Britta Shoot

I don't know how to convince you to take care of your comrades. But Long COVID impacts every fight for justice, every social movement. Honor the energy and integrity of the folks in my latest @thesicktimes.org feature. Be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together.

Today @thesicktimes.org: A detailed look at the recent bezisterim phase 2 clinical trial, notable as one of very few Long COVID trials so far to have promising results (though they are preliminary!). By @brittashoot.com: thesicktimes.org/2026/10/27/n...

I get (too well) the executive function challenges that keep folks out of the profession but I also can’t get over how few journalists seem to be neurodivergent when a big part of the job is asking annoying questions and refusing to let something go 😆

remember to change your filters when they get nasty!

literally the least important thing they do but all power to the Panthers stencil game

Today @thesicktimes.org: Big feature by @khaoticaa.bsky.social exploring the immense challenges that trans people with Long COVID face in getting healthcare. "Neglect within healthcare and the queer community both contribute to the medical and social erasure of trans people."

Journo request 🗞️: I'm looking to speak with California law experts (healthcare regulatory/admin law) about compliance on a #LongCOVID bill, AB 3119, and would be grateful to hear more expert perspectives 🙏 calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

There are a lot of decent people doing good work right now, and hope is breaking through. As a result, our enemies are thrashing about and lashing out in extremely dangerous ways. We must be alert and aware and resist overwhelm and panic. Where can you contribute?

2026 isn't "a weird time in history," we're living through the inevitable conclusion to doing everything wrong

Birding is basically asexual cruising, highly skilled loitering in odd areas. Hang around parks, beaches, water treatment areas; listening, watching. Notice other people with appropriate gear, nod silently then huddle close, unspeaking, all looking in different directions. Wait for action.

not me simultaneously writing stories about a drug TRIAL and a hiking TRAIL 😵‍💫

Eclectic, human-created radio programming is made possible not just because of student devotion, but also because many campus stations house irreplaceable collections of physical media. @brittashoot.com details the free speech fight playing out on campuses where student radio is disappearing.

You could explain existentialism to somebody, or you could just have them walk into a CVS where “more than this“ by Roxy Music is playing 

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

This is one of those important, overlooked stories that's hard to report & even harder to place. I'm grateful @prismreports.org understood what's at stake for students fighting these fragmented free speech battles, while they also endure the chaos in higher ed & the nation in general 📻⬇️

Remember when the Democratic party removed "ending the death penalty" from its 2024 platform.

While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to medical care. Read more from @octoberk.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...

This is one of those important, overlooked stories that's hard to report & even harder to place. I'm grateful @prismreports.org understood what's at stake for students fighting these fragmented free speech battles, while they also endure the chaos in higher ed & the nation in general 📻⬇️

Great article about how college radio still serves as a crossroads for the various pressures on higher education -- and I get to say mean stuff about Vanderbilt selling WRVU: prismreports.org/2026/09/29/c...

Come work with me! @taskandpurpose.com is hiring a senior reporter to help us cover conflicts, veterans' issues, quality of life and the Pentagon. Great, small team that punches above our weight and does good journalism. app.trinethire.com/companies/85...

“When campus radio stations’ FM broadcast licenses are sold or transferred, communities lose media made by & for young people.” @brittashoot.com reports on the free speech fight playing out on college campuses where student radio stations are disappearing.

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

endless rancid discourse counteracted last night in a film screening when a well-adjusted adult stranger sat next to spouse and me, glanced at our masks, pulled out his own and put it on without a word 😷🫡

did you know early HIV activists also overlapped with CPUSA? I'd annotate about yet another early pandemic alliance parallel if my blog wasn't a disused substack I have other things to do today than migrate to ghost but the runaway toxic discourse lacking historical framing makes my fingers itch!

the whole world does not need to weigh in on what one lesbian bar does in one community. but it will. the bar will become a stand in, a site where impulses to assert ableism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia will run freely. this is a betrayal of the point of journalism itself

The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

I’ve seen a lot of older people wearing masks in my neighbourhood. I don’t know how the rest of society walks past that clear signal for help. If you see someone in a mask or respirator, you should wear one… at the very least…

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care