I am begging independent contractors to please set up an LLC for yourself and get some payroll software, like Wave or Gusto, and pay yourself like a W-2 employee throughout the year to avoid situations like this!
Just watched a tiktok of a girl literally SOBBING hysterically because her tax person told her she owes $18,000 in taxes on $100,00k freelance income and I kinda need to know who her tax person is because that sounds like the deal of a century lmao
For all my LA friends, let me share my 10 years of FL hurricane experience with you. 🧵
1. If you’re leaving, LEAVE NOW. Sunday or later is too late.
2. If you’re not leaving…
- Get non-perishable food items, a non-electric cooking device, and a cooler to fill with ice
1/5
I’m so glad this is doing numbers and I hope it helps!
I just want to remind everyone that even if
#HurricaneHilary
downgrades to a tropical storm…
THE DESERT IS NOT BUILT TO GET RAIN LIKE THIS!!!
There WILL be flooding, power outages, and probably mudslides.
Stay alert! 🙏🏼
- Fill your bathtub with water the night before the storm arrives and plug it (use to boil for drinking, shower, and flush toilets)
- Have all info and travel gear prepped for your pets and children (you still may get evacuated and you want to be ready)
2/5
- Gas up your car and get an extra gallon to keep in the trunk
- Get batteries and flashlights (try to avoid candles- fire hazard)
- Prepare to be without power for days or a week (y’all are not built for hurricanes so I don’t know what you should expect with the damage)
3/5
- Take detailed photos and videos of your home for inventory and insurance purposes
- Bring any outdoor animals inside
- Have a plan if things go bad
- If you need additional power, get a generator and hook it up OUTSIDE after the storm
BE SAFE!
5/5
- Charge EVERY device you have 100%
- Board up windows
- Put sandbags around doorways/anywhere you want to redirect flooding from your home
- Pull everything you can off the floor in case of flooding
- Put any important documents in a waterproof case
4/5
Other good suggestions I forgot:
- Get cash to have on hand
- Get walkie-talkies to use when cell service goes out or download the Zello app
- Talk to your neighbors and organize a building/neighborhood plan for cleanup afterwards
- DO NOT CALL 911 UNLESS YOU ARE IN DANGER!
- Make sure all of your medications are filled and organized
- If you need oxygen, make sure you have extra tanks, if possible
- Get a power bank and make sure it is charged
- Have your N95 masks and COVID tests in a sealed container when not in use
One of my best friends’ lost their mom last night.
After beating cancer last year, she went in for routine surgery that went septic, causing her to need to stay longer in the hospital.
The hospital gave her
#COVID
before sending her home untested to her family. Now she’s dead.
THIS is why one-way “individual choice” masking policy is genocidal bullshit.
Alice can’t wear a respirator & relies on others to mask to keep her safe. She is risking her life right now for necessary care because US healthcare is more concerned about profits than doing no harm.
FUUUUUCK
IN ER NOW
FEEDING TUBE RUPTURED
ABDOMEN TENDER & DISTENDED
CHECK IN PERSON COUGHING PERSISTENTLY WITH PAPER MASK ON
WAITING ROOM FULL
IT NEVER HAD TO BE LIKE THIS
DONT BOTHER ME, FAMILY, FRIENDS
*And I’ll clarify: only have the gas cont. (preferably stored outside of your car or inside with windows down) to get home, then store safely at home.
It’s good to have if you need to evacuate and there is no gas left at stations.
Sorry- just trying to say to have it on hand!
Not only should she still be alive, but now my friend (who is also severely immunocompromised), her father who already has dementia, and the rest of her family who had come to help with her convalescence have all been exposed to
#SARSCoV2
WTF ARE WE DOING?!?!?!
#COVID19
Looking for a COVID-safe dentist in NYC— a difficult task.
Called a mobile dentist specializing in coming to disabled people’s homes.
Asked him to wear an N95.
His response: “I haven’t been wearing any mask and I’ve been fine.” 🤯🤬😡
This guy has definitely killed people.
And since the minimizers have already found this I will say loudly and clearly:
Take your eugenics and get the hell out of this thread because I will block and report you so fast all you’ll see is my dust.
I’m seeing a lot of my
#COVID19
shielding friends are having trouble with unmasked workers in their homes.
I have solved this problem with the following:
1) I had this sign made through Shutterfly and taped it to my door. You’re welcome to use it.
1/3
#MaskUp
#MandateMasks
Reminder that the “5-day isolation” rule many of you don’t even abide by anymore was a result of the airlines lobbying Biden to stop ruining their profits.
If
#COVID19
positive, stay isolated from others until you test negative for 3 consecutive days!😷
#MaskUp
#CovidIsNotOver
I was a professional musician and actor for 25 years.
This ongoing pandemic has basically ensured I’ll never perform again, as no one but me seems to care that none of us die while doing it.
My spouse, also a musician, has given up performing to keep me safe.
It’s depressing.
This is your daily reminder that if you have been living in the US during the ongoing
#SARSCov2
pandemic, you have NEVER experienced a “lockdown” of any kind.
You had 2 months of stay-at-home orders in 2020 that weren’t enforced by the State.
#CovidIsNotOver
#MaskUp
#COVID19
Please know that even if you are a renter, you can refuse anyone entry to your home if they will not mask during an ongoing
#SARSCoV2
pandemic!
I know these things take time and money, but they were small and worth it to me to try to protect myself since no one else will.
3/3
A couple months ago we had our dog start wearing an N95 every time he leaves the apartment.
Tonight it paid off- a dog heading outside while my spouse and pup were on their way in was barking up a storm and the owner said it had
#COVID19
!
#MaskUp
, including your pets! 😷
My spouse wore a P100 or N95 all day every day, had 3 HEPAs running in his classroom at all times, taught outside, and provided KN95 and N95 masks for students (sadly few wore them).
He made it out of a year teaching in NYC without catching COVID from them & lessened the spread!
All these teachers I see on twitter claiming that there is nothing they can do to help the children in their care from getting sick and that all criticism should be directed at other authorities while admitting to not wearing masks in the classroom are fucking monsters. Not sorry
2) Underneath the sign I put a wire basket filled with individually sealed N95 masks.
3) I have a video doorbell (that doesn’t help cops) and use it or my peephole to see if they’re masked before I open the door. If they aren’t, I tell them they have to or they can’t enter.
2/3
THIS.
I was a child when GW went into Iraq and Afghanistan and I didn’t have the ability to see anything but the propaganda they shoved down our throats.
This time, EVERYONE has access to the truth recorded by these brave Palestinian journalists. We will never forget this. 🍉🇵🇸
If you interacted with this post, please ensure you are ALWAYS wearing a high-quality respirator (KN95/N95/P100) in public to protect yourself and others and donate to Alice’s GFM if you are able:
I am BEGGING my fellow
#DisabilityTwitter
and
#COVID19
shielding folks to remember that Marianne Williamson is a “health” grifter and is only spouting anti-COVID info we want to hear to garner votes.
She is ableist, anti-vax, and not a good rep for us.
This headline is so incredibly insulting for those of us IC/high-risk and still shielding because
#CovidIsNotOver
!
We’ve been left for dead with no safe option to view at home to at least participate in the discourse because that would be admitting
#SARSCoV2
is still a problem.
“Believing that the system is “broken” rather than functioning exactly as intended requires a certain adherence to white supremacist and anti-Black beliefs.” - Bree Newsome Bass
My contribution to
#AbolitionForThePeople
:
"Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black"
I take a critical look at how Black people are used for pro-policing propaganda and the fallacy of thinking we can integrate white supremacist systems
Wow, I can’t believe this got around enough to reach anti-science, COVID denialists, but let me be clear:
Any minimizing, disinformation, denialism, or urging me to do any of these so you’re more comfortable participating in this genocide will get you blocked and reported. 🖕🏼
Since so many people found this I’ll add a few more. (This is by no means an exhaustive list and I assumed most of you have earthquake kits and some form of emergency prep/response knowledge.)
- Get a crank weather radio
- Have bottled water (the tub is for pets/last resort)
If you know of a dentist in Manhattan who takes REAL, SERIOUS precautions against airborne disease, drop them here.👇🏼
BONUS if they are mobile and will bring a van to my building or do the appointment in my home, where I have better mitigations than most hospitals, apparently.
And by “make a plan if things go bad,” I mean:
- How will you get out of your home if it is flooding? Do you need tools to exit to the roof?
- Where will you go?
- Who will you contact?
Also:
- STAY OUT OF FLOOD WATERS! Do not drive or walk through it and clean yourself ASAP
My family: We’re just concerned how paralyzed you seem to have become in your life from [
#COVID19
].
Me: Yes- deadly uncontrolled viruses that threaten to kill or further disable my
#immunosuppressed
ass and my asthmatic spouse have had an effect on our choices.🫠
#mandatemasks
- Use your washing machine as an extra cooler by filling with ice
- Freeze a cup of water and put a coin on top and leave it on the counter when you go out so you can see if you lost power and how long ago
- Make sure generators are set up at least 20 feet from a building and not near open windows
- Bring in or tie down any pots, plants, and loose furniture
- Have car/travel chargers for devices
- Get extra deodorant and baby/sanitizing wipes for when the electricity is off
- Get paper plates, disposable cups and utensils, and extra trash bags
- Use frozen water bottles to pack your freezer and keep things from spoiling so fast (try not to open your refrigerator/freezer much!)
- Have a First Aid kit on hand
Check the FEMA site for more!
Also, the 2 months at home plus 1 year of masking you did then is not the reason you’re so sick now, three years later.
It’s because you’re not wearing a mask now and keep reinfecting yourself with
#COVID19
(SARS2).
All in the name of “normalcy” and for capitalism.
#MaskUp
😷
“But you can’t just will a pandemic out of existence, and this one isn’t over. COVID-19 is still here, still widespread, and it continues to claim victims everyday.”
Also, basements are NOT the place to go during a flooding event!!!
You want to be higher, not lower.
Even if
#HurricaneHilary
is downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hits southern CA, THERE WILL BE FLOODING.
There will be power loss.
Better to be safe than sorry!!!
Thank you so much to everyone who has commented with help so far! I will chase down every lead and let you all know if I find The One.
This burst of community support has given me the boost to not give up hope.
I wish it wasn’t so hard out here for us disabled folk. 💜
Ableism is a strong drug. My MIL is recovering from gall bladder surgery and calls us to bitch about the pain, but will not take prescription pain meds or use ANY mobility devices.
I sent her a cane in her favorite color, a long shoehorn and a grabber, because…
1/2
@pot8um
One of the first few weeks I worked at Nordstrom and a woman brought jeans we did not sell (Kmart brand actually) and screamed in my face for 5-10 minutes while I fumbled around trying to return something we never sold, try not to cry, and wait for my manager to come back.
I’ve seen a lot of FL people ragging on others for warning SoCal residents about hurricane/tropical storm prep.
Most of this criticism is directed at the relatively low (for a hurricane) rain total for this storm. As someone who has lived in both places, a bit to think about: 1/
For those who work with deaf or HoH people, there is a great clear, reusable respirator called Canopy. Passed NIOSH 98% filt!
It’s expensive, but VERY comfortable and nice.
I was able to get one and plan to wear it when I’m not using my GVS Elipse P100!
IT’S PROPAGANDA.
The governments are deploying anti-science, pro-disease propaganda because making the necessary changes to our systems to solve this would reveal how broken things are…and people will realize we don’t have to keep doing it this way. Then they’ll lose power.
So many people asking if the flu is going around right now really shows how successful governments have been at intentionally downplaying and misinforming people about COVID.
most of her pain occurs bending over.
She was mad I sent a cane and told my FIL we sent it “because your son thinks I’m old.”
*I* sent it. I’m 32 & she has seen me use a cane and my rollator/wheelchair for years now.🫠
She loves the grabber though, so I guess I’ll take it. 2/2
I don’t want to still be in heavy isolation 2.5 years into this, but you all keep going unmasked to weddings and parties and shit (even though you are all probably higher-risk than you think!) and spreading disease.
I just want to get my teeth cleaned without chance of death.
I am BEGGING my fellow
#DisabilityTwitter
and
#COVID19
shielding folks to remember that Marianne Williamson is a “health” grifter and is only spouting anti-COVID info we want to hear to garner votes.
She is ableist, anti-vax, and not a good rep for us.
“… a man complimented the women and said he found them attractive, but was rejected. He called them names, then left the deli… the second they opened the door, he ran back into the door and started attacking them.”
@singingsox
I’m a Precautionary Principle advocate through and through, and this is no exception.
Yes, many will “overpay” throughout the year on this system, but then you get a refund back and not a huge surprise bill!
Better safe than sorry, especially in high-tax states like NY & CA.
@MCG2000
Surgical masks are not sufficient protection from airborne disease transmission, especially the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants among us now.
Everyone should be wearing a KN95 respirator or better in public.
And now he’s tone policing disabled people’s righteous anger with ableist slurs. 🫠
Maybe sit and listen,
@jonfavs
, instead of running your mouth and treating disabled people like we are not knowledgeable about yours and society’s abandonment of us.
#CovidIsNotOver
#SARSCoV2
Just to follow up: the brand of person I was referring to is someone who tells people to fuck off if they choose to work from home while sick. I don’t find that persuasive, I find it unhinged.
Long Covid is real, tragic, and deserves more attention (I had a post-Covid condition
I had two clients yesterday tell me that their parents now have Long Covid.
One client accidentally infected her parents. She never tested positive and took many tests. Didn’t know she was still contagious. Now her 84 year old dad can hardly do anything he used to.
@BernieDogs4
@myrabatchelder
I’ve been trying to find a safe one for months (no care since it was significantly safer in Spring 2021 after my first vax series and NYC still had strict mitigation requirements).
Why do people who are in other people’s mouths for a living want to share and rawdog air??? 🤬
There is something to this. I have always had a touch of dyspraxia with my autism (clumsy, knocking into things, dropping stuff, rolling ankles, etc.).
BUT never when I dance, play sports, use knives, etc.
When I want to focus, I’m safe. When I’m doing random shit, I get hurt!
what’s fascinating to me is that it doesn’t affect me much at all when playing music or sports - it��s usually “background tasks” like holding something passively while globally dysregulated
would love to understand more about this, maybe it’s a default network thing?
THIS! I won’t get harassed, so my neighborhood bodegas will simply lose my business and the internet will gain it.
So, clearly,
@NYCMayor
would rather enrich Bezos and big corps than allow disabled people to shop safely with small business owners in the city.
#CovidIsNotOver
#EricAdams
insisting that every people lower their mask before entering a store, not only puts people in danger of getting covid (especially if you're immunocompromised) but disabled people like myself are just going to go online, which means less sales for local stores.
@ReesiePeacie
Your biggest problems will be flooding, landslides, and power outages. If you can, I recommend leaving. LA is NOT built for this type of storm.
For all my LA friends, let me share my 10 years of FL hurricane experience with you. 🧵
1. If you’re leaving, LEAVE NOW. Sunday or later is too late.
2. If you’re not leaving…
- Get non-perishable food items, a non-electric cooking device, and a cooler to fill with ice
1/5
@blasted_save
Omg. 😳 I’m so sorry you had to go through that stress!
I know so many people, especially other ND and disabled folx, who are forced into a version of self-employment and get stuck in these situations because tax pros and lawyers are $$$ and they had no one to help them. 🩵
This is how I feel about my former friends and what little family I was still in contact with in 2020.
I’ve removed myself and see how they behave. We are no longer friends or in contact unless they change and admit wrongdoing and try to repair the harm they’re causing.
#COVID19
If any of them become Covid conscious and also come to understand how their behavior has been harmful (and has sacrificed me & millions like me) and are willing to be accountable & repair harm they directly contributed to, I’m open to moving forward w them again. Otherwise, no.
As someone physically and emotionally abused for decades by a religious adult male in a heterosexual marriage (my father), and being a queer person who has not abused anyone with many queer friends who are not abusers, I approve this message.
"Study after study has found that queer people do not harm children at higher rates than other people. The average abuser, it turns out, is a religious adult male in a heterosexual marriage"
Important work by
@RLStollar
@mattbc
@HHSGov
I have Ankylosing Spondylitis (taking 2 different immunosuppressants for that), and suffer from Clinical Depression, GAD, and other unrelated health issues. I have at least 4 qualifying conditions, but I’m “not disabled enough.”
#NotEnoughEvuSheld
#Evusheld
I can’t safely go anywhere in
#NYC
because
@NYCMayor
won’t
#mandatemasksny
and make this city safe for the citizens who live here!
You’re desire to forget about something that is STILL KILLING HUNDREDS DAILY will kill and disable all of us.
#DisabilityTwitter
My spouse who wore a P100 or N95 at ALL times outside of our apartment only took sick days from teaching last year due to being burnt out from covering so much for all of the unmasked teachers who were out sick.
All school boards would need to do to see how effective masks have been is to check attendance rates for teachers that mask consistently. Compare the number of sick days taken by those people vs all teachers in aggregate. Especially during surges.
AND she’s fatphobic!
I know we are all dying for any political candidate to give an iota of a shit about
#SARSCoV2
, but Marianne Williamson is not The One We’ve Been Waiting For™️.
@rahxrahster
3 years (did summer semesters, overloaded courses every semester). Do not recommend going that fast, and certainly don’t work full-time also like I did. Still recovering from burnout 10 years out but applying to online grad school.
“If we want employees to return to face-to-face work in the office, we should offer them the “Davos standard” of protection. Mandating a return to the office, without mandating protection on public transport or in workplaces, [is] Russian roulette...”
@bibicosplays
This is the life of owning a male orange tabby. They big hungry boys!
This is Miles, whom I must lock in the bedroom when we eat because he will sit next to me and wait for an opportunity to steal chips, popcorn, french fries, or dip his furry little foot in cheese sauce.
@mattbc
@HHSGov
I was told they don’t have enough for everyone; and even though I’m immunosuppressed, since I had a good enough response to my COVID booster (based on my antibody levels shortly after getting the booster back in October) I don’t qualify.
#NotEnoughEvuSheld
Biden is hacking up a lung in a live interview right now while being asked about how China is handling COVID…
So cringe and embarrassing to watch him have LC on TV and deny we have a homegrown problem in
#Kraken
(
#XBB15
).
As we keep framing it for my grandparents (and others over like 50 who aren't online):
What if you were able to watch the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam live from Vietnamese journalists?
Would your opinion on the war and the US government have been vastly different then?
There’s been a lot of elitist & ageist talk mocking the “Tik Tok Education” of young ppl today. But let’s be clear: Due to social media, youth are light years more informed than their parents at their same age AND now. Gatekeepers are just mad their lies can be debunked now.
@BeingCharisBlog
Welcome! Realizing I am genderfluid has set me free from so many societal pressures I unnecessarily placed on myself. Enjoy the new found freedom of being and presenting yourself exactly how YOU want, not how others wish you would be. It is LIBERATING!
This!
I stopped responding to most of them. Like, nothing is stopping you from reaching out, setting Zoom/FaceTime dates for us, or trying to include me in anything.
But you’re too busy traveling maskless, so I guess we have nothing to discuss! 🙃
People will text once every six months to say nothing but “I miss you”. I’m not dead?! If you miss me you can… connect with me about the reality of my life, instead of pretending it’s not happening? Come and help out?
Many able-bodied people’s first real experience with inaccessibility is during early parenthood, when children have not yet developed the ability to walk independently, if they can.
Universal access and design makes life better for EVERYONE!
#DisabilityTwitter
#accessibility
Every time I have to find a creative way to get my baby down a flight of stairs with the stroller, like today when I had to get an Ace hardware employee to help me carry the stroller down, I think about how many times a day wheelchair users must just have to give up stuff.
I have not been able to use the elevator in my building for 6 months. I push my body, even on days I shouldn’t, to use the stairs.
Disabled and IC people should not be forced to hurt themselves to avoid a deadly and disabling disease!
#CovidIsNotOver
#MaskUp
#COVIDisAirborne
I remember explaining to my neighbor that I can't use the elevator in my building because people don't mask.
And he was genuinely confused by it, offered to wear a bandana 🙃
As always,
@SFdirewolf
is right!
To me, this is the ableist equivalent to yt people’s “I have a Black friend” excuse when confronted about racism.
#PodSaveJon
One disabled guest is not really great or enough and especially when I am talking about
@PodSaveAmerica
doing a specific episode on long COVID
And disabled people are not a monolith
#PodSaveJon
Raskin had SARS-CoV-2 earlier this year.*
SARS-CoV 2 causes lymphopenia which can activate/re-activate cancer growth.* See
@Tinu
!
When are people in positions of power going to put together the dots of their own lives and mass infection policies?
*Sources below!
New: Jan. 6 committee member Jamie Raskin says he’s been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, a serious, but curable form of cancer. Raskin says he expects to start chemo-immunotherapy at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
Just testified virtually at
@MTA
Board Meeting this morning and called on them to reinstate the mask mandate on public transit. It was fantastic to see around 20 people testify and call for mask mandates to be reinstated! MTA, we hope you will listen to us and mandate masks!
Will the
@CDCgov
issue us sandwich boards of some kind to wear in public so people know we are immunocompromised and maybe consider not killing us with preventable, communicable diseases?
They take up multiple blocks here near our local precinct with illegal parking, blocking curb cuts, and leaving totaled/broken vehicles on the street and sidewalk for months at a time.
Our block is filled with garbage, and it’s all because of
#NYPD
.
#ACAB
#DefundThePolice
Cops were illegally parked on the sidewalks at 70 out of 77 NYPD precincts in NYC, according to a new study.
"For people who live near precincts, their most frequent interaction with the police will be observing them breaking the law"
I know there are a bunch of conspiracies on this.
Mine is that she had a massive stroke post-SARS2 infection and while she is alive and stable, she is not up to The Firm’s “beauty standards,” so they are Ugly Laws-style hiding her away until she is “acceptable” to show again.
You’re telling me that Kate Middleton—the same woman who posed outside the hospital like a freaking supermodel mere hours after giving birth—suddenly requires months of recovery before showing her face? And the British press now magically respects privacy? This feels…sinister.
@singingsox
My spouse is an asthmatic wind musician and music educator. So safety affects him too. In summer 2021 he took a few outdoor only gigs and got everyone to agree to mask and test in the band, but then people started not doing it and we decided it was not worth it for him to
My spouse is a NYC teacher who wears a P100 or N95 from the minute he leaves our apartment until he gets home (only removing alone outside to eat with Far UVC). I put $500 in HEPA filters in his room.
We have remained COVID-free!🤞🏼
MASKS, VENTILATION, & FILTRATION WORK!
#MaskUp
My husband has been a school teacher during Covid with classrooms full of sick children.
I’ve been a conference speaker speaking in front of thousands of people.
Both of us flying and traveling constantly.
Both still Covid- and the only thing we’ve done is wear a n95 fulltime
@Tinu
@StLuciaYoga
I’m an Autistic, queer crip. I teach yoga to and for other crips. 🧘🏻♀️🏳️🌈♾♿️
Please support
@CripYoga
and
@GetAbbysAdvice
(how I support myself)!
CashApp: $abbyerhinehart
Venmo: AbbyRhinehart
PayPal: AbbyYetter
@singingsox
Possibly never get to play again and kill me if he brought it home.
This has not been easy. We’ve fought a lot and spent $$$ on couples therapy.
He has left the classroom too now because he sees how little they care to keep anyone safe and the shit pay isn’t work the risk.