Kate 🏴☠️
@maskonalways.bsky.social
Disabled nurse, voracious reader, infertility struggler (fuck that warrior nonsense). It's never too late to start wearing a mask again.
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Why is it that everyone is all about prison abolition until the cell walls are padded?
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H/T Gina on x
This is the health advice in New York on our current situation. The Public are being advised to wear an N95/ffp2 respirator. This is the correct advice. The disparity between this advice which is correct for airborne transmission and UKHSA saying wear an FRSM is huge.
This is the health advice in New York on our current situation. The Public are being advised to wear an N95/ffp2 respirator. This is the correct advice. The disparity between this advice which is correct for airborne transmission and UKHSA saying wear an FRSM is huge.
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
H/T Gina on x
This is the health advice in New York on our current situation. The Public are being advised to wear an N95/ffp2 respirator. This is the correct advice. The disparity between this advice which is correct for airborne transmission and UKHSA saying wear an FRSM is huge.
This is the health advice in New York on our current situation. The Public are being advised to wear an N95/ffp2 respirator. This is the correct advice. The disparity between this advice which is correct for airborne transmission and UKHSA saying wear an FRSM is huge.
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As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).
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“Why did you rape those girls Jesse? Why did you rape them?”
May this question follow him around for the rest of his life
Jesse Butler raped & strangled two girls. Multiple times. He videotaped it
He will serve NO time. His plea got him community service.
This is rape culture
May this question follow him around for the rest of his life
Jesse Butler raped & strangled two girls. Multiple times. He videotaped it
He will serve NO time. His plea got him community service.
This is rape culture
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“Why did you rape those girls Jesse? Why did you rape them?”
May this question follow him around for the rest of his life
Jesse Butler raped & strangled two girls. Multiple times. He videotaped it
He will serve NO time. His plea got him community service.
This is rape culture
May this question follow him around for the rest of his life
Jesse Butler raped & strangled two girls. Multiple times. He videotaped it
He will serve NO time. His plea got him community service.
This is rape culture
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A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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Okay this Heated Rivalry show is way hornier than I was expecting and y’all had told me to expect it real horny. Also HBO has adds now? Like just as many as regular TV not just some promos for other shows between episodes!
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Okay this Heated Rivalry show is way hornier than I was expecting and y’all had told me to expect it real horny. Also HBO has adds now? Like just as many as regular TV not just some promos for other shows between episodes!
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-89% of American CHILDREN who DIED of the flu in 2024-25 were also UNVACCINATED
Given a flu vaccine uptake rate of 49.2% in eligible kids, this means... an unvaccinated child was about 7.8 times more likely to die from influenza than was a vaccinated child.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Given a flu vaccine uptake rate of 49.2% in eligible kids, this means... an unvaccinated child was about 7.8 times more likely to die from influenza than was a vaccinated child.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths ...
This report describes pediatric deaths during the 2024–25 influenza season.
www.cdc.gov
December 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
-89% of American CHILDREN who DIED of the flu in 2024-25 were also UNVACCINATED
Given a flu vaccine uptake rate of 49.2% in eligible kids, this means... an unvaccinated child was about 7.8 times more likely to die from influenza than was a vaccinated child.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Given a flu vaccine uptake rate of 49.2% in eligible kids, this means... an unvaccinated child was about 7.8 times more likely to die from influenza than was a vaccinated child.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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What goes in a bugout bag, and how do you bug out without a bag that weighs 50 pounds? Some thoughts. Feel free to add your thoughts here for the final version.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/an-illustrat...
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/an-illustrat...
An Illustrated Guide to Bugging Out (or in)
And the new Cassandra
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
What goes in a bugout bag, and how do you bug out without a bag that weighs 50 pounds? Some thoughts. Feel free to add your thoughts here for the final version.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/an-illustrat...
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/an-illustrat...
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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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The death of children due to an unsafe vaccine is a serious allegation. What the FDA is saying about the Covid vax is not based on fact.
Article by a pediatric cardiologist who's studied the link between Covid vaccines & heart-related side effects such as myocarditis in children. No pay wall.
Article by a pediatric cardiologist who's studied the link between Covid vaccines & heart-related side effects such as myocarditis in children. No pay wall.
FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data – and could severely hinder vaccine access
The agency’s plan to change the well-established process for safety testing vaccines is not realistic.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The death of children due to an unsafe vaccine is a serious allegation. What the FDA is saying about the Covid vax is not based on fact.
Article by a pediatric cardiologist who's studied the link between Covid vaccines & heart-related side effects such as myocarditis in children. No pay wall.
Article by a pediatric cardiologist who's studied the link between Covid vaccines & heart-related side effects such as myocarditis in children. No pay wall.
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you stupid hoes will look at a woman who’s out to 99% of the people in her life and demand she kneel before her foremothers and beg for repentance for the remaining 1%. as if does literally anything but satiate the anger you hold towards your past self that you’ve decided to project onto her
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
you stupid hoes will look at a woman who’s out to 99% of the people in her life and demand she kneel before her foremothers and beg for repentance for the remaining 1%. as if does literally anything but satiate the anger you hold towards your past self that you’ve decided to project onto her
Thank god the trans masculine community doesn’t have its own equivalent of boymoding discourse.
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thank god the trans masculine community doesn’t have its own equivalent of boymoding discourse.
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It's disabled folks and small children being put in a position where existing in public means an increasingly high risk of dying from an infectious disease.
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It's disabled folks and small children being put in a position where existing in public means an increasingly high risk of dying from an infectious disease.
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What most commentators seem to think of as "cancellation" could at best be more accurately called "benched after a terrible posting injury"
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
What most commentators seem to think of as "cancellation" could at best be more accurately called "benched after a terrible posting injury"
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The other aspect of this “the disabled might be actually faking it” is that, everyone saying it is just a bad day away from joining all of us.
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The other aspect of this “the disabled might be actually faking it” is that, everyone saying it is just a bad day away from joining all of us.
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This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
My kids go to a "rich" public school. My daughter is 7 and cannot read; she is a sweet, caring, intelligent child, but if you spend a moment with her it is clear that she has ADHD an order of magnitude more serious than what you think of when you hear "ADHD." Anybody questioning her IEP can fuck off
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
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Let me reframe this: perhaps we should not discourage them, as it might also discourage disabled people from seeking accommodations out of fear that they will be accused of faking their disability; or, they will refrain from seeking accommodations out of fear of "not being disabled enough."
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Let me reframe this: perhaps we should not discourage them, as it might also discourage disabled people from seeking accommodations out of fear that they will be accused of faking their disability; or, they will refrain from seeking accommodations out of fear of "not being disabled enough."
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Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
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Once again, no one making these claims seems to understand the enormous hurdles in the way of getting a kid the help they need - in this case - I dare anyone suggesting this to go through an IEP process.
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Once again, no one making these claims seems to understand the enormous hurdles in the way of getting a kid the help they need - in this case - I dare anyone suggesting this to go through an IEP process.
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I once talked to a student who self-described as having a "mild" ADHD diagnosis about why they hadn't sought accommodations. The literal first thing that they said was "I'm not ADHD enough to need them," which was something that I've kept in mind as I listen to this "discourse" about accommodations.
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I once talked to a student who self-described as having a "mild" ADHD diagnosis about why they hadn't sought accommodations. The literal first thing that they said was "I'm not ADHD enough to need them," which was something that I've kept in mind as I listen to this "discourse" about accommodations.
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this is why liberals won't call for actual consequences. nothing trump is doing is something we didn't spend two decades doing throughout the middle east, central asia and africa during the war on terror. it's just that trump brags about it on social media too much
'Double strikes' allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were used extensively under Obama.
Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikes
'Double strikes' allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were used extensively under Obama.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
this is why liberals won't call for actual consequences. nothing trump is doing is something we didn't spend two decades doing throughout the middle east, central asia and africa during the war on terror. it's just that trump brags about it on social media too much
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A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
Finally convinced the abandoned cat in my neighborhood to come inside after years of feeding her. It was freezing raining last night so I just scooped her up and brought her in. Guys it’s like 20 hrs later and has stoped raining but I don’t think she wants to leave. 😂
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Finally convinced the abandoned cat in my neighborhood to come inside after years of feeding her. It was freezing raining last night so I just scooped her up and brought her in. Guys it’s like 20 hrs later and has stoped raining but I don’t think she wants to leave. 😂
I’m a pediatric nurse. For some reason people like to ask me about the worse thing I’ve ever seen and then be mad that I ruined the vibe. I won’t share my worse thing here because I’ve just learned to not answer that question.
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I’m a pediatric nurse. For some reason people like to ask me about the worse thing I’ve ever seen and then be mad that I ruined the vibe. I won’t share my worse thing here because I’ve just learned to not answer that question.