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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

And understand the disabled will always be with us, even if you can't see them.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

But, getting to my actual point, you can't solve a systemic problem with personal virtue.

(This does not excuse my personal vice.)

Alter building codes to include air filtration. Encourage masking by making surgical masks easily available. Design an N-95 I can wear with my glasses.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

(I still mask at the hospital because duh. If I were really smart, though, I wouldn't just do it in patient-facing areas.)

So I believe

1. universal public masking would be a good thing
2. masking is hard but doable
3. I am a shitheel for not masking when my immunocompromised friend suffers

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

I do, sometimes. I hear a warning and I'm on the wagon for a few weeks or a month. Then it's only in class and on the bus, then it's only when it's crowded.

And then I let myself run out of fresh masks and begin the cycle anew.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

This is the point where I would usually mumble and give excuses. And truthfully it does interfere with my glasses. But this time, I'm not going to.

If I wanted to mask, I could.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

Since then my breathing is just a bit worse? Maybe? Some cognitive impairment? No idea.

I know what covid can do. The man who helped me through transition, his life is fucked up in part because people didn't mask in the early days of the pandemic.

And yet I'm not wearing one these days.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

In December 2023 I was called to transport a patient with a head injury and didn't grab my mask. He didn't have a falls risk wristband but seemed pretty shaky.

As it turned out, I had to grab the patient under his arms to stop him from hitting the floor. I got covid from him.

I'd do it again.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

He avoids activities he enjoyed, because people didn't/won't mask.

I do not think his view of the world is unrealistic.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h

A thread where I do not make myself look good:

My best friend is confined to his house because his doctor said, with his respiratory condition, if he caught covid-19 he'd die.

I have seen him coughing, gasping for breath. Recently there was a serious scare where he was rushed into surgery.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

Next time you’re tempted to think Bluesky consensus in any way reflects the general public, remember this guy getting ratioed for being skeptical of universal masking, and then go to the grocery store and look around

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h

There's no real contradiction between "the Republican party has always been home to Nazis" and "the Republican party is Nazi now and it didn't used to be"

There have always been open Nazis on the Republican bus, it's true. What's new is now they're driving

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h

IIRC I chose TurtleSVN (Spell Version Nexus) because it was supposed to be gentle and easy for new time wizards

When I did a major project I just programmed a homunculous to back everything up and store it

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h

The main reason I am not a programmer is when I tried to to be a time wizard using TurtleSVN I FUBARed my magic so bad I had to restore my incantation from backup

Twice

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h

"Of that which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence"

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 3h

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4h

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 5h

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

www.polygon.com

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h

Hmm. Well spotted. I look forward to reading this.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3h

essentially what we are doing with this piece is

1) holding up the tragedy of SEVEN Tylenol Murders and acknowledging it as real, just as Johnson & Johnson did

2) holding up the untold millions of people Johnson & Johnson killed with Baby Powder etc etc etc

Real reporting. No cost. No ads.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4h

My opening Line of inquiry for my Johnson & Johnson piece is The Tylenol Murders, how horrific it is 7 people were killed from medicine they trusted before immediately pivoting to J&J recalling all Tylenol TO how LONG they knowingly poisoned Babies and Women with asbestos in their products.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4h

This is the road where people are driving 154 km/h. A residential area with young families on one side, a park on the other.

And yet for some reason, people are clocking Autobahn speeds here. A few years ago a guy doing 100 killed an elderly couple. 1,500 crashes on this stretch in the past decade

A view of Parkside Drive in Toronto showing a simple residential street with a park on the other side

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winnie 💫 @winonaparadise.bsky.social · 3h

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

Perversely, the more one actually cares about social justice, the more vulnerable one becomes to the thing we are talking about when we are talking about “cancel culture”.

That bad actors often benefit from being “cancelled” is no comfort if one is neither cynical nor evil.

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Five panel cartoon:

Editor says, “We’re dropping your column. Many readers think you’re just too extreme.” Yelling Guy replies, “I have been silenced!”

Yelling Guy on stage at a lectern with a big audience, “I have been silenced!”

Front page of the Washington Post with a picture of the Yelling Guy and the headline, “‘I have been silenced!’”

TV showing Fox News with an offscreen voice saying “… here with his new book ‘I Have Been Silenced’” and the Yelling Guy replying, “I have been silenced!”

The cartoonist saying, “it seems —“, interrupted by the Yelling Guy saying “stop silencing me!”

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

95% of grumbling about “cancel culture” is disingenuous reactionary bullshit … sustained by the 5% which is legit.

The thing which makes The Thing We Are Talking About When We Talk About “Cancel Culture” scary is the capriciousness and lack of proportion.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h

I got got

Amber 🦁 @sndlstudio.bsky.social · 3h

bisexual girls have two functions. either she has a man who worships the ground she walks on or she worships the ground her girlfriend walks on

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12h

THREAD. When my parents' cat Bridget went missing, my dad, to try to ease his worry, painted her on a variety of historical adventures. These soon multiplied. Significantly.

After much nagging, he has had some postcards printed of this brilliant series:
michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com

Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow

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