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Alice was a mentor, a friend and one of the people who I credit with helping me find my voice.

She gave me the strength to embrace my disabilities and use my skills as a writer to help others.

My life is forever changed because of her.

I will have more to say once I’ve processed 💔

Alice Wong was a fierce advocate for disabled rights. One of the first disabled people I ever saw go on national TV just to talk about how our existences are politicized.

May she rest in peace.

"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.

Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...

We have no transparency on COVID in the UK. Not on airborne risk, not on post infection risks, lack of testing, pretending asymptomatic is no longer a thing.

Merci ! Je ne le connaissais pas.

GDrive > top right gear:

Manage Apps > uncheck Gemini
ALSO
Privacy > Manage Workspace smart feature settings > two Gemini settings, toggle off

(Gemini AI is on by default and it explicity scans and "shares" or "uses" your info and activity across Google products)

#HealthyTools
#HealthySchoolBuildings

Lessons to learn
🇬🇧 Govt must value kids
#RepairTheAir PART of structure
Make schools buildings Safe

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

#CO2Monitors audits will reveal extent of the problem
But this alone will not solve the problem

#MandateIAQ

No, you do not. Join Mastodon. They respect your privacy.

We all share the air. If we would care about the quality of the air we share, everyone benefits.

One great way to do that is masking up in public spaces.

You’ll be sick less. You’ll be making spaces more accessible. You’re showing solidarity with disabled people.

'I was disabled by this virus nearly two years ago. It is not “crazy” to avoid a virus that already disabled me. It would be extremely odd to accept the public propaganda that this virus is harmless over my body’s own truth'

Beyond all reason Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Got it. Thank you for clarifying. 👍

2/2 P.S.: It would be cool if you interviewed Cory Doctorow on your channel. 😉

1/ I understand.😄 I really hope you get enough funding to eventually get help with that, if it's possible. I follow a lot of video essayists on YouTube, and having links to the many sources that they cite makes a world of difference to people like me who want to dive deeper. Keep up the good work! 💪

Je pensais que les médias journalistiques n'étaient pas démonétisés / défavorisés par l'algorithme pour l'emploi de certains mots, au contraire d'autres chaines. Ou bien est-ce que YouTube privilégie en fait les grands médias qui viennent à l'origine de la télévision (CNN, BFM TV, etc,)?

2/2 In it, you mention @foxcahn.bsky.social, but I can't find the articles you are quoting him from, even though you cite the publications @businessinsider.com & @scientistsorg.bsky.social. Searching the parts of the quotes doesn't produce any results. So please, provide links in videos.

1/ Hey @taylorlorenz.bsky.social! Love your work. I know you're a small team, but please, please, PLEASE, include links to your sources in your videos and podcast. They can be really hard to find. I am currently watching your latest video about Hasan Piker.

Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide – regardless of the 'ceasefire' agreement.

Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza

The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide – regardless of the 'ceasefire' agreement, writes @muhammadshehada.bsky.social:

zeteo.com/p/truth-abou...

7 surprising ways the public library can save you money : Life Kit Baking pans, legal help, language classes and more — libraries can provide so much more than books. See if your local branch offers these free or discounted resources and services.

Also....donate to your local library (books, games, movies, etc.) to spread the joy!
www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1...

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

Homeless people are not the enemy.

They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.

It’s the system that’s failing.

Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.

We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.

We need a safety net

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A high risk pregnant woman in Texas is advised to go out of state prior to delivery.

She learns about the abortion ban & how it puts women’s lives at risk.

She regrets her vote.

Rather than provide support, her husband insults the “liberal doctor” and refuses to leave Texas. 1/2

Ma mère est malade. Voilà.

Hier à la pharmacie, une cliente malade sans masque venu faire un test antigénique qui a été réalisé par une pharmacienne sans masque, en milieu fermé.

Je suis fatiguée.

Germany’s ruling CDU/CSU party made it clear today: there will be no #chatcontrol - as pushed for by other EU countries - with this German government.

40 Sekunden kurz und präzise: Mit der CDU/CSU wird es keine anlasslose #Chatkontrolle geben, wie sie von einigen Staaten in der EU gefordert wird.

Enshittification Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

Finally got my copy of Cory Doctorow's book #Enshittification! So excited to finally read it! 😊😊😊

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Les médias conservateurs vivent assez mal
le discours prononcé par Violet Affleck à l'ONU en faveur de la prévention du Covid.

Ils l'accusent donc de "semer la peur", une critique classique et récurrente depuis le début de la pandémie contre ceux qui défendent la prévention.

À dérouler
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Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui font le boulot du Ministère de la Santé à sa place 👇

Wear. A. Respirator. Skip large indoor maskless gatherings like restaurants, bars, clubs. Get vaccinated. Advocate for clean air.

Black graphiuc with neon green text that reads: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza, creating a catastrophic famine confirmed & declared "entirely man-made" by the IPC. In the face of this atrocity, Google signed a $45 million contract with the Israeli apartheid regime to fuel propaganda that whitewashes its forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, the latest in Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. Google entered this deal with full knowledge of its purpose: to actively enable Israel's crimes against humanity by casting doubt on the starvation and suffering in Gaza. in case you missed it notechforapartheid.com/ads TAKE ACTION: notechforapartheid.com/ads

Did you know that Google is the backbone of Israel’s propaganda machine?
Google workers with @notechforapartheid.bsky.social are calling on us to spread the word and mass report Israeli propaganda ads hosted by Google & flooding Google’s internal reporting systems. Get the toolkit :t.ly/ads-toolkit