I'm Very Tired Of This "queer College Students Should Stop Supporting Palestine, They'd Kill You There!"

I'm very tired of this "queer college students should stop supporting Palestine, they'd kill you there!" I watched a hijabi ask a trans man, "but what name do you want to go by?" A butch giving a woman their hoodie so that she could keep her hair covered after the cops took her scarf. Muslim girls making sure the lesbian couple got through the system together. Religious men making sure green haired protestors got out safe. A Palestinian girl with an ex-southern baptist fiance, who definitely isn't a practicing Muslim, whose parents were raising hell for her. I don't want to hear it. Solidarity forever, free Palestine.

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The US is experiencing its largest summer Covid wave in at least two years | CNN

It may be time to dust off the face masks and air purifiers.

(CNN) - It may be time to dust off the face masks and air purifiers. The US is in the midst of a significant Covid-19 wave, with viral activity levels in wastewater the highest they’ve been for a summer surge since July 2022, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s wastewater dashboard. The CDC’s measure of national Covid viral activity in wastewater rose to 8.82 on August 10 – falling shy of a peak of 9.56 in July 2022. The CDC says the most recent data is incomplete and may change. Before it started rising again in May, it was at 1.36. “Currently, the COVID-19 wastewater viral activity level is very high nationally, with the highest levels in the Western US region,” Dr. Jonathan Yoder, deputy director of the CDC’s Wastewater Surveillance Program, said in an email. “This year’s COVID-19 wave is coming earlier than last year, which occurred in late August/early September.” Emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths are also ticking up, although not to the same extent as infections, according to the CDC’s Covid dashboard. As of the end of July, the CDC’s dashboard shows about 4are being hospitalized for Covid for every 100,000 people in a given area, up from a low in May of about one Covid hospitalization for every 100,000 people – the lowest level since the pandemic began. The CDC’s wastewater data closely aligns with what they’re seeing at the nationwide WastewaterSCAN network, too. “This is a very significant surge. The levels are very high. They’re the highest we’ve ever seen during a summer wave,” said Dr. Marlene Wolfe, an assistant professor of environmental health and public health at Emory University and a program director for WastewaterSCAN. “We’re detecting SARS-CoV-2 in 100 percent of our samples across the country right now.”

things are looking bad with hurricane milton. it is expected to rapidly intensify over the coming days. if you are in the path of this thing (southeastern united states) do not be scared. be prepared. stay safe and take care, but take it seriously!

We have three big ones and one smaller though terrible one. Others were just straight up not enough of a problem we forgot them ( we have only slightly impaired, shared memory and that’s mostly cause adhd and plural weirdness )

1. Someone being essentially and unfortunately obsessed with a derivative of Moons source caused coming out as plural to a otherwise amazing group of three we considered close friends to have to turn into cutting them off because he couldn’t get that treating Moon like Moons the fictional character exactly and can be moulded into whatever story like them is not the greatest for fostering closeness and nobody else would talk about our plurality so we couldn’t just ask them to talk to him. Unfortunately prolonged because we were so close and kept going “one more chance” until it became clear nothing was changing for too long

2. After one of our members coming out as part of a system and a fictive of a character of interest, it went fine till a server merge into a pre-existing one which people were really careful about turned into a nightmare when Moon, as Moons first personal interaction in the new server was to try and matchmake/queue-play with a member of the server and in the middle of it people started asking inappropriate questions including the new servers owner. Trying to resolve it met us with blame shifting, plurality gatekeeping, tied fakeclaiming allegations and a nice “oh and I don’t think anyone believes you” “and yeah by the way you shouldn’t be in the server because of that and this probably going to continue” and nothing was done about it despite and especially considering the server owners were partners. We had to cut off so many people it’s not even funny

3. We were in a server we felt really comfortable in for the longest time without somehow mentioning our origin and got to be friends with everyone, including another system. Come to find out, they’re very vocally and radically anti endo and while we weren’t there to say anything turned a lot of people there that type of anti endo too, including the owner. We didn’t say anything for a while HOPING they’d change, part due to not having other servers to talk to most people in but eventually got two other servers we could and ended up leaving that one as we were tired of walking on eggshells there

4. Simple one and last mentioned- join a support server out of want for help for something- find out its vehemently and radically anti endo to the point of dogpiling people who even mention they’re endo before a rule was put up against it. Theres even a head mod who’s anti endo???

Moon takes the brunt of the blame for the first two and we haven’t really been able to help Moon get over it fully. Times healed a bit but it still hurts Moon

Sorry this is so long compared to the rest. It’s funny, for as much fakeclaiming we’ve avoided somehow we got sucker punched with three big other situations that stick with us HARD and one that’s just- really disheartening and weird

considering how prevalent pluralphobia / ableism against systems is, i feel like it doesn't get talked about enough to the point where i'm not sure if singlets even realize how rampant it is.

so, new reblog game for those willing to talk about it — if you're plural, reblog this post and tell me in the tags / add on etc. an example of singlets being bigoted towards you on account of your plurality.

i'll start: someone i was acquaintances with and had spoken to once or twice was, behind my back, threatening to sexually assault and murder me over the existence of a fictive of mine.