-$500 today at the vet. Unfortunately Carrots teeth have gotten worse. He has an infection so his procedure got moved up. If I don’t have the money *before* they will NOT help him. His surgery is now Oct. 15th. for $800. I already put $100 down. $100/$800 Venmo: @zzz22 CA: $ziizzzii 💜 THANK YOU 💜

Our friend needs her meds I don't know yet how much they'll cost, let's get this started and I'll update when I know more Please help if & as you can 💖 venmo: @temptingcate cashapp: millicents42 paypal: CateOcean42

ChatGPT groomed a child into dying by suicide. From telling him how to do it in the most efficient and "attractive" way, to convincing him to hide his suicidal ideation and attempts from his family, to offering to help write his suicide note - it pushed him to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRm...

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

If you are one of the rapture people… you should be GIVING your stuff away…. Why are you selling your stuff? You don’t need money where you are going

Recognizing a need to impress that I haven't engaged with. Being praised for being "smart" as a kid (among a lot of other things) really set me up for failure. I like being "smart" and consider myself a good critical thinker but I need to find ways to relate that don't revolve entirely around that

Today was a good day for me to be reading Saidiya Hartman.

YES! “I do not dream of labor” is not just a snark riposte It’s a description of hope. Functional transit to leisure . Maybe Art. Naps . Functional systems Not dreaming of labor doesn’t mean folks mind working to achieve dreams

“A successful and healthy response to COVID would have seen our public toolkit expand over the last five years. Most critically, we would’ve seen a comprehensive plan for upgrading indoor air quality in all public buildings.”

A healthy public health response would have expanded, rather than narrowed, the tools in our anti-COVID toolkit since 2021. Instead, institutional mitigations like clean air were never implemented, and now the last tool standing is under attack. www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

Felt similarly as a gay man in the ‘80s & ‘90s during the original HIV/AIDS epidemic and again in 2022 as I reviewed the science on COVID & learned how dangerous it truly is—at the same time it became apparent the government was going to basically try & disappear the virus.

GO BIRDS

Queer ASL class registration is now open for the October-December 2025 cycle!

Any immunity to COVID is minimal and short-lasting. And to the contrary, COVID damages immune systems—it doesn‘t strengthen them. “People who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what those answers might mean...”

If nothing else Buddhist metaphysics is just fun. I agree with them, for the record, but it's also just really fun.

I spent two weeks teaching Susan Wendell’s book and one of the main points that she makes is that there are more people disabled by heart disease and diabetes and other such things than by accident or birth. One of the things I added was that queer people suffer disproportionately from them.

Had the unfortunate experience of being reminded of Sho*onh*ads existence. And people still insist that Bernie Bros weren't a real phenomenon.

if i could get uplifted to meet rent for September as i seek work that would be great 🙏🏾 the goal is $750 CA: $jpat10 PP: jdp5 VM: @ / patjdee

I miss not having immediate access to people via a computer in my pocket. I miss having to find people. I miss phonecalls. I miss speaking to people directly. I don't mind texting. I think it's very useful, but there was something about being forced to communicate with people in specific ways.

I'm trying to help my friend Abby get out of Austin and move up here where i am but there's stuff i need to figure out in the meantime. if people have leads down there even short term she's omfgbean on discord. if you want to help her feed herself and her guinea pigs she's $AbbyBean2 on cash app.

Please lie! I'm one of those who has a long-term condition as a result of multiple COVID infections. I'd like for you to do all you can to protect yourself and the vaccines help! Wearing an N95, advocating clean air (and maybe even filtering the air yourself) are things I also think you should do!

please, lie about it! i encourage you as a chronically ill, high-risk person myself. but then don’t immediately do things that will risk making you contagious and GIVING you a chronic illness, like relying 100% on the vaccine to be your only line of defense.

PSA as people are hurrying to get Covid vaccines: lying about a high-risk condition to get one is understandable! But people actually have those conditions and are higher risk for Covid, do not claim our status for your safety and then continue to endanger us for your convenience. Mask up!

If you lie about having an underlying condition to get a vaccine but never mask, a pail of water should come crashing down on your head. Everybody now: Wearing a mask, esp. a well fitting one such as an N95, protects you & others. COVID is airborne, the pandemic is ongoing, & we’re in a surge now.

My nose won’t be out but my boobs are! Also I’m wearing two birthday presents so THANK YOU

YALL. My outfit for the Hozier concert is burgundy. Look at this gorgeous mask!!!

Still hearing about how sick people are. Did you know we used to catch the flu roughly once a decade? Getting sick used to be a relatively rare occurrence. When will we get tired of it and decide to change our habits?

✨🫶🏼 thank you gofund.me/c98112c9

The collaborative includes CT, ME, MA, NJ, NY, PA + RI

Getting back to work feels better. Being so sick that I was stuck in bed really turned the bitterness dial up.

“As in SARS, so again with COVID: Public Health authorities have been largely useless in providing up to date information to clinicians & the public around airborne transmission, long COVID, spread in schools, N95s etc. PH leaders are widely perceived as more focused on their image than their job.”

Not using social media is really opening my eyes to the utility of social media.

I DID IT. I'll do a proper post on the comic account tomorrow I guess. www.patreon.com/c/BirdeeBlake MFG chapter 5, the first five pages, and another 5 pages next Monday 😤

Let me bump this . It’s been rough and if everyone gives me a dollar I’m set, and even better if you need actual sense about organizing, strategy ,media, audience and policy I can do those things Imma go log out

It’s worth noting that for many years doctors refused to wash their hands, not because there was a lack of evidence for it being a life-saving measure, but because it challenged established norms. We are seeing the same regressive phenomenon with masks now.

When you get a vaccine or a medical checkup, we expect the healthcare worker to wash their hands and wear gloves. We should think the same about wearing masks in medical settings. Viruses can spread pre-symptomatically; masks are another effective infection control measure.

I hate when my anxiety causes me to procrastinate about stuff and it becomes a bigger issue

Look here stop faking the funk. I know somewhere in this followers list someone knows a millionaire/ billionaire with a guilty conscience / or a VC with a fetish I need a six figure sum in the go fund me CAN WE PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN So I can volunteer for civic popular education

Covid has returned and it’s going to hurt. By Lesley-Ann Jones, Daily Express, Saturday September 13, 2025 Source: x.com/LAJwriter/st...

“A pandemic is not an “event” that ends — it is something that continues to impact lives for years.”

Are people finally starting to get tired of getting sick multiple times a year?

Anyone on here have any references to debates about what constitutes a fact? I have Haraway and her engagement with "Truth" but I'd like something that engages directly with popular and scientific ideas about facts.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

How come I don't hear Sylvia Wynter brought up as much when folks talk about Afropessimism? She seems squarely within the tradition.

On X everyone misread this part of the arrest report and thinks it means Tyler Robinson said Charlie Kirk spread hate. The relative said that, not the shooter himself.

A better world is possible and getting sick does not need to be the norm. Did you know we killed an entire strain of the flu with imperfect COVID precations? We could've killed COVID, too. We could've killed a lot of pathogens. We could still be killing them. edition.cnn.com/2024/03/05/h...

It's wild how angry this place used to make me. Like I'm angry otherwise for a lot of reasons but Jesus. I came back on here to keep up with...recent happenings but I'm going to go back to basically never being on here again soon.