Natalie
@natfee.bsky.social
writer. hermit in the woods. local cryptid. yes i’m still masking, no covid isn’t over. she/her
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Natalie
@natfee.bsky.social
· Nov 8
More of a lurker than a poster. Looking for other COVID-conscious people who are still masking. Trying to break my Twitter habit 💔
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“They’re lying to your face about something YOU REMEMBER.”
This mini-series of episodes has been so validating for how often I feel like I live in a parallel universe to people re: COVID.
This mini-series of episodes has been so validating for how often I feel like I live in a parallel universe to people re: COVID.
Episode 40: In Covid's Wake
Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
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Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
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"In Covid's Wake": Lying About… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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June 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
“They’re lying to your face about something YOU REMEMBER.”
This mini-series of episodes has been so validating for how often I feel like I live in a parallel universe to people re: COVID.
This mini-series of episodes has been so validating for how often I feel like I live in a parallel universe to people re: COVID.
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2025, huh. Sounds fake. Real years don’t go that high.
January 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
2025, huh. Sounds fake. Real years don’t go that high.
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
December 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
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I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO.
"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."
www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-sol...
"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."
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Peaceful Solutions
On respectable and profitable human-suffering engines, the murder of a CEO, propriety in a land where life has been cheapened, and some good news for those who seek peaceful solutions.
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December 8, 2024 at 7:39 PM
I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO.
"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."
www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-sol...
"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."
www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-sol...
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So many problems of so many kinds come down to the fact that living a dignified life - the one that many of us were told would be won through simply working harder - ranges from hard to impossible for most. It's rough
December 26, 2024 at 10:57 PM
So many problems of so many kinds come down to the fact that living a dignified life - the one that many of us were told would be won through simply working harder - ranges from hard to impossible for most. It's rough
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Two things can be true: It’s a Wonderful Life is a great movie that will still make me cry no matter how many times I see it, and Mary’s terrible alternate reality fate being that she works in a library and wears glasses is unintentionally hilarious.
December 26, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Two things can be true: It’s a Wonderful Life is a great movie that will still make me cry no matter how many times I see it, and Mary’s terrible alternate reality fate being that she works in a library and wears glasses is unintentionally hilarious.
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How I find this film speaking to me is in what it says about how you can’t ever be sure, in the moment, of what the story of your life actually is
If it seems like you’re a failure, if all the information you have seems to be screaming that at you—you still can’t be certain that’s true
If it seems like you’re a failure, if all the information you have seems to be screaming that at you—you still can’t be certain that’s true
December 26, 2024 at 12:01 AM
How I find this film speaking to me is in what it says about how you can’t ever be sure, in the moment, of what the story of your life actually is
If it seems like you’re a failure, if all the information you have seems to be screaming that at you—you still can’t be certain that’s true
If it seems like you’re a failure, if all the information you have seems to be screaming that at you—you still can’t be certain that’s true
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How many people are sick this holiday season? Either with an acute infection or with debilitating chronic illness that followed their Covid infection?
Why can’t we access tests, free respirators & accurate data about cases & hospitalizations/deaths? Why don’t we have clean air in public spaces? /3
Why can’t we access tests, free respirators & accurate data about cases & hospitalizations/deaths? Why don’t we have clean air in public spaces? /3
December 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
How many people are sick this holiday season? Either with an acute infection or with debilitating chronic illness that followed their Covid infection?
Why can’t we access tests, free respirators & accurate data about cases & hospitalizations/deaths? Why don’t we have clean air in public spaces? /3
Why can’t we access tests, free respirators & accurate data about cases & hospitalizations/deaths? Why don’t we have clean air in public spaces? /3
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The early days of Covid showed us that if the government wanted - they could take care of everyone. They could provide a universal basic income, accommodate the needs of disabled people who had been pleading for remote healthcare & other services for years. They could keep us fed, safe and housed
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December 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
The early days of Covid showed us that if the government wanted - they could take care of everyone. They could provide a universal basic income, accommodate the needs of disabled people who had been pleading for remote healthcare & other services for years. They could keep us fed, safe and housed
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You gotta understand that from like 2000 onward Millennials were blamed for everything when we were just reacting to all the bad shit the adults were doing or had already done. We were called lazy, entitled, participation trophy kids, and when we screamed about shit, nobody listened.
December 23, 2024 at 8:51 AM
You gotta understand that from like 2000 onward Millennials were blamed for everything when we were just reacting to all the bad shit the adults were doing or had already done. We were called lazy, entitled, participation trophy kids, and when we screamed about shit, nobody listened.
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It's been weird explaining to people over 60 that no one under 40 expects anything good to ever happen again
December 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM
It's been weird explaining to people over 60 that no one under 40 expects anything good to ever happen again
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none of us are moo deng we are all kirby the baby elephant
December 19, 2024 at 4:28 PM
none of us are moo deng we are all kirby the baby elephant
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Eversneezer Scrooge is such an asshole that he almost ruins Christmas for his best employee, Bob Maskit. Can the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future intervene and turn things around?
Find out in 'A Covid Christmas Carol' - a story for our times.
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Find out in 'A Covid Christmas Carol' - a story for our times.
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A Covid Christmas Carol
“Bah humbug!” shouted Eversneezer Scrooge as he pulled into the parking lot of his corporation’s headquarters. Even though the parking space nearest the front entrance was clearly marked ‘Reserved for...
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December 20, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Eversneezer Scrooge is such an asshole that he almost ruins Christmas for his best employee, Bob Maskit. Can the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future intervene and turn things around?
Find out in 'A Covid Christmas Carol' - a story for our times.
guinesspig.ghost.io/a-covid-chri...
Find out in 'A Covid Christmas Carol' - a story for our times.
guinesspig.ghost.io/a-covid-chri...
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Today’s the day. It’s the 2024 Hater’s Guide to the Williams Sonoma catalog!
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The 2024 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[walks out to greet you as you pull into my circular driveway] There you are! Oh my goodness, look at you! You look so festive! Why don’t you leave your bags in the breezeway for now and come on in? A...
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December 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Today’s the day. It’s the 2024 Hater’s Guide to the Williams Sonoma catalog!
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/hollering to be heard over the deafeningly loud sound of sleigh bells "Folks," defector.com/the-2024-hat...
The 2024 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[walks out to greet you as you pull into my circular driveway] There you are! Oh my goodness, look at you! You look so festive! Why don’t you leave your bags in the breezeway for now and come on in? A...
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December 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
/hollering to be heard over the deafeningly loud sound of sleigh bells "Folks," defector.com/the-2024-hat...
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Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Have you??
Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
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Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
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December 19, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Have you??
Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
🗃️🧪
Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
🗃️🧪
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I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh
December 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh
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before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them
May 6, 2024 at 4:54 PM
before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them
“the collective pain of a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. Rigorous sanitation reform, food and water safety standards, and widespread use of disease-fighting tools like vaccines, quarantine, hygiene & antibiotics are choices.”
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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
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December 19, 2024 at 12:56 AM
“the collective pain of a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. Rigorous sanitation reform, food and water safety standards, and widespread use of disease-fighting tools like vaccines, quarantine, hygiene & antibiotics are choices.”
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“We are immensely capable of looking away from reality when we need to, and this is no different when it comes to epidemiological phenomena. Social beginnings hinge on our willingness to see what’s in front of us.”
"What this sleight of hand conceals is the fact that the social end of the pandemic was manufactured to restart the engine of capital as quickly as possible to quell a newly-radicalized society."
Manufacturing the End of a Pandemic
A deadly sleight of hand
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December 18, 2024 at 11:06 PM
“We are immensely capable of looking away from reality when we need to, and this is no different when it comes to epidemiological phenomena. Social beginnings hinge on our willingness to see what’s in front of us.”
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I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.