He knew it was a totenkopf for at least 6yrs (see: his reddit history literally discussing totenkopfs), and I maintain that a white man getting caught with a nazi tattoo and covering it with fake celtic wolf bullshit is a huge dogwhistle to keep any of his white nationalist supporters.

We really should rebrand this as a celebratory gift-giving holiday for disabled and trans people, because based on my extended online circles, that's pretty much The Audience my dude Cronenberg is creating for. We treasure him.

Happy birthday to my biological father David Cronenberg

today is long COVID awareness day, so i'm resharing this piece i wrote last year for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social about the long term effects COVID is having on music workers in the seventh year of this pandemic. www.newfeeling.ca/covid-is-sti...

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin? (Considering that my wife and I refer to my type as "dark-haired mean women" or "nightmare ladies," I genuinely cannot identify the real origin point 🤷‍♂️)

Excited to see the zeitgeist come back around to recognizing that Clive Barker is *fucking awesome* 👑 @bitterkarella.bsky.social understands 🖤

why are bees doing brutalism

Just the cutest indestructible tank amblin' to find a snack

That is very likely. A big part of the problems around COVID is that the people who insisted they knew it isn't airborne remained in control even after that screwup killed an enormous number of people. So of course they buried that failure by pretending away the deaths, the #longCOVID etc.

"It takes around 17 years for health findings to become mainstream practice" is an indictment of medicine's calcified and outdated management class. Medical training based on antiquated seniority-driven systems that care more about power than quality of care can't keep up with a changing world.

Important story here from @jeffreybgray.bsky.social. Our repeatedly ethics-challenged premier is trying to escape scrutiny & accountability. Using March's last #GiftLink 🎁 to share. Also, it's still being updated so make sure to check it later. #OnPoli www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...

Do more guys understand now why we were all like "we're kinda suspicious of men who randomly think about the Roman empire a lot"

It is so refreshing to see this messaging coming from an actual public health unit!!

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.

somehow this is the exact guy you would figure to have lost old doctor who eps

Public health is a wild field to be in because when things go right, people assume we're not doing anything useful, and when things go wrong, people assume it's our fault. This pattern dates back to the beginning of public health.

RFK Jr and HHS have launched a new website dedicated to Long COVID. Please remain skeptical: They will offer more junk science than real solutions, and use this as another opportunity to spread misinformation about vaccines.

Watching The Terror is really reminding me that I haven't an adventuring bone in my body, because what the fuck do you mean they thought arctic exploration was this important. (And imagine the death toll if Inuit people who actually understood the region hadn't helped so many expeditions!)

Good on the high-school youth in Simcoe County. Just heard that they were protesting Ford’s post-secondary cuts/changes to funding. They were located outside MPP’s offices including Doug Downey. #onpoli Hope the youth across ON are doing this and those old enough vote next chance they get.

What scares me is that MEASLES is turning into "old news" It's one of the most contagious viruses known...& the canary in the coalmine. Its spread reflects how VULNERABLE we are to other vaccine-preventable diseases. Each new report is an URGENT CALL TO ACTION 💉💉💉

An absolutely wild read. Obv some technical bits that are over my head, but the methodology is THOROUGH. Every time I had a concern about controlling for particular variables, a paragraph later they would explain how they isolated for that problem to ensure strict data standards.

The immune system is not a muscle. It is a cleansing fire. It causes collateral damage. It has a limited supply of fuel. It can get out of control. Don’t burn your whole house down every time by catching every disease without caution.

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

🌌 even progressive groups only began to care about Starlight Tours when it began to affect non-Native people in the western world Had I not escaped, I would have died out in the snow. Hardly any of us escape that violence And those of us left need to watch ppl actively forget us every day

being an artist is just decades of going "ugh I wish I knew how to draw" over and over again until you die

I had an American customer message "well I'd rather pay a few bucks in tariffs than have half my paycheck taken in taxes" (I had said that mail is much slower since all the tariff confusion started last spring).... Aside from anything else, do Americans really think Canadians pay 50% income taxes?

The way some of y’all have spoken to and about Black women who are offering a fact check about political conditions in a very white state with active Nazi and white supremacist militias is very telling Black women are easier to swing at so you’re producing us as social media punching bags

This is why so many now think great scifi was prophetic instead of seeing it describing real suffering in new settings-- they have no theory of mind for non-white people, so that doesnt count. Handmaid's Tale & Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas are just how imperial powers treat people, made metaphor.

authors and books are like an MLM . . . i need you to buy my books so i can buy some other author's books so they can buy another author's books and so on but it's like, an honorable ponzi scheme

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people. If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡 Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡 Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡

Once you know the space mall cop killed a dog, you can't unknow it. Odo must be held accountable.

Every time Odo shows up onscreen in a DS9 ep, it is unavoidably flavoured with "oh the guy who probably killed a dog to take its place once" You cannot convince me that he didn't quietly murder the real German Shepherd in Little Green Men.

Your risk of LongCOVID increases after each reinfection Another thing - COVID damages your immune system This is partly why many countries around the world have had the “worst flu season” in many years Protect yourself, your family, friends, and community If you know better, do better 🧵 3/3

If you truly have a totally 100% accidental nazi tattoo, maybe you don't cover it with Celtic knotwork or Norse runes (both lovely forms of art that are also so heavily adopted by neo-nazis that covering a totenkopf with knotwork comes across as still trying to court your wht nationalist supporters)

Please for the love of god don't make jokes associating trans people's names with shit like the "Dept Of War" or "Gulf Of America" as a dunk on Republicans who DON'T GIVE A SHIT. All you're doing is getting a giggle at the expense of directly comparing trans people's names to inane vanity projects.

It’s funny because the government sent a bunch of random people to CECOT for doing things like wearing a Bulls logo…

These are the same type of people who think ignoring the racism in BIRTH OF A NATION makes them intellectually superior

Peter Strickland's Rebecca and David Cronenberg's The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

Alt headline: Pediatricians who continue to believe that children do not deserve testing and diagnoses continue to overprescribe antibiotics.

Me, literally every time proposed anti-trans legislation has been in Canadian news since my wife transitioned: huh guess I'm going to end up in prison for arson soon

Just spent 10 minutes reading strangers listing off their grandfathers' jobs-- genuinely fascinating! Cameraman with the air force (3yrs in a POW camp) and CBC, and an insurance claims adjuster. Weirdly there are professional photographers and insurance people in THREE generations of my family.

this is Jesse's entire game: instilling readers with the *feeling* that something is horribly wrong with gender-affirming care w/o providing a shred of evidence it's actually happening (because it isn't)

Should start a pool on the number of parking spaces the Ford gov is going to include with this new convention centre plan for the Ex. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

Most cynical opportunistic man in the world read the leaked Harris campaign post-mortem last week about how their support for genocide in Gaza lost them significant votes. This man does not have one single conviction in his whole body.

THERE IS ONLY ONE HEALTH NERD POST YOU WILL EVER NEED TO READ TO EVALUATE THAT HUMAN'S CREDIBILITY ON THE BAT PLAGUE (OR ANYTHING ELSE):