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beadsland

@beadsland@disabled.social

Maker & abolitionist; critic of pandemic apologism & the ableism of the Left.

Muckraking dataviz & generativist #lumpentheory.

Intricate words fulfill me:
Anticipate jargon here.

Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.

they/them/gonzo/whatever

Masks are empathy fashion.
Own it—make it yours.

If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡 ass to someone else's mentions.

#CovidCautious
#Disability #CripTheory 🗡🥄

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beadsland, to random
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Estimated 28.5 million dead thus far during our ongoing pandemic (per Economist models)—including the near three quarter million dead in just the last 3 months—places it third among modern (through 20th century) epidemics:

⒈ 1918 Flu: est. 17-100 million

⒉ HIV/AIDS: 43 million to date (over 40+ years)

⒊ Covid-19: 28.5 million to date (over 4+ years)

⒋ Third Plague (Bubonic): 12-15 million (over 100+ years)

⒌ 1968 Flu: 1-4 million

⒍ 1957 Flu: 1-4 million

⒎ 1918 Russian Typhus: 2-3 million

beadsland, to random
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Seeing a lot of "bad politics are due to covid brain damage" discourse today, including from those would want to believe ought know better.

Please stop.

The seeds for the orchard that is our current moment were planted well before even the SARS outbreak of 2002, like decades, if not centuries, before.

When our politics is fascists saying we have to support fascism to defeat the other fascists, please don't try to make sense of health supremacism by resorting to ableism.

It's not a good look.

beadsland, to punk
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Razorcake Webcomic by Silas Haglund

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beadsland, to random
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OMFG!

Did I just see news that CDC not only acknowledged the "widespread recognition" of aerosol transmission, but actually told HICPAC—however bureaucratically—where to put their recommendation to weaken infection control procedures‽?!

Did we actually win a victory? However small?

Next you'll be telling me that HICPAC will be getting actual scientists and engineers to round out its membership...

"Hope is a discipline," Mariame Kaba tells us. It takes consistent work.

We're doing that work.

beadsland,
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CDC talking to HICPAC of "widespread recognition" of "transmission by air" is what am talking about when speak of opposing fascism the other one-thousand four-hundred sixty days.

Only happened because folk actively did the work—not of pulling a lever for the guy whose CDC it is—but of demanding that HICPAC advice to weaken infection control procedures be rejected.

Not only was it rejected, but the CDC was forced to say WHY it was rejected.

Your. Ballot. Doesn't. Do. This. Work.

Only you can.

beadsland, to solarpunk
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Are you or and wanting to find folk to connect with?

is a voice-oriented / Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.

https://discord.gg/eGyvxqYC

Join us for chore hangs, parallel play, and otherwise keeping one another company hands-free while engaged in daily activities.

Planting a seed. With hope, it grows.

beadsland, to poetry
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Too many think
The immune system
Is like a muscle,

When it's really
Like a telomere

Or a yellow,
No. 2 pencil:

Senescence ain't
Need for exercise,

But is rather
A wearing… away.

Original: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/111020763066982323

beadsland, to random
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Just imagine how many avian influenza cases would be detected if there were a proactive farm worker testing effort.

beadsland, to solarpunk
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Are you or and wanting to find folk to connect with?

Voices of Solaria is a voice-oriented / Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.

https://discord.gg/EkMEkmgx

Join us for chore hangs, parallel play, and otherwise keeping one another company hands-free while engaged in daily activities.

Planting a seed. With hope, it grows.

beadsland, to random
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Big sign on the wall:

"The purpose of a system is what it does."
~ Stafford Beer

A system that generates misery is a system to generate misery.

Now, why would anyone want to generate misery?

Well, for starters, miserable people make for a great base upon which to build one's power.

In other news, where'd all these fascists come from?

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beadsland, to random
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Racists ain't "stupid".

They just like power.

Racists don't do "stupid" things.

They just like power.

Intellectual ableism is also a power trip.

beadsland, to random
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Listening in, as my roommate participates in virtual seder hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace, as organizers, each introducing themselves by describing their physical appearance for blind participants, reminisce about struggling only years ago to figure out virtual community, as context for acknowledgement that covid is not over, that it still is not safe, then turn the mic over to the sign language interpreters, to likewise describe and introduce themselves.

This is what solidarity sounds like.

beadsland, to random
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Just had occasion to walk through the single block Chelsea campus of FIT.

In addition to the usual heavy presence of campus security, there were easily a dozen NYPD standing around. Plus a police wagon parked on the corner, lights idly flashing.

Those in authority really are fucking terrified of students.

beadsland, to random
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Sitting with the fact that cattle industry has more power over whether humans in their employ get tested for than authorities do.

Hence preparing to launch wastewater dashboard for tracking spring and summer influenza surveillance...

To address absence of testing. Taking a page out of the handbook of better too-late-to-be-actionable data than no data.

Statistics, as always, are structural.

beadsland, to random
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What's staggering about NASA getting Voyager 1 to resume sending data...

Is that we don't write software like that anymore.

beadsland, to Astronomy
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"Grief is love that doesn't have anywhere to go."

Dr. Fatima Abdurrahman has a new video essay. Clear space for this one.

Mourning is a place of power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7hK5_Rj--8

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beadsland, to random
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Was encouraging to see greater faculty solidarity with student protesters following police action.

Now encouraging to see news of student protests for other grievances, in parallel with pro-Palestine protests.

News that those protests are also being met with force? Yep, that's the way solidarity on a mass scale happens.

Those in power escalate their overreaction so much that disparate groups come together in common cause.

The more protests, for the more reasons, the more police are stressed.

beadsland, to random
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An friend of mine is looking for a boom-headset that addresses their sensory issues, including the feeling of ears getting too hot while wearing.

Have found one brand that says it addresses sensitivity to touch or pressure, but otherwise everything seems to be geared toward noise suppression without reference to other sensory modalities.

Basically, friend is looking to upgrade beyond earpods to something that won't immediately be icky to wear.

beadsland, to climate
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"The single-point focus on global temperatures as a proxy of human welfare in the face of climate change has structured the latter's science and politics. What has been erased in the process are the effects of changing climate on regional and local phenomena, such as the Indian monsoon, which are better captured through everyday life experiences. These experiences are arguably much more important in mobilising societal action than global proxies."

https://www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/we-need-talk-about-climatism

beadsland, to random
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There's no surer proof that logic ain't work like folk desperately want to believe it does⋯

Than a liberal confidently opining on how ableism and health supremacism must be down to something wrong with people's brains. 👀

beadsland, to random
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"I think the missing item here, the thing that they really want us to forget…true object of all this forgetting, is the George Floyd Uprising.

"They want us to forget that, a mere four years ago, the president of the United States cowered in a bunker underneath the White House as rioters shook the gates and destroyed the guardhouse….They want us to forget what it felt like to take the streets with one another, they want us to forget that we fought the police and won…"

https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been-told-to-forget/

beadsland, to random
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For anyone who may have missed the memo:

That anti-disability law is also an anti-sedition law…

Coming soon to a state legislature near you…

Just as those anti-homeless laws are also anti-protest laws.

Beginning to see a pattern?

beadsland, to random
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Sitting with the realization that many now use the phrase "the pandemic" in the same way that the term "capitalism" is bandied about:

As a hauntological signification, naming not an object in the world, with a history and a consequence, but rather gesturing over one's shoulder to the vague vicinity wherein spectres of that which one is unprepared to speak, unequipped to name, are commonly said to have been sighted.

beadsland,
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Sitting now with the further realization that "a cold" has always been hauntological:

Referring not to any of hundreds of infectious types, but rather to the unwelcome unease of one's unwilling awareness of an inescapably bodily response to the unseen.

Not a disease but a discomfiture, a preference for absence of awareness of that which is absent from awareness.

18+ beadsland, to random
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NCHS estimates of —based on Household Pulse Survey—resume after three month hiatus.

Gap in data collection makes jump hard to interpret. New data scheduled Mar 21.

As more & more folk experience Long Covid, fewer & fewer have been staffing our hospitals.

This is first toot of weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing [.]

Last week: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112000089556619410

beadsland,
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Here's hoping—as CDC goes full doublespeak, Texas wildfires burn, vehicles stranded in Donner Pass, free test program suspended, National Guard deployed in NYC subway, Mexico City near out of water, U.S. to build a pier, starving folk killed by faulty parachutes dropping expired, non-halal condiments, TB rising in San Deigo, Strep A in N.B.—that all those reading this are having a week wherein they and theirs are putting health and welfare of those they love—and share air with—first & foremost.

beadsland, to random
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No choice ever happens in a vacuum.

Every decision that has ever been made emerges of a history that long predates that decision ever being available, indeed ever being imaginable.

To posit that if folk were just given the right information—were somehow lifted from ignominious ignorance—they would come to correct and righteous choices, is to engage in fatuous Platonism.

When someone chooses harm, ain't because they don't know any better. They've already a whole lived life that got them here.

beadsland,
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Stafford Beer tells us "The purpose of a system is what it does."

To say "This system makes fascists" is to speak to such purpose. Fascism is a choice, a choice that is made, and daily remade, in response to a system of incentives and sanctions one has been habituated to.

So long as those incentives and sanctions remain unchecked, indeed continue to be intensified, the result is determined: More folk choosing more fascism.

This is by design.

Unchallenged, continuing to intensify.

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