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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother
@karistinalafae.bsky.social
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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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!
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Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.

They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.

That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”
February 9, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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We’ve heard about body cameras before. They didn’t stop police brutality, and they’re not going to stop ICE’s terror. To federal Democrats: let’s be bold for once and fight to ABOLISH ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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I caught it in Jan of 2020 because of where I worked with traffic from overseas.

I used to find a lot of pleasure and relaxation in singing for fun. I can no longer sing as I used to. I lost range, tone, and my ability to control pitch.

I didn't lose my ear, so all I hear is how bad I sound now.
February 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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If you haven't been consistently masking since 2020, you have absolutely been involved in the chain of transmission that disabled and killed people.

You can't fight fascism if you're helping the regime's eugenics plan by spreading illness.
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Because let me tell you, losing your ability to create your art is something you don't want to live through.

Long COVID and other post-viral disabilities can ruin your entire sense of self. Especially the energy-limiting ones.
February 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Artists who pride themselves on their ability to create art:

What are you doing to protect your abilities from COVID? Are you always masking up in public?

You're an infection away from losing your ability to draw/write/sing. And you could take it away from whoever you infect, too.
February 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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I was a whole adult when ICE was formed.

If DOGE (remember them?) could go and destroy much longer-standing orgs doing IMPORTANT work, we can get rid of ICE.
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”

Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Layers:

1. What ICE/CBP is doing isn't making us safer.

2. When ICE/CBP does their work "the right way," it ALSO doesn't make us safer.

3. Human beings deserve respect and care no matter their status, language, or background. If "leaders" can't say that, everyday people can lead by shouting it.
February 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Artists who pride themselves on their ability to create art:

What are you doing to protect your abilities from COVID? Are you always masking up in public?

You're an infection away from losing your ability to draw/write/sing. And you could take it away from whoever you infect, too.
February 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Click into this thread to choose your displayed pronouns
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 AM
The replies to this suggest absolutely anything but the fact that COVID has ravaged everyone's nervous systems, impairing judgment, concentration, reaction time, and other things that are very important to driving safely. Let alone everything else it does to our bodies.

IT'S THE FUCKING COVID.
The thing about pedestrian safety post 2020 is that its one of the few areas that's massively worse than the norms that existed pre-covid, its bourne out clearly in the numbers, and the only way to solve it is traffic enforcement, sorry
February 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Primary every Democrat who won’t fight to abolish ICE.

Every one.
“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.

“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.

“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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I admit to being confused by some of the discourse re: protest on here. Community defense and mutual aid can in fact be forms of protest.

Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something."

Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.
February 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I was a whole adult when ICE was formed.

If DOGE (remember them?) could go and destroy much longer-standing orgs doing IMPORTANT work, we can get rid of ICE.
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”

Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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“We cannot just abolish ICE!”

Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors

"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Today I had to explain to a surgeon why it's important to wear respirator style masks around vulnerable patients. I am tired
February 8, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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To lift the U.S. out of the Great Depression, FDR thought the country needed more than roads and bridges and schools and hospitals.

It needed art.

So he built an art gallery and scattered it across the country — in everybody’s local post office.
The disappearing art gallery in your post office
The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.
wapo.st
February 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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✨ Body scan: notice one tense spot and soften it by 5%. That’s enough. 🫶 #FaerieGodmother
February 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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✨ Send the small message: “Thinking of you” or “Can I reply tomorrow?” Counts. 📩 #FaerieGodmother
February 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
This is very helpful. I don't have fatty liver disease, but we just found out my husband does.
annoyed about the shitty "patient education" I received when I was initially diagnosed with Fatty Liver Disease

so rather than seething, I'm going to share some of the info I've gotten from reading scientific articles

#NEISvoid
#MAFLD
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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✨ Stuck? Ask: “What’s the next tiny step?” Not the whole plan. 🧩 #FaerieGodmother
February 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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✨ Bathroom check-in. Yes, even if you’re “almost done.” 🚻 #FaerieGodmother
February 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM