Notices by katharine (thatkatharine@ohai.social)

Finally adding “during Covid” to my filter list.

Unless you mean “during [someone’s] Covid infection(s),” you are wrong.

Covid is not a period of time that is in the past tense. It is a virus that continues to circulate and devastate lives.

That time at the cat adoption centre when a kitten reached through a portal to make contact with their future self, who knows better than to engage with the past, regardless of cuteness.

Mouths are gross. Stay away from me with your unfiltered mucus glitter.

“How long are you going to mask?”

For however long humans keep spewing germs and germ-adjacent spittle.

“Don’t you miss experiencing live shows with an audience?”

Not when the audience is “this is fine”-ing wet coughs bursting through the air of poorly-ventilated theatre buildings.

“Not all mouths are gross, surely”

Enough mouths are gross that it is a problem. Sorry if you’re upset that somebody thinks you’re gross and is questioning your health supremacy.

@MediaActivist Thanks! This is just a precaution for me as it’s my partner having an exposed mouth dental surgery follow-up. He gets the experience of monitoring for symptoms and Pluslife testing. We’ve done this several times already this year, so we’re getting to be old pros.

Going into isolation tonight and, with the combination of high CO2 and pollen and perimenopausal roller coaster, I should just try to sleep through the next five days (but we know I will shitpost through it instead, dear readers)

“Are you okay? You’re still going on about a thing everyone else was eager to forget years ago.”

Roughly half of Covid infections are asymptomatic. I don’t know who’s sick or not. You don’t know who’s sick or not. Half the people running around don’t even know they’re sick. I’m not taking chances with Schrödinger’s aerosolized moist breath virus. We’ll see at the end when we tot up all our accumulated infections who comes out ahead. (I’m still at zero so far)

Would love to enjoy nature again whilst sporting my cute elastomerics. Unfortunately, this planet is still overrun with hostile, immature creepballs who can’t just let people wear protective gear in peace.

Also, lol at “masks we got used to wearing to prevent Covid transmission” because “we” absolutely the fuck did not get “used to wearing” them and preventing Covid transmission is something “we” gave up on years ago because “we” are selfish fuckheads.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/nx-s1-5369607/allergies-pollen-spring-symptoms-treatment

*rolls out guillotine on very squeaky casters*

Now?

Just doesn't seem like the revolution is going to happen so long as the protests have to be scheduled around Billy's softball games and park permits or what to heck ever.

When today's protest extends into tomorrow and the crowds maintain through the week and beyond, and the cops show up in their riot gear against the aged Boomers in their Tilley hats and puffer vests, then we'll see if this has potential as a movement for change. Looks like it was a nice day out for the brunch-havers who are mad because brunch is cancelled while there aren't enough eggs for the bennies.

Yes, it's important for people to show up. Yes, the crowds were impressive in that we see, yes, everyone's angry right this minute. But after ~15 years of seeing protests over racial injustices stretch on for days/weeks/months and get escalated to violence by cops, it's not enough for white people to gather around the town square for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon.

It’s not as much fun watching the world burn as we were led to believe.

I saw a blog about travelling with boat buddies indicating that groupthink could lead to minimizing dangers, which was a reason to not rely on the boat buddy system. Made me think of the Covid-conscious community and how a bunch of us would probably be decent boat buddies.

RIP dreams and wanderlust

That lowkey guilt when I’m about to delete an email acct I’ve had for ~20 years that somebody from the Before Times might feel compelled to reach me and that’s the only address they have. Oops. Sorry, I’m gonna miss that “vague compliment before asking a favour for my labour” email, buds.

Setting up my phone so that everything leads to a photo of Burl Ives in the bath or John Diefenbaker in a swimsuit.

Who can tell me if it is very specifically possible to put a non-Android OS onto a Blu brand phone? And furthermore, which OS and perhaps also how?