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Thanks for doing this! I'm not doing as badly as other fans right now, fingers crossed, so I'll pass and let their characters get a free chance. :)

Aw, damn. Could just be me, then!

Oc, see the term "systemic" in my tweet, air filtration is an issue requiring legal mandates through enforced (!) regulation of commerce and industry.

Your average home isn't a huge vector in the spread of disease. The capitalist-hellhole meat factory is, & needs to be forced to filter the air.

This is not to say that public health in the area of viral pandemics is simple; it really isn't.

But it's a well-plowed field that responsible governments + supra-gov'ts have studied, e.g. the EU: www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

As ever, it is on citizens to push their politicians about it.

Yes! Toothpaste flavor changes motivate me —

It’s cinnamon-clove for me, or Tom‘s of Maine‘s unbeatable children’s Silly Strawberry flavor.

(I’ve always mildly disliked mint toothpaste, and in the US it’s too intense for me to like.)

It IS a dating superpower to be a halfway decent guy!

I am of course the audience for @karenho.bsky.social's post, because I am a bisexual woman who was Tired with a capital T and just married another woman.

Ikr?

what

I should really look into this show. And by "look into" I mean "watch".

It's also, "If you are disabled and still have have made it as far, you probably are exceptionally good by any content-based measure they throw at you.

(For non-Americans, the LSAC is the Law School Admissions Council test, i.e. a professional school education that gives you a graduate degree.)

Deviantart has long devolved into galleries full of derivative junk as well, and I haven't even seen them offer physical works. :/