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#StillCoviding #WearaMask
Clean air advocate | Regenerative design | Fine Art | Film | Occasional Vocalist | Neurotic Artist | Aspiring Eco-Friendly Home Designer | Entrepreneur w/ADHD | Social Progess & Empathy | Let's unite to fight misinfo
Clean air advocate | Regenerative design | Fine Art | Film | Occasional Vocalist | Neurotic Artist | Aspiring Eco-Friendly Home Designer | Entrepreneur w/ADHD | Social Progess & Empathy | Let's unite to fight misinfo
Mediocre ideas backed by wealth, that keep our systems small & suffocating, crowd out those who could create something more supportive & harmonious for all.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Mediocre ideas backed by wealth, that keep our systems small & suffocating, crowd out those who could create something more supportive & harmonious for all.
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Aspiring changemakers may not know industry language, how to access suppliers or mentors, or have funds or community support to get an idea off the ground.
Mediocre ideas backed by wealth, that keep our systems small & suffocating, crowd out those who could create something...(continued)
Mediocre ideas backed by wealth, that keep our systems small & suffocating, crowd out those who could create something...(continued)
July 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Aspiring changemakers may not know industry language, how to access suppliers or mentors, or have funds or community support to get an idea off the ground.
Mediocre ideas backed by wealth, that keep our systems small & suffocating, crowd out those who could create something...(continued)
Mediocre ideas backed by wealth, that keep our systems small & suffocating, crowd out those who could create something...(continued)
I'm thinking about how many distinctive, inspiring, and systems-focused solutions are snuffed out before anyone can even begin to explore them, because corporate power or tech bros pay to steal and toss those solutions, or make it too difficult to even attempt to enter the market without wealth.
July 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm thinking about how many distinctive, inspiring, and systems-focused solutions are snuffed out before anyone can even begin to explore them, because corporate power or tech bros pay to steal and toss those solutions, or make it too difficult to even attempt to enter the market without wealth.
Okay, I thought that would be a 2-part thought, but my mind is still turning!:
Is it truly innovative to stifle communities, prevent individuals from being able to experiment and explore, and gatekeep opportunities for fresh systems and solutions by endlessly walling off and draining resources?
Is it truly innovative to stifle communities, prevent individuals from being able to experiment and explore, and gatekeep opportunities for fresh systems and solutions by endlessly walling off and draining resources?
July 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Okay, I thought that would be a 2-part thought, but my mind is still turning!:
Is it truly innovative to stifle communities, prevent individuals from being able to experiment and explore, and gatekeep opportunities for fresh systems and solutions by endlessly walling off and draining resources?
Is it truly innovative to stifle communities, prevent individuals from being able to experiment and explore, and gatekeep opportunities for fresh systems and solutions by endlessly walling off and draining resources?
I think that having one's whole heart invested in ideas that solve long-standing, complex problems, coupled with the lived experience to know what would actually move the needle & create change, is far more integral to innovation than the same recycled ideas begetting wealth gaps & stifled progress.
July 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I think that having one's whole heart invested in ideas that solve long-standing, complex problems, coupled with the lived experience to know what would actually move the needle & create change, is far more integral to innovation than the same recycled ideas begetting wealth gaps & stifled progress.
If billionaires are integral to spurring on innovation in society, why do they all create the same shit (wealth hoarding, short-lived tech startups, housing shortages) while impeding novel solutions from the "little guys" that have less money, but more sincerity, foresight, and originality? (1/2)
July 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If billionaires are integral to spurring on innovation in society, why do they all create the same shit (wealth hoarding, short-lived tech startups, housing shortages) while impeding novel solutions from the "little guys" that have less money, but more sincerity, foresight, and originality? (1/2)
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Disabled people aren’t expendable.
Disability isn’t a moral failing. It’s not something we can “try harder” our way out of.
We don’t consent to being left by the wayside.
To being stripped of our healthcare and social supports. To being forced to “prove we matter”
Worth isn’t based on health.
Disability isn’t a moral failing. It’s not something we can “try harder” our way out of.
We don’t consent to being left by the wayside.
To being stripped of our healthcare and social supports. To being forced to “prove we matter”
Worth isn’t based on health.
July 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Disabled people aren’t expendable.
Disability isn’t a moral failing. It’s not something we can “try harder” our way out of.
We don’t consent to being left by the wayside.
To being stripped of our healthcare and social supports. To being forced to “prove we matter”
Worth isn’t based on health.
Disability isn’t a moral failing. It’s not something we can “try harder” our way out of.
We don’t consent to being left by the wayside.
To being stripped of our healthcare and social supports. To being forced to “prove we matter”
Worth isn’t based on health.
Horrific.
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
July 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Horrific.
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This government smells like cheap cologne wafting past you in a casino, cigarette breath, and sewer water emanating from the meeting halls where they carry out blackmail and backroom deals.
July 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This government smells like cheap cologne wafting past you in a casino, cigarette breath, and sewer water emanating from the meeting halls where they carry out blackmail and backroom deals.
This gov't has the vibes of the parking lot at the worst dive bar you've ever been to at closing time, that huddle of bullies perpetually smirking in the halls of your high school, Nazi Germany, and a ragingly-full DMV at the same time.
July 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This gov't has the vibes of the parking lot at the worst dive bar you've ever been to at closing time, that huddle of bullies perpetually smirking in the halls of your high school, Nazi Germany, and a ragingly-full DMV at the same time.
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I am imploring you to see this escalation of criminalization against personal protective equipment for the immense threat that it is, especially for mutual aid participants, especially for chronically ill & disabled folks (not mutually exclusive). How can you help? Normalize masks, wear respirators.
June 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I am imploring you to see this escalation of criminalization against personal protective equipment for the immense threat that it is, especially for mutual aid participants, especially for chronically ill & disabled folks (not mutually exclusive). How can you help? Normalize masks, wear respirators.
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the thing that pisses me off the most is how few people will take this seriously— not even like, let alone retweet— because the rest of yall hate masks so much that you’ll close your eyes to the ways protecting oneself is being criminalized, to your own detriments of course #provemewrong
Really bad: Right wing narratives are moving from merely stigmatizing personal protective equipment to portraying it as proof of intent and participation.
![Tweet from: Clean Air Club @Clean_Air_Club_
“Feds are starting to go after orgs and individuals who provide supplies and / or "support" (in the broadest possible terms) to protestors, usually on conspiracy charges.
The criminalization of masks and other PPE is a direct route to this.”
Quote tweet;
BlackRedGuard @OGBlackR... • 12h
“You gotta be fucking kidding me.”
[photo of letter from josh hawley, beginning here, finished on another slide]
Letter from:
JOSH HAWLEY
To:
Party for Socialism and Liberation
To whom it may concern:
I write in my capacity as Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime & Counterterrorism regarding your organization's alleged role in financing & materially supporting the coordinated protests & riots that have engulfed LA in recent weeks. While peaceful protest is a cornerstone of American democracy, these demonstrations have escalated into lawless mob actions. They have obstructed federal law enforcement, endangered public safety, and disrupted the rule of law. This lawlessness is unacceptable. It must end.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reatxkwxwfh2osvbkbxyjktg/bafkreifabeavnkp43xzkswvunhyfy6pzxq54abexxd54lgnyjicjvqbz3i@jpeg)
![tweet from: Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
“Dude who dropped off bionic face shields arrested in targeted FBI sting.
This dude it about to FAFO so hard
How it started [image of boxes of high end face shields]
How it's going [man in cop car]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reatxkwxwfh2osvbkbxyjktg/bafkreiahvxxcpsu53pzezno5l76qbndcgs2o2g4iqgze7qzeonnkrnceuq@jpeg)
June 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
the thing that pisses me off the most is how few people will take this seriously— not even like, let alone retweet— because the rest of yall hate masks so much that you’ll close your eyes to the ways protecting oneself is being criminalized, to your own detriments of course #provemewrong
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The Trump administration canceled NIH grants including funding at the only two federally funded Collaborative Research Centers for ME/CFS at Columbia University and Cornell University as well as Harvard. These grants were peer-reviewed approved.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The Trump administration canceled NIH grants including funding at the only two federally funded Collaborative Research Centers for ME/CFS at Columbia University and Cornell University as well as Harvard. These grants were peer-reviewed approved.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #WomensArt
May 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #WomensArt
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
May 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
"The Apprentice" is trending on Prime Video after massive Amazon boycotts. Talk about sending a message that you really don't care about what impacts customers/the public. We stopped using Amazon recently & thought it would be really tricky--It's actually been incredibly rewarding. Highly recommend!
March 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"The Apprentice" is trending on Prime Video after massive Amazon boycotts. Talk about sending a message that you really don't care about what impacts customers/the public. We stopped using Amazon recently & thought it would be really tricky--It's actually been incredibly rewarding. Highly recommend!
So not only have they tossed out Nazi salutes like it's normal, propped up multiple rapists/sex offenders, cut ties with the WHO, and removed the Spanish versions of the White House website & Twitter, reproductiverights.gov is also down. Climate protections have been removed during the LA wildfires.
January 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So not only have they tossed out Nazi salutes like it's normal, propped up multiple rapists/sex offenders, cut ties with the WHO, and removed the Spanish versions of the White House website & Twitter, reproductiverights.gov is also down. Climate protections have been removed during the LA wildfires.
I'm so excited to see @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social on here! She's one of my favorite science communicators! Welcome, Liz, looking so forward to your content on BlueSky! 🙌
November 18, 2024 at 4:33 AM
I'm so excited to see @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social on here! She's one of my favorite science communicators! Welcome, Liz, looking so forward to your content on BlueSky! 🙌
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Reasons to wear an n95:
1) COVID never ended
2) Unmitigated pandemics are a tool used to harm marginalized people & you won’t participate
3) CDC is tweeting about avian flu symptoms to watch for
4) It’s a real bad time to risk illness & disability
5) It offends MAGA
Get/give mask mutual aid:
1) COVID never ended
2) Unmitigated pandemics are a tool used to harm marginalized people & you won’t participate
3) CDC is tweeting about avian flu symptoms to watch for
4) It’s a real bad time to risk illness & disability
5) It offends MAGA
Get/give mask mutual aid:
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
maskbloc.org
November 8, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Reasons to wear an n95:
1) COVID never ended
2) Unmitigated pandemics are a tool used to harm marginalized people & you won’t participate
3) CDC is tweeting about avian flu symptoms to watch for
4) It’s a real bad time to risk illness & disability
5) It offends MAGA
Get/give mask mutual aid:
1) COVID never ended
2) Unmitigated pandemics are a tool used to harm marginalized people & you won’t participate
3) CDC is tweeting about avian flu symptoms to watch for
4) It’s a real bad time to risk illness & disability
5) It offends MAGA
Get/give mask mutual aid:
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People who had mild COVID-19 showed reductions in gray matter in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
Those who had COVID-19 performed worse on cognitive tasks, showing slower information processing.
theconversation.com/even-mild-ca...
Those who had COVID-19 performed worse on cognitive tasks, showing slower information processing.
theconversation.com/even-mild-ca...
Even mild cases of COVID-19 can leave a mark on the brain, such as reductions in gray matter – a neuroscientist explains emerging research
New research offers insights into the brain after COVID-19 that may have implications for our understanding of long COVID-19 and how the disease affects our senses of taste and smell.
theconversation.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:07 AM
People who had mild COVID-19 showed reductions in gray matter in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
Those who had COVID-19 performed worse on cognitive tasks, showing slower information processing.
theconversation.com/even-mild-ca...
Those who had COVID-19 performed worse on cognitive tasks, showing slower information processing.
theconversation.com/even-mild-ca...
Is RFK Jr.'s next trick going to be a public health initiative that stresses how healthy it is to smoke cigarettes? "Clean" cigarettes, perhaps?
November 16, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Is RFK Jr.'s next trick going to be a public health initiative that stresses how healthy it is to smoke cigarettes? "Clean" cigarettes, perhaps?
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So the GOP is just currently covering up potential sex crimes against children by one of their members and instead of releasing the report, they are trying to make that person the Attorney General of the United States? Do we have that right?
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
So the GOP is just currently covering up potential sex crimes against children by one of their members and instead of releasing the report, they are trying to make that person the Attorney General of the United States? Do we have that right?
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
This is unbelievably good news! Incredible to see action toward cleaner indoor air:
BIG NEWS: California Dept of Public Health adopted 30 cfm/p as the ventilation target for schools, citing the report from our Lancet Covid-19 Commission Task Force on Safe Schools 🙌
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www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
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www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
California Department of Public Health
www.cdph.ca.gov
November 15, 2024 at 8:39 AM
This is unbelievably good news! Incredible to see action toward cleaner indoor air: