But almost no one is freaked out enough to simply put on a respirator so they don't get sick. 2020 into 2021 school closure freak outs were not about learning loss, they were about parents going to work or wanting their free time back. Because they don't care about this enough to simply wear masks.

It's not anecdotal, it's small batch artisanal farm to table data!

It's always a good time to be reminded that "whiteness" is an invented concept used to justify subjugating others. Its boundaries have been redrawn over time to suit powerful interests. It is not an ethnicity, it's not real, it's not even stable. It's a pretext for genocide and oppression.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

GOOD GODS THIS IS SUCH A MOOD

Liberals: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good Me: yeah fair ok, show me the good Liberals: this isn't the time for fucking purity tests you little shit

“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.” -Noir Santa

Fun random tidbit: I have been here less than 24hrs and I am wine drunk [in order to cope with my sister] And being wine drunk is the only reason I am not getting in my car and driving directly home to North bay right now lol

I wish I was Up Early instead of being Up Late 🫩

yeah

cannot decide if should stay up and pretend i slept at all overnight or if i should go to bed now for a few hours

And travelling doesn’t have to mean Long Distance Air Travel— going anywhere outside of your typical day-to-day community is travel. Conduct yourselves accordingly. 🖤

If you’re traveling this holiday season, please wear a mask. Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays. A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you. Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!

To put this in context, what they did is about the same as changing the font to Wingdings to keep it secret and hoping no one knows how to switch it back.

So many people, healthcare workers included, have surrendered to constant sickness. They’ve stopped making any effort to avoid getting ill. I have a friend with a neonate going to crowded tourist spots. When I suggested being more careful? I was told “my doctor didn’t tell me that”

I hate that I’m going to end up driving to kitchener at some point just to buy this goddamn beer I like from the beer store because the only places that stock it are apparently kw and smiths falls lmao

When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67

RAPTOR EXTRACTION FOLLOWS

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Yeah, I’m trying not to die, not to kill my disabled mother, and not to kill my partner’s child who has leukemia and a severely compromised immune system. I think that makes me a human, not a zealot, but abled assholes have been punching down at disabled folks since time immemorial, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How @wired.com can let someone like you who produces such anti-science drivel write for them is beyond me. www.wired.com/story/the-te...

I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding [cholera/typhoid/dysentery] and only drinking ‘clean’ water

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

they just didn’t think the design through well enough

brb adding an AirTag to my AirPods case cause I can never find the damn thing when it’s empty

Our internet hasn’t been working and I can’t tell if it’s the bell/cogeco line or if it’s the router itself being a butt I get abysmal cell service in the basement where I live so I’ve been sitting in my car outside using my data instead of wifi 🤣🥲

The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Like, you can’t even compare it to previous political satire because it’s so ridiculous. If Kafka were alive today he would be thanking every deity imaginable that he only woke up as a cockroach. We have the worst person ever born convincing other people they can be their worst selves.

A Friday night dump where the world’s most powerful government (derogatory) closes ranks around an obvious geriatric pedophile by removing all of his appearances in the child molestation scheme his best friend for 15+ years ran while still demanding everyone believe he stands for democracy and peace

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

This has been said a million different times and ways and it never seems to penetrate but I’ll try again: Using AI to “do” art isn’t possible. Art is not the process of coming up with a good idea to get started and then executing it flawlessly in the style of someone you admire.

im baffled by the scene currently unfolding outside across the street from me, as I watched the truck with a trailer back in to the driveway, and now there’s an ambulance here

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

also: gorgeous woman posing to show off her bum in a bathing suit wearing a baseball cap with an Ontario govt branch on it in her profile

more in the Being On The Apps Diaries

Me being so salty to the people who are like “just try harder and actually quit smoking”: I will stop smoking for the length of time you mask consistently everywhere

Researchers in Brazil found SARS-CoV-2 uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the body’s defenses. It can dodge the immune system before invading cells, then manipulate the host cell’s genetic material after infection—an approach not previously seen in other pathogens. This helps it escape detection.

There aren't enough holiday ghosts out teaching the rich lessons these days.

A noted problem with Radius Based dating apps: 50km radius when in northern Ontario = no sweat, cost of doing business 50km radius when in my hometown = they could be in Toronto or Mississauga or Barrie or the other side of Lake Simcoe

But also, godbless the cdcp and my dental clinic which opts to not charge the balance of fees to cdcp clients.

Got (some) of my teeth fixed yesterday and now I keep biting the inside of my cheek with my brand new rebuilt upper molars.

"And far too many times, it becomes a body found in a snowbank, quietly removed before morning traffic resumes." / "Bodies in snowbanks are not inevitable. They are the visible outcomes of our choices made and unmade at city halls, at Queen’s Park, and in Ottawa; repeated, defended and ignored. "

"And far too many times, it becomes a body found in a snowbank, quietly removed before morning traffic resumes." / "A society that allows people to freeze to death while infighting over zoning laws is not merely inefficient, it is morally bankrupt."

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“Meanwhile, people freeze. This is what an extraction colony looks like in a modern democracy: the land is valuable, the people are expendable.”

“Timber. Minerals. Energy. Labour. All extracted and exported. Wealth flow south. Decision-making flows south. Responsibility flows nowhere at all. It feels like accountability evaporates somewhere along the highway.”

“Governments at every level speak proudly of what the North provides to the rest of the country, while showing little interest in what it truly needs to survive with dignity.”