aphotic-ink.bsky.social
Reader, knitter, scribbler, hopeful idealist. Largely owned by cats. Clay and magic words. (Words my own, no-one else's.) She/her. Sometime delightful hooligan.
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One of the cats woke me up at 3:20. I shut her outside the bedroom and tried to get back to sleep.
4:50, gave up and got up and fed the cats. Breakfast and meds. Put away dishes. Cleaned the litter.
"Weary" is such a good word.
I hope your nap works and helps.
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PS: washing your hands does extremely little for this airborne virus. Just wear the goddamn mask.
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So yeah. I get pretty mad with people who have decided they’re so special that they don’t need to care about not killing or disabling others. It’s a shit way to go through life, and it’s shit for the people around them.
Some people liken it to drunk driving. I’m inclined to agree.
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You may have decided you’re fine risking your own life and limb, but your neglect of others is not okay.
You could kill someone. You could ruin lives.
Have a conscience.
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You think I like masking all the time? It’s sensory hell. I hate it. But I have no choice if I want a fighting shot at, y’know, not dying. My immune system has taken a beating.
The least you could do is put on a mask when you see mine. And I do mean the absolute least.
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I recognize this is not the done thing, but we really ought to be taking better care of our vulnerable in this time of eugenics and hostility. You don’t know who will get sick. You don’t know if you’re passing this disease to someone who will become disabled or die.
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FURTHER: COVID can spread even when a room is empty. If I am sick and I sit in a doctor’s office breathing my virus into the air, the next person to walk in gets a faceful of ol’ spiky.
This is why it’s critical to mask in healthcare settings, even if you’re the only one there. For now.
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We know better now, so you should be doing better.
COVID protection works best in layers: clean circulating air, being away from crowds, holding gatherings outdoors, and most of all:
Being a goddamn decent human and masking indoors or when in crowds.
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Also? If you feel the need to call my masking record into question, please refer to the fact that I had COVID alpha, which came in before masking was recommended.
In fact, if you’ll recall, we were told not to at first.
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"What we have already tried that so far hasn't worked is:
* whole milk
* bioshield
* baby shampoo
* bentonite clay
* rescue remedy
* baking soda in water-supposedly for tear gas- doesn't work for pepper spray
* vinegar & water-ditto
* lemon juice & water-ditto"
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The Black Cross Health Collective did (volunteer) trials with various pepper spray remedies - over 20 years ago.
Milk did *not* work.
(And the BC folks I knew said it was uniquely stinky - even for non vegans. Days in jail - reeking of rancid cow juice. Erp.)
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It is absolutely buck wild to me that these columnists sincerely believe that it is a virtue to actively spend time with people who want to make us suffer and die, that it’s somehow virtuous to just hang around and avail ourselves to people who are actively trying to drive us out of public life.
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I said in an interview that I have a lot of empathy for you because you lost your dream, too.
But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.
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I feel like the longer I run this clinic the more complicated it gets.
Obviously money can’t fix everything but if you have $5 or so to reup our patient fund for June I’d be very grateful
wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250...
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Congrats!
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If I could change one thing about US culture, it would be this unshakeable and absolutely backward belief that life must be earned, and generating profit is how you earn it.
Life is a human right. Profit must be earned, and those who want to earn it must respect human rights in order to do so.
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One of the reasons that the suggestion to “learn to sit with your discomfort” is so powerful is because it teaches you how to recognize when you’re in the throes of cognitive dissonance and to develop strategies to keep it from making you an asshole.
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Also: conditions at FoxConn and other factories are grim, but the people saying “Americans would never put up with this” have perhaps not read about how workers are treated in Amazon warehouses.
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Disabled World Building:
wiscon2025.sched.com/event/20eur/...
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I have five saws, one of which is a butcher's saw.
Just putting that out there.
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...ISTG, my gut reaction was "oh, maybe it'll change when that's next year's variant."
I mean, not long-term, but maybe it'd change. For a season.
(Fscking polycrisis.)
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Because, again, people aren't developing visible markers of illness and dropping dead within a couple of days of exposure to SARS-CoV-2.
So obviously it's Not That Bad. /s