But the lack of action around in healthcare around N95s, clean air, and long covid is something I cannot get over

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i want there to be more STS-type work on this kind of thing (for all i know, someone is working on it)

Britta Shoot@brittashoot.com · 2d ago

big ups to the comrade who further legitimized the public record of life-saving mutual aid (& who cited yours truly 🥹)

The van hands out food, water, clothes, first aid and free HIV tests. Locals recognize "Thrivey" as it drives across the Twin Cities. The van, and everything in it, is funded by federal money that has been suddenly revoked, as the government reroutes grants from nonprofits to state health agencies.

Running on empty: Can a red HIV outreach van outlast federal cuts?

The Aliveness Project says that nobody else can replicate what they do for the high-risk communities they reach. They're still being defunded.

19thnews.org

big ups to the comrade who further legitimized the public record of life-saving mutual aid (& who cited yours truly 🥹)

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

Submissions to the New England Review of Boats will close tomorrow at midnight!! See below and please get in touch if you want to contribute!

Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Official editorial communication: The New England Review of Boats, a handmade regional zine about the vessels and people who go down to the sea for adventure, work, or pleasure--seeks submissions for its inaugural issue.

“This renewed incarnation of ACT UP [Chicago] focuses on three advocacy and protest tentpoles: attacks on HIV/AIDS funding, the domestic trans genocide and the ongoing and unmitigated COVID pandemic.” We do so love to see it 🫡

ACT UP, Groundbreaking Group That Fights AIDS, Returns To Chicago

The group that uses direct action to advocate for LGBTQ+ people and causes is reforming after a 30-year hiatus, with a focus on protecting trans people and more.

blockclubchicago.org

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

wxyz.com

“This renewed incarnation of ACT UP [Chicago] focuses on three advocacy and protest tentpoles: attacks on HIV/AIDS funding, the domestic trans genocide and the ongoing and unmitigated COVID pandemic.” We do so love to see it 🫡

ACT UP, Groundbreaking Group That Fights AIDS, Returns To Chicago

The group that uses direct action to advocate for LGBTQ+ people and causes is reforming after a 30-year hiatus, with a focus on protecting trans people and more.

blockclubchicago.org

People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.

Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

“Prisons & jails incarcerate people because of what they have done or are alleged to have done. And camps incarcerate people because of who they are or where they are.” In this Q&A, journalist John Washington discusses “How to Close a Camp,” an urgent blueprint to shut down detention centers.

An urgent blueprint for ‘How to Close a Camp’

Journalist John Washington explains how closing detention centers is critical in the larger battle to stop immigration enforcement

prismreports.org

Really interesting piece by @nuala.bsky.social about the battle for a lot in Oakland. It's a perfect spot for housing, and the planned building seems actually good and will be truly (!!) affordable (!!). It's also going to destroy the homes of a bunch of herons. www.coyotemedia.org/herons-or-ho...

Herons or Housing: The Battle Over a Vacant Lot

A large affordable housing development is slated for downtown Oakland. It could displace hundreds of black-crowned night herons, the city’s official bird.

coyotemedia.org

this is why thinking with community radio is so important!! 20yo students who believe the internet is a disempowering surveillant corporate hellscape still *totally get community radio as a vehicle for thinking about community control of outlets for speaking and listening*

J. Nathan Matias@natematias.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hope I'm wrong, but I imagine the cohort of people who care about a better internet is growing older as younger people are not in a position to imagine alternative worlds and since working on this isn't going to get them ahead.

going hard on weird film this year & really love what lomochrome turquoise does to the desert #filmfriday #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm

otherworldliness

a tree grows in ____ , california, field of dreams, high desert, lomochrome turquoise, sticky shutter, the hills are alive with ________

factorytakeover.com

"Camps concentrate, immobilize, and exclude populations — and incarcerate people because of who they are or where they are." For @prismreports.org, an honor to talk with @jwashing.bsky.social about his urgent, clarifying new book, How to Close a Camp, out now from Haymarket ⬇️

An urgent blueprint for ‘How to Close a Camp’

Journalist John Washington explains how closing detention centers is critical in the larger battle to stop immigration enforcement

prismreports.org

*turn off autoplay on your videos right now*

Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

"Camps concentrate, immobilize, and exclude populations — and incarcerate people because of who they are or where they are." For @prismreports.org, an honor to talk with @jwashing.bsky.social about his urgent, clarifying new book, How to Close a Camp, out now from Haymarket ⬇️

An urgent blueprint for ‘How to Close a Camp’

Journalist John Washington explains how closing detention centers is critical in the larger battle to stop immigration enforcement

prismreports.org

“Shuttering these facilities isn't enough. When that infrastructure is in place, it can be used.” In a Q&A with @brittashoot.com, journalist John Washington (‘How to Close a Camp’ pub. @haymarketbooks.org) details how fighting & closing detention centers is critical to stop immigration enforcement.

An urgent blueprint for ‘How to Close a Camp’

Journalist John Washington explains how closing detention centers is critical in the larger battle to stop immigration enforcement

prismreports.org

Does anyone else not like conversing with people becauase you know that you're going to sound like a conspiracy nut by stating demonstrably true things about how society is moving?

“four days behind the thing people are mad about” might be the ideal bluesky experience for these times

I can't think of a publication we need more than @prismreports.org in this very specific moment of fascism. Please do what you can to save this necessary outlet.

Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Friends moved back to area & invited us over. We noted we'd mask for hugs & indoors, no need for them to do same. But they greeted us in N95s (red-strap Auras!) & moved snacks, games outdoors. Kind, accommodating people can meet & support boundaries if we name them. A better world is possible etc!!

well, I never expected to be published in a Stanford journal, but the McKnight Foundation asked me write my thesis to the philanthropic world after the MN ICE surge: when there is an emergency, just... give money to people on the ground doing the actual work. as fast as possible. radical, I know.

Giving Can Be Simple (And During a Crisis, It Must Be) (SSIR)

When the village cannot wait, philanthropy must learn from community.

ssir.org

went to a county fair, shot a roll of medium format lomochrome purple! #filmfriday #filmisnotdead

are you guys ready?

all the pretty colours, boardwalk empire, california, cultural studies, don't look down, fairgrounds, false light, games people play/things people eat, homemade like lemonade, lomochrome purple, photo...

factorytakeover.com

“The idea of writing another article about ‘why this is climate change’…makes me nauseous with boredom and resentment. I’ve done it. I’ve done it repeatedly… The torture of climate obstruction is that it exists to trap us in the cycle of explanation and debate forever.”

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 3w ago

How many more summer days have to be stolen before we stop pretending this is natural? How many unprecedented disasters must be explained before the explanation is allowed to stick?

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

just a couple of cats out for a walk

If we had started actually addressing indoor air quality at the height of Covid instead of sweeping it under the rug & calling IAQ nonsense, we would have a robust network of places people could be safe from the wildfire smoke now

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable