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I post about Black people, Covid, Queer Life, education, Jesus, climate change, and relationships. $Acaf432
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Libby is my favorite app. Where my audiobook readers??
You can return to wearing masks in public tomorrow.
C’est ce que je vais faire dès demain !

Ça fait partie de nos vies maintenant!
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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C’est ce que je vais faire dès demain !

Ça fait partie de nos vies maintenant!
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Even in 2001 when the indoor smoking ban in restaurants and pubs came into effect in BC people predicted the end of the hospitality business entirely, and it turned out that smoking kept more people away than attracted them.
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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They cried about their freedoms being removed. They broke the rules & smoked in the washrooms, detectors would go off & they'd be escorted out by authorities upon landing.

Many parallels with anti-maskers/vaxxers today
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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My mom worked for Air Canada as a flight attendant in the 1980s & 90s. She tells me stories about how *livid* some people were when the smoking bans on planes came into play. Many were abusive & took it out on staff
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it.

Threading several of these pieces below.
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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We continue to see lessons about post-acute viral illness not learned.

We never see warnings about those who will have long-term sequelae.

'Long Flu' has been dismissed as 'not a thing' by some Drs.

But ME can be triggered by a wide range of viruses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade'
Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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So excited to start this!
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Prevention is better than a cure and as it stands, there’s no cure for Covid or Long Covid. And the only prevention from transmission is a well fitted KN95 or better.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Racism in movies that has nothing to really do with the plot feels like “Btw, we hate you in fantasy too”
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Target had a full parking lot yesterday. Don’t tell me that it’s convenient for yall holiday shopping. Bc I’m still on fucc em’!
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Safer Protest with a Registration System and a Ban on Face Coverings Bill 2025 is due to be discussed today.

You can watch at: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Sapphic quotes

"I turned the book over. 'The Joy of Lesbian Sex…'

'Oh it’s very joyful.' Sabine’s grin grew wider until she couldn’t contain it anymore and she burst into peals of laughter. Her glee leached into her words."

E. J. Noyes. If the Shoe Fits

#gclswa #lesfic #sapphicfiction
two women are touching each other 's faces and one has a ring on her finger
ALT: two women are touching each other 's faces and one has a ring on her finger
media.tenor.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Almost every single HBCU is under a bomb threat

There have been almost no announcements about civil discourse and safety regarding the students there.
September 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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ripping FEMA apart and then letting the vultures swoop
When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis, the entire back wall of DeAmon White's house was blown off. The third floor of his mother's home was gone.

The next morning, at 8 am, the phone calls started: Would he be interested in selling his home?

@grist.org
Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in.
“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.
www.whatimreading.net
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I want to see more people advocating for clean air and other virus preventions in schools before I believe people are really serious about education.
Children are breathing in a brain and organ destroying virus in their classrooms.
I take education so seriously. Because. Like.. it used to be illegal for us to read and write. They wanted us to not read and write for a reason. And to see black people advocating for less ways to make sure black and brown children can read and write is crazy.
September 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To date, most Americans who died from Covid died under Biden.
September 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
August 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent
Al Jazeera Says Its Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif Has Been Killed In Gaza, And Israel Confirms It
Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.
www.huffpost.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Seeing an awful lot of people sick with Covid right now.

Many saying “Covid is back”.

It never left. That’s why some of us are still advocating for mitigations.

Every infection is a dice roll with disability.

Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.
August 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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it's so cool that everyone has just completely forgotten that the President doesn't have any legal authority to set US tariff rates

we're like six months into an illegal tax regime being set by imperial decree and everyone's treating it like a totally legitimate thing
July 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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A 16 year old developed sepsis and severe hypoxia yet was left for over 8 hours in an ER waiting room.

He suffered cardiac arrest and died.

This hits far too close to home. I almost bled out in an ER waiting room in Ontario, and only survived because my then bf got loud and “demanded” I be seen
Ontario family sues hospital and staff over son’s death | Globalnews.ca
In early February 2024, a migraine kept Finlay van der Werken home from school. His condition got worse, and his mother took him to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.
globalnews.ca
July 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM