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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 23h

This makes a lot of ppl uncomfortable. But we’re still in the middle of a mass disabling event that kills hundreds of ppl each week. The government’s policy is to ignore this and actively endanger disabled and immunocompromised ppl. That’s eugenics. I truly wish more than a handful of us cared.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

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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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 23h

It’s a very hard thing to sit with, but: if you’re talking about eugenics and you don’t mask, you aren’t someone who is trustworthy on the subject of eugenics.

You don’t get to make exceptions for your behavior just because you don’t want to do something anymore. That’s not how this works

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

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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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 2d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

Love to see Sareee on ROH

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 2d

our enemies are often the exact same people. it's all one fight, not metaphorically, but literally

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 2d

trans people, we all need solidarity with chronically ill & disabled people because the discrimination playbook is 100% identical

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 2d

one of the biggest names in trans healthcare discrimination is also one of the biggest names in ME/CFS healthcare discrimination (Simon Wessely) & as a trans person with ME/CFS i'm begging all of us to make this intercommunity connection

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 4d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 2d

I’d love to know more about who, individually and organizationally, is talking about COVID competency and clean air as a necessary aspect of repro justice. Orgs I used to trust on RJ now ignore COVID and say their celebrity worship constitutes repro justice

sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 3d

When you see people who supposedly believe in reproductive justice talk about using gen AI who never wear a mask

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 3d

Past five years have proven instincts I’ve had about people right a depressing number of times

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 3d

When you see people who supposedly believe in reproductive justice talk about using gen AI who never wear a mask

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 3d

Yelling “slap him, slap him!!” at Marina’s shadow

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 19d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post
every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Hillcrest Card Company 📬 🏳️‍⚧️ @hillcrestcardco.bsky.social · 4d

I don't normally ask for five-star reviews, but if you have bought something from my shop in the past and are happy with your order, can you hop over and leave a review to help dilute this Karen, who likes the postcards but gave a one-star review anyway? hillcrestcardcompany.etsy.com

screenshot of etsy dashboard showing a review for a Gulf of Mexico postcard. It's a one star review that says "I do not want to leave a review."

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 4d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

bluesky post from
@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 6d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 5d

now you may think that he was overall pretty respectful all things considered but what you fail to understand is that you do not have the thin skin of a social media CEO

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 5d

"how come they banned link when he didnt break TOS" so theyre currently engaging in a complex maneuver called the Reverse Singal where they're rewriting the TOS to retroactively have been broken. the team is currently hot in discussion if "he was black and mean to me" can go into the guidelines

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 7d

I will say it again: one of the most radical acts of resistance you can perform in your day-to-day That’s very easy to do is wearing a well fitting elastomeric or other well fitting n95 or better mask.

Radical acts of shared humanity are resistance.

Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 7d

The gov shutdown means loss of funding for many programs, like in-home health services that free up hospital beds.

Hospital overwhelm is bad: fewer beds, longer waits, more worker burnout, more patient deaths.

Slow system collapse by reducing preventable illness. Wear an n95 in public. Mutual aid:

Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc

MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

maskbloc.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

www.propublica.org

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decolonize @dec0l0nize.bsky.social · 8d

mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu!

the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!

but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 11d

love 2 get vaccinated, appreciate that it’s still free in my province, wish that the public health comms strategy was more robust

but go get yr shots if you can!

selfie at the pharmacy, wearing my flo mask and a branded bandaid on my arm

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 8d

Cooking one coconut jelly and two lamb kebabs for Tony Schiavone

Screenshot from the phone game Merge Cooking showing a little animated guy who wants me to make him food who looks suspiciously like Tony Schiavone in glasses, a shirt and tie, and suspenders

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