Syd 🏳️‍🌈🚌😷

A selfie of Syd, a white person, sitting in her bus driver seat wearing purple sunglasses, a burnt orange headband, a FloMask with sparkly stickers around the edge, a tie dye shirt, and green overalls. Syd holds up two peace signs showing off the purple flowery compression gloves they have on.

Similar to the last photo, a selfie of Syd, a white person wearing purple sunglasses, a burnt orange headband, a FloMask with sparkly stickers around the edge, a tie dye shirt, and green overalls. Syd holds up their hands in a face framing jazz hands kinda way, showing off the purple flowery compression gloves they have on.

my 🩷 valentine 🩷 bought me some compression gloves from Bibi's shop @bibicosplays.bsky.social so here are some cute selfies to commemorate today's springtime joy! #COVIDisAirborne #WearAMask

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where do i find the masks i wear?
• BonaFide Masks
• WellBeforeHQ
• Dräger
• BeHealthyUSA
• BNX
• ЗМ
• MaskC
• CambridgeMaskCo
+ buying directly from distributors (some use amazon) is the best way to avoid less than quality product

remove data
sow doubt in vaccines
charge for them
remove telehealth access
terminate disease funding
stigmatize then & masks
get you sicker and sicker

because it’s cheaper for them if you die

don’t you see?
now are you ready to protect your & your communities health?

fortune.com/2025/02/19/a...

I bring a “wearing a mask is one of the fastest, easiest, most immediate ways you can fight fascism” vibe to conversations that folks who don’t mask and know it’s wrong reeeeally dislike.

The immediate cessation of responses is always so telling. 🙃

I will use any excuse I can to keep sharing this video.

The four horsemen of the ER right now:
Influenza A, COVID, RSV, and Pneumonia are all #AIRBORNE.

JUST IN: Minnesota declares ‘state of emergency’ after outbreak of three diseases.

Minnesota declared a state of emergency after three viral infections were detected at commercial farms, indicating a widespread bird flu outbreak which will result in an even larger egg shortage.

Yes, what every college professor I know, including me, have been saying for a long time now. This is a genuinely lost cohort, angry, lacking basic social skills and a sitting target for fascist appeals. As a society we failed to help them navigate social re-entry and the price is incredibly high.

I still can’t believe having to mask temporarily during a global pandemic broke so many people.

It’s been 5 years & they’re still irrationally angry at the sight of a mask.

They’ve abandoned all sense of self preservation and community care, and lives will continue to be lost because of it.

it's never too late to start masking up in public again! in addition to being an important way to be in solidarity, it will also drastically reduce the sickness you experience regularly. (I for one am pretty excited about not having the flu for 5 solid years!)

1. This time last year, the US had only ever recorded 1 human infection with #H5N1 #birdflu, in 2022. With the confirmation of an infection in a Nevada dairyworker, there've now been 69 confirmed cases in 11 states.

If you're not masking, you're a potential plague rat. Mask UP motherfuckers

Genuinely, try to name for me a form of oppression that doesn’t result in, or amplify the impacts of disability.

Spoiler: you can’t.

If you care about healthcare, abolition, housing, workers rights, bodily autonomy - if you care about liberation you need to include disability justice.

People who don’t include disability liberation in their understanding of social justice will never make sense to me.

Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?

Bird flu crisis enters new phase While the developments may not raise the risk of a pandemic, they could create more havoc for farmers, worsen egg shortages and expose surveillance gaps.

Important #H5N1 updates to be aware of 🧵
1/The bird flu crisis in the U.S. is escalating, with 81 new cases of highly pathogenic avian flu (H5N1) detected in wild birds across 24 states. A new strain, H5N9, has also emerged, raising concerns about virus reassortment.🧪
www.axios.com/2025/02/03/b...

let wearing a mask in your day to day bond you with others—you’re protecting them & hopefully they you—as you work through obligations & deadlines while previously solid structures collapse around you.

it is an overwhelming, exhausting time to be alive; eschew embarrassment, lead with solidarity 😷✊🏻

"pursue the fullness and intensity of resistance" also reminds me that in many ways, community is "inconvenient" and resistance really IS intense.

Some things should be difficult and challenging, that's what growth looks like.

If you used to mask, you should restart if you value your health. Covid is still here. Covid isn't any milder. It's not a cold. It's just as dangerous as ever and more infectious. Covid moves likes invisible deadly smoke. The devastation of Covid is even more clear We share the air There's still a 1 in 5 chance of getting long Covid for every infection and each re-infection has worst odds and outcomes. Up to 60% of Covid infections are from an asymptomatic person which is why wearing a mask is important. You could be spreading Covid without realizing it. We share the air so we're all in this together. Please do you part by protecting yourself and others, making places safer for everyone. Mask Up

We share the air.

A wooden frame with a magazine collage vision board in the center. The vision board has purple and blue themes, various cut out words, and a person standing on a dock at the center. Below the vision board is shiny silver numbers "2025".

A close up of the vision board framed in the first photo. The top left has a cloud with doodles over top outlining the cloud to be a fluffy dog, underneath cut out text reads, "moving at the speed of trust." The top right has a purple flower with cut out text in different fonts and colors reading, "The Squid Age. The age of laughter, connections, sleep, conversations, beauty, thinking, writing, wisdom and love." The purple background fades into a photo of a treeline and river landscape. A different image is pasted into the center of a woman on a dock in a wide stance with arms on her hips, she looks into the water as the sunlight illuminates her from behind. Below her reads more cut out text, "pursue the fullness and intensity of resistance." More landscapes of water, tree lines, and reeds line the left side of the vision board.

Here's the 2025 Vision Board I made at the library earlier this month.

"Pursue the fullness and intensity of resistance" reminds me to rest, care, and dance.

"Moving at the speed of trust" reminds me that relationships are built over time, and to build something is an action.

this helped me take a deep breath, and set down my phone to go get some water and connect with my family giggling in the living room

Covid and Kids Laurie Allee compilation: Covid and Kids

It’s Covid.

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A scrapbooky, zine-like image. In the top left corner there’s a picture of a young kid in rainbow face paint waving a rainbow flag atop a woman's shoulders, as they both watch a pride parade. A photo of a group of people, young and old, carrying a pink LESBIAN & GAY PRIDE banner is seen in the bottom center. Top right, a picture of two gorgeous drag queens: one in a light pink wig and white dress decked in butterflies, and the other literally dressed as Lady Liberty in a rainbow toga. Text throughout, in mismatched fonts and on torn paper, reads "Q: So, what is QLL? a: Queer Liberation Library is an ONLINE DIGITAL LIBRARY …that is by and for the LGBTQIA+ community and our allies, focusing on queer materials and queer perspectives.”

Wow, hi new followers, hey! We’re Queer Liberation Library.

QLL is a digital library of queer ebooks & audiobooks available FOR FREE to anyone in the US. Our collection’s in Libby so you can read to your heart's content on your e-reader, phone, etc.

membership details downthread~

One of the easiest, most visible ways to resist is to mask

Safeguarding your health is more important than ever. It’s easier to fight back when you’re not chronically ill

It shows you care about disabled & marginalized individuals

It tells government you won’t be complicit in the harm of others

A hand holds up the book "Beyond Survival" by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in front of a steering wheel. The cover is blue with pink, yellow, and aqua plants.

A selfie of Syd, a white person with curly brown hair. They are wearing a FloMask decaled with sparkles, a MN Wild hat, and a brow vest with patches (chickens and a Dalek). A seatbelt wraps across their chest.

bus driver book, bus driver outfit.
here goes my attempt to curate a social media space that supports thoughtful & intentional world building. help me curate this space! where should I tune in?