#14-hour work days

[y4rdbird]

I’m so so so normal about sora

[asynca]

I hope this question isn't too random. One thing I noticed is people are for some reason are acting like the pandemic is over and just return to normal and no masks. Even though it is still going on and still effects so many people. Why do you think they think its over?

This is probably quite a deep psychological question about the capacity of people to tolerate fear and stress over a long period of time. I could probably answer it in a more professional way than I'm going to.

Several of my friends are doctors. The research that's coming out about how it's likely to shorten the lives of literally everyone who gets it (especially multiple times), about how if we continue to let it rip a huge percentage of the population (20-30%) will end up measurably disabled in some way by it by 2035 is like... this is serious. This is not a 'flu'. We are also discovering several cancers or other disabling conditions are caused by viruses - I worry a lot about the capacity of COVID to ruin lives. It also has a general effect on the brain that causes lower capacity, less ability to regulate emotions and causes aggression. New mental illness is a common long covid symptom.

I do what I can to avoid it. I still wear a n95 mask out in public. I make my wife do it too, even though we are usually the only two people out wearing masks. I don't take my children indoors anywhere public - we go to parks and playgrounds. My daughter has been in a supermarket just once in her life. Is that good for her? Probably not. But it's a darn sight better than a preventable disability (or type 1 diabetes, or hepatitis, or actually dying) at 2 years old. Not to mention the fact I have a baby sub 6 months old and a father who is very ill and would probably die if he got COVID.

COVID is serious. Governments could put in simple useful measures (like mandating better air filtration and circulation in schools and public buildings etc) but they don't. Everyone's just pretending it's over. It's in the 'too hard' basket.

The research and proof is there in peer reviewed journals. People are just ignoring it until they can't ignore it anymore because either they end up disabled themselves, or someone they love does or dies. I don't know what to do anymore, man. I just try and take the precautions I can reasonably take understanding the capacity of this extremely transmissible virus to kill or disable me or the people I love.

[twelveskidneys]

also ruby was so real for making fun of privileged rich kids who figuratively and literally live in a bubble

[tevanbuckley]

The buddie shippers are BIG mad with the interview coming. Have you seen the tweets??

i've seen a handful that have been cross-posted here, and like i've said before, it's all just kinda sad imo, i feel sorry for anyone's whose life has become so consumed by this stuff that they're frothing at the mouth mad over two actors doing press for a network tv show.

there's a million considerations that go into when press happens and who does it. with lou i'd speculate they wanted/needed to get contracts etc. sorted for s8 before trotting him out for a bunch of press.

also whether certain ppl wanna admit it or not, bi buck (and by extension bucktommy) is the storyline that has by far and away got them the most press attention, especially outside the usual bubble of entertainment journalism, from a PR standpoint they'd be crazy to not capitalize on that.

[somecunttookmyurl]

the guy who runs the book stall just told me the xmas market here is 4 days: thu 21 5pm-10pm, fri 22/sat 23 10am-4pm, sun 24… 10am-midnight.

love knowing things! love being told things!

and he found out from an instagram post. market "manager" manage the market challenge

[casgirl]

I should go to dance tonight because I like dance and it does make me feel less stressed. But also I’m so tired. And it starts at 8:15.

[cookinguptales]

*stares at the camera in ehlers-danlos syndrome*

[bookrat]

Pretty sure my little man has a case of abundism affecting the marble tabby coat under all those white splotches

[batfossil-fr]

I’ve been really thinking of reopening my art shop soon… I’ve been taking some practice doodles (hence all the posting lately) while I shake off my rust and I’m finding things I enjoy working on again. I miss trying my hand at more dragons/OCs and colors. my shop’s so broken rn lmao but that’s a problem for a later date it’s just nice getting back into art

[anto-pops]

I'm not gonna lie, Ao3 being down all day feels a lot like the burning of the Library of Alexandria

[semiotomatics]

lol. i think ive reached my limit.

[fancyfade]

i don't like saying "batman and robin 2023 feels like a first draft" because it implies there's some alternate version of the comic that doesn't suck...

but it really does feel like a first draft. conflicts are introduced and then forgotten, characters just stop and explain their motives, bad guys dump their backstories, everyone says what they're feeling and side characters narrate things for the reader to know that make no sense for them to know. it's got first draft energy.

[slugghee]

holy SHIT this is taking a while

[cimicherrychanga]

wait shit, am *i* doing an october art challenge this year??

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Every time Prapai gives Sky medicine, he's narcoleptic inside 5 minutes.