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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

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bats 🦇✨ @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

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

And now Democrats go along with that when failing to mask, test and ventilate shared spaces

KC Yatsko @kcyatsko.bsky.social · 1d

Kushner actually said it during a Covid response strategy meeting—let the Democratic cities take the hardest hit, reduce the number of voters.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

and continuing to mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces? a great way to check in with yourself and your ability to empathize !

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

a present tense experience, as someone still attempting to politely ask people to mask 😮‍💨

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1d

It's amazing how politely askinf people to mask as thousands of people per day were dying of a virus completed decimated the societal acceptance of empathy.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

love hearing this my friend 🥺🫂

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Scarby @thescarby.bsky.social · 1d

Still masking, and despite minor long-term annoyances, it has completely improved my life.

My allergies are less. So my migraines are less. I’ve been sick only twice in the past 5 years. I don’t get ConCrud. I feel better after I travel.

And I’m protecting other people too!

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Danyell Thillet @personalgenius.bsky.social · 1d

What if the answer had been making a modest community effort the whole time? 😷

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 1d

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

you would? ok great
the action is wearing a mask in, at the very least, indoor public spaces.
is your answer still yes?
if not, why?

even if you don’t respond to my q’s directly, i sincerely hope you ask l yourself & interrogate whether the reasons behind your answers align with your values.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

a man stands in front of a sign that says opening mon - tue - thur fri-sat sunday

Alt: man tapping his head with his finger and making eye contact with the viewer

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

o shit i’m begging

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

quick question:

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

We’re looking for anonymized photos of prescription bottles to help us determine where those drugs were made.

Here’s a quick guide to sending in your label securely ⤵️

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck the Salvation Army.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Patrickthebiosteamist @patbiosteamist.bsky.social · 2d

I was taking with someone earlier today about the correlation between increases in car crashes with active Covid infections/covid waves.

This is for them, as they were interested in seeing the paper.

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investi...

journals.plos.org

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

ever envious of those who still possess the ability to play music, especially as poetically as tonight’s performers. guard those skills jealously; i cannot wish losing them on any lover of the craft of the melody.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

a simple saturday evening
listening to live classical in a cathedral

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

“procedural lapse”
shaken nation syndrome

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

ok, so which masks are your go-to’s?

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

i…. of course. ahem. yes.
why wouldn’t it be 🤦🏻‍♀️
xoxo, 2018 halloween ba(t/b)s

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

that is why i lead with fortunately

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

fortunately or unfortunately, the obvious halloween-ification of “babs” is “booooooo!-bs” 😮‍💨👻

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

unrelated but halloween name going outrageously hard

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

your library may have one! i know LAPL does :’)