I ordered 20 N95 masks and received what appears to be several hundred N95 masks. I interpret this as a message of general encouragement from the universe.
Sam Nolen
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Sam Nolen
@SamRNolen
Research engineer. In recovery from complex chronic illness. Working on a memoir. Other interests: history, philosophy, fiction, chess, socialism
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2015
- CHOTINER: It’s a nice little library you’ve got here, nice selection. Me: Thank you. CHOTINER: You take great care of these books. So many spines in mint condition. Me: [visibly perspiring]
- Replying to @KimbroughValIf only I attain your level of enlightenment, I too can aspire to spend my sixties trolling on Twitter.
- Today was the day San Francisco hit its highest COVID wastewater concentration of the entire pandemic. (SF Chronicle data, average of the two facilities) Close to a million Americans killed under Biden.“I’ll be blunt,” President Biden says in Harrisonburg, Pa. “I ended the pandemic. He didn’t.”
- The NYT calling My Brilliant Friend autofiction is lowkey misogyny
- I’m numb to it but it’s wild that COVID is almost as rampant in SF right now as at the peak of Delta, and if I get it it will devastate me, and almost no one knows, and if they knew they wouldn’t care, and if they cared they still probably wouldn’t bother to mask
- I started dating someone who also has ME/CFS and it has resulted in us both improving physically, which I think is beautiful
- Seeing a lot of people I liked on here punching down at vulnerable people begging for Covid safety. Meanwhile there’s a constant stream of terrifying Covid research which you are not aware of unless you are following very closely, and we just lost the five-day isolation period
- Tomorrow I am going back to see the neurologist who tried to diagnose me with FND (functional neurological disorder) in June. I’m going to tell him how disastrously wrong he was, and that I’m recovering because I figured it out on my own.
- The Western paranoia about “psychosomatic” illness is actually an inversion: in fact we are rapidly uncovering the physical roots of mental illness. As the Enlightenment project of mastery over nature fails, our science increasingly conflicts with our ideology.
- How can you be a remotely competent historian without recognizing that major events in human history are shaped by people who are physically double the size of everyone else, like Darius in the Behistun Inscription
Replying to @NateSilver538Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without recognizing that major events in human history are shaped by high IQ, high-agency people who are bad and/or flawed and/or dangerous. - There are many people on “the left” whose only engagement with Covid is to occasionally quote tweet something and claim it as evidence that everyone who is Covid-conscious is a terrible person
- Replying to @klmatterMe too. I have been wearing Auras throughout the pandemic and have completely avoided COVID so far (unless I had an asymptomatic case at some point)
