Feeling haunted by your own ghost is honestly an absolutely perfect and beautiful way to describe so many struggles of chronic pain and chronic illness.
(A beautiful description as a whole. 🫶🏻)
i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
Well this is grim
Me, 2015: Carnegie was a complete shit who, with Rockefeller, invested in reforming public education into a means of conditioning children for factory labor.
Me, 2024: Eh, at least they believed in public education.
People have no idea this is in their future if they don’t try to avoid getting COVID (respirator masking)
#WearAMask #MaskUp
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #StopLongCovid #BringBackMasks
My favorite thing to do with friends who are engaged and gearing up to resist is remind them who doesn’t get a line in the “first they came for” poem and who got mass death tested on them to very little resistance at all.
And they frown and pull out their phones and say “that can’t be right.”
Oops replied before seeing the linked doc. From that site:
“Current languages include:
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Khmer, Korean, Mongolian, Nepali, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
It will be available in Punjabi and Urdu soon.”
I’ve been able to dodge C until now, but I assume that when I do catch it, it will set my progress back years
I never resented the man who hit me, i understood it was not his choice to disable me
I would feel differently if it were society who had disabled me through a series of decisions and denial
This is so bleakly validating to me - I had a TBI made worse by an existing (undiagnosed) brain malformation in my brain stem.
When LC symptoms were first identified and shared, I recognised my life, LC is my reality
The difference being, I was able to sue the driver who caused my injury
I try not to judge famous people's works by whom they support politically. But it's really hard. Wayne Gretzky, Mike Tyson, Dana White, Zachary Levi, James Woods.... right now I can't bear to watch or support anything they're a part of.
Parenting right now feels so much like the week before i had surgery, when i needed to have faith in others, tamp down my terror, and help my kids find joy in a world that seemed completely featureless and cold.
This is hard.
There has been joy since that day, there will be joy again
Do not obey in advance. Resist. Do not offer an oppressive government what it wants. Do not anticipate its needs and offer up what you think it wants. To do so teaches power what it can do.
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Every upside theoretical, every disastrous consequence concrete
😂
C19 literally is a “buy now, pay later” plan.
So really, it should be a very easy concept for us. Only governments have been pretending the “pay later” is only a few pennies…
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“In this case, (the woman) is actively pursuing death, over the objections of the physicians who actively treat her. She has come to B.C. because she was able to find someone in B.C. who would approve,” the notice of application says. “This case raises serious questions about whether (the woman) in fact qualifies for MAID Track 2. Particularly concerning is that akathisia appears to be a cluster of symptoms connected to the changes in usage of drugs used to treat a psychiatric condition. It is treatable but (the woman) has not followed treatment recommendations.”
This is quite the case. The woman's partner filed the injunction to stop MAID for a condition associated with changing doses of antipsychotic meds, which she was told is treatable & could resolve within months.
B.C. judge halts woman’s medically assisted death
bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-judge-ha...
Fact we're in the 'Twenties' sounds so weird. It's so synonymous with the 1920s. Sounds like a bygone era when women were still fighting for their rights, the upper classes were living a life of hedonism whilst people starved & the world was on the verge of financial ruin and war.
Hard same
Amazon is still the only place that offers such a wide selection
It is not feasible for most to get seperate deliveries from the pet store, the office supply store, the drug store, the craft store
I wish there were better options for us disabled folk: for many there really is no other way
I appreciate people sharing these starter packs. Make it so much easier for those of us new-ish to BlueSky to find our communities again. 🙏
Piececool 3d metal cicada on a black zimi mask
Piececool 3d metal dragonfly on a blue n95
Honestly, this changes everything
#maskbling #saltingthevibes #ihavesomethingonmymask
Half oval! It really draws the eye, it is so swoopy … the light in this room, the floors… This is my dream house, it is just perfect
(That little curvy window, gah. Perfection)
This house is so lovely, I know something about sash weights, and chronic illness: sometimes I think back on things I did Before with wonder - it seems incredible that i could have done any of it.
These are amazing photos to have, and to anchor you to some of the things you’ve done along your way ❤️
I often say that the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s apathy.
Every person who’s ever told me their own reason for not wearing a mask is more important than mine to stay alive? That is the diametric opposite of love. And it’s the default state of nondisabled society.
White Zimi mask with a 3" finely detailed 3D metal cicada on it.
New mask bling level unlocked! Use 3d metal kits, attach to mask with magnet - bask in the amazingness
@nickelpin.bsky.social @amandalhu.bsky.social
A big increase in official life expectancy today as 2023 replaces 2020 in the 3-year average used in the calculation. However, life expectancy remains below pre-pandemic levels (2017-19). Life expectancy will predictably increase again next year (when 2024 replaces 2021). Stuart McDonald on Twitter
I can’t believe they ever included 2020 in a baseline.
A novel pandemic year is hardly a suitable baseline for looking at long term trends.
Interesting optimism for life expectancy. I’m expecting a J shaped curve.
One of the lawyers for the defense took to tiktok early on to say Mme was enjoying it, then posted a tiktok to “wake me up before you gogo"
When discussion arose re how unbecoming it was of her to use that song, people cried racism (lawyer is of arabic descent)
Truly the worst of society on display
A number have admitted it was rape, with the condition that they did not think of it as such at the time
And a few brought up their own childhood abuse as mitigating circumstances