Birdie
@jbirdieg.bsky.social
Disabled SPED researcher (autism/IDD & AAC), anti-racist, advocate, mentor
🏳️🌈they/them🏳️⚧️ 53 😷
Cancer survivor
Outdoorsy. Vegan🌱
Jul'23
Pfp: Me, with my back to the camera, overlooking the Grand Canyon
🏳️🌈they/them🏳️⚧️ 53 😷
Cancer survivor
Outdoorsy. Vegan🌱
Jul'23
Pfp: Me, with my back to the camera, overlooking the Grand Canyon
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
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My partner’s friend came over for dinner & my partner cooked b/c he does the cooking. He works less than me & I’m a disabled primary breadwinner. Him cooking means I have more mental energy.
So, after we eat, I say this was so good, we should make it again. And his friend goes: You mean HE should?
So, after we eat, I say this was so good, we should make it again. And his friend goes: You mean HE should?
December 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
My partner’s friend came over for dinner & my partner cooked b/c he does the cooking. He works less than me & I’m a disabled primary breadwinner. Him cooking means I have more mental energy.
So, after we eat, I say this was so good, we should make it again. And his friend goes: You mean HE should?
So, after we eat, I say this was so good, we should make it again. And his friend goes: You mean HE should?
Enter Hanukkah into a Google search for a special interactive animation. Happy Night 4!
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Enter Hanukkah into a Google search for a special interactive animation. Happy Night 4!
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hi everyone! tomorrow is the cutoff for orders from my shop getting to the USA by Christmas.
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shares would be a help!
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shares would be a help!
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
hi everyone! tomorrow is the cutoff for orders from my shop getting to the USA by Christmas.
nora.jewelry
shares would be a help!
nora.jewelry
shares would be a help!
Globally, Modena provides 1 billion+ vaccines annually, w no new harms reported for pregnant people or children. Why did NPR put the information from moderna at the end of the article? Where most people won't read it? Maybe they need to start articles with key points in bullets at the top
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FDA is supposed to protect us from unsafe and ineffective medicines and vaccines.
And yet 🫠...just like at CDC, it's the political appointed leadership holding the agency hostage...
FDA is failing in its mission as it turns a political hammer to the covid vaccines.
A few points in next post 👉
FDA is supposed to protect us from unsafe and ineffective medicines and vaccines.
And yet 🫠...just like at CDC, it's the political appointed leadership holding the agency hostage...
FDA is failing in its mission as it turns a political hammer to the covid vaccines.
A few points in next post 👉
FDA to raise hurdles for vaccines, faulting COVID shots for 10 kids' deaths
Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID shots for kids. But public health experts question the agency's analysis.
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Globally, Modena provides 1 billion+ vaccines annually, w no new harms reported for pregnant people or children. Why did NPR put the information from moderna at the end of the article? Where most people won't read it? Maybe they need to start articles with key points in bullets at the top
This was published... wtaf
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This was published... wtaf
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#WeAintBuyingIt Support #MutualAid and the #HolidayBoycott November 27 through December 1, 2025. When you do shop this season, choose local & small business. #50501Movement #50501Houston #SURJ #HolidayShoppingBoycott #HolidayWeekendBoycott #Boycott #BoycottHomeDepot #BoycottTarget #BoycottAmazon
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
#WeAintBuyingIt Support #MutualAid and the #HolidayBoycott November 27 through December 1, 2025. When you do shop this season, choose local & small business. #50501Movement #50501Houston #SURJ #HolidayShoppingBoycott #HolidayWeekendBoycott #Boycott #BoycottHomeDepot #BoycottTarget #BoycottAmazon
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Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
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Gutted 😞
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Gutted 😞
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
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I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
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"Hiring professors with PhDs is meaningless if administrators are the ones deciding what gets taught,” he said. “Faculty will start asking not, ‘Is this accurate?’ but ‘Will this get me in trouble?’ That’s not education, it’s risk management.”
#HigherEd
#HigherEd
Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the AAUP said faculty were not consulted on the proposed changes, which he called “a direct violation” of their expertise + freedom to teach. “If that’s the case, there’s just going to be a further black eye on higher education here in Texas.”
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Hiring professors with PhDs is meaningless if administrators are the ones deciding what gets taught,” he said. “Faculty will start asking not, ‘Is this accurate?’ but ‘Will this get me in trouble?’ That’s not education, it’s risk management.”
#HigherEd
#HigherEd
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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program.
You can no longer file your taxes that you prepared yourself for free.
Less than a year ago Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.
You can no longer file your taxes that you prepared yourself for free.
Less than a year ago Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program.
You can no longer file your taxes that you prepared yourself for free.
Less than a year ago Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.
You can no longer file your taxes that you prepared yourself for free.
Less than a year ago Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.
There are no ethical billionaires. Imagine what good could be done with that money.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
There are no ethical billionaires. Imagine what good could be done with that money.
@jlfmcnichols.bsky.social Love you, Jenni 💔
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
@jlfmcnichols.bsky.social Love you, Jenni 💔
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TODAY: Join parents, educators, and advocates for a virtual Town Hall to stand up for the 8+ million children with disabilities whose rights are at risk. Learn about the latest threats to IDEA and how you can take action. Together, we stand up for special education!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
TODAY: Join parents, educators, and advocates for a virtual Town Hall to stand up for the 8+ million children with disabilities whose rights are at risk. Learn about the latest threats to IDEA and how you can take action. Together, we stand up for special education!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Who did this?!
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who did this?!
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Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers https://theonion.com/chicago-ice-raids-by-the-numbers/
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers https://theonion.com/chicago-ice-raids-by-the-numbers/
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I actually tried reading the report and most of their direct evidence of a cover-up of Biden’s serious decline is that many of his senior aides testified under oath that there wasn’t any signs of serious decline.
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I actually tried reading the report and most of their direct evidence of a cover-up of Biden’s serious decline is that many of his senior aides testified under oath that there wasn’t any signs of serious decline.
Nice! I also just donated to 2 local groups. Lincoln Community Care and Everett Free Grocery Program
This is great to know. I just learned about the Free Fridge Project here in Austin
https://www.atxfreefridge.com/
https://www.atxfreefridge.com/
home | Atx Free Fridge Proj
www.atxfreefridge.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Nice! I also just donated to 2 local groups. Lincoln Community Care and Everett Free Grocery Program
If you're able, this is an excellent cause. They feed people all over the planet
WCK is serving free meals for furloughed federal workers impacted by the U.S. government shutdown. These meals are available to federal employees and their families. Below are locations and hours. #ChefsForFeds (1/2)
October 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you're able, this is an excellent cause. They feed people all over the planet
I love it so much! My first new one since I left Texas. Thanks, @westophertattoos.bsky.social
#lifephasetattoo #memorialtattoo #bluebonnet #armadillo #Texastattoo
#lifephasetattoo #memorialtattoo #bluebonnet #armadillo #Texastattoo
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I love it so much! My first new one since I left Texas. Thanks, @westophertattoos.bsky.social
#lifephasetattoo #memorialtattoo #bluebonnet #armadillo #Texastattoo
#lifephasetattoo #memorialtattoo #bluebonnet #armadillo #Texastattoo