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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 15h

My left ankle is in an ever worsening sprain because I can't afford orthopedic shoes on top of not being able to afford enough food

I need at least $1000 to cover necessary expenses that are directly related to my wellbeing

Please help if you can

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 16h

Abolish the Nobel prizes

Yes all of them

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 16h

Nothing so far and I am very much in need of help

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 19h

So, all those years I was a French immersion student and didn’t know the English word for it, I was still getting it right but was just outdated

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t teach it anymore so this won’t be a problem for much longer

Everything is print from here on out

And no I don’t think cursive is the necessary basis of education

This solves the chicken scratch problem because printing is less likely to be illegible

ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · Feb 17

Illegible handwriting as an adult makes me so angry because it’s like they didn’t even fuckin try.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

so this month i shall read

1. the monk
2. the castle of otranto
3. the mysteries of udolpho
4. gerard or the world, the flesh and the devil
5. the vampyre
6. carmila
7. the turn of the screw
8. the narrative of arthur gordon pym
9. vathek
10. the king in yellow

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2d

Also, the way to not "die on that hill" is to be united. These folks who want to jettison trans folks, immigrants, Black folks, etc. are so short sighted they think it'd be a victory to die a couple steps later, when choosing solidarity is actually choosing to not die at all

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2d

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 2d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 2d

Delighting in a well written article is not an obsession

Then there’s the fact that the article contains no lies

How obsessed do you have to be to think some legitimate criticism is unhealthy

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

I have important forms that need to be dropped off in person (because Canada Post is on strike) by next week.

I need help with travel costs

Anything helps

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 4d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

It sounds like eugenics to me

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

I have important forms that need to be dropped off in person (because Canada Post is on strike) by next week.

I need help with travel costs

Anything helps

#MutualAidRequest

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar

#MutualAid

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

It’s allowed as long as the patient can’t be identified

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 4d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

I think it’s because it’s what he says every time her name is mentioned

People have already forgotten that she got transferred to Club Fed for telling the DOJ some lies

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

It’s just eugenics frankly

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

It’s eugenics to suggest disabled people should feel guilty for doing what they need to stay alive

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

This framing is eugenics

Everyone inadvertently contributes a small amount to climate change

Picking out disabled people as a focus regarding life saving medicine can only come from prejudice

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t use a wheelchair but I’m pretty sure if you can physically enter 90% of private homes that you are oppressed

Introverts not so much

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

Thank the gods I’m Canadian

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