Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@qoto.org

Our preparations for the next pandemic should begin in the places and communities that Covid hit hardest and first. Upgrades to the infrastructure of our nursing homes, factory floors, and crowded public spaces must be a first order of business. …Meaningful plans for protecting the highest-risk members of our society in public and private spaces should be our top priority.”

“As journalist Amy Maxmen has written, “If pandemic preparedness plans leave out discrimination, labor protection, fairer wages & access to healthcare and education, we fail again.” The usual rule is: Once burned, twice shy. Yet the United States remains a tinderbox for new infectious pathogens to be set alight.”

Some people only come into your life for a brief moment in time and thank fuck for that.

Not going well for the TN GOP😃. A fed judge has temp. halted: drag ban; ACLU/Lambda Legal have filed a fed lawsuit against the ban on gender affirming care; gun safety activists & clergy have held sustained protests at the Capitol after the mass shooting & the 2 “Justins”-expelled were reinstated. The press & the Justins of the world have made this much clear: The GOP isn't safe from accountability, not anywhere, not even in the reddest, most unfairly stacked state leg--: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/gnashville?sd=pf

The forgotten tub of garlic cloves in the back of our refrigerator would like everyone to know that life does, in fact, find a way. Sometimes more than one.

B.C. governments portray the province a climate leader.

Yet six other provinces have surpassed B.C. in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions since 2005. 🌎🇨🇦

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/04/21/BC-Lags-Most-Provinces-Cutting-Emissions/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=042123-m&utm_campaign=editorial

Imagination conjured up organ transplants, the surveillance state and talking to our computers.

“I question how good we are at imagining climate action.“

Jude Isabella on how to get unstuck on a fossil fuel future. 🌎
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/04/21/Nuclear-Weapons-Fossil-Fuels/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=042123-m&utm_campaign=editorial

You know about binary, at least a little. Its a numbering system. The one you know best is the base ten system. You count up to ten, and that becomes a group called ten, two are called twenty, etc. Binary counts to two. One, ten, eleven, "a hundred" (its not called a hundred) 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000

Some inuit kids invented a written system for the ancient inuit base 20 numbering system.

The inuit count in base 20. And the numbers are fascinating.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals

And just like that, Twitter’s blue checkmark is the new MAGA hat.

Danielle Smith has been fixated on privatizing health care for her entire career.

Putting her in control of public health care is having the fox guard the hen house.

#ableg #abpoli #abhealth
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-smiths-health-care-guarantee-goes-against-her-own-basic-plans-and-convictions

I want to tell parents of trans kids under attack in the red states something:

This is simply horrifying. Like you, we can't understand how any politicians could stoop so low as to attack the most vulnerable among us.

You are strong, and we will fight for and beside you. And though we may lose these initial battles, your love and strength will help win this in the end. I know that to be true.

Totally captures how I feel these days.

@hannu_ikonen It's not an accident that fascists seek to instill a state of nihilism in the portion of the population they know they are unlikely to convert or able to adequately enforce.

Great to see Ed Yong back with another critical piece about why some are so invested in minimizing #LongCOVID and the people who are being most impacted by this pandemic.

"The people who still live with #COVID are being ignored so that everyone else can live with ignoring it."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/04/long-covid-symptoms-invisible-disability-chronic-illness/673773/

#OnMyWalk to a hedge of beautiful azaleas! Pink flowers are SOOO festive! Hope you have love and flowers in your life! Sending you some from me! #BeKind #ReachOut #MaskUp Sending Love To You All💗🌷💗🥳💗🌸💗🎉💗🌼💗🥳💗🌸💗🌷💗🥳💗🌸💗🌷💗🎉💗🌼💗🌷

**Europe**
**Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need**
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/