Manuel Gómez

Three of my friends barely survived breast cancer (one of my friends did not). I sent them this study today.

#COVID causes #CANCER

Safe bet that virtually every reported MI and stroke (globally) is COVID-related now.
COVID-19 causes damage to all of your blood vessels. Unpredictable clotting cascades can lead to heart attacks & strokes.
Repeated COVID-19 infection increases the likelihood of your own MI or stroke.
#N95swork

Yeah, the whitewashing of Columbus into a hero who deserved his own national holiday says a great deal about our society, none of it good. "Genocidal fuckface" is a pretty good summation.

it's more than pointless self harm, it's eugenicist!

Reminder: this is the coolest summer we'll know for the rest of our lives.

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that understanding is correct yeah, absolutely none of this happened in northsky cooperative meetings nor in the northsky discord nor any other northsky space, exactly *one* of the people in the screenshots is an active northsky member (a director). it's really weird to put the spotlight there.

anyway i am sad and this is sad

not that toxicity can't happen in opt-in social structures; of course it can. but it's easier to deal with because you can just leave one space and still be connected in every other space.

twitter was a mistake. the rest is downstream from that.

which is also why strongly attached families are such a common source of toxicity: you don't choose them. and schools and churches and other social institutions that people are compelled into. humanity needs to move away from this pattern. public social networks move in the wrong direction.

the open web does not make everything immediately extremely discoverable to everyone else. this app has the Discover feed, which is something that imo should not exist, because it creates social ties algorithmically. social ties should always be created through individual human intent.

this is extremely fucked up for human beings. you're normally separated from other people by virtue of physical distance, and social structures arise to counter that and build ties incrementally. public social networks completely invert that pattern. so does the open web, but that's different:

i don't know wtf is going on and it's none of my business but clearly people need to use the block button more. to be fair: even with this app's legit great tools to block en masse, it really needs to be a lot easier.

public microblogging is toxic as fuck because everyone is default connected.

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Yes.

We would have zero COVID in most countries by now.

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You make them homeless, you criminalize mental healthcare and drug use, you force them into labor camps.

None of you are safe from this.

Your lily white skin doesn't protect you. One bad day and it will be you or your children.

Just so we're all clear when we look at things like the itch lgbt ban.

This is an effort to intentionally destroy our means of paying rent, Alongside this work-camp genocide they're championing.

This? This is violence. They are quite literally driving queers out of business and onto the streets.

Photo of me, a white man with brown hair and glasses, sitting in a chair against a wall with a generic abstract painting. I’m wearing stoggles and a 3M Aura N95. Clothes, too—a black jacket over a green shirt

This is your semi-regular reminder that hot people mask because masking is love and resistance and community care and anti-capitalist and anti-ableist. Be hot. Wear a mask.

A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years

when work rains, it pours

episode 090

god i can't wait for the LLM winter

Scatter plot of all known stars, with their color (peak wavelength or temperature) on one axis and luminosity on the other. The stars vary from red, to orange, to yellow, to white, to blue.

*Knows nothing about comics* Okay so the premise is Superman is a normal person under a red sun, and under a yellow sun gains super powers. But this implies if we moved him further up the main sequence to be under a blue sun he will gain super-super powers and become Super-Super-Man—

Since so few people mask now, if we could get some to mask during these two big waves/surges, that’d be a win. Personally I mask everywhere outside my home, even outside—because COVID passes through the air like smoke & I’ve followed the science on its long term effects closely.

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"i shouldn't have it this good" is kind of a wild thing to think as a middle-class immigrant renter in a world with 3028 billionaires. and yet,