Both #FloMask and Aranet have sales right now:
- Flo Mask: BTS2026 for 25% off anything
- Aranet: AIRRESET15 for 15% off anything, which presumably includes the #Aranet4, and bundles are 20% off
If you've been meaning to get either of these, or need to buy consumables for your Flo Mask, this is a great time.
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Interesting to see some parties engaging in this important, but ignored topic.
As usual, National is nowhere to be seen on this issue.
Long Covid sufferers call on politicians to do more to help those with the disease
rnz.co.nz/news/politics/952056…
#NZPol #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Aotearoa
People with Long Covid are calling on politicians to collect better data on the disease, and enable those with it to access disability support services.RNZ
THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑💻
for August 4th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- Water systems in twelve US states targeted in a coordinated #cyberattack
- The “escaped AI” story gets worse
- Deliberately backdoored Android TV boxes belie a botnet
- How to combat intrusive #AI
- Hacker summer camp has begun! #BlackHat #BSidesLV #DEFCON34
- Far-right choads are making AI doxbots
- A look at The #ReligiousPredatorTrackingProject
- The @Bellingcat Challenge hits 100
...and much more.
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We're the only people masked in the waiting room at Pacific Digestive Health clinic 😷
#MasksSaveLives #CovidSafety #AirborneInfectionProtection #WearAMask #PreventativeHealth #CovidIsNotOver #BeBetterThanYourGovernment #AntiAbleism #StopEugenics #AsianMastodon #ProtectYourFamily
Looking for #CovidCautious folks in #SanFrancisco or the #BayArea.
Finally deciding to just...ask on the Fediverse, see if there's anyone online.
Suggestions also appreciated for other hashtags to use for this.
Sooooooooo frustrated at the misinformation that abounds even now, more than 6 years into this pandemic.
The Setting: A family gathering where a child is VISIBLY sick - lethargic, coughing, sniffling.
The Ask: "Hey, here's a box of rapid covid tests, can you please test your kid?"
The Reply: "That's not necessary, she's vaccinated."
🤯🤦🏻♀️😖
1/3
Habe jemanden kennengelernt (geschätzt in meinem Alter), der auch Maske trägt.
Im Gespräch ergab sich, dass er sich auch vor Covid schützt - seine zweite Infektion hat ihm wohl nachhaltig das Herz beschädigt. 💔
This weekend is #TransPrideMcr! Unfortunately most of the information is on Instagram or Discord, so I'm repeating it here (and adding alt text). 
First up, the plan for Saturday 1st August - the march, talks and workshops, and club night.
You can get your tickets for all of the talks & workshops at the following link: eventbrite.com/cc/tpm-2026-485…
Tickets are free with the option to donate to help support TPM. Ticket holders will be prioritised but everyone will be welcome if they have spaces left on Saturday!
There's also an accessibility document, which discusses masking because #CovidIsNotOver and protection from both freelance fascists and the police.
#Trans #TransPride #Manchester #LGBTQ #LGBT #WearAMask
Here you'll find tickets for all of the workshops happening on August 1st for Manchester Trans Pride 2026!Eventbrite
A new study published today in eBioMedicine, part of the Lancet portfolio and one of the most rigorous journals in clinical medicine, provides what researchers describe as the clearest physical evidence yet of what long COVID is doing to the brain. Using the same imaging technology used to detect early Parkinson’s disease, a team led by Jeffrey Meyer at the University of Toronto scanned the brains of 24 long COVID patients and 24 healthy matched controls. They were not looking for general inflammation or nonspecific brain changes. They were measuring one specific thing: the health of the neurons that release dopamine.What they found was a measurable, consistent, and symptom-correlated loss of dopamine nerve terminals averaging 18 percent across the long COVID group.
tech-paper.com/scientists-fina…
#LongCovid #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver
Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should.Lena Hargrove (Tech paper)
This is how you manufacture consent for eugenics.
This is how you convince the general public that the disabled and elderly are expendable.
This is what happens when you put capitalism and the economy above human lives.
Covid isn’t over. People are still “falling by the wayside” every day.
Fauci deemed us expendable.
We are NOT expendable.
#fauci #uspol #eugenics #ableism #disability #covidisnotover
Someone needs to tell the US Senate and MAGA that almost every single country had vaccine mandates and lockdowns.
It’s not unique to America.
No other country is attempting to persecute the doctors in charge of public health.
Also, COVID isn’t over.
Wear a mask. Get your boosters. Clean the air.
#uspol #CovidIsNotOver #fauci #publichealth #wearamask
THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑💻
for July 28th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- How #HuggingFace 's #AI attacker used an #0day to escape containment and left notes for future iterations of itself
- The US #DOJ is bringing federal charges against a protestor for wiping his phone running #GrapheneOS (after denying him a lawyer)
- A very serious ban on #Meta creep glasses by @defcon for #DEFCON34
- Click To Pray, the official prayer app of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, is an unholy mess for user data privacy
- X launches the Cybertruck of banks
- Hunter Schafer is in Blade Runner 2099
- Much ado about the Neuromancer trailer
...and much more.
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Hello Masto et les covid conscious !
J’aurais besoin de vos avis et de vos conseils, notament au boulot.
Comment vous faites pendant la pause déjeuné ? C’est quelque chose qui m’angoisse beaucoup et donc j’ai prit l’habitude de manger à l’exterieur, quand il fait beau. C’est cool l’été mais quand c’est l’hiver c’est compliqué et j’ai beaucoup de mal à manger dans la même pièce que mes collègues...
Merci à vous 🙏
Reboosts fortement appréciés pour gérer mon angoisse !
THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠
for July 23rd, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- #Cyclospora : new additional outbreak found (source as yet unknown); total cases climb past 12k in 41 states
- #Ebola : 2400 confirmed cases with 100 deaths; WHO believes true numbers are 4x higher; 80% of new cases are outside known transmission chains
- #H5N1 : livestock cases fall in Idaho but rise in Utah and Texas; more wildlife cases found in Australia
- #Measles : cases-per-year hit 35-year high... in July
- #Covid : US summer surge continues to rise; new Canadian study on nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections
- #LongCovid : a new #JuliaDoubleday piece; 450k Netherlands residents have LC; care webs in the face of gov't abandonment
...and much more.
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The quiet normalization of COVID-19 in our society has come at the great expense of school-age children and adolescents.
thesicktimes.org/2026/07/24/th…
We must help students by addressing Long COVID and advocating for clean air in schools.Flynn Lovelace (The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long COVID crisis)
Leute, die Anästhesistin hat mir im Vorgespräch übrigens erklärt dass Covid jetzt gar nicht mehr schlimm wär und man ja auch überhaupt nicht mehr richtig krank damit werden würde. Also absolut nicht mehr gefährlich. Dachte ich sag’s euch mal weil mit dem Wissen kann ja jetzt nichts mehr passieren 🥹🫠 
Always grateful to @violetblue for her Pandemic roundup which has unfortunately had to grow and include a whole range of horror pathogens unleashed in this age of scientific denial and minimisation. 🙏
Crucial information to keep in touch with reality, when denial rules.
