Since I have lots of new followers today, I think it's time to finally update my #introduction post!
My name is Borealis, but most online know me as the LiteralGrill! You can call me Allie or Grill for short. I'm trans and an Ursa, think of a gay bear but in a femme form. She/Her pronouns please!
I actively fight for disability justice and will discuss that here as much as I'll share my love for anime and manga (maybe a little more tbh). I often write essays analyzing media or discussing anime history and you'll find a surprising number of times that those two topics intertwine in my works.
I tend to dig old media formats in general and love weird retro tech! I still avidly enjoy my growing VHS and LaserDisc collections. I have quite the board game collection too with some real oddities in there.
While I am a big supporter of content warnings and you'll see me use them often, you won't find them on educational posts or on anything discussing the realities of my life as a disabled trans person. I will however, always make sure these posts have appropriate hashtags so you can filter them out of your feed. If you need to protect your peace by not following or blocking me, I take no offense and completely understand. I hope you'll understand that not censoring the realities of my life from the world is part of how I protect mine.
I'm often stuck inside as an immunocompromised person in an ongoing pandemic (COVID isn't over and I take it seriously) so I'll rarely turn down a good conversation! Or if you just want to hear me info dump on obscure trivia of some kind that I'm researching for my next big article.
Before I forget... Yes, I'm that bonkers grill that watched Groundhog Day 365 days in a row! So expect my knowledge of time loops to be oddly all encompassing.
Welcome to my little corner of the Fediverse, I hope you'll like it here!
#VoicesOfSolaria is a voice-oriented #cripplepunk / #solarpunk Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.
#VoicesOfSolaria is a voice-oriented #cripplepunk / #solarpunk Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.
Anybody have some handy links on why exclusively in-person events are ableist, especially during a pandemic? I don't have the spoons to write or compile.
(Side note: I hate the "spoons" metaphor, but sometimes I don't have the spoons for the extra three syllables in "capacity," and today is one of those days.)
#VoicesOfSolaria is a voice-oriented #cripplepunk / #solarpunk Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.
Voices of Solaria is a voice-oriented #cripplepunk / #solarpunk Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.
Have been thinking about launching a voice-oriented discord for covid-cautious folk to come together for parallel play and chore hangs. Yet am trepidatious.
Wanting a space for companionship and mutual support, that affords space for commiseration without being dominated by it; yet avoids traps of self-satisfied superiority that seems all too common. Not sure how to pull that all off.
Suddenly realizing, this is why younger me left UU community: alienated by camaraderie around unhealed trauma.
#Etiquette question for my #COVIDSafe community: If I take the risk of going to a potluck event, is it rude not to bring food, when I won't be unmasking to partake of anyone else's?
Calgary Herald
December 7, 2023
By Joe Vipond, Julia M. Wright, Dan Furst
“It’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course. The COVID-is-mild experiment, despite the wishing and the hoping, has been a tragic failure.”
We are looking for contributions for a new zine trying to document what it feels like to still be #COVIDing, pushed into social isolation, while just about everyone else has normalized #COVID19. Whether out of caution or because of pre-existing conditions, disabilities, #LongCOVID, we think it is important to communicate how the current situation affects many of us living under the neoliberal system of individualised responsibility.
The Wimmelbild shows scenes of how we have been failed during the ongoing pandemic, in the absurd nation state where we are forced to live, in a country that wants us dead. And there are probably lots of international similarities.
This drawing was made by @fr3nzin3 for our new zine.
@MichRVer shared a $1/ea (min 25) rapid test sale! Thank you!! I've never used this brand and have no idea if it's showing current variants well but probably still worth it as test costs is a barrier for many right now. It may be worth stocking up to give ones to friends and family or local mutual aid groups / mask blocs https://zeroes.ca/@MichRVer/111037916984984474
I am still a fediverse newbie myself but links.zeroes.ca has some great resources, including apps and web versions (I like Moshidon on android, Ice Cubes on ios and Elk.zone on web myself) since the official clients can feel a bit... meh? (coming from Twitter, especially), so give it a look!
@sabrina Saw FlowFlex #covid19 rapid tests recommended and wondering if you know more about them? Worth ordering some over the free rapid tests still available at #nslibraries?
Should note the nature of their straps makes them more of a one time use than Blox or Gerson duckbills (which I personally can reuse a few times but ymmv) but still a good deal!