This is funny but not entirely off-base. Research finds the moralism of religious people is harsher about breaches of conventional sexuality/reproductive issues than breaches of prosocial morality; "conservative stances toward sex are close to the core of what it means to be religious."

Trying to explain my energy limitations to people without ME/CFS is the one thing that sort of makes it understandable for me why so many people are rolling the dice with infinite covid They truly do not have a mental model for a body that sometimes requires you to budget even conversational energy

Asymptomatic means WITHOUT SYMPTOMS. You can have and spread a deadly, debilitating disease at any time and not know it. The considerate, logical, pro-social thing to do is to WEAR A RESPIRATOR.

I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson. I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.

Really moving artistic visual of a POTS experience

“COVID-19 impacts the heart; one cardiologist saw about 20 people a year for POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) pre-pandemic, now it’s daily.”

I continue to be in a dissociative state as Covid research keeps learning it is a dangerously risky & systemic disease while I watch people I know get sick from it with no worries as if it’s just a cold. While I’m perceived as “germ avoidant” for masking inside. No I’m specifically avoiding *this*

Reminder - it takes an average of 17 years for new scientific evidence to reach clinical practice. If you're taking COVID advice from any random doctor or nurse, it's probably not accurate unless they specifically follow this stuff

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

"But we do have prevention tools: clean indoor air, high-quality respirator masks, testing and smart avoidance of exposure. Vaccination won’t stop transmission, but it still helps reduce severe acute disease. The tools are here. The question is: why we are choosing not to use them?"

Pandemics --> eugenics & fascism Don't like those things? Wear a respirator.

I barely have enough money to survive, but if a few more of my tax dollars could ensure food, housing, education and healthcare for everyone? I would give it in a heartbeat. Those with the least often share the most. The rich hoard their wealth. Abolish the billionaire class.

I am autistic, Covid-cautious, the parent of an autistic kid, and I have Long Covid. Here is an intro thread for the Covid-cautious community who may be new to autism history and autism research. 🧵 1/

This is the thing, isn't it? Does the "big tent" include trans people, anarchists, disabled people, the undocumented, homeless people? No? Oh, just republicans again? I see, I see.

I'm sick with a virus for the first time in five+ years. Is this really the thing that most of society has determined it's totally cool to have all the time? 😫🤧

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

When you organize based on affinity—on addressing material needs or imposing a direct challenge to regime—goals are both flexible and material, and therefore possible. You can succeed in feeding people, or damaging infrastructure, in a way you can’t ever succeed at “bringing about the revolution.”

Leaves are pretty

You heard him, my fellow disabled and high risk folk, just avoid going in public forever. Sheesh. Stop asking for things like access to society or not being killed by your neighbors.

law is a social construct

Dear liberals, If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

There is no quicker way to make people uncomfortable and to not want to talk to you than to share the latest findings of what Covid does in our bodies. Almost no one I know has done a rational assessment of the threat environment since 2021 when we were told to vax and relax into Delta and Omicron.

PLEASE keep talking about COVID. please keep talking about how crucial masking is to stop the spread of infectious disease. we need more people to understand that their government lied to them and threw them to the wolves.

Got a letter that gender affirming care will no longer be covered by our insurance. They list a number to apply for exception, but I just got passed around to five different people who didn't know anything. I don't know how I'm going to keep my kids alive through this.

I always pictured myself as Robin Hood, but actually I'm one of these old owls, and that's a comforting realization.

It's sooo exhausting how behind most people are 😭

Wearing an n95 is BY FAR the single most impactful act of resistance a person can do right now. Your maskless face is the bullet in a fascist’s gun. Mask up to resist eugenics by protecting vulnerable groups like kids, BIPOC, trans, disability and immigrant communities. Give/get mask mutual aid:

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner @natcomms.nature.com

""It feels like being dead while you're alive," she says. "It feels like you've lost your entire life, but you're still here." ... "I really want people to know that no one is immune to this, anyone can get long Covid. I didn't think it would happen to me.”"

People: "How are you doing?" Me, sitting in my car biting directly into half of a grocery store cake at 2pm on a Thursday: "Hangin' in there!"

What the hell kind of messaging do we need to do to get it through people’s heads that the COVID shot is not a sterilizing shot? I’m baffled at this point. Can people really not hold the nuance of “it’s really important but it isn’t the only mitigation you need to do”?

Well, we had a good run but it finally got us. My oldest kid has COVID. 😭 Keep your fingers crossed that I manage to keep myself (brain tumor survivor & 15 yrs with post viral dysautonomia) and my partner with LC from getting infected

🚀In 6 days we launch "Now I have Long Covid I can't climb the stairs. I've been sleeping in my kitchen for 5 yrs. I can't wash myself, I have to have assistance, I can't make my own food I haven't seen anyone my age in person for 5 yrs." Combination Dance Company & LCK #LongCovidKids #Dance

The garden feels like a safe space because I don't have to teach the plants and the critters how to be interconnected members of the same ecosystem. Most people are so far behind. It's exhausting.

The pace of research has risen 10X. Among the most exciting things is this new research that suggests a vascular basis for #mecfs. Collagen is blocking up the capillary walls so blood won't flow and energy/oxygen can't cross. Collagen issues may also hint at why #mecfs and #eherlsdanlos overlap...

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #keepmasksinhealthcare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPLUS #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #davossafe #BringBackMasks #covidconscious #cleanair #COVIDcautious

Tfw you're trying to fall asleep and your brain's like, youtu.be/g6CslpftOe4

Ugh. Why does past me always think it's a good idea to make plans? I hate plans.

Are there support groups for chronically ill people who have become caregivers for newly chronically ill partners? #NEISvoid

You aren't entitled to eating in restaurants AND if you truly love someone you'll be willing to engage in the tiny short term discomfort of not eating in a restaurant, eating far away from each other, or eating before or after hanging out to be w/ them Yes it's difficult to change habits/lifestyles

"The next Buddha is the sangha; the next democracy is we the people" [For context, this is not a pro-US post]

Ableism repeatedly pushes suicidal thoughts into disabled people. Not wearing a mask also pushes us closer to that direction. Not wearing a mask means not defending disabled lives and not stopping mass infection. #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking

Huge content warning for anyone considering watching the new King of the Hill reboot. We tried it last night and there were three awful, ableist, pandemic related "jokes" within the first 15 minutes. Absolute trash. Do NOT recommend. #NEISvoid #covidrealist

Not getting enough blood to your brain and having your heart try to compensate by acting like you're jogging all day long is exhausting. I don't recommend it.

For someone without a job I sure am in a lot of meetings these days

last night, someone on tiktok asked me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate. so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.