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1 in 10 infections (not people, actual infections) will result in long covid for most people. Significant nerological impacts, significant cardiovascular impacts, fatigue and chronic pain, complications with other conditions, and other symptoms we dont yet understand are what come with long covid. And yet, the World Health Organization has declared today that the pandemic is over.

The covid pandemic is not over at all, only just beginning. The mass disabling of people over time of repeated infections will overwhelm our deeply ableist systems not built for accommodating disability on a wide scale.

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Laughing about this time a customer brought in their spouse that was in the army to try to intimidate me into doing something I already said a I wasn’t allowed to do. Like really? You can glare down at me all you want you’re not important enough for me to risk my job

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Pretty sure that the (US) Army has codes of conduct that prohibit this sort of conduct, even for employees who are off-duty or not in uniform.

Also, an Army employee is an employee of the Federal government. If this person is representing themself as a Federal employee to intimidate you at your work location, they are interfering with the right of a State to engage in commerce.

If they are in the Army, they have a rank and commanding officer, and should give you this information on request. If they do not, they may be impersonating a government official, which is also illegal.

Hold them accountable. One way or another, they have misused government power, and are answerable to the government, either in the form of military disciplinary action, or a judicial remedy.

its amazing that after months of people trying to hype new netflix shows only to see them cancelled after one season because they didnt squid game-level pop off, after netflix personally fucking over every animator that's ever worked for them, after netflix trying to squeeze blood from stones by tracking your location to stop password sharing, after hbo burned its entire library for tax purposes, everyone just decided that chatgpt is the main antagonist of the writers strike

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The big discourse on twitter right now is that writers going on strike or cancelling their own series are breaking an invisible “contract” they made with their fans and all creators owe their fans a satisfying conclusion to their stories. Actually all fans owe all creators for entertaining them and if a creator says “I don’t want to perform this labor anymore,” then regardless of the cliffhanger that leaves you with, your only response should be “take care! Thank you for all your hard work!!!” :)

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Like it or not… this.

The term and concept of "rent lowering gunshots" has seeped into my mental vocabulary, and I've welcomed it there. Something I'm up to is gross and weird? Good, keeps the rent low. Keeps judgy people out. Post weird shit on your blog, do weird shit to your hair, be as fucky as your heart ever wants to be. If you're not the one making the profit, make yourself unprofitable. The aposematism of brightly coloured creatures is there to warn predators, not friends.

You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.

You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.

Pro tip: often, the people who complain about trans people being "too loud" about us wanting rights will complain no matter if we shout or whisper. So, shout about it. Rights were never gained through everybody around us being ready for it. Rights were never never gained through our whispers to be seen. If somebody isn't "ready" for us to have rights, then that is their issue to sort, not yours. Shout about it.

BBC should do a news report.

About a country in famine, with thousands living on the streets.

About a country using what little money it has to peacock the very structures that have allowed the country's decline.

About a country that has arrested peaceful protesters, yet dares to call itself a democracy.

About a country that dictates, preventing development or freedom for the sake of their fragile egos and thin wallets.

About a country that I am scared to return to, and wouldn't dare call home anymore.

About England.

One thing that stood out to me during Episode 39 of Utena is that Utena and Akio seemingly tried to open the Rose Gate in different directions.

Akio as he is slashing and stabbing at the Rose Gate is obviously trying to open it by applying force towards it, he is treating the door as a push door and in comparison to Utena is as well using a tool or well a weapon in an attempt to get it open.

Utena, and of this Im admittedly not completly certain, seems to be based on her posture trying to pull the door open.

The first noteworthy difference between push and pull doors is the amount of difcficulty one has opening them, push doors being much easier to open due to the applied force following the objects motion while the force applied during pulling goes into the opposite direction.

Now while there are no actual regulations for what direction a door should open to when, but generally speaking a door is pushed open when a room or house is being entered from the outside and pulled open when leaving a room or a house.

So Akio is not only using the method which costs less effort, he is trying to enter into something, the space where he believes his princehood lies to continue a fairytale in which he is the knight in shining armor, a restricted room waiting for him to get inside, to leave what he views as the outside, the reality he is complacend in and does sees as such, his general space of being and Utena is in comparison trying to leave a confined space around her to reach the outside with a method more strenous, of course behind the Gate lies Anthy.

And as we then see Utena opening Anthys coffin, it is arguably a sliding door. Now, sliding doors generally have the effect of seperating one singular space into two seperate ones, in this case seperating Anthy from a world, a space she is part of, then the floor breaks, we see the space well and truly seperate itself from the platform.

When Anthy then leaves we are faced with two new sliding doors, the elevator door in Akios office, closing behind Anthy as the space of the elevator seperates itself, not simply by closing but by moving itself downward which I do find to be reminiscent of Anthys fall, leaving the tower, leaving a point high up above, surrounded by nothing but the sky to get to the ground upon which to walk on and then Ohtoris gate, seperating the place from the rest of the World in the end Ohtori is part of the world, but not the whole of it, much more of it isn't, the gate does not close, there are many more who can leave or enter, Anthy could very well turn around and get back inside, but she chooses to walk way.

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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Non-Britons! Instead of being distracted by the pomp and fanfare of the coronation, here’s a reminder that:

  • The coronation was funded by tax-payer money. This same tax could have gone towards the cost of living crisis. People are starving and freezing to death as this is going on.
  • Protests (peaceful or otherwise) are illegal now. A lot of anti-monarchists are being arrested for simply holding signs.
  • Our government is currently trying to push through a revision to the Equality Act that will exclude trans and non-binary individuals.
  • Oil companies have made a record profit in the past couple of years. Oil and gas prices aren’t rising because of an inflation issue.
  • Our NHS is crumbling because funding is going to stupid projects like this coronation.