Island of Reil
@islandofreil.bsky.social
Old, tired intersectional social democrat. She/her. Not actively seeking followers but you can follow if you want.
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“I watch how activating it is for people that they’re being put under this level of scrutiny when all they’re trying to do is be affirmed in their identity,” says the director of an organization providing legal services to trans people in Illinois.
In Illinois, Trans People With Criminal Records Still Face Hurdles to Changing Their Names
Even after years of reforms to state law governing name changes, prosecutors can still object when trans people have charges or prior convictions.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“I watch how activating it is for people that they’re being put under this level of scrutiny when all they’re trying to do is be affirmed in their identity,” says the director of an organization providing legal services to trans people in Illinois.
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Normalize talking about colonoscopies, mammograms (got one last year), etc etc
The below honor is posthumous because Chadwick died of colon cancer at 43
The below honor is posthumous because Chadwick died of colon cancer at 43
Chadwick Boseman’s Star Gets a Prime Spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: ‘A Place of Prominence for a King’
As Chadwick Boseman receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his "Black Panther" co-star Lupita Nyong'o reflects on his legacy.
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Normalize talking about colonoscopies, mammograms (got one last year), etc etc
The below honor is posthumous because Chadwick died of colon cancer at 43
The below honor is posthumous because Chadwick died of colon cancer at 43
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My child and I draw our strength from you. We rise each day, telling life that we are still here… and that our hope remains unquenchable. We may tire, but we will not give up. We may cry, but our tears nourish new beginnings.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My child and I draw our strength from you. We rise each day, telling life that we are still here… and that our hope remains unquenchable. We may tire, but we will not give up. We may cry, but our tears nourish new beginnings.
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The reason the media is Like This is because the people who own the media have turned it into a blood sport wherein the people who think they are the audience are actually the entertainment
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The reason the media is Like This is because the people who own the media have turned it into a blood sport wherein the people who think they are the audience are actually the entertainment
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Pregnant women who are jailed, often for petty crimes, are miscarrying or giving birth in excruciating pain and into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors, according to an investigation from @bloomberglaw.com and NBC News.
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
nbcnews.to
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Pregnant women who are jailed, often for petty crimes, are miscarrying or giving birth in excruciating pain and into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors, according to an investigation from @bloomberglaw.com and NBC News.
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This sign keeps popping into my head as I notice that even though I am paying A LOT more attention to terrible things my general anxiety has calmed, for the most part. bsky.app/profile/greg...
One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.
#NoKings #Manhattan
#NoKings #Manhattan
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This sign keeps popping into my head as I notice that even though I am paying A LOT more attention to terrible things my general anxiety has calmed, for the most part. bsky.app/profile/greg...
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I haven’t seen a single masked healthcare worker in any of the multiple healthcare spaces I’ve been in in Indiana in years. It’s a real fucking shame how anti science creeped into the science community so easily in healthcare providers.
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I haven’t seen a single masked healthcare worker in any of the multiple healthcare spaces I’ve been in in Indiana in years. It’s a real fucking shame how anti science creeped into the science community so easily in healthcare providers.
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I was hospitalized overnight last week briefly and of the probably 20 people that worked on me. I would say maybe four or five wore a mask. These include paramedics, firefighters, and ER staff. 🙃
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I was hospitalized overnight last week briefly and of the probably 20 people that worked on me. I would say maybe four or five wore a mask. These include paramedics, firefighters, and ER staff. 🙃
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Given that a significant percentage of infectious covid cases are asymptomatic, a more effective policy is to just require (or at least strongly recommend) masking! You can't really know who's sick and who isn't by symptoms or self reports alone. health.clevelandclinic.org/asymptomatic...
What Is Asymptomatic COVID-19 and Are You Contagious?
An estimated 1 in 5 people infected with the coronavirus never develop symptoms. But they can still get you sick. Learn more about asymptomatic COVID-19 from an infectious disease specialist.
health.clevelandclinic.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Given that a significant percentage of infectious covid cases are asymptomatic, a more effective policy is to just require (or at least strongly recommend) masking! You can't really know who's sick and who isn't by symptoms or self reports alone. health.clevelandclinic.org/asymptomatic...
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And people moving away from you because you are wearing a mask, and towards the person without a mask coughing up a lung. And then you see that coughing person enter the doctors office where there is no air purifier and the doctor is not wearing a mask either.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
And people moving away from you because you are wearing a mask, and towards the person without a mask coughing up a lung. And then you see that coughing person enter the doctors office where there is no air purifier and the doctor is not wearing a mask either.
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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Since they started charging for tests, ppl are not only NOT MASKING but they're also not testing.
But that doesn't make it go away 😭
But that doesn't make it go away 😭
I keep seeing posts about kids getting “weird colds” but it seems like the parents aren’t testing for COVID. The denial is maddening
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Since they started charging for tests, ppl are not only NOT MASKING but they're also not testing.
But that doesn't make it go away 😭
But that doesn't make it go away 😭
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oh come on. be serious
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
oh come on. be serious
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Indeed and it doesn't hold any water whatsoever to claim that it stokes sectarian tension to protest outside of a place of worship but that it doesn't stoke sectarian tension to peddle occupied territory out to American citizens inside a place of worship. You can't exactly have it both ways.
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Indeed and it doesn't hold any water whatsoever to claim that it stokes sectarian tension to protest outside of a place of worship but that it doesn't stoke sectarian tension to peddle occupied territory out to American citizens inside a place of worship. You can't exactly have it both ways.
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It's a rule of restraint in the context of a pluralistic society though, not a judgment about whether selling stolen settlement land in a fucking synagogue is ok.
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It's a rule of restraint in the context of a pluralistic society though, not a judgment about whether selling stolen settlement land in a fucking synagogue is ok.
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Yeah this is where I am. I think it's generally a bad can of worms we should not be opening, and to the extent we are, Jewish protestors going inside and disrupting this kind of horror within the sanctuary is a much better approach
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Yeah this is where I am. I think it's generally a bad can of worms we should not be opening, and to the extent we are, Jewish protestors going inside and disrupting this kind of horror within the sanctuary is a much better approach
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The thing is that I'm temperamentally agreeable to the idea that you should avoid protesting places of worship altogether or to the best of your ability, but this is qualitatively different from claiming that there's nothing illegal or wrong being done when hosting an org that promotes settlement.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The thing is that I'm temperamentally agreeable to the idea that you should avoid protesting places of worship altogether or to the best of your ability, but this is qualitatively different from claiming that there's nothing illegal or wrong being done when hosting an org that promotes settlement.
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Just listed two new neuron mugs. Surly.etsy.com #sciart
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Just listed two new neuron mugs. Surly.etsy.com #sciart
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Of course comparative mythology heads can insist to me that Thor is exactly the same as Perkūnas but if that's the case I hope you're content for me to refer to the Norse god Jupiter.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Of course comparative mythology heads can insist to me that Thor is exactly the same as Perkūnas but if that's the case I hope you're content for me to refer to the Norse god Jupiter.
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while experts agree potable water is necessary for living, many also say avoiding the sludge on the ground or using any precious energy to rid it of contaminants robs consumers of fascinating life experiences
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
while experts agree potable water is necessary for living, many also say avoiding the sludge on the ground or using any precious energy to rid it of contaminants robs consumers of fascinating life experiences
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the atlantic in 2026 is gonna be running shit like "the dark side of potable water"
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
the atlantic in 2026 is gonna be running shit like "the dark side of potable water"
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"Let them eat cabbage" is the hot new poverty piece from rich readership rag The Atlantic.
Don't feel bad about the poors. They have cabbage.
Don't feel bad about the poors. They have cabbage.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Let them eat cabbage" is the hot new poverty piece from rich readership rag The Atlantic.
Don't feel bad about the poors. They have cabbage.
Don't feel bad about the poors. They have cabbage.
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edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
Why women’s soccer is so important to queer people | CNN
Someone dressed as Marge Simpson, complete with a gigantic blue wig and a lime green dress, belts out Hot to Go by lesbian pop icon Chappell Roan to a rapt audience gathered inside a marquee in the mi...
edition.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍