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Destiny Sugarbuns

@destinysugarbuns.bsky.social

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She/her. Sex worker, survivor, autistic, adopted. Historian and writer. Profile ID: Photo of path between trees and flowers & text reading, "We are the wayside / community is a journey." Header ID: "Ever-masker" over collage of words like "ever-reader,"

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · Aug 23

Covid Conscious dresses and magnets and stuff

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DestinySugarbuns is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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The Coconut Dog 🇪🇺 @thecoconutdog.bsky.social · 9h

I remember in England at a march, people dressed as Santa so the cops would be photographed beating up Santa.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 7h

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · 17h

Different places are enacting masking rules in healthcare because so many workers are sick that they may not be able to maintain the healthcare system.

Why would anyone risk this? Many of those workers will be out long term or permanently so why aren’t masking rules in place permanently?
#MaskUp

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 3h

bit a complaint against the wrong people's politics being taken seriously.

Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 3h

Originally it was supposed to refer to people making empty statements of support without actually helping anyone. But the fact that it mainly referred to words on social media, where speech itself drives the algorithms that become the news and political atmosphere, suggests it was always a little

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 13h

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

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Maggs @commonmaggie.bsky.social · 9h

I hope the students hear that teachers WANT & VALUE their imperfection, excitement, etc.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 12h

Fun fact: last week I got my royalty statement. It was for the last 6 months, and it was for my two books that have been banned.

Just so you know how rich we get off banned books, that check was a whopping $51.

No, not a badge of honor. No, not money-making. KIDS JUST LOSE ACCESS TO BOOKS.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 10h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 6h

The cruelty of saying “hospitals are ready” by increasing ICU beds and body bags… instead of fixing the ventilation.

Just mull over that for a bit #MedSky.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4h

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 6h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 6h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 1d

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 6h

You might as well not have included alt text at all. The word "Excerpts" doesn't provide Blind people with any of the information sighted people have access to.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 11h

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder that one of the punkest acts of resistance against fascism is putting a mask on in shared air.

It immediately marks you as a brave and safe person for disabled folks. It’s not easy to stick out, yeah.

So imagine how we feel.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 14h

It’d be great if you wouldn’t help them by extending the benefit of the doubt, following dubious health advice, treating their side as “reasonable concerns”, and particularly and especially refusing to get vaccinated, wear masks, and clean the air.

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

Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind

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

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 2d

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who loved the direction autism research was starting to head with more autistic researchersand autistic people included. Having a second fucking version of the Wakefield bullshit diverting millions of research dollars to chasing an absolute myth makes me livid to be honest.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1d

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 1d

Invaluable piece, grateful to these patients for organizing.

The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 1d

A group of 53 people with #LongCOVID joined a clinical trial for Vyvgart. For many of them, the treatment changed everything.

Then, without warning, Argenx canceled the trial.

Most of them have now relapsed.

They're calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug: bit.ly/48l1Qp5

A photo Nicole Barrick, a woman in a pink KN95 mask, receives an infusion of Vyvgart. The text reads, "The Sick Times. Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. By Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White."

"For those living with Long COVID, every ounce of hope is hard-won. This isn’t just about physical symptoms. It’s about the emotional toll of being given hope — and then having it taken away." - Vyvgart clinical trial participants
Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White

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

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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