Danniela

There needs to be rent control everywhere but especially in college towns.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

Genuinely impressive from a public health department, and depressing that it’s unusual.

A corundum (var. ruby) crystal mounted on a metal stem like a little lollipop. It has an elongate bipyramidal shape - like a long tube with tapered ends - and is slightly translucent and cherry red in colour. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A hexagonal corundum (variety ruby) prism, opaque and reddish-pink in colour. From Sanarka River, Russia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A pale pink corundum (variety ruby) prism embedded in white dolomite. From Campolungo, Switzerland. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

309 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Ruby:
- The red/pink variety of corundum
- Its colour is caused by chromium
- Heat treatment can improve its colour
- 9 on the Mohs hardness scale
- Its name comes from the Latin word "ruber" (red) #minerals

Trump has a fuck ton of fault when it comes to Covid, but it annoys me when folks don't have the same energy for Biden and his "covid is over" bullshit.

Went to see Sinners for the first time last night, and I already want to see it again

Game 7 ⚾️

It’s barely midnight here, and people already have there Christmas lights up lol

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

Recall alert: These popular face wipes may contain harmful bacteria The wipes in question may contain bacteria.

PSA: The Food and Drug Administration has assigned a Class II risk level to Neutrogena’s Makeup Remover Ultra-Soft Cleansing Towelettes due to possible bacterial contamination

www.nbcnews.com/select/shopp...

those margiela tabis. paying $1300 for camel toe when you got moose at home.

PSA: Covid cases can be infectious for over a week. A friend with Covid is still testing highly positive on rapid tests after 8 days.

If your rapid test is positive you are still infectious. Stay home, mask up, ventilate indoor spaces so you don’t spread it to others.

Disabled people have always faced much higher rates of state violence and police brutality, yet very few political movements actively include us.

If nothing else, going against the grain to do what you need to to protect yourself is good practice for all the other ways we will need to refuse the status quo going forward.

"We keep us safe" has to mean something at the most basic level of public health to mean anything. Put the mask back on 😷🖤

The studies are already out, peer-reviewed ones by reputable epidemiologist and scientists, even a recent mainstream article which refers to it, not inaptly, as Airborne AIDS. "You have to live your life" has become a thought terminating cliche which gets otherwise wise folks to ignore reason.

Y'all, we effectively have no CDC, no public health, no health care, no *anything* at a high level that would tell us the truth about how damaging this is. A lot of y'all don't trust the government in general, but you just listened when they said ehhhh don't worry about it. It's wild to see tbh

In the 1970s there was something new going around that when they contracted it made most people just feel like they were a little under the weather, but they were fine otherwise and since no one knew what it was folks just went about their business.

10 years later, we know how that turned out.

We're going to talk about c19 today and I'm going to ask you all in advance to not zone out like you do when we're talking about it in person😑

Covid not "a cold" - it attacks every system of the body, making it weaker to every other kind of infection. There's another illness that does similar.

It’s comforting to know that there are more people out here that are masking than I originally thought.

I lost one of my best friends to Long COVID, so I don’t play about that.

At all.

I’ve been masking at all times in public spaces since 2020 and it’s really not that difficult at all you just put the mask on and go tbh

“Our primary message is that reinfections still matter, and you should do what you can to avoid reinfection..” — Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania

When Will the Lion Concern Himself Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Black, shiny icositetrahedral crystals of andradite in pinkish white calcite. From Arendal, Norway. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Black masses of melanite dodecahedra with some calcite. Melanite is a black titanium-rich variety of andradite. From Pitkyaranta, Russia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A crust of pale green, translucent demantoid crystals on beige, weathered serpentine. Demantoid is a green variety of andradite. From Val Malenco, Italy. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

276 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Andradite:
- Garnet group mineral
- Demantoid is a green variety (colour is due to chromium)
- First discovered in 1868 in the Ural Mountains
- Forms in metamorphic & igneous rocks
- Named after José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (1763-1838) a Brazilian mineralogist #minerals

Adding my voice to the chorus: the Sumud flotilla never entered Israeli waters. that is a lie. The Gazan coast is Palestinian territory (not even spiritually, like actually in international law) so the Sumud flotilla has not violated Israeli sovereignty. The Israelis intercepting them however…

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

y'all know i'm always studying the old folks & as my stability has crumbled, i think more abt boarding houses, multi-gen homes & shared housing.

it used to be the norm & needs to return asap

but all i keep hearing in my head are my "ion want people in my house..." friends

how do we survive this?

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

A very sad reminder that Covid 19 is a vascular disease. Cases are rising go get vaccinated NOW.

If you are worried about losing access to the Covid vaccine but are not taking the most basic step to avoid infection, which is masking, color me confused.

From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”