Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I wish people would read more about Long COVID. People think it's rare; it's not. Or they think the healthy and the young can't get it; they can.

"I want people to know that I'm not lying, [long COVID] is real and can happen to anyone. I want people to know I'm not just trying to get out of doing school or sport — I wish I could do sport … I wish they understood I am just trying to save myself from being stuck in bed in pain for days afterwards."

- 12-year-old girl

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/children-with-long-covid-dismissed-doctors-myth-virus-harmless/103959078

fun that we're gonna end up in a mad max-esque desert wasteland because dipshits can't stop making AI slop

"You posted something publicly, so I'm entitled to criticize you and then have an absolute meltdown when you don't back down on your statement, which was not addressed to me"

- way too many people on #Mastodon

PSA for artists still using X. Stop announcing shit exclusively on X.

And if you still announce things on x, always include the link in every post, because users without x accounts can't see any posts without direct links, or even browse your profile to find *litterally anything else about you*.

Nobody wants to use that platform anymore and the only thing keeping most people I know there are announcements from creators, that's it.

Visibility on the platform has gotten so garbage, whenever someone posts something from x that doesn't include a direct link to the thing its talking about; we have to send out search parties to dig up the links so the announcement is actually announcing something its possible to *find.*

I don't like how my culture does apologies and forgiveness.

Time passing doesn't make up for harm.

Hollow words, without action to prevent recurrence, don’t demonstrate care.

We just pretend the bad thing didn't happen? And that it won't happen again?

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There are some conversations I'm just too old for, and "social spending doesn't solve problems" is one of them. I've literally watched education, health care, housing, local news, and public transit be systemically defunded, dismantled, and neglected for most of my almost 47 years of life. *My* classrooms ballooned from 20 kids to 30, *my* band class, french immersion, enrichment programs were disrupted by cost-cutting measures, *my* tuition was 4x the tuition of students just 5 years older than me, lower-middle class kids of *my* generation and later are the ones working two or three precarious jobs (if we aren't already disabled by toxic workplaces) for half as much on a slow-cooking planet, watching the price of even the dilapidated shacks always shift just out of our reach while billionaires take pleasure cruises to outer space.

I am NOT a person to take "social spending doesn't do anything" when I saw just how much social cost-cutting fucking destroyed dreams for two-going-on-three generations, lol.

Sunday school teacher: for the last time, Jesus ascended to heaven, he DID NOT GET ISEKAIED, and Judas was not "basically a tsundere elf girl"!

Me: but what about cru-

Teacher: And stop calling it crucifix-kun!