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Pieces Without a Puzzle

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/pieces-without-a-puzzle/

Pieces Without a Puzzle

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/pieces-without-a-puzzle/

Pieces Without a Puzzle

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/pieces-without-a-puzzle/

Pieces Without a Puzzle

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/pieces-without-a-puzzle/

Pieces Without a Puzzle

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/pieces-without-a-puzzle/

#Mastodon voice messages?

"Make social vocal" ?

#Idea #suggestion #BOOST #dev

Voice #filters added for #privacy?
(like #TikTok funny voice masks but more human sounding?)

= voice messages + #masks / filters ?

(a risk but much more #progressive #P2P)

Protection with a voice 'mask'.

What do you think ?

(Text is limited = can't cover the human expression range like voice and for some text isn't possible / too hard).

Also #Jitsi (https://meet.osna.social/) + integrated voice #masks?

#Mastodon voice messages?

"Make social vocal" ?

#Idea #suggestion #BOOST #dev

Voice #filters added for #privacy?
(like #TikTok funny voice masks but more human sounding?)

= voice messages + #masks / filters ?

(a risk but much more #progressive #P2P)

Protection with a voice 'mask'.

What do you think ?

(Text is limited = can't cover the human expression range like voice and for some text isn't possible / too hard).

Also #Jitsi (https://meet.osna.social/) + integrated voice #masks?

#Mastodon voice messages?

"Make social vocal" ?

#Idea #suggestion #BOOST #dev

Voice #filters added for #privacy?
(like #TikTok funny voice masks but more human sounding?)

= voice messages + #masks / filters ?

(a risk but much more #progressive #P2P)

Protection with a voice 'mask'.

What do you think ?

(Text is limited = can't cover the human expression range like voice and for some text isn't possible / too hard).

Also #Jitsi (https://meet.osna.social/) + integrated voice #masks?

#Mastodon voice messages?

"Make social vocal" ?

#Idea #suggestion #BOOST #dev

Voice #filters added for #privacy?
(like #TikTok funny voice masks but more human sounding?)

= voice messages + #masks / filters ?

(a risk but much more #progressive #P2P)

Protection with a voice 'mask'.

What do you think ?

(Text is limited = can't cover the human expression range like voice and for some text isn't possible / too hard).

Also #Jitsi (https://meet.osna.social/) + integrated voice #masks?

#Mastodon voice messages?

"Make social vocal" ?

#Idea #suggestion #BOOST #dev

Voice #filters added for #privacy?
(like #TikTok funny voice masks but more human sounding?)

= voice messages + #masks / filters ?

(a risk but much more #progressive #P2P)

Protection with a voice 'mask'.

What do you think ?

(Text is limited = can't cover the human expression range like voice and for some text isn't possible / too hard).

Also #Jitsi (https://meet.osna.social/) + integrated voice #masks?

Tomorrow is the last day of our matching campaign! That means there’s still time to make a donation and immediately DOUBLE its impact!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

We have a little ways to go to reach our $2,000 goal. Donate today to help us get to the finish line!

You can also shop for #masks and clean air tools at our charity fundraising store: https://buymask.ca

All donations and proceeds from our charity fundraising store will go toward sending masks to people who request them.

#WearARespie #CleanAirForAll

Tomorrow is the last day of our matching campaign! That means there’s still time to make a donation and immediately DOUBLE its impact!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

We have a little ways to go to reach our $2,000 goal. Donate today to help us get to the finish line!

You can also shop for #masks and clean air tools at our charity fundraising store: https://buymask.ca

All donations and proceeds from our charity fundraising store will go toward sending masks to people who request them.

#WearARespie #CleanAirForAll

Tomorrow is the last day of our matching campaign! That means there’s still time to make a donation and immediately DOUBLE its impact!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

We have a little ways to go to reach our $2,000 goal. Donate today to help us get to the finish line!

You can also shop for #masks and clean air tools at our charity fundraising store: https://buymask.ca

All donations and proceeds from our charity fundraising store will go toward sending masks to people who request them.

#WearARespie #CleanAirForAll

Tomorrow is the last day of our matching campaign! That means there’s still time to make a donation and immediately DOUBLE its impact!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

We have a little ways to go to reach our $2,000 goal. Donate today to help us get to the finish line!

You can also shop for #masks and clean air tools at our charity fundraising store: https://buymask.ca

All donations and proceeds from our charity fundraising store will go toward sending masks to people who request them.

#WearARespie #CleanAirForAll

Tomorrow is the last day of our matching campaign! That means there’s still time to make a donation and immediately DOUBLE its impact!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

We have a little ways to go to reach our $2,000 goal. Donate today to help us get to the finish line!

You can also shop for #masks and clean air tools at our charity fundraising store: https://buymask.ca

All donations and proceeds from our charity fundraising store will go toward sending masks to people who request them.

#WearARespie #CleanAirForAll

Donate today so we can keep sending #masks to help folks stay safe!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

All donations, up to $2,000, will be doubled–how’s that for a great deal?

And psst…DYK that Donate A Mask has volunteers from coast to coast, all the way from Vancouver to Halifax?

Also–we’ve had volunteers in every Canadian time zone except Newfoundland!

If you want to join our team of volunteers, sign up here: https://donatemask.ca/volunteer

#VolunteerPower #Masks4All

Donate today so we can keep sending #masks to help folks stay safe!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

All donations, up to $2,000, will be doubled–how’s that for a great deal?

And psst…DYK that Donate A Mask has volunteers from coast to coast, all the way from Vancouver to Halifax?

Also–we’ve had volunteers in every Canadian time zone except Newfoundland!

If you want to join our team of volunteers, sign up here: https://donatemask.ca/volunteer

#VolunteerPower #Masks4All

Donate today so we can keep sending #masks to help folks stay safe!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

All donations, up to $2,000, will be doubled–how’s that for a great deal?

And psst…DYK that Donate A Mask has volunteers from coast to coast, all the way from Vancouver to Halifax?

Also–we’ve had volunteers in every Canadian time zone except Newfoundland!

If you want to join our team of volunteers, sign up here: https://donatemask.ca/volunteer

#VolunteerPower #Masks4All

Donate today so we can keep sending #masks to help folks stay safe!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

All donations, up to $2,000, will be doubled–how’s that for a great deal?

And psst…DYK that Donate A Mask has volunteers from coast to coast, all the way from Vancouver to Halifax?

Also–we’ve had volunteers in every Canadian time zone except Newfoundland!

If you want to join our team of volunteers, sign up here: https://donatemask.ca/volunteer

#VolunteerPower #Masks4All

Donate today so we can keep sending #masks to help folks stay safe!

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

All donations, up to $2,000, will be doubled–how’s that for a great deal?

And psst…DYK that Donate A Mask has volunteers from coast to coast, all the way from Vancouver to Halifax?

Also–we’ve had volunteers in every Canadian time zone except Newfoundland!

If you want to join our team of volunteers, sign up here: https://donatemask.ca/volunteer

#VolunteerPower #Masks4All

Just passing along a thank you message from one of our donors. It’s always nice to hear that our work has made an impact!

Support our work by making a donation today.

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

And if you need respirator #masks, we’ve got your back! You can get some through our Free Request Program: https://donatemask.ca/request

Or shop at our charity fundraising store (proceeds support the Request Program):
https://buymask.ca

#MaskWarriors #Masks4All

The Dance of Dissonance

Sometimes 
I find myself lost
at the end of 
a confusing day 
trying to decipher labyrinthian relations 
and coming up short,
suddenly wondering 
how a day I thought good 
was not for another,
caught up in 
opposing realities 
where mine is suspect
and empathy is a struggle.

The brain fog 
of past illness 
has left its trailing 
fingers over my head
like the cigarette smoke 
of the man I see one morning standing with his back to me on the dock outside the store where I used to work 
and I wonder why he is there. 

I am suspicious, feeling responsible for what is no longer mine to care about, so I observe, yet remain at a distance and leave without really discovering if his presence is innocent. 

Such is the dance of dissonance.
I am close enough to see your back but too far to see your face clearly,
afraid that if I look too closely I will not like what  I see or that I will recognize some ugly part of me.

I want to hear 
that which runs 
counter to my experience 
but I must be honest and say that my capacity to understand the complexities of human behavior is diminishing. 

I long for circles that are completely safe,
where the people I pass on the walk home illicit in me feelings other than fear,
lust, guilt, or judgement,
all of which mirror 
the overwhelming sense
of dislike
I feel from the
world, and from myself perhaps.

It is my inability to not receive everything personally, this overwhelming sadness,  unprotected by my hypervigilance, where I still seem to miss what is most important, and no matter how much I try to hold everything together, I cannot keep things from unraveling. 

How do I continue to remain caring and yet not take on burdens that are not mine to carry? 

This then is the strange choreography of relationship, the stumbling herky-jerky movements of a marionette pulled by invisible strings, revealed in the bright lights of another angry stage.

Yet we dance. 
Through the pain of revelation.
The occasional stepping on of toes.
In the percieved exposure of audience eyes.
Shedding these inadequate masks and costumes one by one.
Finding our own rhythm in the strange movings of this particular 
circle of love.

Beg: June 5, 2026 
Fin: June 30, 2026

@trendless Just wanted to share an update, indeed the 53899 and 54065/54066 N95 Kleenguard/KIMTECH masks are all discontinued.

Here's the PDF they sent me with the discontinuation notice + reason for ending distribution (lack of sales... sigh); dated May 29th, 2025.

😭

#masks #masks4all #maskUp #mask #masking #n95

Thinking about your resolutions for 2026? ✨ Consider keeping your neighbours healthy by making a donation to Donate A Mask. Your donation of $20 will provide a box of #masks to a household, helping them stay safe in the new year. 💙

https://donatemask.ca/donate

#Masks4All #NewYear #NewYear2026 #Resolutions #MaskUp

Did you know? Donate A Mask’s Free Request Program sends #masks to mask blocs around the country. 😷 🇨🇦 Help us continue this work by donating today. 💙

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

#GivingTuesdayCa #Masks4All #MaskDistro

Did you know Donate A Mask has sent over 1.3 million #masks and supplies to people across Canada? 🚚 📦 😷 Help us keep going by making a donation! 💙

https://donatemask.ca/fundraiser

#GivingTuesdayCa #Masks4All #MaskDistro #MaskUp

@nicolai @trendless an equivalent deal within Canada are KleenGuard N95 masks from Napa:

240 for $46 CAD + local pickup if desired.

https://www.napacanada.com/en/p/KBC53899

Note that these N95s are now discontinued. I'm very happy with them regardless, used them all over.

Sadly I can't find that $29 USD Amazon.com deal anymore.

#mask #masks #maskup #masks4all #n95

The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning

This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.

By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM

"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'

"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'

"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.

"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.

"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.

"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.

"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.

"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.

"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.

"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)

"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.

"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.

"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"

Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent

1/2 • Как Филдовский музей исполняет новые правила по отношению к предметам культуры первичных и коренных народов, в шести примерах: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/arts/design/native-displays-museums-law.html ⦾ Четвёртый пример самый смешной (?): если бы маска Нуксалка принадлежала какому-нибудь народу, который имеет представительство в Соединённых Штатах... #museums #Nuxalk #Nuxalkart #Nuxalkmasks #masks #policy #nativearts #indigenousart #FieldMuseum #Chicago #creakingdecolonisation

@major

Well, we now know how to stop #airborne #pandemics.

(#CovidIsAirborne; #FluIsAirborne)

We stop it with #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBoxes. And with #N95 / #N99 / #P100 #elastomeric #respirator #masks.

But right now DOCTORS are blithely mass-infecting patients -- and of course nowhere else is doing anything either -- so our society is basically doing nothing and helping the virus spread.

We should try doing something.

I prepared a handout for doctors. https://nerode.org/clean-air

@munkinasack @amcglothin @darnell @ZeroCovidColin Yeah, that's a good writeup.... but it omits the most important thing.

I just keep repeating the same thing, since Jetelina doesn't mention it.

#N95, #P100, #KF94 (etc) #respirator #masks work very well against *all* variants. #HEPA filters and #CorsiRosenthalBoxes do too.

They also work against #Flu & #RSV.

Variants evolve to evade immunity -- they cannot evolve to evade masks & air filters, not significantly. #CovidIsAirborne #CleanTheAir