Havi Brooks

You will never run out of reasons to continue masking. A grocery store hasn’t seen my whole face since before 2020 because as a former theatrical lighting tech and near-sighted person with an astigmatism, I’ve almost always have my sunglasses on indoors.

wrote about Desperately Seeking Shift (in a variety of sizes), and what I am learning and re-learning about anger, and how I am staying laser-focused on boundaries, fortification, small shifts, large shifts, any change in mood or atmosphere that helps

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Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Visual published in Cell titled "post acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2" with four categories, each represented by a picture Post hospitalization syndromes Exacerbation of pre existing medical conditions Incident medical diagnoses New or worsened symptoms not explained by known medical conditions

This is a fantastic graphic on the post-viral impact of COVID published in Cell. When people think of long COVID, they likely think of the last image.

Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)

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This is AMAZING (and the writing on the badass huge snow monster’s chest says Third Russian Winter)

Wrote about the ongoing practices of FORTIFICATION (in many possible forms) in the face of the hard and scary things, and also as a theme for right now

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if you need a temporary break from the ongoing horrors, the Blast Zone episode on One Battle After Another is such good company, listened to this and made a massive batch of corn green chile salsa, to accompany chile verde, and it helped

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

I lived in Maine for 8 horrific years. There it s no way this ends well for ICE and DHS. None.

Clocking in for a day on the weeping line.

“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

It's a snowstorm, the news is bad, please tell me what you are reading

(I'm going to finish Alia Hanna Habib's TAKE IT FROM ME which is an *essential* guide to writing nonfiction proposals and what it takes to publish a good NF book)

Are You Immune To Measles? | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

If you’re immunocompetent (i.e. not immune suppressed), one thing you can do to fight fascism is to make sure you’re immune to measles - that way you won’t spread it to anyone else

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Also included a pic of the most perfect card I received this year, which also helped

I read the entire internet while trauma-processing, and (shocking update) it did not help, so I went back to a practice that does help me, naming the Known Knowns.

And then documented it.

You are welcome to try it! Or read about it, or save for later…

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I feel ya, medieval rabbit.

you gotta admit, pretty funny for an American to say that you shouldn't get to own some land just because some boats landed there.

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The lovely folks at Anishinaabe-owned Heart Berry made an ICE OUT shirt, from which 100% of the profits will go to the Immigrant Defense Network, a statewide coalition of many orgs. www.heartberry.com/search?q=ICE...

just saw an ad for Walgreens that was like “Because you don’t stop for a sick day. And neither do we.” and uh. yeah that’s the whole fuckin problem bud

drawing with a larg boot and many small people running to and under it to plant spears tied with red and black flags. the text says: though small we are many and very sharp.

Hope everyone is getting by 💜

firm believer that 75% of posts should not be big important thoughts. countrymen lend me your housekeeping tasks, your handicrafts, your sandwich posts

Also about my dad, but also about an 84 year old woman who solo hikes up mountains, and also about the art of being exquisitely bored by stories that say it’s all over from here

And about luck, science, art, magic, process, and some yoga stuff

Hard times and we’re here

Wrote about coping in scary times and approach and a loving attentiveness to transitions

Also about aging, about making new mistakes, repeating a bunch of the old ones, applying some loving attentiveness to that too

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This.

Joy is important. Living is important. You can and should do both, because our brains and emotions need time to recharge.

It's also a way to build community, something they'd rather we not have.

The levels of grift in the hate-your-body economy continue to reach for new levels of creative destruction with the onset of GLP-1s. I’m watching them spin up a “loose skin” panic in real time.

I’m not sure America can exist without the idea that bodies must be punished.

it’s a place where nothing bad happens, other than that I did get stung on the face by a mystery but it all worked out, and now I’m Poison Ivy

The energy is bonkers (see also today’s date but see also everything that happened this week), so if you just want to read a peaceful exploration about entering a new year, come hang out!