theo (they/them)

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

I have long Epstein-Barr .... that I contracted back in 1999. I have never been able to work full time, and now, I can't work at all. I can barely manage the energy for my own basic needs. Trust me, it's a big deal.

There were an estimated 409 million with long covid by the end of 2023! Long covid has overtaken childhood asthma in children as a chronic health problems. All of this because this completely unscientific narrative continues.

getting milder’ is imo hugely irresponsible when it’s only ever referring to the acute infection with zero reflection on Post infection risks. This is why so many think they have nothing to worry about.

Asymptomatic infections do not equate to mild outcomes

Mild COVID symptoms does not equate to necessarily harmless outcomes

Most who have long covid had seemingly milder symptoms and for some of the press to keep posting articles saying things like ‘ it’s getting milder’, ‘mystery of why covid is

To summarize
-waves are not seasonal
-vaccines are waning
-people are getting long covid
-it’s still not an endemic disease
-very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series

Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.

there's "charitable interpretation" and there's "being a mark" and the inability or refusal to distinguish between the two is practically a credential in some circles

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

I mention this because inevitably, whenever Hussie and What Pumpkin start getting public pushback for their terrible actions, some will try to frame it as online bullies trying to attack a small queer creator, even when all evidence consistently shows Hussie actively attacking small queer creatives

One of the things I see people use to justify Homestuck’s actions, unprofessionalism, and inability to finish a point and click video game is that it’s a small group of underfunded queer creatives, when in reality it’s Hussie using his wealth and legal team to push away anyone but underpaid diehards

I don't know how to categorize this feeling, but when I say "trans rights are human rights", I don't treat "trans rights" as a unique subset of human rights. I mean that all humans can and should have the right to live and modify and heal their bodies to exist and not suffer for purity reasons.

Growing number of long covid patients declared unfit for work The number of people in the Netherlands declared partially or fully unfit for work due to long Covid has risen sharply in recent years. According to figures from the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV), m...

Netherlands: Growing number of long COVID patients declared unfit for work.

"The number of people in the Netherlands receiving disability benefits due to long COVID has surged. Over 12,000 people have been granted benefits after being ill for more than 2 years, up from 3,000 just 2 years ago"

I truly cannot think of a more perfect showcase of how the Democratic Party as a whole has addressed trans issues. Lashing out and disregarding an actual real politically engaged constituent in order to court some fictional voter who likes all of the bigotry of Republicans but will instead vote Dem

i truly don't know what to tell you if you think the democrats are coming to save us

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill Major news organizations are making a conscious choice to frame Israel's total violation of the ceasefire agreement as Hamas rejecting it. This is a demonstrable lie & has been through the entire duration of Israel's war against Gaza. Israel is rejecting the deal it signed.

bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites

the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry

Dear Colleague: I write with respect to President Donald Trump’s scheduled address on Tuesday to a Joint Session of Congress. Given my responsibilities in the House, I plan to attend the speech, along with other members of the Democratic leadership, to make clear to the nation that there is a strong opposition party ready, willing and able to serve as a check and balance on the excesses of the administration. The decision to attend the Joint Session is a personal one and we understand that members will come to different conclusions. However, it is important to have a strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber. The House as an institution belongs to the American people, and as their representatives we will not be run off the block or bullied.

Jeffries sends a letter to Democrats saying "The decision to attend the Joint Session is a personal one and we understand that members will come to different conclusions. However, it is important to have a strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber."

N95s or better, people!

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State.

H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

beautiful, i love wrens. every year they try to nest in my hammock 😂

Democrats: we can't do anything because in order to properly wield power, norms and traditions say first you need to say the magic words in sixteen different languages only spoken by the Senate Parliamentarian

Republicans: We just reincarnated Hitler and cloned him just because

all disability advice is like
•become a detective, your disease is a puzzle
•every doctor lies. multiclass Cleric 3 for Zone of Truth. they still lie but now you know
•blackmail your insurance
•systematically destabilize every part of your life for at least a year
•with luck you can now digest food

this happens to me too. for me it's mcas, which a lot of people are getting post covid. taking an antihistamine may help.

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

often there are no evacuation plans for disabled people. someone in a wheelchair at the college i went to was told that if the elevator goes out in the dorm during a fire, they are just supposed to wait at the top of the stairs for the firemen to come. just hang out there and hopefully someone helps

Hey readers if you get my books from the library….THANK YOU! Libraries are wonderful! Authors do get paid when our books are in libraries and it’s a way to get our books in the hands of readers who might not have picked it up otherwise. Thank you for using the library, keep it up! Libraries rock!!!

god i was really enjoying playing #palia but i cannot have a single play session without bugs and the subreddit said the game is actively moving backward with each update. oof.

there was life before i understood that the two political parties are essentially one that work in tandem to distract us with culture war bullshit and then there was life after. life after is better tbh