Notices by Shaula Evans (shaulaevans@zirk.us)

A system is what it does.

A system is what it does.

A system is what it does.

"One‐in‐five people may suffer long Covid after acute Covid‐19 infection, with similar risk across age groups [regardless of vaccination status]."

One. In. Five.

Even Russian roulette has better odds.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12059467/

#Covid #LongCovid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

@GreenSkyOverMe Thank you. I agree!

*As long as they wear a mask and throw the tips from a respectful distance. 😂

Context: I am decepively petite but I have opera training and I can produce an incredibly large sound with projection.

I couple of the neigbours may have heard me (if they're awake this hour).

I just had a sudden urge to sing Nessun dorma, so I pulled up a video that included the score.

...and as I finished, I realized I opened all the windows to air out the house, so I hope the neighbours enjoyed this tiny, full blast concert. 😂

@hannah How is the poor paramedic supposed to perform CPR on your effectively while they are swooning???

I texted a friend named Leo today to congratulate him on becoming pope.

As I trust everyone with any friends named Leo has been doing all day.

Offering helpful advice is a good thing if you have permission, if it is relevant, and if it centers the other person and their well-being.

Unsolicited advice is criticism.

And there is a lot of harm out there masquerading as good advice and good intentions. 1/2

I love people who have little or no normalcy bias.

And I deeply regret the horrors they have typically lived through to get them there.

If I have correctly understood what I've been reading lately (typically in the middle of the night, so the human error factor is high), large fish typically have more heavy metals, but now small fish are typically higher in #microplastics.

Is there a goldilocks zone for safest fish size for human consumption?

*Don't be a dreary vegan & say "stop eating fish!" in my mentions. I'm looking at this from the POV of public health & global food supply, not individual food choices. 1/2

This place needs a dance break.

I've had this on loop all afternoon and I'm grooving out all over the house. Join me in my dance party.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eZ-S2ZYYjL8

@inthehands I don't know what the moral to the story is but I'd love to know how you fixed the key because I'm going through the exact same thing with a key in a high-use password and none of my fixes have worked yet!

It amuses me greatly that my phone really wants to give me weather updates but I won't grant location permissions plus I use a VPN so anyway somewhere in France has thunderstorms in the forecast in case you were wondering.

@sindarina It felt the same as transferring to a new school. Exactly the same.

When I left Twitter several years ago, I gave my friends and followers multiple options for ways that we could stay in touch.

And then I discovered that we weren't friends, we had just all been on Twitter. Now they are no longer part of my life.

Butterfly meme:

Is this *friendship* or is this just *proximity*?

I find myself thinking, as I do from time to time, about how Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm.

NGL, I'm feeling a bit precocious that even in my generation I am still carrying familial intergenerational trauma from the Great Depression in the 1930s and now here I am. Ahead of the curve!

Fingers crossed that what's considered intergenerational trauma and maladaptive behaviours in the good times turns out to be intergenerational transmission of knowledge and survival skills in the lean times.

@derek That's a beautiful set-up!

Hmm. One of the few factors I haven't optimized yet for my plants is humidity -- my home is super dry. You've got me wondering if I shouldn't spritz my plants one or twice a day. I'm clearly going to need to experiment with this. Thank you!