You may want it to be over. You’re being told it’s over. Everyone is acting as if it’s over. You may ridicule people who are cautious and not “over it.” But IT IS NOT OVER. Please listen to the people whose lives have been upended by ME/CFS: You do NOT want even a mild version of this.

That really is the most heartbreaking thing. I miss having the stamina to sing longer than a few minutes, but I REALLY miss thinking people would care about me if I wasn’t in front of them making music and having ideas and creating things they liked.

Long Covid Awareness Day Hailed As Major Step Towards Never Mentioning That Thing Ever Again

Covid activists don't ask people to mask because we're wokescolds or purity testing. We are genuinely trying to save y'all from a life of disability. From losing everything you thought mattered most to you. We are trying to help y'all help yourselves before it's too late ❤️.

I feel this so hard. I loved line dancing. For 35 years. It was my social life and no matter what else was going on, I always had dancing to lift me up. I also loved the two gyms I worked out at. I haven't danced for six years. I can barely walk to the corner and back, let alone go to the gym.

It’s International Long Covid Awareness Day. One of the best things you can do to support people with Long Covid is wear a mask (ideally a respirator like an N95). Masks break chains of transmission. They prevent infection. The only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid Covid!

It’s been a painful six years for the Covid cautious because we’ve had to come to terms with just how selfish and ableist some people are. Many folks believe that brief stay at home orders and mask mandates were the worst thing to ever happen to them.

The rise of online vibrant events in early Covid offered a lot of hope for disabled/chronically ill people who have access issues attending IRL events (including going into a flare later). Anti-Zoom reactive sentiment pushed a lot of people into being more isolated again.

This week marked the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve summarized our thoughts a bit below, but tl;dr: Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still with us, & although we may be tired of hearing about it, it’s extremely important to continue to take steps to protect ourselves & others.

In other words, we’re know you’re tired of hearing about COVID-19. We’re tired of hearing about it too. But ignoring it does not help it to go away, so please continue to take protect your health.

When I ask people to mask it’s not out of a virtuous superiority or even an ethical code. It is because I am in the depths of this hellhole, and I am *screaming* at you not to come down here, and definitely not to shove anyone else in.

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

"Roughly 1 in 87 Americans—or 1.2% of the population—is actively infectious on any given day." Those numbers mean that there are more Americans walking around w/ active Covid infections than there are transgender Americans. And only one group is dangerous. Bigotry makes you fear the wrong things.

Re supposed end of the Target boycott: it’s 100% bullshit. See statement below from an *actual* leader of the initial DEI boycott. Even if true (to repeat, it’s not!), it’s not up to any small group. Target has fixed nothing + compounded its DEI sins with ICE complicity. People are done with it!

"You just wanted to steal, so you stole. You wanted to take things without permission, so you did. It’s wrong. It’s so enragingly wrong." This is so, so good. Like a cleansing fire.

TODAY is Election Day for residents of HD 94, HD 130, and SD 53! Georgia Equality has proudly endorsed Audrey Lux, LaFawn Pinkney-Mealing, and Jack Zibluk for these races. Learn more at: georgiaequalitypac.org/2026-special... Find your voting info at mvp.sos.ga.gov

Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026. She kindly gave us permission to republish it. 😷 Read the full comic at The Sick Times: bit.ly/4rVqQdp

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Chat, is it bad when one tech dude having a modicum of a conscience is the only thing hindering the plans of the worst people in the world to use hallucinatory robots to automate crimes against humanity?

Governments, public health and medical authorities know much of this is caused by COVID & other infections, that a lot of this is Long Covid, which they choose to do nothing about and cover up. They know it. They're lying about not knowing why. They're doing what the tobacco industry did.

Eu mesma depois de covid longa estou próxima a me tornar PCD. Esse abo queria voltar a fazer evento, mas a médica me recomendou q não 😭😭😭

I just saw a great post on Instagram about this, with a focus on children. As it is now we are teaching children and everyone else that “harm is the price of belonging” and whew! We could do so much better, but it would require some shifts & listening to ppl that I guess ppl don’t like to listen to.

Disabled people & those who cannot afford to get Covid deserve to be able to see art in public and make art in public.

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

This is horrific. As the covid pandemic rages on and damages people’s immune systems en masse, we desperately need more vaccines and therapeutics for disease not less. Gutting.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

Trends suggest we may be in for a second round of this winter’s COVID-19 wave after the initial peak in early January. Flu levels increased this week, too, likely due to more influenza B spread. Read this week's full COVID-19 trends report: bit.ly/4tgFVqY

This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.

Today’s Senate vote is an important first step toward unifying Democrats against the escalating violence carried out by ICE and Border Patrol in our communities. Republicans don’t have the votes to jam through this toxic DHS bill.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Proud to have been one of the 9,200 people who submitted that name to the contest. Lol blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...

ICE and CBP death squads are killing innocent people, terrorizing our communities, and violating our constitutional rights — and the House just voted to give them more money. Demand that your senators use their upcoming vote on the DHS funding bill to rein in the regime’s secret police.

Hootsuite's work with ICE is shameful. We proudly support Vancouver's Access Without Fear policies. Solidarity with everyone in Minneapolis and across the U.S. pushing back against xenophobia and fascism.

You love to see it. cybernews.com/security/dev...

Also, I have my own ideas!, from the brain of someone (me) who has experience implementing ideas! AI is just an Ideas Guy. Ideas Guys are tiresome and boorish and just make more work for everyone else around them.

My phenomenal wife is doing her thesis project for her Master of Science in I/O Psychology and she needs survey respondents!! If you worked remotely and then were brought back to the office, fill out the survey so she can do her amazing research! ❤️ apsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told it's not appropriate to be political. But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.

Okay Bluesky, do your thing! We have just launched the crowdfunding campaign for our BRAND NEW ORIGINAL TRANS OPERETTA 🏳️‍⚧️ AND WE NEED YOUR HELP! We need to raise $100,000 in one year to make this real and I know we can do it together. This project is so important and we will make HISTORY!!

My phenomenal wife is doing her thesis project for her Master of Science in I/O Psychology and she needs survey respondents!! If you worked remotely and then were brought back to the office, fill out the survey so she can do her amazing research! ❤️ apsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Happy International #DisabilityDay! Today we're celebrating the wonderful disabled creatives we've been blessed to work with at Opera Mariposa - and encourage you to check out our roundup of resources about accessibility in the performing arts at operamariposa.com/resources/! #IDPD

Ryan Ken at the Emmys, looking fabulous and displaying how easy it is to do your part to protect against COVID. It can be hard to be the lone masker, but your health and the health of those around you is worth it. Respirators do an excellent job stopping transmission.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

It is VITAL for all Georgians for vote in the November elections for our public service commission to put folks in power who might actually stop this.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like