Britta Shoot
@brittashoot.com
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
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
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
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...
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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Longest night of the year, new moon, earthquake storm, nearly half of sf is without electricity. It’s a night of great power
December 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Longest night of the year, new moon, earthquake storm, nearly half of sf is without electricity. It’s a night of great power
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—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.
happy holidays to the people who do this
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
happy holidays to the people who do this
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
would anyone like to discuss the fourth quadrant of this SFPL bookmark I picked up TODAY?!
December 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
would anyone like to discuss the fourth quadrant of this SFPL bookmark I picked up TODAY?!
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Good morning.
📍 San Mateo County, November 2025
📍 San Mateo County, November 2025
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Good morning.
📍 San Mateo County, November 2025
📍 San Mateo County, November 2025
I like that the local German imports store just owns the chaos & thanks us for our support “this turbulent year”
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I like that the local German imports store just owns the chaos & thanks us for our support “this turbulent year”
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media studies
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
media studies
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The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.
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[staring directly into the ~107 year old camera]
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
[staring directly into the ~107 year old camera]
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My first piece for @thesicktimes.org!
In response to @brittashoot.com's reporting on LC/ME specialists opting out of insurance in order to “spend more time on patient care rather than administrative work,” I argue that administrative work IS patient care, especially for people living in poverty.
In response to @brittashoot.com's reporting on LC/ME specialists opting out of insurance in order to “spend more time on patient care rather than administrative work,” I argue that administrative work IS patient care, especially for people living in poverty.
Today @thesicktimes.org: "Having a doctor who is willing and available to engage with survival admin makes the difference between being able to access necessities and going without, and can be the only lifeline against neglect."
By @crookedneighbor.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2025/12/09/d...
By @crookedneighbor.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2025/12/09/d...
Doctors who refuse to engage with administrative work are abandoning their poorest and sickest patients - The Sick Times
Having a Long COVID or ME doctor who is willing and available to engage with survival admin makes the difference between being able to access necessities and going without, and can be the only lifelin...
thesicktimes.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My first piece for @thesicktimes.org!
In response to @brittashoot.com's reporting on LC/ME specialists opting out of insurance in order to “spend more time on patient care rather than administrative work,” I argue that administrative work IS patient care, especially for people living in poverty.
In response to @brittashoot.com's reporting on LC/ME specialists opting out of insurance in order to “spend more time on patient care rather than administrative work,” I argue that administrative work IS patient care, especially for people living in poverty.
king tides keep delivering to the California coast 🦑
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
king tides keep delivering to the California coast 🦑
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"looking back at 2020, when Freud’s words seem all the more prescient, we might justifiably wonder if Americans are in fact fairly copacetic with literal plagues, and that the real thing we don’t like is just being made to think or do too much about them."
can't really believe that this by me came out three years ago today. I wish desperately that the dynamics I described then had done anything other than accelerate, intensify, and expand so blatantly and so viciously late-light.com/issues/issue...
Death Drive Nation - Patrick Blanchfield
Turning again to 2020, the death drive reveals itself in the simple fact that, rather than dramatically change collective behaviors to prevent carnage and save lives, America doubled down on them.
late-light.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"looking back at 2020, when Freud’s words seem all the more prescient, we might justifiably wonder if Americans are in fact fairly copacetic with literal plagues, and that the real thing we don’t like is just being made to think or do too much about them."
folks with a first initial B and a last name that must sound like Shoot, please pick up your misdirected emails:
-Brian buying birdseed at the Easthampton, MA Ace Hardware
-Bennie reserving a Columbus, OH Extra Space Storage unit
-Brian buying birdseed at the Easthampton, MA Ace Hardware
-Bennie reserving a Columbus, OH Extra Space Storage unit
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
folks with a first initial B and a last name that must sound like Shoot, please pick up your misdirected emails:
-Brian buying birdseed at the Easthampton, MA Ace Hardware
-Bennie reserving a Columbus, OH Extra Space Storage unit
-Brian buying birdseed at the Easthampton, MA Ace Hardware
-Bennie reserving a Columbus, OH Extra Space Storage unit
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rfk is stupid and evil but in 2020 the CDC was literally telling us to wash our hands and sing happy birthday to stop an airborne disease from spreading. both things can be true
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
rfk is stupid and evil but in 2020 the CDC was literally telling us to wash our hands and sing happy birthday to stop an airborne disease from spreading. both things can be true
at 8am, physical therapist was in an N95 instead of usual surgical mask
“I actually had an appointment before yours today!”
…did someone beat me at my own safety game? did THEY ask her to wear a better mask, and claim an even earlier slot to avoid other patients?
(would they like to be friends??)
“I actually had an appointment before yours today!”
…did someone beat me at my own safety game? did THEY ask her to wear a better mask, and claim an even earlier slot to avoid other patients?
(would they like to be friends??)
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
at 8am, physical therapist was in an N95 instead of usual surgical mask
“I actually had an appointment before yours today!”
…did someone beat me at my own safety game? did THEY ask her to wear a better mask, and claim an even earlier slot to avoid other patients?
(would they like to be friends??)
“I actually had an appointment before yours today!”
…did someone beat me at my own safety game? did THEY ask her to wear a better mask, and claim an even earlier slot to avoid other patients?
(would they like to be friends??)
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I wrote about #LongCOVID stealing my lifelong favorite hobby of cycling, learning that e-bikes aren't "giving up" or "cheating," and how riding with assistance gave me back one of the greatest joys of my life. bit.ly/48ohIH5
The Greatest Feeling in the World
Seven months with an electric bike.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I wrote about #LongCOVID stealing my lifelong favorite hobby of cycling, learning that e-bikes aren't "giving up" or "cheating," and how riding with assistance gave me back one of the greatest joys of my life. bit.ly/48ohIH5
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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The chuckwalla body shape is the pinnacle of evolution 🦎
📍 Joshua Tree, CA
📍 Joshua Tree, CA
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The chuckwalla body shape is the pinnacle of evolution 🦎
📍 Joshua Tree, CA
📍 Joshua Tree, CA
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neat how five years after the beginning of a (still ongoing) lethal and mass disabling pandemic plus learning loss effects which we still don’t fully understand pundits want us to focus on the out of nowhere scandal of college students wanting more disability accommodations. real death drive shit
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
neat how five years after the beginning of a (still ongoing) lethal and mass disabling pandemic plus learning loss effects which we still don’t fully understand pundits want us to focus on the out of nowhere scandal of college students wanting more disability accommodations. real death drive shit
me, casual: I think my editor sent me two basically identical copies of the same contract?
spouse, excited: it’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis!!
spouse, excited: it’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis!!
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
me, casual: I think my editor sent me two basically identical copies of the same contract?
spouse, excited: it’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis!!
spouse, excited: it’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis!!
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It's #GivingTuesday. At @thesicktimes.org, our end-of-year fundraiser has been lagging behind; we're hoping to raise $10k today to get back on track.
Here are a few recent stories that demonstrate our unique role serving the Long COVID community. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/ (1/10)
Here are a few recent stories that demonstrate our unique role serving the Long COVID community. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/ (1/10)
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's #GivingTuesday. At @thesicktimes.org, our end-of-year fundraiser has been lagging behind; we're hoping to raise $10k today to get back on track.
Here are a few recent stories that demonstrate our unique role serving the Long COVID community. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/ (1/10)
Here are a few recent stories that demonstrate our unique role serving the Long COVID community. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/ (1/10)
I believe in the future of shaming not masking in essential spaces, on transit or in healthcare, the way we shun indoor smoking or lewd public acts. A time will come when not wearing an N95 to a routine medical appointment will be like lighting a cigar in the ER. You’ll be asked to mask up or leave.
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I believe in the future of shaming not masking in essential spaces, on transit or in healthcare, the way we shun indoor smoking or lewd public acts. A time will come when not wearing an N95 to a routine medical appointment will be like lighting a cigar in the ER. You’ll be asked to mask up or leave.
orange clock vine fuzzy and bright, and right on time for winter in San Francisco #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#bloomscrolling
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
orange clock vine fuzzy and bright, and right on time for winter in San Francisco #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#bloomscrolling