"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Maker & abolitionist; critic of pandemic apologism & the ableism of the Left.

Muckraking dataviz & generativist #lumpentheory.

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Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.

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Masks are empathy fashion.
Own it—make it yours.

If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡 ass to someone else's mentions.

#CovidCautious
#Disability #CripTheory 🗡🥄

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2024-07-04 05:17:48

Well-meaning ableists who only understand ongoing pandemic as acute symptoms…
Are like well-meaning white people who only understand systemic racism as specific encounters.

2024-06-24 13:02:30

We shall not resolve a short circuit of collective #mourning by shaming a stage of grief in its incompletion.
Disparagement of mourning is itself mourning incomplete. Angry refusal of this truth is itself denial.
A denial that has been long with us, longer than our pandemic, longer even than #RentierSociety.
Chaucer has Theseus berate mourners on the road for disturbing his festivities; then chastise Palamon & Emelye for continuing to mourn Arcite.
Such #GriefTaboo is all our "Long Denial".

2024-06-17 02:42:01

Constant ableist drumbeat of "road fatalities are up because covid" is gonna result in efforts to revoke the right to drive, in a country that makes driving necessary to so many as a means of survival.
Meanwhile, fatalities will continue to increase as more and more of the remaining drivers on the road occupy more & still more larger vehicles that give them an embodied sense of their own safety, rendering those around them as at once insignificant and responsible for anything that may go wrong.

2024-06-13 20:17:39

Fascism is not a person.
Fascism is not a party.
Fascism is a society.
White supremacism.
Health supremacism.
We've been here a long time.
All that's changed is intensity.

2024-06-02 03:36:17

During my childhood, there was a mail-order company that sold gift-baskets of individually wrapped bite-sized cheese wedges.
Sort of thing one would get someone of a certain generation as a holiday gift, that you'd only see sold retail in a shopping mall with enough foot traffic to justify said company having an outlet there.
Of course, can't recall what this company was (or perhaps still is) called. Search engines if 2024, as one might imagine, are no help for such historical trivia.
Anyone?

2024-05-31 01:11:35

Just imagine how many avian influenza cases would be detected if there were a proactive farm worker testing effort.
#BirdFluBegins #PublicHealth #AvianFlu #BirdFlu #CovidIsNotOver

2024-05-30 03:56:46

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@npub1mm5…9qt8 To be clear, this is Andrew File System, or something else?

2024-05-28 23:52:10

"Last week, I resigned from my post at the United States Department of the Interior, becoming the first Jewish politically appointed administration official to publicly resign in protest – and in #mourning – of President Biden’s endorsement of genocide in Gaza, where more than 35,000 Palestinians have been murdered."
~ Lily Greenberg Call
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/28/biden-israel-gaza-policy
It is time for a politics of mourning.
Mourning is a place of power.

2024-05-28 08:17:09

"I think the missing item here, the thing that they really want us to forget…true object of all this forgetting, is the George Floyd Uprising.
"They want us to forget that, a mere four years ago, the president of the United States cowered in a bunker underneath the White House as rioters shook the gates and destroyed the guardhouse….They want us to forget what it felt like to take the streets with one another, they want us to forget that we fought the police and won…"
https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been-told-to-forget/

2024-05-17 00:17:42

For anyone who may have missed the memo:
That anti-disability law is also an anti-sedition law…
Coming soon to a state legislature near you…
Just as those anti-homeless laws are also anti-protest laws.
Beginning to see a pattern?
#disaccommodation #classposture

2024-05-16 20:09:57

Frankly, surprised it took as long as it did.
Expected mask ban hammer to come down in 2022.
Here's the thing about Democrats in North Carolina's senate trying to amend the law to make it only a pretext for arresting protestors…
To wear a mask is to protest.
Hell, no, I will not willfully participate in the preventable harm of myself and others!
Hell, no, we won't go quietly into the pandemic night!
The idea that one can separate medical masking from protest masking is height of privilege.

2024-05-16 04:10:45

Insubordination.
That is, not just following orders.
That is, not being a fascist.
Insubordination.

2024-05-14 19:23:03

To believe who's in charge is all that matters, is to believe that you yourself are not part of the problem.

2024-05-12 07:31:13

The thing about the trolley problem is that it contemplates only the switch and the track immediately beyond.
The thing about track is that it can run for as long as one has ground to cover.
And there's no guarantee of a switch anywhere outside of frame.
But you can be sure there are more people tied down—that's a given.
Also, this ain't a runaway trolley. Is operating as designed; with purpose.
If your attention's on the switch, you're not paying attention.
[A subtoot about electoralism.]

2024-05-03 08:15:34

Fascism is not, never has been, and never will be a person.
Fascism is sum totality of institutions that platform the fascist, that give air to the fascist, that places the fascist in position of power.
For someone elected to office to speak fascist "talking points" is not to indict that officeholder. Is to indict society that enabled that person to stand for election.
A critique merely of the fascist, and not of fascism, seeks to rebuke what the system does—while holding the system innocent.

2024-05-01 21:09:30

Scanning over HR 6090, and noting that the document repeatedly references IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism—without ever actually incorporating said definition into the body of the legislation.
This is a bill making a crime to criticize another country—that manages to avoid ever mentioning that country in its text.
Of course, this is also a bill to make it a crime to criticize our own country, insofar as that criticism goes to our funding and arming of the country that will not be named.

2024-04-28 21:34:11

Wrote previously of difference between fighting fascists, on one hand, and fighting fascism, on the other.
One might punch a Nazi, or two, or five, even a whole hoard of such, yet however much catharsis and yes—momentary safety—such fisticuffs may provide, this Whac-A-Mole serves to divert energy & attention from the machinery that generates a continuous supply of fist-ready targets.
The generators of fascists, these being fascism, must be taken on. This is the work student protests are doing.

2024-04-25 22:59:33

"Zionism isn't just colonialism, it's worse, it's millions of historically persecuted people turning to fascism because of generational trauma. It demonstrates that just because someone is from persecuted minority, doesn't meant that violence and power can't corrupt them just the same."
https://cohost.org/shel/post/188509-zionism-isn-t-what-p

2024-04-25 00:27:55

A reminder, as always, that fascism ain't about hate.
Fascism is about control.
Hate is just an inescapably powerful means of control.
Thus fascists leverage hate to its utmost. It is a means.
This is how people who have been the targets of fascism can nonetheless, themselves, be fascist.
This is how institutions ostensibly aimed at checking fascism, can nonetheless, operationally, be fascist.

2024-04-23 11:18:50

What's staggering about NASA getting Voyager 1 to resume sending data...
Is that we don't write software like that anymore.

2024-04-01 23:48:25

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@npub1r4h…u0jf That would take energy.

2024-04-01 20:45:42

Am sure someone smarter than myself has already pointed out that the whole UX idiom of "later" as only alternative to "yes" is painfully evocative of rape culture⋯
If someone hasn't already offered up this connection⋯ ah, well⋯ you're welcome???
#consent

2024-03-24 20:20:34

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@npub1ecp…59pq @npub17gd…a8lw
Cursory search doesn't turn up anything after 2018. Seems they weren't staying healthy even then.
"Flight attendants are some of…most understudied workers, yet studies have shown reduced respiratory and cardiovascular health, increased breast cancer, melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma risk, and higher rates of musculoskeletal conditions, ALS, anxiety, depression, and fatigue disorders among aircrew."
Fatigue disorders.
https://www.fahealth.org/about/

2024-03-21 22:34:51

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@npub1mm5…9qt8 Some of that terminology is my own. You can try hashtag search here on fedi to get more context for those terms.
"Bourgeoisie" was already antiquated (of the Ancien Régime) when Marx repurposed it in another era. In 2024, such discursive anachronism unfortunately serves to elide and obfuscate the tensegrity of socio-material relations we are so beknottedly bound up in.

2024-03-21 20:54:10

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@npub1mm5…9qt8 Were such a scenario to unfold, it would be those of oligarch classposture who would reap the rent-bounty harvest.
Those of perquisitive classposture would be moaning about devaluation of their vested ego-value—as the unworthy of conveyancée, disaccommodation and conquistadas classpostures access perks, such as food, that they hadn't "earned" under the Frostean bargain—even as those perquisitive classposture folk see greedflation eviscerate the exchange-value they worked so hard for.

2024-03-21 20:14:45

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@npub1mm5…9qt8 Every time someone posts about UBI, all I can think about is about the monopoly rent-bounty harvest that would follow were such ever more than limited trials.

2024-03-21 19:51:59

Waiting for anti-trust actions against food giants and other packaged goods companies.
Tech monopolies are a good start, though.

2024-03-18 03:44:20

#UBI, true UBI, truly universal, requires trust busting.
There's no escaping this.
Otherwise will just be more #RentBounty for harvest.
#RentierSociety #lumpentheory

2024-03-17 19:06:34

Pantomime is about pretending to be incompetent to get your audience revved up.
#KayfabePanto is about pretending to be incompetent to get the other guy's marks revved up.
When we see someone of the first estate doing something that their opponents will make hay with, ain't that they're bad at this.
They want that shit stirred. That's why they laid a big turd on stage for all to see.
The louder opposition marks yell, the louder one's own marks get in response.
They know what they're doing.

2024-03-14 20:51:03

To give a sense of how badly our #hospitals are doing:
A friend went to emergency room recently.
She had to be treated in her street clothes, because they were out of hospital gowns.
But, you know, cases are down, so everything fine, right?
#CovidIsNotOver

2024-03-08 22:28:32

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Police broke in. Handcuffed her, and took her to a psychiatric hospital naked, breaking her phone (which she had been using to record the altercation) in the process.

2024-03-08 21:28:23

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Am being told that the police are insisting she allow EMS in to give her a wellness check.
EMS is nowhere to be seen. EMS is not there. Just five cops outside her door.
But now building security is involved, and they're likely gonna force their way into her apartment.
Roommate was pushed into an elevator and told she'll be arrested if she goes to neighbor's floor again.

2024-03-08 20:57:54

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My 86 year old roommate is going back to try and get the police to back off. They've already told her once to leave, claiming she's "only making things worse".
Who in #NYC can we call for intercession here?

2024-03-08 20:51:47

#EMERGENCY
We have a neighbor who's been homebound… since before our pandemic… with a skin infection that makes it painful to wear clothing. She does not leave her apartment and relies on us and others to help her with things.
There are presently five police officers outside her door demanding she go with them. Our local social services non-profit is refusing to get involved, saying to let the police handle it: "They're professionals."
Anyone in #NYC who can intervene as a patient advocate?

2024-03-06 22:26:39

Absentee ballot arrived in our household.
In #NYS, there's no option to vote "uncommitted", "no preference" or any other write-in variation on same. Prominent warning that any mark outside the three options provided invalidates the ballot.
This as we're learning that near one in five participants in the Democratic Minnesota primary have voted uncommitted, over one in ten in North Carolina, near one in ten in Massachusetts.

2024-03-06 20:17:01

CDC's gone full doublespeak.
'Cause of course.
https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/112045003785454578

2024-03-04 00:50:35

How many more would be protesting…
If Leftists and other anti-genocide types could be trusted to wear masks?

2024-02-20 23:36:16

Yeah, Douglas Adams wrote of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses in 1980.
All these Vision Pro memes are two generations behind the times. The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal has already long ago been and gone.

2024-02-05 05:46:42

WHO estimates 21 million covid deaths, of which 7 million reported.
Economist estimates 28.5 million excess pandemic deaths (over 4 times reported covid deaths).
This aligns with rolling U.S. excess deaths, before CDC stopped sharing that weekly data.
For every three dead of covid, another dead of "not covid" that wouldn't have been expected absent covid.
7 million reported covid deaths. 14 million unreported covid deaths. Another 7 million plus excess deaths not counted as covid.
Not over.

2024-01-29 20:18:54

Are you intent on fighting fascism?
Or is your focus on fighting fascists?
Cause if it's the latter, perhaps you might want to think more systemically.
Just sayin'.

2024-01-28 19:40:21

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@npub1j46…3gm7 Don't mind me. Just sitting here with the reality that the UX of following the #UX tag is client-dependent.

2024-01-28 02:36:16

Really was done with fedi for the day. But now need help.
Anyone able to identify these? Found them on rear axle of a #Rollator walker, upon disassembling to examine the bearings. The opposite wheel has two of the smaller bits.
None of the parts diagrams for this walker have these parts identified. Recall that the drugstore (now out of business) that made repairs previously did something to reinforce the rear axles/wheels.
Want to replace missing smaller bit & figure out compatible bearings.
https://assets.disabled.social/media_attachments/files/111/831/227/830/396/411/original/288e06bdc1026f0f.webp

2024-01-27 22:36:21

Seeing a lot of "bad politics are due to covid brain damage" discourse today, including from those would want to believe ought know better.
Please stop.
The seeds for the orchard that is our current moment were planted well before even the SARS outbreak of 2002. Like decades, if not centuries, before.
When our politics is fascists saying we have to support fascism to defeat the other fascists, please don't try to make sense of health supremacism by resorting to ableism.
It's not a good look.

2024-01-27 20:47:47

Estimated 28.5 million dead thus far during our ongoing pandemic (per Economist models)—including the near three quarter million dead in just the last 3 months—places it third among modern (through 20th century) epidemics:
⒈ 1918 Flu: est. 17-100 million
⒉ HIV/AIDS: 43 million to date (over 40+ years)
⒊ Covid-19: 28.5 million to date (over 4+ years)
⒋ Third Plague (Bubonic): 12-15 million (over 100+ years)
⒌ 1968 Flu: 1-4 million
⒍ 1957 Flu: 1-4 million
⒎ 1918 Russian Typhus: 2-3 million

2024-01-26 20:30:42

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@npub1gmx…atcq Kid you not. Physically lept out of my chair and ran into the next room yelling in celebration to my roommate.
A fucking victory!

2024-01-26 20:21:39

OMFG!
Did I just see news that CDC not only acknowledged the "widespread recognition" of aerosol transmission, but actually told HICPAC—however bureaucratically—where to put their recommendation to weaken infection control procedures‽?!
Did we actually win a victory? However small?
Next you'll be telling me that HICPAC will be getting actual scientists and engineers to round out its membership...
"Hope is a discipline," Mariame Kaba tells us. It takes consistent work.
We're doing that work.

2024-01-24 03:59:48

Are you #CovidCautious or #StillCoviding and wanting to find folk to connect with?
#VoicesOfSolaria is a voice-oriented #cripplepunk / #solarpunk Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.
https://discord.gg/eGyvxqYC
Join us for chore hangs, parallel play, and otherwise keeping one another company hands-free while engaged in daily activities.
Planting a seed. With hope, it grows.

2024-01-23 01:34:35

NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—due to resume.
Census Bureau resumed data collection on January 9, with next data release scheduled February 22.
As more & more folk experience Long Covid, fewer & fewer have been staffing our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/111763075232249115
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2024-01-16 01:39:49

NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—due to resume.
Census Bureau resumed data collection on January 9, with next data release scheduled February 22.
As more & more folk experience Long Covid, fewer & fewer have been staffing our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/111723009082661318
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2024-01-02 01:03:25

NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—are stalled.
Census Bureau latest updated early Nov—still no word on next release or if HPS is set to continue.
As more & more folk experience Long Covid, fewer & fewer have been staffing our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/111643461341420822
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2023-12-28 23:39:32

TFW you've been off-and-on frustratedly looking for something over the course of several days, and that thing has been standing up in plain sight the whole time.

2023-12-26 22:43:33

Anger, like denial, is a face of #mourning There's nothing linear about this teetering, kinetic improvisation.
#Grief would entail struggle to find one's footing even with cultural tools and mutual support and societal empowerment to do so.
That, entering our fifth year, we have none of those things to rely upon, to catch us when we stumble, leaves us all the more unsteady.
World we knew is gone. We can cling to old ways, but they will only hold us in place… even as they fail to hold us up.

2023-12-23 00:29:44

Too many think
The immune system
Is like a muscle,
When it's really
Like a telomere
Or a yellow,
No. 2 pencil:
Senescence ain't
Need for exercise,
But is rather
A wearing… away.
#PublicHealth #poetry
Original: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/111020763066982323

2023-12-23 00:28:39

#Normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
Climate would've killed it—if #covid hadn't.
Yet normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
We only got so many #spoons.
We can bury ourselves or bury the dead.
We only got so many spoons.
Use them wisely.
❖ #lumpentheory
Original: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057