Back in June, I help my mom clean out her pool shed. There's a strand of old twinkle lights with plastic flamingos. "Throw them out," she says. "They don't work." But I see that the flamingos came off easily, so I start to pull them off. "I can do something with these."

😅 father in law wants to introduce me to this cool new podcast he found during his trucking called Critical Role Calls it "a bunch of nerds playing pretend but still fun like campfire stories although the Sam guy is a little crude and needs to tone it down if wants a career"

Listen to what rail workers have to say about the appalling conditions they work under.

Something I've been meaning to do for a long time is to revisit all the things I was wrong about during the pandemic. There's quite a bit. And if this place is going down, well I guess this might be my last chance. So, let's do it: 🧵

$8/month… should be the cost of insulin. #Insulin4all @LillyPad @novonordisk @sanofi

A 9yo Black child clearly into science identified a problem harming her neighborhood, researched, found a safe solution, and was testing it. Her white neighbor (who knew her!) called police on her saying a “small Black woman wearing a hoodie” was doing things and scaring him.

We got it wrong and I am sorry. Hybrid immunity is not real. Immunity debt is not real. Our vaccine only approach has cost 2000+ Queenslanders their lives and disabled many, many more. Wear masks, the best ones you can afford. Stay home if you’re unwell. Please isolate if +.

Japan is now seeing FATAL SARS2 COVID-related brain damage in Children according to doctor:

Ten things people say about Covid and what they really mean.

Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising among babies under 6 months old, and the CDC is urging mothers to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of infection in those not yet eligible for shots, Director Rochelle Walensky said

@elonmusk Hello Elon, you seem to have disabled name changes. I was wondering when that would be getting turned back on as I appear to have gotten myself into a bit of a situation.

Yikes. Apparently my daughter is one of 24 kids home sick out of her class of 30.

National election days are stark reminders of the injustice of the nearly 700,000 DC residents, who pay the same federal taxes as residents of states, having no voting representation in Congress and only limited, revocable local self-governing authority.

@fordnation government lawyer making spirited case for non-consensual forced labour without political or legal recourse. ‘They must not be permitted to withdraw labour’. What’s that word we used for forced labour without consent, again?

@CBCQueensPark Thank you for bringing this to wide attention. One thing, though, the "immunity debt" explanation is conjecture and isn't particularly robust. The other hypothesis is that COVID infection impacts the immune system in kids. Given the stakes, probably worth presenting that too.

NEW: I’ve got up-to-date stats about how many kids are coming to Ontario ERs / getting hospitalized with respiratory illnesses. The numbers over the past week are nearly *triple* the usual for this time of year.

Being a teenager during Covid has caused me to realize something.