April Otto @aprilyotto

@onegmtoanother Thank goodness, I hate the big light

hello fellow queers, it's time for a 🌈 COVID-Safer Pride Guide! 🌈 [1/3]

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This is a really common question, probably because the library/author relationship can seem pretty opaque from the outside. But libraries do benefit authors! A lot! Here’s how-

shaggy @shaggysurvives

2 years ago

How does checking out a library book support the author

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Here it is! I made two versions of this that address the issue in different ways. This version I imagined being given directly to HCPs. Second version is below. Feel free to download and share, link in bio!

Olivia- covid resources in bio! @o_bel_

2 years ago

I want to make a handout to counter HCPs who are pushing “Covid anxiety” and pathologize folks for precautions. What should it be called?

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“Why should I bother testing for Covid? If I’m sick I’m sick. Knowing it’s Covid doesn’t change anything.” Actually - it does. If you know it’s Covid there are things you can & should be doing differently - despite what the CDC or other people want you to believe. A 🧵/1

@kelseybogan I always read the feedback, no matter the grade! Often there’s no substantial feedback, but there’s usually a comment, even when I get 100%. And I appreciate when there is feedback!

@timeforwizards It’s a rite of passage

The only way we can ensure peace and security for Palestinians and Israelis is through a permanent ceasefire now! #CASenateDebate24

@timeforwizards I’m obsessed

1/ THE BEST ARTICLE ON COVID FOR A GOODLY WHILE Perhaps ever. I thought I'd better do a thread on it. Dive in. It's long, but it's worth it.👇 abc.net.au/news/2024-01-2…

Seeing some news (finally) about Long Covid behaving like HIV. I have been HIV positive since 2007 and am very lucky to have a very good doctor, an HIV specialist, so I asked him about it.

According to the U.N., 90 percent of Gazans are displaced, more than one in four are starving and there’s not a single hospital in the strip that is fully functional. to.pbs.org/41WM4LI

1. As a child in the 1960's, every month Life Magazine would arrive in our household, and I would see photographs of murdered Vietnamese, burned civilians, screaming children, overwhelmed chaos, piles of bodies slaughtered by Americans.

My heart is deeply broken for losing more two of my colleagues and friends in an Israeli air strike. One of them is the bigger son of @WaelDahdouh Hamza That’s enough

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This is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary interviews of a former senior US government official on Gaza. This is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Key points in the video: - He agrees that many of the victims of Oct 7th were killed by the Israeli army in the form of "undisciplined fire by helicopters with hellfire missiles or by tanks with incendiary rounds directed at buildings". In the case of the victims of the music festival he even says they "were largely killed, it appears, by hellfire missiles and by other undisciplined fire by Israeli forces". To him this "disgrace in military terms" stems from a "lack of discipline and training necessary to respond" but also from the IDF's "Hannibal directive", which "says that rather than get into bargaining over hostage exchange you should just kill the Israeli hostages along with their captors." - He says that with Oct 7th "Hamas had 2 objectives": 1) "Put the Palestinian self-determination issue back on the global agenda", something he says they've "succeeded" in doing since they're is "widespread recognition outside Israel that only self-determination for Palestine in the form of a 2-state solution can provide security to Israel". He says that even in "the US, which has a larger Jewish population than Israel, many Jews have come to realize that this is the case. Younger Jews in particular in the U.S. are very disillusioned with Zionism and don't want to suffer contagion from it in the form of antisemitism, which is actually growing now as a result of Israeli actions". 2) "Give Hamas enormous popularity among Palestinians because they are seen as having stood up, as having been willing to accept death rather than captivity". He refers to Norman Finkelstein's "analogy of slave revolts in the U.S." and particularly the "1831 revolt by Nat Turner, a well-educated very intelligent enslaved African who led a slave revolt in Southern Virginia which had as its objective the murder of every white person they encountered." He says it "raises a moral question: 'Is the violence of the slave-owner morally the same as the violence of the slave trying to end that violence?'. The same moral question arises with Israeli oppression of Palestinians versus Palestinian resistance to oppression." - All in all he concludes that much like the violence against African-Americans that followed slave revolts in the 19th century, the Israeli vengeance against Palestinians "won't be remembered fondly by anyone in the future". In fact he goes as far as saying that "when people think of Israel in the past they thought of it as a refuge for the victims of the Holocaust... now they will think of it as the home of perpetrators of genocide. When they think of Israel, they will think of burned buildings and dead babies. This is an image problem of a fundamental nature and from the point of view of Israel it strips Israel of its protection by charges of antisemitism against anyone who is critical of Israel because to be critical of people who are carrying out genocide cannot be antisemitism, it cannot be considered immoral. Antisemitism is a despicable attitude but to oppose genocide by Israel is not."

I knew that there was something *** Exquisite ***behind that tiny smirk 🫶🏽

Do not forget Gaza

In September 2021, well into the covid vaccine era, when asked when the pandemic would be under control, Anthony Fauci said 'you've got be under 10,000 infections a day to feel comfortable.' Next week infections in the US will peak at 2 million per day