Cristin Margaret
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Cristin Margaret
@cristinmargaret.bsky.social
Optometrist (not practicing right now), full time parent and educator to two kids. Volunteer forest steward, speed puzzler, N-95 decorator, and audiobook listener. Free Palestine.
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Sharing a beautiful (and highly relatable) essay from @nytimes.com. Important to read thru the end.

#LongCOVID

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...
I Love You. Please Find Someone Else. (Gift Article)
“In sickness and in health” may sound romantic — until you’re sidelined with a chronic illness.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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For those wondering what concentration camps in American dystopia would look like, it was staring us in the face the whole time. The infrastructure already existed.
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.

"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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In light of the mid-air collision over DC, and news like this, more attention needs to be paid, and urgently, to long COVID and the continued damage of SARS-COV-2
New Zealand: Covid-19 ‘brain fog’ likely factor in near-miss train crash in South Island.

"A KiwiRail engineer experiencing after-effects of Covid-19 failed to stop at a red signal nearly causing a train collision last year."

Source: archive.md/6GI2m
January 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM