I am passionate about this because my father in law almost died from HPV-related throat cancer. He had about an 80% chance of dying from it. He got lucky. Many people do not.

Vaccines give us the opportunity to avoid suffering and dying in so many ways. They are modern miracles. Get them

If you are an adult under 45 in the US who never received the vaccine, you are also eligible for it. (You can also get it if you’re older, but insurance might not cover it). HPV is a very common infection, but it’s not inevitable. Let’s wipe it out!

I have in fact used the example of Heinlein’s Fair Witness in analyst training!

I’m a visual thinker but not the kind that can easily rotate the object in my mind (so all those eval tests turned up bupkis, of course), so I got about as far as “Okay but what shape would- and then how would you orient- no that’d fuck perspective? Shitshitshit” and then my brain tapped out on it

just needed to turn down the volume on human existence by about 40%

The “Aw HELL no” was entirely reflexive

I need this coat. It is very fucking gender and I need it