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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 3h

Also, the way to not "die on that hill" is to be united. These folks who want to jettison trans folks, immigrants, Black folks, etc. are so short sighted they think it'd be a victory to die a couple steps later, when choosing solidarity is actually choosing to not die at all

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 4h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 6h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 2h

Delighting in a well written article is not an obsession

Then there’s the fact that the article contains no lies

How obsessed do you have to be to think some legitimate criticism is unhealthy

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I have important forms that need to be dropped off in person (because Canada Post is on strike) by next week.

I need help with travel costs

Anything helps

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar

#MutualAid

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 22h

It sounds like eugenics to me

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I have important forms that need to be dropped off in person (because Canada Post is on strike) by next week.

I need help with travel costs

Anything helps

#MutualAidRequest

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar

#MutualAid

Pay Wren Frey using PayPal.Me

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s allowed as long as the patient can’t be identified

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s because it’s what he says every time her name is mentioned

People have already forgotten that she got transferred to Club Fed for telling the DOJ some lies

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just eugenics frankly

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s eugenics to suggest disabled people should feel guilty for doing what they need to stay alive

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

This framing is eugenics

Everyone inadvertently contributes a small amount to climate change

Picking out disabled people as a focus regarding life saving medicine can only come from prejudice

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t use a wheelchair but I’m pretty sure if you can physically enter 90% of private homes that you are oppressed

Introverts not so much

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

Thank the gods I’m Canadian

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

My disabled ass will die on the hill of introverts aren’t oppressed

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all sure why we went with budget Santas

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

Do all those liberals and "don't pester Bluesky CEO/engineers" people still think nothing is wrong, and this place is doing fine or

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

I was not aware that the guy who strategically refuses to speak English was apolitical

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

Jimmy Kimmel and Bad Bunny are obviously different in a lot of ways. but they're similar figures in that they are wildly popular entertainers who are largely seen as apolitical and nonpartisan. 1

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

It is a terrible idea to use the vulnerable as a cudgel

It will only send more harassment their way

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

Even people who don’t hate mutual aid will hate an unending timeline of aid requests

It will only make people angrier at mutual aid requests

You don’t use the vulnerable as your front line offense

Far better to spam investors with complaints

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

You have no income stream without users

Users are what give a social network its value

How are you confused about this in 2025?

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Are you paying us? Where?

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 1d

Best tweet