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@avianxflame

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heather ; prey animal / disabled (lc/me/cfs) / single gay woman / 29 / she /// bluesky is heatherfeather

saskatoon
Joined November 2010
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@avianxflame
@heatherfeather.bsky.social
4 years
the city is replacing all the streetlights with bare exposed LEDs and it's making the shadows look like a pc game on "minimum" settings
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@avianxflame
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8 months
hey long c-vid is actually killing people it doesn't just make you sad and tired or whatever propaganda you're seeing from the cdc
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@avianxflame
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5 months
greetings from my first day of Emails Job. i regret to inform you that as of day one all the stereotypes about Emails Jobs seem true
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@avianxflame
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2 months
someone telling you easily-verifiable facts about a global news event is not "fearmongering" just because the facts make you anxious
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@avianxflame
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2 years
transgender day of visibility is a relic from a social environment that no longer exists
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@avianxflame
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2 months
dude i literally never "locked down". they had me working extra shifts at wal-mart, then i got covid from work, now i'm disabled.
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@avianxflame
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2 months
btw if you haven't been masking you might not know that a kn95 is significantly easier to breathe in than a cloth or surgical mask! the fabric is specifically designed for low air resistance
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@avianxflame
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"if i got long c-vid i would just off myself" that isn't a real plan and you know it. get in bitch, we're learning disability justice.
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@avianxflame
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2 years
hey if you've noticed that i won't shut up about cov*d lately, it's because people i used to consider "community" are now openly behaving in a eugenicist way. people who know how to keep their community safer but choose not to. the same people who also preach "harm reduction".
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@avianxflame
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5 months
this is what disability & chronic illness is like btw
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i didn't even consider this as a possibility...
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@avianxflame
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2 years
kissing women who have stubble is hot & i'm not afraid to say it
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@avianxflame
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5 months
your doctors have been propagandized because public health is an apparatus of the state whose purpose is to achieve political outcomes. hope this helps <3
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1 year
i would really like my abled friends to start vocally giving a shit about disabled lives
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@avianxflame
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3 months
this is at the hearing for mask bans in nassau county. if it isn't clear, the fascists are pro-ban. whose side are you really on?
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@avianxflame
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5 months
(i did - generously speaking - about three hours of actual labour, and one of my bosses told me i had a more productive day than she did)
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@avianxflame
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1 year
climate denialism and c-vid denialism are two different expressions of the same underlying problem
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5 months
happy pride. i'm too disabled to participate in public life because of a common viral condition that most queers like to pretend doesn't exist
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8 months
long c-vid deaths aren't listed as "long c-vid deaths". they're random heart attacks. random strokes. sudden aggressive cancer. sudden onset of dementia. always reported in the news as "so young, so tragic, no-one could have ever seen this coming".
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@avianxflame
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3 years
what's updata
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2 months
in a couple years, like the flick of a light switch, public health will go from "Long Covid is a very rare condition that you won't get if you're healthy*†‡" to "Did you know? Having some form of Long Covid is a fact of life. 😁 It's unavoidable, so don't worry! 👍"
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abusive parents can refuse to let their children wear masks. but if the air in an establishment is properly filtered, random patrons can't just "take it away" - it benefits all equally. clean air is an intervention that benefits everyone, especially those with limited agency.
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3 months
the thing you miss from 2019 is not taking precautions the thing i miss from 2019 is not having multiple progressive diseases caused by the novel coronavirus
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4 months
many people who are c19 realists but otherwise able-bodied are living in a different world from those of us who are c19 realists and also have LC.
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@avianxflame
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5 months
there is a worldwide movement to impoverish and passively kill disabled people, and if you're not resisting with us you're functionally against us
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@avianxflame
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5 months
@cashohoney i worked retail for six years so like take my word with a grain of salt but i've heard it used to mean basically a desk job with not a huge amount of general-public interaction
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@avianxflame
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@t34doll @katimcf btw it's not just mood swings. GI irritation, intestinal cramps, breast tenderness, and bloating/fluid retention are all real symptoms that many trans women experience on a regular cycle
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@avianxflame
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6 months
turns out you weren't "following the science", you were just following the authorities
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@avianxflame
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2 years
@MegaZoeT ~8-10 years ago, the idea of a trans person being "visible" meant something very different
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3 months
are you going to stick up for clinically vulnerable people or are you going to do stand idly by as the fascists come for us? there is no neutrality here.
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3 months
please try to be a better ally to the chronically ill people in your life
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2 months
i literally got disabled selling people physical copies of animal crossing: new horizons because i technically worked at a place that also sold groceries.
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@avianxflame
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hey uh this might be total fuckin coincidence but 1. a friend had a covid exposure 2. i started feeling a sore throat and chills 3. i took a large dose of natto-serra on an empty stomach 4. the sore throat and chills went away within the span of about 3 hours
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@avianxflame
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3 months
the CDC is actively avoiding testing a strongly probable h5n1 case, in case you thought our public health system was still functioning
@mo_journeys
Mo 😷
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Remember that family in Oregon who suspected they got bird flu from their kid’s soccer game? A CDC doctor told them it was “just seasonal flu plus pink eye” and the local health authority said they’ll only take action if the state lab says to. They were unable to get tested.
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1 year
eugenics is hot right now & it needs some fuckin pushback.
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2 years
i genuinely feel so abandoned by my irl community who has stopped masking in everyday life. i know this isn't a novel thought. but it is constant and needs to be given an explicit voice once in a while
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2 months
i did not experience a god damn lock down
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@avianxflame
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2 months
too busy working at my day job (trying not to die from chronic illness) to pursue my hobbies (lesbianism)
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2 months
reminder that the CDC never stopped being up to some shit re: information & record suppression
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NEW: A federal judge ruled today that the CDC has likely been illegally deleting lower-level employees’ emails, in violation of federal record keeping law. He has approved a preliminary injunction to end the practice. w/ @joshgerstein
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@avianxflame
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11 months
my chronically ill & disabled life has meaning BECAUSE of the generations of disability activists who came before me. i owe it to them, and future generations, to keep fighting for rights & accommodations & treatments. not just for my own disability/illnesses, but all others too.
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hi i don't know why this ever got retweeted but the job is now going really badly because it turns out i'm realistically still too chronically ill to work.
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@avianxflame
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2 years
you ever think about how many people are now newly immunocompromised but refuse to acknowledge it in any way
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4 months
and of course, if you're able-bodied, being a hardcore c19 realist can very easily turn into what is essentially a health supremacist ideology. so check yourself.
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5 months
if you can understand why psychiatry incarcerates people, then you can understand why doctors and public health leaders would misinform you about SARS-CoV-2.
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4 years
this is actually depressing the hell out of me and makes me not want to go on nighttime walks anymore : (
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4 months
if you're able-bodied it's really easy for this to become primarily a morality exercise rather than a practical response to a lived reality.
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2 months
as an addendum: i was hypervigilantly sanitizing my hands and practicing 6-foot distancing. i was doing everything i knew to stop myself from getting it, but i believed public health when they said fomite and droplet transmission was the only way sars-cov-2 could spread.
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@avianxflame
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3 years
@normalcatpics catch me slhapbin'
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3 months
if you think a person pointing out harm and oppression is aggressive and mean, have you considered how many times nobody might have listened when they tried to say things calmly and politely?
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@avianxflame
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2 months
kn95s can be worn for around ~40 hours before they start to lose efficacy. they are NOT single-use disposable items.
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@avianxflame
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10 months
every time you go out maskless drinking/clubbing/eating out, you owe someone with long c-vid 5 dollars. not joking. pay up
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@avianxflame
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6 months
i had to leave the house yesterday which was physically difficult, however my hair was very fluffy
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2 years
many of these people follow me. do better.
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@avianxflame
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chronic illness has me asking questions like "but how hard is it *really* to synthesize your own pharmaceuticals?"
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2 months
the idea that n95-style masks are single-use-only is a precaution determined by hospital liability guidelines. it is not an inherent quality of the PPE itself.
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1 year
the first round of vaccınes didn't solve the pandemıc for the same reason electric cars won't solve climate change: the vırus is mutating too fast & the climate warming too fast for a single solution to have a full halting effect.
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we don't say people are "fearmongering" about climate change when they talk about florida losing oceanfront real estate, even though the damage is catastrophic and upsetting!
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6 months
the p-ndemic never ended; it never eased up at all. it just got more contagious than the measles so health authorities just gave up on ever being able to contain it
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@avianxflame
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6 months
i see you ignoring all disabled people except the ones telling you exactly what you want to hear :)
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2 months
@SocJustCAN fuck you, that wasn't service, the capitalist government forcibly infected me
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3 months
@philaheather we have to fight the laws and resist, not pretty-please ask for the police to give us special treatment lol
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3 years
from my psychology class
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2 months
otherwise-well-informed people who stopped taking precautions aren't talking about C19 because reckoning with reality would mean acknowledging that they're complicit
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2 months
@pop_mycology it's mostly because the diagnostic options we have are severely inadequate and so are the treatments. like a lot of neglected areas of medicine, the problems are real, but are understudied (which leaves room for grifters).
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fml. i don't qualify for the long covid drug trial i was sharing because i didn't have a positive test in may 2020
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5 months
POTS solutions are often contraindicated in MCAS, MCAS solutions often contraindicated in ME, and ME solutions often contraindicated in MCAS. the list keeps going on; it's hell out here. don't get long c-vid (it will probably give you all three)
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@avianxflame
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4 years
i am so glad we are mad about shitty lightbulbs together.
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7 months
btw when i share studies on infectious disease, it's not to spread doom and futility - it's to share the very tangible cost of not taking appropriate action.
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@avianxflame
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2 years
if "other" lesbians get entire pop songs about how much they fetishize pussy - i think i'm allowed to relish this one tiny aspect of pleasure from my own experiences in my trans body
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2 years
first banana ever
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"you're dependent on this thing to function" yeah dude. i am. i'm dependent on the stuff that keeps me functioning and alive. i also need food and water and shelter. are you gonna call that "dependency" too? should we call immortan joe?
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btw, "mild" is the thing you want to be most careful about. "mild" acute symptoms don't translate to "mild" long term complications. public health & news orgs are not telling the whole truth.
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4 months
@elle_carnitine @DeathPanel_ guessing they were making a false equivalence to "wheelchair-bound" without actually asking any bedbound people?
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5 months
greetings from deep in the stacks
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2 months
you are a 35mm film slide and i'm loading you into the scanner so i can correct your faded colours
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10 months
@h1w0rld we need some kind of interactive map meetup service. not joking
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7 months
individual personal protection is life-saving for the individual, but under capitalism it will not be the way out of population-wide illness.
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4 months
in 2024, believing public health at face-value is a lot like believing the cops at face-value
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8 months
i turned 29 yesterday. since i didn't post yesterday, this is my official birthday post! i'm happy to be alive ❤️
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2 years
... i've talked to so many people recently who've said variations of "I don't know why, I'm just always getting sick lately!"
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no amount of "accommodations" would allow me to equitably participate in society because the social model of disability is not a sufficient framework for approaching my condition.
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5 months
i'm not here to play nice anymore. learn what true solidarity is or fuck off
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1 year
i would like to remind you that long c*vid has: 1. no cure 2. no approved treatments for managing symptoms 3. no approved test for your doctor to confirm that you have it 4. a 10% chance of happening to you with each c*vid infection you get
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hey quick question. why do we treat ticks with lyme disease as a serious zoonotic issue but treat actual people with lyme disease as hysterics
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8 months
things the cdc could do instead of dropping the isolation mandate: get updated tests that actually work into the hands of the general public, for free
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2 years
@MagsVisaggs please do not do this
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many of you are living your lives in a way that suggests you don't believe chronically ill people are your equals, that you don't believe chronically ill people are deserving of solidarity among the oppressed
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5 years
sometimes gender transition doesn't look like a sudden realization followed by drastic changes. sometimes it looks like years of careful exploration and learning about yourself.
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2 years
if this is you, there's a good chance that you now belong to the category of "high-risk individuals"
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possible exposure was on tuesday. onset of sore throat was around 11 am today, onset of chills was about 12 or 1. natto was taken at 2:10, and symptoms disappeared somewhere between 3:30 and 5
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@mzelk99 traveling long distances to eat outside. lugging around air purifiers. doing outdoor activities. going long periods without fluid intake. prolonging medical care. just *leaving* when situations aren't safe. the list goes on
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3 months
"if someone's vulnerable, they should just stay home. not my problem." even david lynch?? you think david lynch should just suck it up, not get to make any more movies, and stay home??
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
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David Lynch says he can no longer direct in-person due to his health. “I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, & so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. I can't go out... because of COVID, it would be very bad for me to get sick” (via: @fatecolossal / @SightSoundmag )
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if you're a local who still masks when you go out & you don't go to bars/restaurants i'd really love to hang out sometime
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8 months
@patmcculloch @_alialkhatib unilaterally applying population-level statistics to individuals ensures that no outliers ever get treated.
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getting infected while working retail and subsequently disabled for life
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What was your COVID lockdown thing? My husband and I watched the entirety of Top Chef. Every episode.
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i passed by a harm reduction tent & gently suggested that they could also carry covid tests in addition to condoms, naloxone, fent test strips, etc. and they were total dicks to me
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2 months
myalgic encephalomyelitis is not a "diagnosis of exclusion". post-exertional malaise is pathognomonic of myalgic encephalomyelitis, and feigning otherwise is ignorance bordering on malpractice.
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3 years
i turn 27 today
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7 months
i guess this is my way of saying if you want to help start a clean indoor air org in saskatoon, sk please hit me up
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1 year
hey um my head is starting to feel really hot and feverish at pretty much any sign of cognitive exertion, and whenever it happens, i lose dexerity in my limbs, ability to speak gets worse, and ability to read gets worse. thermometer doesn't read fever
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