katharine

· 3w ago

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You cannot exposure-therapy with Covid. This is not a “what they don’t know won’t hurt them” situation. If you knowingly expose someone to Covid (or any virus, really) with the sanctimonious notion that it’s no big deal and whoever you’re potentially infecting will be all the better for it, you are, in fact, the asshole.

· 2mo ago

Like, maybe you figure it’s barely a few cents of your own money that could trickle through the corporate sieve into a rich person’s hate-fuelling fund and you shouldn’t have to sacrifice your “Timmies fix” because the corporation made a bad PR move. But if you spend zero money on the corporation, you can spend zero time defending your supposedly unintentional, indirect support of hate. https://thewalrus.ca/nobody-asked-for-harry-potter-donuts/

thewalrus.ca

· 3mo ago

The only surveillance worth supporting is wastewater surveillance.

· 2mo ago

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Li’l icon dude, you could go ahead and put on a respie and not be so miserable. You don’t deserve to suffer through this shitty air quality just because you’re made to think you’re not in the “sensitive groups.” Also, if you’ve had Covid and now seem to be catching colds and various bugs seemingly every month, ya might just be in the “sensitive groups.”

· 2mo ago

Oatmeal Raisin Arizona

https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/117006357071365885

· 2mo ago

Four things:

It's obvious that too many people associate "Covid" with death and just presumed that the drop in the death count meant the danger of Covid was over.
Vaccines were pretty good at something.
2022-23 was about the time of categorizing deaths "of/from/with/near/under/over/adjacent to Covid" and deciding which types would get officially recorded as Covid deaths.
The general public decided 3-4K weekly deaths was an acceptable price for normalsies.

· 2mo ago

Around the World in 80 Delays #LayOverOrDelayABook #HashTagGames

· 2mo ago

We Need to Talk About Keebler #CookiesAMovieOrPlay #HashTagGames

· 2mo ago

King of the Pillow

· 2mo ago

Bed Lasso

· 2mo ago

The Fig Newton Boys

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Really fucking rich to suddenly care about people breathing unhealthy air.

· 2mo ago

Ripping Yawns

· 2mo ago

Supersnore

· 3mo ago

Replying to

Tapping the sign.

· 2mo ago

How to Steal a Milano

· 2mo ago

Like Wafer for Chocolate

· 2mo ago

Suddenly Snoozin'

· 2mo ago

Rum Ball in the Bronx

· 2mo ago

Mystic Pizzelle

· 2mo ago

Really something to say “outside the pandemic era” as we’re inside an era that has multiple infectious diseases swirling around multiple countries including (and possibly as a result of) the pandemic virus that kicked off this decade.

There has also been a sustained drop in Covid infections within Canada with the decline in travel to the States, but minimizers ain’t gonna touch that achievement because it mucks up their narrative that Covid and its pandemic are long in the rear view.

· 2mo ago

Jake and the Sandman

· 2mo ago

“Profound, resigned hopelessness” is the slogan for the 2020s, if not the 21st century, if not the whole of all human existence https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/18/canada-wildfires-air-quality

theguardian.com

· 2mo ago

ya kinda want it to have been the explosive diarrhea illness https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/12/lindsey-graham-key-ally-of-donald-trump-has-died-after-sudden-illness-his-office-says

theguardian.com

· 2mo ago

Social media in olden tymes meant you had to get your Buzzfeed quiz results posted on a marquee. I woulda thought George Brent was a Carrie.

· 2mo ago

"We have to keep toying with the clocks because there comes a time of the year when people are going to school and work in the dark" Dear hearts, it may not be the clock what's the trouble.

· 2mo ago

"Can your imaginary friend ever become your imaginary lover?" "Our researchers find out what it's like to date a ghost communicating solely via Ouija board and ~signs~" "Ever wonder what it would be like to unironically date your childhood Teddy Ruxpin or sext with your Speak 'n' Spell?" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/whats-it-like-having-an-ai-boyfriend-2-waterloo-researchers-decided-to-find-out-9.7281399

cbc.ca

· 3mo ago

Where the Wildfires Are #HeatWaveMovies #HashTagGames

#CleaningMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

· 5mo ago

The Cleanliness of the Long Disinfectant Runner

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Hard pass on outside today

· 2mo ago

Perfect Slumbers

· 2mo ago

The Famous Teddy Zzzzzz

· 2mo ago

Fucko and his staff were just fine with people spending weeks speculating about his existence until his colleague shuffled off unexpectedly. They could’ve released this sort of statement last week, before the conspiracy theories started flying. He can get in the bin anytime.

· 2mo ago

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An even harder pass on outside today

· 3mo ago

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Ah, the subtle past-tensing of the pandemic complicates the perception of wokery/chuddery in this political compass.

· 2mo ago

Me (looking out the window and seeing a rat scrambling around in the driveway through the orange haze): why do I have to be the one to bear witness to all this?

· 2mo ago

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And then I proceeded to keep looking out the window throughout the day.

· 2mo ago

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@Njord@zeroes.ca Any opportunity for “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” for some people

· 2mo ago

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Wear the filtering thing to help prevent toxins in the air from getting into your lungs. https://nowtoronto.com/news/toronto-wildfire-smoke-lung-doctor-tips-n95-mask/

nowtoronto.com

· 3mo ago

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@CppGuy@infosec.space Less the phrasing of the question but the implication that Covid vaccines maxxed out at the “fully vaxxed + boosted” phase. They could’ve made “get annual Covid vaccine” an option (whether that’s sufficient immunity coverage or accessible to the general public are some other issues). They chose to fill the option slots to skew towards the un/der-vaccinated. (Some, myself included, may argue that two shots + booster is under-vaccinated at this point)

· 3mo ago

Cooling Centre Luke #HeatWaveMovies #HashTagGames