people who don’t have boops on, I respect your peace but also picture me standing outside your blog scratching the door like a cat wanting to be let in

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boop (have you eaten today? have you drank water? are you doing well? i love you. i wish you the best)

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I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

Sure there's zombies killing and eating people on the street but those people are not dying from the virus they're dying from comorbidities. For instance, that guy we saw getting eaten on the way into work today clearly died from blood loss, not infection, plus he already had a heart condition. People with preexisting conditions are just going to have to take care of themselves. Say it with me, "They're all already dead to me." See, that feels a lot better now doesn't it?

Good because you still have to go to work. No we're not paying you extra. Yes we're doubling grocery prices. No you don't qualify for disability. Or healthcare. Or a home.

Look, if you get bitten, you can stay home for one day, I guess 😒, but then you need to come in early. We're really short staffed at the moment, despite our company's profits being higher than ever. In fact we may be laying some of you off next month. You don't mind working off the clock right?

Also you look silly with that protective gear. We're gonna harass you for it, not like institutionally but just socially. Who cares if a zombie attacks you? Who cares if we invite them into the building? You don't need to defend yourself, you're just overreacting. If you get bitten just tell everyone the festering bite mark is from a different animal, that's what we all do.

And hey, don't worry so much. It's endemic, which means we don't have to keep track of how many people are dying from it anymore. Just look at those numbers! It's only killed 2,000 people in America this week! That's basically nobody! We're back to normal!

If everything starts tasting like rotting meat for the rest of your life, it's probably something else. If you experience brain fog or you forget things constantly or you're tired all the time after even minor physical activity, it's just because you're lazy. Yes every other virus you ever get will also be increasingly worse but that's just a coincidence. Those viruses just happen to be exponentially worse now.

Plus, those few weeks during the lockdown were terrible for my mental health. I just can't keep living like that, so we have to go back to normal life, which now involves people biting each other and twitching uncontrollably and rotting visibly.

You can't expect the world to wait for you. "Already dead to me," remember?

for people who would like to support anti-covid (and anti-eugenics) policies: International Long Covid Awareness Day is March 15! A lot of anti-covid advocacy orgs around the world are planning various things; please consider supporting one near you!

For people in the US: Long Covid DC is planning a protest on March 15th 2024.

They are asking people to attend in person in Washington DC at the Lincoln Memorial (masks required, extra masks available if you need one), or virtually on twitch.

You can also participate ahead of time by emailing them stories you'd like to be shared at the event (either text or videos!)

if you can't participate but still want to support: they are asking people to help them raise awareness about this! If you can directly share their posts, or news articles about the protest, that's probably the most helpful, but following their socials and just clicking the news articles still helps them in the algorithms! (Forbes; Mercury News; The Sick Times; USA Today; US News.)

Mutuals I am putting a handwritten valentine card with a red lollipop taped to it, into your shoebox you decorated for Valentine's Day.

this holiday season, don’t forget about the people in our community who are institutionalized. Psych wards, inpatient units, and residential treatment centers are difficult and traumatizing places even on a good day, and holidays can be even more challenging days bringing reminders of everything we’re missing, spending times away from our loved ones, and having a harder time coping with the every day violence of incarceration. institutionalization is dehumanizing, creates forced isolation and cuts mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent people off from our support systems. it’s so crucial for us on the outside to make sure that people currently institutionalized know that they have not been forgotten, they matter and have a place outside of the psych ward, and that they deserve respect, care, and support.

consider trying to deliver care packages to a psych hospital near you this winter. find a hospital or ward, call a visitor information number to ask for restrictions on what you can bring, and deliver some small things to bring a tiny bit of joy into some patients day. some good things to bring can be books, some types of fidget toys, packaged snacks, and letters and cards with words of support.

if you’re in the UK, the campaign for psychiatric abolition is organizing to deliver care packages to psych hospitals throughout the UK-consider coordinating with them.

please don’t forget about people locked up, this month and always. one of the biggest contributing factors that enables psych wards to get away with abuse is the fact that so many people are willing and eager to discard mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent people and don’t want to embrace the fact that we are here and that we are living in your neighborhood. it’s a lot easier to get away with abusing us when everyone’s okay with forgetting that we exist and wanting to push us to the edges of society. just. do what you can to remind people psychiatrically incarcerated that they are not forgotten, they are valued, and they are cared. it means more than I can say.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) albino, family Trochilidae, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

photograph by ryany1117

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this is probably going around here like several times, but you can order 4 more free covid tests starting today. if you didn't order any back in september/october (I hadn't heard about it, so I hadn't gotten more tests), you might be able to get up to 8. it just told me 'hey you can get more' and let me do it again, it was very easy to do.

if you're like 'well, I should leave that for people who need it!' don't. order them. stockpile them. the more the program is used, the more likely it is that it will remain a funded program and send the message that covid-19 is still a concern. use the program. there's no needs testing, no nothing, just put in your name and address. if nothing else, you can give a couple to a friend who has a larger family, since it's a per household thing and some people might need more or less, or a mutual aid group in your area, or something. the more people who do this, the more likely they are to keep reupping this program.

post from november 20th 2023!