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Noelle ☀️

@noelletris.bsky.social

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she/her • autistic • queer 🏳️‍🌈 • aspiring author • former theatre kid • history enthusiast • long walk enthusiast • enthusiast enthusiast • cozy gamer 📍 CO, USA ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩶🖤🤎🩵🤍🩷 Black Lives Matter Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Support Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 21d

#SupportUkraine
#UkraineStrong

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Russia invaded Ukraine. Why does this matter to the world?

Food shortage, energy crisis, lack of security and nuclear threat – all because Russia started a war to pursue its imperialistic fantasy.

war.ukraine.ua

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 11h

Trump shutdown has left 1.3M service members unpaid, driving many military families to food banks. ASYMCA reports a 34% rise in aid requests; nationwide pantries see up to 30% more visits. United Way and USAA provide relief, but long-term food insecurity remains a concern
apnews.com/article/mili...

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 4h

Too many advocacy spaces exclude Black autistic people.
We’re not an afterthought.
We’re not optional.
We’ve always been here organizing, surviving, thriving.
Center us. Uplift us. Follow our lead

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 4h

i was a kid with a disability who grew up in the great blue state of illinois and then went to high school in another blue state of minnesota — the same one that is fetishized for education funding

relying on the blue state idea is complete trash, kids with disabilities are fucked over everywhere

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 1h

YES HUGE PROBLEM tell your friends

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 4h

A Black child’s meltdown is seen as aggression 😕
A white child’s meltdown is seen as a cry for help 🙂‍↔️
This double standard costs lives, opportunities, and dignity.
Listen to Black autistic voices.
Believe our experiences ♾️

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 15h

UNICEF reports that 320,000 children under five in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition, and over 56,000 have lost one or both of their parents.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 5h

The museums are being shutdown.
Are we great yet?
Everyone’s being fired.
Are we great yet?
Food is rotting in our fields.
Are we great yet?
The market’s crashing greatly.
Diseases are now running rampant.
At what point aren’t we great?
Our military’s in line at food banks.
So super great.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

being online is amazing you can say "our democratically elected officials should be doing something and/or should have done something previously to prevent the current political climate from developing to this point" and someone will argue with you

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 6h

Autistic decision-making isn’t just mental.

It’s sensory.

It’s relational.

It’s embodied.

Every option is a whole landscape we feel in our bodies - and sometimes, that’s too much to walk through alone.

We need support.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 9h

Autistic truth makes people uncomfortable because it’s not performative.

We name what’s broken without decorating it.

It’s not rudeness.

It’s clarity.

And clarity is sacred.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 11h

biological warfare using virus and disease has always been used historically to kill mass groups of marginalized people

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18h

There are measles outbreaks across the country.

Covid is still surging and prompting many healthcare facilities to reinstate mask policies.

There’s misinformation about vaccines, Tylenol, autism and chronic illness.

Public health is in shambles… and now they’re firing dozens of CDC staff.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 16h

This incessant focus on employment, even for people who can potentially work, is ridiculous in my view.

The primary focus for any disabled person should be supporting them to maximise their quality of life before anything else is even considered.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 15h

My mobility issues are a great example of NHS gateways and how they leave us waiting and waiting, always worsening…

1. GP appointment - 1 month
2. Referred to physio - 3 months
3. Two physio appts - 4 months
4. Referred to MSK - 9 months
5. Referred for tests - 6 months

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20h

ICE facilities should be abolished.

Until then, they should be forced to have glass walls.

If more people could see what’s being done to detainees, they would join the resistance.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 22h

Hot take: we don't need a take on everything. Sit some shit out.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22h

Doctors: trust us, we know what we're doing

Also doctors: we're gonna make you wait a month to finally get your essential med refilled, and then surprise you by completely switching to a different med than the one that has worked for years. Prepare for exciting side effects baby.

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🦋 @occhitristi.bsky.social · 1d

Being neurodivergent means you over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that your over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing 🫤

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Another journalist is forced to the ground and arrested by ICE in Chicago. Her name is Debbie Brockman from WGN-TV.

ICE put a photojournalist in NYC in the hospital.

They’re attacking the press.

They’re attacking immigrants.

They’re attacking citizens.

No one is safe.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

It’s disappointing how many people hear you’re disabled and assume it makes you an easy target.

They assume they can walk all over you.

Bully you.

Discriminate against you.

They decide in a split second that you’re not worthy of basic decency.

Ableism is a heck of a drug.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 23h

same here

will share #mutualaid posts/links just lmk

GHOST HE/IT VAMPIRE 🧛🏼 @ghostlylilacs.bsky.social · 1d

i too will be making a fund friday thread! it’s huge to be building community !!

please drop your mutual aid posts/links/gfms/whatever u need to help you survive!

a white rose with green leaves against a pink and blue sky

Alt: a white rose blooming with bubbles & sparkles around the rose with green leaves against a pink and blue striped sky

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GHOST HE/IT VAMPIRE 🧛🏼 @ghostlylilacs.bsky.social · 1d

i too will be making a fund friday thread! it’s huge to be building community !!

please drop your mutual aid posts/links/gfms/whatever u need to help you survive!

a white rose with green leaves against a pink and blue sky

Alt: a white rose blooming with bubbles & sparkles around the rose with green leaves against a pink and blue striped sky

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 1d

Thousands of displaced Palestinians have begun returning to Gaza City after Israeli forces withdrew from the area.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 1d

The return to northern Gaza, at least for now, depends on how long Israel halts the genocide.

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Alex 🦂 🏳️‍🌈 $30/$400 @godwearsgucci.bsky.social · 1d

I urgently need $100 by 10/16 to pay our car insurance and keep it from lapsing. My wife and I are both disabled and trying so hard to stay on top of everything, but things are really tight right now. Any help means more than you know.

💗 ko-fi.com/alex0671/goa...
💵 cash.app/$nagemenna

#mutualaid

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