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socialistexan:

cipheramnesia:

burninglights:

ayeforscotland:

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The sequel ‘Skull Measuring for beginners’ is scheduled for 2025.

a list of factors that CAN cause poor outcomes and fatalities in blood transfusions:

  • being crossmatched with the wrong A/B/O, RhD/rhesus, or HLA group
  • Blood that isn’t properly screened for blood borne disease, increasing the risk of transmission of HepC, vCJD, and HIV/AIDs
  • massive transfusion protocols, which have been associated with a minor increased risk in hemolytic transfusion reactions, air embolism, hyper- and hypo- kalemia (blood potassium), magnesia (blood magnesium), and calcemia (blood calcium)
  • Improper storage of blood and blood products like plasma/FFP and platelets

A list of factors that there have no substantial scientific proof of being linked with poor outcomes and fatalities in blood transfusion:

  • the sex of the donor

Currently, in the UK, there via a shortage of blood donors; in particular donors from Afro-Carribean backgrounds, whose blood is more likely to be a HLA match for transfusions for sickle cell anaemia and beta thalassaemia sufferers.

I guarantee you that if you’ve gone into haemorrhagic shock, or are at risk of sickle cell crisis, the absolute last thing you’re going to be thinking about is the sex of your donor, because without blood — no matter who donated it — you’re going to die.

Blood transfusions save lives — no matter the donor’s sex — to say that donor sex is related to adverse outcomes is at best, blatant misinformation with limited if any scientific backing, and at worst, modern day phrenology that’s playing dice with people’s lives.

(The data Rowling uses comes from 3 trials, all of which agree that a. further studies with wider sample sizes are needed, and b. the cause is likely due to an immunological factor rather than anything to do with endocrinology. Also, bias of interpretation is A Thing, folks.)

Absolutely no way her new interest in blood impurities could be leading to anything I’m sure.

Also one of the foundational movements of the AIDS crisis was lesbians organizing blood donations to give to help people dying of AIDS, because gay and bisexual men (and trans people btw) were barred from donating blood and the Cisgender heterosexual world wanted to leave them there to die.

Women donating blood to men is an important part of our history, and to latch on to eugenicist pseudoscience instead just so you can shit on trans people and reinforce your bioessentialist world view is extremely telling.

Really interesting coming from the self-proclaimed Lesbian Defender.

fuckinginsanegirl4ever:

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theres no way this is actually happenibg i refuse to believe it sorry

sad-and-woeful:

redpandarascal:

Hi! I’d like to clarify something about the accreditation of this comic.

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It’s by Matthew Inman, and you can find the original comic at his blog, “The Oatmeal”, and I’m posting it below as well.

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Reblog if you want to flatten Christian values with the gayroller 2000

citrusmillie:

batzzzzz:

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Rool

all tumbrlinas come from a common ancestor

morggo:

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YOU CREATE YOU, ISN’T THAT BEAUTIFUL?

onefey:

chongoblog:

Wanna give a quick shoutout to the federal judge last week who struck down the Arkansas law that tried to outlaw gender-affirming care for minors, not only ruling it unconstitutional, but including 311 statements of fact all going against the gender-affirming care ban in a ruling that was 80 pages long. Especially since these statements make it harder for transphobes to appeal and iirc this is considered precedent.

name, don’t forget to credit him by name! BIG thank you to judge james moody jr. for protecting trans kids in my state!!

one-time-i-dreamt:

There was an afterlife but you were reincarnated as a space jellyfish (art by @dimensionsfae).

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secondlina:

lemon-socks:

reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

I reblog  the money pigeon because I love him.

unforth:

mihrsuri:

headcanonsandmore:

Christopher Eccleston would be so good as Sam Vimes it’s not even funny.

Consider also: he plays opposite Siddig El Fadil as Vetinari

I’m not even in Discworld fandom but I need this like air omfg.