i think one of the most valuable pieces of internet savviness comes down to recognizing which types of people and arguments warrant a thought out response and which ones warrant a clean and simple “your mom suck me good and hard through my jorts”
i get annoyed scrolling around social media a lot because i end up seeing so much content from little 4chan adjacent goofballs whose only intent is to get a rise out of people and score very cool internet irony points, and i often get tempted to try to start a rapport with them to point out the irony in feeling so counter culture and edgy while espousing the same beliefs as everyone’s racist great uncle if he frequently jacked off to anime, but then i remember the most important thing for these people to know: that their mom sucks me, good and hard, through my jorts
On October 11, 1988, ACT UP members from all over the country descended on the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, MD, in an action they called “SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FDA.”
ACT UP activists demanded that the FDA make its drug approval process faster and more ethical in order to get more experimental drugs into the bodies of people who needed them. They demanded that drug trials include women, people of color, IV drug users, and all other people with AIDS who had traditionally been excluded from trials and therefore denied access to new drugs.
As a result of the action and ACT UP’s continued lobbying, the FDA adopted ACT UP’s proposed structure for drug trials, Parallel Track, which greatly expanded access to experimental medicines.
the internet can be a terrifying place for young girls. A lot of what you see online is stuff you cant process until you’re older, and now that I’m an adult I look back and I realize how fucked up the interactions I had online were, and how those incidents had real life repercussions when I was still a minor. Protect girls.
It’s terrifying how much of girlhood is looking back in retrospect and realizing how inappropriate it all was.
