katt, changing 🌈🌌 @starkatt@vulpine.club

I'm a fox. I don't know entirely what it means, but it's real.

What is postfurry? At the very core, it's a way of approaching what identity means.

Furry has been all about answering the question "what if people can also be animals?"

Postfurry says "okay, we can go even further than that. What if we claim authorial control over every aspect of identity? We're animal-people sure, but that's only a starting point. If the poststructuralists are right and all meaning is negotiable, let's go exploring and write some meanings of our own."

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It's honestly really unnerving to me that at the end of this, the number of coronaviurus dead is going to be an estimate with a huge range of uncertainty, and the count that's most publicized will be way low.

Cool, a NYC health official saying "we are running out of places to put bodies even with overflow measures", and "There's several hundred people a day dying at home and they're not getting coronavirus swabs, and thus being left out of official numbers."

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https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155043171741696

Getting rockets to light reliably can actually be a pretty tricky problem.

Fun Rocketry Fact: Soyuz engines are lit with small pyrotechnic devices on the end of really big wooden sticks. Essentially, giant matches.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a19966/russia-actually-lights-it-rockets-with-a-giant-match/

coooooool, reports of area healthcare workers having being denied covid testing after showing symptoms, in addition to inadequate PPE.

I spiked a temperature, I had a sore throat that got worse. I do have a cough now and I was short of breath,” one nurse said. “Employee health told me that’s probably just anxiety.

The official numbers are a tremendous undercount. Definitely in total cases, almost certainly in deaths.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/were-all-scared-spread-of-coronavirus-marked-by-friction-frustration-among-employees-at-valley-medical-center-facilities/

Listened to a back catalog This American Life episode over the weekend, and they had a segment about a young US soldier who was recruited to bear witness to nuclear weapons testing.

And there's one line that I can't stop thinking about: "The flash was so bright, I could see the bones in my hand with my eyes closed."

fuck.

(Segment 4, six minutes.)
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/627/suitable-for-children

At the same time, more journalists staying inside instead of going out and seeing what's happening for themselves is definitely a concern of mine. The anchors only occasionally report their own stories so this particular instance might not be so bad, but I'm worried about trends. Especially since relying on official statements takes a lot less journalistic legwork.

Little bit surreal now hearing multiple senior NPR journalists anchor All Things Considered live from their apartments.