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Climbing a flight of stairs when I had long COVID didn't feel like climbing a flight of stairs when I was very tired but otherwise healthy, or even like climbing a flight of stairs when I had the flu. It felt like climbing a flight of stairs with a 50lb weight strapped to each limb.

Before long COVID, "fatigue" meant "I'm tired and sluggish. Getting through the day takes more energy than usual. I'll push through, put off tasks that aren't time-sensitive, and then rest."

During long COVID, fatigue meant "should I climb stairs or take a shower today, because I can't do both?"

"Yet the name of the disease makes it sound no more serious than tiredness or burnout—nothing a good rest wouldn’t fix. This may sound like a trivial complaint..."

It might have sounded like a trivial complaint to me before I experienced fatigue from long COVID. It no longer does.

mobile rendering of a post for a recipe for chocolate chip cookie dough cake where the author leads with "I want to start off this post with saying how saddening I was to learn of the bombing at the Boston Marathon."

You've really sold out, man :(

"The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard: How an abundance of A’s created the most stressed-out world of all," interesting essay in the Harvard alumni magazine. www.harvardmagazine.com/university-n...

Bong Technical College Elevated to National University Status After Presidential Approval - Liberia news The New Dawn Liberia, premier resource for latest news Bong Technical College Elevated to National University Status After Presidential Approval

Now that Bong Technical College in Liberia has been upgraded to Bong University, it immediately vaults into my global top three best-named universities, along with India's Lovely Professional University and Argentina's Universidad del Moron.

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sorry I'm orthodox, I only recognize one Ikea monkey and THIS AIN'T IT

A log with stones placed to make it look like a dragon

Someone decorated a log in the park and it is very cool

I don't have strong feelings about bars opening before sunrise tomorrow (in multiple provinces) but I am very curious about the divide between "woke up early to watch the game and drink" and "stayed up all night to watch the game and drink"

I'll admit "Have your daughter provide you with the land" is at least different from the usual secret of "Have your parents provide the downpayment."

I've met a lot of tankies too, so my baseline for them is pretty low. And yet!

I guess I shouldn't be *shocked* that "it's wrong for the US to execute serial killers but it's fine for Venezuela to execute capitalists" is a political position that is held by actual human people, but I confess that here I am

Some personal news. Yesterday, I was part of a group that made history: I participated in a Teams meeting that involved breakout rooms, and it was not a complete disaster

I like how Canada needs to have a draft from which Americans such as himself are presumably exempt by virtue of 1) being too old, and 2) doing the equally-important job of writing words about fascism

Yes, and if this is an American culture war, well, they started it? So many of our DEI materials were created by and for Americans. The ones about anti-Black racism in particular are geared at a country whose Black population 15% of the total and largely descended from slaves. Not the case in Canada

Here is Sachs' excellent thread on X (I don't think he's on here)

macleans.ca/longforms/th... Macleans covered this story three months ago, and went deeper, but got almost traction on here for its report. This, from Professor Jeffrey Sachs, is a good analogy and some useful context:

University of British Columbia Professors Sue School Over Political Correctness A group of academics at the University of British Columbia say the school’s D.E.I. policies and practices, which include land acknowledgments, violate a law that requires universities to be “nonpolitical.”

A group of professors at the University of British Columbia say the school’s DEI and land acknowledgement policies violate a law that requires universities to be “nonpolitical.” The lawsuit has set off a major legal and cultural battle.

Well, hello there UK follows.

Very good dog invades course but falls short of medal glory at Winter Olympics A local dog has missed out on a historic medal at the Winter Olympics despite a lung-bursting stretch in the homestretch

Masterclass in sports journalism

“Even if he had completed the entire race, Nazgul’s time would not have counted as he is male. And a dog.”

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Maybe this is the future of white-collar work after AI takes most of our jobs

Nearly every casual conversation with my colleagues eventually turns to AI and ends with a fiftysomething faculty member saying "well, fortunately I won't be around to see where this ends up". Morale is...not great

This is making me wonder if I can go back to assigning take-home assignments, by seeding the internet with decoy solutions

Olympic highlight in this house.

Fantastic, but this part is what trigger warnings were invented for.

Higher Education, 90210 | HESA Just a quick reminder before we move into the one thought of the day: we’ve officially launched HESA’s Transnational Education (TNE) Strategy Project and are now looking to finalize our founding cohor...

In which I finally find a reason to discuss BH 90210 (the original series, obviously) from a higher ed perspective.

(This is where I tell the story about the ultimatum I gave my mom when I was 3 and really wanted to go to the park, right that second: "Either take me to the park now, or don't take me at all." I was surprised that she went for Option B. Again, in my defence, I was 3.)

"do as I say, or keep doing what you were planning to do anyway" is a hell of an "ultimatum", lol. good luck with that!