So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”

7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.

The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.

Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.

Just saw an update to this story. Jan 15th, 2026. Looks like the study has been.... postponed and altered? In a way that is being called a cancellation?

The phrasing is confusing me and I am not sure if this is a very good headline. However I found more information on a story some of us are following, so, here it is.

Partial text, to explain why this article is confusing me:

By Melody Schreiber Thu 15 Jan 2026 13.11 EST (Retrieved Thu 15 Jan 2026, 11:08 AM PST)

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Officials in Guinea-Bissau say the trial will still happen, according to one journalist on the press call. But Africa CDC officials said the trial would only move forward once it has been redesigned to address ethical issues. There were “still some conversations happening” between Guinea-Bissau officials and the US on how to conduct a trial like this ethically, and Africa CDC, which is not affiliated with the HHS, had assembled a team to make sure Guinea-Bissau officials “receive the adequate support to ensure that this study, if it has to happen, will also fit the ethical regulations”, Boum said.

The design of the study has not been made public by the researchers or by health officials, but a leaked version was published by Inside Medicine on Thursday. An HHS official told the Guardian after publication that the protocol is now being updated and the leaked version is not finalized. That would mean the trial would not proceed as it has been described so far.

The official did not offer a timeline for when the study would be finalized, but said the US was trying to move as quickly as possible before vaccines roll out to all Guinea-Bissau newborns in 2027. “This study is going to proceed as planned,” the official said.

Guinea-Bissau, which underwent a coup in November, appears to have replaced all top officials, including at the ministry of health. Previous officials did not respond to media inquiries, and the number and email address for the health ministry appear to be disconnected.

“The good guys won,” said Paul Offit, an infectious diseases physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a former member of the vaccines and related biological products advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The cancellation news was “extremely heartening”, he said, adding that except for the birth of his children, he had “never been happier”.

The same way Alastor pretended to act as a father figure to Charlie to piss Lucifer off, he will pretend to be close to Lucifer to piss Lilith off, making Lucifer inadvertently fall in love with him, making radioapple canon. In this essay I will

you will probably not look like a skinny white anime girl when you transition you will likely look like someone's mom and you need to realize how swag this is

I saw a picture of my mom last week and did a double take because we both realized how similar we look. skinny white anime girls are not real women but your mom is. I promise you look like a real woman

Shoutouts to the funniest possible tags on this post

As someone who ships both radioapple and lucilith, I don’t understand why radioapple fans love to make Lilith look like an abusive wife??

I’m seeing people make fake audition sheets, saying that Lilith hates lucifer? This isn’t true and I have lucifers actual audition sheet, it doesn’t mention that anywhere (pic below)

I hope these radioapple/lucifer fans know that lucifer would absolutely hate them for saying these things about his wife

Tbh, ik Viv says that they are like Morticia and Gomez, but there were some things that just felt a bit weird in what they did show of lucifer and liliths relationship. I 100% believe they were happy and in love. But they've also been together for 10,000 years. Thats a lot of time. And given everything that happened, and Lucifer apathy to the very subjects that Lilith seemed to care for. I cant imagine a small bit of resentment didnt begin to form.

It was weird that in more than anything, it was shown that Lilith would take Charlie away from Lucifer. This could be a one off (and I would like to believe that) and ik how depression can affect soneone. But it was weird that for someone who loves his daughter so much, he seemed to have limited contact with her as she grew up. Its possible Lilith didnt want Lucifer's feelings towards sinners to influence Charlie (so keeping them more separated could have been, from her perspective, for the right reasons)

There was also the scene in 2x01 where Lucifer and Charlie were talking about Lilith. Charlie says that Lilith was really good at ignoring meaningless things "or people". And Lucifer's tone and expression is sad and dejected as he agrees that Lilith was really good at that. Like that was him. (But again, Lucifer has a lot of issues and barely one brain cell. Its entirely possible that he could easily take things the wrong way and fear losing everything again)

One of the comments under OPs post also highlighted Lucifer's reaction to Charlie's anger. And yeah maybe that could have been from heaven, but tbh it felt more long term ingrained in him than from his fall. This was just some of the bigger things that were noticeable

The show hasnt really done a great job making me believe that Lilith is good (or well.. not evil) For Lucifer and Charlie's sake, I want her to be how Charlie remembers. But tbh Charlie and Vox are both unreliable narrators to Liliths ambitions, but I dont think heaven would be going for genocide over peaceful protests. And Lucifer doesnt even know for certain if they're even still married. ("I'm married... still... I think?") Just give the guy a solid answer Lilith, maybe over one of his 700+ phone calls 😭

Lucifer: How could you say that?!

Alastor: Oh very easily, because it's hilarious!

Emily: *clears throat*

Alastor: Fine. Cards.

Emily: *flips through them, hands him one*

Alastor, reading: I'm sorry I insulted the memory of your friend slash family member slash pet slash rubber duck.

So like did he insult all of them in one.

Impressive

A serious short story about Lucifer’s ring.

* This is an illustration based on my AU setting, so please be mindful when viewing.

Everything here is just my own imagination.

Right after they had just started reconnecting, the first thing Alastor can’t stand is Lucifer’s ring. But he comes to realize that, more than he imagined, it has become an important part of Lucifer.

At this point, he understands there are still boundaries he can’t cross. He could try to take it by force, but he doesn’t.

When I drew this, I really thought a lot about both of their psychology—it was tough…

But from here on, their distance should slowly start to close, so I’ll continue drawing their story little by little.

Inspired by a cute button up I saw on Pinterest

“men can’t be oppressed” -> men of colour

“white men can’t be oppressed” -> gay men

“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men

“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men

“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men

“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men

“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and

we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.

I can name a class that isn’t oppressed.

Billionaires

“men can’t be oppressed” -> men of colour

“white men can’t be oppressed” -> gay men

“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men

“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men

“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men

“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men

“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and

we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.

ok listen to my appleradio outfits rant idk

Alastor clothing barely changed from the pilot episode to the main series, other than a few hue shifts in his clothing the main change they added is the white stripe to the edge of his coat. Which to me is an odd choice because Alastor's colors are red, green or black, if they wanted to implement a pop of color or just break away from the red they could've just used his colors

Instead they added a white (Lucifer's main color) stripe around his heart ("chest" but you understand the idea). I highly doubt they would add that just because. Especially since lucifer also has a red stripe around his heart (a different type of red than the on inside his coat btw)

And no other character has this other than Vox, however Vox is copying Alastor's image (plus the stripe IS red and we know how obsessed he is with that man, so i think it adds to my point)

Day 4 : True Loves Kiss

Ah, curses and kisses of true love!

A classic ♥️

Charlie is in the corner totally despairing because her dad is crushing hard on Al. That's her hotelier! And friend! I am not bitter about their carelessness for Alastor in canon, no sir

But her dad for once looks so happy and soft and carefree for like a millenia....

Some people's Home Alone hot takes are that Kevin is apparently evil for doing what most kids that age would do if they could in that situation

My Home Alone hot take is that if you walk into three consecutive death traps and still don't take the first chance to back out, you deserve everything that happens to you afterwards. Not in a moral sense, just in a "knowingly and willingly slapping a hot stove after you already got burned multiple times" sense

context according to instagram:

original image from the magazine:

Found a scan of this issue on the Internet Archive (it's the back cover). This scan is 4000x6000 for all your high resolution needs!

The caption reads: "Defeated by roses. Near Turin's Lingotto station, along a lonely path, Miss Guida Concetta Rinino, 28 years old, who was bringing a nice bunch of roses to a relative, was accosted by an unknown young man. The young woman, rather than losing heart, defended herself with extraordinary energy, using the bunch of flowers as a weapon. So it was that the scoundrel, his face all scratched up, had to flee. (Drawing by Walter Molino.)"

Incredible. At a distance I understand how the woman might appear to be the abuser and the man the sympathetic victim, but the second you zoom into the man’s face the pink-cheeked rage- not remorse, or rejection, or embarrassment- not heartbreak or despair- but RAGE- the deeper story speaks itself into your suspicions.

And the bit where they’re HER roses? Almost a relief, but also sadder, as she will arrive at whatever event without them, or with them destroyed.

Do you think when the righteous anger and anxiety and annoyance fade, when she arrives at her destination- will her loved ones applaud her? Will she be proud? Will her hands shake? Will she walk home with company from then out, and for how long?

In this moment, she is provoked into anger. Anger is good- it appears strong. But look at his face. Would you put it past him to linger there after dark, in case she returns alone?

What story will HE tell, of ‘I was perfectly polite, but she didn’t even give me a chance- women like that, they’d swoon for a jerk in a heartbeat, but kind and flattering men like me?…”

I love this piece. It paints both stories while illustrating the power dynamics and struggles at play. This should be shown in art classes

Okay the idea of lucifer being married to a succubus and then falling for a touch-averse asexual man is so peak, hell really is a punishment and his tortures just never end