Man, I just don't know how anyone gets over the GLARING reason not to use Generative AI for writing & visuals: It's non-consensual training on artists' work, environmentally devastating impact (esp. on poor areas) & it being pushed by the worst people in the world combined w/the pointlessness of it.

It just gets me almost everyday. Why don’t these ridiculously rich people help others? Why do all of them refuse? Honestly, I do not understand why there isn’t an altruistic one in the group. How are they all so fucking evil that they are banding together to destroy humans. It’s bizarre to me.

The shutdown is at 39 days but SNAP has only been cut for 8 and we're already seeing massive demand for food pantries, desperate pleas for direct help and assistance on related things like helping people keep pets. This is precarity at its highest. While the rich get richer.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛

People love to tell disabled folks to “take responsibility”. Take responsibility for what exactly? For being sick? For not getting better? For needing social supports? What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”

Congress is being paid Trump is being paid The rich folks who attended his Great Gatsby party? They’re being paid Who’s not being paid? Federal workers. The military. TSA agents. NOAA employees Millions are also going hungry because the billionaire president doesn’t want to fund food assistance

Finished an older collaged piece featuring a background pattern and some chrysanthemums I did for separate other things. Then drew a sort of moth creature on top of it. #digitalart #art

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

“They won’t starve to death in a month! They’ll be fine without SNAP!” You can starve to death in weeks. When you’re malnourished It doesn’t take long for bodily systems to shut down. For chronic illness to develop. It’s cruel to condemn people to slowly starving.

I interpreted #BespokeBeasties to mean “create your own monster,” and since I have always wanted to do something with the “doll’s eye” plant, here is my Bespoke Beastie for the final prompt of #Guild11Mysterium

Family time! 💞 #grebe #bird #illustration #digitalart #originalart #animal #animalart #birdwatching #birder #cute #artist

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Late entry for "Decrepit Domicile," #Guild11Mysterium #Art #CreatureDesign

Resharing for #WorldOkapiDay

my mom got covid in feb 2020 and never recovered, i am now her full time caregiver. long covid is a curse and a nightmare that i don't want to experience any more than i already have. additionally, i haven't had so much as a cold since 2019 and i think masking has a lot to do with that.

COVID is still here.

#NoKings disability justice zoom for folks who can’t attend in the streets.

A Decrepit Domicile for #Guild11Mysterium

I'm not replying to anyone else. I said what I needed to say. It's year six. These people are not interested in facts anymore.

Yes, You Are The Goodest Girl, I Missed You While I Was Standing Ominously In The Corner Of That Guy's Vision All Day, Too. #inktober #puppy

This place has genuinely gotten as bad as the nazi site when it comes to certain topics. People are really desperate to cling to their 2019 fantasy world.

Honestly tired of talking about this, but the minimizers sure got triggered.

Apparently there is some nonsense antivax conspiracy theory that uses the phrase "turbo cancer," which I was not aware of as I do not spend any time reading about conspiracy theories. When I used the phrase I was referring specifically to SARS-COV2 *infections* triggering aggressive cancers.

If you count yourself in the massive majority of people who pretty much don't want to hear about COVID anymore...please read this thread. I'm sorry. Please. I write this from my father's house, where I am watching Long COVID completely destroy the mind and body of a person I love beyond telling.

Second prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium: "Decrepit Domicile." #Guild11Mysterium

It would appear not all of the inhabitants have left this crumbling cottage... 🏚️ Decrepit domicile #Guild11Mysterium #art #illustration ✏️ #sketch #spookyseason

Second prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium: “Decrepit Domicile”. #Guild11Mysterium

Hoping to finish my Decrepit Domicile for #Guild11Mysterium later today 🎨

There are over 460K scientific studies and people are whining that after SIX YEARS of trying to warn people, we aren't providing links to the *exact papers that will finally convince them at this specific moment.* Stop pretending that ANYTHING would change your opinion at this point.

🧵Aside from the ‘demands’ for masking being more like pleas to consider it,… It’s disappointing to see progressives I respect use their large platform to push the idea that those of us vulnerable +masking are operating from some kind of irrational place. We are vulnerable enough to harassment and

Say that to the faces of the 20 million Americans and 400 million people worldwide with debilitating Long Covid. www.yalemedicine.org/news/long-co...

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

Long covid made me go from being a fairly competitive rower exercising multiple times a day to a wheelchair user who couldn't walk up the stairs in my own home. I am doing much better but it has been *years*, and getting sick still floors me in a way it never ever did before. It's no joke.

“… we will never get clean air without public pressure, and there will never be public pressure without public awareness that COVID is dangerous. As long as the public continues to treat COVID like a cold the government has no incentive to move on clean air.” — @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”. Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. “We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.” That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

I think most of us would be overjoyed if there were studies showing that SARS2 is mild and the risks are actually low. None of us like living like this! It's a logistical nightmare trying to safely access healthcare, and the more people you live with, the more challenging it is to avoid infection.

it's almost daily you see a moderately known person with a large following authoritatively say that covid isn't a big deal anymore and you go okay so what studies have you been reading because hundreds of thousands papers disprove that and they're just like well because I think so. vibes alone.

Reminders: vaccines don't reduce transmission but do reduce hospitalisations & the risk of long covid Positive rapid tests results are quite accurate, negative results are less so Wearing well-fitting FFP/N95 masks will protect you Wearing masks prevent transmission Ventilation reduces transmission.

Not sure if anybody is doing it better than @juliadoubleday.bsky.social —Please read: “when you shrug off the difficulty.. of practicing COVID safety.. you are casting that burden onto the shoulders of those who are already carrying more than you are. ” Link: www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...?

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

This is a dope essay. I fucking hate masking, ok? I hate wearing shit on my face, I don't even wear jewelry. I have worn an KN95 or better every time I leave my fucking house because the "general public" wants to live with perpetual SARS infections. I am opting out. Good luck with your sequelae.

At this point I really could not care less if SARS minimizers believe the information about its harms or not. I provide the information. If they choose to continue to rage in denial, to demand different information? Dude you are on your own. Nothing will convince you.

I will say again: It is not anti-vax rhetoric to be open and honest about what the current SARS-CoV2 vaccines actually do, and do not do. I think a major source of vax distrust came from government falsely claiming that it would prevent infection/spread. Then, when breakthrough infections happened..

Feeding into the binary fallacy that death is the only bad outcome from COVID-19 does nothing except normalize & forward the agenda of the anti-vaccine movement.

“The cumulative global incidence of long COVID is around 400 million individuals, which is estimated to have an annual economic impact of approximately $1 trillion—equivalent to about 1% of the global economy.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It pisses me off to no end that Long Covid affects hundreds of millions of people globally and no one I know can name a Long Covid expert or any of the leading labs looking into it. It’s simply not a topic people want to pay any attention to, and I consider that living in fear, or at least denial.

I sure know my friends are tired of my covid study updates, but I am not going to stop sharing the information, because I want them to be aware and able to make informed decisions. If they decide they want to take risks based on ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC FACTS, then that is up to them.