trashcaster

Binder, 26 days ago to random

Keith is short for Keither.

trashcaster, 1 month ago to random

"How much longer are you going to do this?"

I don't delude myself with the fantasy that I've never been infected- there is some very doable math that suggests otherwise- but I'm aiming for however many years of decently-abled living I have left, and I don't intend to shorten that any further.

I'm not gonna stop doing this and I'll fight for my right to do it, because I don't have another option. None of us really do, but a depressingly-small amount actually realize it.

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID

currentbias, 2 months ago to random

Behold, the mass melting of blood-brain barriers
It's Brave New World, 'cause they've never been merrier
Contagion camaraderie's gotten much scarier
To those who don't want to be good little carriers

#CovidIsNotOver #verse #micropoem

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

I'm not here to hold hands. I'm not here for comfort. In fact, my goal is to introduce folks to an amount of existential discomfort; to overwhelm them, so that they have no choice but to stop pretending and spend the energy to protect themselves, maybe even others.

I'm not here to help you roleplay like the world is in an even semi-functional place. Twenty shoes are dropping at once.

There is a lot to do, but it starts with safety and a caring community. That's Step 0.

#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

"They all wanna blame my drinking. I've been drinking since I was sixteen so that isn't the problem." - An actual sentence from an actual dude. 🎊

I must have just overlooked the settled science around regularly-imbibing poison during adolescence, and persisting in the habit for more than fifteen years, and how that makes you stronger over time instead of wrecking your health. /s

#Covid accelerates countless health issues in a number of ways too. Some people are coping extremely hard out here.

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

I lose followers every time I talk about how Over this may already be, how #LongCovid is a spectrum that I am actionably-certain we are on if we have ever had an infection, symptomatic or not. I don't delude myself with the wishful thinking that we can clear this from our bodies.

To those in denial; I wish I was wrong, I wish the air we share was as safe as we are told it is, and I wish you luck.

I hope you don't hurt anyone else while our pyramid scam of a society helps you hurt yourselves.

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

I'm saying if you actually give a shit to live as full a life as you can, there is no minimum amount of #COVID that is okay to expose yourself to. The nature of the bug is to establish itself and persist. We are already being perforated by prior infections as a population. We are seeing the effects of immunocompromisation on a societal scale with the resurgence of diseases which we can no longer fight off under the burden of this compromisation. Illness in general should be avoided at all costs.

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

One thing even careful people still struggle with is how all-or-nothing #COVID really is. You can try to gather outdoors and it'd be miles better than some stuffy classroom or business, but it's still airborne. A stable virion entering your body and establishing itself is all it takes.

You can limit the time you spend in less safe places- that is objectively safer- but this isn't actually a problem of time so much as the actual covid in the air, and whether it can actually get inside of you.

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

If you want to quickly find out who around you actually has the capacity to give a shit about themselves or others, simply refuse to role play as if we live in a functional society that has any of our best interests at heart.

The betrayal some will feel when you assert the reality of this situation; the restless anger that will turn on you the moment you stop lying for everyone- the moment you vocally assert the contrary to the fairy-tale notion that "everything will be okay".

trashcaster, 2 months ago to 13thFloor

You sprinted by- but it was there again now! Waiting for you! The print was curling away from the walls!

You could watch it happen if you'd only found the calm or exhaustion to stand still and stare a moment. Every soft spiral of brittle, floral-patterned paper shearing from its anchor, leaving tracks that twisted back toward their patient nexus like the star-churning limbs of some cosmic amalgam.

[-Non-human. Lexical insights gleaned via shamanic mind-twinning. 🧵1/9]

#TheHallsCareen
#fiction

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

#cdcsays absolutely nothing, ideally, because at several points it is clear that it could have endangered us less by remaining entirely silent.

douglaspynn, 2 months ago to random

#thecdcsays #cdcsays

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

I just want to play my idiot games for a couple hours. Cut the standard hedge maze down to a single topiary for a while and just Do Less.

Nothing dysregulates my autistic ass faster than devices suddenly refusing to accept input, or going dark. No feedback, no responsiveness. 😂

I am suddenly reformed, forced back into meatspace, staring into the dead-pixeled black mirror of some monolithic slab; the utilitarian nihilism of our times writ large in the murky dissatisfaction of my own reflection.

trashcaster, 2 months ago to random

One would rather be one of those that are at the behest of what they'd Rather It Be, than be one of these that are beholden to the burden of the Actuality Of It, I suppose.

One would rather harbor a garden of burgeoning falsities than assess the necessary accessories, the exocortices; that restlessness of matter and mind that may afford respite within tomorrow's floods that threaten ever-looming.

I hang, lazy and self-assured from the soma tree, vileforked-tongue-drips-truth; I'm ever-dooming.

trashcaster, 3 months ago to random

It's a small hell to smile and nod for people who don't see their own victimhood in an escalating class war.

"My memory just isn't what it used to be."

I hear ✨many✨ people saying this. I want to tell them it's likely a brain injury from the repeated covid infections they were manipulated into accepting, but that's terminally none of my business; my confidence in that reality at a societal scale doesn't give me any cover to assert it to them. It's taken quite aggressively.

Wish covid was too.

trashcaster, 3 months ago to random

I know that dog, dude. If he barked at you, you gotta be pretty fucked up spiritually.

trashcaster, 3 months ago to random

Had a guy and his son come through and make a scene about my mask, telling me to speak up. I did. They started hostile and I didn't wear the kid gloves for them, so they left in a bigoted huff.

My next customer was literally deaf. I downloaded a screen mirroring app to help us talk and spent half an hour narrowing their purchase down to the parameters they needed, making sure they got what they were looking for.

I can speak to anyone through this respirator, but I was never fluent in Asshole.

trashcaster, 3 months ago to random

Respect yourselves. Stop letting people tell you that the reason kids sleep twelve hours and can't remember breakfast is from missing a few months of school years ago, and not from sitting in rooms full of filthy air, cycling a degenerative plague back and forth for years after.

"immunity debt"
"desocialized"

You should be livid that you were ever expected to believe such bald-faced bullshit. You should be livid for the life they stole from all of us, and especially, from your very sick kids.

trashcaster, 3 months ago to random

I got a cane last time I hurt my knee. When I hurt it again carrying in stuff from the move, we reconnected, and amidst winter's kind caresses, we've been inseparable ever since.

Customers are getting asky. I guess this looks more fun than it is. I'm "not old enough." I just tell them that there are twenty-four new stairs in my life, with-which I must negotiate regularly.

Can always count on Americans to get vocally-curious about private issues sooner than later, long as no one mentions covid.

trashcaster, 3 months ago to random

Sell me another fake world.

Something that pretends to care.

Something that plays at having a point.

Sear it into the transistors; burn every pixel; keep it bright, clear and loud, in the viewfinder of my black box.

I huddle by the HEPA, recede into the cursed, technicolor tarot of this looking glass while the trees gnarl outside and the windows slicken prismatic from their edges inward.

That steadily-shrinking iris of clarity, imprisoned by a rainbow-relentless perimeter of swelling grime.

trashcaster, 3 months ago to random

A lot of folks didn't just cut ties with family; some of us are cutting ties with society. We looked for abusive patterns in our life and history; refused the myths pushed on us about the necessity of our abuse on an interpersonal, and indeed, global scale.

"Escapism" they call it- when we try to render better worlds- and they are infinitely-generous to that shameful mirror of a term. They never fail to leave wholly-unexamined the horrifying artifice surrounding us; This thing we try to escape.

trashcaster, 4 months ago to random

If someone tells you Americans have "decided" something "as a country", maybe stop listening to them. That isn't how countries work and it's certainly not how America works.