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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

statements like

"half the marines I know have tattoos like that"

"the average millennial had a Nazi phase"

just expose your social circles lol

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 2d

sickos_yes_haha

3 massive affordable housing complexes open throughout San Diego

More than 550 units recently launched in Clairemont Mesa, the Midway District and downtown.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone figured out which company is supplying munitions to be used domestically?

They are arming a mad dictator to kill people domestically.

Hague for them too!

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 3d

Pertussis (whooping cough) cases have exploded in the US in the past 2 years. Get your Tdap if you’re due (every 10 years for adults)

BTW, as of this morning, it looks like all the case counts for 2024-25 have been scrubbed from the CDC website 🫠

As of early September, CDC officials have documented more than 20,000 whooping cough cases across the U.S. this year, compared with 19,302 during the same period of time last year.

Altogether in 2024, there were 35,435 documented cases of whooping cough across the U.S., including 655 in Colorado. That was a huge jump over the 7063 cases in all of 2023. Large states, including New York and California, logged high numbers of pertussis infections in 2024. So did some less-populated states like Idaho, Washington and Oregon, each of which reported more than 1,000 cases of whooping cough.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

as i have argued, the fundamental problem with the american economy is that it is being consumed by rentiers

what my fellow barfly was noticing are just the inherent paradoxes of a rentier economy:

www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...

It's Not the One Percent. It's Your Neighbors.

The rentier economy that has a stranglehold on American quality of life includes a lot more than one percent of the population.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 7d

COVID is still here.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

If we can focus on the message that repeat covid infections are dangerous and masking is a very low price to pay for both your own safety and the knowledge you haven’t doomed someone else, it may be more effective than telling people something that’s not true, especially for folks w/ limited means

elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

It’s probably more valuable to explain how much more uncomfortable and debilitating long covid can be. The short-term discomfort and the minor inconvenience of remembering to carry and wear masks is real for people. Long covid (or death - covid is still killing people) is worse

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

I hate masking. I will not pretend I don’t. But it’s better than long covid (speaking from experience). I think it’s important for us to acknowledge that there can be drawbacks to masking - many people have lived experience of that discomfort and it doesn’t help us to invalidate that

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

Pretending that masking is going to be comfortable for everyone - especially people w/ skin conditions or sensory issues - doesn’t help our cause. But if more people masked more regularly no doubt there would eventually be more and better options for those of us underwhelmed by the current options

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

I mask everywhere indoors except home, and the only mask that so far has given me a good seal has latex straps. I’m allergic to latex. Where the straps touch my face and scalp it created patches of redness and painful psoriasis (especially on my scalp), so I don’t think this is really true

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

Or the vaccine line! All the anti-maskers tell us vaccines should be sufficient to prevent harm (i’m up to date on my boosters so this is not anti-vax sentiment) and expect vulnerable people to rely solely on that, but people won’t even mask in the vaccine line

elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently people memory-holed the 1918 flu pandemic in much the same way. People didn’t want to think or write about it in the years afterward. There were maskers and anti-maskers then, too. So this is just history repeating itself and humans being somewhat predictably flawed in their responses

elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a trauma response. These same folks will tell maskers they’re paranoid or have poorly managed ptsd but one of the only ways I can explain how masking has fallen off in medical settings - even well below pre-2020 levels - is that people associate masking w/ a trauma they’d prefer to forget

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 3d

At this point aren’t the cognitive impacts of covid pretty well established at this point? Wouldn’t be surprised if that played a role in cases like this

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 4d

Like they cannot even acknowledge that asking only vulnerable people to mask - and refusing to make pharmacies, medical offices, groceries at least safer - marks us out for abuse by people who see vulnerable people not just as expendable but as detestable

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 4d

These were all explicitly related to masking, based on the tenor and content of the verbal abuse. When I’ve brought these incidents up in conversations here the “masking is too hard, and nobody is telling you not to mask” crowd always goes silent/exits the conversation

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not just “polite” pressure to unmask. In my “progressive area” I’ve had strangers spit on me, cough in my face, ask invasive questions, drive or ride by screaming insults, & in one case actually expose themselves to me in public while I am out just minding my business. Always men, I should note

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 4d

They act like a bunch of vulnerable people online begging for help is bullying or abuse when we are out here sometimes actually getting physically accosted in public for the crime of trying to protect ourselves and minding our own business.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 4d

They tell us that we’re crackpots that need to get a grip and stop asking others to mask, that our masking alone should keep us safe enough, but aren’t willing to grapple with the fact that our being the only people masking singles us out for actual IRL abuse.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 4d

This is the thing that I can never really get the people who desperately want to dunk on maskers online to engage on. People who still mask frequently face ostracism and abuse in public when we are just minding our business. But we’re supposed to shut up about that, too.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 4d

I do think that for some people - who knows about this specific dude - the ablism runs so deep that yeah, they’d privately agree with the eugenicist stance that immunocompromised and disabled people should just be “allowed” to die because “that’s the natural order” and “humanity had grown weak”

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 6d

When are we going to acknowledge that "video podcasts" are just low-budget tv chatshows? It's sad that "audio-only" podcasts seem to be going out of fashion - good ones are qualitatively different to visual media, not an inferior version of it. But it's weird that video podcasts are seen as novel.

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