The important thing about finding beauty in ruins isn't showing off where you've been or what a daredevil you are. It's not about being cool, to me at least.

It's the tacit acknowledgement that "functional" isn't the only normal state, that normalcy is in fact itself an illusion. Places are scarred by what they endure. So are people.

They are still worthy of love. Forgotten, silent, unacknowledged though they may be. Even with the scars, perhaps because of them. We still deserve understanding

It's 2024, I think it's about time that we all can be nice to each other ... Boost someone endorphins press the like button ... That's it ... If you like it, just press it ... Spread the love

Hugz & xXx

There is no such thing as a self-made person.

Every business person has used our vast public infrastructure, which the taxpayers paid for, to make their money

Oh my God! Oh f*ck! I wake up to this big news and all I can say is f*ck! I went to bed having read something about Philip K Dick Awards (I can't even remember what I read about it!) and I wake up to learn that my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, has been nominated for this and its a big deal to me and all I can day is f*ck! What a way to start the year!

https://www.norwescon.org/2024/01/09/2024-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced/

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COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 1 June 2023

🔹Active cases: 3,782 (-123)
🔹Active outbreaks: 476 (+9)
🔹Residents: 2,743 (+63)
🔹Staff: 1,039 (-86)
🔹Reported deaths in 2023: 796 (+56)

🔸5,563 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic

🔸686 reported deaths in 2020
🔸226 reported deaths in 2021
🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022
🔸796 reported deaths in 2023

#Agedcare #COVID19Aus @AnikaWells
@Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/covid-19-outbreaks-in-australian-residential-aged-care-facilities-2-june-2023?language=en

People really have to stop doing this. Yes, these overly broad efforts to attack drag performers and trans people will have some knock on effect on cis people doing the things that cis people do everyday, but the incredulous focus on where these laws will impact cis people is a deflection from the horror and trauma they are intentionally causing trans people and the larger 2SLGBTQIA community. This is about us, not you.

From: @MediaLawProf
https://mastodon.social/@MediaLawProf/110460136687941778