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Chris Crofton @thecroftonshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PERFECT TIMING what I think every time the song “Fireworks” by The Tragically Hip comes on
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Chris Crofton @thecroftonshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PERFECT TIMING right now is always perfect you just gotta find the right angle on it finding the angle - that’s the hard part we’re born amateurs
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Edward L. Canavan @edwardlcanavan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#poemsfordays #poetrycommunity #poems #poets #poetry #supportyourlocalpoets #indiewriters  #poetsofinstagram #blueskypoets #poetrynetwork #poetsoflosangeles
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Five artists you have seen at least twice NOFX Aesop Rock Jethro Tull Tori Amos Blonde Redhead
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You must understand, I was like this even before 2020.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I wish people who stop being covid cautious would just own the ways it’s a capitulation to ableist authoritarian power in exchange for re-entry into the mainstream. Instead they gotta turn to the few of us still holding the line and say shit like “asking people to mask is the real authoritarianism.”
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
...weird and reclusive since '76
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Chris Crofton @thecroftonshow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
POEM TO CHEER A FRIEND Remember that no one is okay all the time - even a pelican gets sad (worst line of this poem, but I’m leaving it in) and that we were put here to rise and fall and fall again like the tides. We are all brave. Every morning, we are brave.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think that the double whammy of COVID and genocide really affected my ability to trust people. Seeing how quick individuals were to throw the vulnerable to the wolves for selfish reasons and rationalize the mass murder of Palestinians really messed with me in a way that I still can't fully process
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
You’re in her dms, I’m sitting on my race car bed making vroom vroom noises
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 17/06/2026
the older I get, the fucker the no
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Anyway. IMO, climate action from the government, as well as action in disease prevention, both seem to be weak tea, and probably mostly stifled by lobby groups.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 19/05/2026
Disabled people are the original life hackers. We EDC to survive. This Thursday: Infodumplings pocket dump & bag dump show-and-tell. Share what you carry to cope, survive, and thrive. 🎒 Thu May 21 · 7PM Central · Discord stimpunks.org/2026/05/18/infodumplings-everyday-carry-for-mortal-coils/
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Infodumplings: Everyday Carry for Mortal Coils
Disabled people are the original life hackers. We EDC (Everyday Carry) to survive. Join us to share the contents of your pockets and your bags. Share what you carry to cope, survive, and thrive.
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Knowledge Fight and The Insurgents ending their podcasts the same month is...interesting, and not going unnoticed.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
no think but overthink
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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We maxed out our available Zoom seats for the FREE Inspire Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware, April 15-19… 😭😭😭 So there was only one thing to do… Upgrade the Zoom plan to accommodate more folks!!! 👏👏👏 We’ve got room for you… come join us! tinyurl.com/InspireFest2026
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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A Pan***ic Play is a 50-minute play that shares lived experiences of Covid-Conscious, disabled, & chronically ill people. Check out some of the other events in the 'Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware' lineup at tinyurl.com/InspireFest2026! All events are free & online!
Black postcard-shaped graphic with red and hues of blue lettering and a graphic of a young woman on the far right who is wearing a mask. Text reads A Pan***ic Play by Serina Estrada. Pick from two screenings on Thursday, April 16. 2 pm ET, 1 PM CT, 12 Noon MT, 11 AM PT or 6 pm ET, 5 PM CT, 4 PM MT, 3 PM PT. This event is part of Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival By and For the Airborne Aware. Tips welcome. RSVP at tinyurl.com/InspireFestRSVP. Zoom link will be sent day of event.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 18/03/2026
Here is what disability means to me: There are things I cannot do, that have nothing at all to do with my will or determination or sense of responsibility no matter how often other people assume it does, And no matter how I have participated in harming myself and others by internalizing that.
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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware, April 15 - 19 2026 All festival events are FREE and entirely online! Details, full lineup, & link to RSVP at tinyurl.com/InspireFest2... Individual event details in thread below! (1/10)
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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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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Me: one, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war Congress: c- can he do that?
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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Popping in with a PSA, as we are now into year 7 of living in a world with Covid-19... ...wearing a respirator mask in all situations of potential infection is extremely wise. Do it for yourself. For your loved ones. For your community. Covid makes everything worse. Don't add to the bad, friends.
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Los Angeles. 5:30pm.
A big tree stands in an elevated planter. Behind it is a concrete wall, yellowish color. Five trees sit between poles with a metal awning over it. A parking lot in the foreground.
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John FitzGiraffe Kennedy @jgiraffekennedy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The nostalgia is the strangest part. People don’t miss the institutions - they miss the illusion that someone, somewhere, was steering. But nostalgia is bullshit. It’s the mind clinging to a version of the world that never actually worked - only felt stable because the cracks were hidden from view.
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Hazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant

[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.

Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]

[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]

[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine

[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE
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Idle @hatesnicethings.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Cracked, flawed, dented, still irresistible. I dropped my phone and thought of you.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
to try to get through… this
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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
no i’m not “detail oriented” that’s where the devil is
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
These are the times I miss my mom and grandma the most.
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Maybe this isn't the year to taper my meds...
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It's really cool how all those maskless dudes crowding into CES will remain unharmed from any viral pathogens. /s
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Wilde Thingy @wildethingy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Doctor: You've got what we call synesthesia. Me: Wow, that sounds sweet.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Put another way, we’ve been convinced that cars represent “freedom” in places where we’ve built car dependency. That dependency took away our freedom, and the car industry convinced us that we could ONLY get it back if we paid whatever increasing costs of car ownership they demand. Some “freedom.”
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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We've all experienced life-changing losses throughout this enduring pandemic. Loved ones. Health. Careers. Relationships. Financial security. Trust & faith in others. I invite you to NIght of 1,000 Cranes - a safe space to remember, grieve, & know you're not alone.
Graphic flyer in teal and pink with an image of an origami crane on it. Night of 1,000 Cranes: An Evening of Remembrance

Sunday, December 14
6 pm EST/5 PM CST/4 PM MST/3 PM PST

With ASL interpretation

Senbazuru, the Japanese art of folding 1,000 origami cranes, is thought to carry a wish or a prayer up to the heavens. This evening is a safe space for us to grieve what we’ve lost throughout the enduring Covid-19 pandemic, as well as honor the memories of our loved ones and former selves.

We’ll write our wishes or prayers on paper, then learn how to fold them into cranes as a symbolic gesture of hope and healing.

There is no cost to participate in this event.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/RSVP12dayscc - mention ‘Night of 1000 Cranes’ in your message.
 Zoom link will be e-mailed to you the day of the event.

For more details on the 12 Days of Covid Consciousmas: tinyurl.com/12daysofcc
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Maddow does not have your safety or best interest in mind.
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Cool surprise on my patio
White and pink flower blooming from the leaf of a plant that has never produced a flower before. It is leaning against a rusty cabinet with a stencil painting of a flower and stem.
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.
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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 22/07/2025
So much of this essay resonates: "Most people refuse to even speak the word COVID. When they get sick, they do not test for COVID. When they get COVID-like symptoms, they claim to have the flu...People who engage in COVID mitigation practices are mocked, harassed, & accused of being mentally ill.”
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Edward L. Canavan @edwardlcanavan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#poemsfordays #poetrycommunity #poems #poets #poetry #supportyourlocalpoets #indiewriters #poetsofinstagram #blueskypoets #poetrynetwork #poetsoflosangeles
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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Maned wolf
Illustration of a tall orange canine with a black mane, feet, and snout.
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rj @rjgroner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Capitalism insists that everything gets compartmentalized, but my autistic brain sees everything as connected.
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democracy dies under capitalism @legendaryzelda.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Music is math you absorb through your ears. But it's also an artform.
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doublebasslines @doublebasslines.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
500 rallying for getting ICE out of Pico Rivera tonight.
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Charles Soule @charlessoule.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID. Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring. America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
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