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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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babs ✨ @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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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 6h

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 7h

masks in healthcare settings makes so much sense, no matter rates of transmission for ANYTHING. you should not be able to catch something at a place you go for your health.

Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 10h

Mask mandates return to health care facilities in parts of California.

The mandate goes from Nov. 1 to March 31, 2026. Someone tell Covid it needs to be over by then

www.newsweek.com/mask-mandate...

Mask mandate returns to parts of California

The order in Sonoma County is designed to protect the "most vulnerable populations" in health care facilities during fall and winter.

www.newsweek.com

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 7h

i am begging you to see wearing a mask as the act of daily solidarity with your fellow man that you are looking for. now is the time.

if you don’t know where to start, see some brands i like n wear in the vid, &
if you need free masks (or want to donate some), try:
maskbloc.org
covidactionmap.org

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 8h

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 8h

why attribute it to a fictional character when the truth is that it’s a normal person, just like us.

babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 9h

alt text: two photos of a single person in a long green cloak and brown boots standing with candles on a city sidewalk.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 10h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 12h

can’t wait to see if this website runs on essentially the same model as a “speakwithanmd/com” or an “all family pharmacy” or a “wellness company” ie: the physical manifestations & fulfillment centers of the far right alt-medical disinfo machine 🥲

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 13h

Dr. Oz announces that TrumpRx.gov is now live.

If you click, you'll see — it's essentially just a banner ad for now.

U.S. officials have said it will formally launch in January 2026 and help Americans find discounted drugs.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 16h

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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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 18h

Many of us are saying. Dark play/serious play. Performance studies. Fandom studies. Participatory culture in everything.

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