Without pain, How could we know joy?
John Green
ALTMost people not knowing that tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest infectious disease is part of the reason tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
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OH GOD I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS AT ALL.
This is from The Fault in Our Stars, in which Augustus’s family hang Live/Laugh/Love-like calligraphic quotations on their walls. Hazel and Augustus make fun of these quotations because they simplify/essentialize complexities of suffering and injustice. The whole point of this is that these quotes won’t suffice, because Hazel and Gus are looking for the kinds of meaning that can withstand the reality of suffering (and, eventually, the finality of it).
So yeah. Okay. I’ll probably delete this later.
Some of these motherfuckers don’t work for Putin; they volunteer for him. They are getting on twitter and putting in hours of work as unpaid Putin interns.
This coffee company could never.
transparentengineerpirate asked:
Why'd you change the title of yesterday's video? You don't need to insult yourself.
Transparentengineerpirate, there is something you need to know about me. I do not exist to be happy or good or self-congratulatory or self-deprecating or whatever else.
I exist to sell coffee and socks that donate 100% of their profit to charity.
I am a machine that inputs food and oxygen and water and outputs sock and coffee marketing and other excreta.
And so when I noticed that by changing the title to something negative I could get around 800 more views per hour, I did so, because I am a moth that flies toward the light of more awesome sock and coffee-related impressions.
countingwhales asked:
dear Mr Intern,
can you try to relate TB to the awesome coffee club as I am wondering if there is a relevance. I hope this will ne a fun challenge for you
The Awesome Coffee Club exists to provide people with the world’s best coffee and support efforts to radically reduce maternal and infant mortality in Sierra Leone.
Over 1,500,000 people will die of tuberculosis this year. Many of those people will be pregnant. TB has long been a major cause of non-obstetric maternal death; untreated tuberculosis has a mortality rate of around 40% among pregnant people. And so expanding access to TB treatment (and spreading information about the global tuberculosis pandemic) is central to the work of radically reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and beyond.
callmeirony asked:
So I live in Fairbanks, Alaska. I don't usually look at fresh-food subscriptions because we're usually the exception shipping policies, but do you think your coffee would be significantly negatively affected by the increased shipping distance?
No. When our coffee gets to you in Fairbanks, it will be so much fresher than any grocery store coffee, or any Starbucks coffee, that you will be genuinely astonished by how different and better it tastes from the coffee you are likely accustomed to.
p.s. My dad lived in and around Fairbanks for several years, and then when I was in college, I attempted to follow in his footsteps for a summer. I mostly lived in Moose Pass, but one night I was in Fairbanks on a day off from work and got drunk in a bar that was mostly empty, where I befriended an older woman named Carole who told me I needed to leave Alaska as soon as possible because I was chasing something I could never find. This turned out to be good advice. Still, it is lovely up there, and lovelier still when each morning begins with a delicious cup of Awesome Coffee.
As part of temporarily doing my brother’s jobs, it is my privilege and responsibility to let you know that the AWESOME SOCKS CLUB IS BACK OPEN.
Each month, wondrously comfy socks designed by an independent artist arrives at your home, and as with the awesome coffee club, 100% of the profits go to support stronger healthcare systems in impoverished communities.
These silly socks have raised over $2,000,000 to fight maternal and child mortality, and I am so proud that my brother’s weird idea has become an absolute phenomenon. Join us!
Wait Neil Gaiman has a Tumblr I thought all the authors left after the great John Green cock sucking apocalypse of 2010 lmao
Wait’ll they find out about John Green having a tumblr.
(Also, 2015.)