these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness

Thank you, @exploratorium.bsky.social. More museums should follow suit. (And for more than a couple hours in one exhibition space.)

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 23h ago

San Francisco’s Exploratorium will require N95 or KN95 masks during special morning hours designed for immunocompromised visitors.

I don't know why I chose to post this on here at five minutes after midnight, I must have just been excited

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here's Lisa's review of Claudia Rankine's latest book Triage (out today!). If you're interested, you know who you are, and if you aren't interested in Claudia Rankine's latest book, well, then we don't know what to tell you, uh, good luck with that #booksky

And if you are angry about the Covid revisionism about the first year of the pandemic that’s happening in Congress and on news shows, consider whether you’ve done some revising of your own in the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth years.

There is a reason why they think you're one of them. Grow up. Be better than this. Quit being an asshole. We ask you to do the bare minimum and don't support a company that spreads transphobia, and you responded with this:

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 3d ago

So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️

The Bolaño character who said that poems are homosexual, short stories are bisexual, and novels are heterosexual was wrong. I mean, everyone knows poems are gay and short stories are bi (novellas even more so - have you considered being a novel? one asks), but novels are just generally queer

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Forever This Time

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfJuly. My favorite photo of the month is this beautiful female northern cardinal rocketing through the park. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

imagine if the bennet sisters had experienced garlic bread

Instagram: Look at this sandwich! Doesn't it look good? It's in your face! Bluesky: Let me tell you about the best sandwich ever... Facebook: When I make a sandwich, I like to start by emptying a whole jar of peanut butter onto a baking sheet. Just like that. Yeah. Really spread it around on there

acephalgic migraine, burrata, face-plant, spreadsheet, and white coat hypertension really resonate with me (1981)

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

today is the last day of #DisabilityPrideMonth. if my autoimmune self can ask anything of you, reader—especially if: you are able bodied; you see yourself as caring for disabled rights—is to familiarize yourself w the disability advocacy that’s been happening these pandemic years, indeed, right now.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · 7d ago

mask blocs, clean air clubs, and other anticovid / clean air organizing emerged under biden for a reason 😷✨

BREAKING: Jeopardy Host Ken Jennings Dies at 52 After Battle With Transphobia

A teenage girl in Gaza with a bullet in her brain has been able to access life-saving care because of YOU. Please help her stay alive. We have to keep it going. 9/200 by MONDAY 🩷 Consider making it monthly. tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

Covid-conscious people: The pandemic is ongoing. We want protections and accommodations "Realists": Ooh, an extremist. Sorry, Covid's not going anywhere CC: Right, so- R: So ignore it, weirdo! CC: We want our healthcare providers to wear masks R: You're living in a dreamworld, fairy princess

When your white friend has two strikes against them

Deeny they/them@geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 6d ago

Theyre putting me on sale

in fact i'd say that those of us who know the consequences acute&chronic illness can have—often due to personal experience—& thus promote use of mitigation tools are the ppl furthest from imagining a world like 2019 again. things have changed; we are both aware of & acting to address our 2026 needs.

emily fraser 🌿🐌✨@emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 7d ago

But if I wasn’t clear I don’t know anyone who thinks we’re “a few masks & lockdowns away from 2019.” But I know a lot of ppl who understand the horror of Long Covid, the risk of endless repeat infections, & the easily accessed benefits of air quality upgrades in schools, masks in healthcare,

hi, some of you know my friend Maha's son suffers from a lung condition that requires surgery but because he's so small, she gives him home treatments. i just heard from Maha that she needs a new battery ($1200) to power the solar panels that operate his ventilator. please help! gofund.me/ae41774db

just my two immunosuppressed cents but I think a big part of that “dealing badly with” includes referring to that trauma as past tense and not acknowledging it as something that is still being actively inflicted on some of the most marginalized people imaginable

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

Hey folks! Sitting enmired in my brokeness, it's rough. We have only my partner's income as a service worker plus pennies that dribble in, he's given his whole paycheck to rent. He says, you help, consider getting help sometimes. So that's my appeal if you can support! buymeacoffee.com/chantaljames

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mask blocs, clean air clubs, and other anticovid / clean air organizing emerged under biden for a reason 😷✨

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 7d ago

We will be ready to have a real discussion about Covid when we accept the fact that “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said by Fauci, under Biden, was eugenicist policy.

I appreciate people reckoning with this, but the real truth is it is still happening. Long covid affects tens of millions of people in the US, people are still getting it, people are still dying from covid every week, and our determination to insist it is in the Recent Past Is part of the problem.

I thought people were talking about being in the 7th year of the pandemic as a technicality, like because Covid-19 was first documented in 2019, but it turns out I actually just forgot how to count and how numbers work "It's 2026, so it's the 6th year since..." *literally counts on fingers* "Ohhhh"

White critics and academics can be successful without thinking critically about race and racism, so they often don't until they believe it can get them clout, and then they take a big clumsy swing and miss

HAPPENING NOW Hundreds are in the streets right now in Madison, WI, after police earlier today shot and killed a Black man. The demonstrations have taken over the city’s downtown.

Lit mag: BIPOC, ur welcome 2 submit here BIPOC: Well we should fucking hope so LM: And guess what. We pay. Send us ur diverse stories BIPOC: How much LM: Like $19? Something. We want ur diversity. Give us it BIPOC: Who are you 10 white people in a trenchcoat: We r just a smol team

Eating Chinese food the way a cool rugged protagonist does it on American TV: Directly out of a single carton of your choosing, preferably in your car or during a late night at the office, no sharing and absolutely no rice

It's still #DisabiltyPride Month & it's always a good time to show your support for disabled artists. These are my Accessibility is Traditional and Accessibility is Love in Action Tees & revamped my Disabled is Not a Dirty Word tee. I also have more designs available at www.johnniejaedesigns.store

"You have to live your life" directed at Covid-conscious people rings more and more hollow as we're all shutting ourselves away from the outside air and microwaving fruit