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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Lost this old man today. 18 years of head scritches, plentiful meows, and silliness. Miss you, Anubis. You were my wonderful, beautiful buddy.

Picture shows close up of a black cat with yellow eyes named Anubis.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It was a strange, strange combo.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There is, what I can only describe as, a hymnal version of "The Bare Necessities," from The Jungle Book being piped in over the speakers in this waiting room.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Having a "Thanks, I hate it," moment with the way all the software looks on my new work laptop. Guess I will be fixing everything today so it doesn't grate on my nerves.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Are you doing any #COVID advocacy work within a broader professional organization? If so, please reach out. We're doing some organizing in this area. It would help to know any successes or pain points. Thanks! DM or email (googleable) 1/2

COVlD advocacy work within a larger professional organization? Please reach out via DM or email (googleable)

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

What they don't tell you about parenting is the random rabbit holes you'll end up going down because of a curiosity your child has. Like today I learned J.S. Bach was a coffee enthusiast who wrote a comedic cantata about coffee.

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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's TRUE! Plus, I will be doing some Lite Stand-Up™️, which is something I have only done a handful of times IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! 😲 So no one needs to feel bashful about performing because I promise I am 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 as inexperienced as you are YOU'RE WELCOME!!! RSVP at guinesspig.ghost.io/inspirefesti...

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“In December 2025, comedian Jon Stewart joked about people wearing masks in workplaces. The social media backlash around the exchange generated the hashtag #oneofthetwo and calls for Stewart to interview a public health expert and correct the record.” 😷💕

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In Nov 2025, after Tom Hanks was photographed wearing a mask on the subway, in his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert promoted it as a ‘disguise.’ Even though Hanks said he wears it for ‘health reasons’ + he had been infected with COVID multiple times.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

On 18 April, Inspire presents Ron Placone’s Anti-Fascist Pasta Night, a 1-hour stand-up special with ASL interpretation.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire’s Friday Night Open Mic will take place on 17 April, inviting COVID-conscious artists to share 5-minute sets + will be hosted by comedian @laurenflans.bsky.social

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“In comedy, the ongoing pandemic continues to disrupt live performance + the health of comics. In September 2025, Steve Martin canceled two tour dates after testing positive for COVID-19. This followed earlier cancellations on the same tour when Martin Short tested positive.” 😷

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Wake Up and Smell the C*VID by the anonymous collective HEPA (Holy Erotic Propaganda Arson) was a hybrid monologue performance about the impact of COVID/Long COVID on the arts. The play returns at Inspire in an encore presentation on 18 April Registration guinesspig.ghost.io/inspirefesti...

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Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware, April 15 - 19

Hello, fellow creative and Covid Conscious folks! We are thrilled to announce Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by and for the Airborne Aware. Inspire is a free, fully virtual line up of events that...

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Among the featured acts is phytocene (IG), @holo_cene (twt), a Paris-based ambient pop and ethereal artist whose work as moves through pop, trip-hop and electronica. She has become widely known in the airborne-aware community for organizing mask-required concerts in France.” 😷🎶💕

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Nina Wildflower @ninawildflower.bsky.social, another performer in the COVID-conscious music ecology, is both a musician and a science teacher who advocates for clean air. He also hosts a weekly online open mic for COVID conscious performers. 😷🎶

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire’s theater program will also include scenes from The Left by Obie award-winning playwright Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social. The Left is a choral play about those left behind ‘when all systems + people have failed one another.’ Selections from the play will be broadcast on April 19.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by and for the Airborne Aware, a free Zoom festival running 15–19 April 2026, will bring together music, theater + comedy made by COVID-conscious artists for COVID-conscious audiences. Registration at @guinesspig.bsky.social's site

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“At Inspire, COVID-conscious comedian @guinesspig.bsky.social returns with the reader’s theater piece How the Three Little Pigs Almost Learned to Live with the Big Bad Wolf, which reimagines the fairy tale through the normalization of mass infections. The play will be performed April 17.”😷

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“In theater, the early years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic opened a wide field of digital performances. However, with the removal of clean-air measures and the taboo of acknowledging the pandemic, it has fallen to COVID-conscious theater-makers to create their own spaces.”😷🎭

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by and for the Airborne Aware. A free Zoom festival running 15–19 April 2026, will bring together music, theater and comedy made by COVID-conscious artists for COVID-conscious audiences. 😷🎭💕

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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

To OP & all the people (rightfully) decrying this in the replies, you're all wearing masks in public, right??? Because like, you know that's the easiest thing you can do to refuse to participate in RFK Jr's eugenics project, right?? Right???

post from Jamelle Bouie that says: "i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”"

Bouie is quoting a post from The UnPopulist that says:

"Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history."

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Long COVID Narrative Justice Project @lcnarrativejustice.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Buffy has aspects that haven’t aged well, including Nicholas Brendon’s character who has problems with consent, but still holds up today in a lot of ways. It also is an accurate metaphor for living in denial of mass harm and what a few good-hearted misfits can do to stop it. Wholesome in a 90s way.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 08/04/2026

Cis people love gender affirming care when it's for themselves

Headline: The Hair-Loss Drug Rewriting the Rules of Masculinity

Sub-headline: A pill to cure baldness is changing the way men age — and how they see themselves.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Nicholas Brendon’s is the sixth death of a major The WB cast member since 2024. These deaths come when there is also a measurable increase in mortality in the age cohort that made up much of Buffy’s original audience, and the WB era generally... But why? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

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Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024

Nicholas Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic?

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“When people hear ‘COVID deaths,’ many think of a respiratory virus that kills people in the acute phase of infection. But COVID is a vascular disease. COVID can have respiratory symptoms because the airway is a common transmission site, but the underlying disease is systemic.”

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024 Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

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Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024

Nicholas Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic?

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/02/2026

What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

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Pride Flag Is Taken Down From Stonewall Monument

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This regime is putting more time and money into deporting a five year old than protecting the hundreds of children harmed by Epstein & those around him. Liam Ramos is a target because he represents hope. The Epstein predators are getting a pass because they have money & power.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I just had to say goodbye to my senior dog, Annie. She was 13 years old and has been with me since she was 9 weeks old. Hugs your pets and hold them tight.

Photo taken in a car, shows picture of a medium-sized, black and tan, senior hound mix in a pink harness and rainbow unicorn collar.

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Jackie Singh @hackingbutlegal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We have scores of men, women, and children kidnapped by government forces and we often don't know where they are or if they are safe or alive.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This may be as low as it goes for the morning, but -28 is bananas (roughly -33.33 Celcius).

Clipped screenshot shows temperatures in Fahrenheit reading as -5 with a wind chill of -28.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Ope! That's -20.5 C and a nearly -33 C wind chill.

Clipped screenshot shows temperatures in Fahrenheit reading as -5 with a wind chill of -27.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

-20C, now with a wind chill of -32C and still falling.

Clipped screenshot shows temperature readings in Fahrenheit of -4 with a wind chill of -26.

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It's still falling. The wind chill is now -26. 😬

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NerdCake @nerdcake.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

That's about -19 C, with a wind chill of -31 C. And it's supposed to drop a bit more over the next few hours.

Clipped screenshot shows below zero Fahrenheit temperature readings of -2 with a wind chill temperature of -24.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“A Pan***ic Play sits within that international landscape, but it is also a local project with the specific aim to put testimony at the centre of the performance. @heartofthearts.bsky.social spoke with producer Serina Estrada about what it means to stage COVID in 2026.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“Protect the Heart of the Arts, sounding the alarm on COVID’s impact on the arts, maintains a spreadsheet of celebrity illnesses/deaths. They also distributed Long COVID ribbons at the BAFTAs hosted by David Tennant, after which actor Joanne Froggatt wore one on BBC’s One Show.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“In the UK, advocacy for clean air in live performance has been growing. Dr. Sally Witcher OBE @salwitcher.bsky.social founder of INN the Arts (“Indoor Safety in the Arts”), has developed a framework of best practices aimed at reducing airborne infection risk in theatres and venues.“

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“A Pan***ic Play, produced and performed by Serina Estrada, draws on a model similar to The Vagina Monologues, presenting ‘real, lived experiences‘ of the ongoing pandemic. The production runs 21–22 January at The Art School at 20 Scott St, Glasgow as part of Emergence Festival.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“For much of the theatre industry, COVID-19 has been treated as a crisis we ‘came through.’ But a new production in Glasgow documents how COVID and Long COVID are shaping people’s lives. It comes amid a wider push for COVID-conscious practices in theatre and live performance.”

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A Pan***ic Play brings the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to the UK stage A Pan***ic Play draws on a model similar to The Vagina Monologues, presenting “real, lived experiences” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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A Pan***ic Play brings the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to the UK stage

A Pan***ic Play draws on a model similar to The Vagina Monologues, presenting “real, lived experiences” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/01/2026

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

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