“The philosophy that leads to AI is the same philosophy as 19th Century imperialism and colonialism,”- Kieron Gillen joins me to talk about the end of the 1st Krakoan Age of X-Men and the rise of The Power Fantasy
I think it is strange how everyone keeps saying "during covid" like covid is over while at the same time everyone keeps *getting* covid over and over and over
No one knows who a high risk person is. You don’t know your coworkers’ health status. CDC is simply telling some of us we are no longer allowed to exist in public. At all.
COVID-19 remains a real threat for high risk folks
Keeping up with vaccines, getting treated when infected is how we manage that risk
This new guidance, aligned with that of the flu,
Acknowledges the burdens and benefits of isolation
And that makes for good guidance
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@afrikophone
@iknowplacesmp6
Nailed it! Sadly US media would have cut him off the moment he veered from their prescribed script. Here we need to get our point in 2 seconds before they pivot to an old white man who’s going to keep to their narrative.
It wasn’t until the Internet discourse blew up that I was even aware that men were missing the point. All the guys I saw it with at the time understood it. It even has sexual tension between male characters. The author of the book is gay! This isn’t some bro shit. Argh!
A NYC mayoral agency is forcing staff to come in with covid. A contact wrote. “I am no longer allowed to work from home while waiting for my kid’s Covid test results. I can only work from home if my kid or I have tested positive [continued)
Leftists who keep creating environments that endanger others by refusing to mask—- why are you doing what capital is telling you?
#CovidIsntOver
. This is a mass disabling event. Masking is Solidarity. Meeting outside is solidarity.
Anyone tweeting about “now that everyone is vaccinated” have a very narrow sense of who counts as everyone. We can get there but we are not there yet. & in many other countries hardly anyone is vaccinated because of big pharma’s greed.
Billy Porter’s outfit RULES not just because it has loads of gold beading but because he is arriving as a triumphant Egyptian Queen into a museum of black art stollen by white people. He conquered.
#MetGala
@GlobeOpinion
@Jeff_Jacoby
The Boston Globe’s Reparations for paying a white man to write an ignorant oped like this would include giving his column to a dynamic black political writer with a deep understanding of history that Jacoby lacks. There are many.
A friend working NYU hospitals, the only NYC hospital system without masks, said 1/3rd of their department is out due to COVID! This collapse is caused by
@nyulangone
&
@GovKathyHochul
’s politics.
We must
#KeepMasksinHealthcare
or we cannot function.
@jessehawken
We need a kids TV show of sanitation workers and an end to paw patrol. I mean, these are the real heroes who allow for modern civilization to function and kids love them so do the TV show. Dammit no more copaganda!
@mlegittino
@hopeospical
@AuschwitzMuseum
My family were murdered by Hitler in concentration camps. This post from the Auschwitz Museum is 100% true. People like you said the same things about us in 1935 that you are saying about refugees today. They called us violent commie subversives. We broke laws to get to the US.
Today, the FBI honors the life and work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A quote from Dr. King is etched in stone at the FBI Academy's reflection garden in Quantico as a reminder to all students and FBI employees: "The time is always right to do what is right."
#MLKDay
@PaulyPMC
it shouldn't be controversial. its what the book and filmmaker both intended. Yet if you are on the internet you will see it went right over the heads of a huge percentage of male viewers.
@LaComtesseJamie
It is real. Fox News ruins families, particularly retired men. There's a documentary about it called The Brainwashing of My Dad. And thank you
@AdamRackoff
<salute>
If you are thinking, “wait, that can’t possibly apply to employees who are waiting for their test results because that would only encourage them to go to the office while sick (potentially with COVID) well, then you would be wrong.” Mayor Adams
@NYCMayor
doesn’t care about safety
Saying masks are optional but not required is like saying headlights exist but it’s ok for people to drive without them. Masks, like headlights, aren’t just for the drivers safety, they’re to protect the people who encounter them.
#MaskUp
They’re not even trying to take off work, they’re asking to WFH to keep from spreading a debilitating illness. And now mayor adams wonders why he can’t fill openings?
@NYCComptroller
has sounded the alarm rightly & working sick is part of the problem.
@cojehp
A friend who is a journalist for many left publications, science is their beat, says the editors will not accept pitches on covid. They just… won’t. My friend is very frustrated and has tried many times. Not saying that’s what happened here. Just sharing an experience my
@civilagain
@slooterman
Fibroids are super operable but doctors never check for them and some of the diagnostic stuff they try to do is cruel. They should just give us MRIs. Much easier. My fibroid surgery itself was a breeze
Steve Ditko was a brilliant artist who's work shaped popular culture. He was exploited by The Bosses & spoke out about it. I only wish he'd realized the solution was organizing, not isolation & Objectivism. He needn't have stood alone.
#SteveDitko
There is literally no religion that says you can’t get vaccinated. So anyone claiming their religion forbids them from getting vaccinated is basically admitting their religion is OAN.
@tiredgenerally
No timed tests. No standardized tests. No grades. No homework other than encouraging reading & creative writing. Tons of after school clubs of all kinds for all students and have them offered late into the night to help parents who work late. No early morning classes for teens.
@jonlovett
@heysi
@colbertlateshow
@jonfavs
@PodSaveAmerica
Why didn’t you use your power to bring any actual experts on the subject that are women and/or can carry children? There are so many people with more expertise in this than you even on purely political level. And if you’d spoken up he would’ve been fine with you bringing them on.
In Young Avengers a super powered space alien explains The Ronnettes are why he fell in love with earth & decided to save it.
That’s entirely believable.
Ronnie Spector: galactic legend.
(Art Jamie McKelvie/ Matt Wilson/Cowles. Words
@kierongillen
)
@PunkRockPagan
Actually Ska is “the world is fucked but we are going to unite to fight against racism”. It is frustrating how Ska’s radical political origins are ignored. This is Black liberation music. This is not reel big fish.
Seatbelt? ✅
N95 to prevent the spread of a level 3 pathogen illness that’s disabling millions? ✅
Going to an outdoor party with people who tested & having a blast? ✅
Can agencies afford to loose workers to debilitating illnesses? Can they afford to be understaffed because employees are sick with covid for the 5th time? The least they can do while the city refuses to clean the air is let staff WFH when they or their kids might have covid.
I have a joke about running digital for a nonprofit but it has to go through 5 senior staffers for approval at which point any personality or humor will be removed and the topic will be out of date.
It’s good storytelling that straight comics creators are having big named heroes come out as queer. But once again it’s a straight creative team that gets to tell the story. I’m glad they’re using their privilege this way. But the power balance has got to change.
@StorySlug
Good thread. Just sharing that Thai bananas and manzana bananas and those purple ones are all way better tasting than cavendish. Cavendish was just the easiest to ship.
When people ask “will you mask forever??” I point to stuff like this. Better tech is coming. Let’s try our hardest to not spread a debilitating disease right before we turn a corner.
Air Monitor Can Detect Covid.
By combining recent advances in aerosol sampling tech and an ultrasensitive biosensing technique, researchers at Washington Uni have created a monitor that can detect any of the SARS2 virus variants in a room in about 5 mins.
@blairbraney
@RAICESTEXAS
The children aren’t locked up because of a lack of foster homes. Most have families here who’d take them. They’re locked up because it’s a concentration camp. Registering to foster parent is a good thing to do but won’t impact this particular atrocity. But it can help local kids.
Immune compromised friend got covid & called the NY Covid hotline 1-888-364-3065 and was told to get an Rx from their dr. Their doc is MIA. Call did nothing.
@MarkLevineNYC
that’s not how it’s supposed to work, right? What is going on with this system?! This was the state hotline
@saladinahmed
Boys aren’t the only ones who are interested in sex. Boys wrongly assume all girls are looking for a commitment or fall in love at the drop of a hat. Also queer girls are generally made to feel like predators. We worry we’re as bad as boys are.
So many of the things we are supposed to do are impossible for most apartment dwellers. I don’t have a washer drier in my apartment. I can’t leave stuff on the patio. I can’t get fresh air in the privacy of my own yard. I want guidance that is achievable.
You can hold an organizing meeting in an N95 mask. We need EVERYONE masked because these masks aren’t perfect. One way masking isn’t enough. Before it gets even worse out and you can hold meetings outside. Disabled people, elderly, those who can’t risk being out of work 10 days,
@NateSilver538
People need to stop checking polls and join in actual GOTV work. This poll watching spectatorship is unhealthy. Stop scrolling & start phone banking.
Why don’t people want to work in offices? We don’t want to get covid. So give us clean air. We don’t want to live in our cars or on crowded maskless transit so maybe give us a more efficient, covid-safe & affordable commute. Ppl can’t afford childcare. Workplace harassment is bad
@Redwinenbooks
@DisabledDoctor
Well that’s upsetting for whole other reasons. Not having sex isn’t superior to having sex. It’s completely value neutral. I wonder what that doctor says to patients who do have sex, if she tries to imply it’s shameful. Doctors shouldn’t be judging our personal lives like that.
@skirri
@jamieson
@RWDSU
Only workers can call a picket line. This was not called by the workers. It’s not part of the workers strategy. I avoid Amazon anyway but it’s important to listen to the workers demands and not go off of random tweets from unfailingly people
we can’t come to your meetings. We can’t volunteer in person. We can’t build community in person all because you won’t mask. It can take a while to find a mask that fits and seals well. Masks come in packs, trade with each other till you find one that fits. Why won’t you do it?
By voting to censure
@RashidaTlaib
,
@danielsgoldman
and
@RitchieTorres
have sided with MAGA Republicans over their own colleague, the only Palestinian-American member of congress, a woman currently receiving death threats. Absolutely shameful.
@ellle_em
I would extra love if people could acknowledge that the accommodations some neuroatypical people need are the opposite of what other neuroatypical need & 1 side isn’t more worthy than the other. This is true of other disabilities as well.
@_ElizabethMay
It’s funny because Dustin Hoffman is quite handsome but DH is normal guy handsome not, “everyone on the street has stopped to stare at you” handsome like Redford. Hoffman can channel the idea of insecurity. It’s more that than anything else. Plus certain cultural stereotypes.
Would you believe I have more to say on subjects like this? My podcast
@graphicpolicy
Radio , on all podcast platforms, is conversations with diverse critics, comics writers & artists & political activists about movies, tv and comics.
Want to know what's at stake this election? If we lose the Senate, socialist Bernie Sanders will become Budget Committee Chairman. If we hold the Senate, and I am re-elected, I will be Budget Committee Chairman.
@the_tweedy
One of my good friends just learned they have adhd which we had all already assumed they knew to the point that there were in jokes about this friend, myself and one other friend being the ADHD Trio. We assumed they’d been diagnosed in childhood as we were.
@saladinahmed
Also there’s this fake divide in public narrative about good kids and bad kid. Most of us are both. You can smoke pot, break curfew and get good grades.
@HoarseWisperer
Every single campaign does this. This is literally what get out the vote looks like and has for years. This just proves you’ve never actually done canvassing for anyone.
Maybe you’ll be lucky and you won’t get long covid. But these services workers you keep reinfecting time and again are risking disability each time you make them sick. I want us to be healthy and functional for the long haul. Leftist electeds are getting disabled too.
@IAmThomasKrause
@1followernodad
@NJDG
I understand your intentions but what frustrates me about comments like yours—- which are exceedingly common— is that it assumes we are idiots. We understand how general elections work. But right now is the primary and we need the best candidate to win the primary.
If Eric Adams bans masks or even just encourages local stores to ban them he will hurt local businesses because he'll drive us to switch to amazon.
#NoNYMaskBan
@NYCMayor
@AWilliamsIsom
.
@NYCMayor
on a proposed mask ban - says he has been speaking to shop owners about putting a mask ban in place for their businesses- says he believes there should be a mask ban on public transit and at protests
A mask ban would need state legislative approval
@siobhanphilly
@MartinOMalley
is reallly good at this sort of thing. It’s baffling to me that he doesn’t spend all of his time talking to white people about xenophobia because he’s so damn good at expressing how broken it is.
@aviflombaum
@lyelr
@NYCMayor
Can you both agree that offering subsidies to the richest company in the world to come to the greatest city in the world is a scam? Amazon doesn’t need or deserve our money.
@evanrosskatz
Who is he? He rules & we should support him. Do not let collaborators with the Trump regime get away with being complicit. Holding them accountable is key. Don’t normalize evil.
During the Guns ‘n Roses/ Metallica tour my cat Axl took Metallica’s advice to heart because he’s known to “sleep with one eye open” & his feets “gripping the pillow tight”🤘🏻
@latimes
People are misinterpreting this headline to mean that she was paid to be pro-choice. This interview shows opposite is the case. Only people aware of her 90s pivot (now we learn it was a payoff) will be able to interpret the headline right. So please reconsider how this is posted.
@harveyjkaye
@NomikiKonst
This is so selfish and wasteful. We have a Latina socialist running in the district who has a track record in this particular community & has a winning coalition of endorsements & she’s up against a machine hack. Don’t split the vote! And for what?!
Nassau County NY may ban masks as soon as August 5! If you believe we have the right to not be forcibly infected & the right to exist in public contact the Nassau County leg as well as your own electeds.
#NoNYMaskBan
Tool kit via
@COVIDAdvocacyNY
:
KG is so pro cop. People need to stop comparing her to Elizabeth Warren. Smart wonky women aren’t interchangeable . Some of them are cop apologists and others are actual progressives.
@pervocracy
Totally agree. Also, so much plant a tree. I don’t think non Jewish people are aware of the emphasis we have on planting trees. Multiple holidays.
Nassau County Legislature just shut off the microphone when the lawyer from Disability Rights New York pointed out that people wearing masks at the meeting are being harassed!
#NoNYMaskBan
@birbgod
@tenshinoshin
@EdwardsAtc
@AmyAddante
It’s not legal in NYC. But it is legal in many other places . It shouldn’t be legal. It’s abuse and it’s fraud and apparently it’s also kidnapping pregnant people
This is a great way of putting what I was trying to say in my first tweet. Why are you going along with the program of letting people get sick, putting all risk on individuals and no community or government support. Yes systemic response is needed but such a small thing to mask.