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SueSullivan

@SueSullivan@mstdn.social

Former: journalist, university spox, massage therapist, eclectic home schooler, CFS experiencer.
Current: waking up, deconstructing all the stories and paradigms, glimpsing the immense perfection of this moment. Still enthralled by gardening, family, and, well, all of it, really.

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SueSullivan, to Colorado
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Panorama of a valley just south of the Wyoming border in Red Mountain Open Space, on a sunny, cloud-bedecked Sunday.

SueSullivan, to H5N1
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Pretty comprehensive summary of the week's developments.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/h5n1-second-opinion-april-27-cattle-1.7185165

SueSullivan, to random
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"A sudden rise in long COVID in January has persisted into a second month. About 17.6% of those surveyed by the Census Bureau in January said they have experienced long COVID. The number for February was 17.4.

Compare these new numbers to October 2023 and earlier, when long COVID numbers hovered between 14% and 15% of the US adult population as far back as June 2022."

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-data-long-covid-cases-surge-2024a10005vv?form=fpf

SueSullivan, to gardening
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My husband, who can flow his creativity more freely and expressively than me (by a long shot), watched me trying to hand-fertilize strawberries with a paint brush in my hoophouse in still snowy Northern Colorado, and told me that I was painting strawberries in a fully equivalent act of creative expression and creation. 💝

Close up of a (fruiting?) moss at the base of a raspberry cane, with an empty snail shell lying beside it on the soil
Interior of a 15 by 24 foot plastic covered hoop house with raised beds along the sides and gravel paths full of watering containers, seed trays and gallon pots with sprouting plants and a photo bombing Pomeranian chihuahua mix.
Squinting Pomeranian chihuahua mix sitting on photographer's lap inside a plastic covered hoop house, with a flowering peach tree, collard greens, bolting arugula, and a million seedlings in milk jugs and seedling trays filling the beds

SueSullivan, to random
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The first spring bulbs blooming.

My MILs dying process reaching a peaceful, deeply sleeping state, and DH and siblings surrounding her with pragmatic, mutually supportive, midwestern stoicism.

The sense that some profoundly stuck energies are thawing in my life and for my 22 yo, as we face mortality, and regrets, with an intentionality that my father's abrupt and unexpected death 8 years ago did not allow for.

The deep okayness of it all ❤️‍🩹

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

SueSullivan,
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@mcc 💓

Strandjunker, to random
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One thing that genuinely does mystify me, with no snark: Trump is one of the least masculine, least adult people in public life. Needy, whiny, defensive, pleading, scared of women & terrified of more powerful men.

I’m at a loss about why Trump’s base sees him as manly or strong.

SueSullivan,
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@Strandjunker
Masculinity in white culture = patriarchy, which he embodies quite effectively (structurally awarded wealth, narcissism, vitriolic anger, sexual violence, dehumanization of others, & an obvious understory of profound mediocrity) & he embodies it with such a spectacular array of human failings that he makes the promise inherent for all white males in a patriarchal system-- that this utterly unearned privilege could be yours too some day-- seem available to them/their husbands.

SueSullivan, to animals
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I might have bought the new dog bed one size too small

SueSullivan,
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@thepoliticalcat awww 😻

Tango wouldn't use this new bed either, and it was only when I moved it into the middle of the living room that he was finally willing to sleep in it. I am hoping I can swap out his manky old bed under my desk with it soon, but I'm slightly worried that the house is now just slowly going to fill with dog beds in varying states of disrepair....

erictopol, to random
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A new Ground Truths on the state of the pandemic

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/sotp-state-of-the-pandemic

SueSullivan,
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@erictopol this was an excellent update/overview of the muddled middle of we are in, and I want to recc to others to click through to the link to the Sick Times interview you posted as well. Your explanation of why the US is lagging in research and treatments was eye opening. I really hadn't understood the profound distortions that for-profit medicine creates, and how we are a poorer, sicker nation for it.

RickiTarr, to random
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New Year has always been accompanied by complex feelings for me. Time has always felt like it was moving too fast, even as a child, and New Year is a stark reminder that another year has come and gone.

A lot of people use this moment to think about how they'd like to change, New Year, New You, but inevitably we are still ourselves. In the end though, I'm the worst person of all, an Optimist. I really believe that things can and do get better, and in the case, of New Year, New You, maybe the old you is pretty good already, and you just did the best you could last year, and you're gonna do your best this year too.

Our time is short, weird, wonderful, heartbreaking, and fascinating. I'm here for it, and I'm incredibly lucky to have this group of people to chat with, empathize with, and learn from. I'm ringing in the New Year with gratitude.

Anyway, as usual that was verbose, but please, tell me your thoughts on the New Year, Anything you want to talk about is fine!

SueSullivan,
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@RickiTarr I used to be addicted to the story of a future time and the idea of agency to make things better and shinier. Almost 6 decades of watching the future never arrive as dreamed and turn into the dreary now that I was always trying to escape, I am now pretty clear that unpacking every story about my past and the me I think I am, feels like the only sane path. And, it is slowly revealing the absolute beauty in this moment, and the unique perfection and utter uncontrollability of it.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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What was the BEST thing that happened to you in 2023?

Please reply and then boost the question. We hear so much negativity about this year. What is one positive thing that happened to you?

SueSullivan,
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@dancinyogi great question and thread 💝
DH and I built a 15x25 hoop house this spring in our suburban backyard & I had an amazing experience of easy, lush growing of flowers, fruits and veggies in it. I still have winter greens, beets, and carrots I have been harvesting from, and I'm excited to get a big jump on spring here, where the high plains meet the Rockies. We moved here from SoCal 16 years ago & this was a huge gift to myself. My growing season just flipped from 5 to 7 months or longer!

SueSullivan, to animals
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It took til the third gift offered for somebody to figure out that Christmas presents were for them too, and then he delicately sniffed around the entire tree for the ones that smelled like treats and toys.

The cinnamon colored chi-pom mix laying on a blue rug with both paws grasping a cloth chew toy shaped like a yellow donut, gently nibbling on the seam of it and gazing into the distance
Pom mix staring with an expression of mild concern at the camera, protectively holding a green donut toy with one paw on top and one underneath
Pom mix sleeping on a sheepskin with his nose nestled on a green donut toy (and laying against his favorite human's pajama-clad leg)

SueSullivan, to animals
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Wrap me like one of your french perfumes

SueSullivan, to animals
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hannu_ikonen, to random
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Petition to name denial and self-immolation in the form of cumulative viral damage to ones body, due to anti-masking and anti-vaxx bs:

"Folie à You Do You".

@beadsland

Referencing this of course.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux

SueSullivan,
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@hannu_ikonen @beadsland

Great nuance and helpful discussion. Thank you both. It feels right and true that what is happening now that seems like mulish denialism is short-circuited (and complex) grief. And likely unprocessed trauma of the fear and disruption and uncertainty of the early months of pandemic. Not having a collective comfort with grieving has left us with unprocessed losses of beloved humans and the "loss" of how these recent years should have been according to folks' life plans.

SueSullivan, to random
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Gift article. Virtually all the major pharmacy chains hand over detailed personal prescription info to police without a warrant and across state lines -- to cops in states that have criminalized abortion.

https://wapo.st/3RDnfko

Brandi_Buchman, to random
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I made it to 38.
That's about the level of enthusiasm I can muster this year. But I am grateful for good readers, responsible mentors & the opportunity to get up each day and try again. I am as old now as my mother was when she birthed me. I know she'd want me happy. I'll try!

SueSullivan,
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@Brandi_Buchman some years really really suck. I am so sorry this has been one of those years 4 you. (Some timelines suck. I am sorry for all of us that we're in a grindingly bad part of ours.)

I'm faintly remembering that you lost a life-shaping loved one recently, your Mom? Grief really hits again on the birthdays and holidays and death day in the first years.

Hang in there. Notice, if you can, small moments of lovely. Everything's constantly changing. That's a gift in the hard stretches 💓

seachanger, to random
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still masking 😷 at the grocery store?

true, your personal risk is relatively low.

but did you think of the staff who have to breathe every single patron’s air for the entire holiday season? they deserve clean and healthy air, and wearing a mask for 10 min in the store is not hard.

Covid still kills and I still believe we’re obligated to protect essential workers 🤷🏻

SueSullivan,
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@seachanger yes to all of this! And, contributing to a culture of taking small steps to reduce transmission of airborne illnesses across the board is building (badly needed) collective resiliency. (Plus, I just saw a post on here from someone working at a near-to-me Walmart who has been going into work w/o realizing they were coming down with so even well intentioned people can and are spreading this disease asymptomatically and pre symptomatically.)

themaskerscomic, to random
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San Francisco Bay Area's
death rate was among the lowest in the nation. Here's why

  • nation’s first regional stay-at-home order
  • long-lasting mask mandate.. for nearly two years
  • residents ..largely agreeable with the health orders

https://t.co/uyQlBE2vST

Thanks to @yaneerbaryam for sharing the info

SueSullivan,
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@themaskerscomic @yaneerbaryam
Yikes, they should all be suffering from massive immunity debt now, the poor people. /s

Brandi_Buchman, to random
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In the last six months so much has happened. My dad's birthday is this weekend and it is the first one since his death. I thought after six months it would be easier but with him, the opposite is true. His death brought a lot of bad stuff to the surface making an already difficult situation even more unsavory. Compound this with my lack of full time employment, total lack of health benefits and what we have is a perfect storm for anxiety and worsening depression.

SueSullivan,
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@Brandi_Buchman the first year or three's birthdays, death dates, and holidays are hard; the grief insists on coming up to be processed a bit more. If the relationship was complicated, there is a lot more to grieve, too.

In any moment, there is something peaceful to notice nearby, something sweet, something beautiful, and something that is supporting you in some way. I use those as touchstones to help pull back from emotions that feel too much as they are arising to be integrated and released.💓

Free_Press, to news
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Slow To Get Covid Shot!

So far, 12 million people, or about 3.6 percent of the population, have gotten the shot in the five weeks since it hit pharmacy shelves — though reporting lags mean it’s likely a bit higher, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/24/covid-flu-vaccine-cdc-director-mandy-cohen-00123268

SueSullivan,
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I am still waiting to get my shot.

I mask indoors away from home, I socialize out of doors only, I use Enovid spray before and after encounters that are more than a minute or two long (DH was infected in July by a pre-symptomatic person standing outside his cubicle having a conversation with someone else for five minutes. Unmasked office culture🤬)

I'll get my vax two weeks before Thanksgiving, in hopes it will provide max possible protection for several unmasked extended family celebrations.🫠

mekkaokereke, to random
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Hey, @blAnders , your messages aren't excessively bad, but I want to save us all some time. If you message me "followers only" or "only people mentioned" and talk out of pocket like this, I'm just going to screenshot it and make it public. So save us all some time and make the messages public to begin with. 👍🏿

I'm perfectly OK having this convo with you in public. No need to sneak diss. Say it with your whole chest.

Screenshot of text from a Mastodon message from user blAnders@infosec.exchange "@mekkaokereke stick to running your mouth in NY. You want to come walk farms in Cent Or South America with me, I'm game. Never occurred to you at any point that people showing up at our border ALWAYS only come from counties we supported a coup in or, publicly or privately invaded? Sq that with global warming. Cartels fill the void. Kid get held hostage too which is why they bring them. Their biggest crop destruction comes from a C-130, with dusters on wings. Keyboard warrior..."

SueSullivan,
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@mekkaokereke @blAnders
Thank you for modeling a healthy to way to engage with this pattern of behavior on social media, Mekka.

It's unpleasant and problematic for a number of reasons which i imagine you could elaborate better than I, and anyone who is tempted to argue with anyone else in this way would benefit from thinking through why it is problematic. Deconstructing our own unpleasant conditioning is always liberating for ourselves and those around us.

gbhnews, (edited ) to random
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🎃 And for the poll. has commenced.

Worst Halloween treat:

SueSullivan,
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@gbhnews great. Stuck in decisional paralysis on a Monday morning. I should have known better than to open mastodon this soon in the day....

Private
SueSullivan,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

The "keep your kids home for 3 days if they test positive" plan seems to be working as well as would be expected by anyone paying any attention to covid shedding dynamics. 🙄

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