Nothing makes any sense to me anymore. It's good people can still get upset and do things to improve things, but shit we need SO MUCH MORE energy on covid and most people seem to think that's a thing of years ago and not rampant and ongoing and IT MAKES ME FEEL CRAZY. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

People who bring up flu deaths in response to COVID advocates are misinformed, and have decided that roughly 50k annual US deaths are the cost of business. What's silly about this is that COVID mitigations also kill off the flu. I know this because we literally killed a strain of the flu.

I'm under no illusions of how big of a societal, political, and cultural ask it is for people to mask in our current world. But that bar is extremely low compared to what we must ask if we are going to even begin to build any kind of just world that survives the climate crisis.

It’s all the same fight & we lost SO much when we let them pretend the pandemic was over

And who was pushing to end the government shutdown at the expense of the ACA because they didn’t want to miss out on their big Thanksgiving travel profits? It really is all the same fight & we need some solidarity if we want to win it

Fossil fuel execs & real estate moguls didn’t like ppl working from home. CEOs didn’t want ppl having access to tests or paid sick leave or the ability to document work injuries from Covid. Govts don’t want to pay out disability claims, just like they won’t want to pay when your town burns down

Masking makes sense. SARS-CoV-2 can persist, and new evidence from France shows infected megakaryocytes + platelets — meaning real blood involvement. This virus isn’t just respiratory, and protecting your air protects your blood. Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇

this story was reported on as a suicide three months ago. the family has now obtained evidence that Chaofeng Ge's hands and legs were tied behind his back at the time of his hanging. justice for Chaofeng Ge. www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...

Uh this is enormous

I don’t understand being opposed to recalls. People like to say “elections have consequences” and those consequences are “part of democracy” but also if your government has a mechanism in place for recalls, is that not also “part of democracy”?

I miss new tech being actually interesting and exciting, instead of just the latest in running series of scams and/or spyware.

These students have been failed so utterly by their institutions and leadership.

And I want evictions and foreclosures and homelessness abolished. I want cops out of schools and free meals and clothes in them. I want a system where we fight crime by making crime unnecessary because everyone has a safe and loving home and a full belly and a great education and a good doctor.

So yes, I want the whole damn thing eliminated. I want the police defunded in favor of healthcare and basic income for all. I want prisons and jails replaced by programs to eliminate poverty and treat addiction without stigma. I want drugs and petty theft and sex work decriminalized.

For the people asking me what I mean by "people over institutions" and "abolish the carceral state": The American prison industrial complex is a for profit institution built on the systematic oppression and criminalization of racialized people. It should be eliminated.

“It’s corrupt, is the word,” said a leading authority on federal contract law - via @ProPublica

*Literal* death threat. Not quoting song lyrics, no comedic exaggeration. Actionable threat, @safety.bsky.app. Is it in your backlog too?

Sometimes you are just overwhelmed by the sentence, over and over, “This is so gross.”

This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.

Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities. She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice. She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor. She won’t be forgotten. Don’t let the bastards grind you down: www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...

"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend." @mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

On a personal note, I just set up a monthly donation to Crips for eSims for Gaza in Alice's memory. chuffed.org/project/crip...

Epstein’s War

Oh this is absolutely one of the great perks of parenting! We also love 7 Wonders!

every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable

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I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

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They’re all just looting the treasury now

The calculation here is that battling bigotry is a political loser, which is both an indication of Buttigieg’s amorality, and an admission that he and his ilk don’t believe that an enduring pluralistic democracy is possible in America.

Beyond this being extremely cruel, it’s going to make Assistance offices backed up and anyone on SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, etc. will be left waiting for benefits and benefit decisions. Republicans literally want people to die and starve and I hope people remember that

Also this. Far far more than anyone wants to admit. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Bereavement is the No. 1 predictor of poor school outcomes.” www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

when faculty complain about students, I want to ask them if they factor in pandemic trauma + COVID itself. Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans. aspph.org/department-o...

It's funny how we can find government money to throw at things like this because people think they'll get rich, but we couldn't find the same money to throw at a massive push to switch to renewables, isn't it?

one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.

even just the fiscal trade off between one disposable mask versus the cost and amount of supplies and waste generated from a singular emergency room visit let alone the course of a viral induced chronic illness should make the decision to mitigate apparent and frankly logical.

Rapidly cycling between being broken hearted and furious.

$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement. It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it. www.wisn.com/article/meta...

A not-important thing these email drops have nevertheless left me thinking about: Do people type this way? Even on phones, I don’t get it. Why the random spaces? Is this text all copy-pasted from WordPerfect 5.1? I don’t care about people typing informally in emails and texts, but I’m so confused.

“People don’t believe things because they’re true. They believe things that keep them in good standing with their community.”

This whole article is a master class in “use of the passive voice to minimize sex crimes.”

Bingo

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.

I can’t be the bigger person today.

Absolutely fuming 😤

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Mamdani was speaking DIRECTLY to nonvoters his entire campaign. Even when he was polling single digits. He NEVER disrespected them or blamed them for the destruction of this country, a genocide they did not contribute to, or the acts of Trump supporters He made their concerns part of his agenda