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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

“What the science now says about COVID infections, whether they appear mild or severe: every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses […]

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Well if this isn't where we all are at now, in each one of our nations? Never compromise with Fascists/Psychopaths #AndrewLobaczewski #Psychopathy #pathocracy #Politics #Psychology

Brazen lying in public life is a tactic Lobaczewski recognised - he called it the
“reversive blockade”. Koehli describes it as: “When you tell a lie
convincingly and it’s such an absurd lie, most people’s automatic reaction is
that they can’t comprehend a lie told on that scale, so they try to find the
‘golden mean’ between the statement and the reality. But that, Lobaczewski
says, is the intention of the big lie. They know it will sow confusion.” The
impact on the population over which a dark personality presides is huge:
some will try and find that golden mean; others will remain steadfast in
calling it a lie and fall out with the first lot; others will try to adjust their own
reality to make the lie true; while others will become inured to the new
normal - that we just all lie now.

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

RE: ohai.social/@thatkatharine/11705790… How fun when we get to make up our own definitions! To me, Osterholm is only a "doctor" when he gets his head out of his ass.

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I haven't always been this clumsy, only for the past 15 years or so.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP) LGBTQ Equality Maps

See original source of US LGBTQIA safety study for tabular data by state.

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Dr Zoyander Street @zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

"You have to live your life" they say, to justify spreading a disease that curtails the things that make life worth living. I would LOVE to live my life again, but I can't, because the wrong person breathed near me in the wrong place at the wrong time. #LongCovid

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 530 hospitalizations, 110 premature deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 4,200 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

3 tables showing total expected hospitalizations since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), total expected ICU admissions since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), and total expected deaths since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%)

Tables available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
Page 19 (Reported deaths, ICU, hospitalizations by age)

Graph showing Estimated new daily infections resulting in daily life activity-limiting symptoms lasting >3 months, by province, since Dec 2021. (5 week rolling averages)

Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
Page 13 (Long COVID)

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

New, original boogie-woogie tune for your ears and assorted other body parts! Please give it a listen. <iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/i-want-my-back-back" width="500" height="30" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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I Want My Back Back : Kristian Truelsen - Ghost Balloon Tunes : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Add some attitude to your decrepitude, rugcutters!Original songs and compositions written, arranged, performed, and mixed by K. Kristian Truelsen.I Want My...

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and […]

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JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I don't think sending cruise ship contacts on international commercial flights without PPE or serial testing, nor mandating quarantine afterwards is smart public health. These are the kinds of decisions that get you into trouble, even if this outbreak stays relatively small.

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

There's a guy on Mastodon - @augieray - with whom I almost always agree. I have often boosted his insightful posts which are often about COVID. However, I disagreed that _only_ 217,000 people now getting infected daily is a good enough statistic. I made the point too strongly for him, and he […]

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Eric's Risk Assessment @ericcarroll.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

I really despise how risky hospitals are for respiratory transmission today. Its mitigatable right up to the point you have an issue that makes it not mitigatable. Hospitals should not be a place of unmanaged risk resulting in health danger. #covidIsAirborne

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

“The direct healthcare costs for tackling long COVID [conservative] will remain high: around USD 11 billion a year. Additionally, the indirect economic costs of long COVID are set to far outweigh the associated healthcare costs from 2025 to 2035… projected losses of 0.1‑0.2% of GDP, which assume […]

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

New song written, arranged, sung, and "produced" by me: <iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/make-friends-with-the-night" width="500" height="30" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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Make Friends with the Night : K. Kristian Truelsen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Our polymath friend Henry Rathvon has a Substack of wonderful little poems. In honour of St. Patrick's Day he wrote a round (a canon) around colcannon. On his request I set it to music. Begorra! intothewords.substack.com/p/colcann…

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Colcannon (A Round With Optional Music)

Food Poems

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

My latest song. (Full disclosure: this is not a song involving dinosaurs, except maybe as allegories.) soundcloud.com/ghostballoon/tired-o…

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Tired of It All (demo)

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

On Tuesday, the Canadian Medical Association released findings from its third Health and Media Tracking Survey, which queried 5,000 Canadians. It found that about 65 per cent reported encountering false or misleading health information… According to the survey, those who followed health advice […]

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

[American politics] Diaperload T. Rump's view of the world.

Map with crudely written words and lines in red dividing the world into the Western Hemisphere, marked "ME," Russia, Europe, and northwest Africa, marked "PUTIN," and the rest of Asia and Africa plus Australia, marked XI.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I'm old enough to remember when smoking around others was socially acceptable, in restaurants, bars, workplaces etc. Secondhand smoke was everywhere. We changed norms once we accepted that shared air = shared risk. Airborne viruses are no different

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Klowder @truekk.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

My view of a (semi-) golden future:

Vases with flowers flank a gravestone with the inscription "TRUMP - Please wash hands after urinating."

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fritzoids @fritzoids.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of […]

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