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@itsbabs.bsky.social
artist 📸 + activist / have lupus, studying the spectacularization of hydroxychloroquine / just trying to have a nice time On The Internet™️ / she/they #DoMaskBlocShit 😷🦋🍐🏳️🌈
tiktok/twitter: @babs_zone
elsewhere: https://bio.site/amphoto
tiktok/twitter: @babs_zone
elsewhere: https://bio.site/amphoto
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@itsbabs.bsky.social
· Aug 5
are you so over wildfire smoke? allergies? this getting covid repeatedly thing? protect yourself with filtered air!
•Bonafide Masks
•WellBefore
•Dräger
•BeHealthy
•Laianzhi
•BNX
•3M
•MaskC
•CambridgeMask
*buying directly from distributors (some use amazon)=best way to avoid less than quality product
•Bonafide Masks
•WellBefore
•Dräger
•BeHealthy
•Laianzhi
•BNX
•3M
•MaskC
•CambridgeMask
*buying directly from distributors (some use amazon)=best way to avoid less than quality product
someone close to me with an autoimmune disease that evolved into a fast moving difficult lymphoma recently received this and it’s going well. science is incredible.
Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
someone close to me with an autoimmune disease that evolved into a fast moving difficult lymphoma recently received this and it’s going well. science is incredible.
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Raoul Dufy
Arlequín Rouge et blanche au violon, 1945-46.
Arlequín Rouge et blanche au violon, 1945-46.
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Raoul Dufy
Arlequín Rouge et blanche au violon, 1945-46.
Arlequín Rouge et blanche au violon, 1945-46.
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excuse me nathan fielder was your inspiration for the rehearsal stars hollows own kiRK GLEASON???
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
excuse me nathan fielder was your inspiration for the rehearsal stars hollows own kiRK GLEASON???
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There's a lot of talk about "needing" AI to fix the climate crisis, but at the best it would just repeat what scientists have been saying for decades. Guess they'd rather hear it from a machine than from human scholars, especially if they're women, Black, Indigenous, etc.
People are more interested in the welfare and sentience of ChatGPT than they are in the welfare of actual human beings and it’s so fucking bleak
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
There's a lot of talk about "needing" AI to fix the climate crisis, but at the best it would just repeat what scientists have been saying for decades. Guess they'd rather hear it from a machine than from human scholars, especially if they're women, Black, Indigenous, etc.
excuse me nathan fielder was your inspiration for the rehearsal stars hollows own kiRK GLEASON???
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
excuse me nathan fielder was your inspiration for the rehearsal stars hollows own kiRK GLEASON???
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ISO: SOUND RECORDIST in LA willing to mask up on december 7th to assist in a documentary!
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
ISO: SOUND RECORDIST in LA willing to mask up on december 7th to assist in a documentary!
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
ISO: SOUND RECORDIST in LA willing to mask up on december 7th to assist in a documentary!
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
ISO: SOUND RECORDIST in LA willing to mask up on december 7th to assist in a documentary!
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)
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icymi or need a refresh: clean air organizers in LA got more than 300,000 respirators across the southland in the days n weeks as the fires burned, as well as air purifiers, covid tests, & whatever other tools we could get our hands on.
many of us were doing that work before too, & still are today.
many of us were doing that work before too, & still are today.
…let alone see if there are, say, folks, groups—maybe even a network of groups—leading the way on clean air & disease prevention bc they’ve been doing it for years 🤔
in the absence of formal leadership & the breakdown of regulations from climate to health, we must utilize all other available tools.
in the absence of formal leadership & the breakdown of regulations from climate to health, we must utilize all other available tools.
August 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
icymi or need a refresh: clean air organizers in LA got more than 300,000 respirators across the southland in the days n weeks as the fires burned, as well as air purifiers, covid tests, & whatever other tools we could get our hands on.
many of us were doing that work before too, & still are today.
many of us were doing that work before too, & still are today.
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thinking about all the people who i’ve learned to invent a better from the worse with as we’ve been abandoned these pandemic years and oh, what a road trip of its own it’s been.
![cover image for “them”
“These Are the Drag Artists and Organizers Fighting to Make Queer Spaces More COVID Safe”
[image of drag king manny oakley (a tall latinx cowboy) weaving through a mostly masked outdoor crowd at sunset under string lights in their cowboy hat and leather outfit.]
BY MILES GRIFFIS, THE SICK TIMES
Photo by Abby Mahler](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reatxkwxwfh2osvbkbxyjktg/bafkreibipybikzvg7uyia4tq34uz4czkcxblqknswcpsyjpullf3s2resa@jpeg)
May 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
thinking about all the people who i’ve learned to invent a better from the worse with as we’ve been abandoned these pandemic years and oh, what a road trip of its own it’s been.
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not a month before zickgraf apparently took inspiration for this weeks piece, mask bloc LA—just one of many global anticovid groups primarily made up of chronically ill & disabled people—announced they’d distributed nearly 300k free masks while their city burned. but better they were at a bar right?
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
not a month before zickgraf apparently took inspiration for this weeks piece, mask bloc LA—just one of many global anticovid groups primarily made up of chronically ill & disabled people—announced they’d distributed nearly 300k free masks while their city burned. but better they were at a bar right?
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ascribing cult-like behavior to people, many who are disabled, who have no desire to risk debility/illness from nonessential activities when ample options exist outside bars/restaurants to be safely in community with people reveals both a profound lack of imagination and a desiccated set of values.
I don’t know, I thought after Long Covid effectively ended my chance at a directing career, ruined my health, my energy, my ability to eat a lot of foods, and my body, it would seem pretty obvious why I don’t want to get it again, even going so far as to sacrifice (the horror!) bars and restaurants.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
ascribing cult-like behavior to people, many who are disabled, who have no desire to risk debility/illness from nonessential activities when ample options exist outside bars/restaurants to be safely in community with people reveals both a profound lack of imagination and a desiccated set of values.
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This year, I'm truly thankful for the reporting I'm able to do, although it's impossible to stay on top of the news cycle, and for all the people willing to speak to me for my disability articles.
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This year, I'm truly thankful for the reporting I'm able to do, although it's impossible to stay on top of the news cycle, and for all the people willing to speak to me for my disability articles.
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I’m still thinking of the audacity of writing a piece basically entitled “GET A LOAD OF THESE NUTCASES” and then nobly telling the world you will endeavor to endure the “harassment”, ideally with a tear in one eye.
Also the dude regretfully posted on Twitter that he’s bracing for “a wave of harassment” for the piece. Absolute crybully behavior. I’m sure the 600 followers his little zine site has on Bluesky will take up arms for him.
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’m still thinking of the audacity of writing a piece basically entitled “GET A LOAD OF THESE NUTCASES” and then nobly telling the world you will endeavor to endure the “harassment”, ideally with a tear in one eye.
fascinating paper. if it confirms anything for me, it’s that the immune system is fuckin complicated and we’re still learning so much. like how does this square with better symptom responses to novavax over mrna is just one query that came to mind, among many, as a tattooed autoimmune reader.
New @pnas.org
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported
the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
fascinating paper. if it confirms anything for me, it’s that the immune system is fuckin complicated and we’re still learning so much. like how does this square with better symptom responses to novavax over mrna is just one query that came to mind, among many, as a tattooed autoimmune reader.
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This is your annual reminder not to donate to the Salvation Army because they are aggressively anti LGBTQIA+
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is your annual reminder not to donate to the Salvation Army because they are aggressively anti LGBTQIA+
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1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
apropos of nothing, shoutout to Ernest Bloch for writing a helluva bass clarinet part in Schelomo
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
apropos of nothing, shoutout to Ernest Bloch for writing a helluva bass clarinet part in Schelomo
not a month before zickgraf apparently took inspiration for this weeks piece, mask bloc LA—just one of many global anticovid groups primarily made up of chronically ill & disabled people—announced they’d distributed nearly 300k free masks while their city burned. but better they were at a bar right?
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
not a month before zickgraf apparently took inspiration for this weeks piece, mask bloc LA—just one of many global anticovid groups primarily made up of chronically ill & disabled people—announced they’d distributed nearly 300k free masks while their city burned. but better they were at a bar right?
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When we spoke in 2020, Alice Wong wondered if a million Covid deaths would drive Americans to care.
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
When we spoke in 2020, Alice Wong wondered if a million Covid deaths would drive Americans to care.
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
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I often think about how I can't safely do protest coverage because what if this happens to me and I can't get my meds.
Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I often think about how I can't safely do protest coverage because what if this happens to me and I can't get my meds.
well, they’re consistent.
![bluesky post by UnHerd @unherd.com
[Muted by "Quacks, Cranks, and Liars Block List"]
“'The People's CDC preserved the emotional realities of early 2021' | Ryan Zickgraf
[article: The last of the Covidians
Some people are living in the eternal 2020. Caption: Getty
unherd.com]”
Nov 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reatxkwxwfh2osvbkbxyjktg/bafkreih5sv6qu6iuqh5ejti3laac4zsvantkwjjn7ylnc26e24zcpuzuya@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
well, they’re consistent.
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I just gave as part of this match. I tell you the sick times saves lives. It is the best new source on the ongoing pandemic
We're kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year by participating in NewsMatch, a national campaign to support newsrooms across the US run by the Institute for Nonprofit News.
We need your help to keep telling #LongCOVID stories. Will you donate today? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
We need your help to keep telling #LongCOVID stories. Will you donate today? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just gave as part of this match. I tell you the sick times saves lives. It is the best new source on the ongoing pandemic
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Pleased to see several familiar names on @wired.com's list of Great Tech Books, including @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, @margaretomara.bsky.social & @ruha9.bsky.social.
#histSTM #STS
#histtech #BigTech 🗃️📜
#histSTM #STS
#histtech #BigTech 🗃️📜
This is a surprisingly good list of tech books to gift from Wired, including some aged classics and some new work destined to be classics down the line (*cough* @ashleyshoo.bsky.social's book *cough*)
25 Great Tech Books to Gift (or Keep for Yourself)
Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Pleased to see several familiar names on @wired.com's list of Great Tech Books, including @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, @margaretomara.bsky.social & @ruha9.bsky.social.
#histSTM #STS
#histtech #BigTech 🗃️📜
#histSTM #STS
#histtech #BigTech 🗃️📜
where is everyone getting socks that are:
• smooth (ie: not patterned or ribbed, though i can handle a seam)
• thin or minimally padded (will take heel padding, but not elsewhere)
down to one pair of my favorite black socks that don’t let my docs eat my feet, getting desperate
• smooth (ie: not patterned or ribbed, though i can handle a seam)
• thin or minimally padded (will take heel padding, but not elsewhere)
down to one pair of my favorite black socks that don’t let my docs eat my feet, getting desperate
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
where is everyone getting socks that are:
• smooth (ie: not patterned or ribbed, though i can handle a seam)
• thin or minimally padded (will take heel padding, but not elsewhere)
down to one pair of my favorite black socks that don’t let my docs eat my feet, getting desperate
• smooth (ie: not patterned or ribbed, though i can handle a seam)
• thin or minimally padded (will take heel padding, but not elsewhere)
down to one pair of my favorite black socks that don’t let my docs eat my feet, getting desperate