pigeon wears a mask

covid is not over! wear a mask 😷 🏳️‍🌈

[wizardarchetypes]

'i'd go outside more if there weren't bugs.'

if there weren't bugs there wouldn't be an outside, idk how many times this has to be said.

[innocuousquirk]

I'd go outside less if there weren't bugs. how am I supposed to see a cool bug if there aren't bugs??

[innocuousquirk]

oh tumblr I've never been more sure of what's going on in my life

[innocuousquirk]

I have ME/CFS type Long Covid.

Yesterday, I had an emotionally fraught doctor's appointment where I was scolded like a child. I was told to do graded exercise and it was condescendingly explained to me that not going out and seeing people can have a negative impact on mental health. (Something a patient (derogatory) would never consider, surely.)

When I tried to explain that, yes, I tried graded exercise and it, in fact, made my disability more extreme and I can barely walk around my home, I was interrupted and dismissed. As if this hasn't been the reality I've been living for the past year and three months!! As if I can't tell what's going on in my own body!!

And when I go home to look up my symptoms again to find studies that support what they're telling me, I can't find them. I only find the same things I've read that tell me to never overexert myself never ever ever!

So I've been reminding myself: my doctor is not going to come to my house at the end of the day and take care of me when I've been further disabled by their negligence.

I've been warned about this by the studies I've read and others with this disability and I won't try something that DEMONSTRABLY worsened my health last time!!

[innocuousquirk]

that silence you hear at the doctor's office? that's the lack of air filtration

[395nm]

Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

Loud/Quiet

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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Also prev tags:

That's really cool actually

[milf--adjacent]

Long covid has disabled hundreds of millions of people across the world. Groups like Act Up NY have signaled the seriousness of this condition that is triggred by even mild and asymptomatic covid infections. People with long covid are dying slowly and painfully as there is no treatment after 6 years of pandemic spread and their condtions get worse with subsequent infections. Everyone is at risk. Trans people are the group most affected by this condition. But y'all don't care enough to protect them. Y'all think wearing a respirator in public is a mark of fear or stupidity or some virtue signaling. My mask keeps me safe. My mask keeps you safer. My mask keeps my trans friends dying of a wasting disease society would rather ignore from dying or getting worse, because I don't and won't spread illness to them. I mask because it matters. I mask because I care. Refusing to care is killing trans people.

And people say we're making shit up when we compare the long covid crisis to the AIDS crisis.

[were--ralph]

in the tags whats something you love that has been discontinued

[innocuousquirk]

if I were even slightly less self-aware as a person I think I would be addicted to gambling

they make it so easy nowadays... but I was in the gacha trenches and I made it out alive

[innocuousquirk]

new linked in game out today?? never kill yourself

[innocuousquirk]

you know, despite having two concussions in 2021-2023, I had never heard the term "brain fog" used by the masses until recently.

if only we could figure out why so many people are having brain fog now. perhaps something has happened in the last few years? maybe started around 2019-2020? hmm if only we knew and could then take steps to prevent brain damage from becoming so pervasive in our society

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Step-by-step guide to wield a ‘Golden Cudgel’ like the Monkey King Sun Wukong by 襄阳梅子

[casual-darkness]

[innocuousquirk]

sick of irreversible things happening to my body!!!

[breelandwalker]

Fun Fact: Jean Shepherd, best known for the 1983 holiday classic, A Christmas Story, had an earlier career as a late-night talk radio host where he told stories, talked about current events, and occasionally invited his listeners to help him play harmless pranks on "the day people."

His most famous hoax was born of being fed up with arbitrary "lists" which determined the existence and approval level of media pieces, particularly the NY Times Bestseller List. In 1956, he asked his listeners to go into their local bookstore and ask for a non-existent book called "I, Libertine" by Frederick R. Ewing.

It went 1950s viral. So many of his listeners asked after the book, published alleged excerpts, discussed it in literary circles, and planted references to it so widely that people actually believed it existed. There were even rumors that somebody tried to get it on the NY Times Bestseller List based on word-of-mouth demand.

Plot Twist: SOMEBODY WROTE THE BOOK. Based on Shepherd's basic plot outline and a compilation of the various bits and bobs provided by the public, contemporary author Theodore Sturgeon wrote a full-length novel version of "I, Libertine" and published it under the previously-established pseudonym Frederick R. Ewing.

All this to say, I think Goncharov should be nominated for an Oscar.

[innocuousquirk]

I go to the doctor

I describe me/cfs

"hmm we don't know what's going on"

repeat

[innocuousquirk]

having a spiritual experience at four in the morning listening to Jane Remover for the first time