Flavius S.

"Those who battle monsters must beware that they do not become monsters themselves.
And if you look long enough at an abyss, the abyss will look back at you."

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

»A Thread of Threads«
or, My Journey in Tweets
pinned for posterity:

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

why's it so f'ing hard to find ppl with praxis in universal alignment?

if you care about marginalized rights, care about marginalized health.
if you care about disability justice, don't be a jerk to your peers.

it's not fucking complex. or so i thought.

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@michael_hoerger @PacoOnPause just this
https://t.co/JdZ1fhs1Jd

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So I can keep tabs on free-facing turncoats and false friends in a single shit list (happy to remove any should their ways change)...

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

@null_nullspace Not "at least" but "for starters".
Disabled people deserve to exist places non-disabled people exist.
Everyone deserves to not have to risk their life being ruined by going to a non-"essential" space.

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@MoriartyLab Is that right?
CSA just provides framework; this would somehow need to be translated into law.

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@LongCovidFight @_CatintheHat @quarecuttie It won't be law anyway. It would only provide a framework for facilities that chose to adopt it. Good on paper, toothless in practice.

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🧪 Unexpected 3rd part of the below, on why CONCENTRATION of sweetener matters in DIY fit testing!
(Guess I’m still in such a mood, I'm tiptoeing into chemistry…)
1/
https://t.co/PuAwyiwIwz

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

*Note this would have to be the u.s. version of the product; the canadian one uses cyclamate, which is only one-tenth as sweet as saccharin (wand so would need 2.5kg of it for 100ml water [still impossible]).
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[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

At 50°C we'd lose over half solubility, the water holding a mere 2.44x its weight in S'N L - around 15% as sweet as the OSHA solution.

So yeah, this shit matters.
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[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

I’m usually quite thorough with this shit before the fact, but I’d already made a hood, had the nebulizer and totally jumped the gun, trusting some rando on reddit guilty of junk science - and suffered for it.
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the chemistry bitchfest continues... https://t.co/EISF3l7F2s

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

🧪 Unexpected 3rd part of the below, on why CONCENTRATION of sweetener matters in DIY fit testing!
(Guess I’m still in such a mood, I'm tiptoeing into chemistry…)
1/
https://t.co/PuAwyiwIwz

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

@zhouliang_mask Would you ever sell "mix and match" filter packs? Like, half black and half white, or half valve, half no valved?
or...3 black, 3 white, 2 black valve, 2 white valved 🤓

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

@zhouliang_mask Also would love an earloop L option! for earloop outdoors, headloop indoors.
i think the new black/texture ONE had a headloop L at first but gone now, must have been popular :]

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

@zhouliang_mask is the L also wider than the M? trying to figure out if my next order should be the L or XL!

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@zhouliang_mask You mention width so I'm wondering if the XL is simply wider than the L.
also curious if the L is wider than the M, or just taller!
thanks :]

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@zhouliang_mask I ordered a set of M size for me and two friends to try in the fall - they fit the both of them great, but it's very tight on me. I pass a fit test but would love something with a bit more room, mainly vertically...is the chart from the site right that the L & XL are equal there?

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oh good, a wall of text, just what people need in emergent situations. with no formatting besides page breaks. nothing to catch the eye.
and again, N95s buried at the goddamn bottom.
jfc do better

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all well and good for @TOPublicHealth to drop mention of N95s in ONLY the text (not graphic) of a tweet, yet make ZERO mention of it on your main AQI page, and only a buried one on the wildfire subpage (FUN FACT they also help with "pollution")

[Toronto Public Health @TOPublicHealth]

Remember to ⬇️
⏲️Limit outdoor time.
😷If you must go out, wear a well-fitted N95 mask.
🛡️Protect your health

Learn more: https://t.co/dst0k1P4vy
#AirQuality #WildfireSmoke #StaySafe

[Flavius S. @Flavius_SM]

and funnelling page visitors to @environmentca's AQI page? all that tells me is how much and quickly people who have no choice but to be outside will be suffering!
unless of course you click that fucking nondescript AQ statement button:

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@TOPublicHealth Why aren't N95s/respirators in the GRAPHIC tho?
that's what gets shared. ppl aint focusing on the 3 lines of text above it

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(note also that if you were to dump it straight into vinegar, you'd probably gas yourself to death)

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For any preppers/covid defenders/otherwise trying-not-to-be-infected:
don't think you can make hypochlorous acid (HOCl) by just dumping some bleach into water and maybe adding a bit of vinegar after.

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@BillieNyelish more on why that's maybe not the best idea (see paragraph after Eq 2, below Fig. 1, re: pH under 4 producing CHLORINE GAS - doc stating pH of 3.5 is ok is 😬) https://t.co/z0ZlY6noYv

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@BillieNyelish uh, about the dumping bleach in water w some vinegar bit: what about that being unstable and potentially hazardous?
the doc even specifies the crucial component of electricity...
https://t.co/B4eclWYxbZ