Facebook feels like the unventilated smoking section of a run-down bar on the bad end of town, on the night the bouncer finally quit.
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Happy new year, all. May good things grow, stubbornly.
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I really appreciate the covid-conscious community here, as I'd meant to pick up more respirator filters and somehow it fell off my list.
Shopping around I was able to find them $2.75 per pair cheaper than that ubiquitous burning-rainforest vendor, with free shipping.
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Hope is a verb, not a vibe.
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I remain bemused and paradoxically affirmed in my concern that the best #covid coverage is reliably out of business publications. How is this the first I'm hearing of the #LongCovid Research Moonshot Act?
Things are this bad: Bernie proposed a bill for a billion a year to the NIH for it, and FORTUNE, who with their target audience are so famously enamored of him (this is profound sarcasm), are reporting it favorably.
https://fortune.com/well/article/long-covid-cost-1-trillion-treatment-cure/
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Being able to send politics coverage to someone who is having a bad day in the belief it will bring them comfort is a TRIP.
We're so used to something terrible was delayed somewhat as the BEST possibility that imagining anything good could happen feels like an alternative reality. But it doesn't have to be.
Political engagement does not in fact have to be all-suck, all-the-time.
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"Solving the climate crisis is not a sprint. It’s not even a marathon. It is a relay." Incredible interview.
https://www.naturahoy.com/2024/07/the-problem-is-not-that-young-people-are-eco-anxious-its-that-people-in-positions-of-power-are-not-activist-clover-hogan/
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These are important stories. I don’t think you can really get it until you’ve seen it up close or had it happen to you, but there are so many life-thieving viruses out there which can do this, and a majority of them can be stopped with the same practical measures as we already use for allergens and fire-related pollutants.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-06-06/op-comic-long-covid
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I haven't been able to muster much surprise or shock. Anybody remember ... “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
https://apnews.com/f8839604a4804e3fa61a46a375e4ac02/trump-slammed-comments-about-clinton-second-amendment
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I can't bring myself to visit the birdsite but seeing this sneak into my feed was delightful and inspiring. Why not get the tag going here too? #YallMasking
https://bird.makeup/users/_catinthehat/statuses/1809899259384222001
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This article - most of all, the changed spirit in the profilee's eyes in the first two photos - really got to me. I don't feel I can share it in good faith without a caveat about the fatphobia and ableism contained herein, though (internalized, on part of an interviewee, and in the latter case made explicit in the author's viewpoint.) The middle section from a physician and mother to a long-covid kid is particularly valuable, though. Remember: #MaskUp and #CleanTheAir
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/05/i-could-bench-press-100kg-now-i-cant-walk-lucys-life-with-long-covid
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Phenomenal 2024-updated covid zine - briefly debunking the market-sanctioned narrative about where we are, then providing actionable info (useful despite institutional abandonment) replete with ready citations.
https://newlevant.com/covidzine
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Lily's not afraid to face tough truths. #Duolingo #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #CleanTheAir
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Is there still any use where disposable alkalines batteries are better than rechargeable?
I bought a pack of rechargeable AAs (Eneloop in the Sanyo days) in 2009 and I've been using them happily ever since, and some AAA (Eneloop post-Panasonic acquisition) sometime after that.
They take up a lot less space to store as most are in a device at any given time, they're easy to charge. Apparently the ecological costs break even by about fifty charges. Why are disposable batteries still a thing?
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Mask marks on your face are the sign of having done right by yourself and others and therefore attractive, pass it on
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"Texas, the abortion-ban state with the largest population, had an estimated 26,313 (41%) of all rape-related pregnancies under its ban [of] 16 months ... outrage from Democratic state lawmakers, particularly in light Gov. Greg Abbott’s vow to "eliminate rape" in Texas after a 2021 six-week abortion ban took effect (the state enacted a total ban in August 2022)."
My best guess is his plan was to stop us reporting it, same as the covid playbook.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/estimated-64000-women-girls-became-pregnant-from-rape-in-abortion-ban-states/
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I know the sensible thing to worry about when we have proven cognitive slowing from covid is people operating motor vehicles.
But I feel like highlighting slowed reaction time to the esports community might get us a lot more traction. Gamers, #WearAMask to protect your reflexes (...and the health of everyone you meet.)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-023-12069-3
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Marvellous creative commons poster available in English and French on best practices to #StopTheSpread of #COVID19, visualizing how #CovidIsAirborne and why it is so important both to #MaskUp and #CleanTheAir. Credits to I. Bauthian and R. Morse.
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@ReneeWestberry The small changes of a few million would be massive. My personal drumbeat is how miserable most of consumer culture makes us - we aren't participating for OUR benefit. The more I drop from status quo lifestyle, the happier I am.
If we truly wanted any of it, they wouldn't have to spend trillions to sell it to us.
If we just decided to abstain - not out of asceticism or self-denial, but just from distaste, exhaustion, disinterest - things would change in very short order.
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@futurebird Planning on plantings that will improve shade - even one more deciduous tree will help. More native plants to reduce water needs & retention in the soil, to cast more shade, feed wildlife. I'd like to get back to gardening my own leafy greens for just that much less refrigeration & transit fuel use - MY power supply is green, but the transit trucks & distributors' aren't. Researching heat-reflective paint for albedo effect. Composting EVERYTHING. Buying little & ever-less.
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