sara ✨

i attended NINE halsey concerts in the past 2 months, MASKED. if i can scream-sing through a mask, so can you. i tested negative on a pluslife test for covid yesterday (7 days post my most-recent concert). masks work. for covid. for measles. for flu. for RSV. wear a mask.

Disney, Sony, Universal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. control whether you can take screenshots on Netflix. The five studios created a joint lab in 2006 to draft the security rules that every streaming platform must follow. Netflix pays $20 billion a year for content licenses, and those contracts come with mandatory encryption requirements. The studios decide, and Netflix obeys. One of those requirements: all videos have to be encrypted, so you can't copy them. A piece of software called Widevine, owned by Google, is baked into your phone, your browser, and your smart TV. It routes the video through a protected part of your device so that when you hit the screenshot button, all you get is a black rectangle. The video literally never passes through the part of the device that handles screenshots. And the whole thing barely works anyway. Anyone with a laptop can turn off a single Chrome setting, and screenshots work again. Organized piracy rings don't bother with screenshots at all. They rip entire movies. Piracy sites got 216 billion visits in 2024, up 66% from four years earlier. The encryption stops your aunt from sharing a funny scene on Twitter. It does almost nothing to stop actual pirates. Paradoxically, Netflix's most successful show of all time went viral almost entirely through screenshots and memes. Squid Game cost $21 million to make. Netflix says it generated roughly $891 million in value for the company, measured by how many people it brought to the platform and kept watching. The TikTok hashtag alone hit 44 billion views. Netflix added 4.4 million new subscribers in the quarter it dropped, double the previous quarter's total. Nobody ran a marketing campaign for it. Fans did all the work for free, because they could share what they saw. Netflix made $42.5 billion in revenue last year with 325 million subscribers. A $21 million Korean show returned 42 times its production cost because people posted screenshots and memes. The contracts that block your screenshots were written when piracy meant burning DVDs, not tweeting a frame from Wednesday.

Your regular reminder: It’s not vaccines vs masks It’s vaccines AND masks AND clean air AND tests AND more

Yeah, so this is really important. It wasn't "immunity debt", it was SARS-COV-2 induced immune dysregulation.

and for the lady, perhaps a calm & regulated nervous system?

@drjenwolkin untouched by the veronicas

Drop your songs! Let’s make an ADHD playlist ⬇️l🎵

Ms. Rachel is fighting to close an ICE facility in Texas that's detaining children. She wants to "make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong." "I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border," she told NBC News. Ms. Rachel recently had a video call with nine-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. The boy told her he "wants to leave and go to the spelling bee." "It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together." variety.com/2026/tv/news/m…

Cuba is experiencing nationwide blackouts, and clinicians have requested N95s. I will donate a dollar for every RT this gets in the next hour. MAKE ME PAY. James is organizing a fundraiser. Venmo: James-Ray-24

“Long COVID isn’t just being tired.” For Matjaž it means cognitive decline, GI issues, sleep problems—and needing recovery time after simple tasks. These lived experiences shaped WHO Europe’s Long COVID Mythbusters, created alongside patients. 👉 More: bit.ly/3O6Ji3X

we’re back here again everyone! i had to send my housemate pretty much all of what was left of my money for the water bill meaning i now have basically nothing and its three weeks until payday so i’m just gonna throw this out there in case anyone is able to help me live

"We've hit global water bankruptcy"

@dnpvakarian this made me laugh unreasonably hard I'm so sorry

no fucking way i just summoned my car in cyberpunk and it RAN ME OVER

if you’re scared of meningitis, you should also be scared of covid, which is much more prevalent and contagious, and can result in the same debilitating sequelae like hearing loss, brain damage, kidney failure, and a multitude of other things. both are airborne, so wear a mask.

switched to yogurt and water, maybe there's hope lol

me: my tummy is gurgly and unhappy also me: greasy pepperoni melt and sparkling celsius for breakfast? ok

everything fucking sucks. hug your friends. tell them you love them in your own way. be kind to strangers and your neighbors alike. try to be involved in action against all this techno-fascist bullshit. be corny and cringe. destroy a data center

.@NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at Launch Pad 39B today at 11:21am ET. Teams will now continue preparations for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of Orion and a major step toward returning humans to the Moon.

given the state of things, and fascism regimes rising, i don’t think governments will start implementing good ventilation and air purifying systems in every public building anytime soon. which means we’re left to ourselves. either we start protecting one another, or we don’t.

because acknowledging airborne transmission means drastically change the way you see the air and your social interactions. if you don’t want to participate in this chosen mass killing that should one day affect you or your relatives, you should wear a respirator everywhere.

it’s a choice. we’re actively making the choice to kill and disable certain amount of people every year. it doesn’t have to be like this, this is just what happens when we comply with and blindingly follow capitalist so-called public health authorities without reading the science

that one where halsey rhymed michigan with bitch again