imagine putting this money into a new deal 2.0 and fixing roads and bridges, providing housing and healthcare to everyone, and streamlining immigration processes

@potshopboy.bsky.social happy you're back!

Vegetable soup!

We're making vegetable soup and I'm HYPED! 💖

I need everyone to reframe every attempt to get our ID not as a puritanical measure to protect children but as another way of building databases of everything we do or say, including in private. They want evidence of illegal things you may be saying or doing - even if they aren't illegal now.

Episode 2 Also Excellent

ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

LESS STICKING AROUND MORE DICKING AROUND Fuck it post

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Absolutely. Media is complicit in the downplaying of masking and the true dangers of Covid, it’s so frustrating.

I’m no epidemiologist but many sources say N95 effective against measles. “HCWs are to wear a fit-tested, seal-checked N95 (or an equivalent or higher protection) respirator when providing care to a patient with suspect or confirmed measles, regardless of the immunity/vaccination status of the HCW.”

Me: I should stop faffing about on Bluesky and get back to work. *closes Bluesky on phone. Puts phone down* *Re-opens laptop. Tabs over to Bluesky*

I want to make myself a pair of mittens with the ball of Cool Gradient Yarn I found but I need to finish this second green mitten first because a) I've already started work on it and b) I've already made the first mitten in the pair and it will bother me TO NO END if I don't make the full pair.

Ate a dish for lunch that I'm going to call Oops-Only-Wheat-Thins 😬 Good thing we're planning to make vegetable soup for dinner.

Booked my PAP and physical please clap. Also PSA for fellow uterus havers: are you due for a PAP?

CBC simply can’t be trusted when it comes to public health messaging. Their so-called ‘experts’ never keep up with medical research. It’s painfully obvious to anyone who does.

The pro-health case for basic income is overwhelming

:) More info from this interesting study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... and this non-bananas CDC page: www.cdc.gov/infection-co...

A reminder: there is not a single housing market in America—not one city, state, or county—where someone relying on SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment. Deaths like these are always preceded by engineered abandonment. Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is no accident.

Bad news: I have searched everywhere I can think of and can't find my blue moleskin notebook Good news: I found a super cute ball of yarn I had forgotten about, which I plan to use to make myself some rainbow mittens 💖

i’m unable to reply to this person‘s post, but I want to say N95s do protect against measles if they fit. They’re not perfect, but they work much better than baggy blue medical masks. Which by the way, don’t do a whole lot against Covid either, and that’s maybe what the article was referring to.

Love how my GP's office won't let me book anything except a routine appointment online (so no PAPs no physicals) but when you call the automated message is all like "have you tried booking on our website?" 🫠

also pulling out this old chestnut of a phrase to bolster the idea that restrictions of any sort are never the solution

it’s a good thing we don’t have socialized healthcare because otherwise we might have to endure untenable wait times for basic care. anyway the annual checkup I scheduled last July to take place in March has just been rescheduled to May

I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.

We're going to try to run errands this week (time permitting) and I'm going to buy some red yarn and make one of these for me and one for Spouse!

Hey we live in hell so how about buying some wound treatment for medics who have to be out on the street patching up their neighbors instead of *not* doing that and living the lives they lead before the goonsquad came to town.

I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.

1/ Unfortunately, no political party in the #Yukon takes #CleanAir in schools seriously. Or even considers it. Same goes for #LongCOVID. Despite the fact that at least 2 #MLA's are rumoured to have had Long COVID. But they know - @yukon.ca @yukonassembly.bsky.social @drbrendanhanley.bsky.social

RTO puts more cars on the road (accidents, pollution) & ⬆️ the spread of viruses like Covid. The total toll of Long covid alone is estimated to cost the U.S. economy trillions per year with new infections adding to risk. This move is only about power & real estate profits

Thank you to MP @brucefanjoy.bsky.social for this statement on @mark-carney.bsky.social rigid Return to Office Policy RTO costs employers money, increases attrition with no gain in productivity, drives mothers, disabled & racialized folks out of the workforce

Alt text: Waulsortian mudmound

Today someone told me all I had to do get healthcare (because I can’t afford my ACA premium) was tell a social worker and they’d make sure I got it cause “nobody wants to see disabled people go without care.” LOLOLOLOL they are in for a rude awakening if they ever become disabled.

Imagine if every Canadian had $500K of common wealth invested in the upside of global economic prosperity, like every Norwegian enjoys. We are a nation of vast resources. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/n...

Alt text: a chart showing that people remain sicker post 2019 than they do pre 2019

ICE is still abducting people. ICE is still arresting peaceful observers. ICE is still gassing people. ICE is still showing up at grade schools. www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/u...

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

This is the way. Please put an end (or at least a dent) to The Sick Times and the normalization of illness in schools or any place where we gather. These tools, small & simple, can be a game changer. This is how we can break the transmission. #CleanSafeAirIsAHumanRight #TheAirWeShare #Airborne

• A doc sued for prescribing a debunked autism therapy • A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children” • A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

Seattle renters, it's time to speak up! Share your renting experience with @mayorofseattle. The survey ends Feb 13th. Link in bio. #yourcity #seattle #thisisyourcity #seattlerenters

Just so we're all clear, the plural of Roomba is Roombae  Receptionist quietly into phone: Security? Yeah. He's back

if masks are pricey for you, reader, check out covidactionmap.org + maskbloc.org to see if there are groups near you who can provide them. no one near you? check the link in my bio for the “how to start a maskbloc” zine, & the thread below for tips on making air at your gatherings a lil safer.

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

Interesting how CBC alludes, in a backhanded way, to the efficacy of masks against covid: "Measles can stay in the environment hours after an infected person has been in a space, and Lagacé-Wiens said that unlike with COVID-19, physical distancing or masks do little to protect someone from

Love how the CRA blames their delays on the growing population and new tax credits to process. Meanwhile "since March 2024, the agency has eliminated 11,000 of its 62,000 positions... includ[ing] 452 employees in the appeals branch whose contracts weren’t renewed last year."

Attn: Alberta Health Services:

People keep complaining about the red hats because they’re not “real” protest but that lady has raised and donated over $600,000 to her neighbors in MN *and* is the the daughter of a refugee from Egypt. Y’all gotta sit with those impulses and then calm tf down and think about WHY you feel dismissive

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

People forget the Kate Beaton comic the "Poe looking suspiciously at a letter" meme comes from is also a devastating read on Jules Verne.

this is... not happening in Minneapolis or anywhere else, really