ItsMeMaven
@itsmemaven.bsky.social
Salty margaritas, salty bacon & salty language. INTJ, C-PTSD, I lather my nethers with the tears of my enemies. Don’t be a dick. #RouxEnY #crochet🧶 #pugs #otters 🦦(the actual animals!) #COVIDisAirborne🦠 #SaltingTheVibes ❤️
Sparking joy today: It is 20F outside, and with the bounty of snow, I decided today is a perfect day to attempt hand churning my first ever batch of ice cream, outside, in the cold. Taking my time warming my hands in between whisking the vanilla-coconut base for what I hope will become rum raisin.
January 29, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Sparking joy today: It is 20F outside, and with the bounty of snow, I decided today is a perfect day to attempt hand churning my first ever batch of ice cream, outside, in the cold. Taking my time warming my hands in between whisking the vanilla-coconut base for what I hope will become rum raisin.
Pure vocals 😍❤️ #song #music #ytshorts #youtubeshorts
YouTube video by Themusicvibe
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January 28, 2026 at 9:31 PM
You know what intermittent fasting is, right? I am using the same approach to doom scrolling or watching any news clips—waiting until I have my first meal of the day (for me it’s like 1 pm), and I try not to watch something super triggery first.
January 21, 2026 at 3:34 AM
You know what intermittent fasting is, right? I am using the same approach to doom scrolling or watching any news clips—waiting until I have my first meal of the day (for me it’s like 1 pm), and I try not to watch something super triggery first.
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
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I would love to have something new to say.
Paper after paper showing covid has serious long term health impacts that compound with every infection.
Time after time N95 masks have proven to be the best defence against infection.
Protect yourself.
Protect your community.
Paper after paper showing covid has serious long term health impacts that compound with every infection.
Time after time N95 masks have proven to be the best defence against infection.
Protect yourself.
Protect your community.
January 17, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I would love to have something new to say.
Paper after paper showing covid has serious long term health impacts that compound with every infection.
Time after time N95 masks have proven to be the best defence against infection.
Protect yourself.
Protect your community.
Paper after paper showing covid has serious long term health impacts that compound with every infection.
Time after time N95 masks have proven to be the best defence against infection.
Protect yourself.
Protect your community.
Her father is a huge piece of shit.
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Her father is a huge piece of shit.
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The FT thought the same as me.
January 13, 2026 at 9:05 AM
The FT thought the same as me.
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Heart Failure Deaths Have Accelerated in US Since Covid Pandemic
"The Covid pandemic didn’t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new research shows."
"The Covid pandemic didn’t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new research shows."
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Heart Failure Deaths Have Accelerated in US Since Covid Pandemic
"The Covid pandemic didn’t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new research shows."
"The Covid pandemic didn’t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new research shows."
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
Rarely do I think remakes of movies are good or necessary. That being said Breakfast at Tiffany’s could benefit from a remake, possibly with Jon Cryer as Yunioshi (but as an adoptee with Japanese parents—so no insulting caricaturish stereotype), maybe Arianna Grande as Golightly…
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Rarely do I think remakes of movies are good or necessary. That being said Breakfast at Tiffany’s could benefit from a remake, possibly with Jon Cryer as Yunioshi (but as an adoptee with Japanese parents—so no insulting caricaturish stereotype), maybe Arianna Grande as Golightly…
Went to get groceries and was pleased to see quite a few people wearing N95s.
Kudos to these experts urging the WHO to change their guidelines from surgical masks to respirators to prevent airborne viruses like Covid & the flu 👏🏼
But it really shouldn't take public pressure to align guidance with well-established aerosol science
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
But it really shouldn't take public pressure to align guidance with well-established aerosol science
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Went to get groceries and was pleased to see quite a few people wearing N95s.
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Long COVID is best described as a cluster of overlapping symptoms rather than one single condition, according to a review of 64 studies from 20 countries covering 2.4 million people.
Fatigue was most common, often alongside muscle and joint pain, cognitive symptoms, or shortness of breath.
Fatigue was most common, often alongside muscle and joint pain, cognitive symptoms, or shortness of breath.
Study outlines recurring symptom clusters that define long COVID
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 5, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Long COVID is best described as a cluster of overlapping symptoms rather than one single condition, according to a review of 64 studies from 20 countries covering 2.4 million people.
Fatigue was most common, often alongside muscle and joint pain, cognitive symptoms, or shortness of breath.
Fatigue was most common, often alongside muscle and joint pain, cognitive symptoms, or shortness of breath.
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Yup—there are so many things the Great Barrington Declaration/Brownstone Institute dudes said they “would have done” during the pandemic if they’d been in power
Um, they run the federal health system now
Color me shocked (!) to see that—given the reins of absolute power—they’re f**king things up 🧐
Um, they run the federal health system now
Color me shocked (!) to see that—given the reins of absolute power—they’re f**king things up 🧐
Love it. A must-read from @joho.bsky.social, reminding Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary et al., reminding us that the U.S. is facing several disease outbreaks, so they have a great opportunity to show the rest of us how their way is “better”.
We’re waiting…
We’re waiting…
The Murray Hill Declaration
It's the responsibility of our medical establishment to protect the vulnerable and keep schools open.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Yup—there are so many things the Great Barrington Declaration/Brownstone Institute dudes said they “would have done” during the pandemic if they’d been in power
Um, they run the federal health system now
Color me shocked (!) to see that—given the reins of absolute power—they’re f**king things up 🧐
Um, they run the federal health system now
Color me shocked (!) to see that—given the reins of absolute power—they’re f**king things up 🧐
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Idk man. I'm in a place right now where I don't really give a shit what ignorant people think/say about masking.
Ima keep doing me and too bad so sad for you I guess.
Ima keep doing me and too bad so sad for you I guess.
December 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Idk man. I'm in a place right now where I don't really give a shit what ignorant people think/say about masking.
Ima keep doing me and too bad so sad for you I guess.
Ima keep doing me and too bad so sad for you I guess.
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As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
edition.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The last bake of 2025: Potato rolls (but I am actually baking in loaf pans). The dough is incredibly marshmallowy. youtu.be/smb8NETkwug
The Biggest, Softest Dinner Rolls — Period
YouTube video by King Arthur Baking Company
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December 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The last bake of 2025: Potato rolls (but I am actually baking in loaf pans). The dough is incredibly marshmallowy. youtu.be/smb8NETkwug
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October 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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When you are in a negative feedback loop w/someone who expects you to adjust your habits & they don’t, & they insist on leaving you voicemails that amount to lip service (apology but their actions don’t align with the apology), I highly recommend deleting the voicemails without listening to them.
December 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
When you are in a negative feedback loop w/someone who expects you to adjust your habits & they don’t, & they insist on leaving you voicemails that amount to lip service (apology but their actions don’t align with the apology), I highly recommend deleting the voicemails without listening to them.
In my final household re-org project before 12/31/25, I am purging out a lot of items that no longer serve me. I’m purging out a drawer of Rx meds I stopped taking & forgot about. Xanax, Wellbutrin, Viibryd, Trintellix, Eliquis. Pretty brutal evidence that the last 6 years have been for me.
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In my final household re-org project before 12/31/25, I am purging out a lot of items that no longer serve me. I’m purging out a drawer of Rx meds I stopped taking & forgot about. Xanax, Wellbutrin, Viibryd, Trintellix, Eliquis. Pretty brutal evidence that the last 6 years have been for me.
Why is anyone reading the NY Post? Between butt phrenology & the hit piece on Mamdani’s wife (and a multitude of other equally loathesome articles), it isn’t a paragon of journalistic excellence. It isn’t even accidentally mediocre.
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Why is anyone reading the NY Post? Between butt phrenology & the hit piece on Mamdani’s wife (and a multitude of other equally loathesome articles), it isn’t a paragon of journalistic excellence. It isn’t even accidentally mediocre.
My gift (to those who aren’t aware) is a quote by Ben Franklin that I always fucked up, yet my fucked-uppedness still works as a believable Franklin quote.
Franklin’s quote: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” …
Franklin’s quote: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” …
December 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My gift (to those who aren’t aware) is a quote by Ben Franklin that I always fucked up, yet my fucked-uppedness still works as a believable Franklin quote.
Franklin’s quote: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” …
Franklin’s quote: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” …