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

if you're trying to coordinate queer escape stuff now would be an EXCELLENT time to get used to using Signal, if you don't already

don't panic - fear is not a good teacher, even when it's warranted. just make whatever plans you can make.

When this is over, we're going to owe Musk a debt of gratitude for demonstrating not just the folly of relying on sociopath billionaires to give us places to speak and collaborate.

He's demonstrated the danger inherent in all centralized services where one person or company can control what we say and do.

It is a stampede:

"Minnesota Public Radio has joined the growing number of public radio stations that are quitting Twitter.

'After much discussion, we concluded that continued use of the social media platform Twitter by our organization was contrary to our mission and core values..Instead of being a neutral and efficient channel for serving the public, Twitter is now actively aiming to undermine the integrity of public media organizations like ours.'"

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-public-radio-to-leave-twitter/600267335/

The science is increasingly clear and a BC study is adding to the knowledge that Covid infections can lead to long-term health issues and increase the chance of diagnoses like diabetes 👇
#ctvnews #bcpoli
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-researchers-find-covid-19-infections-increase-risk-of-diabetes-1.6366415

Remember when you're going through a lot, just making it to the next day is a win in itself. Keep on swimming.

Why are people still using the term "l*ckdowns"? Don't they know that even uttering that word causes permanent immune damage to any children upon which they set eyes until after the next full moon?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11740341/Could-lockdown-left-children-life-long-immunity-problems.html

Seeing this, I think "Some people really thought nicknaming a variant 'Kraken' would terrify people."

Then I think, "Kraken aren't even real. Sharks do exist and kill people."

Then I think, "Mind you, sharks kill ~5 people per year and people kill 100 million sharks per year."

Climate strike week 244. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike

The paradox of intolerance https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/04/21/the-paradox-of-intolerance/

incredible

@atomicpoet

Montana Republicans demand transgender house rep. Zooey Zephyr be censured for “inappropriate and uncalled-for language”.

What did Zooey say?

Facts.

"If you are denying gender-affirming care and forcing a trans child to go through puberty, that is tantamount to torture, and this body should be ashamed.

If you vote yes on this bill, I hope the next time you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands."

Zooey is a hero.

#transrightsarehumanrights

Gil McGowan

The UCP have cut spending on universities, colleges and technical schools by 31 percent in four years. How can we prepare for the future without higher education? How can we keep our kids in the province? The UCP is a threat to our future. #FireTheUCP #AbLeg #abpoli #abvotes #alberta #Reddeer #grandeprairie #Calgary #yeg #yyc #lethbridge #kananaskiscountry

"In its effort to impose a strict racial, gender, and political hierarchy in the name of Christianity, the modern white Christian nationalist movement is an ideological descendant of the Ku Klux Klan.

No matter how some adherents try to sanitize it, white Christian nationalism is neither mere Christianity nor simple patriotism."

~ Jemar Tisby

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #KKK

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/now-we-call-it-white-christian-nationalism

It’s Schadenfriday, so let’s head down to Nashville and drink our fill as we head into the weekend! The GOP sought the spotlight by acting really, really badly, and now that sunlight has exposed some pretty damning things. Enjoy my write-up! https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/gnashville?sd=pf

This is the single best piece on pandemic preparedness that I’ve read in three years. From the White House to the Gates Foundation, from the CDC to the various think tanks pondering these issues, you’ve got to take what Anne Sosin and Martha Lincoln say here and act on it. Biomedical approaches, alone, are desperately insufficient to meet the coming plague. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-preparation-social-conditions/

They warn the attendees
of the music festival
that they may come down
with a case of “festival flu”
the cold and flu symptoms of which
are due supposedly
to the site’s hot and dusty conditions
and I think to myself:
“festival flu”
so I guess that’s what
we’re calling it now.