“No Olympic athletes are going to get Long Covid! It’s been 4 years and I don’t know anyone who has Long Covid!”

Yes. You do. Many people don’t disclose their disabilities for fear of ableist backlash. Others don’t connect the dots and may not realize they have Long Covid.

The sad reality is that like many other chronic illnesses - Long Covid is poorly recognized and likely underdiagnosed. Many patients are dismissed with “anxiety” by doctors who don’t understand the nature of these conditions.

Others can’t afford to seek healthcare as they’ve already lost work/income due to being chronically ill. Some may not have safe access to healthcare due to lack of masking and clean air in hospitals. They KNOW they’re sick but can’t risk re-infection.

There’s also people who are suffering from Long Covid and don’t realize it. They either can’t connect the dots (due to denial or lack of information) or they’ve convinced themselves it’s just “aging” or “stress”.

It’s alarming how many people in their 20s & 30s are writing off very serious physical symptoms as “getting older.” You shouldn’t be too exhausted to function in your twenties. Everything shouldn’t hurt. You should be able to smell your food. You shouldn’t be sick all the time.

Then there’s those who know they have Long Covid - but choose to keep it quiet from friends and family. Ableism runs incredibly deep in our society - and when you admit to being chronically ill you may find yourself judged, ridiculed, disbelieved or abandoned.

Many chronic illnesses are invisible - you won’t KNOW someone has them unless they CHOOSE to tell you. Ppl in my life had no idea I was disabled until I began advocating for disability rights. I could hide symptoms well enough to not tip them off & I didn’t volunteer the info.

Looking back I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to publicly admit I was disabled. The fear I had about sharing it is an indictment of how cruel people can be. Everyone preaches tolerance & acceptance - but few actually practice that in real life.

There’s also an extra stigma associated with Long Covid because it forces people to think about a period in their lives they’re desperately trying to forget. It challenges the narrative that we’re “back to normal”.

I lost many friends and loved ones when they found out I was sick. Some losses were immediate and brutal - people who carelessly tossed me by the wayside because they instantly put me into the “less than” category.

Other losses were slower and more painful - because they involved false hope. They were the ones who stuck around at first - who applauded me for telling them the truth & offered help and support.

Many did help - until they stopped. They almost all stop eventually. 1/2

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #Olympics #NoahLyles

Where's all the trans people on here?
Can y'all boost to help find em!

People ask me why we don't support Apple products. Well, it's shit like this https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24216181/apple-eu-app-store-services-fee-external-links

Question for trans people, how do you all do voice training. I myself am cis, and have no second thoughts about it. But I am currently trying to do voice training for my own reasons.

All online guides are complete horse crap, could some of you all help me?

PLEASE BOOST SO I CAN GET AN AWNSER, I NEED HELP WITH THIS.

#trans #lgbtq #trans

I ended up getting invited to a discord server for an old TF2 podcast I used to listen to and wow that's a lot of usernames I remember of people who have since transed their gender

we are not beating the TF2 → girl pipeline allegations here

This is insanely good. Anime girl becomes self aware and uses Blender.

Source: https://twitter.com/kensyouen_Y/status/1820748563338637581

when combined, mask bans plus requiring in-office visits for medical issues are nothing less than a government-sponsored eugenics program targeted at disabled, chronically ill, and immunocompromised people.

either we don't get the medical attention we need and die sooner, or we get COVID, become sicker, and die sooner.

call it what it is.

Toilets that signal *what* the infrastructure is, rather than *who* can enter.

📍: Bruges, Belgium

Irony-free transphobes now insist that a woman with a vagina is a man https://newsthump.com/2024/08/02/irony-free-transphobes-now-insist-that-a-woman-with-a-vagina-is-a-man/

I have paid zero attention to the olympics because fuck the IOC and the ritual driving-the-homeless-out-of-the-city that happens every games

but damn the dissonance of how the gendercrit weirdos will pick on cis women like caster semenya and now imane khelif as being "obviously men" and, like, I have definitely met cis lesbians who never dabbled in T that are way more masculine than these athletes

so, y'know, sure the pants police are definitely okay with gender non-conforming women and are also not homophobic at all

(okay and if people didn't know caster is a lesbian and that, along with racism, was absolutely part of why they literally invented new rules about serum T levels that only applied to races she was good at)

And since this is very likely to get taken down if/when Little Musky catches wind of it, here's some receipts for posterity.

A billionaire is someone who could lift thousands of families out of poverty without any noticeable impact on themselves, and has chosen not to.
#TaxBillionaires

The best ad about depression I've ever seen.

A steam curator named "Woke Ccontent Detector" said the following about our game Kitsune Tails:

"Contains overtly pro-LGBT+ messaging. Features multiple lesbian characters, including the player character. Features lesbian romance."

It's great when a person really understands what we're going for and I thought it was a lovely review and wish more people could read it, even if they did not recommend the game! :wink:

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

you think i pirated that piece of media by consuming it without paying for it? nah i'm just training a neural network on data that was available on the public internet, if you didn't want me to use that data for training you shouldn't have published it

Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike

https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/

Proton Mail is now AI bullshit. Pass it on.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/proton-mail-goes-ai-security-focused-userbase-goes-what-on-earth/

Please boost.