ironically, reports of irony being dead killed irony and now it’s dead

me: COVID causes brain damage 🦋: 🦗🦗🦗 rand0a$$_42069: here’s a spam sandwich i had for lunch 🦋:

This is such a heartbreaking story "Liam made it to CHEO, but had a hole in his lung. When he arrived, Gartland was also told her son had COVID-19, which was putting additional strain on his lungs" globalnews.ca/news/1187243...

amen 🙏🏼

breathe easy, everyone, they’re gonna do their best

“it’s right there in the name! the outbreak of hantavirus is the perfect reminder to wash your hants” -public health, probably

posted with analogous 100% confidence

man, what a great point: asking the medically vulnerable to do all the work to protect themselves from illness while “healthy” people pay 0 heed to infection control is akin to the wealthy paying little or no tax while the di$advantaged pay & struggle to survive podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

rewording a previous post on this claim that screens are behind declining cognition in gen z bc i know little about the neuroscientist or the study he’s touting. but i do know that multiple studies show lasting brain damage from repeat COVID infections. putting kids first means cleaning the air

this article by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social still provides the gold standard breakdown of how the left shotgunned the right-wing kool-aid as soon as it was apparent that protecting against COVID would be a marathon rather than a sprint, vaccines notwithstanding www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...

“‘I worry about almost a mind-deadening future.” school: where if repeated COVID infections don’t rot your brain, the AI will

“The pandemic continues to pose a risk to workers. Indoor air quality, ventilation, and infection prevention are fundamental workplace safety issues.”

whether it’s just a cold or that weird bug that’s going around, or a new strain of that thing from before that definitely isn’t more serious or cause for any alarm, we are in a far better place than we were just four years ago

i mean, dumb question, obviously—but no dumber (and maybe less?) than the near-universal decision four years ago to abruptly stop masking/taking COVID seriously because biden said to

“i don’t think the narrative here is about changing laws… we also don’t know… we’re still looking into what happened this morning” no of course, that’s not the story you want to tell, so best not to make any knee-jerk wild assertions like you definitely didn’t with alex pretti or renee good

exhibit A

sanctimonious geniuses chortling over a big game hunter being trampled to death by elephants while orgasming over their love of factory-farmed bacon for breakfast 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“If there is known epidemic activity, protect yourself and your workplace. In a private doctor’s office or hospital, to prevent nosocomial epidemics, use masks and ask patients to mask.”

“people just don’t care” never saw “leaving neverland” (2019). but it didn’t take long before COVID hammered home this same lesson to me. we really are a misopedic society calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

secretary of premature death and dead raccoon penises rfk jr. is of course a wet wipe of the highest order, but where the hell was the outrage four years ago when *biden* proclaimed COVID over and everyone whipped off their masks? this is the logical absurd epilogue to that moment

to paraphrase a true poet of a friend: being COVID-aware is not living in fear it’s living in care

“this is really a battle for the soul of the republican party, plain and simple. you know, the GOP has historically welcomed a wide net, from pederasts to ephebophiles…” HAHA brilliant

i mean, does it come as any surprise? we do it for ‘very stable’ geniuses too www.avclub.com/leaving-neve...

Ontario school curriculum changes are connected to a deeper problem, expert says No kidding. But guess what isn't mentioned? www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

revised paul calandra’s statement to reflect what a responsible ontario minister of education would say about ontario’s decline in high school attendance. can somebody tell him? globalnews.ca/news/1180158...

Latest episode out now! Ft. @matiangai.bsky.social discussing how the interests of whiteness have often dominated global public health policy and how the long shadow of medical colonialism shows up today. www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/leg...

“i did post it. i thought it was me as a doctor”

oh yeah no for sure

today was the day donald trump finally became omnipotent

those were the days, my friend we thought they’d never end

five days now since trump threatened to end an entire civilization, and he’s still the leader of the so-called ‘free world’. no other nation within that democratic coalition would allow their top official to continue waging utter chaos after such insanity. that’s american exceptionalism for you.

@timmiller.bsky.social and @janecoaston.bsky.social rightly concerned about prominent left voices giving props to tucker carlson apparently missed this tweet from his bud/her boss, @jonfavs.bsky.social?

i bet they didn’t even say thank you once

“let’s not forget, canada: we’re all in this together, and so always remember, my friends, you do you” 🤘🏼🇨🇦

Bannon and Trump may have promoted the COVID lab leak but it was fueled by irresponsible journalism—folks looking for scandal and ignoring overwhelming evidence, probability, and expert consensus. I’m still mad about it.

“daddy’s home!”

“I don’t mean to sound controversial, but a president shouldn’t be able to walk away from threatening to wipe out an entire civilization—even setting a deadline, as if Armageddon is a bloody reality show—and then carry on like he’s a normal president.”

sure, jon. trump-enabling fuckfreak tucker carlson’s “entire monologue” is worth your time, while disability activists who say a swear (‼️) while expressing frustration at high-profile progressive politicians downplaying a mass-disabling disease warrant mocking with a dismissive, snarky zinger

ffs just because he two-weeksed his genocide as he has with so many of his shit promises doesn’t mean the threat is over. it is clear. it is present. it is him. removal now

so are we gonna just go through all of this pure evil psycho bullshit again in two weeks or is someone—anyone—with the capacity to do something actually going to do something

“there’s not one moment i’ve ever been with him off camera where he’s spending his time grousing about people he hates. ever. he’s talking about the people and the country he loves in his private time. trust me.” -tucker fucking carlson madison square gardens, nov 2024

dunno if springsteen has a list of the celebrity fans he’d most like to disown, but if he does, surely at the very top is the 1st of trump’s presidential rivals and the 1st governor to endorse him in 2016—who is also a self-proclaimed über-fan of the boss—chris christie.

woulda had me too if she were wearing an n95 when she said it

my above-toilet bathroom décor reading a little too much like actual news rn

did not watch but i’d wager tonight was not the night donald trump finally became president

imagine if, instead of gathering around the office water cooler, you stood around the open water trough. no need to bring a cup—there are always communal ones waiting in the trough! just reach in, scoop one out, then toss it back in when you’re done. sound gross? it’s what we do with our shared air

one of the easiest and most effective ways to demonstrate you’re genuinely committed to this mission is to wear a respirator (≥n95) in indoor and crowded outdoor public spaces (eg no kings march)