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Tell us about your COVID-conscious community.
What resources, businesses, groups, or individuals in your area make it easier to live your life while reducing the risk of COVID infection?
What resources, businesses, groups, or individuals in your area make it easier to live your life while reducing the risk of COVID infection?
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Tell us about your COVID-conscious community.
What resources, businesses, groups, or individuals in your area make it easier to live your life while reducing the risk of COVID infection?
What resources, businesses, groups, or individuals in your area make it easier to live your life while reducing the risk of COVID infection?
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Wishing you a safe and restful holiday season.
This has been another tough year. Thank you for supporting others, especially those that cannot speak out, holding truth to power, and fighting for equity for all. 💜
This has been another tough year. Thank you for supporting others, especially those that cannot speak out, holding truth to power, and fighting for equity for all. 💜
December 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Wishing you a safe and restful holiday season.
This has been another tough year. Thank you for supporting others, especially those that cannot speak out, holding truth to power, and fighting for equity for all. 💜
This has been another tough year. Thank you for supporting others, especially those that cannot speak out, holding truth to power, and fighting for equity for all. 💜
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December 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Gutted to get 2 messages from kids in my family telling me I need to try harder to socialize at the holidays & “get over” being sick
I do so much disability advocacy to try and help people understand that it’s not our fault
We can’t “try harder”
Yet I can’t get my family to understand
Crushed
I do so much disability advocacy to try and help people understand that it’s not our fault
We can’t “try harder”
Yet I can’t get my family to understand
Crushed
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Gutted to get 2 messages from kids in my family telling me I need to try harder to socialize at the holidays & “get over” being sick
I do so much disability advocacy to try and help people understand that it’s not our fault
We can’t “try harder”
Yet I can’t get my family to understand
Crushed
I do so much disability advocacy to try and help people understand that it’s not our fault
We can’t “try harder”
Yet I can’t get my family to understand
Crushed
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December 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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"When Alice Wong died in November, she left behind a legacy of care for a community of people like me with long COVID who know we are not alone." Read more from Alison Stine (@alisonstine.bsky.social)
nonprofitquarterly.org/on-the-oracl...
nonprofitquarterly.org/on-the-oracl...
On the Oracle Alice Wong, Disability, and Community | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
When Alice Wong died in November, she left behind a legacy of care for a community of people with long COVID who know they are not alone.
nonprofitquarterly.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"When Alice Wong died in November, she left behind a legacy of care for a community of people like me with long COVID who know we are not alone." Read more from Alison Stine (@alisonstine.bsky.social)
nonprofitquarterly.org/on-the-oracl...
nonprofitquarterly.org/on-the-oracl...
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All my life, I have loved riding bikes recreationally. But since developing #LongCOVID in the First Wave, now I can only manage an e-bike: COVID totalled my quadriceps & whenever my heart rate accelerates too much, it feels like I'm having a heart attack (beta blockers help though) -
It doesn't matter how fit and healthy you are, Long Covid can still wreck you. www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/long...
Long Covid stole my pro cycling dream – but what I gained in the process really surprised me
A former national junior hill-climb champion and CW staffer on his bitter-sweet struggle to shake the long tail of Covid-19
www.cyclingweekly.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
All my life, I have loved riding bikes recreationally. But since developing #LongCOVID in the First Wave, now I can only manage an e-bike: COVID totalled my quadriceps & whenever my heart rate accelerates too much, it feels like I'm having a heart attack (beta blockers help though) -
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Clean water zealots refuse to drink from the ditch that runs alongside the interstate. Here is why they are a threat to civilization
December 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Clean water zealots refuse to drink from the ditch that runs alongside the interstate. Here is why they are a threat to civilization
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It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
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Look, if you're willing to concede that masking in health care settings is reasonable, then masking outside of such settings is hardly zealotry, since respiratory pathogens and the people vulnerable to them exist outside of health care settings, too.
It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Look, if you're willing to concede that masking in health care settings is reasonable, then masking outside of such settings is hardly zealotry, since respiratory pathogens and the people vulnerable to them exist outside of health care settings, too.
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Someone sent me old photos of me unmasked, saying they're grieving that version of me.
Umm, I'm very much alive & just paying attention to the evidence.
I am, however, grieving the version of them I thought had empathy
Umm, I'm very much alive & just paying attention to the evidence.
I am, however, grieving the version of them I thought had empathy
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Someone sent me old photos of me unmasked, saying they're grieving that version of me.
Umm, I'm very much alive & just paying attention to the evidence.
I am, however, grieving the version of them I thought had empathy
Umm, I'm very much alive & just paying attention to the evidence.
I am, however, grieving the version of them I thought had empathy
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The plot of PLURIBUS, summarized!
Two weeks ago I bought an item from an online retailer. Today I get an email wishing me a happy Christmas and thanking me for becoming a part of their "community". But buying a Christmas present online does not mean I have joined their "community". I feel like the Borg are trying to assimilate me.
December 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The plot of PLURIBUS, summarized!
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After watching Pluribus does anyone else want a hidden whiteboard for whatevs WITH ANOTHER HIDDEN WHITEBOARD BEHIND IT FOR CONSPIRACIES
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
After watching Pluribus does anyone else want a hidden whiteboard for whatevs WITH ANOTHER HIDDEN WHITEBOARD BEHIND IT FOR CONSPIRACIES
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First poster for the ‘PLURIBUS’ Season 1 finale
Releasing on Christmas Eve
Releasing on Christmas Eve
December 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
First poster for the ‘PLURIBUS’ Season 1 finale
Releasing on Christmas Eve
Releasing on Christmas Eve
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Well now "zealot" isnt the worst think Ive been called.
Instead of following shitty journalists who enact ableism, mischaracterize their interviewees, and cherry pick data please just follow disabled journalists who take their work seriously.
Instead of following shitty journalists who enact ableism, mischaracterize their interviewees, and cherry pick data please just follow disabled journalists who take their work seriously.
I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding Covid and only breathing ‘clean’ air
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Well now "zealot" isnt the worst think Ive been called.
Instead of following shitty journalists who enact ableism, mischaracterize their interviewees, and cherry pick data please just follow disabled journalists who take their work seriously.
Instead of following shitty journalists who enact ableism, mischaracterize their interviewees, and cherry pick data please just follow disabled journalists who take their work seriously.
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1. COVID-19 exists & mutates.
2. COVID-19 travels via aerosols -- minute spittle from us.
3. Masking is effective.
4. Masking is a prosocial behavior b/c it protects the wearer & those around them.
5. N95 wearers are not "zealots." They simply DGAF about peer pressure.
6. Mattha Busby? A LIAR.
2. COVID-19 travels via aerosols -- minute spittle from us.
3. Masking is effective.
4. Masking is a prosocial behavior b/c it protects the wearer & those around them.
5. N95 wearers are not "zealots." They simply DGAF about peer pressure.
6. Mattha Busby? A LIAR.
I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding Covid and only breathing ‘clean’ air
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
1. COVID-19 exists & mutates.
2. COVID-19 travels via aerosols -- minute spittle from us.
3. Masking is effective.
4. Masking is a prosocial behavior b/c it protects the wearer & those around them.
5. N95 wearers are not "zealots." They simply DGAF about peer pressure.
6. Mattha Busby? A LIAR.
2. COVID-19 travels via aerosols -- minute spittle from us.
3. Masking is effective.
4. Masking is a prosocial behavior b/c it protects the wearer & those around them.
5. N95 wearers are not "zealots." They simply DGAF about peer pressure.
6. Mattha Busby? A LIAR.
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Telehealth is vital for people with #LongCOVID. Don’t let it disappear
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
Telehealth is vital for people with Long COVID. Don’t let it disappear. - The Sick Times
Changes to telehealth policies are more than an inconvenience. For many of us, critical infrastructure is in jeopardy, and we urgently need government policy to protect it.
thesicktimes.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Telehealth is vital for people with #LongCOVID. Don’t let it disappear
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
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En Angleterre, les prisonniers politiques de #PalestineAction, en greve de la faim, sont en danger de mort. Incarcérés pour diverses action #ShutElbitDown qui visaient à empêcher la livraison d'armes à Israël, les soutiens, de plus en plus nombreux, ne parviennent pas à faire fléchir le gouvernement
This is clear an unequivocal in demanding release of the hunger strikers and end of the Palestine Action ban
But Starmer would rather see them die than admit he is wrong
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But Starmer would rather see them die than admit he is wrong
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the Palestine Action hunger strikers: the government is trying to ignore this protest | Editorial
Editorial: Doctors have warned that the lives of these prisoners are now in danger. Pretending this is not happening is not good enough
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
En Angleterre, les prisonniers politiques de #PalestineAction, en greve de la faim, sont en danger de mort. Incarcérés pour diverses action #ShutElbitDown qui visaient à empêcher la livraison d'armes à Israël, les soutiens, de plus en plus nombreux, ne parviennent pas à faire fléchir le gouvernement
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Quite apart from the misinterpreted and poorly presented science that will continue to get some of his readers killed or disabled, I’d like to point out another glaring factual error.
People that wear masks did not and do not refuse to enter society. Society refuses to accept mask wearers.
People that wear masks did not and do not refuse to enter society. Society refuses to accept mask wearers.
I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding Covid and only breathing ‘clean’ air
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Quite apart from the misinterpreted and poorly presented science that will continue to get some of his readers killed or disabled, I’d like to point out another glaring factual error.
People that wear masks did not and do not refuse to enter society. Society refuses to accept mask wearers.
People that wear masks did not and do not refuse to enter society. Society refuses to accept mask wearers.
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We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.
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One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
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Refuse. Refuse. Refuse.
Fuck you; make me.
Fuck you; make me.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Refuse. Refuse. Refuse.
Fuck you; make me.
Fuck you; make me.
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A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨
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Disabled people tried to warn you
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
'God is merciful': Gov. Hochul to sign bill allowing medically assisted death in NY
She says she's requested some changes from state lawmakers before she signs off on the measure.
gothamist.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Disabled people tried to warn you
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist