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maggiejk

@maggiejk@zeroes.ca

Animal lover, anti-fascist, beach goer.Marijuana is Medicine. #BLM, #M4A, #ANTIFA #Childfree by choice. #CovidZERO #MECFS #atheist
VERY ANTI-PATRIARCHY
Rooting for the Orcas
Down for some Degrowth

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hosford42, to random
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If someone who commits murder lives on your block, are you a murderer?

If a terrorist organization is based in your country, are you a terrorist?

This idea that all of Palestine is responsible for the actions of Hamas is nothing but an excuse for genocide. It is no more valid of an argument than the idea that all of Israel is responsible for the actions being taken against innocent Palestinians. We have to stop grouping everyone together and identify those individuals who are actually contributing to the horrors if we ever want the pendulum of hate to stop swinging.

What matters are your deeds, not who you're lumped in with.

maggiejk,
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@hosford42 yep when my friend was telling me that if someone came for her family she would come for them (to justify the genocide), I told her that if I came for her family and she burned this whole apartment building down just because I live in one of the units she would be the bad guy and she would go to jail. It would be completely unjustified. She shut up after that

maggiejk, to Tennessee
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“And so, the same state that questioned Mayron’s fitness to care for her four children forced her to continue a pregnancy that risked her life to have a fifth, one that would require more intensive care than any of the others.”

https://projects.propublica.org/the-year-after-a-denied-abortion/

maggiejk,
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“No states that banned abortion offer paid parental leave.”

A photo of the Mom from the article holding her two babies at one time as she’s sitting on the floor. Text over the photo says “The new financial needs were crushing.”

maggiejk,
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“None of this is my fault but I’ve got to deal with it all. I try not to be resentful with my wife.” REALLY DUDE?? YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MAKING ALL THESE BABIES??

Text says this all broke me he wrote as his reason for admission after recounting the advance of the past year. “None of this is my fault but I’ve got to deal with it all. I try not to be resentful with my wife. I have trouble paying attention to my family. I space out.”

Rasta, to animals
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Poor little guy, he's barely gotten any sleep today since he woke up an hour ago.

.. and we're all in the same room!
(I'm unable to get back to my office PC or it will disrupt the universe. 4 times in 3 years, both cats are here)

maggiejk,
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@Rasta I want to pet that belly!!

maggiejk, to random
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You know what they actually do that I seriously object to though?

If you apply for Medicaid or food stamps or anything through the DHHS office, and you deduct medical expenses from your income, if you give them a list of medications that you paid for, they demand to see the names of the medications.

This last year I tried to cross off the names, but I left the first two or three letters and the last two or three letters, because what they tell me is that they need to see that it’s a chronic medication and not just a one off for a sinus infection or something. And they can see that because of the length of the name and the six exposed letters, and my god if I had another medication that fit that exactly pattern let me have credit for the $3.45, come on.

It makes even less sense now that we can deduct over-the-counter items as long as our doctor says they are medically necessary. So I would get a deduction for what I paid for Mucinex if I had a sinus infection but I can’t deduct the antibiotics I would take for that sinus infection.

It’s really just an excuse for the state to have a list of all the medications I take. And my address in case one of their employees feels like doing a home invasion. But if I don’t, I don’t qualify for , or I don’t qualify for much of it anyway.

From: @br00t4c
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/111983389365930016

maggiejk, to random
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I just wanted to take a moment to remember Ahmaud Arbery, who was murdered 4 years ago today at the age of 25 while simply jogging through a neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon.

His death shook me more than George Floyd, I’m kind of used to the police murdering people. I’m was NOT used to inbred hillbillies murdering people in the middle of the afternoon in residential neighborhoods, and then the police not bothering to arrest them for months.

maggiejk,
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@ralf oh absolutely and it’s hilarious when they pretend they don’t understand why women don’t want to date them. It takes a certain type of personality to sign up for that and I am not interested.

Do you know of Christopher Dorner? I lived in Torrance when they were hunting him and they were shooting at everybody driving a truck like his, it was crazy.

They made him look like an absolute psychopath before they killed him, but his crime was that he reported a fellow officer for excessive force, basically abusing a disabled person or someone having a mental health issue. They ruined his life and he did go a little crazy, but I don’t blame him. They ruined his life.

maggiejk,
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@ralf I was talking to a friend in Greece right after there were protests there, I think the protests were because migrants drowned, but I can’t remember. Anyway, the riot police had to come, and I asked him how many people they shot. He was so confused, he said they don’t have guns, if they brought guns someone might get hurt. I said not even rubber bullets? He laughed at me some more
I guess the regular cops have guns but I don’t know I just thought his shock and confusion was delightful.

maggiejk, to random
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“Gaza’s health crisis is so extreme, that thousands may still die even with a ceasefire today”

https://gaza-projections.org/?utm_source=Public+Health+Updates&utm_campaign=6f38ab324c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_23_04_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-6f38ab324c-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

maggiejk, to random
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Long Covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/02/21/long-covid-is-not-the-only-chronic-condition-triggered-by-infection

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
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No being a dickhead in public.

maggiejk,
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon oh I thought it was advising against smelling your own farts. 😂

gemelliz, to ontario
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Hey 🇨🇦​
Make sure your vaccines are up to date if you're travelling to 🇺🇸​ for March Break.

Florida is 'lettin' it rip'

Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected. The virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed.

maggiejk,
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@gemelliz the only good thing about this measles stuff going around right now is that next time my doctor tries to get me to take off my mask in an exam room I can tell them no, because I don’t want measles. When I tell them I don’t want Covid they talk about how people come in and wipe down stuff in the room in between patients. But they should understand measles right?

BigAngBlack, to oregon
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It took years and years for this crisis to build. It takes the same to fix it. And a lot of work, not theatre, real work

How Oregon turned on its own trailblazing law: ‘not the utopia we were promised’ | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/oregon-drug-law-measure-110-backlash

> Three years ago, the state began a novel social experiment that put treatment over punishment – then came the backlash

Other western states such as California and Washington are also overwhelmed by a devastating fentanyl crisis, the study’s authors point out, and have seen similar trends in overdose and addiction without passing a sweeping decriminalisation law like Oregon’s.
“Please address drug addiction and homelessness,” Sandy Chung, executive director of the state’s ACLU chapter, asked legislators. “But do so with real solutions, not political theater.” Fentanyl, she pointed out, is also available in prisons. Punishing people with jail time, she argued, will not force them into recovery.
Oregonians are, understandably, she says, growing weary of homelessness and the fentanyl crisis. “I know there are a lot of people that really hope they just, like, lock everyone up and throw away the key,” she says. “I think people who just want it to be different and just don’t want to see it any more.”

maggiejk,
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@BigAngBlack When I was a CASA we took a field trip to the courthouse in Laconia, NH because they had recently implemented drug court, it was fashioned after the way that family law cases are handled when drugs and alcohol are involved. The judge was kind and compassionate but also no nonsense. I hope he’s still around this was six years ago now. But it looks like we still have drug court, and hopefully it’s expanded beyond Belknap county. This handbook is from 2021, sourced today, I’m glad it’s still happening. It helps get people into treatment instead of Jail.

https://www.courts.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt471/files/documents/2021-07/drug-court-policy-procedure.pdf

maggiejk, to random
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You guys, this is terrifying. I’m freaked out that nobody seems to be talking about this except for people who are actually homeless.
“In April, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a major case that could reshape how cities manage homelessness. The legal issue is whether they can fine or arrest people for sleeping outside if there's no shelter available. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has deemed this cruel and unusual punishment, and this case is a pivotal challenge to that ruling.”
https://www.nhpr.org/national/2024-02-20/how-far-can-cities-go-to-clear-homeless-camps-the-u-s-supreme-court-will-decide

I hope y’all realize that this could happen to anyone. I never thought I would end up homeless I started working at 14 & I worked multiple jobs at a time most years, I had careers, I went to college and got a degree, I had savings. Then I became disabled in an accident I didn’t cause. It kicked in MECFS too. I didn’t have three years worth of savings, which is how long it took for the SSA to approve disability for me. Three years. So of course I ended up homeless.
But even once I started getting disability payments, and even with a large lump sum from all the backpay they owed me, it was still a struggle to get housing because my disability check wasn’t 3 1/2 times any rent anywhere. I also had a part-time job so my averaging income was four dollars more than the minimum wage here but it still wasn’t enough to qualify to even apply for an $825 one bedroom apartment.
The only reason I’m not homeless anymore is because I finally got to the top of the section 8 waitlist, it took five years. I moved up quicker because I was homeless and because I had a job in the city I was applying in, but it still took five years.

maggiejk,
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@ned It’s like extortion, plead guilty because you’ll be out quicker than if you go to trial.

PhilGastwirth, to ADHD
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If you live in the USA and have been having trouble getting your meds, please consider filling this out.

It appears the government is going to be meeting with FDA about this and want people to comment.
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FTC-2024-0018-0001

maggiejk,
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@PhilGastwirth Is this even the problem though:
“FTC and HHS are seeking public comment in an Request for Information (RFI) regarding market concentration among large health care GPOs and drug wholesalers, as well as information detailing their contracting practices. The RFI’s purpose is to provide the agencies with an understanding of how the practices of two pharmaceutical drug middlemen groups—group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and drug wholesalers—may be contributing to generic drug shortages.”

From what I understand, the problem is that the Biden administration gave the drug manufacturers the same exact amount of active ingredient they were given the year before, which wasn’t enough because we had a shortage that year as well. Lots of people claimed it was over prescribing by online platforms that caused it, but I don’t believe online platforms were prescribing to people they shouldn’t be in massive volumes. It’s more likely people were finally getting care because they could do telemedicine.

But I also suspect part of the problem is that they haven’t increased the allotment of active ingredient to the manufacturer, and a lot of the long Covid symptoms are things like fatigue and pain that are being treated with stimulants and pain medication.

I guess before I can comment I have to go research how these wholesalers are causing the problem. Are they not purchasing the medication from the factories?

Do you know why the wholesalers lack of competition would create a shortage at my local pharmacy?

maggiejk, to random
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“It's possible that some excess deaths not counted as COVID were due to "indirect"
impacts of the pandemic such as overstrained hospitals or people delaying needed health care. The study looked at the timing of non-COVID excess deaths across regions and counties in the US and found that they mostly moved in sync with spikes in official COVID deaths (happening just before or during COVID waves). This pattern strongly suggests that these deaths were under recognized COVID deaths.
The study found that undercounted COVID deaths were more common in non-
Metropolitan counties of the US”

https://thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/did-we-overcount-covid-deaths

maggiejk, to Massachusetts
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Oh look- more “they will be held accountable in 2024” coming true. Maybe.
Bailing out a critical chain should come with some for the financial operators who put them in that position.
https://prospect.org/health/2024-02-20-dealing-with-bad-stewards/

Daojoan, to random
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The creator economy can't rely on Patreon.

Direct funding is the ultimate goal for creators. Myself included. But the numbers just don't add up. And we have to be realistic about it.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-creator-economy-cant-rely-on-patreon

maggiejk,
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@thisismissem @Daojoan oh this makes sense, like I’m not sure I would continue donating to this server if I had to give them my home address. I think they’re fine, but I’m not out to doxx myself either.

maggiejk, to random
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This is a hard read, but you should read it.

Why aren’t the pharmaceutical corporations that make these products lobbying against this? Do the corporations that make IUDs want to shut down? Maybe they should DO SOMETHING.

https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-anti-abortion-blueprint

seachanger, to random
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my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.

what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes

maggiejk,
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@seachanger I clicked on a YouTube video this morning that was supposed to be an interview with this random dude from a TV show. Anyway, it turned out he sent his AI avatar to do the interview with the lady and it was so lame, she would type questions and half the questions it would answer as too personal or not programmed yet. I noped out after like two minutes.

But the audacity of this dude to think he’s so busy and important that someone would want to interview AI Dylan, I certainly hope this lady didn’t pay for it because it was pathetic.

maggiejk, to random
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For real though. I remember trying to apply for food stamps when I was newly disabled, and I cried on the phone to the lady and I asked her how people who are too disabled to work even gather all this paperwork and organize it. She told me most people have someone to help them.

I laughed and I asked her if she sure about that because none of the disabled people I was close with had anyone to help them either.

The most terrifying part though was when I finally finally was scheduled for a disability appeal, it was in another state of course, and I was too sick to even drive there. My Attorney had to pick me up, after fighting for a hearing for three years I almost defaulted because I was too disabled to travel to another state.

From: @metacat
https://glammr.us/@metacat/111959042173942342

Brad, to random
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The world economy never recovered from Covid. - “Britain sank into recession this week. So did Japan, with its decline so bad that it lost its spot as the world’s No. 3 economy.”

“It is increasingly apparent that the world economy is showing some of the chronic weakness we associate with long COVID. It appears the pandemic left some deep wounds in the economy – something few economists saw coming.” - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-global-economy-covid-19-pandemic/

maggiejk,
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@inquiline @_L1vY_ @sidereal @Brad This is happening everywhere around me. I think we have a couple 24 hour pharmacies left in the state that are open, but there are no pharmacies around me open on Sundays anymore.

The pharmacist shortage hit New Hampshire pretty early on, I remember a couple years ago the Pharmacy I used just closed for months suddenly. The pharmacist gave birth and there was no one to replace her so they just had to shut down for her maternity leave.

TonyStark, to random
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“The fantasy that Democrats will simply swap out Biden is based on the notion that voters don’t control the party, that there’s some secret cabal that pulls the strings. But as Biden noted earlier this month, upon winning the 2024 South Carolina primary with more than 95% of the vote: “In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the presidency.” Yes, voters picked Biden.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/joe-biden-hur-report-media-2024

maggiejk,
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@TonyStark @philip_cardella @nomdeb she is covered so little I actually forget she exists. I really only think of her when I see someone post about her because that’s the only time I ever see or hear her name.

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