I'm not well enough yet to return to weight-lifting, but from my prior weight-lifting days: very much agree!! (also I haven't read Casey's book but I've only ever heard positive raves about it! it's definitely something I'd plan to read if I were ever able to get back into lifting)

random gratitude: as always, just want to say thank you to other covid cautious people for existing and being rad enough to buck harmfully wrong mainstream consensus

Reconnaissance de la Palestine : PS, PCF et Ecologistes pressent Emmanuel Macron d’aller au-delà d’un geste symbolique à l’ONU pour Gaza

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🚨TRIBUNE : COVID, un déficit de prévention. Et si on nous faisait perdre sur les 2 plans ? Pour le gouvernement, le COVID serait du passé. Pourtant ➡️Le virus circule toujours ➡️Les maladies & les coûts explosent ➡️Les mesures "anti-dette" aggravent la situation winslow.fr/deficit-prev...

wild to me that Disney looked at Target and was like yeah that seems like a good idea, but anyway

my Hulu subscription was just Hulu, not including Disney+, but honestly, fuck them, I canceled it anyway I could use the money since our entire country is headed for an economic meltdown 🤷 why not recoup some of my dollars while sending a small message

Aaaand Steve Martin has covid and has had to cancel part his tour with Martin Short. He is 80 years old. This is a stupid way to live and we don’t need to keep doing it like this.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

A question I try to ask myself is: what's the broadest audience I could conceive of wanting to engage with my games? What sorts of expectations, skills, abilities, needs, etc. might they have? And how can I prepare them for, and then provide, a meaningful, frictional challenge to overcome?

“I never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a Disney Adult” “How about side by side with a friend” “Aye I could do that”

our society isn't set up to help anyone in this situation. the only people we have determined to have worth are people who can schmooze, self-sufficient lone-wolves, and people who... have pre-existing robust support networks. if you've lost your productivity and your relationships you're dirt

i would really not recommend getting so chronically ill that you can no longer form new social relationships

I slept poorly and my mast cells are pissed, happy Saturday to me 😕

This is deeply sad but also entirely predictable. It's so Twilight-Zone-esque to have grown up in a time when we were generally fighting for *more* athletic opportunities and support for girls'/womens' sports, to have personally benefitted from that, and now--this bs happening everywhere.

This site has the juice! 🙏

TFW you have gone so far down the histamine study rabbit hole that you don't even bother w/ a regular web search for an esoteric fruit you want to try (to see if anyone's clocked it as low or high histamine), you instead go right to the literature to see if anyone's analyzed its amino acid profile 🧑‍🔬

I don't know who else needs to hear this but Strange Antiquities is now on Steam!! 🥹 I know what I'll be doing with my evening

Once again, project managing being disabled is a full time fucking job, sigh.

Since folks often ask for examples of how I politely push back when doctors don't understand the clinical significance of "shit that should be taken more seriously in people with a specific condition", I'll share the reply I wrote:

“I did not have it in me to keep fighting. I justified this to myself by saying that the war machine would not be halted by any linguistic alteration I might make in a magazine mostly skimmed over by American suburbanites while they pooped.” bidoun.org/articles/hou...

have I told y'all before one of my favorite Vermont stories?, that time when one of my college classmates met Jerry at a Howard Dean fundraiser (yes I am old)

«je veux qu’ils sachent que malgré le fait qu’elle ne soit plus là, ces gens qui ont fait tout ce mal n’enlèveront rien à notre amour»

instacart shoppers stop ignoring "DO NOT REPLACE" markers and putting food I am allergic to in my cart, challenge level: impossible, evidently

I don't trust the judgement of any administrator or educator who thinks putting AI in the classroom is a good idea. This would laughable if it weren't simultaneously so harmful.

I can't even avoid the topic in French language news jfc (J'aime regarder Télématin alors que je prends mon petit déj.)

This fantasy of "civil" debate that white cis hetero men (and some people who share some of those identities) have is only ever safely possible for those people. They get to debate the civil rights, the actual lives, health, and livelihoods of people they will never be.

are we done talking about that asshole yet? watching people attempt to rewrite who he actually was turns my stomach I knew there were a lot of bootlickers in the world but even I have been surprised by the density of bootlickers within our society

It truly feels like we're inside a horror movie at this point. I mean I always saw Jacobin as kind of a bunch of assholes but I would've thought they were at least better than this.

I'm doing better now that it seems possible I may get the rx in hand in time and not be curled up in a fetal position on Thursday due to missed dose side effects But like, it's like this almost every week, always some medical office failing to do something and so I have to provide free labor to fix

I am so sick of the entire medical industry's hapless shit I called in a refill almost two fucking weeks ago and the prescription still has not even made it to the correct pharmacy never mind being filled It is a critical medication and I only have four days left fuck *everyone*

Stumptown! 😭

Every time one medical office claims they sent something to another medical office, and that other medical office claims they received nothing, the patient who is doing all this free management labor for said office should get paid for their time by the office that was actually at fault.

one of my earliest memories re: violence was my parents trying to explain the LA riots to me (I'm talking 1992 here, I was 7 yo) and what racism in policing is all about also it's a little insulting to call the social murder of gay men (via AIDS medical neglect) in the 1980s "relative calm"

realizing how many people think only a sniper could make a 200 yard shot has been a real eye-opener for me this week

l o l

After a few short decades of marginal environmental progress, we're already going to go backward? What even is the point to anything if we're not going to show care to the earth that sustains our collective life

Pas hâte de vivre le prochain événement lors duquel la modération de Bluesky se roulera dans la merde en prétendant faire du bon boulot.

Do I know someone who's had similar treatment and could share their experience with Kristin? 💜

I wish Boy Parents paid as much attention to what their offspring are up to as Girl Parents and middle school teachers have to do to prepare our daughters for their Tate-addled -chan-reared sons.

If you read one piece about Charlie Kirk's death, make it this one.

Oh, that's why everyone's talking about right wing in-jokes on my timeline *closes internet for the day*

okay, very bizarre mcas flare managed (I woke up thinking it was dangerously low blood sugar but that was only 84 so 🤷 I ate some snacks anyway then put extra MCAS meds in my system) and now time to re-floss and re-brush my teeth and head back to sleep

😭 see the previous in this thread

By that I mean that things come easy when you subsidise everything you do with value forcefully extracted from the labour of others. (Just look at big tech companies.) Lack of reckoning with our colonial past prevents us from making a world in which we build for ourselves, the hard but proper way.

I will forever get pissed at people who promote "holistic healthcare" but they just mean supplements and organic stuff you buy for your house. Holistic healthcare INCLUDES YOUR COMMUNITY. Holistic healthcare is my Mom ditching fragranced laundry detergent. Holistic Healthcare is Income Support.

Holistic 👏 healthcare 👏 includes 👏 social 👏 supports 👏

People's kids are getting sick ALL THE TIME, and ventilation has additional benefits beyond reduced sickness transmission, like better learning outcomes with lower CO2 concentrations. But even a deadly & debilitating pandemic wasn't enough incentive to regulate school air quality. Depressing.

In a better world we’d still have drive through and on site pcr testing for free, paxlovid and monoclonals would be free and accessible, air filtration top knotch and contact tracing. Then I could see having presenters be able to unmask. but we fumbled that bc we have a capitalism addiction so