IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Sirena Spinosa #MermMay Be careful or this mermaid might just draw your blood.

Ta da! Norovirus is airborne. "Results showed vomiting generated substantial aerosols instantaneously, and subsequent cleaning disturbed settled particles, increasing airborne pathogen concentrations by 54% compared with pre-cleaning levels." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is #LongCovid going away? Data show it is not. In a cohort study with 457.950 Covid cases, 1 in 6 patients developed Long Covid. Prevalence is 13-23% of US population, increasing 0.4%-1.5% every 3 months. Cases remained stable through 2022 but started to increase in late 2023.

Happy #MaskWeek! If, like many people, you stopped wearing a mask years ago, it’s not too late to start again 🩵 Doesn’t have to be all the time. Any time you mask you’re less likely to get sick or pass on whatever you might have picked up, & you might even avoid a life ruining infection.

Disabled people deserve to live even if they can’t work.

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

USA: A new study says long COVID is way more common than we think, affecting about 1 in 6 people (16%) who get the virus. Standard medical tracking codes miss over 10 million cases, capturing under 7% of actual patients. This means the real number could be double what official estimates show.

For every 6 ppl who get Covid, 1 will end up w/ long Covid. If you had a 15% chance to get a permanent disability, would you wear a mask in public? It seems the ppl who are terrified by 1 in a million chance don’t seem to care when it’s riskier.

#LongCovid has not decreased from 2020-2024. Prevalence is 13-23% of US population, increasing 0.4%-1.5% every 3 months. Incidence was 10-29%, but began increasing in 2023. "These findings indicate an accumulating rather than resolving disease burden." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Did Something Happen In The Last Six Years That Could Have Caused A Decline And Loss Of Energy Everywhere? Anything? Anything At All? No. We Couldn’t Think Of Anything Either. Lockdowns, I guess.

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

From early 2020 and since then, thousands of people warned that this should be studied and could be a significant problem. Every single government, and every single national medical research organization dismissed it, insisting they were "not worried about it" and that this would not be a problem.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

“Biden advocated RTO policies, rescinded masking recommendations, & cut millions off from life-saving vaccine coverage…ignoring ongoing death tolls & the growing documentation of Long Covid risks. The message was clear: capitalist accumulation would resume unencumbered, regardless of who might die.”

The quiet $8 billion crisis: long COVID costs keep rising as Washington looks away. 🔹More than 44 million Americans who have at some point reported long COVID symptoms 🔹Productivity losses would account for well over 90% of these costs Source: archive.md/bNOQO

Reminiscent of the doctors and healthcare workers *now* who continue to harm their patients because they’re too “traumatized” or willfully uninformed to wear masks. #COVID

This has been especially difficult for the disabled and chronically ill in a world full of Covid. The betrayal by abled friends that won’t make accommodations or simply stopped reaching out has been devastating across the whole community.

Now consider whether or not you wear N95s in public. If you're choosing not to because masks cause you discomfort, you're taking away the rights of disabled and/or immunocompromised people to live in public spaces. You're taking away MY RIGHT to exist in public.

“appropriate default position for any novel virus…assume aerosol transmissibility from the outset…put measures in place immediately to limit the spread…That is not a radical position. It is common sense, & it is unconscionable that we are still having this argument 6 years after the COVID-19 fiasco”

Conclusive Landmark Study Added To Growing Pile Of Covid Research We Will Not Read

“Where has COVID-19 gone?” Nowhere. thainewsroom.com/2026/05/22/s...

“These are the concrete consequences of the “let it rip” policies that capitalist governments normalized during COVID-19—six years of conditioning the public to accept mass infection as unavoidable, while dismantling the institutions that might have prevented what is now unfolding.”

The most dangerous lie of the last six years was that getting it over with was a strategy. You don’t out-tough a virus that hides in your tissues.

Higher ed is going to spend the next decade pretending nothing is wrong with student cognition except “use of AI.” By the time the data is undeniable, the cohort will be in their 30s, wondering why everything feels so hard.

Five years in and we still treat masks like a personality. Surgeons aren’t making a statement. They’re protecting a patient. So am I.

A virus that damages every organ system is not “endemic.” It is unaddressed. There is a difference. Words matter when they’re being used to lie to you.

Artist: @maaike.hartjes

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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Kolkata researchers studied 96 serum samples and found COVID-19 was linked to clotting proteins and antibodies that may bind GRP78, a protein tied to artery damage, unlike dengue. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There are officially over 400 artists on HireHumanArtists.com🎉 More human artists than you would ever conceivably want to even try to look at all at once! Hire one for your next human project, wouldja?

If you're not disabled, whatever programs you think we have access to and whatever it is you think they do, imagine them about 70% worse.

Russian and German researchers studied 24 lung samples and found COVID-19 may push mast cells to reshape lung tissue by triggering immune cells and scar forming pathways, helping explain why some patients develop lasting lung fibrosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If there ever was any argument about masking at airports, and on flights, this has gotta be reason #1, as you never know who's on the flight! Welcome to 2026..it keeps on giving.. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

A study suggests minority children have higher odds of severe post-COVID complications. The disparities highlight the need for more equitable healthcare strategies. Read more: ow.ly/2mHV50Z3aS8

Shoulda funded that Long Covid moonshot, eh?

Reminder: Audiobooks are a great way to help you read more. Add them into your every day routine! (And yes, they "count" as reading.)

Companies referring to people as “Lower value human capital” Welcome to end stage capitalism Add this term to others such as “economically inactive” & “useless eaters” The disabled, homeless, elderly and children fall in these categories too Worth must never be measured by productivity.

"We sold it to them as a replacement for their jobs, their friends, their loved ones, and every creative endeavour ever conceived by human beings, I don't understand why they're upset" Makes you wonder just how empty wealthy people's lives really are.

A summary of today’s revelations of treachery by RFK Jr.’s handpicked minions. In 11/2025, three doctors (Makary, Prasad, Hoeg) employed by the United States government told the world, with confidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children. We now have ironclad evidence that they lied.

MIT researchers expanded COVID-deceased brain tissue 20x and found spike proteins clustered with amyloid deposits. buff.ly/ikYRPuI 👉The same molecular pathways seen in Alzheimer's disease. We need to take COVID brain injury far more seriously. #medsky #neurosky 😷

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We have succeeded in making people wary of vaccines, terrified of masks, unable to tell what illness they have, and completely uninformed about the risks of it. Bravo. Command fucking performance.

This enrages me. We have a novel virus with completely unknown long-term effects and very dangerous short and medium term effects, and an antiviral that can reduce some of these risks, and people cannot even figure out how to test for it anymore.

We have failed kids in so many ways.

US Weekly COVID update: May 18, 2026 🔸1 in 275 Actively Infectious 🔸178,000 Daily Infections 🔸1,250,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸75,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸63,000 to 250,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸300 to 500 Weekly Excess Deaths Source: pmc19.com/data/