I found symptoms of POTS came back after catching COVID

The goal isn't to be perfect (that's impossible!), it's to be ok with being imperfect and able to recover from failures and setbacks.

If one person starts yelling, it’s easy from there. Don’t be afraid to be the first person to start yelling at a Nazi

When the left says the right are violent, it is usually followed by right wing terrorism. When the right wing says the left are violent, it is usually followed by right wing terrorism. The declaration of a threat is defensive in one case, a pretext for aggression in the other.

It's a little concerning that this packet of walnuts states "plant based"

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

It’s right there in the title *trans*formers. Cisformers are just cars.

The grim aspect of this retroactive outrage is that the fascists already won on this front. These people are getting mad about shows from the '10s and early '20s because there's vanishingly few now. They've already been purged. But fascism can never "win", it always looks backward for more enemies.

🏳️‍🌈 Did you know that queer TV shows are canceled 2x as often? If you care about queer representation, please consider giving this study a look! And please pass it on! 😊 #SaveQueerStories savequeerstories.carrd.co

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Labor during the election: “we’ll fully fund public schools” Labor after the election: “actually we meant private schools soz”

COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again. 5 years into this experiment: we let COVID rip and pretended it was fine. Damage piled up—unlike smoking’s slow toll, we’re seeing it in real time. Every infection leaves a mark; even “mild.” The bill comes due. We chose denial archive.md/Jyi7k

"Leading facial age estimation tools were easily fooled by a $22 "old man" mask, a Guy Fawkes mask, and other cheap party costumes, researchers have found."

#ClimateCriminals are ripping us off while destroying our future, #Australia - #auspol.

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

Cool cool cool. So... why do we bend over backwards for these disgusting eco-killing companies again?? 💁‍♀️ #AusPol #EatTheRich

Ugh, why are our support systems always punitive?

As someone who lives on a nearby floodplain, this is a terrible idea. Especially for low-income or vulnerable people who don't have the resources to recover from a natural disaster and will face more trauma in their lives. Developer gets the profit, and the recovery costs are borne by us all

Always remember - gas companies hate selling gas to Australians and none of the proposals for new gas fields (which are not needed) will be for domestic use. So do not buy any of the spin.

"My direction to the health and hospital network [...] make every bit of information that you have available to QLDers. That's the culture that we want from QLD Health," Premier Crisafulli said What about the report on pill testing that you refused to release for months? & info removed from website

Anyway, we hope nobody needs to hear this today, but... ✨Please never ever squirt Lysol up your vagina✨

So that's how generative AI works... and how it can tell you you'll give birth out of your penis-rectum.

Moreover, it is not correct to say that absolutely no creature in nature has a bladder and vagina which open out onto a penis-like organ. Hyenas do (although the urethra and vagina are separate). masto.ai/@vagina_muse...

Shout-out to the German man who got 217 covid vaccines over 29 months providing a unique opportunity for scientists to study what happens. That's an average of 1 shot every 4 days! He's doing fine BTW. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...

It’s #MythBustingMonday. Today’s myth: “Multiple vaccines at once will overload a child’s immune system.” This idea is popular with anti-vaccine groups and also POTUS. But immunology, decades of research, and real-world data all say the same thing: it’s false. 🧵

“It costs a fortune to be systemically cruel and this is playing out here as contracts double and double again.” The Albanese govt has secretly expanded a huge contract with a corrupt American company to enact its inhumane offshore policy. Is this our 'special relationship' with the US? #auspol

It often feels like I didn't get much done. But today I responded to a lawsuit (dear federal court, no thank you), fixed a tap the Jason Mendoza way (it literally blew up! and now I have a different problem), and washed my sheets 💪

Little tip: if you want to know what is wrong with Australia's tax system, just read the wealth advice column in the AFR: "If you sell a property resulting in surplus cash to invest, there’s no better place than the low/no-tax environment of superannuation."

Thanks George for the confusion every summer in QLD when we're working with our interstate colleagues. (Or worse, servers because who knows if they using DST or not)

Everyone has the right to love and be loved, regardless of gender. No one can infringe on the ability to express love Something so simple has become complicated in our world Let's all raise our voices to solve this problem and create a world where we can express love freely and openly. we have love♡

Another fun Australian politics / social media fact - the major Australian party Labor is spelt without a u which helps distinguish it from the UK Labour party Very helpful when you read something confusing then realise it's about the UK and not here! We both spell labour with a u though!

Quick note - I'll be referring to the current Queensland state govt as LNP, although the Liberals and National Party are separate here. 2 reasons: 1 - it's clearer for overseas readers that it's not a left-wing govt (the Liberals are Australia's major right-wing party) 2 - it's shorter

More changes in QLD by the Govt without warning. Along with reference to another inquiry, which the LNP have shown they will ignore if they don't like. "The QLD govt’s Commission of Inquiry into the child safety system, which is currently underway, will include a review of the Adoption Act.”

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

You can’t spell “cartography” without “cry” if you just delete most of the letters.

The Stats Guy: 5 years on, this is how Australia changed since Covid. In the past 5 years, Australia recorded 942,000 deaths — 100,000 more than pre-pandemic. Of these, 20,000–30,000 are considered “excess deaths due to Covid.” Source: archive.md/tjQ0U

Oh, btw, it employs 15 people in a town of 500. It employs 3% of the town.

In comparison to the <checks notes> 1.8% profit Kroger makes on grocery, the community-owned grocery store that's not even trying to make a profit... "The St. Paul grocery employs ~15 people, and it turns a profit of 3%, slightly better than the average for rural grocery stores."

you won't believe what's saving rural towns HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM. getpocket.com/explore/item...

When asked how long they knew about ~310k people potentially affected by unlawful Centrelink payment cancellations, Amanda Rishworth and DEWR refused to answer. ALL penalties must be stopped. These decisions cost lives – lawful or not. Thanks @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.

443,000: the number of people who received Robodebts. 310,000: one conservative estimate of the number of people who had their payments cancelled due to ONE particular misapplication of ONE particular provision among 21 provisions in the legislation on JobSeeker sanctions below.

The Daily Mail has run a number of attack pieces on Violet Affleck after her incredible UN speech advocating for COVID protections including masks and clean air. These attack pieces including a poll on masking in medical facilities. The result? An overwhelming 76% of people support requiring masks!

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

Students told by teachers Gazans ‘deserved what they got’. Sentiments like this have been stated by teachers in ACT public schools. I know of reading content set that displayed shocking bias. Totally agree, this is widespread. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

That's 300,000 of our most vulnerable people being unable to eat or pay rent or take meds or do laundry or pay bills or see a doctor or get to a job interview. Even missing one payment can be hard to recover from when the payments are already well below the poverty line.

Having just inhaled SBS's incredibly important #PeoplevsRobodebt, the Morrison Government's clinical persecution of our most vulnerable citizens, driving them to despair & sometimes death, is shocking all over again. When will someone finally be held accountable for this cataclysmic failure?

Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender. May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍

Great way to keep people from adult sites, I guess. "Every stroke is monitored."

“I had to prove I didn’t have a debt when I didn’t know how they’d raised the debt in the first place.” ~ Felicity Button