Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.

The comments on this Reddit post are redeeming. Suggest reading them if anyone is struggling with this too. How many women are being bullied daily for masking & taking Covid precautions?

Just in case anyone out there feels like they shouldn’t post art - please do. The constant bullshit from the news is difficult but we can’t allow all of that to stop us from making art and sharing it. That’s all I have to say rn - am planning to enjoy the rest of my weekend working on sketches.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Today felt like a lot so I made chocolate-dipped citrus madeleines 🍪

Devaluing life through the ongoing, current pandemic sets the stage for every other catastrophe we face and our government’s failure to handle them. It’s all connected. I’ve been screaming it since 2020 and I mostly just get told to shut up. But it’s all connected.

The way that Covid was a factor that accelerated my own dad's death and people close to me are still mocking me and choosing to not understand why I take precautions

CDC data show ~11% of U.S. pediatric flu deaths in 2024–25 occurred despite full vaccination. This shows vaccines certainly help, but without clean air, masking and sick-leave policies etc, some kids are still left vulnerable. Pediatric flu deaths are a policy choice www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Even now people think that the problem is Trump and not the decades of Presidents leading up to this moment that set the stage for a fascist dictator to be capable of bombing a foreign country without authorisation from Congress.

Utterly shocking that the country that invaded Iraq for oil and suffered zero consequences internally or externally is doing it again.

what the fuck did I just wake up to

Reminder that one of the very first things Carney did was cancel an increase to the capital gains tax.

In 2026 there will be more mass media articles and commentators ridiculing people taking precautions to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection while simultaneously hundreds of pieces of research will be published further demonstrating the long-term harms of infection. Ignore the ridicule.

"I'm really tired of Donald Trump being a bad guy. I really want to go to San Diego but can I can't just because of him." 6yo

Reminder that the head of the NIH is an economist who has never conducted NIH-funded research, spent years doing paid speaking engagements for far-right extremist groups, & is best known for a study where he committed serious ethical violations & ended up wrong by greater than an order of magnitude.

70 miles away from a large city - seeing some Long Covid patients - need help with confirmation and help them get into trials. No one in my local area with ~600 MDs but as far as I know - I am the only one seeing these patients - a lot of patients are left to fend for themselves.

More than 1 billion women and children were exposed to violence worldwide in 2023. On our first cover of 2026, a Comment highlights the urgent need for preventive measures to address this crucial public health priority and save lives. Read this & more: spkl.io/63322Alsfi

Started 2026 with family Member using ChatGPT to write me a long essay on why using Plus Life tests is irrational. Happy new year, all 🫠

Can we please stop referring to common viruses as mild when they cause families unimaginable heartache every year? people.com/influencer-p...

In my stats class, there is a woman from Europe with a masked profile pic. She seems to be the furthest along in all the modules, asking the most advanced questions. Interesting coincidence?

Researchers Warn That H3N2 Flu Infections Can Cause Long-Term Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration! www.thailandmedical.news/news/researc...

A very Happy New Year to you all. If you're still mitigating against infection from SARS-CoV-2 you have nothing but my respect and admiration. Wishing each and every one of you a wonderful 2026.

10 year old Rebekah Baptiste jumped out a window to escape her father’s abuse. She was found injured and starving on the side of a highway… but rather than protect her… police returned her to the abuser. Believe the victims. That’s literally all you have to do!

I'm old enough to remember when smoking around others was socially acceptable, in restaurants, bars, workplaces etc. Secondhand smoke was everywhere. We changed norms once we accepted that shared air = shared risk. Airborne viruses are no different

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

Time for him to wear a mask in solidarity and demonstrate true leftist values of community care and inclusion

"Increased alcohol consumption around the holidays can also lead to difficult or dangerous moments" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sometimes people have bad years. While it’s always good to have gratitude, it is also okay not to pretend you had a list of accomplishments and wins if you didn’t. You are not bringing down the vibe if 2025, of all godforsaken years, was bad. You can have hope for the future and still be honest.

Raising my metaphorical glass of non-alcoholic grape juice to all of the fighters out there. Let's do more in 2026.

Playing Star Wars videos games with 6yo. As we work together to defeat the enemies "Mom, you don't have to worry about doing this job. I'll take care of it" He'll make a good partner one day

My greatest 2025 achievement was surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape. My 2026 resolution is surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape.

I love the Covid informed community and how quickly they are to respond to nonsense content 👏🏼

Wishing you all a very masked and mitigated new year. #OneOfTheTwo

COVID-19 Is Six Today. What We've Learned thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... @crof.bsky.social @thetyee.ca 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Doesn't mask in public during an ongoing airborne pandemic. Believes long Covid is psychosomatic - those would be two of my 🚩🚩

Maybe I'm the odd one out because these viral posts are popular right now, but I don't find them funny or entertaining. Children are dying of these viruses. These vids with massive reach help normalize it while providing no concrete info to parents on how to prevent illness

Aside from the sheer entitlement of a man who had a FORTY year career in Harvard and is whining about things changing, there is something about how much the pandemic has radicalized so many people. Simply being asked to mask seems to have broken some people’s minds entirely.

Shoutout to my fellow maskers!

It is very odd to feel like everyone hates you when you want to protect yourself from sickness and that your long term sickness from that sickness reminds them of “old”sickness times even though the sickness is on going so they hate you for that too.

A real fear i have about the @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social episode is that the person who has been bullying me nearly daily for 2+ years for masking will listen to it & it will encourage them further to belittle me

I love n95s. I haven’t been sick in years. It’s awesome. Cannot believe some of the sketchy air I’ve breathed in my life. Absolutely not doing that anymore.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

I’m proud of myself, and of others here, for getting through another year where being Covid-informed has meant being ridiculed, gaslit, dismissed or bullied. We shall keep going

A couple neurotypicals thought I wasn't being neurodivergent the right way

"Brar suggests one way to build new friendships is by joining groups or attending regular activities, such as a fitness class, at the same time each week." CBC: still allergic to mentioning the literal ongoing pandemic. I would spend more time with friends if any of them took ANY precautions

One family’s flu season nightmare: Their son’s symptoms were mild — until he landed in a Toronto hospital. What started as the flu has turned into pneumonia for this four-year-old boy, by @sadeenmohsen.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/gta/one... via @thestar.com

An acquaintance shared an IG post about how she is very sick with influenza but had to get on an airplane anyway to take her kids to Disneyland for Christmas. No masks. Somehow she painted herself as the victim for being sick on the plane. Everyone sent her sympathy. Peak liberal privilege

#OneOfTheTwo and one of the many Jon Stewart mocked this week. COVID took my job, my voice (I was a classically trained mezzo soprano), for a long time my ability to read. I don’t want to invite it in again. Attitudes like Stewart’s stigmatize, make it hard to socialize or exist in public.

Wow.

Punching down': Comedian Jon Stewart under fire as mockery falls flat with progressives www.rawstory.com/jon-stewart-...