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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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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

Adorno & Horkheimer taught me it was okay to be annoying

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 3d

It was standing room only at today's Living with Long Covid exhibit at the @museumofvan.bsky.social!

I was moved to tears by some of the personal stories on display. Such a great event

Long Covid researcher and activist Kayli Jamison speaks at today's Long Covid launch event at the Museum of Vancouver

Selfie at event wearing a white headstrap zimi mask with purple flowers

One of the stories that resonated - "I was able to venture out for an ice cream cone with a friend this day. I don't feel comfortable eating in restaurants or going to bars like most people my age. Spring and summer are nice beaches they give me more options to spend time outdoors with fewer people around - which means I get to see the people I love more often. Even short moments like this help me feel a little more like a "normal" 24 year old again

Some of the personal stories on display. A combo of text and pictures artistically laid out on white walls with brightly coloured orange and yellow backgrounds

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

There's a lot to be upset about in the world. Strangers on the internet should not bear the brunt of your rage.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 5d

Illuminating to speak with @brownecfm.bsky.social about advising on pandemic preparedness & some promising diagnostics emerging to identify COVID-19 and tuberculosis trends 🦠

Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle

Biological risk consultants forecast the impacts and opportunities of epidemics.

www.technologyreview.com

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 5d

Illuminating to speak with @brownecfm.bsky.social about advising on pandemic preparedness & some promising diagnostics emerging to identify COVID-19 and tuberculosis trends 🦠

Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle

Biological risk consultants forecast the impacts and opportunities of epidemics.

www.technologyreview.com

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isaac @sevier.io · 6d

Sometimes I see folks talk about disability as a binary status and my own experiences tell me it's not like this at all. Days I have migraines I'm prevented from working, thinking most clearly, often from being outside at all or in bright lights. We need more disability justice for everyone.

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Andreas Haugstrup @hgstrp.com · 9d

I had the delightful experience of spending half an hour in the company of a couple of least bitterns this week. I'm obsessed with their small bodies, large feet and how they hang onto the reeds as they hunt for small fish. 🪶

Least bittern facing the camera while hanging onto reeds

Least bittern hanging onto reeds while looking into a small pond

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 11d

Really important topic.

It’s a great day to donate to @thesicktimes.org. Nowhere else is gathering this critical information for people who have Long Covid—or anyone who might get it, which a new NIH incidence study says is at least 1 in 20 people who get Covid.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 12d

“So how are you?” < 👊

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Ezra S @ezra.zone · 12d

happy anniversary to me. i ask folks who aren't affected to sit with the discomfort of knowing that your life can be taken away from you at any moment. that there are things you can to to protect yourself, and to help those who are already suffering. and that we need your solidarity more than ever.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 12d

Thanks to TST for publishing this letter! I’ve mentioned issues with this bill before & hope Californians will consider why mask advocacy groups oppose this. Folks who crafted this legislation seem unserious.

Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · Jun 7

It’s really important to understand that the Bay Area group that won back masking protections several times in the past few years is against the bill that’ll supposedly protect the right to mask in California!

(Full disclosure: I'm part of SDA's mask advocacy working group, tho less active lately)

Senior and Disability Action @sdaction.org · Jun 7

Why we're not supporting AB 1326 (the CA bill that supposedly protects the right to mask):

We're fully against mask bans, and we recognize how dangerous they are. We would support legislation that exclusively specifies that it prevents mask bans. [1/6]

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 13d

this is an acupuncturist’s form & I have a DO who specializes in LC because they have it themselves and treat related conditions too

fully acknowledge Bay Area privilege! and it does feel like a real shift is occurring

(I don’t have LC & I want my comrades who do to receive safe care & recover)

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 13d

and yes, provider ventilates and sees one patient at a time, both of us in K/N95s, and this is now the second provider I have with these policies

in no way trying to brag but instead send up a flare that change is possible and happening

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 13d

I think so often about @greatdismal.bsky.social’s idea that the future is here but unevenly distributed

new provider of mine lists LC on an intake form & works to treat symptoms “as the world learns more” and I know this is an early sign of change to come

A healthcare form listing many conditions next to checkbox areas. Conditions include fatigue, insomnia, ME/CFS, mold, exposure, chemical sensitivity, Long COVID. There is a gray pen pointing at the LC line.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 14d

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

A three-panel comic. The first panel is a scrap from a dictionary that says crypsis, noun: patterning or coloration that allows a bird to remain concealed by blending in to its environment. In panel 2, labeled effective crypsis, an american bittern blends in with a marsh full of tall plants. In panel 2, labeled ineffective crypsis, an american bittern fails to blend in among some short plants, next to a wet floor sign, and behind a stop sign.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 14d

maudlin but my whole young life, I’d detour to visit shops like Bluestockings and Women & Children First. Didn’t grow up in a region/state with left/feminist bookstores & once I made it to cities that had them, I’d just vibe, browse, figure out what I needed to take home to study. What a loss!!

Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 14d

😭 this is how I find out?!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14d

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · Jun 16

Max Ernst, The Sea (Marine), 1928

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 14d

I drive a very old unflashy 300D & yet again this weekend a random dude started yelling "nice car!!" and taking our photo

in honor of that guy, I refer everyone to this piece about wise cabbies driving 40+ year old diesel Benzes built to last

"Merci dix": A swansong for Morocco's Mercedes Grand Taxis

In Morocco, people don't call for an Uber; instead, they pile into Grand Taxis – battered but colourful old diesel Mercedes that are North Africa's answer to Cuba's vintage cars.

www.bbc.com

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15d

Since people are revisiting the Telecom Act of 1996, here's a little history you won't see too many places

Activists tried, & succeeded, to keep a little bit of spectrum for nonnetworked noncommercial use. They didn't trust the claim that the internet heralded a new democratic era for communication

redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · Nov 28

My first book, Low Power to the People, is ten years old this month 📻 💚
mitpress.mit.edu/978026253476...

For the research, I hung out with people who, in a moment of simply boundless enthusiasm for the internet, said, ok but we want to build community #radio stations instead

Low Power to the People

An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local low-power FM radi...

mitpress.mit.edu

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Marmot Recovery Foundation @marmotrecovery.bsky.social · 16d

WARNING: Guard Marmot on Duty

A Vancouver Island Marmot sits in the grass in front of a sign that reads "Restricted Area"

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 15d

Nah, it’s a righteous refusal! Used to fly into/out of Orlando every six months and I’m not over *that*

Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 15d

2025 bingo: brief, unexpected appreciation for disney adults ✅