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Joan ❌👑 @still4dems.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel sued to overturn the #AffordableCareAct and take away health care from nearly a million WIsconsinites. Vote for Judge Susan Crawford by April 1st!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Having a strained relationship with my family is foreign for me because we used to be very close. I see them sparingly but we do still drop things off for each other. Today my parents dropped off mangos and in exchange, I gave them a fresh baked loaf of bread.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/02/2025

RFK Jr's nomination to HHS head has advanced to a full Senate vote (date TBA). It's crunch time. Please call your Senators and tell them to vote NO. Call your Senators regardless of what position you anticipate they will take. Use this tool: www.usa.gov/elected-officials

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Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Latest project. Thanksgiving has me feeling stressed so I cope by knitting. 🧶

White scarf knitted with chevron pattern.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Remember that coworker that almost died recently from pneumonia and sepsis? Well, he's back to being unmasked at work.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just had an hour and a half long meeting with my boss. And we're both thinking, "how is this real life?"

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FʀᴀɴᴋʟʏSᴘᴇᴀᴋɪɴɢ2.0 🌊 @franklyspeaking1.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Love Is Love 💜💙💚💛🧡💓

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Today, I noticed a coworker who was back to masking (surgical). He is in his late 50s and was one of the last to stop. He was noticeably skinnier and was already skinny to begin with. He told me that he had pneumonia and was hospitalized. He almost died because it turned into sepsis.

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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Genuinely losing my fucking calm with every single ‘self care’ ‘rest as resistance’ fucking post I see. Wear a fucking mask. Wear a mask. Other people matter. Put a fucking mask on.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Couldn't go to sleep without finishing it. Hoping my daughter likes it. 🧶

Knitted vest in stockinette stitch with button closures on the sides and 1x1 rib knit hem.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Watching my kids play badminton at the park while I knit 🧶 my latest project.

Knitted vest with garter stitch edge and stockinette body using gray variegated cotton yarn

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/11/2024

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Trying to de-stress so I'm sharing my latest knitting 🧶 project. It's a triangle scarf. Followed the campside shawl pattern on Ravelry. Now onto my next project.

Knitted scarf with eyelet lace pattern using lionbrand mandala ombre yarn (cool color).

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Visited my family yesterday. The talk is similar to when I see my in-laws but it hits diff. when it comes from my family. Maybe bc I have been brutally honest w/them about the research on covid. I've had to be gentler w/my in-laws. The results are the same. I'm still the only one who cares abt it.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Update on the lizard: he's barely moving but somehow he's still alive.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Today my daughter found a lizard that looked like it was sick or dying. She wanted to try to save him. He's currently lying in a glass jar, in the sun with some warm water. Seems to be opening his eyes and breathing more. We shall see...

Common side blotched lizard in a glass jar with warm water.

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Jennifer R. Povey (she/her) @ninjafingers.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Long COVID is why I'm still strategically masking. I'm not worried about getting horrible acute illness given I've been vaccinated many times and exposed several, but until the post-acute rates drop to similar to other viruses...

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

More knitting because the holidays are stressful and so is work. Glad to have something that I can lose myself in. Pattern is called Brette from rastus0226.

Origami knitting pattern from rastus0226. Knitting looks like alternating protruding and inverted triangular/arrow-like shapes to give a 3 dimensional shape.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Silly thought of the day: the next time I buy socks, they will all be the same. Over time, I always end up with a bunch that don't match and it really irritates me.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

I must be stressed because I've finished 3 in-progress knitting projects in the last 2 weeks. This one is finally done and now keeping my mom warm.

Tri-colored (light gray, blue and dark blue) knitted shawl/scarf using feather and fan stitch.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Today, I'm bringing 9 to her best friend's birthday party. It's at a park and I'm bracing myself to be the only adult who is masked. Hoping it's not too awkward. She's so, so excited.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

How many people start knitting/crocheting projects, get 3/4 of the way done before they decide they want to start another project and then have a hard time going back to finish that last 1/4? Just me? My daughter just saw me start something small & asked if she'll ever be able to wear her hoodie 😳

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I notice I get extra crafty when I'm mentally stressed. Lots of close family are doing every high risk activity (traveling in big groups, cruises, concerts, etc). So I currently have 4 knitting projects and have sewn pants and a dress this weekend. Thankful for the walk I took earlier w/ the kids.

Photo of a small pond with green algae. Lots of tadpoles and 6 rocks that make a path halfway across the length of the pond.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Simple dress from yesterday. Making things makes me happy. It's not perfect but 9 loves it, it won't fall apart while she wears it and that's all that matters.

Simple blue girl's dress with white leaf pattern and ruffle hem.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Today is a lazy home day. I'm sewing and 12 decided my pincushion was too chaotic. She fixed it.

Purple pincushion with all pins organized by color.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Watched the partial eclipse and now looking at 9 while she walks around the house with a wig cap and a big googly eye on her forehead. She said, "Today's another good day to be a weirdo." And she'd totally go to school like this if it wasn't a distraction to classmates. 😄

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

12 told me that the boy who gave 1/3 of their class covid in May '22, is being taken out of school. "He has heart problems now."

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Kids went back to school today after a 2 week Fall break and it only gets harder for me. Had a restless sleep and woke up with an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach. 😞

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

It’s time to spell it out loud and clear. “Endemic” is a racist, classist, ableist and ageist word that means some people are worth less than others. It is part of “the price one pays for progress” that the expendable must be thrown under the wheel. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The other piece is that when we actually look at the use of the word endemic—both currently and historically—there is an implicit and sometimes explicit part of the definition of that term that means a disease is endemic when the people who are bearing the burden of infection and disease are people who we don’t really care about.

Aly and Heim: Compromise was looked upon as a mark of intellectual laziness, while patently criminal acts were spuriously dignified as historical necessity, 'the price one pays for progress'. The size and qualitative composition of the population were to be continuously monitored and regulated through government programmes of birth control (and birth promotion), resettlement and extermination.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Have been noticing more couples that are retirement age are having a tough time with their marriages. Lots of complaints of personality changes that are making it difficult to even attempt to try to work things out. Maybe it has always been this way but it's so hard to watch.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

When you try a new method for adding new yarn, on your most ambitious (as a novice knitter) project and then you spend the next hour undoing stitches because it didn't work properly. Will try again with an easier project. 😕

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lizwhatsherface @lizwhatsherface.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

If *everyone* gets Covid repeatedly, we will not have an uninfected control group. And without that point of comparison, most people will not realize how much healthier they could have been. This mass infection strategy is being pursued deliberately.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

The ocean was always my place of peace. But since the pandemic started, I have grown to love the desert. I love the quiet, being able to be in nature and feel like there are no other souls nearby for miles. Seeing that life can thrive, even in the toughest of environments, brings me comfort.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I'm alarmed by the level of memory loss in some people I work with. I'm having conversations & to them it's like a brand new topic. In reality, we've had 2-3 recent meetings w/people to discuss only this issue. Summarizing doesn't even trigger a faint memory. It's like none of it ever happened.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

One perk from working at home today vs being in office is getting random hugs from 9. Helps to cut down on the stress. 🥰

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Keep thinking about the birthday party I went to yesterday. Still boggles my mind that all the kids were coughing and or sniffly in Sept. And that every parent there thought it was ok to bring their sniffly, coughing kid to the party.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Felt guilty baking cinnamon rolls so 9 and I had an hour long dance party while 12 worked on an art project. Soup for dinner to make up for the sweets. If you're not feeling that great, highly recommend listening to music. My kids both think the 80s had the best music.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Having a lazy Sunday so per the request of 9, I am making cinnamon rolls.

9 unbaked cinnamon rolls in a glass pan.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

I went to a family party today. I debated going for weeks and decided to go early and not stay long. I spent most of it outside even though majority of the guests stayed in. A cousin came outside with his dogs to hang out w/me and my kids. He never mentioned our masks, he just talked with me.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

9 told me something funny today. She believes in the Toothfairy but never wants to give up her baby teeth. I asked her why and she said that some day, she'll give them all to the Toothfairy as a set of dentures. 😂

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

9YO says, "Mom, my sister told me to wear socks last night and I had a really good sleep. I haven't worn socks to sleep in years. YEARS mom! Who knew I could sleep this long?" She felt she needed to share this since she knows I don't wear socks to sleep either.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

First time using double pointed needles and now I feel like a real knitter. 😄

Image of knitted piece in progress with 3 double pointed needles being used to knit in the round.

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Stillmasked @stillmask.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Because the pandemic never ended

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