misreading, ruined a man’s legacy, and should be avoided. It isn’t used by professionals in epidemiology.

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I could not be prouder of my bull.

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Stretching this tattoo out real nice.

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“Sometimes I still look up my abusers' names on Facebook. I consider warning the clueless people in their photographs of the Venus flytrap they are smiling next to, but I never do. “Sometimes I still look up my abusers' names on Facebook. Perhaps this, too, is a form of self-harm.”

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I saw Goody Proctor maskless at the Last Ditch.

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attach to disease transmission unless you have concrete evidence that that was their intent.

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So yeah, I have feelings about Taylor using this term to describe being someone’s ex while singing to his current girlfriend. And I implore the rest of you to never use it. The epidemiological term for the first identified case of a disease is index case, and blame should never

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he did so without regard for anyone’s health or safety, when in reality he was a victim of the same homophobic and hateful system as everyone else living with HIV, and data he provided was vital in identifying and slowing the epidemic.

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time he landed somewhere. Gaëtan was 3 years dead at that point and could not defend himself. He’s been lambasted for decades now, and because stories are more interesting than the truth, it is now widely accepted myth that one man was responsible for bringing HIV to the US, and

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first person to identify and name Gaëtan as Patient 0, and in the book he wrote every person living with HIV as a victim, which meant he needed to cast Gaëtan as a villain. And he did. He portrayed the man as an uncaring sociopathic Typhoid Mary intentionally spreading HIV every

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In 1987, Randy Shilts published And the Band Played On, which was and is a seminal work and required reading on the early days of the AIDS Crisis in the US. However, Shilts’ approach included dramatizing factual events and occasionally missing the nuance of reality. He’s the

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all inferred that the use of 0 meant he was the origin of HIV’s spread into the US, or at least a major contributor.

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The week he died, CDC made the cluster data for NYC and LA available to the press and the public. They deidentified all the people, and referred to Gaëtan as Patient O (the letter). Due to a misreading by many people in the press and public, this shifted to Patient 0, and they

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memories and records were vital in proving that HIV was sexually transmitted.

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was able to provide detailed names and dates for his sexual encounters; as a flight attendant, he knew when he was where, and men in those cities remembered having sex with the fairly unique French flight attendant. He died of AIDS-related complications in 1984. His detailed

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Patient Zero arose out of the early days of the AIDS Crisis. In 1982, CDC was studying clusters of HIV transmission, and one such cluster involved a patient named Gaëtan Dugas, a flight attendant who lived in California. He cooperated very thoroughly with CDC investigators and

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The term “Patient Zero” has an ugly and problematic history, originated from a misreading, ruined a man’s legacy, and should be avoided. It isn’t used by professionals in epidemiology.

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It’s wild that I recognized the bar in the background in that first shot. It’s one of my faves and I’m sad I’ll probably never get to go there again.

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I saw Goody Proctor maskless at the Last Ditch.

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You two please take this argument somewhere else.

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— adapted (in her text, “abusers” was originally “rapists”; “people” was originally “women”) from Blythe Baird’s “To Live In The Body Of A Survivor”

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