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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Here's what was actually happening in Los Angeles an hour before the downtown No Kings march, if you want to support Indigenous activists instead of supporting lying bluesky accounts.

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Asinametra | 😷 MASK UP! @asinametra.bsky.social · 1d

having breasts that are anything but firm/round makes even well-informed self-measuring end up inaccurate oTL
I've got very soft and gravity-compliant (read: sagging) breasts, so I run into similar struggles.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

UK: 18 symptoms that could mean you have long Covid according to the NHS.

"Long Covid is typically diagnosed when symptoms last longer than 12 weeks"

Source: archive.li/gDe02

🩺 18 Symptoms That Could Mean Long COVID (NHS)

1. Problems with memory and concentration (brain fog)
2. Shortness of breath
3. Joint pain and aching muscles
4. Feeling extremely tired (fatigue)
5. Hair loss or skin rashes (such as hives)
6. Blocked or runny nose
7. Headaches, dizziness, or vertigo
8. Pins and needles, aches, and pains in different parts of the body
9. Cough
10. Tummy pain or diarrhoea
11. Feeling or being sick, losing weight, or lack of appetite
12. Difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
13. High temperature
14. Changes in smell, taste, vision, or hearing (tinnitus)
15. Anxiety or depression
16. Sore throat
17. Sudden confusion (delirium), especially in older people
18. Chest pain, tightness, or heart palpitations

🦠 If symptoms persist after COVID, speak with your GP — recovery support is available.
#LongCOVID #NHS #COVID19 #HealthAwareness #PostCovid

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FINAL FANTASY XIV @en.finalfantasyxiv.com · 2d

Pumpkin season has officially landed: All Saints' Wake is here! 🎃 sqex.to/nhS63

Don't forget to pay the Haunted Manor and Sneaky Hollow a visit while you’re here! 👻

A screenshot from Final Fantasy 14 Online featuring a Lalafell sitting on top of the new All Saints' Wake 2025 seasonal mount reward, an automation resembling a Mandragora wearing a jack-o'-lantern on its head. Text reads All Saints' Wake, friends and fiends behind the scenes.

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ives 🎃 @hirnakrobatik.bsky.social · 3d

anyone wanna be my glucose guardian so that I can buy each and every pattern of mayas skirts questionmark

maya kern @mayakern.com · 3d

#store
My October drop is LIVE!

This round we have FIVE skirt designs: one restock + four brand new skirts!

SHOP US/CANADA: store.mayakern.com/collection...
SHOP UK/INTERNATIONAL: mayakern.uk/collections/shop-new

Maya wearing the Clouds skirt in size 2/3XL. The design features a purple sky and bright pinks and yellows reflecting off the clouds

Maya pulling a switch out of the pocket of the Pills skirt in size 2/3XL. The design features multicolored pastel pills and squiggles against a lilac background

Maya is wearing Rii's blackberries skirt in size 2/3XL. The design features blackberries and white flowers against a wine red background

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Asinametra | 😷 MASK UP! @asinametra.bsky.social · 1d

Sell some fish that get used in leves!! No joke, they hold value pretty well haha
But no pressure either way, I just like to remind people that the apartment housing exists in FFXIV and it's a nice solution sometimes ♥

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Teeth 🍯 🦎 @icicleteeth.bsky.social · 2d

IT'S OUT!! I CAN FINALLY SHARE!! The Turali Cookout I poured so much into, my dedicated love to food in Tural 🥹

FFXIV furnishing design contest entry called Turali Cookout, a campsite of various tacos, corn, yerba mate, and nopales

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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Asinametra | 😷 MASK UP! @asinametra.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever want to do housing stuff in FFXIV but not spend a ton of gil, or worry about auto-demolition, there are almost always apartments available! No outdoors, but a personal room with storage for 500,000 gil is still pretty great!

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sara winters, Pax U Soon, and looking for new opportunities @divisionten.bsky.social · 2d

A sketch of a mahogany tall cane rack with a tonberry design on each side (a tonberry is a small green goblin like character with a round head and big yellow eyes wearing a brown robe). The cane rack has room for several canes and umbrellas, and has a few blind canes and walking canes inside, along with an umbrella and a hat. On the front middle rack, there is raised Japanese braille spelling “Tadaima” which means “Welcome Home”

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Julia Rusty Ralston, the ðude 🍉 @imrustyokay.bsky.social · 2d

don't do that actually,

Instead, wear a mask! We are getting into Flu season, and COVID is still around, and with the crowds being as big as they're getting, and as a close as they're getting, it's a good idea to both protect yourself, and those around you who are immunocompromised in some way!!!

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

By all means, go protest this weekend. But BE SAFE, listen to experienced organizers, DON'T RSVP, WEAR A MASK, and turn biometrics off on your phone if you must bring it.

And if you're arrested protesting in IL, I will represent as many people as I can pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s comforting to know that there are more people out here that are masking than I originally thought.

I lost one of my best friends to Long COVID, so I don’t play about that.

At all.

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bunnie 🍰🍓 sea bunny backerkit NOW LIVE! @strawbunnycake.bsky.social · 3d

sweater weather autumn Isabelle 🍁🍂

#acnh ♡ #AnimalCrossing ♡ #cuteart ♡ #digitalart
{ #strawbunnycakeart }

A stylized illustration of a bipedal mostly yellow and orange shih tzu dog character, Isabelle, from Animal Crossing. She wears a reddish-brown long cardigan, plaid light brown long skirt, a brown blouse, and beige socks with brown boots. She wears a matching reddish-brown beret hat.

She sports brown, thin-rimmed circular glasses. In her paws, she's holding a coffee cup with steam coming out of it.

Background is light brown/beige with a muted light green floral texture over top. The background is a red stitch thread border with a little bow tied at the top.

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brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · 2d

Oh & also since apparently it needs to be said:

Disabled ppl with terminal illnesses (which doesn't inherently mean imminent death btw!) aren't acceptable collateral damage. We're allowed to want life-prolonging support & that also means mitigation against infection. Don't like it? Eat shit💖

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brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · 2d

The other night when I was in the ER, I overheard the nurses complaining about how wearing masks gave them acne & I just🤦‍♀️

My best friend with terminal cancer has covid from the hospital again. I have chronic respiratory failure + a blood clotting disorder & none of my drs mask.

Truly, fuck them.

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brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · 2d

Like oh I'm sorry, you as a dr/nurse don't want to mask for your cancer & respiratory failure patients because it gives you pimples? Cry me a fucking river.

I'm worried about hospital acquired infections during my post surgical intubation bc no one masks but god forbid YOU be inconvenienced.

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Asinametra | 😷 MASK UP! @asinametra.bsky.social · 1d

LRP: I actually completely unfollowed/blocked loads of people who went mask-off as soon as it stopped being "trendy" to do the most basic community care.
Glorifying and promoting travel, flaunting luxury indulgence, and suddenly 100% respirator-free, with a "COVID" vocabulary allergy?
Yeet. Delete.

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 2d

gonna do a womp-womp answer and say that some of the people who helped me get through 2020 were youtubers and video game streamers, and none of them care about covid anymore; whereas my world never went back to 2019, which makes it hard to watch them sometimes.

Jodi Pickens 🏳️‍🌈🖖✨ @jodipickens.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget the people who helped you get through 2020.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2d

According to a headline
“Long COVID Brain Fog
Isn’t ‘All in Your Head.’
Scientists Now Know the Cause,”
and while it’s important to note
that brain fog isn’t
all in your head,
it’s also important to remember
that Covid’s lasting harms
are not limited to your head.

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 2d

mutual aid really does save people’s lives and help take some of the immense stress off our plates.

trust me, if i could be in a position to be working enough to not need to ask for help like this, that would be my preference. but ME/CFS and chronic pain makes that hard, if not impossible.

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 2d

not-fun fact that covid and long covid can cause chronic fatigue and chronic pain.

you too could be anxiously fixated on money and survival like i and many others am.

protect yourself: mask up, get vaccinated, ventilate and purify the air.

#MaskUp #CovidIsntMild #CovidIsntOver

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 2d

mutual aid really does save people’s lives and help take some of the immense stress off our plates.

trust me, if i could be in a position to be working enough to not need to ask for help like this, that would be my preference. but ME/CFS and chronic pain makes that hard, if not impossible.

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t wait to live through my third “once in a lifetime financial crisis”

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 2d

If you're protesting tomorrow, please wear a mask!
Not just for surveillance reasons but because you will be in close quarters with people and we are in the midst of a wave of covid (and the beginning of flu season).
Protect yourself and others! Mask up!

a woman wearing a purple mask with the words " wear your mask " written above her

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

And let me tell you, whether the thing I have right now is COVID or not: you do not want it.

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 2d

If you're protesting tomorrow, please wear a mask!
Not just for surveillance reasons but because you will be in close quarters with people and we are in the midst of a wave of covid (and the beginning of flu season).
Protect yourself and others! Mask up!

a woman wearing a purple mask with the words " wear your mask " written above her

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