Dorothy Ellen Palmer ♿

From black balaclavas to Jesus toast, I'm delighted to share the tantalizing trailer for my new novel Kerfuffle set in the Toronto 2010 G20 protests. It launches with @AnotherStoryTO on Fri, April 1st 7pm. TY @renaissancepre1 for this very cool trailer! youtu.be/DKtk-kNhPDk

for covid conscious folks who get demoralized, thinking there’s no point to posting about covid for those who aren’t yet informed: in 2023, i was persuaded by the density of high-quality research y’all post here. and i’ve done my best to pay it forward. what you say matters.😷

You can’t normalize mass infection and the disposability of the most vulnerable & marginalized for the sake of continuity of western consumerist privileges, w/out causing a widespread increase in both illness & eugenicist norms. Accepting C0VID abandonment as normal led us here.

The great mass infection normalization project the ruling class implemented succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. To accept mass infection is the very definition of capitulating in advance, yet ppl across the political spectrum happily embraced the lies, minimization & denial.

Because once they realized people would sacrifice their own children to a SARS virus to get indoor dining back they realized they'd accept anything

gofundme.com/f/honoring-the… This is the real GFM.

Hi so uhm. We are running so little funds relative to before that we have completely paused sending new eSims. The genocide hasn't ended!! #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

It was flat-out murder.

@now_grace Admitting what’s actually happening means confronting the fact their choices harmed themselves & others. That’s psychologically intolerable for many. We’re mostly ignored right now, w/some hostility in the mix. This is child’s play compared to when they realise what they’ve done

As if those participating in the harm are too delicate to be confronted w the reality that ppl are suffering tremendously as a result of their behaviors. Asking them to recognize their role in the harmdoing and and acknowledge their power to change it is not the violence here.

Because most of those people aren’t intentionally setting out to harm anyone and even would feel sad to recognize how much harm they have participated in, it’s considered rude and outrageous to point out the harm not masking is contributing to, directly naming it.

Because the abandonment of the most vulnerable to Covid eugenics is wholly naturalized and normalized by the dominant culture, pointing out that people going along with those norms are harming and killing folks is considered more objectionable than the behaviors themselves.

Over the moon delighted to announce that The Scooter Twins is longlisted in excellent company for the Hamilton Literary Awards! Ty to @HamArtsCouncil @gritlitfestival Maria Sweeny @GroundwoodBooks @HouseofAnansi

A draft standard requiring N95 respirator masks in health care settings has been released by the Canadian Standards Association. Voice your support by next Tuesday August 19 using the excellent plain-language explainer prepared by @DoNoHarmBC (it’s also available in French!)

@thefemagend @nocturnalzephyr @DoomScrollingML It's an analogy. That's how analogies work.

@depalm @nocturnalzephyr @DoomScrollingML The post does not specifically say that.

I think the hardest thing about getting into arguments about COVID, is that the average person's understanding of COVID is frozen in 2021. It's essentially explaining to Boomers why things are unaffordable today.

@DoomScrollingML If you had qualified and said "some Boomers" the way you said "the average person" it would be a more exact analogy and less offensive. It offends because it labels ALL Boomers as needing explanations they then don't get. That's clearly. ableist and ageist.

@depalm It's not a capacity or ability issue, but an issue of incalcitrant denial.

Am I going to keep masking? Yes! If I could I’d go back in time & mask retroactively. I wish we lived in a time when all viruses were seen as the dangers they are, where research into post viral illnesses was properly funded & robust. I wish masks were as common as shoes.

@SusaHatchRedux @thefemagend @DoomScrollingML The point he's making is actually a double insult. First that Boomers need the obvious explained to us. Secondly that even when it's explained we're too old and unintelligent to get it. Nice on both counts.

@depalm @thefemagend @DoomScrollingML Well just why things are expensive. Why wouldn't boomers, who've lived through a bunch of economic cycles and are very familiar with inflation, need it explained to them. If he had something to communicate, it didn't work.

@nocturnalzephyr @DoomScrollingML No, the post specifically says that Boomers need to have obvious things explained to us and even then we don't get it because we're old and unintelligent. It's ageist and ableist. Period.

@depalm @DoomScrollingML I think it was referencing the mentality a lot of boomers seem to have that the things that were doable for them in young adulthood (like buying a house) are just as easy to do now and that young people are just too lazy to put the work in, not that boomers are stupid.

@squirrelpalooza @DoomScrollingML Thank you for proving my point by hurling yet another ageist/ableist insult. Well done! What a good ally you are! Sheesh. Not.

@depalm @DoomScrollingML Boomers for the most part are reactionary wankers