Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

"Don't Engage, Just Block" - Now more than ever!

Andrew Garfield gave $10 million to fire relief. The richest man in the world loaded up the pitifully tiny trunks of his dumb trucks with a few hundred dollars in groceries to promote himself. again.

So what is the right path ?
The federal government needs to do the following:

Because they’re Black, they must be looting? This isn’t an honest mistake.

Spread truth, not lies: These folks weren’t looters. This footage is from KTLA, where the homeowner explained that her brothers & friends were helping her move belongings out of her burned house.

(Her interview in the 🧵)

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from a VC backed startup, and I’m here to help

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

I feel seen.

Here they come: theins.ru/en/news/277378

It’s hard to imagine but cycling in Paris has gotten even better since this article was written in 2023.

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

DAMMIT NPR.

I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.

Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image

also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

after 10 years of big social media telling us no one wants posts that link out to other websites, it turns out it was really just the big social media companies that didn't want that

In recent weeks, there have been reports of increasing bird flu hospitalizations, new mpox strains, deadly foodborne bacterial outbreaks, measles cases up 20%, and Long COVID prevalence may be much higher.

And yet the US plans to appoint an anti-vaxxer as its top health official.

With all the new journalists and media outlets that have joined Bluesky in recent weeks, my timeline is starting to become a useful news monitor for the first time since Musk took over X.

And for that, I’m extremely grateful. Welcome!

I block early and often.

Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.

Working on finding joy where I can.
Today it’s my Christmas cactus.