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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6h

If the state won’t protect us, & we won’t protect each other, & the state won’t catch us, & we won’t catch each other… what do you think is happening to all the people who keep getting knocked down?

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6h

PS - if you’re one of those people who lost their lives to Long Covid & you happen to know who you caught it from, are you still in relationship with them? Have they offered any support/sympathy/solidarity? Are they helping you survive? From what I’ve seen, there’s often a lot of disappearing 🫥

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6h

To the many people who say “I’ll mask or stay home if I’m sick, but you’re CRAZY if you want me to mask regularly, & btw I haven’t even been sick in years”… yeah you have, & you probably spread it to a bunch of other people, some of whom, statistically speaking, lost their lives as they knew them

Graphic from Yale School of Public Health:

49% OF COVID INFECTIONS
ARE ASYMPTOMATIC,
which means you may not know if you are actually sick. This is why it's important to take a multilayered approach (one or more of the following) to protect yourselves and others:
N95 and
KN95 masks
HEPA air filtration
Good ventilation (carbon dioxide <800 parts per million)
Up-to-date vaccinations
Rapid tests before gathering
Attention to wastewater levels of COVID-19

Yale SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Sources: The Lancet Regional Health, CDC

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skelly @skellytonne.bsky.social · 22h

A painting of a skeleton waving to a group of ghosts during a cloudy night sky with a crescent moon.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 9h

Britt desperately needs $335 today for shelter and other survival needs like eating, medicating their chronic illness & feeding their emotional support cat

Their payment is beyond due pls help 😢😢😢

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 10h

Very far from the goal needed today of $335. Pls help me get things done. Past due and time sensitive. :(

🎃
bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest

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Fidaa Umar🎙🇵🇸 Inside Gaza 🎧 VERIFIED 📌 Voice Over 🔵 @fidaaumar.bsky.social · 13h

Oct 14 Fidaa update:

I heard from Fidaa overnight, just greetings mostly. She says she is feeling a bit better but as we know from her other msgs there is still so much chaos in 🇵🇸

Pls help this chronically ill single mom support her kids - N.

bit.ly/save-fidaa

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Help Fidaa and Her Children To Survive

‼️Direct Message From Fidaa‼️:

bit.ly

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 15h

During this ADHD awareness month you can be an good ally by helping me amplify Fidaa’s raffle because oh boy do I struggle 🫠

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 1d

You can win this flag! 🇵🇸

Rules are simple:
1. Follow @fidaaumar.bsky.social
2. Donate: chuffed.org/project/fidaa-umar
$5 for a ticket, $10 for two, and so, or
$20 bundle for 5 tickets.
3. Take a screenshot and submit to the Google form.
4. Last day is Oct 30.
5. Stay tuned in Nov for the winner!

A collage art making the flag of Palestine using little circles with different textures of red, black, white, and green.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 13h

Oct 14 Rana update:

Next week are Rana’s high school exams. If she doesn’t collect enough 💸 for a 📱, she doesn’t get to graduate high school.

Genocide has stolen so much from her, including her dad. Don’t let them steal this too 💔 - N.

gofund.me/f33094165

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

gofund.me

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mori (goal: $449.98/$1,000) @kookysnell.bsky.social · 22h

continuing to ask for help.

these necessities are lifelines for me as I'm bedridden with very severe ME/CFS. direct support from people on here makes them possible.

anything helps. thank you.

CA/Ven: kookysnell ko-fi.com/moriende paypal.me/belzomalsh

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 16h

I think about this with respect to long covid & #MECFS 😢

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 16h

When I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease years ago, one of the things my doctor told me about was the prevalence of autoimmune diseases in marginalized populations, and that he was researching the epigenetic effects of intergenerational trauma as a potential cause of autoimmune conditions.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 16h

Only $5 to enter my friends, let's go!
Fidaa really needs us to get back on her feet.
chuffed.org/project/fidaa-umar

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 19h

And again, this “ceasefire” demonstrates at every opportunity that Israel is not acting in good faith.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 20h

Israeli officials say the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed, blocking the flow of desperately needed aid into the enclave, despite the ceasefire.

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Eileen @eileenart.bsky.social · 23h

Air traffic controllers, bus drivers, all with cognitive impairments they aren't even aware of. I am never going to stop warning people. Those of us who are aware, we are never going to stop warning people. At this point, ignorance is a willful choice to preserve a delusion.

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 20h

the lack of masking has i think been a subtle but important factor in my feeling of dread and growing madness for the last few years

its an impossible to ignore proof of how the majority of ppl operate purely on vibes, peer pressure, and what they've been told

leaves me feeling hopeless

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Lesbian Sheldon Cooper @campyalien.bsky.social · 21h

I've seen a bunch of people saying some variation of "fanfic sucks" as their "unhinged opinion" & like... just say you hate folk art & the idea that untrained people can make things just for the sake of making them & the love of the game & then give those things out for free. Just say you hate when

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 6

'Hector' linocut by UK contemporary artist and #printmaker Vanessa Lubach #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a sitting black cat against a blue and white floral pattern background

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw 2 Palestinian accounts vanish right after asking me for help--one a mother grieving her baby daughter who just died of starvation, another begging for help to keep her little sick, starving baby daughter alive. I cannot say what I think of Bluesky admin.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks 💛

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Cassidy She/Her @pdxreigns.bsky.social · 22h

Glad you weren't living through the AIDS height. I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Safe Sex and neither are most people. This is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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LAND BACK @geeee.bsky.social · 22h

My ancestors were almost wiped out by colonizers and their smallpox so you'll have to excuse me if I don't consider you a leftist if you refuse to mask. I'm not letting this generation of colonizers kill me because they don't understand basic science.

A post from @joadsprocket.bsky.social that reads "I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous." The post is quoting a blocked post by @chantzy.bsky.social which reads "Dear liberals, if you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It's one small act of solidarity with millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health"

The second post by @joadsprocket.bsky.social reads "Also a fine example of 'anyone not doing what I want them to is a Liberal."

The third post by @joadsprocket.bsky.social is a screenshot of the original chantzy.bsky.social post with the caption "ope"

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 21h

never knew, never would have imagined, that one day i would find out how many people share at least SOME eugenicist beliefs.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 21h

This is why as a leftist I can’t support the existence of the current system in any way, including Democrats

This system keeps the 🪟 of possible change v narrow. In a sense, the Dems as a party are a controlled opposition. This is why you see them shifting to the right instead of fighting back atm

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 21h

This is why as a leftist I can’t support the existence of the current system in any way, including Democrats

This system keeps the 🪟 of possible change v narrow. In a sense, the Dems as a party are a controlled opposition. This is why you see them shifting to the right instead of fighting back atm

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mash 🍉 (they/them) 🔞😷 @maiar.bsky.social · 21h

masking is not an unreasonable ask. it’s extremely selfish and just nonsensical. covid is disabling and deadly. how many infections do you think you can survive without triggering symptoms that steal away any quality of life you may have had? how many of your loved ones? why don’t you care?

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 21h

People under occupation and cruelty resist.

They always have and they always will.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 21h

Exactly 82 years ago

The Sobibor uprising was a revolt of about 600 prisoners that occurred on 14 October 1943, during World War II and the Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was the second uprising in an extermination camp, killing the SS commander of the camp

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