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Savas Abadsidis August 9, 2021

#GAYNRD DAILY Welcome to #GayNrd’s sometimes daily, always relevant news, art, and ephemera round-up from all corners of the interwebz and social media for Monday August 9th, 2021.

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“Revolution is not a onetime event.”

Audre Lorde

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FUCK FLORIDA Gov. Ron DeSantis doubles down on his cavalier COVID calamity. New York Times: “DeSantis snapped this week at a reporter who asked if masks might help keep children safe in a state that now has more Covid-19 hospitalizations, including for pediatric patients, than anywhere else in the nation. He blamed President Biden’s purported failure to control the spread of the virus across the border after the president suggested that governors like Mr. DeSantis should either “help” fight the coronavirus or “get out of the way.”

And he touted a new state rule, adopted on Friday, that will counter local school mask mandates by allowing parents to request private school vouchers if they feel that the requirements amount to “harassment.”

Dan Slott: Once you realize that he’s TRYING to kill everyone in Florida, it totally makes sense.

Once you realize that he’s TRYING to kill everyone in Florida, it totally makes sense.
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) August 10, 2021

OLYMPIC PRIDE one more time!

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LINES IN THE SAND Vaccinated Americans are drawing sharper lines around who they choose to spend time with amid rising Covid-19 cases, while the unvaccinated are growing testy over being excluded and feeling judged.

Vaccinated Americans are drawing sharper lines around who they choose to spend time with amid rising Covid-19 cases, while the unvaccinated are growing testy over being excluded and feeling judged https://t.co/FPoSMQVsGy
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 10, 2021

CHUM How King Shark went from DC’s aquatic demigod to The Suicide Squad‘s goodest boy. Entertainment Weekly: King Shark, otherwise known as the demigod Nanaue, is having a moment, beyond even Gunn’s new DC movie (out in theaters and on HBO Max this Friday). The character with his XXXXL hoodie, by way of voice actor Ron Funches, has become a mainstay of the popular Harley Quinn animated series. He’ll also star in an upcoming Suicide Squad video game and headline a new comic series starting this September. The shark man is everywhere.

To those who have set the stage for King Shark’s current pop culture spotlight, his popularity makes sense. “Imagine you went to a dull party, and you have a choice to bring along either an accountant friend from work, or a 7-foot-tall carnivorous fish who tells jokes and proclaims his shark-hood every few minutes… which one is going to be more popular?” Gail Simone, who penned a prominent King Shark story in her Secret Six comics, tells EW. “His dad is the god of sharks. I guess that makes him, basically, shark Jesus,” says Tim Seeley, who’s writing this year’s Suicide Squad: King Shark.

GAY FATIGUE It’s a thing.

GRATUITOUS Sexy singlets are always in.

I think today’s a good day for a singlet workout pic.twitter.com/tMxtmHbO41
— Jockbros (@Jockbros1) August 9, 2021

TRIBUTE to Trevor Moore who died at 41 on Saturday. SiriusXM is paying tribute to comedian Trevor Moore — who passed away on August 6 at age 41 — with exclusive specials on Raw Dog Comedy (Ch. 99) and Comedy Central (Ch. 95). Tune in to Raw Dog Comedy on August 9 at 5pm and 10pm ET to hear A Trevor Moore Tribute, featuring Moore’s three albums (Drunk Texts to Myself, The Story of Our Times, and High in Church) as well as his appearances on the TV show This is Not Happening. The special is also available to stream anytime on the SXM App.

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— Zach Cregger (@zcregger) August 9, 2021

Trevor Moore – “High in Church” – Uncensored

GRATUITOUS Zach Cox: “They said to see the city but I let the city see me.” ????????

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ICYMI Jurassic World 3: Dominion (2022) FULL TRAILER | Universal Pictures.

BOTTOMING EXPLAINED and bottoming energy.

DELTA DETECTIVE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a lot of ways to pick up on COVID-19 outbreaks, but those methods often take awhile to bear fruit. Not so with the Provincetown, Mass., cluster that started around July Fourth weekend. “We triggered the investigation as people were getting symptomatic,” says Demetre Daskalakis, a deputy incident manager for the CDC’s COVID-19 Response. “Pretty amazing — it is warp speed.”

Above: A data scientist working in tech, Michael Donnelly became an amateur COVID-19 watcher early in the pandemic. When his vaccinated friends started getting sick following July Fourth festivities in Provincetown, Mass., he documented more than 50 breakthrough cases that ultimately led the CDC to changing its guidance on masking. Jason LeCras for NPR

NPR: How did they do that? It was thanks to a tip from a citizen scientist named Michael Donnelly. A data scientist in New York City’s tech sector, he started publishing his own coronavirus data reports early in the pandemic and launched a website, COVIDoutlook.info, with Drexel University epidemiologist Michael LeVasseur. Following leads from his personal network, Donnelly documented over 50 breakthrough cases coming out of Provincetown, practically in real time, and shared it with the CDC as the outbreak was still unfolding. Without Donnelly’s effort, the agency would have probably detected the outbreak at some point, Daskalakis says, but “it wouldn’t have been as rapturous an initiation of an investigation and response as we had.”

my fall plans / the delta variant pic.twitter.com/1xKrBOAaM1
— Jono (@jono_thon) August 10, 2021

POSTPONED Miles Morales: Spider-Man’s 10th anniversary comic book celebration. GamesRadar: The star-studded tenth anniversary celebration of Marvel’s Miles Morales has hit a snag, with the publisher postponing Miles Morales: Spider-Man #30 four weeks – going from September 1 to September 29.

The publisher didn’t specify why this oversized issue is being delayed, but it is more than your normal Miles Morales: Spider-Man issue, as in addition to a lead story by series writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Carmen Carnero, there’s also a story by Miles’ co-creator Sara Pichelli and the directors of the first and second Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Phil Lord, Christopher Miler, and Kemp Powers).

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #30 goes on sale on September 29.

MARKET DAYS are in full effect in Chicago. The better than pride gay event saw: Thousands of people, lots of food and the freedom to be your authentic self. Northalsted Market Days is back this year with many people saying it’s stronger than ever. “We’re outside and vaxed and we’re ready to have a good time,” one person told FOX32.

On Halsted Street from Belmont Avenue to Addison Street, it was packed. A testing site was set up right at the entrance. Some 200 people today alone getting their nose swabbed, wanting to ensure sure they’re COVID-19 free. Up to 100,000 people are expected to attend the three-day music festival. It features 250 unique vendors and six stages of live music For the LGBTQ community, its certainly the place to be “I mean it just lets everybody be themselves, it’s amazing to bring everyone together, all is equal, love is love, just amazing,” Sara Gronowski, of Bucktown, said.