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@EladNehorai
For those that could afford it, dorm living at college was probably one of the last times there was this similar level of access to spontaneous community
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I think it's not actually all that hard to have this straight out of *college*, but you also have to cultivate Extreme Agreeableness AND give up caring very deeply about non mainstream issues that could challenge anyone's sense of self
I sobbed to my therapist today about how I'm envious of girls who have a core group of girl besties they regularly hang out with bc I've never really had that 🥺 I wanna go to brunch and host girls nights but idk if I ever will bc it's so hard to make friends as an adult
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CO2 rate from the downstairs crowd of the Artist Alley. I left rather abruptly as it soared past 2400 so this is taken from outside. The ceilings are lower and air exchange rate is much less efficient than the exhibit hall.
#AnimeExpo2022
#covidsafety
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@ToshiAkima
I mean, I'm not a virologist, and I absolutely showed up at my last event like this.
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@soychotic
Weaponizing the Reply Guy and the But Actually Guy to boost your question is the most wickedly funny and effective social engineering that understands the internet
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Never be afraid or embarrassed to be the only short humorless b*tch in a giant mask bc later on when I checked it, holy hell I didn't know the Aranet4 doesn't even go that far up. I guess everyone who didn't is getting the same "cold" or whatever
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@johnleedraws
Brings to mind that clip where Hayao Miyazaki absolutely dismantled an animation team that proudly showed him a piece of AI generated animation as "an insult to life itself." Back then I felt he was harsh but this makes me live in that moment.
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You said you couldn't hear me with That Thing On My Face? OK FEEDBACK ACCEPTED I CAN ALSO TALK AT THIS VOLUME. CAN I HAVE YOUR FIRST NAME LAST NAME AND IS A PAPER BALLOT OK? HERE'S YOUR FOLDER THANK YOU FOR COMING IN TO THE VOTE CENTER, BLESS YOU AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!
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Winged snap-in 3d printed grilles for the
@flo_mask
are super cool. Designed by
@steadirob
, you can get your own along with many other fantastic designs at this link.
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@johnleedraws
I am sure that OP meant well in this moment. But it landed with the crummy, half assed cloyingness of the Gal Gadot "Imagine" singing video. The ask for attribution made it even more painful.
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I get a lot of stuff at Costco but didn't think that one day I'd also be able to pick up Novavax there too.
Pharmacist recommended that I keep moving the vaxxed arm or else "you'll hate me tomorrow!"
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The teeny tiny Savewo 3D Bear series mask is also really really cute
Masks for The Smallest Toddlers to Young Children to Older Children, Teens & Small Adults
This chart is sorted by vertical mask length, but fit based on 3D geometry of multiple attributes. Therefore fit testing is essential.
Green masks have headstraps
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I discovered that Samsung Z-Flip3 cellphone cases can become a tiny and hilarious purse for the
#Aranet4
co2 meter. So satisfying
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@placentadoc
I guess being unable to remember her lines has somehow had no effect on her earning power as an actor as she has filmed four projects even while suffering from these neurological symptoms. Wish that kind of economic shield for everyone with LC
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I made some last minute Thank You For Wearing a Mask cards with the last three sheets of printer paper I owned in the world, cut them out, handed them and a shiny star sticker to folks with good masks that I saw while walking around the
#AnimeExpo2023
convention floor.
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As soon as you clap on anything that could be considered fringe or cringe to your interests list, unless you're able to colonize it as a non threatening matter of course into the group chat you gotta hide that shit forever
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Share masked selfies because representation matters!
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Finally watched the masterpiece Barbie movie by Greta Gerwig. It was fun to coordinate a whole pink outfit for the occasion. I wore Angelic Pretty Japan's Milkshake Dot Blouse and Circular Skirt in pink and matched it with
@flo_mask
x decals from
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The fear that I have is not only that I'll get covid but more that I'm the one whose fault it was that someone else got it. So when I mask up, I mask HARD to make a whole point that I'm the Most Maskingest B*tch in this room so it's not my fault you can't blame me
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It's been a while since I've seen an actually mask-enforced space. Fanime 2023 is able to pull it off, where Anime Expo 2022 didn't even try...
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4740ppm CO2 at the second to last row of the Artist Alley. I've been wearing an elastomeric N95 this whole time, but I'm going to quar from my friends and family when I go home, just in case.
#covidsafetyAnimeExpo
#AnimeExpo
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Unless it's already founded on agreement about an issue, cultivating a Group Friendship takes on navigation of complexity if you ever want to bring that group to talk about anything beyond Basic Pleasantries
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Reminds me of the story of the American parent who took their daughter who was very very allergic to peanuts, to a trip to China, and the peanut allergy along with all these other previous food allergies did not show up while they were there
The americans are all posting their Euro Summer Tiktoks and once again talking about how the food in Europe is so much better/fixes their IBS/allergies etc xbut I just realised that for all their raving about food quality they're never like "we need regulations at home"
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Wow this stuff is spicy.
If you weren't fully awake, well, consider yourself fully here reporting for duty. Ouch!
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@morethanmySLE
😷😷😷😷😷
If people aren't masking at the fancy event, find a way to work the mask into your outfit
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It happened! I maskfluenced someone I didn't know before, in real life at Just Like Heaven fest
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Good lordt the Yankee Candle Review Covid Forecaster Index never misses
Another COVID wave, another wave of one star Yankee Candle reviews
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The cool toy that I wish I had, feels as hard and complicated to get as a PS5.
Imagine being able to instantly settle every doubt or argument with every friend over what the Mysterious Cough is or isn't, right there in the space of a shoebox
I’m not handling year five well. I have no patience any longer for people who don’t get it.
My 12 yo has productive cough & postnasal drip so I tested her for SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, influenza B and RSV.
Breathing sigh of relief, until we have to live the nightmare again.
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Overheard from a friend of a friend: "I'm positive, but I feel fine and asymptomatic so I can't miss my gym time, it's leg day - I'm not going to mask, I don't care if I give a gym-bro the sniffles"
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I never thought I'd see an anime wrapped train in America but this
#AnimeExpo
I'm actually riding a Demon Slayer train car on the Expo line in Los Angeles. Feels like some kind of cultural and public transit milestone
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Stack 3 dental rolls lengthwise in your
@flo_mask
for an extra condensation wicking assist
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Finally got those Readimask post it note respirators; I rec practice before using them + bring an alcohol wipe in your kit because I could not get this jelly to stay on this side of my face. Watched my bangs blow around with my breath as I was stuck inside that MRI. Woops!
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Fanime 2023 COVID-19 vaccine check and pre-registration badge pickup, a complete smooth in and out in a mere 35 minutes at Friday 12 noon. I didn't stop walking at any point. The wristbands look sturdily made and waterproof although a bit long.
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I'm still -ive on a RAT but my mom is now +ive. My dad claimed that his test was -ive in the early AM and WENT OUT FOR FOOD while we were all sleeping. He did a RAT again in the PM and it is now +ive. I don't know what deity to scream to. It's a free for all for COVID19.
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I'm thrilled to announce that I have been awarded support from
@VitalikButerin
‘s Balvi Fund! I'm looking forward to getting to help other folks feel stylish and empowered in an elastomeric mask. Recruitment is starting now. Please see this thread for details (1/4)
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I should at least pat myself on the back for managing to bring IRL non-aware folks all the way to the 9th month of the 4th year of the pandemic before they said to my face that eating outside to include me was straining the limit of the value of my friendship
I feel such pangs of despair when I look back on the unity of 2020—most folks masking, caring about our neighbors, in it together, making PPE, honoring the dead—it was Us vs. The Virus. And then we were DELIBERATELY divided, traumatized, gaslit, & robbed of it all, for profit.
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@GenerationWhyEn
@kayteterry
Whoahhhh this really needs the Jurassic Park theme to rise to greet him
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TIL that the virus -> permanent neurological disability has never been just about Covid, there's been the Chickenpox to Shingles, Mono to MS, Influenza to Parkinsons pipeline all along... wth
@TRyanGregory
@TheAtlantic
One of the greatest lessons from COVID should be how dangerous it has been to our health to be willing to “live with viruses”. Mono can become MS, Chicken Pox -> Shingles, Parkinson’s wasn’t in record before Flu …
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Chainsawman x
@flo_mask
x gothpunk schoolgirl seifuku style
If you're heading to Anime Expo 2024 this weekend, it's not too late to incorporate a quality respirator into your con cosplay!
Consider choices in different colors, styles, $ at
H/t r/Masks4All
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@cripplegoth
Class and economic issues are absolutely gonna make someone the outlier and groups do not generally enjoy single outliers
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Actual physical biomarkers of Long Covid to a 94% accuracy have been found! A huge milestone!
I'm feeling cheered by this vindication, but also musing: will this vindication even begin to repair the social ties and relationships folks have lost from not being believed?
So pleased to report that our Mount Sinai-Yale long COVID (MY-LC) paper with
@putrinolab
& others is now published!! Proud of the hard work of all who contributed. We found biological signatures that can distinguish people with vs. without
#longCOVID
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And maybe me too, even? Hopefully a reduced amount of viral load will have helped. Folks working in tuberculosis wards can make it work with N95's so I'm leaning kinda hard on my 99% Pro filters to help me keep being visible in community, in public
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There was an informal poll on the San Diego Comic Con reddit re: COVID-19. SDCC2023 ended about 3 weeks ago. Out of 876 votes, 102 marked themselves as "Yes I tested positive." 231 voters indicated that they either tested positive or felt sick in some way.
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@kaellsteers
Exactly... in con culture we've taken it as a matter of course that "con flu happens." But what if we didn't?
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@XiranJayZhao
Thought we had learned as a planet how unhelpful it is to refer to an airborne disease as something strictly affecting and thus also the fault of only one human country / race / sexual preference. This is a disease that affects anyone with skin, lungs, internal organs
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@AndreaAHarris1
@GenerationWhyEn
@kayteterry
When your local area has a huge living fossil walking the earth, they ascend to a new class of minor deity. Can I go and leave an offering at a Floridian Swamp Forest Shrine at the new year for like, safe passage
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It would be life changing to not only know what this Mysterious Cough wasn't but also what it actually *is*, like with these tests from Mongolia
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Masking in hanfu is easier with a bright printed
@masklabglobal
FFP2 mask. (Print is "Joy" by Maeli Studios)
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Shocked Pikachu: the little coconut bits in the ubiquitous lychee jelly
1. don't come out of the coconut like this but are made of
2. microbial cellulose via fermenting coconut water,
3. and was invented in 1949
4. by a badass Filipina scientist, Teódula Kalaw África
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@curiousdatacat
300 people on this flight... With flights in general no longer requiring or enforcing masking, I'm glad he wore a KN95 at least but yikes
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I gotta learn how to project my voice. Any recs for how to train myself or seek training on the cheap to attain just a bit more volume while masked?
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The hallway between the doors of Kentia Hall is at 4171ppm at 5:15pm
#covidsafetyAnimeExpo
#AnimeExpo
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Some folks incorporated the mask right into their costumes. This San from Princess Mononoke costumer is one of my favorites I saw. The warpaint is recreated right into the face mask underneath the battle mask. Masks for days!
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@theobromic_
This is my first time seeing the Kennis and Kennis style; it makes me so happy to see them as people filled with life and mischief and humor and wit. It makes me feel like I know where we came from and that humans collectively are grounded in shared ancestors, a shared past
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Worked with restock team at Valentino’s Costume Group in North Hollywood unpacking and hanging up some new stock in the back today! I've eyeballed a lot of new stuff rolling out on racks for tomorrow
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Finally pulled the trigger on prescription safety glasses from Optical Factor. The huge retro cateye shape with tortoiseshell print is super fun. This Harley model is a bit bigger than expected. The bottom does touch my cheeks, but at least the frames don't slide down my nose.
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@pxnzischemes
Chilling and representing from the second row of an outdoor festival stage audience with my drinks mask and also my backup superCrowd mask. It's tough, but it's not *that* hard
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What are people's experiences like with the Jelli M1 mask? It looks intriguing as a clear see-through elastomeric mask option that is 1. aesthetic 2. actually relatively affordable compared to other respirators. But how does the filtration and airflow hold up?
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Jinbei from One Piece. He iced his own face in order to make his own perfect-fit mask out of Worbla, molded right onto his own face!!! Whaaat! He used a real mask for the black opening, so there's actual filter material there. The most intense mask incorporation seen at
#Fanime
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When I started decorating my own PPE, I was inspired by the fantastic work of
@RealSexyCyborg
and also
@doodlemealive
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@Bob_Wachter
@NewYorker
@emmaogreen
I guess if I really enjoy and insist that my chicken dish be cooked past the temperature point of salmonella and my water to be free of fecal coliform bacteria that makes me a chicken and water "hardliner" or whatever
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JW Marriott has consistently had the better air quality all weekend compared to the convention center. 963ppm past the security check for Ballroom Level 2 and 865ppm on the escalator from floor 2 to floor 1 lobby.
#covidsafetyAnimeExpo
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Polka dot theme with
@flo_mask
, vintage hat, and reflect tech pearls at the
@BandaiNamcoUS
Pac Man theme party
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"You think viruses stop after 3 feet and drop to the ground?" Tang said of the classical notion of distance. "That is absurd."
“The WHO concluded airborne transmission occurs as sick people exhale pathogens that remain suspended in the air. "This is a complete U-turn," said Julian Tang, MBBS, PhD, who advised the WHO on the report” by
@amymaxmen
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@jenpryor1
Me looking at a dude who walked up to me out of a crowd just to tell me to take my mask off, I said thanks but I'm ugly this is going to be a better picture and he left me alone
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A super elegant solution! Flat sewing elastic also comes with pre finished button holes that can also fit over the pegs of a
@flo_mask
I wanted to share how we solved our “
@flo_mask
housing goes in the MRI, but the straps don’t” problem. Anyone who’s ever put pants on a toddler will immediately recognize where I got the idea. Flat elastic w/ buttonholes already sewn in makes the strap easily adjustable, no metal
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I know companies famously do this manufactured scarcity thing where they destroy usable saleable product like clothes and food and throw it in the dumpster to keep prices stable but this one hurts
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@MsJulieSLam
@DentecSafety
@TogetherWeMask
@AnciraBecky
@TheWHN
@Survivor_Corps
@Delta
@PPEtoheros
@AMMAunited
@UniversalMaski2
@masknerd
They asked you take off your mask because of the "valve" when they themselves weren't even masking? What even made it their business when there's no longer any mask policy? This feels like targeted harassment
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I'm hoping this mask design says: Look how fun a mask can be! + also: I'm nonthreateningly into rainbows and David Bowie imagery, please don't hate-crime me
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@danaparish
Absolutely - I'd rather go through the discomfort and inconvenience of masking as hard as I can and in as fun a way as I can. If I'm wrong about masking, the consequences are merely sweatiness and embarrassment. The consequences of "I told you so" are just too high.
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@msemilymccombs
Has me thinking about truly awful, terrible old men. Who were clearly still able to get married and have someone stick around to bear them multitudes upon multitudes of children. The jig is up
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@amandalhu
I caught omicron wearing a surgical mask. I'm never going below N95 protection ever again - I've even upgraded to walking around in the heat being stared at in an elastomeric. Never want that experience again - let them stare.
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Got some new bright multi color front covers!!! BIG thank you to
@flo_mask
for making these colors and sending them along
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During the ride up the coast, my dad went early without either of us and spent time talking to strangers in the dining car unmasked. He also went unmasked during a portion of the flight despite my insistence AND adding the sipmask ... and tonight he's +ive! Nightmares
I am totally willing to put on another sweater and just sit outside. But we don't live as an island, especially when you do not have the luxury of time or $$$ income to do so- covid has made it so that we don't get to make our own choices re: our health and thus, our very lives
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@heybratan
@KatyMontgomerie
This is another reason why I really loved Kung Fu Panda- the animators must have won some huge fight behind the scenes so that Angelina Jolie's Tigress character didn't have to follow this Studio Dictated Sexual Dimorphism at all
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Heading out from AX! The con promised a vax mandate and mask enforcement but I knew that I'd likely still be in danger. I decided that I'd at least like to know *what* level of danger at any given moment. Hopefully this has been helpful to folks. Stay safe
#covidsafetyAnimeExpo
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Find a sheer, colored fabric that you love and cut some for the window of your
@flo_mask
to change the filter color! You only need around a 4" x 5" piece, which means the remnants section is a great place to find a new look.
@stresswink
It's just sheer fabric. I made a bunch of new "clothes" for my
@flo_mask
before my trip
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So if I wear a N99 rated mask on a plane, that means a mask doesn't work? + That filter shows all the dirt that would have been inside me if the mask hadn't been worn... don't really get this logic and also don't get how these folks find me
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I finished customizing the
@RealSexyCyborg
recommended
@DentecSafety
mask and wore it out today. Thanks so much to
@doodlemealive
for the inspiration!
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Wow, this one took off unexpectedly
I would like to invite you to read about the subject matter that taught me this lesson about the perils of bringing up decidedly non mainstream public health interests with friend groups
"I don't have to choose between my values and my desire for connection.”
@Clean_Air_Club_
still cares about COVID—and wants safer concerts. Learn how their Chicago-based organizing work helped create a global wave of clean air initiatives for artists.
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