Jackie "Stressbot-9000" O'Malley

She/Her.
Part-time banshee.

[Four Seasons Total Landscaping @TotalSeasons]

We’d like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel.

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Hey ther Delilah
Ther ys one ring that kan fynde them
Ther ys one ring that kan bring them all
And yn the darknesse bynde them

[not wint @drilhistorian]

the prophecy

[Jackie "Stressbot-9000" O'Malley @Jackietastic]

@remembrancermx What a gem! I'm so happy for you. What a delight to see this beautiful baby among us!

[Jackie "Stressbot-9000" O'Malley @Jackietastic]

@devasattva YES. I know so many pro-barefoot, anti-sock people and I'm like you don't understand I can't live like you.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

According to the latest CDC COVID-19 wastewater data, we are currently in the second-biggest surge of the pandemic.

It will peak in the next week, with ~2 million infections per day. During this surge, ~100 million people total (~1 in 3 people in the US) will likely get COVID.

[Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerkhove]

Long🧵 #COVID19 and where we are. I’m worried.

We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic and we are certainly in a different phase. This phase is marked by an evolving virus (with the XBB and BA.2 sublineages circulating and JN.1 becoming dominant).
https://t.co/d47EbEF4ea

[David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt]

Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years:

(Full column: https://t.co/XP0a4Iljti)

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

U.S. HOLIDAY COVID UPDATE:

- COVID wastewater levels are very high in the majority of states

- 1 in 35 people currently have COVID

- COVID levels higher today than during 90% of the pandemic

- WHO designated JN.1 variant of interest

- CDC warning hospitals may ration care

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

1/
PMC COVID-19 Tracker, Dec 18, 2023

We are headed into potentially the 2nd largest COVID surge all-time in the U.S.

If #wastewater levels follow historic trends, we will reach 2 million infections/day at peak surge with 4.2% of the population actively infectious on Jan 10.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless.

https://t.co/y07gW7V0Ln

[Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai]

I saw someone who I really thought knew better retweeting some callous piece of shit saying that Palestinian "terrorists" are being released in exchange for innocent Israeli children. The sheer scope of people's wilful, belligerent ignorance continues to awe & devastate me.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

1. A core part of the analysis I perform involves zooming out; that is to say, taking a very broad view of the effects of infectious disease on populations, rather than individuals. People often reply to my posts here with something like, 'everyone I know who had Covid is ok'.

[Cooper @Cooperstreaming]

If you'd like to see how absolutely nothing has changed in the conversation around Israel & Palestine despite decades of violence, here's Jon Stewart doing a bit that could literally air today without a single change.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

In the US more 18-44 year olds died of covid in a single year than died of flu in the 22 years from 1999 to 2020 combined

[Emily Snook @hoopersnook]

1600 people died of covid this week. It’s not over. It’s everywhere. And death is just one of many bad outcomes.

[Jennifer Hassan @GuinnessKebab]

4 days ago we interviewed Roshdi Sarraj for a @washingtonpost story about the 23 journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war.
Roshdi, also a journalist, spoke of his late Palestinian colleagues with pride. Today we discovered that Roshdi was killed in an Israeli strike on his home