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Dr. B
@bimle.bsky.social
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Tired public sociologist focused on disability justice, conservatorships, and service delivery systems. Covid cautious. I love kindness, plants, birding, and happy hour walks with my dog.

📢 Conserve trees, not people!

San Diego, CA
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Dr. B @bimle.bsky.social · Oct 17
Greetings fellow #Newskies & #Dogskies!
In an effort to connect here, I'll share pics of my 🧡, "Mia".

She is 2 yrs old, and a 60 lb mix of Rottweiler + land shark + princess, and may even be part gremlin!

We enjoy birding, sociology, reading, & happy hour walks! Hope to connect with kind people.
Big black and tan dog chewing a large stick while laying on grass. Big black and tan dog with sandy face sitting on sandy beach Big black and tan dog sitting on blanket sunbathing
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chantzy.bsky.social
The era of Covid aware stand up comedy is here and I am ready 😀
IG account jamestomxo Pictured - Asian comedian male wearing orange button up shirt with white shirt underneath on stage with mic. Caption "I still wear a mask in public. Because I care about public health. And I'm sick of people falling in love with me everywhere"
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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replsimon.bsky.social
Alice Wong was a fierce advocate for disabled people and a brilliant writer.

Her last words were: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

I hear you Alice, the fight for disability justice continues.
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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drruth.bsky.social
Looking for Novavax?
Here is the NOVAVAX (NUVAXOVID) VACCINE FINDER:
www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-loca...

Healthcare providers can order Novavax (Nuvaxovid) here: www.vaccineshoppe.com/vsh/en/USD/h...

#medsky 🛟😷
Dark blue background with lighter blue half circles. A few covid particles in yellow. Novavax. Packaging of Nuvaxovid (aka Novavax) in a white box with 10 pre-filled syringes without needels.
September 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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integralcareatx.bsky.social
💡 Did You Know? Intellectual disability is the most common developmental disability, affecting about 6.5 million people in the U.S., and about 1-3% of the global population; that's as many as 200 million people!
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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sfdirewolf.bsky.social
There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
Graphic by Finnegan Shannon with a white background and black text. Below is a QR code and hashtag #DisabledRage. Text reads, RAGE WITH US
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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drinfosec.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 from Biff (on Twitter as @Biff234523, formerly @Biff234524) regarding Novavax availability for 2025-26 season (USA scope)! 🚨🚨🚨

Full thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19408...

If you're short on time, bookmark this post (or 📌it). Then share it widely. ✨

#Novavax #Covid #Vaccine #SARSCOV2
🧵💉Comprehensive thread on where we stand on #Novavax for the 2025-2026 season, as of July 3rd: 🟢What we know for certain: 1. There are no does of Novavax currently available. 2. Novavax WILL BE AVAILABLE in the US for the fall vaccination campaign. 🔵What we are pretty sure of: 1. Novavax will be using the same formulation as last year, one targeting the JN.1 variant - by choice, this is not an issue. 2. You will have plenty of access pathways to recieve Novavax - but they may require some forethought. 🟡What we are unsure of: 1. Exact timing of availability - but we have some clues 2.The exact list of pharmacies that will be offering Novavax 3.The impact that the new ACIP will have on insurance coverage - but we have some clues. 🟢How do we know there are no doses available right now? All doses from the previous vaccine season expired on April 30th, a result of Novavax’s unfortunately short shelf life of 3 months. 🟢How do we know that Novavax will be available again in the fall? On May 16th, the current administration’s FDA, after a year of us fighting for this, finally approved Novavax’s BLA (which is essentially an application for “full approval”). Here is the approval letter: fda.gov/media/186545/d… 🔵Why are we pretty sure that Novavax is sticking with the “old” JN.1 formulation? It’s not a confirmed until we officially hear from them, but it would make little to no sense for them to deviate from the prior formula. The FDA’s VRBPAC met on May 22nd to discuss the formulation for 2025-2026 vaccines, and they came to the same conclusion as the World Health Organization’s TAG-CO-VAC, which is that any monovalent JN.1 formulation remains good target. That includes Novavax’s JN.1 from last year. Full VRBPAC meeting: m.youtube.com/watch?v=WX8rfa… CDC presentation from that meeting: fda.gov/media/186593/d… WHO’s TAG-CO-VAC presentation from that meeting: fda.gov/media/186598/d… Novavax presentation from that meeting: fda.gov/media/186596/d… If you’…
July 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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katecrane.bsky.social
A normie friend texted me about CR boxes. Burst of hope…

Corsi-Rosenthal boxes are easy to make, affordable, and effective! CR boxes make clean indoor air accessible

Try building some this summer with your friends
How to Build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box (USA) - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation
Dedicated to providing cleaner safer air for all.
corsirosenthalfoundation.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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motherjones.com
The bill will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately affecting the disabled community.

Disability advocates tell @juliametraux.bsky.social what this means 🧵
"An absolute moral failure": Disability advocates react to Trump's Medicaid cuts
"At the end of the day, this Congress lacks the courage to do the right thing."
www.motherjones.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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globalvoices.org
International Reggae Day (IRD) marks its 31st year with calls for a “refocus” – and perhaps a revival – of reggae music as a vehicle for activism.
International Reggae Day celebrates Jamaica’s iconic music by refocusing on activism and climate justice
International Reggae Day (IRD) marks its 31st year with calls for a “refocus” – and perhaps a revival – of reggae music as a vehicle for activism.
globalvoices.org
July 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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roey.bsky.social
Adding to this, I don't think people fully realize that this country has deported many US military veterans.

When I was in Tijuana a couple of years ago, the border wall along the beach separating Tijuana from San Diego is full of names of deported vets.

Truly shocking to see the magnitude of it.
Pillars on the Mexico-US border wall at the beach in Tijuana, Mexico. This picture has at least a dozen pillars about ten feet high and each one has at least two names of deported veterans, with many followed by their branch (some have USN for US Navy, USMC for US Marine Corps, or US Army written after them. Several others who have passed away have their names followed by RIP)
June 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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monicabyrne13.bsky.social
I found this piece extremely helpful in understanding what's happening to me and some of the people I love.
From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”
organizingmythoughts.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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calscdd.bsky.social
The California State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) stands in solidarity with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their families, the cross-disability community, and our allies.

Read the entire statement here: conta.cc/3Sb4LHy
The California State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) stands in solidarity with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their families, the cross-disability community, and our allies. Read the entire statement here: https://conta.cc/3Sb4LHy
May 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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politicsandplates.bsky.social
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Federal law requires Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) & supports inclusion of disabled students in general education settings. Will our children end up like Willowbrook? disabilityjustice.org/the-closing-...
The Closing of Willowbrook - Disability Justice
A watershed case in the evolution of the legal rights of people with disabilities to live in dignity arose out of public awareness of the horrific conditions under which children and adults with disab...
disabilityjustice.org
May 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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mariankornicki.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/janewell...
Conservatorship: A Good Way to Lose Everything
Your mother is slowly losing her mind, and you’re concerned that she’s going to give away all of her money to a niece, or to your brother, or a caregiver, maybe her ex-husband, even a Nigerian prince.
open.substack.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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mariankornicki.bsky.social
cbs12.com/news/local/t...
The Deciders: How vulnerable adults end up in guardianships
As the CBS12 News I-Team has been reporting for years on the guardianship system, which strips vulnerable adults of their rights and freedoms.
cbs12.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
I am interested in hearing from people still left at the Administration for Community Living about the status of programs for @motherjones.com. My signal is juliametraux.49.
April 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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altyellonatpark.org
Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
A perfect bouquet of Monkey Flower with a very blurry background of microbial mats.
March 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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nicholsonbaker.bsky.social
Tracy Chapman.

"Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution."

(Pencil drawing after a 2003 photo by Andrew Williams.)
February 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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nicholsonbaker.bsky.social
woman and dog on #redditgetsdrawn.
#socialfaces
March 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
bimle.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Forced sterilization of disabled people isn't a relic of the past
In most states, eugenics laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients—even against their will.
www.motherjones.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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zinnedproject.bsky.social
#BHM2025 The life of Rosa Parks offers crucial lessons for young people about a life of activism that is dangerous for guardians of the status quo.

See YA book about her life & work with orgs in Montgomery & Detroit. (Limited free copies for K-12 teachers ⬇️.)

www.zinnedproject.org/news/young-r...
Free Copies of the Young Readers Edition of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Thanks to a donation, the Zinn Education Project is offering sets of five copies of the book to middle and high school teachers with a plan for using and promoting the young readers' edition of The Re...
www.zinnedproject.org
February 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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luckytran.com
Carl Sagan's prediction in 1995. We are here now.
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
February 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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librarianmer.bsky.social
This. I'm honestly scared to ask a big group of friends to mask because I know how painful it would be for me if they said no (plus I don't want to be the buzzkill who ruins the party vibe). So instead, I just skip all the social events and life goes on without me. thesicktimes.org/2025/01/30/t...
The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19 - The Sick Times
Over the last five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people have experienced significant changes and ruptures to their personal relationships. People with Long COVID and people taking COVID...
thesicktimes.org
February 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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tananarivedue.bsky.social
The new regime's racism just helped inspire what I predict will be the Blackity Blackest Black History Month in a while.

Reposting this photo to commemorate the festivities.

Also, a whole mood.

#LiftEveryChairandSwing
Tananarive in an evening gown at a baby grand piano with a white folding chair.
February 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM