Air quality was bad and the race was crowded so I wore a mask for the 10K I ran this weekend. #stillmasking #weprotectus

Very excited for Chicago-based Beacon, which makes a far-UVC device to kill viruses and bacteria – $1.6m seed round just announced! www.bizjournals.com/chicago/inno...

Hello, fellow #CovidConscious folks. I remember at some point reading that the efficacy of mRNA vaccines starts fading at 4 months, but a pharmacist denied a booster for my child today (4 months after their last one). Am I remembering that right? Does anyone have a good source?

Everything's too much all the time, but I've got a new story out and I'm proud of it. Thanks to the crew at @redividermag.bsky.social for giving it a home: redivider.emerson.edu/revision/

UnitedHealthcare just quietly changed my insurance benefits so that my therapy costs went from $25 / week to $80 / week and my husband's went from $25 / week to $160 / week. A 4.8x cost increase. And we have "great insurance."

If the bedroom closet doors are open before bed, my husband and I say that we’re going to close them “for feng shui reasons” and NOT because we’re afraid monsters or goblins will get out

If I were trying to convince the world I were a brilliant coding genius, I would simply not mess up a mail merge. www.wired.com/story/dozens...

Everything is terrible but I have a new story out from CALYX and I'm proud of it and maybe it will give you a break from doomscrolling: www.calyxpress.org/excerpts/lan...

I hate that they took the ruffles off the edges of lasagne noodles and put them on the edges of toilet paper

As someone who learned to drive in Maryland, this seems fair

make *them* make *you* comply; they usually can't (👇) and introducing widespread friction to these programs makes them slower and more expensive: both buying time for targeted parties, and turning these raids into terrible investments of effort, money, and energy...which even GOP voters don't want

In today’s small wins: Today, I got three (3) white Boomer women in my family fired up and contacting their reps to express their displeasure with current administration policies. Brand-new for them. Here’s hoping it sticks and spreads.

I remember, when I was married to my first husband, thinking: this is reality. This is life. You may not sleep in the same bed as your spouse. He may not want to see you very often. And that is your life. Because you are married to him. And how permanent that felt.

For any abled folks reading this who are wondering what you can do to help out I have a maybe unpopular opinion: There's a surge in flu, RSV, norovirus, and SARS-COV-2 rn Wear a mask in crowded areas, wash your hands, get vaccinated, use an air purifier... Help protect vulnerable people

I had to update my Word and now I can't disable Copilot. There's literally not an option to turn the tools off. What a bunch of hooey. Anyone else? #amwriting

Help I liked one post about non-alcoholic cocktails on Instagram and now ads for aDapToGEns is my entire feed

General shout-out to the city of Chicago, where I go around in my giant Flo Mask and people smile at me and the only ones who ever ask about it are children (with curiosity). A great place to live.

Someone should invent bobby pins you can find

The idea that kids are low risk for post-COVID disability is based on error-riddled, retracted research. Long COVID occurs in kids after 10-20% of infections. 6M in the US so far. COVID denialism is an issue of child welfare. Their future and society’s is on the line. And you can take action! 🧵

Not making friends when you move to Chicago does not mean you need to build an "IRL social app," it means you need to sign up for improv classes like the rest of us. techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/i...

Enemies with malefits?

On a crowded elevator today, everyone exhaled after one guy got off. “I feel like I just smoked a pack of cigarettes,” said the lady with spiky hair. Me? I didn’t notice. My mask blocked the smell 💅🏻