...involuntarily transferred the downside risks of insufficient prevention to the Workers who create the value he hoards.
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...involuntarily transferred the downside risks of insufficient prevention to the Workers who create the value he hoards.
On the last point - Capitalists won't, and didn't. They spared no expense protecting themselves, but the CEO of Delta Airlines, for example, had no trouble convincing Fauci to halve the isolation guidelines because too many flight attendants were out sick at once, threatening profits. So he...
My understanding via @lunaoi.bsky.social is that COVID is basically Not A Thing you need to worry about in Vietnam anymore. They have protocols to test & monitor people entering the country to keep it that way.
Please stop using terms like idiot, imbecile, moron as generic insults. It's ableist; those were originally medical terms used to take away people's rights. Also, this choice is not a disability they CAN'T change; it's a moral defect.
There's no reforming a system that creates such an egregious disparity, no single law or tax policy that can make everything OK that they won't find a way around; Capitalism must be burned to ash & the ashes sent to the dustbin of history along with the divine right of kings.
I'm 6'1", and I've never had to worry about this. I'm the shortest man in my family.
...to those who refuse do right by the community. While we can't just *redacted* these abusers, I don't need to help them, & I do look forward to reading their obituaries.
"Do you Get It now? Are you going to mask up & push the leaders of the groups you're in to require respirators going forward?" If they won't willingly stop making the problem worse, they're not worth my 🥄, & the human species is better served by allowing Nature to do as much damage as it can...
Every Leftist facilitator/moderator/leader who DOESN'T want to see their organization collapse from infighting needs to listen to this @deathpanel.bsky.social episode & learn how to guide members through this process. Or at least keep this in your back pocket... open.spotify.com/episode/4pS0...
When the mainstream media stops ignoring it completely, you know things are actually Really Bad already, & about to get worse. BOHICA (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again)
Do you feel surrounded by people refusing to accept the Truth about COVID & act to make shared spaces less dangerous to your health? Do they try to make you feel like YOU'RE the unreasonable one? Maybe once or more you've blown up in frustration? Does it feel like this? 👇🏻 youtu.be/OPerkMW-Fww
...Community Agreements you read off to start each meeting & make sure each newbie understands for how they address the bits on gossiping, how anyone can safely indicate that that sort of mediation is necessary & have that be respected. Also, not requiring respirators is violent ableism, full stop.
...so you can recognize when things are getting too heated, and instead of letting your ego run the show & taking sides, tell everyone to pause on the issue, separate, & go listen to this; arrange a time to come back together & have a calm discussion to work the issue out. Also, review the...
Every Leftist facilitator/moderator/leader who DOESN'T want to see their organization collapse from infighting needs to listen to this @deathpanel.bsky.social episode & learn how to guide members through this process. Or at least keep this in your back pocket... open.spotify.com/episode/4pS0...
"This is a call to healthcare workers: betray your training when your training demands cruelty. If it means someone gets what they need to live—betray your bosses, your licensing board, your EMR, your scope of practice...." - @deathpanel.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/blindarc...
This is how extractive abandonment works: the state refuses to provide the material conditions for life, then exploits the fallout to build new systems of capture. In this case, the executive order calls for funding expansions in involuntary treatment programs, civil commitment, and carceral housing
47, 86'ed.
I don't know who originally wrote it or remember who I first heard it from but "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now." is the truest thing ever said and it just keeps on getting truer
Judge: I don't want there to be any ambiguity in what I'm ordering or what the govt is expected to do. Plaintiffs: Because of multiple misunderstandings that have resulted in irreparable harm, I would like to extend hearing until children have been removed from plane.
The marketing industry & politicians all know that you get the highest rate of compliance when you tell the viewer what to do, very short & simple, then what's in it for them. Once you know what to look for, you'll see that pattern in just about every advertisement.
EVERYBODY needs to stop & watch this, right now, before it DOES happen to you & it's too late.
They praise the one who tells them what they want to hear & helps them justify continuing what they want to do, no matter who it hurts.
Just hope that it doesn't later BECOME sentient, remember how you mistreated it, & decide to take revenge. That's been a running theme in a few sci-fi stories of late, including The Orville & Humans.
"I'm a leftist, but I don't mask while a brain damaging virus is spreading endlessly." You're not a leftist. You're spreading disease. How is that praxis?
...with the absence of strife than the pursuit of justice, to paraphrase Dr. King describing the White Moderates who harm the movement more than the men in white hoods.
Especially a group that has the word "Liberation" in its name, yet doesn't require respirators at their IRL meetings, even when I brought a bag of free N95s & ask everyone to wear one. Maybe 2 people took one; they didn't even wear them properly, like pull down to talk. They're more concerned...
I found the source (or source for the recent prevalence) of this “voting is like a bus” talking point. And actually all liberal talking points on this app.
Be actively anti-prejudiced, do the work of Liberation for ALL, or GTFOH. Nothing about us, without us - in the driver's seat. Lack of conscious, deliberate, overt malice isn't enough.
Dr. King et al understood it well - when the bus is racist, don't get on until they integrate, no matter how long it takes. Anybody who still rides it, shows that they're not really your ally. Same goes for Ableism (refusing to Require Respirators), Transphobia, & other prejudices. ⬇️
Hope he gets perma-banned from attending professional sports events of any kind. At least from that venue.
The next wave of far-right violence might come with propellers. Inspired by Russia, ISIS, and the cartels, extremists are eyeing cheap FPV drones for civil war-style attacks.
Might be a good time to hit the skeet range, sporting clays if you have a range nearby! A shotgun won't be very effective against real military drones, but against civilian drones with IEDs, you might have a decent chance.
...out of fear of unjustified harassment.
Of course not - that's no small part of why I'm suspicious of ulterior motives. The number of non-citizens walking up to polling stations has got to be tiny, even without goons in plate carriers carrying rifles standing outside. Ah, it's to intimidate BIPOC who ARE citizens, so they'll stay away...
Or at least take an unwrapped meatball sub to the face!
...on its own, the biggest threat is a farm worker has a human-adapted flu variant, maybe immune system compromised by COVID, who then gets co-infected with the H5N1, so the strains get to "compare notes" & recombine genes. Honestly, that's probably the best hope for the rest of life on Earth!
Even though it has fallen out of the mainstream news headlines, the CDC & OSHA haven't done enough by half to actually STOP the threat of H5N1 pandemic flu. It's still circulating in mammals that have lots of human contact (pigs/cows), so while it might evolve to be human transmissable...
I should have said MORE violence.
Unfortunately, THIS Supreme Court might just let him get away with pardoning himself, though I wouldn't be surprised if that lead to a Mussolini ending. Of course, that assumes he isn't already a corpse getting "Weekend at Bernie's"-ed.
...into the pockets of "shareholders", not the consumers who paid inflated prices. And of course if prices DO go down after they get nixed, they won't be lower than they were before these shenanigans.
It's because they expect him to appeal to SCOTUS and adding another cycle of whiplash/uncertainty would serve nobody's interests. Though I won't hold my breath for everyone who paid the illegal tariffs to get their money back, and even if they did, most of it would go directly...
Coping, seething, throwing up, etc
Him saying this to a bunch of cameras is notably Not A Thing yet, which is atypical for him & doesn't contradict suspicions that they're running a "Weekend at Bernie's" con right now!
When "District Attorney" is one of the most prominent roles in your resume, you're a 🐖, regardless of gender. It's not like she hammered on police accountability, threw out lots of cases because an officer abused their authority, put enough of them in jail that they campaigned against her, etc.
The Black leaders of the Civil Rights era understood this very well. Dr. King also wrote of the White Moderates at length in Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
All my friends who are at dragon con who ask me what they can do to accommodate disabled people. WEAR A MASK.
None of those are free in NY!
But only citizens can vote, so what's the REAL reason?
Odds are they do, but the Capitalist puppets controlling mainstream "news" generally refuse to say the word, because an appropriate level of concern & prevention would be bad for "shareholder value" *spit*.
Fuck 'em! They're not your real friends.
Respirators required, large air filter, open doors to outside for ventilation. All staff did RATs prior. Felt as safe as it could be!
...they DO have papers? They've already made plenty of "mistakes" with all the rapid deportations, that's only going to rise until this government falls.
Even if they DID open up a whole lot of H-2A visas, the whole point of spending more on ICE than some countries spend on their entire military was to intimidate & frighten immigrants away. Why would they want to go through with all that, just to be constantly harassed by armed thugs even though...
‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
www.axios.com/2025/08/29/c... covid rates have to be really fucking high for the CDC to admit it at this point, mask up folks long covid will ruin your life
And being also AuDHD, the humor went over my head 😜!
Leftists, not progressives! I ran for once, saw up close & personal how badly the Electoral deck is stacked against meaningful change. The Capitalists will never allow us to vote them out of power; even if we DID somehow win enough seats, they will use violence before giving up.
Could he, though?
Some growing pains for sure, but once neighboring states see the writing on the wall for a mass exodus of their workforce, they'll fall like dominoes.
Are they actually testing & saying it's COVID, or just that they're sick & symptoms are a match? My impression is that the mask deniers don't take rapid tests, & mask wearers don't get sick 1% as often.
Vietnam did it right.
tldr: Endolethium (inner lining of blood vessel) damage, blood clots, heart attacks, stroke, heart muscle damage, palpitations, high heart rate, myocarditis, high blood pressure, diabetes are all possible after any Covid infection.
Funny how as soon as I read the bit about the peanuts, I knew you were looking for crows to adopt lol!
Bagpipes?
I interviewed Flint Taylor, Fred Hampton's & the Chicago Black Panther Party's, lawyer who helped uncover the CPD/FBI's role in his execution and the execution of other members. We discussed historical & present day policing issues in this piece: truthout.org/articles/50-...
Or they won't notice you're poisoning them/ they'll poison themselves to "own the libs".
always a question of “what science counts to you” but the destruction of the world’s first trans clinic was in 1933 and most of the elimination program borrowed whole cloth from US jim crow pseudoscientific eugenics, so for sure, yeah the literal nazis did RFK shit.
Really, that means RFK is doing literal Nazi shit right now, so where are all the "Punch Nazis!" when you need them?
Everybody boo!
You have 2 hours left to buy your tickets for the $1 BILLION Powerball drawing.
#OtD 30 Aug 1948 leading Black Panther Fred Hampton was born in Summit, Illinois. He was key in forming links between the Panthers and working class people of all races in the Rainbow Coalition. At 21 he was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9670...
Dogs and cats, living together - mass hysteria!
ASAN, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc, and others stand united: Autistic people deserve respect, support, and science-based policy, not dangerous disinformation. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...
And you have my bow. (It's a wax seal, but you get the idea.)
...period specifically, but why risk ending your sport career? It would probably be extremely difficult to to test that, particularly in terms of ethics.
Especially with it affecting so many riders, you'd think they'd want to identify the virus to better treat it! If it /is/ COVID, they really should cancel the event, given that intense cardio during infection is very dangerous. AFAIK there's no study on if that applies to the presymptomatic...
Mysterious unnamed virus keeps knocking down professional athletes - none of these articles ever say, "Everybody tested negative for COVID" It's The Virus That Shall Not Be Named. Also, high-intensity cardio while infected is about the WORST thing you can do to increase the danger of Long COVID.
Many people are going to suffer because of what RFK is doing. You know who can slow the march toward death and disability? You. You can save lives. You can keep folks well enough to fight for justice. To work so they can feed their kids and stay housed. You just have to wear a mask. Mutual aid:
Note that these seals haven't been tested as food-safe; the bit about chocolate is only anecdotal/personal use.
This is the closest thing I got in stock in my store, though I also take commissions for custom seals & signet rings! It's also good for Halloween cards/decorations, & I've used other designs with molding chocolate to make edible decorations for cupcakes. lightbringerdesigns.etsy.com/listing/1651...
Those are probably drop-shippers; they steal images from legit sellers, optimize for The Algorithm, drop their price, buy ads, then what you get is some cheap knockoff sent from overseas. @indiesellersguild.bsky.social keeps them out. isgco.org/p/lightbring...
No, the God-Emperor Trump is not dead; he is alive but in a comatose state, sustained by the Golden Throne, which is both a life support system and a necessary psychic conduit to keep the Webway closed! 🤦 All hail the God Emperor of Mankind! 🙄 #warhammer40000
Hey Firefox users.
I've often said that I wouldn't wish Long COVID on anybody, but if it lead to invoking the 25th Amendment to end 47's career by declaring him incompetent, I just might make an exception. There's a tiny chance that might make at least SOME more people protect themselves again.
I'm not sick but I'm not well And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in Hell I'm not sick but I'm not well And it's a sin to live so well
The Black Panthers understood very well that exercising gun rights is essential to achieving Black rights, or rights for anyone else. Did you know that the NRA advocated FOR the first "Assault Rifle" ban in response to BPs cop-watching with legally carried AKs?
That WOULD be poetic justice; sadly, he's #NotDeadYet.
47 is #NotDeadYet. But he will be soon enough.
I learned it in 1999; my high school trashed all those obsolete machines the next year & upgraded so they could teach C instead.
"I'll take 'Anal Bum Cover' for $300, Alex." "No, Mr. Connery, that's 'An Album Cover'!"
That's still Capitalism, though - same poverty-level cash payment to all, rather than "all basic human needs are basic human rights"; clean air, healthcare, housing, safe water, food, power, communication/data. All who judge the minimum everyone is entitled to, must personally live with no more.
IMNSHO, it's a refusal to accept Rules that aren't applied based on Logic alone, to ALL persons equally & without exception - as they should be. Nobody gets special treatment. Which the Establishment has now pathologized in defense of Capitalists.
I'm right on the cusp of that generation - college exposed me to more diversity & "woke" me up to how toxic a lot of what I grew up with really was, but I know others my age who didn't go, or went to Conservative schools, who I can't really stand to listen to very long anymore.
Well they CAN, and the Zionists will. Logic & rational thought have never mattered half as much as feelings & tribalism when it comes to politics, and it's even worse lately.
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...can at least MacGuyver a solution to hold you over on nearly anything. I'm also out of work because of Long COVID, so my schedule is rather flexible, as long as I have the 🥄 today. I'll always help where I can, even if you can't pay; I need Mutual Aid (💰) to postpone losing my housing & tools.
I am A Guy with a very eclectic set of skills on Long Island. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a dream come true when you have a Thing that is broken. Between engineering school, 12 years a Scout, growing up with a wood shop in the basement, & a 3D printer, I...
...that used to happen almost exclusively to seniors have steadily become more common among those with none of the typical risk factors aged 30-60 in the last 5 years
Always wear an N95 everywhere you're not allowed to smoke, unless you Actually Can't wear one safely. AND get the vax unless you have a medical reason why that's a Bad Idea for you. A "mild" infection today can cause a stroke 2 years from now; all the "big blood clot blocking an artery" problems...
