Author: SarielGrace

hatey-mchaterson:

timemachineyeah:

a-spoon-is-born:

funoftheday:

You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

zaoling:

skysinger-musings:

thanks-for-the-scarf:

gojiro:

Fun Vampire Fact; the reason that Vampires traditionally cannot see their reflections in a mirror is because mirrors used to be backed with a reflective layer of silver — which, as the metal of purity, would not ‘interact’ with Vampires, who are the Devil’s work.

However, modern mirrors have used aluminum as their reflective backing for many years now — and aluminum is not a ‘picky’ metal at all. So Vampires are able to see their reflections in modern mirrors.

All I can think about is a vampire used to not seeing their reflection in mirrors for centuries, and one day they are just walking along and unknowingly pass a mirror backed with aluminum and THEY NEARLY SHIT THEMSELVES.

reblogging for that gif

artielu:

socialistexan:

fox-metro:

blackqueerblog:

I don’t even live in Texas but honestly we need politicians like Beto 

What’s so great about Beto?

  • Doesn’t take any PAC money or big donor money period. Left or right. Won’t be beholden to big money interests.
  • Already pledged to support Bernie’s Medicare for All bill should he win
  • Legalization of Marijuana, expunging records of nonviolent drug offenders.
  • He wouldn’t have voted for Kavanaugh, and he would have voted for the Violence Against Women reauthorization.
  • Expanding of LGBTQ rights.
  • Public works projects like extending broadband access to rural areas and funding for the rail project between Dallas-SA-Austin-Houston.
  • Bringing back and protecting the voting rights act.
  • Increasing money for the VA.
  • Finding healthy solutions to immigration and the boarder, just like his home town El Paso a boarder town that’s one of the safest cities in the country
  • Prison reform, ending for profit prisons.

If people under age 35 show up to the polls, Beto can win. There are enough young voters to get rid of Ted Cruz, who is a truly terrible person.

Vote in Texas!!!

fuckyeahasexual:

Remember Standing Rock.

Remember the Muslim travel ban.

Remember Afghan and Iraqi interpreters.

Remember Charlottesville.

Remember Heather Heyer.

Remember Stephen Miller.

Remember Joe Arpaio.

Remember Puerto Rico.

Remember the lifting of the ban on military gear for police.

Remember Bears Ears.

Remember “shithole countries.”

Remember the DREAMers.

Remember child separation.

Remember Steve King.

Remember the Black Voters Matter bus in Louisville, Georgia.

Remember North Dakota voter ID.

Remember Citizens United.

Remember Cambridge Analytica.

Remember dominionism.

Remember Steve Bannon.

Remember Roger Stone.

Remember Merrick Garland.

Remember Obamacare repeal.

Remember Erik Prince.

Remember Betsy DeVos.

Remember the tariffs and the trade war.

Remember net neutrality.

Remember “the enemy of the people”.

Remember the emoluments clause.

Remember Paul Manafort.

Remember Michael Cohen.

Remember gerrymandering.

Remember the federal deficit.

Remember the tax fraud.

Remember Crimea.

Remember Semion Mogilevich.

Remember Flight MH17.

Remember Vladimir Putin.

Remember novichok.

Remember NATO.

Remember Helsinki.

Remember Montenegro.

Remember Maria Butina.

Remember “I like people who weren’t captured.”

Remember “if we have them, why can’t we use them?”

Remember Xinjiang.

Remember Rodrigo Duterte.

Remember Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman.

Remember the Rohingya.

Remember refugees.

Remember HIV and HPV.

Remember Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Remember Trump “fell in love” with Kim Jong Un.

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

Remember “grab ‘em by the pussy”.

Remember the global gag rule.

Remember Roy Moore.

Remember Roe v. Wade.

Remember Christine Blasey Ford.

Remember the Paris Agreement.

Remember Scott Pruitt.

Remember ANWR.

Remember the trans military ban.

Remember “he wants to hang them all!”

Remember the pipe bombs.

Remember Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

Remember the NRA.

Remember the First Baptist Church  in Jeffersontown, and the Kroger.

Remember the Tree of Life.

Remember oversight power.

Remember voter suppression.

Remember the ineptitude, the deceit, the cruelty, and the glee.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 6th.

REMEMBER TO VOTE.

witches-ofcolor:

rachelhaimowitz:

lynati:

A huge number of people are already getting fucked over when it comes to being allowed to cast a vote in the upcoming elections. Let’s try to minimize what that number COULD be as much as possible.

It might also be useful to have the number for the ACLU written down (or already in your phone) so you can CALL THEM while still at the polling place and get whatever information is needed in order to see about having the ACLU sue them. Write down names. Get witnesses. Take photos. MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO THE POLLSTERS THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. (Unless you have reason to believe they’re going to be assholes and try to have you arrested for doing so, in which case, be as subtle as possible.)

Some more info on this, state by state.

^^ Really look at the state by state info so just in case this happens you’ll know what to do!