Yeah, it really sucks that this thing that nobody thinks about for more than five minutes is still keeping me socially isolating, as per my doctor's recommendation, due to my chronic illnesses.

The vulnerable have fallen by the wayside & it sucks.

Long covid alone makes it significantly more serious than the flu. And since it is a novel illness, we don't know what the effects will be 10 years out, but we DO already know that it destroys immune systems & folks are sicker, more often. Imo it's not time to be so cavalier about it just yet.

Dude mostly harmless??? A friend and her young child were recently hospitalised with Covid. People are still DYING of Covid - just not at the levels they were. I work in public health. Covid is still around - just not in the news.

I like to use the phrase "early pandemic" to establish the expectation of when the timeline had everyone staying home or at least social distancing and actually following the (imperfect and inadequate) public health recommendations we were getting at the time.

I will die on this hill:

it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

Acrylic painting of a pug with blueberry skin on a bright pink background. The pug has big black eyes and a pink tongue.

Another fruit pup! 🫐🐶
‘Blueberry Pug’ 10x12” acrylic on canvas.
#acrylicpainting #artwork #pug #blueberry #weirdart #funart #dog #dogart

Acrylic painting by Stephanie Purcell of a brown and white French bulldog sleeping on blue flowers. The dog has a pink collar and a small white butterfly perched on back.

Finished this painting yesterday!
16x20” acrylic on canvas board.
I love how she turned out 💗💗💗

Now to cross some jobs off before I start painting again.

#acrylicpainting #petportrait #frenchbulldog #dogart #acrylicart #painting

Acrylic painting of a chihuahua on lilac background by Stephanie Purcell

Another wip finished, what a weekend!
10x12” acrylic on canvas board.
#painting #chihuahua #petportrait

Half finished painting of dogs bouncing on an orange and yellow bouncy castle.

Work in progress time!
This one has been such a treat to work on.

#wip #artprocess #acrylic #acrylicpainting #painting #dog #dogart #dogpainting #bouncycastle

Warm Winter Campaign to help the displaced and Osama's family Osama, his four sons, Elias (3), Youssef (8), Majd (5), and Muhammad (10), his wife, and his mother are struggling to survive in Gaza. Osama also supports his siblings' families and distributes food, ...

Also if you have any spare cash this is Osama’s fundraiser. He is a wonderful human and throughout this genocide he has worked tirelessly to feed not only his own family but his entire community. He is a generous and loving man who has been through so much.

chuffed.org/project/1204...

My friend in Palestine, Osama, has been excitedly sending me hearts to every wedding picture I post and a wonderful loving message about how happy he is to see such joy. Fuck the “see how queers are treated in Palestine” discourse because all I’ve had is love from him and other families.

It’s #MEAwarenessDay and as always, I’m thinking about how much we have to limit ourselves with this condition. So I wrote a poem about the forced absence of joy:

www.thisthingtheycallrecovery.com/post/the-ris...

#MECFS #SpokenWord #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigue

Acrylic painting of brown and white fluffy French bulldog on lilac background.

And my fluffy sweetie is complete!!
10x12” Acrylic on canvas board.
#petportrait #art #dog #frenchbulldog #frenchie #acrylic #painting

When you wear a mask, you tell disabled and vulnerable people that their lives matter. That you don’t see them as expendable

You tell your others that you value community care

You tell the government that you know Covid isn’t over & you want better from public health

It’s a symbol of resistance

Money spent on Rowling's work is money donated to transphobia. I don't want to single out individual actors but I consider the HBO Harry Potter series a moral disaster. You literally cannot separate the art from the artist on an economic level.

Work in progress painting of sleeping dog

This week I’m working on this sleepy boy 🐶💤

#wip #dogart #art #acrylicpainting #labrador

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Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 75 people, hospitals and medics say Hospitals and medics in the Gaza Strip say Israeli strikes across the Palestinian enclave killed at least 75 people.

BREAKING: The Health Ministry in Gaza says that the main hospital serving people in the territory’s north has been forced to close because of escalating Israeli strikes.

In numbers: The massive Covid-19 surge in Asian countries Hong Kong reported 1,042 cases in the week ending May 10. In the previous week, the number of cases was 972.

Another report of Covid infection rates surging. Seems to be driven by waning immunity and a couple of variants. Anyone know more about what's going on? Need to keep an eye on this. www.indiatoday.in/diu/story/in...

"while we’ve been busy focusing on physical distancing and surface cleaning, a quieter factor may have been playing a much bigger role in airborne disease transmission all along: carbon dioxide (CO₂)"

"Two thirds say pandemic helped them focus on family, friends & important aspects of life". "About half found a better work-life balance" Interesting insights into the existence of some positives that accompanied the many, more familiar, negatives. scri.siena.edu/2025/04/16/5...

Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes

Climate change and vast income inequality turn out to be connected.

Something that immunocompromised people can never forget is how we felt when we saw everyone abandon us when they all removed their masks in 2022

They didn’t care about our health or mental health

They believed the government’s ableist & eugenicist lies because it sounded like “good news” to them

Reclaiming Our Air While the government has declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, clean air clubs are still working hard to keep people safe.

The Clean Air Club was founded in Chicago in early 2023 to provide air filters to local and visiting performers to use at their events, and it's grown to over twenty similar clubs in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Grassroots women's football raising thousands of pounds to keep trans teammates playing Crowdfunders for trans-inclusive football attracting support, with £10,000 already raised by Goal Diggers FC; some teams and leagues say they won’t affiliate with FA after blanket ban on trans women i...

⚽️ Grassroots women’s football rallying in support of trans teammates after FA and SFA bans, launching crowdfunders and speaking out 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

70+ teams and leagues nationwide for women and non-binary people have issued statements - some are preparing to pull out of FA-affiliated leagues

More here… ⬇️

West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.

West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH

But this is why testing before socialising even outdoors is important. If you’re gunna be in close proximity with pals testing is community care babes. There’s already so much misinformation out there, sharing extreme bullshit of any kind is BAD

It makes me totally disengage because you can’t accurate safety info through ANYONE! Outdoor transmission is still relatively rare. We know it’s crowds or more secluded spaces in direct contact with covid positive people. NOT WALKING ALONE THROUGH AN EMPTY PARK

Getting extremely tired of accounts sharing absolute bullshit about outdoor covid transmission. We don’t have to fucking lie when we talk about risks. Someone sharing you can catch it walking through an empty park…

Israel bombed a ship with humanitarian goods in international waters near Europe