Sam
@rainbowiguana.bsky.social
they/them 🌼 obsessed with my cats and taking pandemics seriously 😷 free palestine 🇵🇸
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Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid
How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid
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We no longer have the kind of public health infrastructure that allows you to be blasé about your and others’ health (if we ever did). Will you reconsider masking now?
Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.
CDC Staffers Walk Out: Ex-Agency Leader Says ‘Let’s Get The Politics Out Of Public Heath’
Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.
www.forbes.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
We no longer have the kind of public health infrastructure that allows you to be blasé about your and others’ health (if we ever did). Will you reconsider masking now?
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Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.
June 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.
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We gotta stop allowing people to think there’s a group of “disabled” people who have to mask to dodge COVID and a group of not-disabled people who aren’t at risk of COVID and wear masks not out of enlightened self interest but as a kindness to an underclass
June 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We gotta stop allowing people to think there’s a group of “disabled” people who have to mask to dodge COVID and a group of not-disabled people who aren’t at risk of COVID and wear masks not out of enlightened self interest but as a kindness to an underclass
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if you care to think of yourself as an ally to marginalized people, as a comrade of mine, but you are not wearing a respirator at a protest? you’re not wearing one on transit you took to and from? why?
who are your actions in alignment with?
who are your actions in alignment with?
June 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
if you care to think of yourself as an ally to marginalized people, as a comrade of mine, but you are not wearing a respirator at a protest? you’re not wearing one on transit you took to and from? why?
who are your actions in alignment with?
who are your actions in alignment with?
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On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.
May 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.
my barista job walking back on the expanded color palette for the dress code is directly related to the rise of fascism and i genuinely feel like screaming about it.
April 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
my barista job walking back on the expanded color palette for the dress code is directly related to the rise of fascism and i genuinely feel like screaming about it.
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Mask bans kill disabled people. This is the point. You want to support the disabled community? Wear a mask!
April 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mask bans kill disabled people. This is the point. You want to support the disabled community? Wear a mask!
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this is one version of what we mean when we say eugenics is the policy
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
this is one version of what we mean when we say eugenics is the policy
ya'll will really do anything except put a mask on 😓
April 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ya'll will really do anything except put a mask on 😓
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You haven’t “learned to live with COVID” if you don’t understand that wearing a mask in public means not only protecting yourself, but ALSO immunocompromised / disabled / chronically ill people
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You haven’t “learned to live with COVID” if you don’t understand that wearing a mask in public means not only protecting yourself, but ALSO immunocompromised / disabled / chronically ill people
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
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Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
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All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
March 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
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1/ The CR Box behind me has been operating for well over 3,000 total hours over the past year (avg about 65 hours per week). It's definitely not looking shiny new. Nonetheless, I just did triplicate measurements of ultrafine particle (UFP) concentrations outside and inside the box ..... more
March 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
1/ The CR Box behind me has been operating for well over 3,000 total hours over the past year (avg about 65 hours per week). It's definitely not looking shiny new. Nonetheless, I just did triplicate measurements of ultrafine particle (UFP) concentrations outside and inside the box ..... more
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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They straight up black-bagged her in broad daylight. Her whereabouts are unknown. Pls don't pmo saying we're exaggerating about how dire shit is.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
March 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
They straight up black-bagged her in broad daylight. Her whereabouts are unknown. Pls don't pmo saying we're exaggerating about how dire shit is.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
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Science is science, darlings.
It's not over, and we're helping them destroy our collective empathy by pretending it is.
#covidisnotover #maskup
#thepandemicisntoverjustbecauseyoureoverit
It's not over, and we're helping them destroy our collective empathy by pretending it is.
#covidisnotover #maskup
#thepandemicisntoverjustbecauseyoureoverit
March 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Science is science, darlings.
It's not over, and we're helping them destroy our collective empathy by pretending it is.
#covidisnotover #maskup
#thepandemicisntoverjustbecauseyoureoverit
It's not over, and we're helping them destroy our collective empathy by pretending it is.
#covidisnotover #maskup
#thepandemicisntoverjustbecauseyoureoverit
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I’m sending love to all of the people still taking Covid precautions five years in. I know how exhausting it can be where the majority of the world has stopped caring about it, but you’re still doing it. You’re standing for community, love, and solidarity. Keep going. 💜
March 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’m sending love to all of the people still taking Covid precautions five years in. I know how exhausting it can be where the majority of the world has stopped caring about it, but you’re still doing it. You’re standing for community, love, and solidarity. Keep going. 💜
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a mask is the thing you’re looking for. it is the visible reminder of how things have changed, that you acknowledge we are not coveted “normal” times—but unlike donation-earned tote bags or symbolic beaded bracelets, the mask is community care in both form & immediate function.
February 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
a mask is the thing you’re looking for. it is the visible reminder of how things have changed, that you acknowledge we are not coveted “normal” times—but unlike donation-earned tote bags or symbolic beaded bracelets, the mask is community care in both form & immediate function.
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With an anti-science conspiracy theorist leading the US Department of Health and Human Services, preventative action is critical to protecting your health and the health of your community.
A good place to start would be getting back into the practice of regularly wearing a mask.
A good place to start would be getting back into the practice of regularly wearing a mask.
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
With an anti-science conspiracy theorist leading the US Department of Health and Human Services, preventative action is critical to protecting your health and the health of your community.
A good place to start would be getting back into the practice of regularly wearing a mask.
A good place to start would be getting back into the practice of regularly wearing a mask.