Setting up a new creative home at https://ko-fi.com/traiken Go there for music, art, and more (insert GeoCities under construction gif here)
https://mirlo.space/traiken Music also available here in a non-Bandcamp fashion
https://traiken.bandcamp.com for electronic rock and experimental music
https://kentrai.bandcamp.com for Vocaloid songs
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| Header Image alt text | The name Traiken on a black background. The letters have an old CRT television pattern on them, and transition from green to white with some blue and red as a slight color separation. There is a pattern interruption through the name, glitch art like. |
| Electronic Rock | https://traiken.bandcamp.com |
I mean, you could self-mandate to care and take proactive preventive measures. Like, normalize wearing cute KN95s everywhere and make some efforts to improve ventilation and air filtration indoors. Get your folks involved. Inspire your communities to flatten the curve for realsies.
We could look back at the last four years as a bumpy, misguided, troubled time before we finally rallied together and brought Covid legitimately under control.
No? You wanna keep playing in Hard Mode?
*sigh*
I was back and forth on cutting my hair, as it had grown well past the point of unruly, but the depression that kept me from caring was still in full effect. However, I pushed myself to do it and realized that cutting away that much hair might also put less strain on the elastic in my masks, so it was well worth it.
Also yeah it kinda looks better now so that's nice. Getting to hack parts of your body off without injury is nice.
I feel we've reached a point where many if not most of the organizations we rely on are being overrun by toddlers.
We're constantly bring sold the belief that a chatbot is a viable substitute for thinking, skill, and hard work, of expertise and competence.
I've had conversations with people about AI agents and coding, how people want to have made something they've imagined without having to do the work of actually learning, designing and building. It's like a toddler demanding to be allowed to drive the fire truck without knowing how to drive, not being able to reach the pedals, and not knowing anything about fighting fires.
The want to be what they imagine a firefighter is from the perspective of a toddler. They don't know, they don't care, they just want to be in that truck and make the lights and sirens go.
That outlook is fine for a toddler, it's not acceptable for a grown adult drawing a paycheck.
*Whether or not you're looking for a Covid Safe Date, please share this post. Because it's super difficult for people who avoid Covid to find love online.*
Covid Safe Date is now a feature full online dating website for adults of all genders and sexual orientations around the world who take #Covid avoidance seriously.
We have a few dozen members already, join us!
You may have Long Covid or you may be Novid.
You may have been engaging in consistent Covid safety practices since 2020, or you may have just started properly avoiding Covid recently.
You may have a shitty job that forces you to be maskless in order to stay employed. You may share a household with people who don't avoid the plague like the plague.
But as much as possible, you wear a respirator mask in public. People thinking you look weird or peer pressure isn't enough to make you go maskless. You would only risk another infection with a possibly permanently destructive virus if you feared losing your income, or feared violence, or had to get a medical procedure where you couldn't be masked the whole time.
You absolutely would never go inside a restaurant to eat ever again. Restaurant food can be takeout or delivery. Food can be cooked at home.
Whether you've been infected several times or never, you know the best course of action is to avoid as many infections in the future as possible because the harm is cumulative.
Whether or not you keep vaxxed, you understand that the vaccine doesn't stop infection, you still must wear a respirator mask.
You understand the importance of good indoor ventilation and filtering, but you know a public place with a good air quality rating doesn't mean it's safe to take your respirator mask off. You know people get infected outdoors too if they're very close to other people.
When I tell you that Dr. Hoerger's data shows there's more Covid spreading now than at any point in 2020, you're saddened but you're not shocked. You know Covid is far from over.
And if this applies to you and you actually avoid the plague like the plague, chances are dating websites will be hostile to you if you mention Covid safety.
People have anecdotally had a hard time finding romance on CovidMeetups, because it's not really a dating website but a better place to meet friends or find dentists.
That's why Covid Safe Date exists. It may be the only dedicated part of the internet specifically for Covid avoiders to date and possibly fall in love.
Our services will always be 100% free-of-charge. There's no "premium" tier, all features are available to all users.
And for that reason, Covid Safe Date needs donations from people who can afford to do so, so I can keep paying for web hosting and paying my developers who have Long Covid and are struggling generously for their labor.
https://covidsafedate.com/we-need-your-financial-support/
I'm also the founder of Stop Gen AI, so you'd better believe that there is absolutely zero AI on Covid Safe Date. Our web platform and service is completely human crafted and maintained.
We are a space that's LGBTQIA+, neurodivergence, disability, and poverty inclusive.
And I'm a cybersecurity specialist who takes responsibility for your cybersecurity and privacy seriously.
https://covidsafedate.com/privacy-policy/
Here are screenshots from the newly relaunched Covid Safe Date. You can see my profile, I'm looking for love too!
*Whether or not you're looking for a Covid Safe Date, please share this post. Because it's super difficult for people who avoid Covid to find love online.*
Woke up to see a tornado watch and thought, damn, well, maybe it’ll kill me and this’ll all finally be over.
Then found out someone will be at the house to fix something and I slammed into emergency panic mode to keep myself safe.
Covid is scarier than death, and I hate having to live this way.
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Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)
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