Updated, because... you know. #Covid for doctors, hot new masks, voice amplification while masking, very accurate at-home tests, The #LongCovid Game (Haunted Woods), community connections, what to do if you catch Covid, clean air tools, testing tips, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/huge-free-covid-86871700

just learned one can quickly visit historical directory locations in fish shell with alt-left, then forward in history with alt-right

one can alternatively type "prevd" or "nextd"

one more thing, "cdh" can be used to list all dirs that have been visited, with an option to visit any of them quickly

#fishshell

People don't "contract" covid in hospital. They are socially murdered by a heartless system and individual people unwilling to take even the most basic infection control protocols.

Stop saying individuals seeking care are responsible for the harm done to them by carelessness and dereliction of duty.

This is preventable. This doesn't need to happen.

‘Star Wars’ actor Kenneth Colley dead at 87 after contracting COVID, pneumonia.

The 87-year-old British actor was taken to hospital with an arm injury following a fall but soon contracted COVID, which then developed into pneumonia.

Source: https://archive.md/gZRVo

@auscovid19

this feels weird to explicitly ask, but if you've had a positive experience with ur #tangara can you get in the comments? it's hard to keep my head in a good place when i'm struggling financially and yet still spending a large chunk of my time assembling units and responding to issues/emails and so much of what i see about it is where it's gone wrong or someone is unhappy. some positivity could really help me rn i think.

@ailurux I love mine - it really helps me get through work in a way that other music sources can't.

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

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I've been working on Fedilab and few other open source projects since around 2017. It was a so good experience, having your feedback and your help. At the time I was financially comfortable and it helped me to spend time to develop useful software. But now, I am unfortunately facing some bad events in life. Each month started to be harder for me. I simply don't know how to ask you to help me financially. I have been accepting donations, but it has been to help the projects, not me personally.

Having some fun modifying the fw on my Tangara. Looks pretty great with Album Art @jacqueline #tangara

@nelbium wow!! Please consider contributing this! There's already an issue for it: https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/issues/46
@jacqueline

have a little hedgehog being washed, as a treat

When I say "Good Morning" in my meetings, I'm being passive-aggressive to the offshore team that my company is replacing me with.

Anyone need a Linux systems engineer?

@ailurux I'm sorry. I think we all appreciate seeing as much of you as we can get, when you like. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

found on the internet today: thnickels.

https://thick-coins.net/

Heyo, here's an #Otter

Can we give all COVID variants names like this so people will FINALLY take it seriously?

A related thing I wish would stop being repeated in COVID-realist spaces is that the "disabled need to be protected" from the virus.

NO! EVERYONE NEEDS PROTECTION!

Nobody is immune to COVID. Nobody is immune to Long COVID. There is no cure for Long COVID.

Most people are catching COVID between 1 and 4 times per year.

Everyone infected with COVID develops some new health issues that began shortly after their first infection. That COVID might have caused these issues is a foreign concept to many folks suffering from COVID-induced issues. These same folks do not see themselves as disabled, vulnerable, or even as having Long COVID, and will not think to consider themselves as needing protection when we talk about "protecting the vulnerable" from (further) harm.

To say that the language we use to discuss this ongoing public health atrocity is "lacking" would be an understatement.

I'm appalled at claims I've seen in various supposedly COVID-realist circles that the virus has apparently "evolved to become milder" despite the fact that there is no evidence for this. None whatsoever.

The reasons why fewer people appear to be dying from the virus are:

• No one can die twice (vulnerable populations have already been culled by fascist governments worldwide who used the virus to save money on long-term care)
• No one tests anymore (medical care providers have effectively stopped testing altogether)
• Vaccines (which do significantly reduce the chances of dying even though they don't significantly reduce the odds of becoming infected or developing Long COVID)
• Deaths are being misattributed (50-year-olds dying of heart attacks? NotCOVID™! Healthy and fit seniors experiencing swift decline after a bout with COVID, only to die shortly after? It's just old age!)

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsNotMild #WearARespirator

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children.

"Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health"

"So many children are getting Long COVID because COVID causes Long COVID, and children are not “immune” to COVID, they are not becoming healthier with each infection, and the adults around them are doing nothing to mitigate the virus."

"So if COVID is a virus that can disable them, damages their blood vessels, raises their risk of heart failure and cardiac arrest, causes autoimmune disorders, diabetes, and a range of mental health and cognitive problems, then we’d be doing something really awful by failing to deal with, or even acknowledge it. Maybe even unforgiveable."

Source: https://archive.md/c8aSv

@auscovid19