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my high school used to start at 7:30 and I lowkey think that was child abuse

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@quiddie why did you say this??

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From May 2020. If people could care for longer than a few months at any given time, the pandemic would have been done in 2021.

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Covid is still in the top ten causes of death in the United States, despite underreporting. If you even care.

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I find it very offensive that the more unwell you are, the more things you have to do to maintain your health. Things like following special diets, going to medical appointments, making big and important decisions about what treatments to use. At the same time, the more unwell you are the less energy you have to do all of these extra things. It seems grossly unfair.

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I think that it's really important for people to realize that being disabled is traumatic. genuinely. your body and brain feel like they are breaking down and wrong. you are in constant heavy stress from stuff like chronic pain. most disabled people i know have a somewhat regular emotional break down from the trauma of it all. and we are expected to just smile through it by society, to not be in the way, to not be an issue.

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Everyday I wake up and think about FDR’s second bill of rights

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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cloudward, ho! has really driven home to me that steampunk is good when people remember the punk part of it. because it’s written by brennan there are anticapitalist and anti-establishment themes. the characters are almost all old and/or disabled. olethra being trans is never brought up except to aggressively support her. the characters with generational wealth either own a pub or fund whimsical adventures. everyone cares deeply about each other.

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my friend said brennan looks like a middle aged lesbian in this

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"The revolution is not going to happen if we are not masking.

Wearing one of these, wearing one of these things in public settings when you're out and about in your daily life, when you're buying groceries or whatever, is one of the lowest effort revolutionary things that you can be doing right now.

And as I'm looking out into the world and I'm seeing how much effort it is taking to get people to mask, it does not make me very optimistic that we're going to be able to do a lot of these big things that are going to be necessary for changing the world that we're living in right now.

And I know a lot of the reason why people are not masking is because there is a common narrative that COVID is over, that the pandemic is over. So before anyone jumps down my throat for being frustrated that people aren't wearing masks, I know. I know that this is a systemic failure. And yet people are not talking about wearing these.

If you know that this is a systemic failure, if you know that we have been failed, why are you not talking to people in your daily life about these? Because I sure as hell am.

And I find this troubling for several reasons. I think, first and foremost, as time has gone on and people have become more and more lax with not masking, it has really made apparent to me, especially after seeing a lot of people that are living with disabilities on this app speaking about this, that there is just such a large normalized and generalized culture that says that people with disabilities, people that are immunocompromised are expendable. Are disposable. And if you're not wearing a mask, you are perpetuating that.

Whether you are conscious doing it, and knowing that you are potentially super spreading, or if you're ignorant of that, and you're not aware of how big a threat COVID is, there are people that are still being forced to live in, like, basically isolation, because people are not willing to wear a mask for like eight hours a day, or whatever. And I know I've made a lot of videos about masking, and i know that people have brought up concerns about, you know, 'I don't wanna be, like, the only one wearing a mask, or like, they're uncomfortable, or they hurt,' and I just, like... I wanna come at this from, like, an empathetic point of view, but it is so difficult for me not to just respond with, like, 'Who cares?'

Like, do I enjoy wearing a mask every day? No. I wish I didn't have to. It's obviously not fun, I obviously do not like it. I don't like that I have to, like, buy them. These should be free from the government. I hate that I have to like not live as full, and as exciting, and adventurous of a life that I would like to. I hate that I'm not out going on vacation all the time, I hate that I'm not out seeing my friends and being super social all the time. I hate that I can't go to the club and see my gay friends anymore.

And everything's on a spectrum of course. There are different degrees of safety, there is not one fit way to do this. But I feel like a lot of us have just kind of given up completely, and there is not any sort of harm reduction, risk mitigation interest at all. It is, 'Well, it's over.' Or, 'I don't care to be inconvenienced to do this anymore and so I'm just not going to do anything, I'm just not going to mask at all.' In a lot of way that has really just like shifted everything. Shifted my reality, shifted my mindset. Shifted the way I think about everything.

And I get it's difficult to be different and doing things that are not common, that are not with the grain, but especially when we're talking about all these world conflicts and big issues, and we like wanna make change, we wanna see liberation in Palestine, and Congo, and Sudan, and Tigray, and all of these places, but then you can't wear this. And I just... if we can't do this, if this is too heavy of a lift, if this is too inconveniencing, I find it— I find it very preformative, and i find it very confusing that there are these same people who cannot do that are on here suggesting that they are going to liberate the whole world. That they are willing to do what it takes to liberate the whole world. When you cannot do— you can't liberate yourself.

And this isn't me being greater than thou, like I'm not perfect. There is more than I can be doing. It's a call in, more than anything. And if you're watching this and you're like, 'I didn't know about how bad the pandemic is still, and I didn't realize it was a risk, like, check the playlist this is in, I have tons of info and I'll tag some of my more informed friends that know, like, the science about all of this. (go check out jaydocovid, patrickthebiosteamist, thaibrows). Shout out to Jay and Patrick. And even then, part of me is still just like, 'I don't understand. I don't understand how we can experience something — I'm just going to talk about the US — at least 1 million people have died. Ongoing. And probably millions more have permanently been made to live with disabilities related to Long COVID and being immunocompromised and so on, and so forth, and I just don't understand how you can see that and not, at the very least, wanna stay informed, and keep up to date with this. Even from like a selfish place, too. I really thought that the American individualism of it all would really get people to mask. And really like take their own health into account, and maybe that was just ignorant of me. I don't know.

I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, I think I just kind of wanted to vent more than anything about masking, because this is incredibly important. This is probably one of the most incredibly important things that we're going to experience as a world, as a people, as a culture, and it's never too late to start taking it seriously again. It is never too late to start masking. It is never too late to stop participating in super spreader behaviour. And like, I promise, I really— I really feel like this is starting to sound like preachy and that I'm like better than everybody. Know that I'm coming at this with like genuine heart strain. Genuine compassion. I just wanna see the world be a better place. I wanna see a world where we're not living with an invisible virus that's just mutating every day and like being allowed to spread and ladadadada. And I know that, like, this is like one thing amongst thousands of other things that are horrible about the world right now, I know that we're living in like hell world right now, but like masking— y'all, masking is like not as heavy of a lift as it's being made out to be.

Seeing the fuss that is being made around masking genuinely blows my mind. Genuinely blows my mind. I think that's all I have to say.