We know lots of you have been asking 3M for a Black Aura - like mask for consumer use. Today we're excited to launch a new product to fill that hole in the market! Introducing the headband version of BreatheTeq KN95. Available in black and white.

🇺🇸 Our health care system is expensive and broken. #MedicareForAll

When the government can silence one artist, it threatens freedom for all. Credit: The Roddenberry Foundation.

We'd like to shout out Seattle's Clean Air Collective and mask bloc for providing us with free masks and air filters during ConCurrent. We could not have run the event without that help, and it was given to us for free. For FREE! What an amazing public service. Thank you so much.

Remember, tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Well Starfleet Academy is looking very swish! :) #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #SDCC ew.com/star-trek-st...

Strange New Worlds is up!

To the US CONGRESS who signed their name to the letter complaining about wildfire smoke from Canada; •. Brad Finstad (MN) • Tom Tiffany (WI) • Glenn Grothman (WI) • Michelle Fischbach (MN) • Pete Stauber (MN) • Tom Emmer (MN) This is the response #PremierWabKinew #Manitoba #cdnpoli

He was admitted after he fell and injured his arm. But because there are absolutely zero transmission protocols in hospitals and they let disease fly around and don’t require masks he got Covid there and died. This is not a unique story. Last I read 30% of Covid cases are hospital-acquired.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

No Kings in America! Great turnout in Renton today.

An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

Pedro Pascal proves that sometimes the most masculine thing to do is to be vocally and unflinchingly supportive of vulnerable people.

To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

Every time I see a headline about "looking back at the pandemic" I want to cry. Do you remember how often people got sick in 2019? Flu, cold, mystery illness, whatever. Do you remember? I bet you don't because IT WAS NOT LIKE THIS. I used to work in DAYCARE. I saw EVERYTHING. This is not normal.

Protect your kids. "Natural immunity" (aka getting infected) does confer a certain protection against re-infection. But the risk of death is roughly a THOUSAND times greater than it is from vaccination. And even if the disease doesn't kill you, you'll likely spread it to others.

Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States. 🧵

What else is there but our health? 🤔

No one’s existence is an affront to you. Anyone saying otherwise is trying to manipulate you.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Japanese Americans in Washington were driven from their homes, separated from their families, and isolated in poor conditions in internment camps. That damage remains. Never again. On this Day of Remembrance, I commit to standing up for all residents of our state.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

I’m supporting State Senator Marcus Riccelli and Representative April Berg’s legislation to pass free school meals for all Washingtonians. Right now, the child of a single parent working 40 hrs/week making $19 an hour does not qualify for free school meals. That must change.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

I broke down sobbing over the state of the world this morning while I was feeding the cats. But you have to keep going, cats will need more food.

Chameloids (like Quasi ⬆️ and Martia ⬇️) have indeed green blood, as seen in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"⬇️ and mentioned by Georgiou in #StarTrekSection31 ⬆️.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

Since I'm coming home to my blog, how about one of those old school posts about random stuff I've been doing?

Literally my favorite toy as a kid

Again, libraries are stepping up. Free N95 masks at all #LAPL locations while supplies last. Also: emergency information and resources. lapl.org/be-ready?fbc...

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

T'Pol referencing spending six decades married to Trip Tucker isn't about "fixing" or "correcting" the existing Trek, it's not about setting up hard rules and boundaries about what does and doesn't count as real. It's the opposite. It didn't make Discovery non-canon, it made AO3 *canon.*

If you haven’t seen all 40 episodes of STAR TREK: PRODIGY, now is the time to do a watch (or rewatch) this holiday season! Completion rates on Netflix really helps our show, especially before the end of the year. Every view counts! 🖖

What’s up gamers from the Sky Gamerz bar here at SeaTac airport, where they exclusively have Atari 2600+ systems hooked up for some reason

You would be amazed at how much this New Jersey drone situation would be solved by downloading @flightradar24.com @airnavradar.bsky.social @planefinder.com and being obsessed with the sky as much as I am.

@who.int Director-General's remarks at a media briefing on 10 December 2024: "We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills. The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

Show me a pic on your phone that has Yor energy, not a selfie

"Star Trek used to be subtle"

A lot of people are posting about Nazi Germany and the things that happened "over there." But remember what happened right here: 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were thrown in internment camps simply because of their ethnicity. Latinos are facing this now. This could happen again in months.

'Wing Commander' - 1990