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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 15m

*hugs all around*

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Wylder needs HELP @wylder.bsky.social · 20h

We're in desperate need today. 💕💸 #MutualAid

PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Wylder needs HELP @wylder.bsky.social · 23h

Anything helps! If we raise enough I might be able to get in at the dentist Monday or at least early this week.

I don't wanna die y'all.
PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

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MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 1d

hey friends,

i hate to ask again, but could anyone spot me $30-50 for food please?

still waiting for my snap benefits to be restored and i have nothing left to eat 🙏🏽 hopeful to get a parcel from the foodbank next week -they've offered to deliver ❤️

paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash

Pay RMM Creative using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 9d

Remember: climate change, police brutality, lack of healthcare, COVID, transphobia, burnout, sexism, mass shootings, poverty, racism, genocide, etc… they all cause disability.

Remember: anyone can become disabled at any time.

You must remember this because the fascists do. And they weaponize it.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 1d

Like the BIGGEST danger of Generative AI, particularly in Journalism, isn’t in it’s ability to fabricate lies, its instead a side-effect of that: that people will doubt the truth, even when presented hard evidence. AI is pushing us toward a dangerous cultural psychosis, where reality doesn’t exist.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 20h

This is the pettiest of complaints, but I’m sick of websites and apps removing “no” as an option. It’s been replaced by “maybe later” or “ask again later.”

I swear there is a direct line between anger about women’s consent and this and it WILL be what drives me to villainy.

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 15h

I just realized we're back to anxiously checking every month to make sure benefit payments have gone through again. I'd finally started to let that go and now I'm gonna be wondering month to month again.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 20h

just in case it wasn’t clear: when you stigmatize drug use you not only dehumanize people, but *also* make it harder for ppl to get medical attention for things that are not drugs

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 16h

Racist and ableist.

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R. Wm. "Ruedii" 🦊🐧 🥖 @rwruedii.bsky.social · 21h

If someone is suffering from an drug overdose you shouldn't throw them in a jail cell either.

WTF is wrong with these police?!

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Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social · 21h

If they truly believe someone was impaired by drugs they should have taken them to the hospital to safely detox! If they had done what they were supposed to the hospital would’ve realized it was a stroke and that postal worker would still be alive!!

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, racism and ableism go hand in hand with police abuse. Both are major targets - put together it's even worse.

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ony 🌹☭ Ⓐ🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @onyxgardens.bsky.social · 21h

And EVEN IF he'd been on drugs, THAT WAS STILL INHUMANE TREATMENT.

THIS IS WHY WE SAY ACAB.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 16h

Yea, it really does! I think for one thing, it allows ppl to have more trust that it's a real person - if someone they know is vouching for them. It also makes it stand out from all the other noise on the TL if it's coming directly from someone they follow vs. a re-post from someone they don't.

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 16h

Yup. And a lot of liberal and progressive orgs were very into eugenics at that time, too. We want to assume it could only be the fascists but it's been everyone.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 20h

Someone trying to deny that Nazis got eugenics ideas from the US and Canada.

Like... it's documented. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with someone calling it "flatly untrue".

The Bollinger Baby was 1915. Buck v. Bell was 1927.

Gerhard Herbert Kretschmar wasn't murdered until 1939.

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 17h

TY!!

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Diana Nightbloom @diananightbloom.bsky.social · 17h

#MutualAid
#HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2025

Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 1d

TY - my household has been going through a lot including unemployment, disability, cancer, two cars needing repairs, two cats that need vet care, and more. We need more support than we have access to currently to make this work.

gofund.me/5fed226c8

Donate to Help this chosen family make ends meet!, organized by Rosemary Amico

The short story: Three humans (and our two cats) have had a string of bad l… Rosemary Amico needs your support for Help this chosen family make ends meet!

gofund.me

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 17h

I have a kitchen full of dishes, but I tend to rinse/wash off the same few things I like to use best over and over, too.

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 18h

I also find it a comfort to read things of loved ones who are gone - it helps keep them alive and maybe even get a peek into getting to know them better.

But I acknowledge everyone is different. I think whatever you choose to do will be okay.

Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 18h

Me, personally? I don't care what happens to my stuff once I'm gone. Anyone can read anything. I'm not here to be embarrassed or worry if it will upset someone or whatever.

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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 18h

Oh yea, coming out day!

Lemme continue to come out as a non-mono-attracted akio-aroace genderqueer bigender polyamorous dudechick.

You can just say queer for short, though.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 20h

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out

Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...

buttondown.com

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