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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Eugenics in action. USA: "So many Americans died from COVID, it’s boosting Social Security to the tune of $205 billion." "New research finds Social Security will pay out $205 billion less in future benefits due to Covid-related premature deaths." Source: archive.md/GVwox

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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 531 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 5 days ago • 1217 comments

brief article talking about Gen Z, the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and why we need to put political exhaustion behind us 🗳️ #genz #politics #article

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What is Long Covid, Saving your spoons, Preparing for the next pandemic, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/what-is-lo...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So many people talking about community today and most of them don't even mask. I don't know how to get that through to people. You need to protect the most vulnerable in your community, as well as yourselves. That means including disabled people Covid and now bird flu are a threat to everyone

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote a brief piece for Necessary Behavior about outbreak updates as we enter our fifth year of the COVID-19 pandemic 😷🦠 #COVID-19 #covidcautious #CovidIsntOver #WearAMask

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Prior to Covid it was normal to mask in the NICU. People understood that premature babies are as vulnerable as they come and need to protected. Now? Gowns & gloves but no masking. The damage caused by anti mask rhetoric will be felt for years (possibly decades) to come.

submitted 35 days ago • 77 comments

When I hear Trump say “merit based”… I fear for the disability community. “people with disabilities, co-morbids, the elderly and infirm deserve to live too. Read that again if you have to because I want this message to sink in. No one is expendable. We all have value”

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Sound familiar? "During the emergence of AIDS in the 1980’s, public health authorities minimized the disease. News outlets reassured the public that having a “strong immune system” would prevent and stop HIV infection. We now know that is not the case." #CovidIsntOver #MaskUp

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The amount of gaslighting that’s going to occur over the next few weeks in an effort to convince you that we aren’t seeing the rise of fascism and white supremacy will be considerable. Be gentle with yourself. Stand firm. Don’t allow others to make you question what you know to be true.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

JUST IN: Another team of Mexican firefighters has landed in LA to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico 🇲🇽🇺🇸

submitted 43 days ago • 938 comments

I read a post earlier from a doctor who was explaining how they saved a life by truly listening to their patient. The problem? They listened because the patient was a young, fit, cishet white man. They described him as “strong”, a father & employed … so they took him more seriously. 🧵

submitted 43 days ago • 22 comments

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

submitted 72 days ago • 952 comments

Holy hell. RFK Jr’s team has been gunning to pull the polio vaccine. He really is trying to #MakeIronLungsGreatAgain. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

submitted 73 days ago • 58 comments

When money is the only thing you care about, art and people become little more than obstacles to surmount in order to obtain more of it.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Corporate whistleblowers from companies with government contracts are dying at an alarming rate in this country, do people really think this is normal? www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...

submitted 72 days ago • 14 comments

Another article for Necessary Behavior! This time about holiday spending and fighting back against the popularization of overconsumption. #holidays #overconsumption #writing

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On International Persons with Disabilities Day - I urge people to remember the role that privilege and financial circumstances play in someone’s ability to survive and thrive. Just like Covid caution requires a degree of financial security - disability is expensive. 🧵/1

submitted 82 days ago • 12 comments

I frequently meet illustrators who say, I’m a visual person, I have ADHD, I’ve never been a reader, and I never will be, it’s not for me. FWIW I’m a visual person with ADHD who didn’t self-identify as a reader who now reads voraciously. Here’s a short 🧵 on why and how… 1/7

submitted 85 days ago • 6 comments

“Inadequate protection at work” Yes. We need to treat COVID as a workplace health and safety issue.

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Just because a bunch of professors at Stanford say COVID’s no big deal doesn’t make it true. You know this. You know someone who’s died from covid. You know someone with long covid. You’ve probably had covid several times yourself. They are spreading misinformation because it fits their ideology.

submitted 141 days ago • 15 comments

I’m stunned that an act as simple as wearing a mask in public was a deal breaker for so many. You weren’t required to permanently affix it to your face. It could have been as easy as wearing pants & shoes. Instead people decided it was an egregious violation of freedom - and we all suffer.

submitted 81 days ago • 13 comments

It’s not “wear a mask or don’t wear a mask” it’s “wear a mask or risk long term health” We’ve learned so much about COVID in last 5 years & anyone paying attention is trying hard to avoid it Yet we can’t even get simple things like masks in healthcare. We’re making it easy for the virus to win

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

Y'all know that the website where you type in your BlueSky handle and it generates a funny, complimentary description of your account is all AI/LLM stuff, right? I've seen folks who have an otherwise strong anti-AI stance use it, and I just want to make sure that people are aware.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Most people stopped worrying about Covid the moment they were told it was only a threat to the vulnerable Many of those same folks are now telling the “vulnerable” not to worry about assisted death programs You threw us to the wayside the minute you could - we’re right to worry.

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

submitted 83 days ago • 479 comments

tiktok is becoming the new gofundme as sick americans take their shot at the viral lottery to try to pay their medical bills – inside the videos asking for engagement for kidney transplants or chemo costs in my first for rolling stone: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 84 days ago • 16 comments

This morning’s new listings on CovidAware.com: 📌 Hair salons in the Bay Area that will mask; some will work outdoors. 📌 A masks-required barber in Brooklyn. 📌 A physical therapist in Chicago who will wear an N95 if provided. HEPA purifiers and low CO2, too! #CovidAware #CovidIsNotOver

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

banned books make great holiday gifts.

submitted 84 days ago • 93 comments

During Hurricane Katrina - disabled patients were left to die and/or euthanized. We are left behind during natural disasters AND pandemics. There’s never sufficient public outcry - because too many see us as “better off dead.” Which is WHY we fear assisted dying policies.

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Masks in hospitals save lives. When masking is dropped - they saw a 25% jump in hospital acquired viral infections. When reinstated? A 33% decrease. It’s almost as though masking should be mandatory and permanent in hospital settings. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

submitted 84 days ago • 12 comments

Actor Matt McGory about facing up to the reality of #LongCovid www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Libraries are magical places for kids. Make sure to support your local library!

submitted 85 days ago • 22 comments

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -- James Baldwin, who died #OTD 1987

submitted 85 days ago • 62 comments

Artificial intelligence is not. We need a better term for what's being shoved in our faces. I'm open to suggestions.

submitted 85 days ago • 199 comments

I love saying the word exacerbate like I know what the fuck fancy words are. I’ll toss that into anything. Don’t exacerbate that sandwich by putting on too much mustard. What are you gonna do? Challenge me, the man who used the fancy word?

submitted 84 days ago • 398 comments

Had fun writing a very brief article for Necessary Behavior on the quality decline of the Internet—and on the importance of digitization. #anti-ai #article seabass-swordfish-cbee.squarespace.com/opinion-why-...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

do you also sometimes dream of being semi-rich just so that you can donate to, commission or shop from every artist you see online

submitted 85 days ago • 21 comments

The "Just Asking Questions"/"Just Having A Conversation"/"I'm Cancelled For Just Wanting To Talk" crowd is always so short on specifics. They love to talk in innuendo, but when it comes down to what specific rights they are OK with tossing aside, they clam up. They also use the worst framing.

submitted 84 days ago • 32 comments

1. This weekend, Representative Adam Bird in Ohio, when asked about the new trans bathroom ban on CNN, said that transgender youth will be "less of an issue" in the state after banning their care. The implication is chilling. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 84 days ago • 91 comments

Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

submitted 85 days ago • 522 comments

🌈Giving Tuesday is nearly here and Lambda Literary needs your support! 🌈 After you've finished your holiday gift shopping don't forget to donate to Lambda Literary and take a stand for LGBTQ authors and lives. bit.ly/3VixpIK

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

submitted 85 days ago • 604 comments

Back to writing. Please enjoy this exquisite cat loaf until I return.

submitted 84 days ago • 269 comments

Subtitles aren’t just for deaf or hard of hearing players. They’re important for players in loud environments (who can’t use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.

submitted 85 days ago • 706 comments

Sounds like something to avoid. “The long-term neurological effects include ‘accelerated brain ageing, potentially leading to a loss of five to 10 years of healthy brain function in affected individuals.’” www.ndtv.com/world-news/c...

submitted 84 days ago • 16 comments

I agree. In fact I would say it's GUARANTEED that RFK Jr will cost lives. Not a few lives. Many lives. Population health is sheer math with large numbers involved and if you disrupt the best evidence-based responses, you cause preventable illnesses and deaths. Simple as that.

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments