Notices by Monika Viktorova (mviktoro@mastodon.social)

@hrefna one thing we shouldn’t discount is that although she was objectively further left, people on the left didn’t perceive her that way. I saw it in my own friend circles - people saw her as right wing. And that’s straight up because of media they’re consuming. Even “leftist” accounts (we can debate how many are organic vs engineered) need outrage and the best outrage is “she’s lying about who she is she’s actually right wing”. Leftists ate it up

@lkanies @thomasfuchs While Covid will exacerbate any underlying health issue you have, the research is extremely clear that Covid does not need a pre existing condition to give you long covid. It’s also important to remember that having had a previous covid infection *is* a pre existing condition for long covid. Multiple reputable studies have now demonstrated increased impacts with successive infections.

The #barbie movie is everything, go see it, etc., but on reflecting today: there’s something profoundly distressing in the fact that you can make a movie explicitly criticizing the Mattel corporation, indeed corporate America writ large as a vector of patriarchal power and greed, producing and reproducing subjugation, and Mattel will fund your movie because that power is so untouchable, so entrenched, that the movie is simply going to result in more profit