Juni, waiting patiently

March is International #LongCovid Awareness Month and the 15th is Awareness Day. I've been living with Long Covid for 6 years. All it took was one SARS-CoV-2 infection and never recovering from Covid-19. This disease has taken so much from me, and the world has left me and so many others behind. 1/3

Me to spouse: No, you reading this for yourself is not going to make it make any more sense

Oh, yeah, absolutely not. Not going back.

All the firsts the year after are the hardest. Wishing you solace and eventual peace.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

i don’t take orders from people who think deftones is goth

Cleaned out my wallet-it had 5 different versions of 1 card, over a 12 punch cards for businesses I've not visited in years, and another half dozen that were just expired.
Tempted to buy a much smaller version of the one I've got, it's far too capacious now.
#Decluttering #Minimalism

"Your cart misses you"
The hell you say

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

"So where *should* I get seeds from?" Well I'm glad you asked! I'm not a big gardener, but here are some options!

-Indigenous seed sellers!
-Native plant sales! In the US these mean cheap plants often salvaged from restoration sites!
-Your local library's seed bank!
-Master Gardener groups!

The vaccines do not meaningfully prevent transmission after the first few months. You should also get the vaccine, at least 2x per year if you can. Both of these things are true, and the real misinformation here is conflating covid conscious people with anti-vaxxers, which is purely insidious.

Antarctica’s Mineral Riches Exposed as Climate Warms

Awww, for f**k's sake. One more time for all the profit-blinded, corporate marauders in the back:

Melting ice caps are NOT a new business opportunity. They are an existential warning that we must transform our economic system before it's too late.

Hands off Antarctica! 🎁🔗 #ClimateSky

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…

A pair of hands held together holding hundreds of ladybugs which are crawling on the wrist as well. They are small, a little larger than a fat grain of rice, but short and oblong instead of long like rice. They have a little black heads and are deep red. They cover the fingers, but we can see the pink of the hands and the wrists through them. In the background is a green plant of some kind.

Never 🚫 buy ladybugs. Spread the word! Why?
They're harvested from the wild & populations are in decline. The hunters who sell them destroy habitat.& Shipping ladybugs has spread parasites & disease to other insects.🌱
Who eats FAR more aphids than ladybugs? Green Lacewings (NOT prev post Lace Bug… 🧵

I think a couple of my native shrubs might not have made it through the extended cold snap. I'll give them a couple more months to be sure, but it's not looking good.

Hope I'm wrong about this. #NativePlants #GardenSky #Rewilding🌱

The world is officially in its water bankruptcy era - The Weather Network “This report tells an uncomfortable truth: many regions are living beyond their hydrological means."

AGAIN, this is really fucked up and everyone should be talking about it. Climate change has already pushed us to water bankruptcy and AI data centres are accelerating total collapse of our water systems at a staggering rate.

STOP USING AI. FUCK.

www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...

I'm so sorry

BREAKING: A mitochondrial drug originally developed for rare genetic disorders is now being tested to treat Long COVID fatigue and post-exertional malaise.

This could be a major breakthrough for millions still suffering.

Fuckssake. Yeah, no. That is not a thing.

Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia Scientists at Stanford Medicine have unveiled a bold new kind of “universal” vaccine that could one day protect against everything from COVID-19 and the flu to bacterial pneumonia and even common alle...

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Moderna’s 2-in-1 flu and COVID vaccine shows encouraging results in small trial A single dose of mRNA-1073 elicited durable immune responses through 6 months against all vaccine-matched influenza and SARS-CoV-2 strains.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure In historical viral epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza and Zika viruses, prenatal exposures were correlated with risk for neuropsychiatric conditio…

“This study reports that in utero SARS-CoV-2 viral exposure was associated with decreased cognitive skills in toddlers at age 2, and this association was mediated by cortical gray matter volumes in the newborn brain.”

The consequences of denialism are mounting.

Being nice is about being agreeable and "pleasant" often to elicit approval

Kindness means your actions have a moral center around the idea that no person is a menas to an end, that no human being is an object

A tale of two boxes. One about the size of a shoebox, occupied by a blonde tabby kitten with big, round yellow eyes. The other larger, occupied by a split face tortie kitten with equally bug, round yellow eyes. Both stare at the camera, daring me to try to take away their new favorite spots to exist.

The boxes when I walked away. When I returned 15 seconds later to break them down...

Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting COVID-19.

Microclots and neutrophil extracellular traps merge to form structures that may contribute to thrombosis and atherosclerosis in patients with long Covid. While this research is in its early days, it may pinpoint not only a diagnosis of long Covid but potentially a therapeutic target.
#Science 🧪

You're in good company:
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”
― Dorothy Parker

This afternoon I took my mom to the ballet. She was as a dancer and choreographer for decades & has been in memory care for 8 years. She can’t recall many details of her past but dance—and her identity as a dancer—lives in her soul 1/
#alzheimers

The new MRI machine freezing tumours and saving patients from severe pain

www.9news.com.au/health/liver...

Ugh, I'm sorry.