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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 1m

I am still here but I desperately need your help to stay here

So if you can do anything —please, I beg you, do whatever you can, even if just reading and replying to this.— I’m grateful for you.
Chi miigwetch
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 1m

And every month the interest stacks.

So it’s not that everything is ok, it’s just I’m freezing up from exhaustion and new horrors as I struggle to stay above the waves.

But I am still here, still disabled, still Indigenous, & still trans.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 1m

A funny statement I’ve found myself saying to others going through incredible hardships is “I hate that and I hope you’re in a safe place regardless to get whatever you need,” precisely because I am not and I only realized it now?

Also, the late fees are ~$870 alone.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 1m

* possibly tmj clicking ear, possibly ear infection, and
* possible bladder issues and 1 more graphic issue that I will not discuss.
* And that’s nothing on top of the usual cerebral palsy and diabetic symptoms.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 1m

I’ve not written a new thread about my situation this week and there’s an iceberg situation there but here are the bullet points? Bullet tips of the iceberg?

New symptoms:

* Cellulitis of the left foot up to my knee,
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 3h

Preserve Freedom, Resist Fascism

Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 5h

I am still here but I desperately need your help to stay here

So if you can do anything —please, I beg you, do whatever you can, even if just reading and replying to this.— I’m grateful for you.
Chi miigwetch
5/5

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 5h

And every month the interest stacks.

So it’s not that everything is ok, ( IT ISN'T!) it’s just I’m freezing up from exhaustion and new horrors as I struggle to stay above the waves.

But I am still here, still disabled, still Indigenous, & still trans.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 5h

A funny statement I’ve found myself saying to others going through incredible hardships is “I hate that and I hope you’re in a safe place regardless to get whatever you need,” precisely because I am not and I only realized it now?

Also, the late fees are ~$870 alone.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 5h

* possibly tmj clicking ear, possibly ear infection, and
* possible bladder issues and 1 more graphic issue that I will not discuss.
* And that’s nothing on top of the usual cerebral palsy and diabetic symptoms.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve not written a new thread about my situation this week and there’s an iceberg situation there but here are the bullet points? Bullet tips of the iceberg?

New symptoms:

* Cellulitis of the left foot up to my knee,
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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Feb 27

Doaa sent me some photos of her lovely embroidery ❤️

Photo of a circular bag with a gold chain and some beautiful geometric embroidery and blue red green and yellow colors

Photo of a black bag with tatreez embroidery on it

Photo of a smaller black bag on a table with gorgeous rainbow colored geometric embroidery on it

Photo of a navy bag with a bunch of grid, geometric embroidery, in rainbow colors on it

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 13h

This review is not sponsored, but I have talked with Wilde over social media, so that might be my bias but it's a really great book, Go get it!

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 13h

Also?

Morgan Hallett is an excellent voice actor.

It's an amazing thriller, it gives me strong Dune (new film) vibes (not the setting, but the complex multi-plot weaving) and I urge fans of speculative fiction to read it.

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 13h

Posted from my short review
I managed to snag a library audiobook copy of "The Philosophy of Thieves" by the ever stellar Fran Wilde and while I'm not done yet, I can say it easily creates a story as complex as her Cloudbound universe.

Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 1d

This feels apt today.

(& If you love the Canarviers, give them a shout, tell someone to catch theirs today !)

A stack of Thieves books from 100 Acre Books with the caption : when the poor live in an SF world and the rich live in a fantasy, only thieves can make it right.

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

Such tools help improve understanding of how much confidence to place in data suggesting a possible signal of life found outside our own planet.

www.nasa.gov/news-re...
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NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - NASA

A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

The scientific community uses tools and frameworks like the CoLD scale and Standards of Evidence to assess whether data related to the search for life actually answers the question, Are we alone?
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

And while abiotic explanations for what we see at Bright Angel are less likely given the paper’s findings, we cannot rule them out.”
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

a significant finding as a potential biosignature on Mars into a peer-reviewed publication is a crucial step in the scientific process because it ensures the rigor, validity, and significance of our results.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

“Astrobiological claims, particularly those related to the potential discovery of past extraterrestrial life, require extraordinary evidence,” said Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Getting such
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

This finding suggests that Mars could have been habitable for a longer period or later in the planet’s history than previously thought, and that older rocks also might hold signs of life that are simply harder to detect.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

The discovery was particularly surprising because it involves some of the youngest sedimentary rocks the mission has investigated. An earlier hypothesis assumed signs of ancient life would be confined to older rock formations.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

However, the rocks at Bright Angel do not show evidence that they experienced high temperatures or acidic conditions, and it is unknown whether the organic compounds present would’ve been capable of catalyzing the reaction at low temperatures.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

The minerals also can be generated abiotically, or without the presence of life. Hence, there are ways to produce them without biological reactions, including sustained high temperatures, acidic conditions, and binding by organic compounds.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 17h

The combination of these minerals, which appear to have formed by electron-transfer reactions between the sediment and organic matter, is a potential fingerprint for microbial life, which would use these reactions to produce energy for growth.
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