🖼️ "Gloaming" by artist Dan McCarthy.

A novel approach would be to have proper health care, end socioeconomic inequality problems and tax people based on their income/wealth. A fair system would have billionaires paying approximately 450 million times more tax on sugars foods/beer etc, but they don’t care about fairness 😔

There is no ‘mild’ because covid leaves its mark. We must not be getting infected.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9t... Covid is airborne! Wear a respirator ffp2/3 Open windows Clean the Air- build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box or use a Hepa Air Purifier. It’s easy, it will help prevent infections.

If you are not wearing a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, you have chosen to be on the wrong side of long-term survival. #COVID19 #respirator

“Researchers found that SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause neurological damage…even without the virus itself present in the brain… Targeting both the virus and inflammation in combination may be necessary to prevent long-term neurologic injury after SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (live)

“Sweden sacrificed its seniors to the pandemic and used its schoolchildren as guinea pigs. Its government plied its people with lies about COVID-19 and even tried to smear its critics.”

SARS-CoV-2 emerged in 2019. We have learned much about it since then, but I assure you there is much left to learn. The normalisation of this virus is both premature and dangerous. A new pathogen is infecting humans and some animals; unpredictable effects are to be expected.

As a recovered alcoholic, I am very aware of the dangers of both denial and normalisation. They are seductive cognitive processes, and they will inevitably be your downfall unless you are very, very mindful of them. This applies to the pandemic, the environment, and politics.

'Vaccines transformed public health because policy followed science. If we abandon that principle, we will not only see old diseases return but we will face them with clinicians less prepared to stop them. That is a policy failure we cannot afford' Superb from @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social

The Blackberry Snow by Catherine Hyde.

Hope

For #StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic human-shaped stela with a necklace and a belt, found in La Serre, Aveyron (#France). The lines on the cheeks are interpreted as facial #tattoos or scars. Dating 3000-2500 BC. In the late neolithic period several cultures living....🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology 📷 me

This engraved Romano-Egyptian magical gem (green jasper) depicts the Egyptian god and psychopomp Anubis holding an ointment jar and standing over a lion-shaped bier. The mummified body of Osiris lies on top. 💀🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ 100-125 CE. #GettyVilla 📸 me

Part of the Neolithic stone circle at Castlerigg, near Keswick in Cumbria. Constructed in around 3000 BC, Castlerigg is one the earliest stone circles in Britain. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Cumbria #Castlerigg

Hello new friends (courtesy of the ever magnanimous @themerl.bsky.social) We are the Merchant Adventurers' Hall - a medieval guild hall in York. What we lack in serious museum content we make up for in big roof energy. 👇

It’s that time of year when we all have a clear out of stuff we don’t need. For those living in the Almshouse in the Hall between 1373 and 1900, you didn’t have that much room for clutter. This small niche is where all your worldly possessions would have been stored.

Gong - You Can't Kill Me

Worth watching relevant to every person in the country still being told to just wash hands for a predominantly airborne virus. Yes we should wash hands but the risk from covid is less than 1 in 10,000 on surfaces. 🧵

Esperanza Spalding - Good Lava

#BOTD 1929. Remembering Jazz guitarist Joe Pass. (d.1994) #JazzSky

#BOTD 1938. Remembering singer, guitarist, songwriter, poet, and co-founding members of Soft Machine and Gong, Daevid Allen. (d.2015) #PlanetGong

Karen Hollingsworth. "Crayola No. 11" oil on canvas.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social 😡😡

This is the tombstone of a Roman soldier named Ammonius, son of Damio, a centurion in the first Cohort of Spaniards who probably came from North Africa or the Eastern Mediterranean. He died after 27 years service and was buried at Ardoch in Perthshire, Scotland. #TombTuesday

“Bee Blue” (watercolor) by Carol Carter Many traditions see bees as messengers from the divine, linking to spiritual insight, divine inspiration, and the soul's journey. 🐝

Grateful Dead - Bertha ✌️☮️🕊️

Thank you @fitterhappieraj.bsky.social for warning the few who listened that even mild COVID infections can cause immune system damage. It’s shameful you had to endure insults & censorship simply for telling the truth & trying to help people.

“Both SARS-CoV (SARS) and Mers-CoV (MERS) left survivors with prolonged disease and sequelae”, Long Covid Research Roundup archivoenfermo.substack.com/p/both-sars-...

Researchers have insight into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus harms the nervous system through inflammation. vist.ly/4mg92

'Disability isn’t securitized like death. That makes it the ideal objective for anyone with time to kill (no pun intended). Death by a thousand cuts. The frog in boiling water...Yet time somehow remains our blind spot. To die in slow motion is still to die'. sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/09/r...

Best response ever! 😊 RIP 💔

Over the weekend we lost a pioneer of Psychedelic & Jam Band Rock: Bob Weir (1947-2026) from the Grateful Dead. His vocals are featured on Uncle John's Band, Sugar Magnolia & many more classics. RIP Bobby. www.vintagesilvertones.com/product/alva... #VintageGuitar #Guitar #Alvarez #GratefulDead

Don’t let them convince you that you don’t have a right to protest. Don’t let them say that showing up for your fellow human being doesn’t matter. Don’t let them scare you into silence. Documenting ICE atrocities saves lives. It’s our best chance to hold them accountable.

Ban social media for under-16s, top teaching union urges UK government NASUWT says evidence growing that unregulated access affects behaviour in school and harms mental health

"You may be wondering whether getting a flu vaccine will still help or even if getting the vaccine might be riskier than getting sick. It will help, and the flu is far riskier — but misinformation about vaccines is almost as rampant as the germs they protect against." www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/h...

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

Now playing Workingman's Dead - The Grateful Dead. ✌️

Stunning birds. There is one regularly perched on a weir, waiting with incredible focus for it's lunch on my walk down to the local Tesco. Nature is a welcome panacea in these troubled times. 🕊️🙏

RIP. muscian, songwriter, and founding member of the Grateful Dead Bob Weir. ✌️

It's almost California 4:20, The Day That Bobby Weir has left this mortal plane. Rest, Brotha, Rest. God, we are gonna miss you! Tell the Boys we say, " Hey Now!" Pause For The Cause! ☁️☁️💀❤️ #BobWeir #cali420 #california420 #cannabis #legalizeit #PauseForTheCause #OMG

Beauty. What a master. RIP and peace to all. 🕊️

RIP. Keep on truckin'! 🙏

RIP Bob Weir. You made my long, strange trip full of beauty man. 💔✌️☮️🕊️

86 years ago Charlie Chaplin said this. We are actually even further from it now than we were then.

Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon - Rings

Professor Longhair - Jambalaya