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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

Actually circulating videos of Candace Owens that make her seem reasonable because she’s correct on *one* issue is not good work

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 52m

i am being genuine. i just have to protect myself from folks who push back on ableism in this way bc every single day i have to advocate for myself to folks who are ableist. it’s personal. it’s also systemic. and historical.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 54m

okay maybe i can continue to engage bc i might've also been blocked by that person??? i have a b.s. in advertising and spoken closely w uni friends who did pharma advertising. i'd be curious to know what you saw up close that makes you want to defend them?

bsky.app/profile/mmwr...

MM (Again) @mmwritesmore.bsky.social · 3h

Reply guy after 10 posts claiming I don't know shit: "What - do you work in pharma advertising or something?"

Me: "Yes, I used to."

Reply guy: <Blocks me>

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 57m

but it seems you’re more interested in telling someone who is negatively impacted by this system to be quiet instead of grappling with the term “ableism,” so i’m probably not gonna engage w you further on this. 2/2

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 57m

correct, i did. i also said that upon waking up and could tell the other person was using good faith so i didn’t correct the number. 5% is also an incorrect number. i actually don’t have the 5% symptoms (seizures and liver failure), i get the 30-60% side effects (nausea and migraines). 1/2

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 2h

oooo someone blocked me
maybe?? even tho i didn’t reply to their post yet? i wish i was surprised but it happens every time i say the word “ableist.” and it’s often from folks who don’t know who Judy Heumann is.

chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 2h

28.7% of folks in the u.s. have a disability. so 95% is incorrect and also proves how pertinent ableism is. the u.s. has a history of eugenics, it’s not a bubble. it’s all of our systems.

www.cdc.gov/disability-a...

www.cdc.gov

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Tristan Johnson @stepback.nebula.tv · 16h

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 8h

am i gonna have to turn off replies?? i think nondisabled people are seeing this and trying to say these ads aren’t ableist bc the side effects are “rare.” (i am genuinely, wholeheartedly about to crash out.)

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 8h

apologies for being short. what i read into your reply was “these ads aren’t ableist.” and i got defensive bc they absolutely are.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 8h

i’m aware of the law and the science. i’m also a chronically ill person who is almost always in that 5%. prescription drug ads don’t need to exist and they definitely don’t need to misrepresent what it’s like living with complex medical conditions

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 17h

i know he’s not referring to ms. hayley williams

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 17h

masks in healthcare settings makes so much sense, no matter rates of transmission for ANYTHING. you should not be able to catch something at a place you go for your health.

Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 20h

Mask mandates return to health care facilities in parts of California.

The mandate goes from Nov. 1 to March 31, 2026. Someone tell Covid it needs to be over by then

www.newsweek.com/mask-mandate...

Mask mandate returns to parts of California

The order in Sonoma County is designed to protect the "most vulnerable populations" in health care facilities during fall and winter.

www.newsweek.com

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 20h

Mask mandates return to health care facilities in parts of California.

The mandate goes from Nov. 1 to March 31, 2026. Someone tell Covid it needs to be over by then

www.newsweek.com/mask-mandate...

Mask mandate returns to parts of California

The order in Sonoma County is designed to protect the "most vulnerable populations" in health care facilities during fall and winter.

www.newsweek.com

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 17h

so i probably should NOT sleep on a lacrosse ball, right?? but it’s the only thing helping my nerve pain which, before lacrosse ball, had caused my leg below my knee to start to go numb

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 17h

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 17h

removed the reskeet to disclaim: if this starts genuine discourse, i will cry.

slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 17h

will the portland frog get milkshake ducked

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 17h

if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world, an important task can be to trust yourself and find folks that you can trust, too. then do the work of community building. carpool. cook food for each other. be authentic and be present. that’s part of the work rn.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19h

My philosophy major prepared me for my work, but it's my study abroad in the Soviet Union that prepared me for this time of systems breaking down and everyone with influence lying and grifting.

I need to retrieve that mindset or my inability to complete formerly simple tasks will break me.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 17h

schlotzsky’s

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The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, what fast food chain would be most chaotic if it had a liquor license?

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