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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark

@chrisjordanclark.bsky.social

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Bereaved mother. Feminist. Austen scholar. PhD. Writer. Reader. Artist. Horticulturist. Disabled. Angry pacifist. Atheist. Despair for the world. Masking and isolating. Covid isn’t over. Living in unceded lutruwita with a view of kanamaluka.

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 13d

Covid isn’t over. And each infection damages the brain. Especially the parts that manage empathy and decision making.
Once you know that it’s easy to see what is happening and it’s terrifying.

www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...

newsGP - How COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain

Mounting research shows the disease can lead to an array of problems, including significant drops in IQ scores, writes Dr Ziyad Al-Aly.

www1.racgp.org.au

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 6h

Gorgeous photo!

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 8h

Kids! 😂😂

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 1d

They know damn well that if they worked from home they’d do nothing but nap all day so they assume everyone is like them.
And everyone knows women’s work isn’t REAL work. So women, working some ‘pretend’ admin job FROM HOME are an easy target.
They think no one will care & they might be right. 🤬🤬

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 1d

Oh they’ll love that!
🤣🤣🤣🤣

Honestly, I barely know who she is but I find it astonishing that so many (allegedly) adult people care.
Was music like this when I was young? I know teenagers were always obsessed but I don’t think the adults were talking about it.
(What would I know tho?)

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 1d

You know what fans hate?
Their idol being openly and unashamedly happy. Boy do they hate that shit.
😂😂😂😂

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

My friend
the optimist insists
that at core
most people
are basically
good.

My friend
the pessimist insists
that at core
most people
are basically
bad.

I worry,
my friends,
that at core
most people
are basically
unwilling to be inconvenienced.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 2d

Covid-19 has caused a breakdown in human rationality. Most people have embraced a mentality of delusion, carelessly denying the extreme danger of Covid-19 and recklessly surrendering to repeated infections. As a result, irreparable harm is steadily destroying their essential well-being.

#COVID19

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 1d

I first read this line when I was 14. I was in an unhappy family and knew plenty of others. They all looked the same to me. Violent, abusive (or absent) father, woman and children struggling to survive.
I still wonder if happy families are all alike. I suspect not.

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂

It's beginning to look a lot like fuck this

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 1d

Alt text is your friend!

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 1d

Can recommend QAnon and On by Van Badham as well.
@vanbadham.bsky.social

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad.

I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI.

It’s destructive to the environment.

It’s destructive to artists.

It’s destructive to humanity.

It steals from us and churns out slop.

Just stop.

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂
I snort-laughed.
That says SO much about humans.

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been wondering (of myself mostly) why it is so much harder to identify and witness someone else’s happiness rather than their struggles?

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 2d

They defend a very wide area around their nests too. And it seems that even adolescents who are too young to nest “practice” defending as well.
I’ve never been hit, but they come close and it’s intimidating. Especially for the international students!

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 2d

My uni has a bushland campus. Every Spring people would be late to classes because they were hiding from magpies.

a black and white bird standing next to a stuffed chicken that says " petcollective "

Alt: a black and white bird pecking a stuffed chicken

media.tenor.com

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 2d

This state could be amazing. Instead they just want to be different to “the mainland” at any cost. And that means we stay at least 50 years behind.
And with crippling debt as well
#NoNewStadium

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 2d

Great. Thank you.

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve blocked and reported

@djnoneya.bsky.social you might want to look at who you’re following (or you can block me I guess)

I would normally post alt text here but this is so revolting in so many ways I can’t transcribe it.
Just block Dr. Germality account. (Unless you like slurs, body shaming, ableist and transphobic hate that is.

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 3d

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s not the “lockdowns,” or at least that shouldn’t be our primary concern now. It’s the effects of the virus itself, which is a harder fact for people to face. Since there are no mitigations in society, new cases of cognitive dysfunction from COVID happen everyday. It’s not over.

Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores

Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.

theconversation.com

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 3d

That’s just impossibly hard.
Sending much care xx

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 3d

I think it means that during lockdowns children missed school time.
But due to long Covid and ongoing illnesses, school attendance is down in almost every country so “learning” is being lost because they didn’t address Covid.
So stupid and short sighted and all in the service of capitalism.

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so sorry.

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I will always #WearAMask.
Because I both like and value my brain.

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 3d

Geezuz. My ex used to call himself that and it’s exactly the kind of message he sent too. But this guy spelled your name right so it’s probably not him. 😛