'In dark times, should the stars also go out?' // queer socialist // pfp @wreckstate
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reminder: rapid tests are only ~30% successful at picking up an omicron COVID infection using traditional methods
you should use the dual swab method (youtube.com/watch?v=5qHTBlxf…) and run two tests a sufficient time after exposure (~5d or symptomatic) to be reasonably confident
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Can we pretend it hasn’t been almost 4 months since the last one. 2/6 🧡 bee #VoidStranger
@yesallcrops I mostly see your posts from my priv, so you don't see my likes, but I wanted to say I'm really sorry stuff has been so hard and life keeps dealing you blows :<
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@yesallcrops I was also wondering, are you on fedi/mastodon at all? I'm checking Twitter less and less and it'd be nice to still follow you somewhere
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The article seems to confirm that it was the smoke from the LA fires that got to him. The fires have taken so much from us
David Lynch Dies: 'Twin Peaks', 'Blue Velvet', 'Elephant Man' & 'Eraserhead' Visionary Was 78 deadline.com/2025/01/david-l…
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In 2023, I built the Respirator Repository - with free fit testing for locals, and measurements for all tinyurl.com/PDXMaskLibrary
In 2024, I made it the year of cute masks, and I think I succeeded - 3D print options, portacount testing markers and stickers, felt covers, and more.
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Grateful to have connections to medics heading down from Portland to help with the fires in LA, who have specific asks. Grateful to have a local discord server, and to have stocked up on pandemic supplies over the last few years. Sending ~1000 kids kn95s and ~1000 n95s.
ALT Amanda, white woman, wears a hoodie with a guinea pig wearing a rainbow respirator in front of multiple large boxes of masks on a couch. A cute stuffy is visible in the background.
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And if you have money, I'm always fundraising as quackduck314 on v3nmo and p4yp4l for covid safety in and around Portland (and occasionally things like this), or donate to victims of the fires directly. xitter.cf/mattxiv/status/1877949…
got $5?
here’s a document full of gofundmes for Black families that have been displaced in la. it’s ordered by which fundraisers still need the most support and is updated hourly. pick one and donate
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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If you're in California your employer, by law, is required to notify you of a workplace covid exposure within one business day of finding out, as it's classified as a CALOSHA "imminent hazard"
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Hazard a guess which stage we're at.
Then contemplate whether the majority will be stuck in a Stage 1 mindset deep into Stage 4 🤷
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woke up this morning to find out my bank took the rest of my money! please help if you can
For the former, kids' immune systems getting messed up by COVID means they're getting that *and* other infections more often, and for the latter: if they're having flare-ups of Long COVID symptoms, they're unlikely to be in a place to go to school as often [3/4]
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me: this new adderall prescription is gonna help me so much
me:
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yesterday in class my (unmasked) prof looked directly at me while saying “it’s more important than ever to protect yourself and your community” and i just had to laugh. the cognitive dissonance is out of this world
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