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Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 15h

I just love* how everyone was for masking until it was revealed that Black people were more at risk from Covid then masks became oppression. And now I'm still having to mask to protect my family from all these filthy people.

*I don't, in fact, love it.

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 15h

Anyway, another day, another reminder to listen to organizers, not pundits.

Here are some Insta posts I’ve enjoyed lately.

A better world is possible.

Instagram post from sunrisemvmtdc

A group of people in a conference room. They are all wearing masks and leaping into the air. On a projection screen behind them text reads, “This is your opportunity to fight for a better world.
And you don't have to do it alone.”

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Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social · 9h

I think a lot of people don’t even notice how many people are simply “missing” from their public spaces and unfortunately prefer it that way. COVID really made me see that in my own life and I don’t want to go back to those folks being invisible in my world

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 15h

Some of us are truly only functioning due to medications working just enough, but even mild Long Covid can be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 8h

Getting COVID 5 times doesn’t make you “stronger.” The immune system isn’t a muscle—repeated infections can cause cumulative damage and raise long-term risks.

Protect your immune system by avoiding repeat infections: clean air, masks, vaccination.

Source: x.com/Engineer_Won...

Alt text: Screenshot of a tweet by Adam Wong.

Quote: Someone claims having COVID 5 times gives them antibodies and makes them stronger than someone who hasn’t had it.

Adam (masked, with air purifiers) replies: “Then why did you have it 5 times??” Laughing emoji.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 7h

mmnmsss somato. snudder mado. n a cushie.a ujmnnm,,m os amd a Shoosh shshusher mmfrsmnn anooOoohh. thassa..

Peepo

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Gabo @imperatorgabs.bsky.social · 12h

Visa y Mastercard también van a negarse a trabajar con OpenAI por esto ooooooo........?

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 21h

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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rock robster @plounce.bsky.social · 9h

#catcrumb

a simple drawing of a disgruntled cat with an umbrella in the rain. the cat thinks, "can't see anything in all this."

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Nine @ninethprime.bsky.social · 15h

i wanna do as many of these tiny drawings as i can before the year ends :) first up my creature #mycreature

#art

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Nine @ninethprime.bsky.social · 15h

Plants. from yesterday

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Nine @ninethprime.bsky.social · 15h

he approves :D

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Nine @ninethprime.bsky.social · 15h

i wanna do as many of these tiny drawings as i can before the year ends :) first up my creature #mycreature

#art

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Nine @ninethprime.bsky.social · 16h

bsky wont let me upload photos anymore wtf!!!!!!

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16h

UK: "Over 14,000 people in England & Wales died with COVID after catching the virus in hospital"

Published: 6 Mar 2023

FOI data from the NHS (Mar 2020 – Aug 2022) shows:

14,047 patients died after catching COVID inside hospitals in England & Wales — and 69,337 more were infected after admission.

EXCLUSIVE: 'We need to do better' - over 14,000 people died with Covid after catching it in hospital

Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital - these were all people who had attended for another reason, be it surgery, cancer treatment, or following an accident

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Kieren Williams News Reporter
12:48, 13 Mar 2023
Updated 15:09, 16 Mar 2023

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 17h

Between Ari Drennan's "transsexuality is bourgeois sorry commies" and Jules Gill-Peterson's equally stupid "transgenderism is bourgeois transsexuality is proletarian" is it too much to ask that these terms be determined not by identity but relationship to the means of production?

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IGN @ign.com · 21h

The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World

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rock robster @plounce.bsky.social · 16h

today's coworker had kindergarteners watch 15 minutes of kingdom hearts cutscenes bc she typed in "toy story 3 full movie". she cleaned the entire classroom with no reaction to sora being on the tv and only switched it once she was done. which was also right after the word 'xehanort' was said

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 20h

perhaps you too will come to see a mask as an antidote, however small, to so many of the societal ills preventing us from movin the needle as we could; to mask, i'd argue, is directly counter to that cynicism. it is an action imbued with hope—backed up by real physical prevention—for a better world.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Feb 1

a mask is the thing you’re looking for. it is the visible reminder of how things have changed, that you acknowledge we are not coveted “normal” times—but unlike donation-earned tote bags or symbolic beaded bracelets, the mask is community care in both form & immediate function.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 18h

i love to imagine this logic applied to other mitigation tools—trembling at a seatbelt, cowering from a helmet, freezing at the sight of a condom—easy to reveal how laughable a take the idea of masking as an act of fear is.

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 19h

i feel like i’m going mad

“now that we have mitigated the serious mental health problems”

sam it is under two months since parents filed a lawsuit claiming your product killed their son and there is a novel form of psychosis that has been named after your product

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 17h

& indeed i did word the first post in this 🧵 deliberately—it is shameful, frankly, to choose not to take an action, use a tool that you know has properties that, when utilized correctly, have pro-social outcomes.

further, i'd wager many who no longer mask once did find refusing to mask shameful.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 20h

what nightmarish chain of events could you prevent by masking at the grocery store? the pharmacy? the hospital? ya know, the essential public spaces you share with even the highest risk folks in your community? you’ll never know, but you can make some educated guesses based on what we *do* know:

CIDRAP
Study details higher
COVID death risks in undocumented people
Lisa Schnirring, July 28, 2025
Topics: COVID-19
Undocumented group had 55% increase in death rate
For the study, the team examined death certificates for all California residents ages 25 and older who died from natural causes in the state between 2016 and
2023. The death certificates included birth country and whether decedents had a valid Social Security number, which allowed researchers to ascertain if people were documented or undocumented immigrants. They also included a range of other factors, including sex, age, race/ethnicity, educational attainment level, and occupation type.
Then the group looked for differences in pandemic-era survival outcomes, modeling absolute and relative excess mortality from March 2000 through May 2023, based on prepandemic mortality and other seasonal variables.
For potentially undocumented immigrants, researchers estimated a 55% increase in death rate above the prepandemic level, compared to 22% for immigrants who appeared to be documented and 12% for US-born citizens.

npr
White people feared COVID less after learning other races were hit hardest, data show
APRIL 4, 2022 • 4:23 PM ET

Adrian Florido

New research finds that white Americans made aware about COVID's racial disparities cared less about the virus themselves. The data have potential implications for public health

The Guardian US

'Petri dish for disease': attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at
'Alligator Alcatraz'
A respiratory disease is running rampant through Florida immigration jail, according to attorney of a detained person
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Tue 12. Aug 2025 09.00 EDT

He added: "Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form.
"There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week.
"I said to Luis, 'pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people's stories are straight? And unfortunately they very much are."
The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
"We had to use the porta-johns. We didn't have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up," the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there.
"[The detainees) have no sunlight. There's no clock in there. They don't even know what time of the day it is.
The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them."

Penn Medicine
COVID-19
Research funding
Second infection in kids doubles long COVID risk
Pediatric data show that the increase in long COVID risk was also accompanied by the increased chance of developing a number of other related conditions.
October 1, 2025
The more often someone is infected with COVID, the more likely they are to develop "long COVID," according to a new pediatric study. Young people and children infected with the COVID virus for a second time were twice as likely to develop long COVID than their peers who were infected just once.
Long COVID from the second infection coincided with higher risks for heart disease, damaged kidneys, cognitive issues, and more, according to analysis published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Analysis of data from roughly 407,000 patients across 40 pediatric hospitals, showed that among patients with just one documented COVID infection, there was a population-level rate of 904 cases of long COVID per million people every six months. But when the researchers crunched the numbers for those who experienced a second COVID infection, the rate more than doubled to 1,884 cases per million.

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