ThePrettiestOne

wilwheaton:

This is Martin Shkreli. He’s a despicable piece of shit.

Why? You ask?

Well:

Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection.

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[…]

“This isn’t the greedy drug company trying to gouge patients, it is us trying to stay in business,” Mr. Shkreli said. He said that many patients use the drug for far less than a year and that the price was now more in line with those of other drugs for rare diseases.

“This is still one of the smallest pharmaceutical products in the world,” he said. “It really doesn’t make sense to get any criticism for this.”

[…]

Yeah, nobody really uses this drug, so he’s totally doing a great thing! Oh, except for:

Turing’s price increase could bring sales to tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year if use remains constant. Medicaid and certain hospitals will be able to get the drug inexpensively under federal rules for discounts and rebates. But private insurers, Medicare and hospitalized patients would have to pay an amount closer to the list price.

Well, this is probably just a one time thing. I mean, he’s only 32 and … oh.

In 2011, Mr. Shkreli started Retrophin, which also acquired old neglected drugs and sharply raised their prices. Retrophin’s board fired Mr. Shkreli a year ago. Last month, it filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accusing him of using Retrophin as a personal piggy bank to pay back angry investors in his hedge fund.

This is what happens when a country like America allows something as fundamental as the health of the human beings who live in this country to be a thing that shitbags like Martin Shkreli can use to get rich. This is disgusting, and wrong, and nothing will be done to stop this because PROFITS.

(via Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight - The New York Times)

buffyannesummers:

GREENDALE SEVEN APPRECIATION
    day thirteen 
         ↳ love day | shirley bennett


All in a Day’s Work: Nichelle Nichols Flew in a NASA Mission This Week:

Back in August we reported that 82-year-old Nichelle Nichols would soon become one of the first-ever non-essential personnel to fly as part of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) mission, and now the intrepid space explorer has the pics to prove it!

Nichelle joined the SOFIA mission on Tuesday, September 15th, and described the experience on her blog Starpower:

This SOFIA flight will be observing star-forming regions, first in the constellation Sagittarius, then Aquila and Cygnus. They’ll be utilizing radio telescopes to detect emission from ionized hydrogen produced by young stars. Finally, we’ll be looking at a protostar in Taurus.”

Read the full piece here

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER NICHELLE!

pumpkins: nice
those tiny little mini pumpkins. the small ones. you know what i'm talkin' about: Really Nice

jellovich:

GET TO KNOW ME MEME: FAVORITE FRIENDSHIPS [1/5]

Eliot Spencer x Parker x Alec Hardison |  Leverage | “We agreed we all change. For better or worse, we change together.”

Stop excluding Black women from fat acceptance movements

perpetualdistress:

God damn Bernie 🔥🚨💥🔥🚨💥🔥🚨💥

Someone: Have you read this book?
me: no but i know what the book is about, all the characters names, what people think of it, and all the controversy surrounding it. So it's kind of like I read it.

Sexism in the workplace is used by men to bond, says academic:

scientific-women:

I’ve seen some comments around here about how Tim Hunt’s comments were “taken out of context” or “just a joke.”  Here is exactly why these “jokes” aren’t funny, regardless of context.  It’s called microaggression, and it makes women feel unwelcome while the men bond with each other.

when you suddenly remember that email you meant to send six months ago

“Girls have always read comics. There’s nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.”

- Kelly Sue DeConnick (via captainelizabeth)

The White House no longer minces words. President Obama's administration is using the freedom that comes with not having to run for another election to maximal effect.

The White House called out Donald Trump specifically and the GOP generally for their support of prejudice and intolerance in their policies and actions. This was triggered by Trump's silence after a supporter made offensive remarks towards Muslims and the president.

The White House was specific. And it had prescient advice for the GOP that it should heed.

"People who hold these offensive views are part of Mr. Trump's base," said Josh Earnest. "Mr. Trump himself would be the first to tell you that he's got the biggest base of any Republican politician these days. Now it is too bad that he wasn't able to summon the same kind of patriotism that we saw from Senator McCain, who responded much more effectively and directly when one of his supporters at one of his campaign events made the same kind of false claims.

Now what is also unfortunate is that Mr. Trump isn't the first Republican politician to countenance these kinds of views in order to win votes. In fact, that is precisely what every Republican presidential candidate is doing when they decline to denounce Mr. Trump's cynical strategy, because they are looking for those same votes.

Now other Republicans have successfully used this strategy as well. You will recall that one Republican congressman told a reporter that he was David Duke without the baggage. That congressman was elected by a majority of his colleagues in the House of Representatives to the third highest-ranking position in the House. Those same members of Congress blocked immigration reform. Those same members of Congress oppose reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. Those same members of Congress couldn't support a simple funding bill because they are eager to defend the confederate flag.

So those are the priorities of today's Republican Party. And they will continue to be until someone in the Republican Party decides to summon the courage to stand up and change it."

That response was very well designed. It not only called out the Republican Party as one that explicitly uses prejudice as a tool, but it forced the next question. It demands that the Republican Party answer lest the answer be implicit: The party is in fact one that countenances hate, prejudice, and intolerance.

orevet:

glumshoe:

I got caught up in the idea of an alien species somehow recognizing other organisms not by physical attributes or scent or anything, but by somehow sensing DNA - and thus having a lot of difficulty discerning between a human being and a cactus due to “strong family resemblance”.

“And how are you today, Mrs. Johnson?” 

“Grognak, you’re speaking to my aloe vera plant.”

“Oh for the love of…all you earthlings look the same to me.”

lonepapi:

*removes one earbud* fuck you want

homoglobinopathy:

The most read, most cited, and most well respected medical journal in the world had this to say about the Houses attempt to defund Planned Parenthood 

Welp I can rest in peace now…

invisiblefemmeofcolor:

“Pixel Princess”- If you want to be a Gawd/Gawdess/Gawdex you have to create yourself in your own image. These photos represent me in my rawest form. This is for all the Black n Brown queer kids who feel weird. We are magik!   

Shot by: Ursi Yusra

Styled by: Me

stormfan27:

Storm Cosplay

allooooonsy:

Torchwood + text posts 5/?

Caps from (X)

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 20, 2015

“For those on the left who watched an obstructionist Congress spit Obama’s attempts at compromise back in his face for eight years, it’s easy to see a candidate like Sanders as the unrepentant voice of real change—someone who views the political right as an instrument of billionaires, and has the bona fides to oppose them with the knowledge that the mythical “middle ground” has become a dangerous fantasy.
 
His résumé precedes him—Sanders voted against the first Iraq War, against the Patriot Act, and against the second Iraq War. He opposed NAFTA before it was signed, and he opposed the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act that kept commercial and investment banks separate, and may have prevented the financial crisis. He wasn’t silent in his opposition—on YouTube, you can watch Sanders predict exactly what would happen in the aftermath of Iraq in a speech from 2002, or see him berate Alan Greenspan for the economic ideology that would lead to the recession, or witness his eight-hour filibuster after Obama extended the Bush tax cuts in 2010.
 
It’s a record that distinguishes Sanders from most of his Democratic colleagues, including Hillary Clinton, who voted for both the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, accepts corporate money from super PACs, supported the trade agreements, and opposed gay marriage until 2013. To the hordes of progressives flocking to his side, Sanders is a rare phenomenon—a politician who walks the walk.”

- Behind the scenes with Bernie Sanders: Three days in Iowa that explain why Hillary’s fading and the Dems have a new front-runner

jabletown:

i should stop doing this

non-cat owners, hearing a weird noise at night: oh god, this is it for me, i'm done for. that's got to be a serial killer who climbed in the window, or a ghost, or perhaps satan himself to drag my soul to the pits of hell
cat owners, hearing a weird noise at night: god damn it scooter go to bed

ghoulishghouls:

#that little bat has no clue that it is embodying halloween right now

 

#because it does not understand what holidays are #it does however #understand what pumpkins are #as it can eat those #it cannot eat halloween

when you need subtitles on TV because processing spoken language is hard, but the subtitles distract you from what you’re watching

dillas-donut-shop:

We haven’t forgotten about you. RIP.

sentientcitizen:

micdotcom:

Key & Peele have done it again. 

Their enlightened pirates sketch is actually the perfect guide to consent.

Watch the video, you won’t regret it.

flapperwitch:

Today my friend pointed out a thing so I got mad

medievalpoc:

kehinki:

tenhoursinthelab:

steeple333:

somethingratchet:

sleepisforlovers:

oldfilmsflicker:

movie #217 - Suffragette

white women suck.

boy if they Deltas aren’t depicted at that march, I want everything to burn.

Hi - I’m pretty sure this movie is about the British Suffragette movement so I’m not sure why you’re bringing up an American march. If the Delta’s were also important to the British movement I’d be interested to hear about it.

I’m pretty sure Britain had many prominent Indian and other Asian suffragettes, so it doesn’t excuse the fact that this movie is 100% white. So, to reiterate:

white women suck.

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh, was a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union. She campaigned for votes for women nationally as well as locally in Richmond and Kingston-upon-Thames. She was often seen selling the newspaper The Suffragette outside Hampton Court Palace where she lived - her father had been close to Queen Victoria, and the family were given the use of the Palace’s apartment rooms.On 18 November 1910, known as ‘Black Friday’, she led a 400-strong demonstration to parliament together with Mrs Pankhurst. As clashes broke out between the police and protestors, over 150 women were physically assaulted.

Sophia was not the only Indian suffragette. An Indian women’s group took part in the 1911 coronation procession of 60,000 suffragettes.

Sophia also belonged to the Women’s Tax Resistance League, whose slogan was ‘No Vote, No Tax’. Her refusal to pay tax led to her prosecution several times and some of her valuable possessions were impounded.

[source]

See also: Decolonizing Higher Education: Black Feminism and the Intersectionality of Race and Gender by Heidi Safia Mirza (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

I’m gonna go ahead and say that Indian and Black British Suffragettes are important, tenhoursinthelab.

lizzledpink:

pro writing tip: if you have the choice between a female character sacrificing herself or her well-being, or doing the same thing through some kind of device or power or illusion or item or magic or something:

don’t fucking write the sacrificial female character thing