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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother

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Faerie Godmother 🧚‍♀️ Xennial Author ✨ I choose kindness unless you don't. ♿ Disabled, AuDHD, Sjogrens, ME/CFS, bedbound, chronic pain, chronic illness 🌈 Queer, bisexual, genderfae, polyamorous 💻 Assistive technology advocate

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.bsky.social · 14d

You may call me Karistina Lafae. If you know me by another name, no you don't! ✨

I'm a severely disabled author, essayist, and disability advocate. I'm immunocompromised, bedbound, genderfae, bisexual, polyamorous, AuDHD, a Scorpio, INFJ/P, and would love you to read (and review?) my stories!

Cartoon rendering of Karistina Lafae, a femme-appearing nonbinary person with graying pixie cut, brown eyes, and a slight smile. She is wearing a red shirt and appears against a blue background.

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 4h

Not
Masking
In
An
Ongoing
Pandemic
Is
Eugenics

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4h

Oh my god???

“producers asked if he’d like to do a “thumbs-up, thumbs-down” segment. Prompts included “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas” and “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state,””

“I just couldn’t believe what was happening, That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game.”

The Late Show Pitched Zohran Mamdani a ‘Game’ About Palestine

He and his team passed on playing “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state.”

www.vulture.com

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 4h

A gentle reminder for whoever needs it: you don't have to make yourself small for anyone. You are perfect, exactly the way you are.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.bsky.social · 4h

It's been about half my life, too, depending on how I figure out onset. It's tricky because it crept up on me after I "recovered" from mono.

So I sympathize a LOT.

*gentle hugs if wanted*

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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.bsky.social · 4h

I'm so very tired of trying to manage energy math

As of this year, I've had an energy limiting chronic illness for over half my life

I know it could be so much worse (and even though I've survived worse, I know it could be even worse than that)

But I'm just so tired of being exhausted

#NEISvoid

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5h

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 13h

Autistic liberation isn’t a metaphor.

It’s the daily work of building lives that don’t require collapse to survive.

It’s boundaries, pacing, truth.

It’s a revolution in slow motion.

It may not look like "typical activism".

And that's the point.

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D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 5h

$45 means I get to be warm and clean and not sick about it if anyone is able to help with that

D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 7h

I need to buy a new sweater before it gets cold and also some of the unscented detergent that doesn’t give me migraines and $45 would be enough for both if anyone is able to help
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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, I love birthdays. Good idea to lose that guy's number, since he couldn't be bothered to invite you out to celebrate.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

Portland is doing well making clear the ridiculousness of the military takeover.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 20h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.bsky.social · 5h

And they can act like airbags for projectiles, reducing the velocity to prevent more serious injury!

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 7h

I'll be honest, I did not have "if you want to fight the most critical battle for American democracy in your lifetime, you'll need to be prepared with an inflatable animal costume" on my radar

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 20h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.bsky.social · 5h

This is why I like to announce my birth month IRL. Not that I get to hang out with people (because bedbound) but at least to get the birthday wishes.

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.bsky.social · 7h

This is why I kept my gender marker despite being nonbinary. I saw this day coming.

Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like the US just effectively cancelled everyone’s passports who has an X gender marker on them (unless I’m reading this wrong).

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 22h

Black queer/trans US folks:

1. Do you have a plan to leave?
2. Do you think it’s time?
3. What state are you in?

I’m trying to figure my own stuff out.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23h

Not even at a year into this and we're at the anxiously watching to see if an academic can successfully escape from America stage.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

I interviewed @tcfdotorg.bsky.social fellow and former Obama health official Jeanne Lambrew at @motherjones.com about the issue central to the government shutdown—Affordable Care Act tax credits are expiring, which will lead to health insurance rates to skyrocket. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

www.motherjones.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

According to a new study
conducted in a hospital
“Airborne SARS-CoV-2
may transmit infection
after more than 4 hours,”
so the question
you must ask yourself
is not if you are in a hospital,
but if you are somewhere
that someone was exhaling
SARS-CoV-2
in the last 4 or 5 hours.

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