Dance the Manta Ray

mediaevalfishsandwich@zeroes.ca

Interested in music, rock, pop, classical, metal, indie, shoegaze, folk, so much out there to discover. Books such as SciFi, magical realism, natural history, gentle fiction, coffee table art.Trying to navigate raising children, education, healthcare in a surprisingly pro-infection environment.Like everyone around me (VIC🇦🇺), lived through 262 days of "lockdown" spread over roughly two years. Still mystified by the rug pull in October 2021 and the complete denial/silence around the subject now.Outside the home, I always wear a respirator indoors, and sometimes outdoors depending on proximity/density. I have family members that are "high risk" but I think everyone is high risk. Increasingly ghosted/isolated as time goes on, ostensibly because of

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Post #4385597
These are various stories I noted down mostly last year to show kids: China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/global-renewable-energy-generation-surpasses-coal-first-time H1 2025: China installs more solar than rest of th...
Post #1986587
Three days, ago VRBPAC meeting for "…recommendations on the selection of the 2026-2027 Formula for COVID-19 vaccines for use in the United States…" was announced, 28th May: https://www.fda.gov/advisory-committees/advisory-committee-calendar/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee-meeting-may-28-2026-announcement I am very much looking forward to Doctor Thornburg's May 2026 presentation on epidemiology and genomics. I watched in 2023 and 2024 because Australia...
Post #1986585
Eastwood Microtonal Doubleneck 4/6 Electric Guitar/Bass $1,299.00 USD https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/eastwood-microtonal-doubleneck-electric-guitar-bass #AngineDePoitrine
Post #1986584
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 In 2026 if a prominent CCC account does not understand that particulate filtration doesn't affect gas composition… …well what can even be said. Mildly puzzling, and just not credible. Engagement farming I guess? Recycling the old 2021 bangers? Also in this basket, prominent CCC accounts that in 2026 are yet to notice the gaping chasms either side of their nose, bypassing the filter. There's just no excuse this far on the journey.
Post #1986581
#TIL a population of woolly mammoths, from a genetic bottleneck of eight individuals, persisted for six millennia on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.033
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Post #1909943
Couple of interesting BA.3.2 threads, the links contain embedded images in proper location. Both loosely around the idea that BA.3.2 is circling around in a local maxima. https://xcancel.com/SolidEvidence/status/2049203093938593920 Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence Apr 28, 2026 · 7:04 PM UTC BA.3.2 is strange is so many ways. It's now 17 months old, which is really quite old for a COVID lineage. Every so often there is a sweeping lineage that displaces everything in circulation, but when that...
Post #1909374
Edit: A kind person has provided a copy. #ICanHazPDF 🙏 🙇 Lupus and SARS-CoV-2: What have we learned after the pandemic? https://doi.org/10.1177/09612033241309845
Post #1158631
Past couple of days: Grumpy old man special interest forum, forty year old asks about new memory problems. Everyone chimes in with their memory loss stories, the sixty and seventy year olds also, most saying it's normal and forty year olds shouldn't remember things. Hmmmmm. 🤔 Gaming chat, much muuuuuch younger cohort, teens, twenties, someone mentions they've had a migraine of varying intensity since September. They've mentioned it before, some days it incapacitates. Then o...
Post #1012175
Saw several recent posts saying if governments enforced clean air in schools, the pandemic would be over. No, it would not, for technical and social reasons. I had the misfortune to live in a state where the government once tried to do the right thing, and the people absolutely sabotaged it. First I must stress: REDUCE CLASSROOM INFECTIONS BY A THIRD (best result of clean air) means YOU STILL FUCKING LOST. The child finishes school with 4 infections instead of 6. They still have a brain ful...