Thx for this link! I plan to use it when we go to get our (6 month) boosters. One question: the link says an "updated" vaccine is available - do you know if this update covers the 'cicada' variant?

Star Trek TNG episode image of the Pakleds, a race so reliant on technology that they lost their ability to maintain the tech and instead used violence to force others to repair their systems.

Immediately makes me think of the Pakleds from ST:TNG:

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

WATCH: This is my favourite thing on the internet right now. Well done Norway! youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

*cries in an almost 10k annual property tax bill*

Sadly, the lack of masking is what stopped me from donating. A family member got a serious cancer diagnosis in 2022 and now I can't (won't) justify the extra risk. It makes zero sense to me that CBS won't even do masked sessions from time-to-time (I've asked for them & been shot down every time).

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

We have a trans kid too (teenager) and we also have UK citizenship. Unfortunately tho, since Brexit, it's much less appealing than Irish citizenship. My side is Scottish and while the Scots are very accepting (in general), most of the rest of the UK is not. I hate that we have to think this way.

Can confirm. We have a trans teen and sadly, the topic comes up often.

🤢 ugh, and we all used to live with this and think it was normal!

mixed use, walkable neighborhoods. rome, 1967

Years ago, my parents bought a condo in Florida and my mum genuinely thought the kitchen cabinets were beige - then she started cleaning them and discovered they were actually white! Suffice it to say, the entire place was washed down and repainted.

A pelican diving headfirst into a body of water with the golden shimmer from the Sun that Rose about 10 minutes earlier

A) omg beautiful
B) lol what a landing
C) bad morning for the fish
🪶

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

That's my worry, too

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I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.

Someone said: "Remote work doesn't allow for team cohesiveness."

Fuck this team nonsense. The only people who ever talk about the importance of "teams" at work is management, never workers. Multiple studies show productivity increases when optional remote work is available. That's the bottom line.

Your description of the 'golden hour' reminds me of my husband's diagnosis - he felt totally fine when his melanoma was discovered after a routine removal of a bump on his back (not even the doc who removed said bump expected cancer, nevermind stage 3).

ALT 0151 - I have to use it regularly for work. It's fully etched in my brain now, sigh.

@dennisrenmd.bsky.social #MedSky

Please help us correct misinformation!

Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".

We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.

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Asked my doctor a couple weeks ago about measles & she reminded me I had a booster back in 2013 (she did her whole practice). I'm pretty happy with her overall (tho I do wish she didn't stop masking in the last year)

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

I really shouldn't be shocked by anything he says/does anymore, but it's just so far out there, that I assumed it was fake the first time I read it. Sigh

Heathens that we are, our kids grew up calling these 'church cookies' 😂

Huh, I totally forgot his name until I read your post.

Saw one headed down one of avenues (towards the canal) last week. My first thought: Man, they are UGLY!

WOW. What I wouldn't give...

Our 16 y/o occasionally goes sockless in their winter boots but I'm pretty sure it's entirely due to laziness (not willing to run back upstairs to grab a pair of socks before going out).

Husband's surgeon said this 3 years ago: "Five years ago I would have told you to go home & get your affairs in order."

He's not fully out of the woods yet (at the 5 yr mark I will breathe better), but sparing our teens that news has been everything.

This is what I think of as well!