It costs next to nothing to wear a mask It’s one of the best investments you can make in your long term health Covid is still here & still disabling It only takes one infection to change your life forever Masks, especially N95s, are great protection! If you can’t afford one try a mask block:

WEAR A MASK!! My hairstylist, who owned her salon, was permanently disabled by long COVID. A client was dishonest about COVID exposure and infected her. She has amazing family to support her, but she had to give up styling and sell her salon bc of her health. Protect yourself and others!!

making paper garlands to hang as festive decorations even tho I don’t really celebrate Xmas because ~vibes~

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide

For all the chaos, terror, and uncertainty of 2020/2021, there was beauty and togetherness and humanity. How quickly the populace was to set all of that aside in favor of living normally again. It traumatizes me endlessly.

This is important to know about—it’s a common Covid outcome! One of my many scary first year of #LongCovid symptoms was not being able to breathe almost any time I tried to eat. It would start a few bites in & I would gasp for air for the next two hours, my lungs refusing to open properly

just keep passing around the same 20 minutes of executive function

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...

“Tech, by contrast, promotes ghosting your own embodied life and the systems that support it”

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Reminder that now is a good time to get any vaccinations you need, especially for flu & COVID. Be sure to mask up when you get them too. You definitely want your vaccines to be fully effective before you do any traveling or gathering for fall or winter holidays (if you do that kind of thing).

Austin, Texas showed up in mass for democracy and against monarchy! #NoKings #Austin #Texas

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors. We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once. And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

old guy listening to rilo kiley loudly on his phone and singing along at the bus stop is a vibe tbh, wish I was as free as him.

in a dream a woman asked me to serve her schist ice cream with black seeds

The internet is filled with people ‘doing their own research’ who are unable to understand what they’re reading

Looking for Novavax? Here is the NOVAVAX (NUVAXOVID) VACCINE FINDER: www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-loca... Healthcare providers can order Novavax (Nuvaxovid) here: www.vaccineshoppe.com/vsh/en/USD/h... #medsky 🛟😷

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

The best time to start masking in public spaces was 2020 and the best time to stop was *checks notes* NEVER But the good part is you can just *start doing it again,* and the best time for that is NOW. #nzpol #aotearoa #kikiroa

Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions. Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country? Fuck. That.

I’ll say it a million times, I’ll get a t shirt if I need to: you do owe vulnerable people protection, they have the same right to safety as you. I don’t care if every other progressive signs a blood oath saying otherwise: it is wrong to abandon, endanger, and harm the vulnerable.

Know why the 10-day isolation period was cut to 5 days? Because airline executives lobbied for it. Not scientists or the medical community. Workers, customers, their kids... all expendable. If anyone thinks that current "guidance" wasn't shaped by business, look closer. #COVID #maskup #healthcare

Once again, I'm telling you to stop fucking with the NYT and maybe stop fucking with people who fuck with the NYT until they stop fucking with the NYT tbh

Food insecurity isn’t just about hunger… it’s linked to worse #LongCOVID outcomes. According to a large NHIS survey: higher risk of persistent symptoms + lower recovery odds. Expand access to programs like SNAP could make a real difference. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

When cops "clean up encampments," the result is that a nonzero number of unhoused people will die from that violence enacted on them; what do you THINK happens to people already barely clinging to existence when you do that to them?

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY you can leave a public comment for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, which meets Sep 18. Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up. You can submit a written comment here: www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

For the love of g-d when you go to get vaccinated wear a mask. There are ppl who know themselves to be extremely vulnerable to viral infections who are literally putting off getting the Covid vax they need because busy drugstores full of unmasked faces is too much of a covid exposure risk for them.

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

today my friend invited a bunch of us over to drink water :’)

Censorship of porn is just the test run. Age verification is going to kill the open web mashable.com/article/age-...

My angel coworker started this GoFundMe for their dear friend Mario who has been detained by ICE. Mario is only 21 and has lived here since he was 6 years old. Please donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...

Freshly boosted today and masked every day. Practicing community care feels good!

"Abandoning research into more durable and variant-proof vaccines impacts communities of color & low-income populations. Vaccines can be costly & people may not be able to take time off to get regular boosters. More durable vaccines that can last years can help address these health inequities."

every article like this that omits covid and the cumulative damage of multiple infections is eugenic propaganda

Today is Monday, Aug 11. Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

a funny thing about moving to a new place is getting to “know” all the former tenants of that space via the mail that arrives, so far we’ve got Robert the veteran, Brianna who has offers for discounted tires, and Danny who uses Square lol

If you have children, make plans to get them vaccinated ASAP. If you are an adult, make plans to get vaccinated ASAP

Graphic designer & advocate Derrick Kardos passed away last month due to complications of Long COVID 🕯️ "I am 52 and I have experienced more discrimination and stigma for being openly disabled by #LongCOVID than I ever did for being openly gay," he wrote in 2024. thesicktimes.org/2025/08/08/b...

broke down crying (?) when a man from CL came to get my ladder and he gave me a gatorade — big gratitude for the kindness of strangers and generosity of friends this week. moving is hell, especially when you’ve lived somewhere for 9 years (with various roommates) and are doing it all mostly solo.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

i used to think intimacy meant being always (magically!) deeply understood. now i think it’s the everyday, consistent, mutual effort to deepen conversation