I carried my fear of the world to my children, but they refused it. I carried my fear of the world on my chest, where I once carried my children, where some nights it slept as newborns sleep, where it purred but mostly growled, where it licked sweat from my clavicles.

writing an epic in notebooks, a giant expansive universe, detailed illustration, shitty little drawings, big swampy nature, mosquitos, egrets, fat gators, floating lights burping up from unknown invisible cities below swamps, languages in danger of being spoken for the last time

Anyway, listen to Feufollet. Remember Chris. youtu.be/8Nu1yZ88Fys?...

Feufollet Si T’as Fini Avec Moi at Blackpot Festival

YouTube video by Roots of Fire

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I remember my dad, texting me from the emergency room, where he was waiting in the hall to be seen because there was no available space, telling me about the bodies they kept wheeling past him.

My experience is of every American COVID-19 mitigation effort being obviously insufficient, and ended far too soon. To see people now argue that they somehow were too much, going too far? Not anti-vax or MAGA people, but folks just out here on Bluesky? It staggers me.

There’s no such thing as recovering from a trauma while still actively taking part in perpetuating it, so if you want us to get to the point where we can start dealing with the emotional effects of Covid, start taking the current, ongoing harm, discrimination, and endangerment seriously.

I’m intrigued by the recent resurgence of the ‘Long Covid is not real’ nonsense we saw back in 20/21. The refusal to learn is one thing, but the dismissal of reality is another. Long Covid is too painful, too common & too present in many people’s lives to be denied. The story is hard to rewrite.

🧵Long Covid: Real! Very real. Life-wreckingly / (at best) life-alteringly real. Often invisible. Still real. Often baffling. Still real. Deeply uncomfortable to consider. Still real. Deeply inconvenient for all concerned. Still real. And (hey now!) even recognized as such by Western medicine*

Dr Kathleen Neal@kbneal.bsky.social · 2d ago

So, the internet is suddenly full of people questioning #LongCOVID, and all I can say is: How lucky you are not to have had understanding forced upon you! I wish you well dealing with disability when it strikes you unawares in future & hope you meet with more compassion than you are showing now. ♥️

So, the internet is suddenly full of people questioning #LongCOVID, and all I can say is: How lucky you are not to have had understanding forced upon you! I wish you well dealing with disability when it strikes you unawares in future & hope you meet with more compassion than you are showing now. ♥️

meanwhile,Texas just up and happily handed them over without considering how we might feel about it, seriously this state needs an intervention

ACLU@aclu.org · 23h ago

The DOJ is now 0-20 in court trying to access states' voter files. They've lost in: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...

Thank you for bringing attention to this bullshit.

Outraged Tarrant County voter asking GOP officials lots of good questions about cuts to polling locations that they have not answered:

Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...

Tarrant County judge removes attendees during public meeting about voting site reductions

Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam was carried out of the courtroom by sheriff deputies after O’Hare called speakers disruptive.

fortworthreport.org

O'Hare just warned that deputies are prepared to arrest people. So far, he's flipped out twice: 1) a speaker said "bullshit" 2) a speaker compared Tarrant County Republicans to Russia

I covered Harris County Commissioners Court for 2.5 years and never once saw them "clear the chamber" like this

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

fortworthreport.org

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks

Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

zeteo.com

Another life. Another family forever changed. Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo should have gone home to his family. Instead, his family was asked to identify his body. Remember his name. 🕊️ Delaney Hall needs to be shut down. #SheShed

My god this attorney was so sure he could lead this witness to the conclusion he wanted her to testify to, and I just don’t think it ever occurred to him that she would reject his most foundational premises like “nah but it ain’t like that tho”

i don't want to have to be serious on here i just want to post my dumb little thoughts but everything sucks

Google user: what planet did Yoda live on? Google AI: he’s fake you dumb son of a bitch he can’t live on a planet

🪱🗣: 🪨hi, i'm rfk. I gaharrgle rocks 🪨🪨🪨all day and release bizarre quackery into this unhealthy, defective world. one day, I'll be in my bunker, and you will have mad cow, measles, covid, swamp ass, and cooties, and be in too much agony to dig me out of my fortress. aha🪨ha🪨🪨🪨ha🪨🪨🗣cough🪨ha 💪👖💪

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

This is such bullshit. During the pandemic, we were down here reporting on how the University of Mississippi Medical Center had to turn its PARKING GARAGE into a makeshift ICU to handle the COVID surges. Lying about history I lived pisses me off. www.mississippifreepress.org/ummc-preppin...

UMMC Prepping Garage For Field Hospital, Requesting Federal Support To Staff It (Updated)

UMMC is clearing out space in a parking garage for a field hospital as the delta wave of COVID-19 continues to batter Mississippi.

mississippifreepress.org

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

oh god, is Carville runnin' his mouth again?

tuned up great-grandmother's sewing machine, went to the how-to-do bookshelf to find a book that isn't there for some reason. probably the diy gods want me to fix the damn shelf first

May all your coffees be quiet and without the people you live with.