MLP

Basically, the age when we could expect to stop the virus with non-pharmaceutical interventions โ€” lockdowns, social distancing, masks, test-and-trace โ€” is long, long over.

Jesus Fucking Christ, yes! Zero Covid is a My Little Pony fucking fantasy and has been for a very long time. And we don’t (and never will) have adequate surveillance for prison countries to make a difference.

Noah Smith is remarkably sensible about these things, and about vaccine distribution.

When Liberals Were LIberal

Ain’t no rich people getting ever richer off of passรฉ concepts like “free movement” and “freedom of association.” Anyway, those might lead to sex, which the liberals are against.

Intransigent

It’s ridiculous how you’re called “trans-hostile” if you believe biology exists and that biological males shouldn’t be allowed to destroy women’s sports.

Do these people realize they are not helping themselves any?

Much Joy Revealed

I liked this photo of model Joy Corrigan:

I don’t know, I just like shots without huge amounts of photoshopping. She’s beautiful, but her skin looks like real skin. Her face doesn’t look like a robot’s with all the character removed. Those Instagram filters everyone uses now creep me right out.

(No, it’s not stolen/candid. I’d never post or view anything like that. It’s from this shoot.)

Algo Wrath

Exactly. If a word is there, I put it where it is for a goddamn reason. I want to disable all of this attempted algorithmic alteration so hard my computer explodes. But one day, I am sure you will have no choice but to accept the suggestions “for your own good.”