Stephanie Pride

White graphic with black and pink text. Top left: “whn.global”. Top right: “Long COVID Awareness Month”. Main text: “Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection.” The word “risk” is in bright pink; the rest is in black. Below in bright pink: “Each infection increases the risk of Long COVID.” Bottom text: “World Health Network - Science for a safer, healthier world.”

Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection. The more times someone is infected, the higher their risk of developing Long COVID.

Reducing infections is one of the most important ways to protect long-term health. The Five Pillars of Protection help lower risk by layering prevention strategies:

this seems like something we should be funding

Somebody a couple of years ago said COVID is the climate change of the body, complete with denialism and acceleration of existing issues and I have not stopped thinking about it. (And both are of course connected). I cannot find the tweet for the life of me.

Yes, used rigorously, but the vast swath of non-rigorous use is polluting the whole information ecosystem. We will pay dearly for decades to come for letting it run without governance or regulation.

‘slop ouroboros’ brilliant encapsulation of the AI enshittification of journalism and research

Same here - immune compromised so can only eat out at places with outside seating and good space between tables. Have lots of happy memories of Spruce Goose - so sad to see it closing on every count

Cannot be overstated how few such existential crises in human history have been *more seen coming* than what’s happening with the atmosphere and hydrological cycle and its interactions with failing neoliberal governance and land use patterns.

I wear a respirator mask because I know that the pandemic of Covid-19 is not over.

I wear a respirator mask because I know that Covid-19 is rampant in all public spaces.

I wear a respirator mask because I know that every infection of Covid-19 results in irreparable harm.

#COVID19 #respirator

Masters scholarship on the impacts of extreme climate events Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities.

This week has shown (once again) that extreme weather events in a changing climate pose growing risks to Aotearoa's communities and ecosystems.

We're developing tools to prepare for extreme weather events, and we're looking for a masters student to help → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/master...

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.

In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

Inside Northland floods: Through the eyes of Ōakura residents

📢 Flood devastation lingered throughout the small beachtown community.

👉 Latest bot: NZ Transport Agency - Auckland & Northland

Kerikeri families describe ‘river’ of water in Whangaruru campsite flood - New Zealand News Beep When he looked outside “there was like an inch of water”.

Kerikeri families describe ‘river’ of water in Whangaruru campsite flood

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/244317/

When he looked outside “there was like an inch of water”. It was unsettling but not enough to…

'The idea of Māori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Māori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.'

Peter Meihana's 'Privilege in Perpetuity' is reprinted and back in bookshops!

www.bwb.co.nz/books/privileg...

Open Letter to WHO: A Call for the Universal use of Respirators in Healthcare - WHN January 7, 2026 The letter below (a button to download it as a .pdf file is at the bottom of this page) was sent to seven top officials at the World Health Organization on Wednesday 7 January. Press c...

SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT PROTECT

So encouraging to see the sheer strength of feeling amongst so many highly-respected scientists & medical practitioners from across the world making representations to WHO

This letter from World Health Network is a must-read
tinyurl.com/WHN-Letter-t...

Hannah Davis tweet: “Study of 41k people finds long-lasting immune system dysregulation after COVID infection, particularly CD8+ T cells (which detect & kill virus-infected cells & cancerous cells). Strong study - same patients compared pre, during, & after COVID. 4LongCovid sciencedirect.com/science/ articl... “

New study: “SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months.” And if most or many people are getting infected once every 12 months, then when does their immune system have time to recover? Immune systems protect against colds & infections but also cancer & other diseases. #COVID

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.

Cold War nuclear bunker could be ‘days away’ from falling into sea The structure is clinging to the cliff, with little of it left to support it

If anyone can't manage to put together a mid-budget Brit scifi/horror movie about a man trapped in this lookout post after a nuclear war in the 1960s, trying to escape before it falls in to the sea, then we should close down our film industry
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Yum!

Two Girls (1913) by August Macke.
Oil on canvas.

Still masking with an N95, still haven't had Covid. Going to keep on doing it - forever if necessary

Because caregiving & sick leave disproportionately fall on mothers, especially single mothers, making schools & daycares safer through clean air & normalized masking is an essential part of any serious gender equity agenda

Have always loved you and your posts since way back on the other site we shall not name. I’m a lesbian mum of a wonderful trans daughter you provide such an inspiring presence in these increasingly frightening times 💕😘

Follow @queenoliviaiii.com for fabulous content 💕🐈👑

Small moment of delight!
Baby piwakawaka came to rest on the fence right in front of me as I was walking up the path

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

Apparently Ian Fleming suggested that plot to Roald Dahl

I read his ‘Switch Bitch’ collection of short stories when I was in my early teens - probably a bit young for them tbh - found them very disturbing but wonderfully well written

Roald Dahl’s short story ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ (1953)

Not all masks are equal. Fit and filtration matter. And choosing effective masks is one of the simplest ways to reduce risk for yourself and others.