So looking at Twitter and active fronts of combat now include Covid-worriers vs. normie libs and… young unionization fans? While Mastodon is apparently schisming – and given its federated architecture that’s not hyperbole –between bluecheck journalists and… trans activists?
Like, I know I had predicted this year would see the online left start to fracture solidarity and fall into infighting, but that’s some Mad Libs shit right there
While back in meatspace Brooklyn is getting worked up with Black/Jewish tensions. Like, what?
So looking at Twitter and active fronts of combat now include Covid-worriers vs. normie libs and… young unionization fans? While Mastodon is apparently schisming – and given its federated architecture that’s not hyperbole –between bluecheck journalists and… trans activists?
Like, I know I had predicted this year would see the online left start to fracture solidarity and fall into infighting, but that’s some Mad Libs shit right there
Just saw someone reblog some Goncharov post tagged #unreality and hoo boy, are the people who wanted warning tags for that stuff probably having a suddenly weird week on here
Ah, okay, now I’m experiencing some delirium, and not only have I continued to misplace things, but I’ve realized from the count of Badger’s cat food not lining up (I give him 2/3 of a can for each meal, rotating between 4 flavors every 3 meals, so 2 cans, so I should never have an odd amount of one flavor unless I have a 1/3 full one of that flavor in the fridge, but now I do) I’ve been screwing that up somehow; I did that sometimes back in the depths of mental stuff. Also I think I might be back to a limit on how many steps ahead (and how many substeps per step) I can think
Also I might be like ½ to 1 scoops of creatine into energy deficit but I’m gonna let it ride to see if I can get the undertow effect
Oh, and judging from how my mind derails into sex every 15 seconds, the hypersexuality is back too.
…okay update: besides emos my taste in men includes femboys. You will also recall that I’m a top, switchy I guess, but “taking it up the ass” is something I mostly associate with being pegged, by women.
I have as much fucked up shit – well, I don’t know if “fucked up” is even right, it’s not really a problem, but weirdly constructed shit – around gender and sexuality as you might expect from someone who (gynophilically, autistically?) identified as a girl in adolescence, gave it up, and then in adulthood became bisexual, had his whole personality wiped, and then had to construct a new one while delirious under the effects of a brain disease, while physically isolated but on [tumblr] as his only point of contact with the world.
Ah, okay, now I’m experiencing some delirium, and not only have I continued to misplace things, but I’ve realized from the count of Badger’s cat food not lining up (I give him 2/3 of a can for each meal, rotating between 4 flavors every 3 meals, so 2 cans, so I should never have an odd amount of one flavor unless I have a 1/3 full one of that flavor in the fridge, but now I do) I’ve been screwing that up somehow; I did that sometimes back in the depths of mental stuff. Also I think I might be back to a limit on how many steps ahead (and how many substeps per step) I can think
Also I might be like ½ to 1 scoops of creatine into energy deficit but I’m gonna let it ride to see if I can get the undertow effect
Ah, okay, now I’m experiencing some delirium, and not only have I continued to misplace things, but I’ve realized from the count of Badger’s cat food not lining up (I give him 2/3 of a can for each meal, rotating between 4 flavors every 3 meals, so 2 cans, so I should never have an odd amount of one flavor unless I have a 1/3 full one of that flavor in the fridge, but now I do) I’ve been screwing that up somehow; I did that sometimes back in the depths of mental stuff. Also I think I might be back to a limit on how many steps ahead (and how many substeps per step) I can think
When we think of TV during the heyday of Friends, we usually think about scores of other sitcoms about white twentysomethings, because that’s what most of the wannabes were. There are some notable examples that did more, however, and I’m offering you this clip from the 1995-1996 Fox sitcom The Crew as an example of it doing classic sitcom mix-em-ups but with a more diverse cast. It’s the episode we’re coving on this week’s installment of my LGBTQ TV podcast, Gayest Episode Ever.
This show was not conceived of as an anti-Friends, but it really works as a response to Friends, because it does some things Friends never really tried to. Two of the five sexy young people in the opening credits are black, one of those black characters is the lead character, and one of the white characters is queer. Which is a lot more than you’d see on The Single Guys, Caroline in the City or Suddenly Susan.
It’s a very Fox take on this sort of show, and even if it only lasted a season, I think the people who made it deserve a little respect for bothering to make a show that looks a little more like real life than what was reflected elsewhere on mid-90s TV. Also, this particular episode has an explicitly bi character, which don’t come along often in this era.
This is the kind of stuff I love covering on Gayest Episode Ever, because sometimes there’s actually a lot to be said about the TV that’s less remembered today.
Canadian health-worriers like “we need mask mandates back!” and like, yes, pediatric respiratory disease is in a surge this year that is already far exceeding hospital capacity and if not somehow suppressed will see many children die who within capacity were saveable.
At the same time, last time we gave those public health types an inch they took a mile. Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”?
Inch store’s closed.
they also caused it themselves by suppressing pediatric infections for two years, with the implicit idea of eternal public health tyranny, so
Eh, a lot of the naive “immunity debt” stuff is as if an immune system that just hasn’t been taxed in general will be weaker against any particular infection, and that’s not really how it works
Now, immune systems need exposure to some particular virus to develop antibodies against it, a lot of childhood illnesses work like you’ll probably catch it at some point in your first 7 years or so and then as your immune system learns to produce antibodies you recover and it won’t be an issue for the rest of your life
And keeping kids home from congregate settings like (pre)school might mean they didn’t get specific things in those years so they all get them at once when they go back, with this delay weakening the herd immunity that sees things go in localized waves when the vulnerable pop gets high enough and then dying out when enough get it and develop immunity that reduces the local vulnerable population below sustainability
So I could see that explain some of more infections at once than usual, but not the infections being particularly aggressive and debilitating, like we’re hearing. I do suspect it’s Covid. “Long Covid” is it spreading from initial “beachhead” in the lungs, which are often where infections arrive and set up to be good at clearing themselves out, to other systems.
And symptoms vary with exactly where it spreads to. My first case, which spread to the nerves and brain, presented totally differently than the second which somehow affected the blood sugar->ATP pipeline (in the bloodstream? In the pancreas screwing up insulin?), causing fatigue.
And so it’s believable that some kids had it spread in a way that undermined their immune system, and wasn’t noticed in the absence of other disease but as we approach the winter and respiratory diseases go around they’re more vulnerable.
I suspect this is what happened to Jair Bolsonaro, too, why he’s caught stuff constantly since his first Covid case. I also think the delayed appearance is also similar to reports of increased strokes and heart attacks in the year after Covid, as in some people it spread to the heart or blood vessels in ways that didn’t directly kill at the time but rendered them less resilient to lethal stressors from then on.
You know it’s been a while since I’ve seen [tumblr] slagged as the mental health self-diagnosis site, but in the past decade+ I have diagnosed myself (or at least the old personality in retrospect) as bipolar and autistic with an anxiety disorder largely off recognizing myself in people’s posts, not to mention the part where I blogged my way through a crippling brain infection
bc sometimes you just want a little mood music for re-reading the handbook and plotting galactic domination (or for writing a darkfic or battle-scene).
Schnittke: Seid nuchtern und wachet (Faust Cantata); VII. Es geschah (It came to pass) IT’S AN EVIL TANGO. ABOUT FAUST. BEING DRAGGED. INTO THE UNDERWORLD. Come on.
Ah, now I’m getting the looseness at the waist and shoulders. I guess if these echo effects can recur and then be gone hours later it’s reassurance that even the first time it was just nerves being affected, and not that they were dying off and recovery was just rerouting around
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