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aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh (he / him), [email protected]

[Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. 🇺🇸 @AltenbergLee]

When you hear anyone in the news or social media say "during the pandemic" or "post-pandemic", this is what they are talking about:
(2024-11 update)

[abe @NlMOY]

who signed off on this

[David Sims @davidlsims]

I am begging the trades to cover this strike with more than just anonymous threats from random studio executives

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

STUDIO EXECUTIVES: "We're not going to pay you. Hopefully computers can replace you. In fact, we're going to take things you've already made and make them disappear forever."

SAG & WGA: "That doesn't seem fair."

STUDIO EXECUTIVES: "Why are you bullying us?!"

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

Giant Egg Company: We raised egg prices by nearly 300% last year, our gross margin by over 500%, and our gross profits by over 1000%

NYT/Vox Reporters: Got it. So we should blame skyrocketing egg prices on a minor avian flu outbreak that barely touched egg production, right?

[Christina Warren @film_girl]

Fuck this website, man

[Benjamin Mason Meier @BenjaminMMeier]

2,952 Americans died from COVID-19 this week,
as we convinced ourselves the pandemic is over.

[meghan @deloisivete]

My kid came up with a new holiday greeting

[Zeke Emanuel @ZekeEmanuel]

With the party season underway, Many hosts are asking for proof of COVID vax to attend.
This gets it backwards.
The vaccine (which u should get) prevents you from becoming very ill; but doesn't prevent transmission. Best way to prevent COVID spread is ask for day-of rapid tests.

[Bess Kalb @bessbell]

My whole family including my two young children have covid for the first time and as fun as it’s been with everyone sick as shit with a nonstop fever and snot and no sleep it’s not as bad as wearing a mask in a crowded public place.

[Ron T. Kim @rontkim]

My mother died of COVID last year, and our family knows she caught it working as a cook at Hmart. Instead of blaming workers who are trying to survive, we should blame ourselves for failing to protect their safety.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. At checkout, @CVSHealth customers thought they were donating a dollar to the American Diabetes Association (@AmDiabetesAssn).

Actually, they were subsidizing CVS’ corporate sponsorship agreement with ADA

For details on how the scheme worked follow this 🧵

[Kids Write Jokes @KidsWriteJokes]

hello IDIOT

[zack @ZAC__IMPACT]

This one and this one alone

[jay @jaylaney]

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[jay @jaylaney]

@mhat I don't know! I was joking.