No, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886

We're downtown killing time before we head over to the theatre to see We Will RockYou. I suspect Best Buy's boxing day sale is not going well. At the Eaton's Centre location there are hundreds of big screen TVs piled up everywhere. In the aisles, at the front, in display areas. Messy as hell.
Reminds me of this appropriate tune.
https://youtu.be/wTP2RUD_cL0?si=pjmiHpE0mct5pXbF

Digital Markets Act: EU-Wettbewerbskommissarin wirft USA „Erpressung“ vor
Teresa Ribera, Vizepräsidentin der EU-Kommission, greift die Trump-Regierung scharf an. Diese setze die EU massiv unter Druck, ihre Tech-Regeln abzuschwächen.

Unser Wettbewerb zum Gewinnen einer #Reparatur läuft noch bis zum 10. Dezember 2025.
Besucht 5 Reparaturbetriebe, sammelt Stempel und bringt die ausgefüllte Karte zum #RepairHub :

Hamburger Comedy Pokal 2026
Die 20 Nominierten für den 23. Hamburger Comedy Pokal stehen fest - Der Wettbewerb findet vom 30. Januar bis 2. Februar 2026 in Hamburg statt mit zehn Spielstätten, vier Spielrunden und 20 Künstler*innen, darunter Stefan Leonhardsberger, Jane Mumford, Max Osswald, Andi Steil, Tim Whelan und Michaela Obertscheider.
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I don't believe it... The Lebanon government and military are terrified by Israel and have done nothing while Israel bombs whatever they please (continuously violating the so called ceasefire they signed).
"Blida: Aoun orders army to 'oppose any Israeli incursion' in southern Lebanon, Israel says it fired after a 'direct threat'".

Blida: Aoun orders army to 'oppose any Israeli incursion' in southern Lebanon, Israel says it fired after a 'direct threat' | LIVE
11:30 Beirut Time A UNIFIL delegation was expelled from Blida in the morning by local residents as a form of protest, according to our correspondent. 11:30 Beirut Time Blida...

I've decided to take a year-long break from living according to my most cherished values. In 2026, I'll just do whatever and disregard any difference between good and bad things. But don't worry, I plan to return to having a moral compass on January 1, 2027.

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

Ultra Converged Extreme Advanced Ultimate Extended Hyper Integrated whatever, tech marketing be like...

Partei ergriffen für 1&1? Vodafone geht gegen Kartellamt vor
Vodafone legt sich mit dem Bundeskartellamt an. Der Wettbewerbshüter soll Partei für den Vodafone-Konkurrenten 1&1 ergriffen haben.
https://w…