Britta Shoot
banner
brittashoot.com
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
Reposted by Britta Shoot
—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
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I learned the term “missing missing” so freaking late (like this year??) and whew do they tell on themselves. Solidarity!!
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
related: there are signs up all over my local Walgreens explaining that the employees are other people's loved ones
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I stood by the circulation desk staring at it for so long that a librarian I'd already chatted with was like "do you need more help?" 😭
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
art is from the 2023 book Yenebi’s Drive to School and including a wheelchair user & a masker is the representation that basically everyone cool in my life wants so shout out @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social 🥹
Yenebi's Drive to School
Dreamers meets School's First Day of School in this vibrant story that puts a whole new spin on one loving family's morning drive to school.Every morning, I'm up at four o'clock.I brush my teeth, get ...
www.chroniclebooks.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Such an urgent, necessary piece! More than a little humbled to be referenced because I so appreciate your work highlighting intersecting issues of abandonment. Grateful to be in dialogue with you! ❤️
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I don’t think anyone follows me for sea squirts (not pictured) or gumboot chitons but I do think we all agree that they’re mesmerizing when they wash in 🦑
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Life is nothing but difficult trade offs 😆 but we managed to both find owls migrating through this weekend and still make it out for low tide yesterday!
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
wtaf, those poor kids!! also imagine cc'ing random people on your HOA drama! but that said, recently someone in our building communicated by forwarding a delivery confirmation email, photo and all, with their new unrelated content about holiday gratuity for management added up top
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Please pick up your child?! 💀 My partner gets invited to bachelorette parties in small Danish towns a lot. Incredible technology we’ve built & deployed
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I gladly pay for Fastmail but nothing like keepin the ol six letter gmail around for editors who use docs, orgs that use groups… and randos who send me their receipts
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM