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it's good for lots of things, not just covid. reduced co2 concentration also has cognitive benefits.

literally the only two reasons to not do it are money (though it's cheaper than people getting sick) and an active desire to see people sick.

These anti-vaxxers will kill babies.

It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.

absolutely. and there *better* be a sentencing hearing.

while i am always looking for a charitable take on a bad situation, as i believe strongly in hanlon's razor, there's another principle at play:

actions indistinguishable from malice in their effects are indistinguishable from malice in their morality.

you're only a highlander if you're from the highlands region of scotland.

otherwise it's just sparkling light immortality.

a grey cat on a bed, half on the bed and half on a pillow.

this girl of mine is pretty great. she welcomes me to bed then cuddles up and strokes my hair. every night.

emery is the best kitty. tied for her brother, who's somewhere but when he joins us in bed he goes right under the covers.

i would also be interested in learning about delicious mail-order babka.

"jesus helped people when the rules said he wasn't supposed to, so we can kill people when the rules say we aren't supposed to!"

just a bunch of total losers coming up with anything to justify their bloodlust.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

no, i don't think his videos have the same educational merit.

lingerie ad for "moxyintimates"

look i get that the algorithm shows you things based on your search history. and sure, that explains why this happened.

but i still think this is a little too risque for a youtube ad to show me next to a video about the comic book history of a superhero that I'd never previously heard of.

i just want a democratic party that treats republicans the way republicans treat democrats.

and i want them to be transparent about it. "we will be nicer as soon as you are. your move, asshole."

i had no idea, lol. that's great.

not finishing the oa remains a crime against art that will never be forgiven until brit marling and zal batmanglij are given a massive budget and a mandate to just create.

this is a very niche thing, but i post for *me*.

and nicole if you see this, you're perfect and i hope you're very happy.

ah yes, the age-old lesbian question. is woodchopping actually cool and interesting or were you just watching nicole coenen videos?

look maybe it's both. i'll keep watching and eventually i'll figure it out. maybe.

Just thinking about how fucked up mega-rich people must be, because they can't even enjoy their money properly, because the most enjoyable thing to do with money is to use it to fix people's problems.

That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.

it should come with premium sleeves.

and depending on what it does to cog, possibly even shipped in a playable state. i suspect that would be impractical though. still, imagine having players not know what's on the back of one of their cards until midgame when they flip it. that sounds interesting.

who could have foreseen this except literally everyone.

if you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

A naive floral illustration with a severed hand that was already all fucked up because it was made by a slopper. With the text “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser”

Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience

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just... almost-unbelievable utter monsters.

"i am opposed to this thing i voted for. i voted to confirm rfk into his role, which gave him power to do this thing that everyone said he was going to do. but now that he has done the thing, i am going to feign being appalled since i would still like to be re-elected. please believe my grift."

NHS England: "It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so. This has got to be one of the most things I've ever seen written down in an official document. england.nhs.uk Date published: 15 July, 2024 Date last updated: 15 July, 2024 © Print or save to PDF Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/ Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the @ National Risk Register 2023: "any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route". These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning: it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so • the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual impact could be very different to that predicted • response plans must have a degree of agility and scalability to cope with a range of possibilities and adapt to a wide range of scenarios • despite the origin of the pandemic, it is likely to reach the UK very quickly, with sporadic cases and small clusters of the disease occurring around the country after only one or t…

This is actually real.

It’s the result of neofascist evisceration of the basic state function to serve the public interest and work for the collective good.

Covid contrarians were always political operatives working toward this exact goal.

via @catinthehat.bsky.social

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids

The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.

This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

i'm so sorry. that's such a terrible betrayal to get from a parent. :(

this is a self-care checkpoint.

post your favorite selfie that makes you feel good about yourself.

it's not exactly a recent photo but i love the energy that i had here. and someday i will fit into those jeans again, lol.

that's what i do. i drink and i name things.

ah yes, the deb8