FACTS!

Additions: if your viral load is suppressed by medication to the point it’s undetectable, it’s considered untransmittable, even without condoms. Children with HIV+ carriers are usually given medication when they’re born, to make sure any of the virus doesn’t take hold (which we also do to adults who fear they’ve been exposed, it’s called PEP ((Post Exposure Prophylaxis)), which is a month of medication and must be started within 72 hours of exposure).

(There’s also PreP - Pre Exposure Prophylaxis, which is taking medication if you feel you are at risk of being exposed to HIV, whether through sexual partners or sharing injection needles)

This is why we need universal free healthcare - so people can go on and have happy, healthy lives despite the HIV diagnosis. Nobody should die or live in fear when the treatment is so damn simple and effective.

HIV is not as deadly as it once was in the 1980s-1990s. 

There’s been a lot of progress in this. So long as you’re taking your medications (anti-retrovirals), it’s essentially become another chronic disease like diabetes or COPD etc. HIV patients nowadays are living into their 60s and 70s and are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease rather than opportunistic infections or AIDS defining illnesses. 

If the HIV viral load is undetectable, then your CD4 counts (your white cells that are affected by the virus) should normalise. Such that you’re no different to the general population when it comes to infection risk.

Yes, we should all still be precautious, but it’s no longer a death sentence. 

Stigma remains because of how it is transmitted.

We need to share this information as widely as possible.

Silence still Equals Death.

[image description: a widely smiling black woman hugs a black man and their two children, who are also smiling widely. The woman holds a sign reading “HIV+” and the man and the children hold signs reading “HIV-”. This image is on a tweet by bucci jenkins @/Glorico who says “bruh what”.

There are 2 replies to that tweet, by GEM @/Rozthecreator reading “the woman is hiv positive, she takes her meds which makes her count low, she can’t pass it off to her husband which makes her still able to live her normal life and reproduce. The stigmas of hiv has to stop, and as Blacks especially we have to educate each other.”

The next reply is by t a y l o r @/G14_Classified_, reading “people on this app talk about sex 24/7 but are completely ignorant when it comes to stds and how they can/can’t be contracted. Yikes”.

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i hate that even self proclaimed radicals think "people shouldnt have to work to survive" is too radical. yes yes advocate for fair wages, but dont forget those wages, even if fair, are just a prize you get for being better at capitalism than ppl like me

starvation is torture and you want to inflict it on people like me for the crime of not earning every breath I take

if a debt is just a favor with a dollar value attached, then the 'cost of living' is an unpayable debt. an unpayable debt isn't a moral obligation, it's a favor you can never repay, a lifelong yoke around your neck. if we truly want to free ourselves from tyranny and oppression then we have to start with a clearing of debt. all debt, everywhere. debt is a human invention, not a law of nature or god, and we are long overdue for a biblical jubilee.

Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

my mom was trying to chew through some really tough steak and she turned to me and said “just call me The Gnawer.” she would do numbers here

she told me she doesn't remember saying this. quote, "must have been steak-induced hysteria"

stop drawing for others. don't draw for yourself either. play video games

More Detail Isn't Always Better

When it comes to imagine descriptions, context is most important. More detail isn't always better (and it can actually make it worse sometimes).

To take an example from a real post that I can't find a link to anymore, imagine someone says, "Shocking how many people don't know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they're eating is a baby chicken." Someone else reblogs and says, "once tried desperately to make my friend understand that yolks were not, like, a liquified potentiality of a chicken, and she looked at me for a while and then said, "but they're both yellow." Then a third person reblogs this thread and says "Behold, a chicken" with an large PNG of a photo of a whole lemon with a blank transparent background." A fourth person reblogs saying "[image: a lemon.]"

That's okay. Like yes, you could say [image id: a large photo of a whole uncut yellow lemon with a transparent background.]" But that wouldn't add anything to the thread, it wouldn't help further clarify the context. In this case, the actual ID is just as good as, if not better, than the more detailed one.

The same goes for plain text transcriptions. Unless the formatting is conveying meaning, don't include it in your transcription! At best, it's extra info that doesn't add anything; at worst, it actually make your transcription harder to read than the original. For example, let's say you had this original text:

My absolute favorite character in ALL of Steven Universe is PEARL!

Which of these plain text versions is more useful?

Probably the first one, right?

I know everyone loves dunking on zionists but please please please reblog and share some GFMs. Go through Hussein's huge gfm list or my mutual aid tag, there are lives at stake and people who need help.

“Umm it will actually be very difficult for universities to divest from israel and arms manufacturers without tuition skyrocketing 🤓☝🏼” why is the financial stability of a college (and the economy at large, especially in the us) so reliant on what amounts to war profiteering to begin with? Why is that an inevitability that we’re supposed to accept?

Mystery Stranger adventures in the source, and Sesame Kaiien adventures on the First (happening at the same time heh)

Nearly 230,000 women and children are projected to die from hunger in Sudan in the coming months.

Now more than ever it is incredibly important to support community aid kitchens doing vital work on the ground.

"Go on, lash out like the beast that you are."

OK!

please donate what you can to medglobal, who are working to provide emergency relief in sudan; $12 USD provides an emergency kit, $20 provides medical PPE, & $50 will provide 50 liters of diesel fuel for hospital generators

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willowbilly pips 🐀