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arisummerland

@arisummerland@mstdn.social

They/them, occasionally she

My biggest question: If we aren’t organized into human society to help everyone, what are we even doing?

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RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

arisummerland,
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@RickiTarr I need to bookmark this and send it to my neighbor who always "wonders" (out loud) why the ever-increasing number of houseless people in our town can't "just stay on a friend's couch or with family." 🙄

Add in the fact that for people receiving state food benefits, the minute they become houseless (if they report it), their benefits drop to almost zero. It is nonsensical AF.

Red states, amirite? 🤬

arisummerland, to random
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Putting this here so I can find it again.

TL;DR: fucks up the immune system and AGES your cells. Recovery of vital immune cells can take months, even years. Adults have a LIMITED ABILITY to create new immune cells bc our thymus is atrophied.

Your body does NOT develop immunity to new COVID strains, and “immunity debt” is a MADE-UP TERM that has absolutely NO BASIS in reality or how our immune systems actually work.

https://whn.global/scientific/covid19-immune-dysregulation/

arisummerland, to random
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Just a reminder:

“Never Again” means for EVERYBODY.

MEANING: THE ENTIRETY OF HUMANITY. Not just us Jews.

No exceptions. No exclusions. No “but what aboutism” either.

If we can’t live this, we have failed to learn our lessons from history.

Kindly unfollow if you disagree.


luckytran, to random
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The CDC is warning that hospitals may have to ration care because of the winter virus surge.

But it’s extraordinary to me that hospitals continue to refuse to require and provide N95 masks to prevent staff from getting sick (as well as to protect patients).

arisummerland,
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@luckytran If they don’t require masks, we can’t trace who gave our friends and family an infection when they entered the hospital for routine care or were admitted for something else. It’s all about the liability now. Not about saving lives or keeping people well.

arisummerland, to random
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You have the RIGHT to protect your own health at work.

The is still recommending masking! It’s not in the news because it’s not news anymore.

It’s not easy to stand up for yourself in a world that is hell-bent on giving you .

Whether you are at zero, one, or multiple infections, keep protecting yourself. Don’t give up on your health, and don’t give into bullies. The law is on your side.

as are many other nasty bugs.

https://www.okdoomer.io/under-assault-our-right-to-protect-our-health/

arisummerland, to random
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Y’all, I have been yelling about since before the election in 2016.

I woke up the day after day, blearily turned to my partner, and asked, “Did she win?”

I H⁸ the universe we ended up in.

My partner fell for the hook, line, and sinker. Divorce sucks!

Do you think people want to listen to me or believe an article like this now? I don’t.

We will be living in a fascist hellscape in about a year if we don’t KEEP YELLING AND DO SOMETHING!

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/05/americans-are-sleepwalking-into-a-dictatorship/

arisummerland, to acab
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2006 Rainbow Gathering in Colorado: My partner, dogs, and I were in a tent far from the main site.

We were awoken early on the morning of 4 July by armed and heavily-armored police, sweeping the forest in a line, moving down toward the main field.

A helicopter disrupted the entire day of silence. My partner had to go to court (for merely being present on the land) later that week.

I feel fiercely for these forest defenders.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/08/cop-city-activist-tortuguita-georgia-manuel-paez-teran?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

arisummerland, to random
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Found my guiding principles for 2024. 🤦🏽

Brad, to random
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I’m gonna go ahead and cross the line into the uncomfortable territory that they are actually killing people, and disabling them on purpose. For example Monica here recommends getting more pathogens to to hone or train your immune system to be able to fight them off even better. A subtle way of assuring people that the lockdowns caused this problem, not that other thing. To speed things up here’s a list of some pathogens you can all go out and get repeatedly to train your own immune system-/sarc

Ebola, Marburg, Rift Valley fever, Plague, Monkeypox, Lassa Fever, SARS, Tularaemia, MERS-CoV, Nipah, Legionellosis, Borreliosis, Melioidosis, etc) is a permanent threat to the health of populations around the world and a major challenge to global health security. https://www.who.int > groups > ed... Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network (EDPLN) :
Monica Gandhi MD, MPH @MonicaGandhi9 Why colds/flu seem to take longer to recover from this year- we didn't train our immune systems or hone them the past few years to fight pathogens so pathogens have more of an upper hand this year and seem to be taking longer to recover from Why you might feel sicker longer with this season's viru... From thehill.com 19:50 22/01/2024 27K Views

arisummerland,
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@Brad Her BS is straight up eugenics. I'm gonna say it. I'm not uncomfortable saying it.

She has no clue how the human immune system works. None.

People and sites who write and publish these sorts of things need to be deplatformed for complicity in murdering and disabling millions.

Which will never happen bc MuH InTeRnEtS FrEeDuMs. 🤮

Now I'm gonna go stomp back off into my Novid cave and grumble about other things.

Grumble grumble grumble. Stomp stomp stomp.

arisummerland, to random
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arisummerland, to workersrights
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Stop saying and spreading the lie that “nobody wants to anymore.”

Start calling it out for what it is: end stage .

Workers are run roughshod over by cost-cutting measures that allow CEOs to have yachts and fly private planes, while they sit or stand and bust their bodies and minds at jobs for 8+ hours a day, all the while worrying if they’re going to be able to keep the lights on and their families fed.

It’s no wonder Gen Z sees right through this and won’t acquiesce.

arisummerland, to Halloween
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Didn’t see the this morning. Ah well. At least it was and windy and cold today.

For those following along at home, today was Day 10 post possible exposure, and I am still negative. So I am going to move forward in the world assuming that I am in the clear.

Read: still masking and avoiding most people!

After doing some reading I’ve decided to find the vaccine this next round. It’s a strange reward for staying virus-free so far, but I’ll take it.

What I might’ve seen in the sky had it been clear. A screenshot from my sky viewing app showing Mars, mercury, the moon, and the sun all in a line, with the moon partially eclipsing the sun.

arisummerland, to random
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This. Is. Amazing.

It is a long read but very worth it, no matter who you are.

https://www.okdoomer.io/clinically-vulnerable-fans-of-david-tennant-have-offered-donmar-warehouse-a-free-hepa/

arisummerland, to random
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This is important — not just to people in , but to all of us in the US.

The is considering weakening control guidelines.

We are still in a .

Mitigation of like and is still crucial.

Public comment will be accepted in writing for six days via email, Nov 1-6, at:

HICPAC @ CDC.GOV

The meeting will be live-streamed Nov 2-3, 9-5 and 9-12 ET (written comment can be accepted after).

https://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/meeting.html

arisummerland, (edited ) to random
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If you have a or extra , iPad, or other cellular-connected and do NOT want someone else to find that device, turn it OFF on Wednesday. Just silencing it won’t work. Idk if airplane mode will do any good (I will test various devices, myself).

Since Xitter is so very broken, most people I’ve mentioned this to (a variety, including teachers!) have had no idea this is even happening this week. The press release was two months ago. 🙄

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023

arisummerland, to random
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"Every time you wear a mask or plug in an air purifier, you're doing counter memory. You're reminding people that masks and air purifiers don't symbolize danger or loss of freedom. They symbolize health and protection. They kept us safe. They keep us safe now."

https://www.okdoomer.io/collective-amnesia

arisummerland, to random
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I almost died out there yesterday because somebody needed chicken fingers RIGHT THE HELL NOW.

This big pickup crossed two travel lanes from the left then stopped sideways in front of me when they couldn't get into the right turn lane bc other cars were in it.

Glad my habits of careful driving and paying attention on the road paid off.

I drive with the assumption that everyone else is likely to do spectacularly stupid things, and, well, someone did.

It could have been really bad. ☹️

arisummerland,
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@isotope239 💯! It brings me back to the fact that nobody knows how to think ahead anymore. Nobody makes contingency plans or pays attention to alternate routes in case they miss their turn, nothing. Nobody thinks about how to map out their trip in their head in case there's an obstruction, construction, accident, or anything else that stops them from going the way they think they have to go. People who are unable to do those things shouldn't be out there driving cars.

arisummerland, to scifi
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One of my absolutely favorite short is "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster.

It reads as though it was written in the mid 20th century, but it was first published in 1909!

I reread or listen to it maybe every two years. This week, I listened to it as an for the first time.

There's always something I find in it that applies to life in the moment. This round, popped up for me.

Well worth the read/listen.

arisummerland, to kaiju
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@RamenCatholic Pluto TV again tonight! Didn’t want to pay $4 to rent it.

arisummerland, to random
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This. Toxic positivity is such an ugly force and it’s woven into our very warp these days. 😔

https://www.okdoomer.io/one-book-destroyed-western-civilization-no-its-not-the-bible/

arisummerland, to random
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I am with her.

arisummerland, to random
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Georgia peeps and beyond: peaceful action next weekend.

https://blockcopcity.org

Brad, to random
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“Basically: ORF6 is one of the proteins that the COVID virus makes, it plays a role in blocking our cellular response to recognize and fight the virus by effing with our interferons and other things we use to fight. I'll explain the broader concept:”-Dr. Raven - https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8sbBb7k/

arisummerland,
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@Brad I woke up this morning thinking to myself "this is like an airborne AIDS."

I know that could be misread as a gross oversimplification or a brush off; I do NOT wish to diminish how horrendous the HIV epidemic is and has been.

Both these viri can exist and be devastating at the same time.

Like HIV, COVID-19 is dysregulating T cells, the effects of which may be long-term.

I haven't looked into what it does to B memory cells yet.

It's really scary, but nobody is scared.

PacificNic, to random
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How much longer can they really keep this bullshit going? Everything is falling apart at the seams.

arisummerland,
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@PacificNic The rampant culture of toxic positivity forbids talking about or looking at the seams bursting, though, for fear of attracting “negative energy”. 🙄

We can’t positive-think the pandemic, climate change, or fascism away. We need to grieve what we are losing, but we are terrible at grieving. Then, we need to dry our eyes and take action, but not desperately scrabble for a “normal” that will never be again.

It’s human to cling to what we know even if it’s terrible.

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