The space we were in today and the culture of the area was utterly insane. surrounded mostly by rah rah USA Vinnies, fourth generation nepo babies, and tourists.

the small group of lib family I was with were very toned down in comparison. The most annoying part from them was hearing comments like how progressives should take back patriotism (lol how??) or how this is still nice because it gives ppl an excuse to get together. Some of these arguments/retorts in the face of full blown fascism are so weak and sad and thus they give me hope that neoliberalism is genuinely dying

Somehow got to do a day trip to edgartown (Martha’s fucking vineyard) today and somehow the amount of murikkka is still surprising. Might be most concentrated area of wealth/power/liberal white supremacy I’ve ever been to - never been more convinced that this system needs to .

There’s literally a group of small islands or whatever owned by the Forbes (railroad barons) that no one except their hundreds of family members and their guests can step foot on. It feels like I’m in the belly of the beast. There are so many places you’d think are public but haha no darling you simply can’t go! because of these land hoarding fucks.

honestly wonder all the ways the global south would benefit long term if this area was nuked this weekend

Locke: “Sign here to respect private property.”

Me, falling: “lmao imagine owning a cloud.”

MEMO: OFFICE OF ALLYSHIP STANDARDS

Effective 6/10/25:

• Straight couples must secure a "Temporary Hetero Permit" (THP) for public handholding.
• Permits require 3 notarized letters of support from trans neighbors (FORM T-9).

FORMAL NOTICE: FLAG CODE REVISION

Per STATUTE PRIDE-7: Failure to display rainbow flags on primary domicile results in:
1st offense: Community service (bedazzling city buses).
2nd offense: Mandatory karaoke to Cher’s entire discography (Enforcement via Firearm)

All Funding secured via "Straight Tears" tax (CODE: ST-2025).

Agreed, tho I'm definitely an anxious nutter

I'm just shocked that even these highly educated PMC people who work in the field and are generally interested in research are going buck wild maskless this Christmas. I guess one of them just got sick (non-Covid) now while on vacation. In the beginning of Death Panel's Covid Year Four episode they summed it up pretty well calling it the 'sociological production of the end of the pandemic'.

I finally got it. After 3 years of avoiding it, working in an office job with very minimal contact with coworkers, masking religiously in public, and tracking my county's data and adjusting how much I'm socializing based on that data, etc. I honestly don't know how I got it, I've been more cautious this past month and none of my other friends/family had it or were symptomatic. Luckily it's been 'mild' for me, but the first couple days were still pretty hellish. It's been 3 weeks and luckily all I have left is brain fog which is getting better and should resolve in 90 days according to my pcp (jesus christ that's a long time). The long covid studies and the permanent brain fog really scares the shit out of me compared to the other stuff since i have a bunch of dementia/alzheimers in the family, but obvs it's all pretty alarming. Solidarity and love to the folks this has disabled and killed, if this eventually disables me I'm going to [REDACTED] an elected official.

We have east coast family visiting and among them are multiple doctors and libs who believe in climate change that call themselves "progressive". Whenever I mention any new study on long covid I am made to feel like an annoying shut-in who believes in chem trails. I don't even get into the details of the study, just the mention of the article title is enough to make these "trust the science" types imply that I'm spending too much time online and blowing things out of proportion. These people are great and smart and accepting in many other ways, but holy fuck. They are fucking DONE trusting the science. I honestly don't know what it's going to take, maybe one of them or their kids getting long covid and suffering before they'll actually shut the fuck up and start "trusting the science" again?? Like I know the media has been normalizing this for years so this is expected but like you'd think people with fucking MDs would be able to see through the media bias, denialism and normalization of this. guess not. it's literally fine