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Britta Shoot

@brittashoot.com

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san francisco writer, reader, birder, beachcomber here to meet FT-reading marxists & powecomrades (folks who care about clean air & masks) 😷 writing a book about pandemic & protest http://brittashoot.com

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · Mar 5

My latest @kqedarts.bsky.social story about sold-out masks-required shows sums up many of my thoughts on the ongoing pandemic's fifth anniversary. Many of us are living in the actual new normal. It's never too late to start protecting your loved ones & self again! www.kqed.org/arts/1397262...

Why Masks-Required Concerts Still Sell Out in the Bay Area | KQED

COVID-conscious musicians and fans have created a tight-knit, DIY scene that’s all about accessibility.

www.kqed.org

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Prism @prismreports.org · 1d

“There’s a concerted effort to disassemble the CDC. The current regime is blocking science, & their political will is in destroying public health rather than building it.”

After massive cuts at the CDC, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation? @lauralew105.bsky.social speaks to public health experts.

After massive CDC cuts, what's left of COVID-19 mitigation efforts?

Massive cuts at CDC and growing hostility toward vaccination under Kennedy leave the public more vulnerable to COVID-19, experts say

prismreports.org

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

With the Criterion Mobile Closet visiting Chicago International Film Festival, I spoke to those standing in line about what it felt like being there while ICE and the No Kings protests swirled around the city.

Their thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social

Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend | Features | Roger Ebert

A report on the Criterion Mobile Closet's visit to Chicago.

www.rogerebert.com

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 1d

not into the whole seasons thing but actually quite taken with these autumn colors

Trees bearing yellow leaves seen from straight below. A clear blue sky is framed by the tall tree branches.

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Zac Whittenburg @trailerpilot.bsky.social · 2d

The vacant, former Hanig’s Footwear at the base of the Hancock Center is like a Donald Judd

Twelve wall-mounted boxes in two parallel rows of six used to display shoes for sale in a now-empty storefront in Chicago. The back of each illuminated box is a vibrant color — lime green, bright red, seafoam green, etc.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 2d

I don’t think it’s that complex. Covid’s not in the news and conformists are often smuggos too. They’re not hedging against social healthcare, which isn’t even that good. They’re propagandized & don’t believe illnesses are problems to avoid. (Source: whole remaining fam is European, all live there.)

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 4d

a great thing about birding is that it can happen anywhere 🪶

A female brewer’s blackbird sits on a tire inside a wheel well of a gray SUV in a parking lot

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d

The audible gasp that you hear at the end of the clip above is the beginning of the end of our social contract. We live in the echoes of that gasp. Of course it was all a lie. But it was here that white feeling began to overwhelm empirical reality. A somatic revolution.

Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen" myth: How the Gipper kickstarted the war on the working poor - Salon.com

Some 1.5 million households live on less than $2 a day. Welfare would help, but it's gone -- and this is why

www.salon.com

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 4d

a great thing about birding is that it can happen anywhere 🪶

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 5d

people have no culture! you’re only the second person to organically happen upon this & tell me

Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 6d

red passionflowers blooming in Berkeley #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

A large pink-red tropical flower with an elaborate purple and yellow center with leafy green vines behind it

Large pink-red passionflowers with yellow centers on lush green vines

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10d

Again and again and again I go to these events and take these photos to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Protestors head down Canal Street. They're holding a banner that reads DEMOCRACY DIES IN A POLICE STATE" (although you can't see the words "STATE" in this photo). Other signs read "THE PEOPLE DEMAND ICE OUT" and "ICE OUT OF NYC NOW"

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Andreas Haugstrup @hgstrp.com · 10d

Waiting. 🪶

Three turkey vultures sitting on three fence posts

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11d

a key reason why Signal and Bluesky have done pretty well is because they're actually really easy to use: I desperately wish more people in the open source and responsible technology world would look at those examples and go "huh, maybe we should do that too"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 10d

“lived through clap your hands say yeah” 🤣😭

Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 10d

🧐 better joke would’ve been that someone posted a want ad for my whole posse but release me gently from expectations of perfection etc

Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 10d

soft-bodied
leave me be

found myself out in the wild 🐙🫡

A laminated sign about sunflower sea stars tacked to a wooden fence. It reads:

HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
IF SO, LEAVE ME BE OR RELEASE ME GENTLY
DESCRIPTION:
• Soft bodied
• 15-24 arms
3in - 3ft diameter usually purple, orange or brown
WHY WE CARE:
They are important top predators that help keep kelp forests healthy.
Many (>90%) were killed by a disease and we are tracking their recovery.
HAVE YOU SEEN A SUNFLOWER SEA STAR??
We want to know!! Take a photo and submit your observation using the QR code. When possible, include your hand, clipboard, or other object you can measure for scale.
Example at right with object for scale. Keep the object close to the sunflowerstar without disturbing it.
SAFE FROM EXTINCTION
SUNFLOWER SEA STAR
For more information to sunflowerstarlab.org

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 11d

uh dropped this while capably using the chute 👑

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Andreas Haugstrup @hgstrp.com · 11d

Biking on the trail just after sunset and what gets caught in the bike lights? The first burrowing owl of the season! So great to have these back in the Bay Area for the winter! 😍 🪶

Burrowing owl standing next to a trail after dark. Head facing the camera, illuminated by a weak bike light.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 13d

[Swingers voice] Don’t tell me we didn’t make it. We made it! We are here.

Orange hazy sunset over the San Francisco Bay with the water and old levee paths illuminated, as seen from the top of a tall hill. On the left is human silhouette in a cap and a red back bike light glowing in the dim.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 14d

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.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 14d

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 15d

Imagine thinking maskers aren’t among the most desperate for indoor clean air! Imagine not knowing how much masking and clean air advocacy is interlinked by necessity

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 15d

Actually COVID advocates are clean air advocates! To make this claim without doing any research is shameful. Terms like "COVID doomer" and "mask scold" originated on the anti-vaxx, COVID denying far right. When even people like you adopt their views, funding clean air becomes an impossibility.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15d

it is telling to me that air filtration gets about 1 percent of the frenzied attention from Covid doomers as mask scolding despite it being arguably superior tech. American individualism in action

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 15d

many Matrix 4 shoots happened near my home (!) but if I hadn't gone out to watch precision drivers on the hills or had helicopters flying low at 6am, don't think I'd know how truly San Francisco-centric the filming was? just doesn't quite compare with Bullitt, Zodiac, The Game etc