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Noelle ☀️

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she/her • autistic • queer 🏳️‍🌈 • aspiring author • former theatre kid • history enthusiast • long walk enthusiast • enthusiast enthusiast • cozy gamer 📍 CO, USA ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩶🖤🤎🩵🤍🩷 Black Lives Matter Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Support Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 22d

#SupportUkraine
#UkraineStrong

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Russia invaded Ukraine. Why does this matter to the world?

Food shortage, energy crisis, lack of security and nuclear threat – all because Russia started a war to pursue its imperialistic fantasy.

war.ukraine.ua

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14h

When you treat autistic adults like children, you justify leaving us out of jobs, relationships, and decisions about our own lives. This isn’t harmless. It’s dehumanizing

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 18h

Black autistic people are often misdiagnosed, underdiagnosed, or never diagnosed at all.
Why?
Because racism and ableism intersect and we fall through the cracks.
We deserve recognition, support, and care

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14h

While everyone has different support needs,
Infantilizing autistic adults isn’t kindnes it’s control. It denies autonomy, agency, and dignity. We don’t need “parenting,” we need respect 👌🏽

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 8h

An Israeli occupation soldier shared this photo on social media, boasting about capturing three unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza — including an elderly man.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 23h

Israeli forces caused extensive destruction to civilian homes in Gaza City.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 21h

I continue to face death threats and relentless censorship across all platforms for reporting on the Israeli genocide in Gaza and Palestine. Please consider supporting my work.

buymeacoffee.com/josepgodedf

www.patreon.com/josepgoded

www.paypal.com/paypalme/Jos...

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 18h

Israeli prison authorities allowed an Israeli journalist to document the humiliating treatment of Palestinian detainees ahead of their release tomorrow.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 18h

Stop calling autistic meltdowns tantrums because they are not, If an autistic person melts down,
it’s not “bad behavior.”
It’s overload.
Too much noise, light, pressure, expectation.
Imagine a fire alarm going off in your head and no one else hears it.
That’s what we’re fighting 👌🏽

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 1d

Trump shutdown has left 1.3M service members unpaid, driving many military families to food banks. ASYMCA reports a 34% rise in aid requests; nationwide pantries see up to 30% more visits. United Way and USAA provide relief, but long-term food insecurity remains a concern
apnews.com/article/mili...

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 18h

Too many advocacy spaces exclude Black autistic people.
We’re not an afterthought.
We’re not optional.
We’ve always been here organizing, surviving, thriving.
Center us. Uplift us. Follow our lead

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 18h

i was a kid with a disability who grew up in the great blue state of illinois and then went to high school in another blue state of minnesota — the same one that is fetishized for education funding

relying on the blue state idea is complete trash, kids with disabilities are fucked over everywhere

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 16h

YES HUGE PROBLEM tell your friends

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 18h

A Black child’s meltdown is seen as aggression 😕
A white child’s meltdown is seen as a cry for help 🙂‍↔️
This double standard costs lives, opportunities, and dignity.
Listen to Black autistic voices.
Believe our experiences ♾️

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 1d

UNICEF reports that 320,000 children under five in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition, and over 56,000 have lost one or both of their parents.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19h

The museums are being shutdown.
Are we great yet?
Everyone’s being fired.
Are we great yet?
Food is rotting in our fields.
Are we great yet?
The market’s crashing greatly.
Diseases are now running rampant.
At what point aren’t we great?
Our military’s in line at food banks.
So super great.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

being online is amazing you can say "our democratically elected officials should be doing something and/or should have done something previously to prevent the current political climate from developing to this point" and someone will argue with you

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 20h

Autistic decision-making isn’t just mental.

It’s sensory.

It’s relational.

It’s embodied.

Every option is a whole landscape we feel in our bodies - and sometimes, that’s too much to walk through alone.

We need support.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 23h

Autistic truth makes people uncomfortable because it’s not performative.

We name what’s broken without decorating it.

It’s not rudeness.

It’s clarity.

And clarity is sacred.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 1d

biological warfare using virus and disease has always been used historically to kill mass groups of marginalized people

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

There are measles outbreaks across the country.

Covid is still surging and prompting many healthcare facilities to reinstate mask policies.

There’s misinformation about vaccines, Tylenol, autism and chronic illness.

Public health is in shambles… and now they’re firing dozens of CDC staff.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

This incessant focus on employment, even for people who can potentially work, is ridiculous in my view.

The primary focus for any disabled person should be supporting them to maximise their quality of life before anything else is even considered.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

My mobility issues are a great example of NHS gateways and how they leave us waiting and waiting, always worsening…

1. GP appointment - 1 month
2. Referred to physio - 3 months
3. Two physio appts - 4 months
4. Referred to MSK - 9 months
5. Referred for tests - 6 months

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

ICE facilities should be abolished.

Until then, they should be forced to have glass walls.

If more people could see what’s being done to detainees, they would join the resistance.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 1d

Hot take: we don't need a take on everything. Sit some shit out.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Doctors: trust us, we know what we're doing

Also doctors: we're gonna make you wait a month to finally get your essential med refilled, and then surprise you by completely switching to a different med than the one that has worked for years. Prepare for exciting side effects baby.

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🦋 @occhitristi.bsky.social · 1d

Being neurodivergent means you over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that your over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing 🫤

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