For younger people: this is not normal. Older folks have lived entire lifetimes and never experienced schools being closed due to widespread illness - until now.

#LandBack! The Penobscot Nation regained 11,297 acres of their ancestral homelands near sacred Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Its the first phase of a 30,000-acre land return. tribalbusinessnews.com/secti…

Morning folks! Starting regular teaching this week after a 4 year #LongCovid hiatus 😱 What do you recommend as a good anti-Covid protocol? Masks, CPC mouth wash after, what else should I be doing to reduce chances of getting Covid? Thanks! 🙏

RT @quarecuttie: @OldYesButWise Unmasked doctor asked to demask to examine my throat. “We’re in the middle of a Covid wave at the moment s…

"It’s a ‘Horrible Dystopic Future.’ Hospitals and Insurers Are Fighting a Nearly $1 Billion Bot War" - INC, Sep 25, 2026 inc.com/chloe-aiello/hospita…

This cane actually folds into a chair bc my heart rate tends to go up to 140+ if I stand for more than 30 seconds so yeah, that’s what it’s for! I love it and it’s made life easier for me. Please learn to mind your business, you dk what the hell other people’s hearts are doing

Boycotting US products is good for your health, it seems. Carney should pull a Trump and increase tariffs in response to Driscoll's little escapade. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…

Tonight's full moon is the Harvest Moon, and it's rising on one of the biggest bird nights of the fall. About 360 million birds are forecast to fly over the US tonight. The most will be over Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia. The moon comes up right around sunset. After dark, if your sky is clear, point a pair of binoculars at it, hold steady and wait. Sooner or later a bird will fly right across it. If you can, turn off outdoor lights you don't need tonight. Bright lights pull birds off course when they fly at night.

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I met a person on the train who was wearing a medical mask because of a condition that makes them sensitive to smell. They asked me for a link to buy the GVS mask I was wearing!

Your regular reminder that your government moves goalposts in order to minimize awareness and prioritization of a proven health threat when it becomes inconvenient to deal with. This happened under both the Trump AND Biden administrations, so this is not a partisan thing.

The Pacific won't stop. We have ANOTHER Category 5, a Category 3, a Category 2 impacting Hawaii and another two developing systems likely to become hurricanes. A record-strong El Niño is helping induce record hurricane activity. Has it seemed absurd? By some metrics, it's record-setting. According to brilliant meteorologist Tomer Burg, the past 30 days have set a record for ACE, or accumulated cyclone energy, in the eastern Pacific. ACE is a proxy for how "busy" a stretch is... it estimates how much energy the storms are extracting from warm sea waters and expending through strong winds. It also takes into account storm size. El Niño patterns begin with a warming of water temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. This is a record-strong El Niño, meaning sea surface temperatures are running 3 to 11 degrees above average. All that hot ocean water heats the air above, causing it to rise. More rising air means more tropical waves and more hurricanes. And once a hurricane gets going, it gets to feast on those warm waters – which in some cases are running 86 to 90 degrees! That means plentiful "ocean heat content" to sustain strengthening and, in some cases, rapid intensification. Polo, for example, logged the second-fastest strengthening on record in the eastern Pacific, jumping from a 50 mph tropical storm to a Category 5 in just 24 hours. Only Patricia (2015) eclipsed that breakneck pace. (For comparison, that's three times faster than needed to count as "rapid intensification"! Meanwhile, the Atlantic is silent. We *still* haven't had a hurricane – something that is unprecedented in the modern satellite era. Blame El Niño. After all, what goes up must come down. All that rising air in the Pacific is balanced by subsidence, or sinking, in the Atlantic. The sinking air squashes storms before they can even form, and harsh upper-level winds tear them apart.

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The water is so high people are kayaking to the train station in Queens.

Can anyone suggest a good pillow for wheelchair use to relieve pressure if you have sciatica on both sides & multi-level disc degeneration? Was using a wheelchair the other day & it was definitely uncomfortable.

Why is Sainsbury's scanning my face?

Holy flipping cow. Symptomatic NHS staff *looking after immunocompromised patients* no longer need to test for Covid. Absolutely astonishing. This will kill patients. Beyond horrifying.

Airwareness VR is in MemeLab. Stand in the room. Map a vent. Move a purifier. Watch indoor-air risk update in front of you. epi.meme/blog/airwareness-vr…

Very sad. Very tired. (too be fair it’s been a long week) I’ve been looking for a covid safe shared living situation for over a year. Posting here was a last resort. Not sure what to do next. Thanks to everyone who shared & boosted. xo

RT @froglet80: Its been a long week and next week is even worse - forensic interview with regards to rhe guy the assaulted me twice. And mo…