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“I have some shocking and sad news for you all:

COVID never really ended and you all should…still be wearing masks.”@FDsignifier (3/5/26)

The issue isn't "you should be nice to him," the man is evil incarnate and fascists do not deserve civility.

The issue is that talking about his physical decline as an outward expression of his moral decline reinforces eugenic narratives equating bodily health with character.

Eugenicists seek to eliminate vulnerable bodies, and part of the way they do that is by claiming that the vulnerable (weak/ill/deformed) body is a physical expression of inward character defect.

Dorian Gray without a portrait in the attic stuff

thank you. my friend will be wearing this to her partner's memorial. 😭

thank you.

an array of afternoon Friday tea branded bags, showing assam tgfop single origin, supersonic fandom flavors, and lao cong oolong single origin.

it's Friday afternoon and our @fridaytea.com teas arrived. we're over here huffing like addicts. 19yo declared "that's the good stuff!" and i can't disagree. first up? trying out some golden snails, which are supposed to be good for over a dozen brews. good thing, cuz there's a queue for cups.

my friend passed. my friend who wears this is a widow. 💔

everything works as a boat in a short enough timespan.

One big problem with the world is how few people in power I can imagine sitting down and reading a book

never before have so many businesses been run by people who fundamentally don't even know what a business is

the MBA Industrial Complex and Shareholder Value have a lot to answer for

"you can't 86 AI, we can't retreat to the past."

my pal, do you have fond memories of gathering around the tv to watch 2-3 laserdiscs? are you planning on chowing down on some cricket burgers later?

sometimes we just say nah to a particular technology. we can just skip it. techs fail sometimes.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I'm so glad i've been able to show up, too. my vestibular system is screaming at me, but it's been worth it. it's hard to usually be so far away and able to do so little.

😭😭😭

thank you. 💜

close up of shiny thread embroidery on the black fuzzy-loop straps of a back brace. the pieces are mirrored but in different colors, one each an S-spiral and a small flower with leaves above.

friends of mine are going through the worst shit (one is likely not making it past the weekend), and i cannot make any of it better, but i can sit by a hospital bed and add a tiny bit of embroidery to a medical back brace.

(i tried to make myself type "should of" there, and i couldn't, not even for a bit. sourry!)

fucking typos. i bet that wouldn't happen if i had my own Advice Guy tripling down on Just Offering Improvements! did i consider not typoing? dang, i should have thought of that!

nothing quite like an Advice Guy convinced he knows exactly how to correct and improve the concise communication component of your humorous missive, if only you were interested in improving your 6.7k timrs shared post's impact so an increased population could comprehend it! he's just trying to help!

sweetie. sweatie. i am holding your hands as i say this. sometimes... the "people" is you. shhhh.... shhhhhhhh.... it'll be okay........

I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs

This. Ideally everyone would have continued to mask since 2020. But the second best time is right now. If you don’t mask everywhere, at least do it again for higher-risk situations (i.e. traveling, conventions, doctor appts).

or, you could just accept you don't get the joke, because clearly many, many other people got it just fine. the problem is not in the wording. hope this helps!

Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"

no forking shit. 💔

gru meme from despicable me, three panels explaining what the posterboard reads, the last one looking at it in dismay. 1st panel: find a therapist with openings 2nd: been in practice 10 years 3rd: queer- trans- neuro- affirming, published on bipolar & mindfulness final, dismaying panel: he's thinking of leaving the country.

how the therapy search is going.

also tell them what it means, what about their brains pointed to that diagnosis, who else in their life is autistic (if you don't know any yet, 1. yes you do, and 2. get safe enough they'll tell you), which tv characters they love are autistic, what you love about them that is related to autism...

mooooooood

or at least, i don't, and people I've talked to mostly don't. we remember the story (if that, tbh!), and how much we enjoyed it, and *maybe* how seamless the telling felt, or how rough, or dense, or beautiful. we remember the affect, and the effect it had on us, and that's about it. ime!

i could tell you for my favorite books (because I've thought about it) and i can tell you for my current read (because the 2nd person was jarring and it took me a while to settle in), but for almost any other book? naw. i have a mild preference, but as you're pointing to, mostly we don't *remember*.