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Robyn (Redd)
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Covid-cautious. Long COVID, AuDHD, EDS, POTS, ME, MCAS, CKD…(et al)… Former NCS and athlete. Amateur Photographer. Professional Bookworm. Crocheting, doing research, trying to find housing. #CovidIsNotOver #CeasefireNow
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Robyn (Redd) @thredd.bsky.social · Mar 28
Disabled and chronically ill DV survivor struggling trying to balance things, get bills paid, make it to appts, take care of myself, etc. Recent tests worse than previous ones. New rx and new docs. Finally won eviction case. Trying to stay afloat.

Any help makes a difference. TYSM 🫶
thredd.bsky.social Robyn (Redd) @thredd.bsky.social · Mar 28
Help w/emergency needs:
💸PP: PayPal.me/RobynthRedd

Help me stay independent and safe:
👑WL: throne.com/robynthredd
thredd.bsky.social
🚨Tell the Department of Energy not to change the Section 504 rules!🚨

Accessibility for disabled people is about to be REMOVED from new federal buildings unless we act by MON, JUNE 16!!

Tell the gov't: If we build a new building, it MUST be fully accessible!

👇TAKE ACTION NOW!👇
Red flyer, black and white text. Header reads emergency action needed, large block text with exclamation points on both sides. Below, a call to action that reads Accessibility for disabled people is about to be removed from federal buildings unless we act by Monday June sixteenth! The US Department of Energy has issued a quote direct final rule end quote that would eliminate the long standing requirement that new buildings constructed with federal money must be accessible to people with disabilities! They claim it’s unnecessary and burdensome.”But here’s what eliminating this rule really means New federally funded buildings could be built without ramps, elevators, accessible bathrooms, or doors. There would be no enforceable standards for accessibility in construction or major renovations. It weakens the civil rights protections guaranteed by Section five oh four of the Rehabilitation Act. Red flyer, black and white text. Header reads emergency action needed, large block text with exclamation points on both sides. Below, a call to action that reads Accessibility for disabled people is about to be removed from federal buildings unless we act by Monday June sixteenth! This rule will take effect July fifteenth unless the public pushes back. We have until Monday June sixteenth to submit comments. Submit comments using the templates at the links on the flyer. Use the same message three times. Blue right facing arrow pointing toward a header that reads Public comment number one Link below h t t p s colon forward slash forward slash n a c d d dot quorum dot us forward slash campaign forward slash one two eight three three three forward slash Blue right facing arrow pointing toward a header that reads Public comment number two Link below h t t p s colon forward slash forward slash n a c d d dot quorum dot us forward slash campaign forward slash one two eight three three six forward slash Envelope emoji next to a header that reads also email your comments to Email address below D O E General Counsel at h q dot d o e dot g o v Red flyer, black and white text. Header reads emergency action needed, large block text with exclamation points on both sides. Below, a call to action that reads Accessibility for disabled people is about to be removed from federal buildings unless we act by Monday June sixteenth! This rule will take effect July fifteenth unless the public pushes back. We have until Monday June sixteenth to submit comments. Your email comment doesn’t need to be long. Just say why you oppose removing accessibility protections and why they matter to you and or your community. Please speak up and share this widely. We cannot let accessibility be rolled back without a fight. We need to move quickly. As a community we can’t afford to lose access to new federally funded buildings! Thank you!
June 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
thredd.bsky.social
For those in #NYC or nearby - free rapid tests available.

If you are part of an org/group or can help w/community distro…come grab a box and do your part! Individuals who need tests are welcome also!

DM for pick up.

Please share.
Square flier with brightly colored circles, white and purple text, and picture of Osom brand rapid tests in the lower right corner. Need Rapid Tests? Get them for free! Tests are available to both individuals and orgs slash community groups. For more info send a direct message or email RobynthRedd at gmail dot com Pick up in Harlem
April 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
thredd.bsky.social
42 cases of *unexpired* rapid antigen tests ⬇️

#CovidIsNotOver
Stacks of cardboard boxes filled with rapid antigen tests for covid 19 acquired from the government sit in a living room on hardwood floors in front of open windows with white curtains. A white air purifier is on the ground to the right of the boxes and a grey metal rolling cart with a green handle is to the left.
April 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
thredd.bsky.social
UPDATE: Someone nearby is coming tmro to help out!

Thank you for helping get word out about this.Very grateful for you all! 🫶

If any local community groups/individuals want to help distro tests/need tests, they can lmk and arrange for pick up. I’ll also be contacting groups and doing handouts.
thredd.bsky.social Robyn (Redd) @thredd.bsky.social · Apr 20
Please help me find someone to lend a hand with this? Feel free to share on other platforms, dm to people, post in groups, etc.

These tests will be made available (free) to the community!! If I refuse the delivery it goes back to HHS.

Thank you!!📦😷

#NYC #MutualAid #CovidIsNotOver
April 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Please help me find someone to lend a hand with this? Feel free to share on other platforms, dm to people, post in groups, etc.

These tests will be made available (free) to the community!! If I refuse the delivery it goes back to HHS.

Thank you!!📦😷

#NYC #MutualAid #CovidIsNotOver
A square flier with light purple abstract shapes and dark purple lettering. In the bottom right corner, three line drawn rapid tests. The flier has an ask for urgent volunteer help. Help needed! Mon April 21 in NYC, Harlem. Help needed w/large delivery of Rapid Tests from Health and Human Services. They won’t deliver up to my apartment and I can’t physically lift the boxes. Boxes will need to be moved from curbside (possibly lobby) up to my apartment. Elevator building, will have a dolly slash cart available. Please let me know if you can help! (A mask is required and provided. You can take tests home with you!!) Interested in distro? Reach out!
April 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
thredd.bsky.social
🚨HELP NEEDED MONDAY 4/21 IN NYC (HARLEM)🚨

Rapid test delivery being done curbside, they refuse to do it to my door and I can’t physically lift the boxes. I have an elevator and can make a dolly available.

Please lmk if you can help! Anyone interested in distro also lmk!
April 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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clhagainstfascism.bsky.social
Join us on April 19 at 2:00 pm EDT for Guerilla Advocacy Round 2, a #50501 event. This is a virtual rally with captions. If there are other accessibility requests, we will do our best to provide! Speakers TBA.

Limited space; overflow streamed to YouTube.

Sign up👇
events.pol-rev.com/events/afc50...
Soft blue background with a little boy and a dog drawing. Text says yes I did it. No I'm not sorry. Yes, I'd do it again.
April 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
thredd.bsky.social
I spoke yesterday at an online #HandsOff event organized by @rubyslippahs.bsky.social. Here's my speech. Please keep talking about these important things, get involved in mutual aid efforts and community organizing, ask your neighbors how you can help, and know your rights.
I’m Robyn Saldino, I live in New York City, and I developed Long COVID after a COVID infection in December 2021. I’ve participated in advocacy across several orgs, I’m a RECOVER patient representative, I do resource distribution from my apartment, and I’m active in mutual aid efforts. I’ve also been fighting my own eviction for more than 18 months. After multiple months of trying to convince legal aid orgs to proactively take my case, give me advice, or point me to resources before I lost my housing or was served with an eviction notice, I found out that a warning and eviction had both been filed only after I emailed my landlord about a separate issue and was told my concern was likely made up, due only to the fact that we were about to go to court. I had not received either one. I again began trying to find a legal aid group to help me, and could not get anyone to give me advice without a case number or without physically going to court first. I repeatedly explained that my disability would prevent me from physically traveling to the courthouse, but still received no help. As a disabled person, it is extremely difficult for me to make last minute plans, and unlikely that I will be traveling to the courthouse in-person due to my disability. I need time to arrange for virtual accommodations, submit requests, and handle other paperwork that comes along with living in a world that is not designed for accessibility. The hardship that this causes is extraordinary, and knowing that no one has bothered to inform me is infuriating and disheartening. Throughout the course of my case, I was never given a lawyer, though here in NYC we have Right to Counsel, and I am legally entitled to have one present. I came into contact with more 50 people, lawyers, social workers, advocates, housing specialists, court workers, etc, and these contacts became my lifeline, but no one ever took on my case. I eventually was told to refer myself to Adult Protective Services. APS asked the court assign me a Guardian ad Litem. The case dragged on. My Landlord refused to accept a housing voucher. My APS worker helped to finally sort out my SNAP, utility benefit, and health insurance, and allowed me to finally, after more than 2 1/2 years in this city, see a doctor. My case took 18 months, and I won. Immediately after winning my case, my landlord filed for eviction again under a different pretense, and I successfully got that case dismissed, too. Mutual aid kept me afloat, allowing me to make a single payment to my landlord and extend the case long enough to continue searching for housing that would accept a voucher. It kept me fed when I didn’t have SNAP. It got me to a doctor and got me meds when I needed them. It got me to clinical trial appointments for a Long COVID trial I was enrolled in. It has allowed me to distribute thousands of covid tests and masks, to lend out my air purifiers, and even to give direct aid to long haulers in need of support. I live in a medically underserved community— a FEMA-designated, medically underserved community. My neighborhood has one of the highest eviction rates in the city. There is no Long COVID clinic in my community. We’re losing funding, care, homes, rights, and lives. Prior to the global outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, approximately 1 in 10 households were being threatened with evictions in formal court filings each year. By September 2020, that number was 1 in 6. 1 in 6 households were behind on rent and at risk of eviction. Renters were 2 to 6 times more likely to report housing insecurity than homeowners. Many of the filings were unresolved pre-pandemic cases, filed before the eviction moratorium was put into place in 2020, which means we were playing catch-up. When the moratorium ended in 2021, eviction filings increased 78.6% over the next year. Even if a tenant is able to win their case or gain access to a housing voucher, the housing crisis persists. Finding accessible housing is it’s own unique challenge. There is an extreme lack of accessible housing. Less than 5% of housing is accessible for people with moderate mobility needs. Less than 1% of housing is fully accessible for wheelchair users. The cost of living in the United States, and the average rent already exceeds the maximum monthly supplemental security income a person is able to receive. When people with disabilities apply for affordable housing, widespread discrimination coupled with a lack of available accessible housing, creates additional barriers that are more likely to lead to homelessness and institutionalization. I’m not having it. I’m saying hands off. Hands off our community, hands off our long haulers. We can do better. Thank you for being here.
April 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Disabled and chronically ill DV survivor struggling trying to balance things, get bills paid, make it to appts, take care of myself, etc. Recent tests worse than previous ones. New rx and new docs. Finally won eviction case. Trying to stay afloat.

Any help makes a difference. TYSM 🫶
thredd.bsky.social Robyn (Redd) @thredd.bsky.social · Mar 28
Help w/emergency needs:
💸PP: PayPal.me/RobynthRedd

Help me stay independent and safe:
👑WL: throne.com/robynthredd
March 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Help w/emergency needs:
💸PP: PayPal.me/RobynthRedd

Help me stay independent and safe:
👑WL: throne.com/robynthredd
March 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Disabled DV survivor at risk of losing utilities/apt due to $20k+ arrears. Fees are stacking, landlord is harassing me. Court again 7/29.

🏘️: $442/$2900 (June/July only, DUE 7/5 W/LATE FEE)
🔌: $285/$887 (FINAL NOTICE)

gofund.me/8991e474
PyPl/Vnmo: RobynthRedd

#MutualAid #Crowdfund #HousingCrisis
Disabled & chronically ill DV survivor w/o medical care for 4.5 yrs, no income/SSI. Dealing with worsening #LongCOVID symptoms and am now ~90% bedbound. Fighting ongoing eviction after kicking out abusive ex. Funds go toward $20k+ rent arrears. Next court date 7/29. Anything helps!! gofund.me/8991e474 paypal.me/RobynthRedd venmo.com/u/RobynthRedd APS is involved now and I’ve made some progress toward getting help (rent voucher, home care, medical care, etc), but I still have to pay rent/utilities in the meantime, assistance won’t cover everything, and I have considerable other expenses. I think I finally have SNAP! I should be getting home care started soon. It was recommended that I get a Rollator and a few small items to my living space to make it more accessible as soon as possible. For the time being/until I can see a doctor in person, these are my two biggest expenses: $2900 - Rent (June + July) $887 - ConEd (Final turnoff notice) gofund.me/8991e474 paypal.me/RobynthRedd venmo.com/u/RobynthRedd
July 3, 2024 at 11:31 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Have until tmro (5th) to make a payment before court!! I still owe more than $7000 to stop the eviction. Legal aid won’t talk to me about housing or DV stuff. Please 🎁💬🔄❤️

GoFundMe.com/f/RobynThRedd-emergency
PayPal/Venmo: @RobynThRedd

#MutualAidRequest #LongCovid #Crowdfund
thredd.bsky.social Robyn (Redd) @thredd.bsky.social · Nov 23
HRA denied my SNAP/Medicare/CA almost 2 wks ago and didn't notify me. Was denied an emerg. grant bc of a computer error. Requested a Fair Hearing. Was told I'd get a FH date by 12/8. Only have until 12/1 to pay arrears.

If you can help - 🎁💬❤️🔁

GFM: gofund.me/0d098f40
Venmo/PayPal: @RobynThRedd
February 5, 2024 at 1:21 AM
thredd.bsky.social
HRA denied my SNAP/Medicare/CA almost 2 wks ago and didn't notify me. Was denied an emerg. grant bc of a computer error. Requested a Fair Hearing. Was told I'd get a FH date by 12/8. Only have until 12/1 to pay arrears.

If you can help - 🎁💬❤️🔁

GFM: gofund.me/0d098f40
Venmo/PayPal: @RobynThRedd
November 23, 2023 at 4:42 AM
thredd.bsky.social
I waited longer than I should've to do this, and I'm sorry for asking. My abuser left ~$10k in arrears/utilities are gonna be cut off/I'm facing eviction. Grateful for support of any kind! #MutualAid #LongCovid
GFM: gofund.me/f97dabce
Venmo/Paypal: @RobynthRedd
Help me remain stably housed, organized by Robyn Saldino
In 2021, a pair of eucalytpus trees fell on the condo I shared with my mom. I was forced t… Robyn Saldino needs your support for Help me remain stably housed
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November 18, 2023 at 1:50 AM
thredd.bsky.social
SURVEY IS HERE!

Assessing Healthcare, Access, and Risk in the COVID-Safe Community (2023)
forms.gle/fziZyu43iwWP...

It will be up until (at least) DEC 1. Sign in w/gmail, answers will autosave, you can take your time!

Let's get some REAL DATA!
#KeepMasksInHealthcare #COVIDSAFE #BringBackMasks
Assessing Healthcare, Access, and Risk in the COVID-Safe Community (2023)
I recently posed the question: "Have you delayed/avoided avoided healthcare because of lack of masks/telehealth/safe providers/etc?" I asked for your experiences, and for your feedback regarding fur...
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November 10, 2023 at 6:17 AM
thredd.bsky.social
I forgot to post this here. I got Novavax on Thursday. Took me two weeks to find a CVS that had it but I argued with the pharmacist and they finally gave it to me for free under Bridge Access. Here’s my vaccine selfie @luckytran.bsky.social
A woman takes a selfie wearing a black tank top with silver letters that says “Stronger Than I Look.” She recently got vaccinated.
October 29, 2023 at 5:57 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Do they all do this?
A well-fed calico cat sleeps face down on a tan blanket.
October 28, 2023 at 11:22 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Currently working on putting together a spreadsheet so we can track our #Novavax data and use it to see how it really looks for those of us with #LongCovid. I’m hoping to have it ready by Monday, but I’ll keep you all posted. If you’re interested in helping, please let me know.
October 28, 2023 at 5:49 AM
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lamalembouchee.bsky.social
Repost this if trans people are welcome and safe with you. (image shows different people with the blue-pink-white-pink-blue trans flag)
September 20, 2023 at 6:05 AM
thredd.bsky.social
In the time that I’ve lived here, they’ve renovated:

-the apt across (with all windows open)
-the apt above
-the apt next door (with the door open)
-the apt under

Mine was a recent remodel and my oven doesn’t work, and my bdrm light is f’d up from the remodel above.

Rent has gone up 11%.
😐
October 10, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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catonabike.bsky.social
I need help. Can't look after myself any more. I have a recovery plan in mind but I can't make anything happen. I'm in Brixton, London #cfs #me #cfsme
October 7, 2023 at 12:03 AM
thredd.bsky.social
Updates on Novavax shots getting ready to ship from pharmacies in NJ and WA. The plan is to have access at pharmacies every 5 miles (or so we’re hearing). Walgreens won’t be carrying Novavax. 5 shots per vial, so take friends. Any unused shots can be returned by the pharmacy for a refund!
“Hallelujah! God’s Grace. Stacy is a Vaccine Account Manager at Novavax in NJ. I received a message from her a few minutes ago. Stacey - 8:24pm Hi! He emailed me at my personal email. The vaccine will start shopping early next week and will be available at CVS, Acme, Costco, Wegmans, and more. It won’t be available at Walgreens. Our local Novavax rep in Washington state and our McKesson local rep also contacted us today about our order getting ready to ship.
October 6, 2023 at 4:37 AM
thredd.bsky.social
Quick question- if I’m vaxxed, and I mean really vaxxed, so we’re talking 4x over - will my phone go off for the energy alert…or will it be my arm? Or both? Wondering if all 5G devices are involved here? My desktop also? Thanks in advance 😂
October 4, 2023 at 4:26 PM
thredd.bsky.social
Last time I'll post...

Got my ex out. I have no one else on this side of the country.

~1 day to find a WFH job or I won't be able to renew my lease.

Have certifications and 60+ college units. Willing to work multiple jobs/long hours. Happy to send a resume. TY!

#WFH #jobsearch
thredd.bsky.social Robyn (Redd) @thredd.bsky.social · Sep 30
Reposting b/c I have until Oct. 4 to renew my lease and I absolutely have to find a WFH job. Disability and PA are held up.

Have a cert. in Responsive Web Design, passed the NYSATAS, Coca-Cola Scholar, background in SpEd and ECE, super flexible, and I learn quickly! Please and TY so much!
thredd.bsky.social Robyn (Redd) @thredd.bsky.social · Sep 28
Have a BIG ask -

I finally got my ex out of the apt, but...

I desperately need to find a job in the next week or I won't be able to renew my lease. Disability is too slow rn. I've been looking for a year for a WFH job, so if anyone can connect me to anything, I'd be grateful. Thank you!
October 3, 2023 at 2:56 AM