Dog or rabbit. My Nijntje! 🤣 #dog #dogears @darnielle #cugina

@darnielle I don’t get negative responses. Honestly, I get very little interaction, but I can find a little more of the content I want there than here. That’s the big problem.

George Santos, who stole from a small businessman, will be on Small Business Committee.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who incited Jan 6, will be on Homeland Security Committee.

Scott Perry, who's being investigated by the FBI, might investigate the investigators investigating him.

@darnielle I still have more people there. I also only seem to have time for one site these days. I’m trying to remember to check in here, but old habits die hard.

@darnielle no, I don’t want to read. I’m on the edge today anyway. The title alone isn’t helping. 😤

Sun is out today in #bologna #Italy #architecture #photography #ItalianArchitecture #BolognaColors #bluesky #SunnyDayPhoto

@Albertone to be honest, this kind of thing has never helped me, especially in the moment when I can’t just stop what I’m doing. When I can stop for a moment, I have other things that will calm me more. To each their own. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Dog walking this morning looked tropical. #Bologna #Italy #ItalianArchitecture #PalmTrees

First anxiety attack of 2023 at 11:34 am. Awesome. #anxiety #mentalhealth

Instead of tooting the Washington Post article about how the North Shore Leader broke the Santos story (as I've seen twice on my feed today), how about we link to the actual North Shore Leader? Support your local news, and when a scoop like this happens, support the small papers, local to you or not, that break them: https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/the-leader-told-you-so-us-rep-elect-george-santos-is-a-fraud-and-wanted-criminal

@whalecoiner the same for all of the Netherlands. Italy keeps it more centralised fortunately, at least in the north. Official fireworks in one place and only a few smaller displays from individuals. In NL, they’ve been going off since early this morning, I’m sure, as they did when I lived there.

This is going under the radar, but looks like the CDC guidelines for masking are switching back to COVID-19 Community *TRANSMISSION* levels instead of "Community levels."

That means the CDC now recommends universal masking for **71%** of counties in the US, instead of only 9%.

#COVID #COVID19

Artle #237
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https://www.nga.gov/Artle

Always a relief when I get it in one! 😉 #artquiz #artle #arthistory #art #ArtHistorian

So Ratzi is dead. #deadpope #pope

I think I’m having some chili for lunch.

Oh hey, let’s cram in some more anxiety attacks today to round out a year in which I tried to get some mental health help, but ultimately got nowhere and need to try again next year. Yay. Than god for the Xanax at least. It helps take the edge off for a few minutes. #fuckinganxiety #anxiety #mentalhealth

@Larhanya @adlpated @0CynicalBastard I’m sorry you can’t visit your mum, either. It’s hard.

Eggnog is made, but I think I’ll save it for watching silly Christmas movies. Not in a good mental place to go through hassle of decorating tree, and I’ll have to start work right at beginning of new year, so taking it down will just be another thing that must be done. We don’t really celebrate and I don’t get to do my traditions for various reasons. Bah humbug. #Christmas #MentalHealth #MultiCultural

@Larhanya @adlpated @0CynicalBastard this! My father died in summer of 2019, a week after I returned to Italy from the US. I was supposed to go back to US to see my mother in spring of 2020. Obviously that didn’t happen. My husband had a stroke in 2018. I can’t risk travel for either of them or myself as I’m sole caregiver and already mentally broken. 😭😭Knowing stroke life, I do live in fear of covid.

The Covid-19 Pandemic is not over. Because so many people have decided to ignore it, it will probably never be over. There are a few things you, everyone should know about Covid-19

1. More people have been hospitalized in 2022, and more people have died in 2022 with Covid-19 infections.

2. Catching Covid does not protect you from catching Covid again.

3. Covid is not a respiratory illness. Covid infects your sinuses, lungs, digestive tract, skin, brain, liver, blood.

4. A "mild" infection is one that does not focus on your lungs. That doesn't mean it's not bad, none of your internal organs have nerve endings that tell you they're hurting. What tells you they're hurting is when they start to fail, and you die.

5. A heart infection, which you will not notice, silently tears your heart apart. Heart failure, heart attack, stroke, and blood clots are likely in a heart infection.

6. Loss of taste/smell (one of the first things about Covid that was considered strange) means it's attacking your brain. Brain damage isn't reversible, the brain can re-route things, restore full or partial function. Whatever was in the part destroyed though? Lost forever

7. Blood infection. If your blood is infected with Covid, it will slowly lose the ability to carry oxygen. You will die gasping for breath, even if your lungs are in great shape.

Saying Covid is over is going to kill people, more each year as we move forward - PUT ON A GOOD FUCKING MASK AND STOP PRETENDING THIS IS OVER, IT'S NOT OVER, AND IT'S GETTING WORSE.

Just an aside, Covid-19 can also cause Erectile Dysfunction in men. Don't want a flaccid, floppy boner for the rest of your life? Don't want dates to laugh at your impotence and move on to someone else? Put on the damned mask.

OH, and then there's Long Covid - Covid infections that attack your brain especially, and leave you with lingering fogginess, confusion, never ending fatigue... Basically a Covid caused version of MS. You're disabled, or partially disabled, for the rest of your life.

#WearAMask #COVID19 #SARS2 #CovidIsNotOver #WeAreInTrouble #WeAreInDanger

@galand2dogs @Stripymoggie the angle may be an issue, but there should absolutely be more accessibility. A constant issue everywhere.