ChaoticKat

Nooooooo

Sure, but we don't make trade agreements with individual states. This isn't a State issue, it's a Nation to Nation issue

Yes, the boycotts hurt business owners and individuals who didn't vote for Red, just add it hurts those who did vote Red.

If business owners are feeling the impact, they call pressure their elected representatives.
Canadians can and are voting with their money.

People have communicated LOUDLY, for months, the reason for the boycotts. It's been in the news regularly, story after story, interview after interview.

It's #ElbowsUp.

The analogy of smacking a dog out of revenge doesn't hold. This isn't revenge. This is refusing to participate in an abusive relationship. Canada didn't betray a long-standing trade partner and ally. The threats of annexation & the tariffs are serious. Canadians aren't going to forgive & forget.

Many people I know are avoiding buying American because of tariffs. It's an economic protest of US government policy, less so of individual companies or states. Buying some American goods because of their state of origin would defeat the purpose of the boycott

Venting to the void:
Spiralling out over how fucked up my life is right now, feeling like a failure for not knowing how to fix things, and like a coward for not making big scary decisions that could change things.

Can't keep going like this, and I don't have a clue what to do in the short term

I need to figure out which of my friends and acquaintances has a dropout.tv subscription in the hopes a kind soul will share with me so I can watch today's episode of Game Changer. From the shorts it looks like it's one hell of an episode

👀

That's so heartbreaking

Well that's just great.

That "agree to disagree" approach with the anti-vax hippies sure worked out well. /s

I'm afraid a lot of people are going to learn about the importance of vaccination the hard way 😕

Five fucking years.
My heart aches

I'm fucking exhausted from the neverending battle to survive, never having the time and space to just sit with the monumental weight of it all

I've been feeling tired and weighed down and just... numb lately.
Tonight the tears started flowing. Last week marked 5 years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. There's so much grief bubbling up. Relationships frayed, faded, or destroyed. Health issues and medical gaslighting.

Looking forward to listening to this interview.
My aunt emailed me about it this morning - she has previously been hesitant to believe what we've shared about the harms of COVID.

#LongCovid

chickpeas, or lentils? Lentils can pretty much disappear into a soup or sauce. Chickpeas are so versatile - in a stew, roasted, as hummus.

Serious question, what does one do when one's spouse is unable to handle their finances due to mental illness, won't discuss it, and the financial stability of the household is in dire straits?

Big truck owners are a close second

So good live! Their bass player was one of my summer camp leaders when I was like 14 or 15. The group of us teenagers would go downtown and watch them busk.
I'd love to hear their second album

Aaaand there goes the power. Well, since I can't work, I guess I'll work on Project Swap the Bedrooms! I was going to save the next big push for the weekend, but when opportunity knocks...

Ha! I have Lemonade in my car! I should put that album on again soon.

I was prescribed trazadone about a year ago and I can finally get restful sleep. I tried hydroxyzine before that but it caused tinnitus, which made sleep impossible. (And that's how I found out some medication can be ototoxic, i.e. toxic to the ear)

The hurt is mostly numb. Now I just wish I'd stop remembering her.

I'm tired of thinking about people who clearly don't give a shit about me.

On days like this, I miss being able to call up my childhood best friend. I thought she'd always be there.

She stopped talking to me shortly after I got COVID & I didn't "go back to normal".

Apparently refusing to pretend COVID is over made her feel judged.

Some friend.

I'm just longing for a fresh start, unburdened from all this *gestures to everything*

Instead of looking forward to celebrating my 10yr anniversary, I'm wishing last year's had been the last.

He hasn't brought it up yet. I wonder if he will. I don't want to. It's not like I want to celebrate.

To be clear, I'm not sad. I'm just done, & not yet in a position to do much about it.

* screams into the void*

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...