“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

To be blunt, these adjectives du jour are never novel observations/critiques. They’ve been addressed countless times, not just here but over the past few years.

Your refusal to engage is an active effort to *avoid* understanding, in a way that one might describe as “unable to be reasoned with.”

You know how it’s frustrating when you post a nuanced, fact-based argument and the right just goes “nah, I think otherwise”?

That’s you rn

Might be important to ask yourself why it’s so difficult (apparently, bc you haven’t done it) to engage with any of the people pushing back on “unreasonable”

Nope not a small amount, you just perpetually readjusted what you consider normal.

And it’s not “alarmists predicting” it’s “studies showing.” 40% odds but keep gambling 👍

Agreed! I want to spend more time over here (or rather, less time on the other site), but the community is still largely over there 🫤

*there are people - out in CA, other places - who’ve stepped up and pushed back, incl by masking: keep it up 💪

Last note, totally aware respirators don’t outright block ID software. But they definitely don’t make it function any ~better~ 😎😷

cc @phillyphile215.bsky.social (good call to post here)

Anddd infectious diseases unaside - there’s orders of magnitude more COVID now than in 2020, it’s fucking us up internally
Yes even in 2025
Yes even vaccinated

I guarantee that if 👇 was known pre-rollout, we all would have said fuck no that’s a raw deal give us something better

Last November every single big account was tweeting “dOn’T cOmPlY iN aDvAnCe!”

Not bad advice but there’s new facial ID software everyday, they just allocated $170B to the secret police, the bad guys from lord of the rings are reshaping society and I’m just here like*

Even symbolically, it makes clear “I understand there’s a problem, and I’m part of the solution.”

Ik 2020’s been largely memory-holed, but there was persistent collective unity in that moment that we haven’t come close to since