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“Ignoring COVID” means ignoring equity. Unless governments actually acknowledge that they still need to do much more to mitigate the harms of COVID, millions of people who are higher risk or have Long COVID will never be able to “ignore COVID.” That’s a travesty.

Incase you were casually wondering what the greatest post on BlueSky is today.

All of my posts made at the exact same time with the exact same content are getting dramatically more engagement on Blue Sky. The post on the left is from here while the post on the right is from Twitter.

One of — if not THE — first targets of the Nazis was Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for the Science of Sexuality, which had years of research about queer and trans experience. They burned it all and set the world’s thinking back a hundred years.

When I was a child, I believed and yearned and hoped for *someone* made for me. As I grew up, this transformed into an equally strong incessant yearning to discover someone who *I* was made for. Now? Now I look back and lament at a world that did nothing to teach how to want me to be made for *me*.

ttrpgs are not literature

the parameters for what makes a good character in a book or movie do not apply to ttrpgs (or vice versa)

ttrpg is an experiential medium, not a literary one

stop trying to melt down all art into a single pot of bland, gray uniformity

The war in Gaza has been an intense lesson in western hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten | Nesrine M... People have seen too much that will stay with them too long. Trust in the ‘international community’ will never be the same, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The #war in #Gaza has been an intense lesson in western #hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The vast majority of people that uphold whiteness as a society are not white supremacists. They often don’t even actively think whites are superior.

It’s the people who are comfortable in the status quo and in the face of change, choose whiteness over uncertainty/solidarity.

I also try to avoid triggering PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) by doing things when and as I want to as much as possible. Wake up and don’t want to do anything other than play Horizon? Okay, then I’m playing Horizon and maybe I’ll feel better about doing something from my to-do list after lunch.

People's reactions to the pandemic have completely destroyed my ability to trust neighbors, strangers, institutions, pretty much everything associated with humans

Respectability politics are the dumbest shit fuck all that be loud and aggressive about the shit that matters.

I do recall this from a year or two ago... (the CBC / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation seemed the most explicit at the time, the entity itself simply doesn't enter the frame)

Thank you Darlin. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is sitting on his computer, as Green sneaks up on him, laying his chin on the table. Green: One vibe check, please. Blue: Sure. Blue turns back to his computer as Green listens, chin still on the tabletop. Blue: You are loved, you're doing ok, and nobody is mad at you. Green stares ahead of himself while Blue turns to kiss his forehead. Green: Can I also be kissed? Blue: Sure.

Black and white photo of James Baldwin sitting in front of a bookcase

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." — James Baldwin

A bar graph from Al Jazeera showing that since October 7th, 84 trucks have entered Gaza.

Hi there. It’s me again. Your angry Palestinian friend reminding you that the UN stated that 100 trucks of aid need to enter Gaza daily to make a difference. How many have made it in, I wonder?

Oh yeah, 84. Since October 7th.