California governor election update - Betty Yee is ending her campaign. While she was polling low, this may be significant as it frees up a lot of organizations and political leaders to endorse someone else - she had been one of the first to run.
calmatters.org/politics/202...

Which is why it's, uh, not great that one dimension of ableism is exclusion.

It’s harder to organize when people can’t share physical space with each other or take action in the field. So it’s a catch-22. Plus LC is an energy limiting illness which limits the capacity to organize. We need allies. We cannot do this alone and we’ve been left to do that.

I was healthy till I got long covid. I masked even before anyway because I was aware that long covid can and does happen to anyone. We do know that rates are higher than average among queer people and low income people so the people in our communities are more likely to be higher risk.

We need systemic solutions but that won’t happen fast week. I would still like to be able to exist in public while working towards it. We will also only get those solutions by organizing for them which can only happen when people understand the necessity & enough people decide to act in solidarity.

Me in an aura n95 mask looking fancy at a wedding in a shirt and tie I

I know what you mean about the glasses placement. I have huge frames but I’ve made it work— this is lined up well here. The white band auras fit better on me than the blue. I have to order them online.

Will think on it but I’m stumped. The Byrds waited two whole albums for example

I’m loving your posts and confused by the handle.
Is it in reference to someone claiming that people who mask are actually antivax? Or something else

There is a type of "COVID cautious" person you will come across who will expect you to do everything perfectly at all times. Many of them are very bitter.

This is not criticism. Many of these people have been isolated for years. You don't get treated like dirt and end up "well adjusted".

Not dunking on OP

I want to say that having fun and being safe very much can and do co-exist!

The early days of the pandemic were mired with unknowns and lies. But we know now what we can do make life safer and more accessible.

Advocate clean air, clean your own air, and mask!

am i glad more people are breaking the taboo of how hard all this has been? yes. but we need to take it one step further—we must connect to the present moment—

What I ask for is inclusion. Will people
Do anything at all to include me and people like me and anyone else who knows they cannot afford this risk or will they keep us into endless physical isolation while claiming that this is a choice we are making because we don’t like having fun.

I was thinking about this today while i was at the hospital in my N95. People gave me funny looks. They moved away from me in the elevator. Acted like i was the threat.

Meanwhile they’re putting themselves and me at risk.

I miss going places other than the hospital. Life has become very small.

Vaccination is important & saves lives but it didn’t keep me from catching covid and becoming disabled by it. We need layered protection- mask & vax & testing. Especially us. Long covid is disproportionally common in queer community & among low income people.

Ok but many people cannot risk a covid infection. That’s just reality. We don’t claim to enjoy this. We just ask people to consider doing something so we can exist in public without risking further disability. Instead we’ve been asked to suffer ongoing isolation in silence.

Nothing I do even imposes anything on anybody. People just quietly, avowed or not, think less of me or connect less with me personally because I wear a mask when I'm out because I can't afford to pick up the neuron & lung destroyer like they calculated they could. I don't attempt sales work any more

you know how right-wingers act like being corrected on someone's pronouns is a crime equivalent to book-burning and mass deportation?

that's because shame is a giant motivator and memory-creator, and sometimes people who've stopped caring about COVID are reminded of people who do and get ashamed

a disabled person being angry that society has told them that they're not allowed to participate anymore may annoy you, the wisest man on the internet, personally, but trust me they get infinitely more shit going the other way every single day

Judges (16:28-30)

The best damn historical fiction

My aura n95 doesn’t make my glasses fog at all. You may just need to find a mask that fits your face better (which will also protect you better). It sucks to have to try and buy a lot. Till I found the right fit I swapped with friends a lot.

I still can’t go to shows and probably never will unless we invest in medical developments to treat and prevent a disease most people pretend isn’t happening.

So this may come as a surprise to some folks on here, but there are people still living like this today because they can't afford to get reinfected with Covid & the pandemic is *not* over

I fucking love those books. Especially Underworld USA. And I also love Grant Morrison but I’m mixed on final crisis. Now I want to reread the comics with that comparison in mind.

Maya works her ass off and is so creative, warm, and passionate. She deserves nothing but the best and I am distraught I won’t get to bask in her light every day anymore. Every book she worked on was better for it.

Comics may not deserve her but it sure needs her.

Who’s organizing it?

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Please do! She is an active danger and people fall for her

This is where Emily Oster working with a whole clique of people who later fully outed themselves as anti-vaxxers, Hoeg, e.g., did so much damage.

So relatable