Britta Shoot
banner
brittashoot.com
Britta Shoot
@brittashoot.com
580 followers 110 following 550 posts
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
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
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
Reposted by Britta Shoot
“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
Reposted by Britta Shoot
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
not into the whole seasons thing but actually quite taken with these autumn colors
Reposted by Britta Shoot
The vacant, former Hanig’s Footwear at the base of the Hancock Center is like a Donald Judd
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.)
Reposted by Britta Shoot
a great thing about birding is that it can happen anywhere 🪶
Reposted by Britta Shoot
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
a great thing about birding is that it can happen anywhere 🪶
people have no culture! you’re only the second person to organically happen upon this & tell me
red passionflowers blooming in Berkeley #flowerreport #bloomscrolling
Reposted by Britta Shoot
Again and again and again I go to these events and take these photos to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Reposted by Britta Shoot
Reposted by Britta Shoot
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"
Reposted by Britta Shoot
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?
“lived through clap your hands say yeah” 🤣😭
🧐 better joke would’ve been that someone posted a want ad for my whole posse but release me gently from expectations of perfection etc
soft-bodied
leave me be

found myself out in the wild 🐙🫡
uh dropped this while capably using the chute 👑
Reposted by Britta Shoot
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! 😍 🪶
[Swingers voice] Don’t tell me we didn’t make it. We made it! We are here.
Reposted by Britta Shoot
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.
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.
Reposted by Britta Shoot
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
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
Reposted by Britta Shoot
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.
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
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