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"We are trapped in a reality TV autocrat's funhouse mirror, a blurred continuum of shock and sorrow that exhausts our capacity for clarity of thought." - Sarah Kendzior
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
Tell me about your worst work mistakes. Sometimes I comfort myself with not being the person who got a ship stuck in the Suez Canal but that's not working today.
"What do they think will happen when no one can afford rent?"
Baby, why do you think they are criminalizing homelessness. We're gonna be free labor til we die or we free ourselves.
Others have said this better but I truly don't think people are remembering that many of the students protesting now, have never expected cops to protect them. They have grown up doing school shooting drills and they know if something happens, no one is coming. They're prepared.
Y’all are patiently waiting for a personalized letter in the mail stating “we are now in WWIII” or “Covid is actually dangerous, sorry we lied to you” or “Neither politician party cares if you live or die as long as you vote first.”
I highly disagree. You should do it anyway but being a good person often has a cost. It’s illegal to feed homeless neighbors in many states. At work and in life, people will and do take advantage of kindness. Taking a stand can cost you your employment or education.
We’re not doing this.
This is ecofascism. This rhetoric is spitting in the face of Indigenous wisdom. Humans are not the disease. Capitalism, overconsumption, and the greed of corporations is. You know better. Find better ways to express your frustrations.
I have a doctors note in my chart that said “Patient shrugged and said if she dies, she dies, but healthcare is too expensive to pursue additional testing so she’s going to go home and hope she wakes up tomorrow. Declined ER visit for full cardiac workup due to cost.” 🙃
This tweet makes me want to cry because we have been talking about this since 2020 but no one listened and everyone called us over dramatic and hysterical.
"Why does no one want to work?! I see job postings everywhere."
"A large portion of our workforce is actually dead and many of those postings are Ghost Jobs."
*crickets*
@ContextFall
there are a lot of people walking around that don't realize how badly COVID policy fucked our future...like 4 million people fell out of the workforce and nobody says a damn thing
One of the consequences of pretending masking is hard and awkward, is that seeing things like painting, asbestos testing, and hazardous chemical handling, all being done maskless. Then these vendors get sick and injured but refuse to take precautions.
Out of curiosity - I feel like I frequently meet adults who express that when they had a severe injury as a child, their parents didn't believe them and if/when they did get care, their parents never apologized for almost killing them. Is this common?
I’m asking, once again for folks just now discovering the horror of climate change, to listen to Indigenous scientists and experts who have been talking about this forever as well as how to prepare and how to care for each other.
The revolution needs childcare, it needs coordinated transportation, distribution of groceries and medication - yet when you say this to people they throw a tantrum about how we expect too much.
I am not being an alarmist when I say that people need to take the actions like these seriously. They are looking at protesting students as an enemy. We are primed for another event like Kent State or Jackson State.
ut austin, where texas state troopers are barring students from accessing the other side of the campus. please look at this, i have never seen anything like this
I would be so fucking sick if my spouse talked about me that way and centered their whining about possibly killing me with a reinfection over the risk to me. Like…just leave me if you think brunch is worth risking my life for.
The city of Atlanta is now attempting to ban face masks. The ableism alone is astounding, but that’s just a byproduct of their ongoing attempt to suppress democracy.
And to be clear, the sponsors and co-sponsors are Dems.
Nex Benedict was a 16 yo non binary student in Oklahoma who was murdered in the girls bathroom by fellow students. No teachers or staff called the authorities to help Nex after they initially survived the attack. This is the world Oklahoma elected leaders and Ryan Walter’s want.
Nope. Covid was and is the playbook for future pandemics and climate change and anything else catastrophic. The goal is and was not the preservation of human life - the goal was to extract wealth and keep people spending, working, and too busy to demand action.
If a *new pandemic* was brewing that affected children, would the WHO even respond with recommending pandemic measures? Would govts implement pandemic measures?
“Reduce your stress levels” - we live in a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government, during a global plague, in our own extinction event. I can pray, medicate, and medicate but it will not remove the psychic pain of what we’re living through.
I need to do laundry (I think the famine will worsen next year) and I should wash my hair (how long will we have water) and what do I want for dinner (is this the last year we can stock up on dry goods) and there goes an ambulance (is the ER functional anymore).
@ThePOTSPostman
Covid has viral persistence. So when you get reinfected as well, these both cause immune dysregulation. This can cause reactivated viruses in the body, plus fungal overgrowth, eg Candida or bacterial/viral infections and then you don't have the ability to beat them off.
This is from a workup in January but me too. I was surprised and delighted to wake up the next day and honestly most days since, I’m just appreciative that I’m alive even if I’m living out of spite.
HARMLESS CANCERS is where we are now. I didn’t think it would happens so quickly but it did. This is not a thing. Take cancer seriously. Get screenings. Stop letting public health officials rewrite history and care for yourself as best as you are able. We deserve to survive.
Common cancer screens (mammography, colonoscopy, PSA testing, etc.) don't save lives by extending lifetimes, per a meta-analysis of over 2M ppl.
That's pretty shocking when you think about it.
And for too many Americans, the downstream effects of mass screening (biopsies,…
When disabled people do not turn out in waves to “vote blue no matter who” this is why. We have been abandoned by both our political parties and I don’t blame anyone who can’t hold their nose and vote for someone who left them to die.
Biden: "They keep telling me...I gotta keep wearing (a mask), but don't tell them I didn't have it on when I walked in."
Unacceptable for
@POTUS
to be speaking like this. He should advocate for masks at every opportunity. By setting a poor example, he puts many others at risk.
I have so much resentment about what we normalized working through. The smoke choking us, the sickness suffocating us, the collapse of our institutions and rights. Don't you dare tell me this rage is misplaced - that this anger isn't sacred.
There are a tremendous number of very real things that I miss about the Before Times and those are mostly too painful to talk about - so what are some of the more insignificant things that you miss? The silly ones?
Framing masking as a punishment you had to endure that went away if you got vaccinated was one of the most sinister things this administration and public health officials have done.
I also don’t really believe in the idea of a fully Good Person or Bad Person because that framework seems to stop people from being able to see where they’ve caused harm or internalizing criticism as an attack on their character instead of a chance to do better.
This is super unpopular of me but I kind of can’t stomach all the Halloween death decor - we’ve had relentless years of mass death and we’re watching more than one genocide in real time. The body bag tree decorations just feel bleak.
I am at the point where I don't feel comfortable publicly discussing some of the things I think are coming because there are still too many people who won't organize for a future if they think they won't live to see it.
Exactly what everyone said would happen, happened. Is anyone going to cancel their trips? No. Are they going to take precautions? No. Are they going to tell everyone if you’ve had the MMR you can NEVER get measles ever and everyone is safe? Probably.
You ever talk to someone who loves you dearly but in every conversation you know you're talking to a brick wall that will never change and never understand you?
A former coworker, who was having fatigue, pain and heart issues, when I said it sounded like long Covid, said no, no, it’s been like this for months and I’m not testing positive.
My continued explanation that this was something that happened after an infection did not sink in.
Everyone shocked that Measles is spreading and that kids are being permitted to go to school with it after you went "back to normal" immediately and made no efforts to create clean air policies for schools or workplaces...this is partly on you!
These kids know what violence looks like. Everyone knows someone shot, killed, or near-missed in a school shooting. They know what it means that authority won't protect them. They have watched elected officials choose anything but them, over and over again.
“It’s not Covid, I know because it didn’t feel like last time. I didn’t test but I would know.” There are so many variants. You could be asymptomatic. It could be another virus. Get over the idea that you can tell exactly what you do or don’t have by “feel”.
I am so full of rage at the way that both Covid and climate change have robbed me of the things I wanted to pursue in life. I can’t even move states because we’re in the best possible place for food and water shortages and it’s beautiful but I’m so disconnected from everyone.
I hate when people say that everyone forgot how to behave during the pandemic because we did not have lockdowns. People were back to haircuts and takeout like weeks later. We did normalize cruelty and selfishness in new ways though and some of that started long before Covid.
I get a lot of grief for being "too angry" or "too depressed" at the way things are and I'm going to say this - I refuse with every fiber of my being to accept the unacceptable and to normalize suffering people being eaten alive by the greed of others.
And I'm not saying any of this to be argumentative but I do think that the idea that there's never a cost to being a good person or doing the right thing is a problem and one that set's people up to have a terrible politic. They end up crumpling at the first sign of pressure.
It is not an easy decision to cut off parents. It goes against all our instincts. Most people don’t do this without deep thought and care and years of making it work. They also don’t usually share the real reason with many. What you perceive to be a superficial reason 1/2
It’s so weird how people just completely shut down when they want to get together with you and you can’t do drinks/coffee/dinner. The idea of getting together without any food or beverages involved seems to mean that no one is willing to see you.
"You're too sensitive, just don't think about everything". What planet am I on that you want me to just turn off caring about people who don't deserve to die from preventable things? I cannot turn that off. It is fundamental to my being. And I don't care to be heartless.
Living in a reality where you pretend there are no consequences for your actions is not wise - it is not "saving your mental health"- it is an active participation in the delusion that your choices do not impact others.
This why idgaf that people are going to concerts, taking trips and just saying eff it. Because it’s legit the only thing keeping people from going fully insane. Run the credit card up idc. Climate change and covid gon kill us before you get to pay it back anyway
They have been attending vigils for their friends since they were children. They have watched their parents and grandparents call them snowflakes and cowards just for begging for a future with less senseless death. We have failed them so badly and we need to show up WITH them.
The post-covid memory loss and brain damage is so bad that I've met business owners/leaders acknowledging it, who have started plans and practices to account for this - they've been modeling their approach for staff off of accommodations for ADHD.
I don’t know how to maintain any of my relationships right now. Besides my partner, almost everyone that I know is aggressively back to normal. I get that people think there’s no danger and nothing bad will happen to them and that they’re sick of being home with their kids.
You can't tell me that they don't know about fear and loss and bravery when I know they have notes in their phone sent to go to their parents in case they're murdered at school or in a shooting at the movies or the mall, or in public.
My assistant may have to retire due to post Covid brain damage but go ahead and tell me there’s no consequences to the way we’ve allowed and enabled mass death in every industry.
They will literally watch their kids die from preventable things and then turn around and say that it was God’s plan or no one could have known better.
“But how do you go on dates if you never indoor dine?” We’re making spicy rigatoni, listening to Frank Sinatra, and are having a candlelight dinner at home. We can also go to nature parks, an art museum masked, or literally anything else we feel like doing.
It’s not just that we’re not dealing with it - it’s that you can’t address and heal from something that is ongoing and worsening. How do you grieve a constantly increasing loss of those around you, your planet, and your way of life?
@sacwriter
They don’t have anything to offer when we don’t need them for money or housing and refuse to work on themselves or have an interesting personality. Obviously not all but so many just refuse to be even basically kind and decent and divest from rape culture
Now prepare yourselves for the “we told you it was this bad the whole time and it’s your fault for not following the clear and consistent guidance of the cdc”
*Me, flirting* - “So, what are your thoughts about global corruption, capitalism, and white supremacy creating an uninhabitable everything for all of us?”
@chronicallybeee
Whenever they ask if I’ve been around someone with Covid I say “you mean besides the possible exposures in this completely maskless office?” And they instantly look like they’re RE-booting.
I just want more friends who live close to me that want to do art and go places in Covid safe ways and get flowers at Trader Joe’s and are affectionate and compassionate and have the love I have to give returned in kind. Trying to give it to myself in the meantime.
@emilyesfraser
Oh, been there. I once forgot how we made iced lattes on day two and kept pouring hot coffee into the ice and just gaslit the guy who said it was too warm.
"I had Covid 5 times and I'm fine" - beloved, you don't know what your insides look like. That damage can show up months later. You just told me your kids have had covid 3 times and were fine and in the next breath said they all need cardiac workups.
I feel like I'm living in two worlds. One where I can see Covid killing people. Lack of regulations causing system collapse. One where the climate crisis is a ticking clock. But everywhere I turn, it's people flying from vacation to vacation. Spring/Summer bag trends. Chat GPT.
@sarahkendzior
I am apoplectic about this and the amount of “well actually” in your comments by people who refuse to see the cruelty here and would be starting a gofundme for legal defense if this had happened under our former president.
I see that people are sharing the sentiments made by Aaron's mother that he was not well. Just a reminder that his parents belonged to a documented cult that experts in mind control identified as being such and it has several documented instances of being a cult (see below).
“This is how it happens. Precisely what you’re feeling now. The numbing litany of bad news. The ever rising outrages. People suffering, dying, and protesting all around you, while you think about dinner.
just had the weirdest experience
was watching an X-files episode & there’s this country song playing in the background of the bar they’re in
& it’s so good it jars me out of my idle multitasking to Shazam it
except
“Why doesn’t everyone injured go to the hospital?” Because HC workers like this are everywhere and it’s impossible to get care from people who don’t think they have an obligation to keep anyone safe and don’t understand why they should care about anyone else.
U mostly likely picked up ur infection during ur admission from ur visitors who visit with no mask, than from us. Stop holding us responsible for keeping y’all safe. HCWs can choose to see non infectious patients without a mask if the patient allows
@thepursuinglife
And it never occurs to them that all the hiccups could be just as much a sign to stay home as to go. But you know they see any deterrent as an enemy attack.
I’m so tired of these people. Yes, life is fleeting. I don’t want to spend my time on earth hurting other people, spreading a preventable illness, or projecting my guilt about being selfish on to other people.
I’m not going to expand on this but I am exhausted by the constant onslaught of a specific kind of white despair. The luxury of saying “we’re fucked, I give up” belongs only to people who don’t live in community to others and who haven’t fought to exist since their birth.
Absolutely not. We are only just entering the beginning of the bad times. We cannot replace the dead, cannot create doctors from thin air, cannot undisable people or all their children or how vulnerable we are to all infection.
I’m so fatigued of being stuck in survival mode and of thinking about how much we’re losing it as we lose it. I want to talk about other things - what song is stuck in your head? What do you eat when you’re sad? What things do you love about the people who are special to you?
@ChrisAlvino
The guide book for the apocalypse is this - as you are able, put one foot in front of the other each day, give what you can - if not money, give kindness. Do the next right thing until we die. This is all that we can do. Breathe, grieve, love, repeat.
@RealGayArbys
AITA for traveling with with a deadly pathogen that requires full PPE to be worked with in a lab, risking the lives of others on the plane, their friends and their families? GEE IDK.
For a myriad of reasons, I don't consider myself part of the covid conscious community. I do mask, I do take precautions, and I do donate time/energy/money to get people things like tests, masks, sprays, food, shelter, time off work to recover etc. However -
I made my very last credit card payment today and am officially debt free. Goodbye student loans and goodbye credit card debt! (Probably just in time to acquire medical debt but still).
I have 15k of debt to pay off this year so I’m looking at ways to practice enjoyment without consumption. What are some of your favorite tiny joy practices?
We can't get people to talk about the realities that they are living in now. We can't work to change what we refuse to acknowledge. There is so much focus on getting back to normal without acknowledging that normal died - it's buried in the yard and we never had a funeral.
I am…incandescent with rage that we are where we are and people are still telling us to just vote. Read this thread. Get your shit together. Take care of the people you can care for because our institutions are leaving us to die.
I am supposed to carpool and organize bail funds and crowd fund for funerals with people who won't mask because they don't think the 3rd leading cause of death is a big deal.