I saw the same taxi driver today - the one I gave the masks to before Christmas. She had the masks to hand. She wasn't wearing one. And she wasn't familiar with how to put them on. A🧵about how learning happens. #OneOfTheTwo #12DaysOfMasks #RetrievalPractice

I had a short chat with a 🚕 driver, with my children present. Evangelising discourages my children from masking. Motivation is funny like that. I didn't discuss the impact of COVID, or airborne transmission. Her motivation will be limited. I'm not disheartened. #OneOfTheTwo

These lines fade. Faster on my children's faces. Slower on mine. #12DaysOfMasks #OneOfTheTwo #SaltingTheVibes #YallMasking

It's #12thNight and the Christmas decorations come down, so I better post this now. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover) #OneOfTheTwo #12DaysOfMasks

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The silence over COVID has a chilling effect on discussion of many other issues. My areas of interest are music, education & the brain. COVID affects them all. #OneOfTheTwo You can easily Google the impact of COVID on anything you are interested in. It's not a cold, but people are frozen.

Most people are busy - we can't be expected to check that every single thing we believe is accurate I've been calling this an “Argyle” sweater in posts and alt text. It's not - it's a “Fair Isle” sweater. #OneOfTheTwo I don't even regret my mistake. Regret (New Order cover)

This is my first attempt at a pandemic parody song! I was waiting for a really cold day to “release” this. Baby, It's Just A Cold (adapted from “Baby, It's Cold Outside” by Frank Lesser) #OneOfTheTwo

“It's just a cold… right?” There are LOTS of reasons people stopped protecting themselves from COVID. But once someone has stopped, they need to believe something about COVID. And “it's mild now, just a cold” works really well. Unfortunately it's not true. #OneOfTheTwo🧵

My family has our main Christmas meal on Christmas Eve. I was under the impression this was a Spanish tradition we were following - I've been telling people “We follow the Spanish tradition - it's a great idea.” for years. But I was wrong. #Snowflake #OneOfTheTwo

It would be lovely to see your pictures of 3M Aura masks, northern cardinals, and magicicadas. I may not see these “in the wild”, but I know that they are real. I also know that COVID is real, even if I can't see it. And other people pretend it's not there. #OneOfTheTwo

We can't see viruses with our own eyes. Does this make it easier for us to pretend that they aren't important? I haven't seen Australia with my own eyes. Does this mean Australia is not real? #OneOfTheTwo bsky.app/profile/nina...

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I've never seen a Northern Cardinal “in the wild”, or “in person”. They are not found in the UK Have I seen one “in real life”? Well, that depends on what you count as “in real life”. #OneOfTheTwo Cardinal (Kacey Musgraves cover)

The average British person knows nothing about cicadas. I wonder if those using the name thought “let's give the variant a name to reflect the fact that the British will pretend it's not real”. Will it become dominant in 2026? #OneOfTheTwo Cicada Cicada (original)

I wrote a song in 2020 about Magicicadas. It's lots of fun to play. I had no idea that several years later variant hunters would use the name for a “new” (not new, just “underground”) variant. #OneOfTheTwo bsky.app/profile/nina...

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Happy New Year! 2026 will be another year of believing in things I can't see, that are real. I live in the UK, so I don’t see three things that are common elsewhere in the world. Cardinals! Cicadas! 3M Aura masks! Please send pics of all 3! A🧵about “real life”. #OneOfTheTwo

In 2020, I had a “post-pandemic” plan to go out as a solo artist playing Americana covers, under the stage name “Northern Cardinal”. It didn’t happen! #OneOfTheTwo Love Takes Miles (Cameron Winter cover) (take 1)

If you wear a mask in the UK, you have a strange experience of “real life”. What I experience “in-person” is denial of reality. My children experience this too. Fortunately their friends are not to blame. They are children. #OneOfTheTwo #OneOfTheOne

Just after I played this song, someone else on the Zoom call said, “There's one on my porch right now. I’ll see if I can bring up the camera… there it is!” So I have seen one “in real life”. Zoom calls count as “in real life”. #OneOfTheTwo Cardinal (Kacey Musgraves cover)

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