The first ten on today’s playlist:
Month: February 2022
Wavy
900,000 COVID deaths.
It is not going away. The end of the omicron wave is not the end of covid. It’s a breathing space to plan for the next wave. And the one after that. And all the ones after that.
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD 🇨🇦 (@EpiEllie) February 5, 2022
Very wrong. Omicron will be the last major wave. There will be a wave in fall/winter 2022-2023 but it won’t be like the current Omicron one.
More “fear porn,” as some other person on Twitter put it. This fear porn is extremely popular with liberals for some reason. They fucking eat it up.
Believing
The liberal “there is no evidence” for something or other is really a preference statement about policy choices. Sometimes, though, it’s a statement of faith cloaked in the “believe science” dogma.
Mud Pit
I’m a Little Bummed That Adele Lost Weight.
Good for her. She’ll be vastly healthier and feel better, too. And she looks great. Everyone should do it if they can. I love people crying about it.
Wallow in your loserdom, losers! It’s the only thing you’re good at, might as well keep it up.
Wheely Cool
What the fuck! Why has no one told me about gymwheel!?! Why have you all been keeping this from me?
That looks like so much fun, but I know if I tried it I’d break all my fingers by rolling over them with the wheel and most of my limbs too.
Dis Tracking
I will never get over the fact that the modern definition of “eating disorder” has become “not weighing 300+ pounds.”
Total food corporation propaganda win there. I do admire, actually. Hate but admire.
Needy
Human behavior and tendencies are so strange in a lot of ways. For example, when you don’t need or want something, people are more likely to attempt to give you more of it: love, money, sex, friendship, praise.
Desperation or neediness is like kryptonite to most people, so the less your need for a thing the more likely you are to receive it.
That’s really deeply just fucked up when you think about it.
Overstate
Link with the stat in headlines. Despite all the hysteria about vaccines "not working" from both right wingers discouraging the shots and liberals overrating the risks, they work *extremely* well. Especially boosters. https://t.co/mXjFNsPTQG
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) February 3, 2022
Between the right-wing anti-vaxxers and the liberal de facto anti-vaxxers wildly overstating the risks post-vaccination, probably 200,000-500,000 excess deaths caused.
CMOS Sparkles
Soooooo, no need to share this one with me everyone. I’ve already seen it and that is a little thing we like to call “bad”.
When the radiation makes your CMOS sparkle, that’s bad. pic.twitter.com/SFncMDcB2q
— Funranium Labs (@funranium) February 3, 2022
Indeed that is non-optimal. Hope you like the cancer because you’re gonna get the cancer.
Sir Wrongalot
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns https://t.co/vW11kvooeG
— André Veillette (@VeilletteAndre) February 2, 2022
I wonder how it feels to be so insanely, ridiculously fucking wrong. Goddamn those are some idiots. Our “experts” are just…not.
No Surprise
The Planets Aren’t the Color You Probably Think They Are.
They were in fact exactly the colors I thought they were. Because I can read and know how photo processing works.
Wallow Wall
This article hit me really hard. I also got into running as an activity double-billed with disordered eating (my ex "helped" me establish a window of weight that I should aim to be) and long after that relationship ended I still considered that the "acceptable" weight for myself. https://t.co/AL4gEaN1W9
— Local 397 Emotional Labor Union (@itshamhocks) February 3, 2022
This is exactly how you should do it, I think? Try to stay in a weight window that’s healthy. What else makes any fucking sense? That’s not disordered eating; that’s merely not wallowing in fucking loserdom. It’s just keeping your dignity about you and valuing your own quality of life over the “joy” of that loserdom-wallowing.
I used to really like Casey, but no more. To keep her readership she’s had to move to Fat Acceptance talking points. Earlier today, I was thinking how tragic it is that the FA ideology has pretty much dominated the discourse for a decade now and just how many people that has harmed. In the end, it’ll probably be responsible for putting more people in an early grave than Covid, and for making the quality of their lives worse the entire time.
Casey herself is not a loser, but to survive as a journalist she’s had to embrace this or get obliterated. It’s a sad thing to see.
No Matter
I’m still having trouble understanding why so many so-called liberals are interested in destroying society and harming kids basically in perpetuity to protect anti-vaxxers. I can’t make sense of this no matter how hard I try. Just cannot.
Love Lifting
this is one of the best feelings in the world
she has not merely lifted a weight off the ground
she has broken through to a new plane of existence
her reaction is *triumph*, over adversity, over limiting beliefs, over homeostasis
you can do it too, I believe in you 💪🏾🔥 https://t.co/EjLzik4rrH
— visa has shipped @introspectVV. It is done!! (@visakanv) May 31, 2021
Damn. That’s a 507 pound lift. That’s massive. I’ve never lifted that much in the deadlift in my life.
Good for her.
Strict Is Done
I’m mostly going to stop posting about Covid restrictions (or lack of them) and the absurd debate over same. The lockdown lifers lost and I’m happy about that. Society was not destroyed despite their best attempts and we are all better off for their defeat.
The anti-vaxxers — not lack of restrictions nor even lack of masking — are what have caused most of the hospital overload after vaccinations were widely rolled out, and no amount of restrictions would’ve prevented that (as anti-vaxxers wouldn’t have followed them anyway).
I have a huge problem supporting restrictions to mostly protect anti-vaxxers, anyway. They made their choice.