When COVID-19 first became a thing and the powers that be dithered about it, people came together on their own to do the right thing and it was incredible. Then the cynical pols and mercenary media regrouped and killed it with a propaganda assault, and I never forgive them for that.
I really love @naomikritzer.bsky.social’s YEAR WITHOUT SUNSHINE because it so clearly lays out what solidarity looks like. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
It wasn't a hammer drop, but the insidious venom of shaking a water bottle and asking "I bet you wish you could pee" to someone desperately trying to hold their pee in during a long car trip.