It’s International Long Covid Awareness Day. One of the best things you can do to support people with Long Covid is wear a mask (ideally a respirator like an N95). Masks break chains of transmission. They prevent infection. The only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid Covid!

Sunday morning community fridge stocking. Beef stew. Think next time I’ll add peas cause it needs something green. Of course the one week I don’t bring a J-cloth the shelves are a mess. Going to pop back after work. Also brought tomatoes, cucumbers, salad greens, carrots, and tuna.

Before infection, our members chose how to use each heartbeat. Now #LongCovid limits what each beat can be used for. Turn your phone landscape for the best viewing experience. #LCAD26 #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay #LongCovidHeartbeats #EveryHeartbeatCounts

The pandemic is ongoing. Protect your future and others by wearing an N95 mask in indoor shared air.

Mark Carney, February 2026: "Let's build a more cooperative, resilient world together. Canada is ready." Mark Carney, also February 2026: "Let's cut 15% of the department responsible for Canada’s environmental policies, including advisors to cooperation programs around the Arctic."

If a certain phone company whose name rhymes with hell has a service appointment booked to fix my phone (not working) it hardly seems sensible to call and leave a phone message reminder about the appointment when, did I mention, my phone was not working. Fixed now so I got my reminder. Post fix.

Every single Covid infection is damaging your body beyond your knowing. Take steps today to protect your tomorrow. This study shows the post infection damage to your immune system. Get vaccinated. Wear a N95 mask. Clean the air. #Covid19 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m keeping my powder dry bc I am new to this group BUT. We have a problem with used needles. This is objective fact. Putting up a sharps container is not “inviting drug use”. Drug use is already happening. A sharps container would be harm reduction. This is why I lone wolf a lot of stuff.

Can’t help feeling like it’s the perfect metaphor for our troubled times that even though all evidence shows a permanent switch to DST to be a terrible choice BC is like - yup that’s what we’ll do. Sigh.

Sunday morning community fridge stocking. Chicken and black bean chili with rice. Also brought rice, oranges, egg, potatoes, and bananas. For the third time someone put a padlock on the door to the fridge. Today it isn’t actually preventing the fridge from being opened/closed but like folks ???

Wastewater levels for Ontario, released today, March 6th, 2026…otherwise known as “during COVID” wwater.ca/Ontario

It took over 60 years for the link between chicken pox and shingles to be understood. What we already know about the longer term effects of Covid infections is bad. But we don’t know what we don’t know. Get vaccinated. Wear an N95 mask. Clean the air.

Listening earlier this week to Ontario Today call in on immigration. Some man talking about how when he goes into Tim Horton’s he should see Canadians working there. Sir, how you making the assumption that the folks working there are not Canadians? No push back from host. CBC do better challenge.

Unexpected joy last night. My brother was in town and dropped by. Probably only an hour but the best thing about my week.

When I share Covid fact/science what happen? Nothing. That’s what happens. Complete radio silence. Not - I‘m not interested, not - stop, not - thank you. Nothing. To be with my no mitigations friend (40 years) in person is to spend every second in despair. I’m only human. I can’t take it anymore.

This is what happens when you have an incompetent right wing government. Right wing governments are *proven*, year after year, in all countries, to not be able to manage the economy. Their basic ideas are flawed, and this is the outcome. Do not vote for them!

Canadian COVID Forecast Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026 ONTARIO HIGH [increasing] About 1 of every 82 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 7.8 x higher -Long COVID: 5.9 x higher -Hospitalizations: 7.4 x higher -Deaths: 8.0 x higher

Monday morning and the start of a new week. Holding fast to this Audre Lorde quote as I make my way. “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.”

Sunday morning community fridge stocking. Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and vegetables. Also brought tangerines, yellow peppers, bacon, peanut butter, potato chips, and some pop. One neighbour was grateful for chips bc she had been at the store but only had change and got something for her dog.

Yes, everything is terrible. But I planned to make meatloaf today to put in the community fridge tomorrow. At the risk of sounding like a simpleton - the meatloaf won’t make itself. Lying in bed grieving/raging won’t feed my neighbours. When you can/where you can/if you can.

Not a single word about international law—these attacks are clearly, unambiguously illegal. Not a single word about sovereignty—Carney’s supposed bedrock value, as claimed in Davos. No concern about Iran being attacked by the US while pursuing diplomacy—as Canada embarks on existential USMCA talks.

Israel and US: destabilizes the Middle East Canada: why would Iran do this?

Here's the joint statement by the UK, France and Germany that I wish Carney had made on behalf of Canada. Horrible look on him and Canada. www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

When Feed Nova Scotia is speaking up to say this NS provincial budget will “strip away community services and leave those living in poverty further behind”, someone sure as hell better be listening. Every Nova Scotian who is living with food insecurity represents a political failure.

Yeah, 80s kids knew this would be the case.

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As a single person I cannot change the entire system. I can act though. Act at the scale of my life. Identify a problem - act to solve the problem. I stock the community fridge every Sunday morning at roughly the same time. Folks are getting to know me and me them. Threads of community are woven.

“I got Claude to” BLOCK “I asked ChaptGPT” BLOCK “I used Gemini to” BLOCK

Twice this week I was asked for $ on the street and when I said ok the person asking asked ME if it was ok? Curious. Like, I got you, we’re good.

Sunday morning community fridge stocking. Chicken paprikash with buttered egg noodles. Not sure about the noodles and this week’s set of containers are again disappointment but on we go. Also brought clementines, tomatoes, and cheese. Random idea - community fridge cookbook as a fundraiser?

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

The difference between mutual aid and charity is solidarity. In charity, institutions dictate who deserves support; in mutual aid, everyone deserves support. Charity is top down; mutual aid is horizontal. Charity is hierarchical; mutual aid is community solidarity.

Inventor of the microwave: This machine will cook dinner faster than a stove or oven. Consumer: How hot does the food get? I: Very hot, like the surface of the sun. C: Oh wow, that’s incre– I: But only some of it. C: Come again? I: The rest stays frozen.

Holy shit would someone bend that arc of history toward justice already

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

I want a time machine, and I wouldn't even mess with history or NOTHING. I just wanna eat stuff through time. Like, imagine how lobster tasted before FOSSIL FUEL pollution! Or original bananas! Maize! Original Coca-Cola! A 1960s-era candy bar???

Been reading “Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas” and it is fascinating to me that at the time the ask was for community control of the police. Now we’ve moved on and abolition is the ask. Love his work and can see his influence in today’s resistance art.

I’ve been ordering masks/rapid tests from @canadastrong.bsky.social for (sadly) years now. Recent order, ordered Monday, arrived on 2 days later. Shout out to Natasha for great customer servic.

Sunday morning community fridge stocking. Chickpea curry vegetable stew. Also brought oranges, carrots, canned tuna, peanut butter, beans with maple syrup . Made the curry Saturday night after work while listening to Nina Simone.

If you call a restaurant at 4:45 pm on Valentines to ask for a reservation of 30 people this same evening we will think you’re stupid. Like, infamously so. In related news, if you show up at 6 pm for your 9 pm reservation …..

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

Niche Ottawa. Today, as we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Billings Bridge this is my semi-regular reminder that no Ottawa business that supported the convoy will ever (EVER) see a penny of my money.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Post a tree you photographed.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

The next commentator to state it was not a political performance is going to get smacked. Ideally with a copy of “Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico” by Catalina M. de Onis. I, a middle-aged white woman living in Ottawa, saw the politics crystal clear.