Sadly, this investment for Long COVID is needed because public health and governments chose not to acknowledge that COVID is airborne so the proper measures were not put in place to protect the public. The infrastructure wasn't upgraded over the past 3 years of the pandemic to provide clean air for everyone (like we expect to have safe clean drinking water, https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/01/11/Revolution-Clean-Indoor-Air/). 8/

Meanwhile, even quite relatively successful mid-level bands and artists can barely afford to tour anymore because CD sales used to put gas in vans and buy food and that's gone replaced by nothing.

Musicians will keep working harder than anyone could imagine, touring is a nightmare 24/7 slog where once a night you also have to be able to generate enough energy to make a bunch of people's night a special unique experience for them, while you are doing it for the 20th consecutive night.

They will put their youth, or their whole lives into creating these things that are so meaningful to everyone, and they will lose money, and mostly find themselves old with little in the way of job prospects once you guys are done using their ideas to give your liges meaning.

People take it for granted, and think music is an unending well of meaning you can just take and take and take from as long as it serves your needs and capitalism makes it available to you.

You will never be required to understand your role in the systems of capitalism in order to participate.

And having it pointed out that you are participating in exploitation made possible by corporate control of technology isn't a specific personal attack on you, so "yeah but I really like the..blah blah blah" response isn't good enough.

Do you think musicians should be robbed of the frankly already pitiful amount of money we have traditionally received for putting our entire lives into something that almost everyone considers massively important in their lives?

Are you willing to give yourself a little less though?

Mostly everyone is willing to pay lip service.

I like the ones who actually punch the nazis, the ones who confront the transphobes and make it awkward, I like the rifle club people who go protect the drag queen story hour, I like the people who give money directly to people who need it even when they don't have much because rich ppl wont, I like the people who confront their friends about toxic behaviour

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

@adar Mazel Tov!

Growing up, I had three sisters. One of them was a quiet child, often angry or sullen and sometimes cruel.

One day that person went away.

And then I had a brother.

He was cheerful and warm, finally comfortable in a body he'd wanted his entire life.

Conservatives want to eradicate my brother. I'm here to say that's not going to happen.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

@hadarbatjoyce Thanks

In an attempt to expand my Jewish library does anyone have any recs for books written by Black or brown jews, queer jews, disabled jews, or jews with other marginalised identities?

@sheepchase Thanks

@hauntedhideaway Thanks

Cissexism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

@raf Thanks

I've got covid.

Probably no thanks to a certain shul that wouldn't want to spend money on air sanitization, and to myself for not coping with yet longer social isolation and isolation from my religion.

Good Shabbos.

fascists can so easily get what they want despite being vastly outnumbered by non-fascists because what most non-fascists want more than justice is peace and quiet. as long as they aren't being personally targeted by said fascists, non-fascists will appease the shit out of the fash just so they don't have to face any disruption.

it's the playbook. it's always been the playbook.

We need to stop taking anyone seriously, that tell us to "tolerate" people who want to take away other people's civil rights. That's not what tolerance is.

I do not say this lightly: the people organizing the push to eradicate trans people from public life are white Christian nationalists, who are the intellectual descendants of the Nazis--who were also, among other things, white Christian nationalists. Yes, this includes Rowling who openly associates with these people.

This is commonly known in trans communities but many otherwise well-meaning cis people still think this is hyperbole. It is not.

https://hachyderm.io/@rain/109873122589910404

Remember friends, if you subdivide people into "men" and "women + non-binary" then you do not have a non-binary worldview. You've just drawn a slightly different binary.

Sometimes you just need to be vocally trans inclusive to make sure you don’t have any TERFy followers. They’re like invasive plant species. You can’t let them take root or they might spread.

@bosheshabayis Yes I meant that. What are the not great explanations?