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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2

@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social

Part adjunct, part self-employed, entirely neurodivergent. She/her in STEM, i.e., had pronouns before people got offended by them. Can't believe it's controversial to not want SARS. Also plays with string 🧶

created August 18, 2023

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Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

If you get well into adulthood and all your addictions are expected not to kill you, though, you got some choices right.

16/9/2025, 10:31:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Excuse you

16/9/2025, 5:12:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I do think that terrorism charges in this situation would continue to be answered by the contained argument in the form "dude, it's not terrorism just bc someone has feelings," though.

16/9/2025, 5:11:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's be careful about what we take it as meaning, bc the judge didn't specifically say "with prejudice" and there's not a jury yet, so most likely the same charges could be brought again if the prosecutors improve their presented evidence in specific ways.

16/9/2025, 5:11:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Authors will research ANYTHING.

16/9/2025, 5:04:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn, I thought maybe there was a chance of knowing someone who knows someone who would be in a position to spoil a kitteh.

16/9/2025, 5:04:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

@weathermannx01.bsky.social Do you have college friends around there?

15/9/2025, 6:52:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jessica Kant (@jessdkant.bsky.social) reposted

Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”

HIGH Nationally, the wastewater viral activity level for COVID-19 is currently high.
15/9/2025, 3:22:52 PM | 864 437 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ashley fairbanks (@ziibiing.com) reposted reply parent

our public school system only teaches kids to take tests and then we are shocked they don’t know how to do anything else? or that they can’t solve “common sense” problems when they’ve not been shown how to play or use their imagination or given unstructured space without entertainment?

15/9/2025, 12:22:05 PM | 71 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Diane Duane (@diane.dianeduane.com) reposted

WE WERE THERE FIRST. LLMs only have em-dashes because *actual living writers* have used them for 100+ years. LLMs use them because *we used them first* and they stole them *to sound like real writers.* SCREW THE WRITING MACHINE! Read REAL writers. And reject the machine that steals from them!

15/9/2025, 3:02:11 PM | 269 95 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Still bonkers to me how the same people got so excited to complain about him -- when it's not as if he was even doing something blatantly disrespectful like mooning the flag -- as also make fun of other people as "triggered."

15/9/2025, 2:28:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, in ice creams, if the company isn't shrinking the container, there's a good chance they're whipping more air in so you get less actual product. (I had a professor in undergrad who'd worked in an ice cream factory before he graduated.)

15/9/2025, 4:19:27 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chise (@sailorrooscout.bsky.social) reposted

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

14/9/2025, 4:20:09 PM | 4564 1283 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Endless Screaming (@infinitescream.bsky.social) reposted

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

14/9/2025, 11:25:06 PM | 29 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Please tell me they have a script that generates ads from popular searches and didn't realize it would lead to that.

14/9/2025, 6:29:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Fitbit: *buzz on wrist* critical battery Me: Honestly? Same

14/9/2025, 5:05:37 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

A phrase some people need to get into their repertoires is "oh, wow, [if accurate]* that's particularly disappointing." *insert in case of unconfirmed allegations

14/9/2025, 5:00:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

The Craft Gods are kind for giving good things which answer many types of prayers.

13/9/2025, 9:04:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

OK but I mean it's literally the point of those things that they're different colors, so the number one might need is limited only by the spectral resolution of the human eye.

13/9/2025, 8:18:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, I figured it was because knitting needles for normal/small yarn sizes can't be ergonomic but loom hooks can and peg spacing can be small.

13/9/2025, 8:16:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Hell yeah, an abnormal result! (Normies would be so confused.)

13/9/2025, 8:03:10 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Oh, frick, do I need to actually *do* stuff on LinkedIn, for career jumping into legal work? (I technically have an account, set up a while back, but have barely breathed on it.)

13/9/2025, 8:01:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Literal Nazi shit.

13/9/2025, 6:09:20 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

The lower third in the preview frame is just remarkable in juxtaposition.

13/9/2025, 4:52:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Holmes (@annabookwriter.bsky.social) reposted

I don’t think being racist, ableist, transphobic, homophobic , antisemitisc, Islamophobic, white supremacist is civil. At all.

13/9/2025, 3:14:31 PM | 88 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

It's almost as if the names are made up and we just stopped assigning new ones.

13/9/2025, 12:46:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I think, the way they figure that up, it means more purgatory first but eventually yes in most cases.

13/9/2025, 12:32:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

If the Nazi is on the ground, since legs run stronger than arms, stomping is more effective than punching.

13/9/2025, 12:28:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Endless Screaming (@infinitescream.bsky.social) reposted

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

13/9/2025, 12:10:10 PM | 23 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

IDK why, the people I've talked to from that country have all seemed like decent sorts.

13/9/2025, 4:49:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I was thinking 12.

13/9/2025, 4:45:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Y'all's branch of the spiritual family tree has some points about some stuff.

13/9/2025, 2:10:17 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Excuse you

13/9/2025, 2:07:32 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, for all that one might argue with Luigi about, he seems to have accurately identified his main problem.

12/9/2025, 9:29:55 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

PSG, WSP

12/9/2025, 8:13:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I just skimmed; would "assholes who beef with other assholes for not being enough of an asshole" do as a takeaway message or did I miss something important?

12/9/2025, 6:48:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Why does my lime juice bottle say the serving size is one teaspoon? The serving size for lime juice is yes.

12/9/2025, 6:16:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

And then Bedazzled Oval Office is absolutely blowing out people's tackiness meters everywhere.

12/9/2025, 5:15:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

These days I say "well, I'm vertical" bc it's factually accurate and better than some options but I'm not going to oversell how well it's going either.

12/9/2025, 3:13:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

And now the timeline brings me an example! bsky.app/profile/saff...

12/9/2025, 3:08:54 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

They say it was rodent populations following agriculture that gave cats the idea to hang out with humans, and, fair, but the way cats are about boxes, it wouldn't shock me if the development of basket weaving was involved as well.

12/9/2025, 2:57:20 PM | 25 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations! He thinks you're ready to learn to hunt!

12/9/2025, 1:21:16 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Plague Poems (@plaguepoems.bsky.social) reposted

I confess that I have little patience for those who crow about how we must protect and value every single life but who can’t be bothered to wear a mask.

11/9/2025, 7:13:14 PM | 97 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Might need another round of workshopping to fit it rhythmically to the tune.

11/9/2025, 5:28:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture dallas (@liketexas.bsky.social) reposted

Timeline cleanse

Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with a white mustache, and his brother Coal, a black cat, share the top perch of a beige cat tree in front of a blue curtain
11/9/2025, 4:57:25 PM | 125 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Now I'm thinking about the exchange rate for damns and fucks 🤣 bsky.app/profile/ebri...

11/9/2025, 5:15:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Related: bsky.app/profile/sheo...

11/9/2025, 5:13:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm convinced that knees, ankles, and backs are as sketchy as they are because of nature making bipeds by just tilting up quadrupeds. Joint configurations that were fine with less gravity on each and the ability to tripod around whilst healing are not fit for purpose for bipeds.

11/9/2025, 5:06:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I got a Boox reader -- it's actually an entire Android tablet but with an e-ink screen, so can run Libby, Bookshop, Kindle app for my previously existing collection, etc.

11/9/2025, 4:11:39 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

I may raise a ceremonial glass to the firefighters and the passengers on that one plane, but it's well into time for things to be in the past damn tense.

11/9/2025, 4:23:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted

Just got home. I figure some of you might need a timeline cleanse at the moment.

Smudge and Saja, both cats, laying next to each other on a bed.
10/9/2025, 11:07:36 PM | 3061 182 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

How did you do it‽‽‽

11/9/2025, 3:33:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

like = ugh

11/9/2025, 2:20:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Y'all, I'm not *celebrating*, but my damns to give are finite and the set of things to give a damn about is large. I therefore do not have a damn budgeted to give for a certain event from today's news.

11/9/2025, 2:19:39 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

...wtf is wrong with people? That's a topic where your dataset can't help but be more on point than theirs.

11/9/2025, 2:15:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck cancer! And congrats to you and your medicreatures on said fuckening!

11/9/2025, 2:11:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

There's half a point in under there in that some universities have become three businesses stacked and wearing a tertiary education trench coat for tax purposes. However, I still feel they should do drug company patents first.

10/9/2025, 2:30:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I suppose the answer to that question does help clarify where we are on the periodic table of fascism. Either way it's radioactive, but there's develop cancer in 20-30 years radioactive and then there's melt your skin off immediately radioactive.

10/9/2025, 1:24:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Does anyone even know anyone who got the *class* pizza party, though? IME someone always messed it up.

10/9/2025, 5:18:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

That could be on merch.

10/9/2025, 5:02:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fun (@funkelly.bsky.social) reposted

Hey can everyone report this post and account? This m AI account is attempting to trick people out of $4 by telling them it can diagnose Covid just by then m coughing on their phone

10/9/2025, 3:02:46 AM | 217 99 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Why not both?

9/9/2025, 8:10:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, that's why it's a trade-off rather than an ideal change... fluoridation does get to places other interventions don't reach (though bottled drinks limit the effectiveness there too). The real solution to trolley problems is stop tying people to the tracks of course.

9/9/2025, 7:21:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

For me it's more to do with Raised By Wolves, but like, yeah. I could live with yeeting fluoridation and declaring mouth/teeth parts to count like any other body part for medical insurance purposes... it's a trade-off, but a defensible one.

9/9/2025, 7:11:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

When they tell me to shut up, I just scream louder.

9/9/2025, 7:04:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Endless Screaming (@infinitescream.bsky.social) reposted

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

9/9/2025, 4:43:40 AM | 31 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't throw me in that briar patch.

9/9/2025, 4:45:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Dammit, you're probably right.

9/9/2025, 1:45:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Got me pondering whether it would be feasible to convince that type of pet owner that the actual rabies disease causes pawtism, not the shots.

8/9/2025, 11:37:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Funnelface!

8/9/2025, 12:51:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Collins Morton (@mcollinsmorton.bsky.social) reposted

Early in the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, capitalism demanded a return to "normal," which resulted in essential safety being abandoned and Covid-19 being allowed to spread without any control. Thus was our fate sealed, and our current situation of ongoing harm rendered inevitable. #COVID19

24/6/2025, 5:38:03 PM | 18 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture PoP Nova Scotia (@popns.bsky.social) reposted

"You’re not building immunity. You’re accumulating injury."

7/9/2025, 9:51:22 PM | 56 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I knew the thumb thing was a bit of extra bendy (and filed it in the "hmm, something there" collection next to my ankles that really like a bit of support from boots), but, the fingers going past 180° thing too? Well, have I got news for me.

7/9/2025, 4:56:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, isn't that just what hands do?

7/9/2025, 3:56:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

For example, what if a whole lot of the symptoms of aging are actually post-viral symptoms and we just never could tell for lack of a control group?

6/9/2025, 7:39:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

The absolute hell of it is, even sketchy countermeasures drove a major branch of the flu family tree into extinction! If people had improved countermeasures just a little instead of buying into the Urgency of Brunch, who knows what disease burden could've been *permanently* done away with?

6/9/2025, 7:37:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Morley ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) reposted

I want to give those of you who have not been exposed to this new strain of Covid a warning. It is very insidious. I have had it now for almost 3 weeks it does not want to go away. I thought I was getting better, but now having a problem breathing. Please be careful especially the immunocompromised.

6/9/2025, 6:09:03 PM | 4887 1563 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Does throwing and fetching a tennis ball constitute work?

6/9/2025, 3:54:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Abolish ICE and Destroy Fascists (@pwr2dppl.bsky.social) reposted

Autistic affirmation: it's okay to need information

5/9/2025, 3:02:06 PM | 57 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CisHet Billionaire (@bennettelder.net) reposted

Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.

5/9/2025, 2:34:21 AM | 6222 2160 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chise (@sailorrooscout.bsky.social) reposted

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.
4/9/2025, 4:00:11 PM | 6113 2041 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

The way I figure it, as long as that and my fabric/yarn habit collectively stay cheaper than therapy, I'm doing OK.

4/9/2025, 8:58:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

We actually used our hand-crank USB charger/flashlights when the power went out in the freeze, to charge my battery/handwarmer (and then our phones from it). When you use a handcrank charger to charge that, you get a little warmed twice!

4/9/2025, 8:55:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, I'd kind of rather never need my tourniquets and quik-clot gauze, and at the opposite end of the seriousness spectrum I've had bandaids' adhesive go unsticky before getting all the way through the box. Definitely still good to know it's there though.

4/9/2025, 8:28:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

You are my people

4/9/2025, 3:49:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

So what I'm hearing is a fire safety precaution actually led quickly to fire fuckery.

4/9/2025, 2:22:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Make America Healthy Again by... hiding the risks of boozing?

4/9/2025, 1:36:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't accept payment in moldy fuzz.

4/9/2025, 1:08:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Basically the verbal equivalent of how I occasionally buy first aid or survival supplies to shut my anxiety up about something, then.

4/9/2025, 1:01:58 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

On the other hand, a person could do worse than to consider these sorts of questions beforehand and prepare and practice delivering answers as well. Obviously one can't prepare for everything, but it'll increase the chances of having an idea of how to structure a response that's on point.

4/9/2025, 3:44:12 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

I could understand using that phrase if there weren't a more accurate easy way to refer to the intended time, but there are plenty of better options depending on exactly what you mean. "During the shutdowns" is my go-to.

3/9/2025, 5:03:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you post your articles anywhere off Substack? I'm interested in sodium batteries so would really like to read it!

3/9/2025, 4:54:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

You're home?!?!?! 😻😻😻

3/9/2025, 2:21:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Taste side effects from nasal sprays can also be from postnasal drip into the back of the mouth. If it's that, drinking something to wash it down is usually effective treatment (but might need repeated often).

3/9/2025, 1:59:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

If I have to read your stuff for work or something, whatever. But, if we're talking recreational reading? I have all of AOOO to choose from and three cards loaded into Libby. Do *not* expect me to fight your unscannable formatting; it's not going to happen.

3/9/2025, 4:41:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Apparently trivial thing that will cause me to DNF a book within a page or two: lack of paragraph visual styling. I prefer first line indenting, but can live with the space between method. It's the unbroken left-flush wall that'll yeet me straight back out.

3/9/2025, 4:38:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)

Just Adulted So Hard i.e. made pasta salad for the week bc it's still too damn hot to cook individual meals

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Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

The only one I see assuming things here is you. I was brainstorming solutions.

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Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

Literally why it's called that *frantic handwaving* And even if she hadn't heard of the particular thing, like, wildlife licks their butts.

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Profile picture Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent

The thing is, I could even comprehend a choice to roll the dice bc antibiotics exist, but the next step is to pop into a medical environment for the antibiotics to start on and you can throw them away if the rabbit tests clean.

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