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Destiny Sugarbuns

@destinysugarbuns.bsky.social

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She/her. Sex worker, survivor, autistic, adopted. Historian and writer. Profile ID: Photo of path between trees and flowers & text reading, "We are the wayside / community is a journey." Header ID: "Ever-masker" over collage of words like "ever-reader,"

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · Aug 23

Covid Conscious dresses and magnets and stuff

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DestinySugarbuns is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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👻 thespian lesbian 🧟‍♀️ (acetaminophen confit) @chatagp.bsky.social · 13h

😍 more here chatagp.redbubble.com :3

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chatAGP is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 1d

I give not a single solitary fuck how fat the Guardsmen Greg Abbott sent to Chicago are. He could have a whole unit of Jabbas in special-order unis lowered in by crane, & still all I'd care about is the governor of Texas sending troops into another state for political theater. STFU w/ fat jokes.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a care home employee post a video of one of her charges dancing when she thought she was alone and care providers, you really need to…well, CARE about your patients’ privacy! My grandma would have been mortified.

Kids, elders, and disabled people aren’t your content.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

wow that sounds like an issue for industry to solve

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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 1d

This one's for all the parents who have told me they're going through hell trying to find Covid vaccines for their children: It's not just you! Gift link:

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

www.nytimes.com

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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JP @jp30567.bsky.social · 1d

More of mine here on Redbubble:
www.redbubble.com/people/221c/...

or Spreadshirt:
221c.myspreadshop.net/accessories+...

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 1d

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DestinySugarbuns Shop | Redbubble

DestinySugarbuns is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 1d

Love this community!

@thecakelin.bsky.social
@friend4thelonghaul.bsky.social
@chatagp.bsky.social

#CCBiz #LongCovid #CovidConscious #StillMasking #StillCoviding #YallMasking #SaltingtheVibes #ForTinu #MaskUpForTinu #CovidIsn'tOver

Close-up of three round enamel pins. The first depicts a mask, a shot and a checkmark. Text above these symbols reads, "Mask, Vax, Clean Air Tasks / Ventilate & Filtrate." The second depicts a (negative) white covid test, with text above and below it reading, "Think Positive / Stay Negative." Smaller print reads, ESTD 2020. The third depicts a pixelated image resembling a shield with one stripe in pink on a brown background. Pixelated words over and on the shield read, "spread joy not covid."

A cotton tote bag laying flat on a table, with the straps folded at an angle over the top of the bag. The words, "We are the wayside" appear on the bag three times in black bubble letters outlined with white, each time written over the image of a heart within-a-heart-within-a-heart, dozens of hearts deep, becoming smaller and smaller. Each heart is a different color matching one of the layers of the disability pride flag - red, yellow, white, blue, green, and black. A border of plain white cotton is visible all around the edge of the tote.

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 1d

Drop a link to your pins, if you've got them!

@thenailguru.bsky.social
@berlin-buyers-club.bsky.social
@actagainstcovid.ca
@smpwrgr.bsky.social
@charleswaltz.bsky.social
@thecakelin.bsky.social
#CCBiz #CovidConscious #LongCovid
#StillMasking
#SaltingTheVibes

Close-up of a round enamel pin depicting an N95 mask, with words above and below reading, "Masking Is Community Care."

Close-up of a round enamel pin with text reading: "We are living in a mass disabling event / Don't ignore long covid"

Close-up of two round enamel pins. One depicts a blue virus shape behind green text reading, "Airborne" beneath a checkmark and red text reading "over" with a red line striking through, followed by the words, "Covid is not over." The second pin is red with white text reading, "Warning: This Pandemic Won't End Until We Clean The Air."

Close-up of three round enamel pins in a column. The one on the bottom depicts a mask, a shot and a checkmark. Text above these symbols reads, "Mask, Vax, Clean Air Tasks / Ventilate & Filtrate." The middle depicts Shakespeare wearing a respirator beside the words,"Fair is foul and foul is fair: HEPA through the fog and filthy air." The pin on top is red with white text reading, "Warning: This Pandemic Won't End Until We Clean The Air."

Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 1d

All pins available on RedBubble except the rabbit, available on Bibipins!

@sarahwlongcovid.bsky.social
@moonmonkey.bsky.social
@bibiblossoms.bsky.social
@cfreilich.bsky.social
@trashelly.bsky.social
@chronicillness.bsky.social
@ordinarykary.bsky.social
#CCBiz #CovidConscious

Close-up of two round enamel pins. The one center-frame depicts an N95 mask on a white brick wall, with words above and below reading: "Fight fascist Eugenics / masking is punk." Mostly in-frame, a second pin above this depicts a light blue circle with orange text in the center reading, "Clean air or riot". A band of orange and blue checkered squares ring the outside of the circle.

Close-up of two pins. One depicts a light blue circle with orange text in the center reading, "Clean air or riot". A band of orange and blue checkered squares ring the outside of the circle. A second, pink, heart-shaped pin depicts a smiling black cartoon rabbit with big shining eyes holding a carrot, with a crescent moon in the corner. The words "#ForTinu" appear in blue type outlined in gold beside the rabbit, and the heart is rimmed with gold.

Close-up of a round enamel pin, depicting a cartoon chef wearing a white N95, chef hat, white lab coat and little bowtie, standing over a tray of test tubes, with a shaker of salt on one end and a steaming bowl of white substance on the other. The chef sprinkles a white substance over the test tubes using a spoon. The background is a shade of blue that matches his bowtie. Words above and below read, "salting the vibes."

Close-up of three round enamel pins in a line. The first depicts a yellow emoji wearing an N95 mask and glittery stoggles. The half-closed eyes tilt to the right, as though giving side-eye to the character on the pin beside it. This pin depicts a smiling yellow star with a rainbow cloak. Text above and below the star reads, "Don't Be Disabled! / You're Making Everyone Uncomfortable." Third in the row is a pin of bright melding hues as background for the text, which reads, "Accessibility is not optional."

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to see all the covid conscious artists I know in one place! Comment if you know of any other Bluesky artists with pins in the community, or link to your pins!

@jp30567.bsky.social @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social @aliciagloom.bsky.social @moonmonkey.bsky.social
#CCBiz #CovidConscious

A white cotton tote bag lies flat on a table. The words "We are the wayside" appear on the bag three times in black bubble letters outlined with white, each time written over the image of a heart within-a-heart-within-a-heart, dozens of hearts deep, becoming smaller and smaller. Each heart is a different color matching one of the layers of the disability pride flag - red, yellow, white, blue, green, and black. A border of plain white cotton is visible all around the edge of the tote. 18 round enamel pins stick to the white border.

Close-up of two round enamel pins. One depicts an N95 mask over which are written the words, "Wear a mask," with words above and below reading, "Disabled Not Disposable." The other depicts the silhouette of a head with short hair. A white KN95 mask sits on the black silhouette. White text on the silhouette's forehead reads, "I think, therefore." Black text on the white mask reads, "I mask."

Close up of two and a half round enamel pins. The pin at center frame depicts a rainbow above text reading, "Solidarity Includes Masking / the pandemic isn't over." Mostly in frame, another pin above this depicts an N95 mask on a white brick wall, with words above and below reading: "Fight fascist Eugenics / masking is punk."

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Dr ICE Scream Maker: Slasher of Fash 🔪 @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 2d

Permabanning an autistic user for presumed subtext he categorically denies is ableist as hell.

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 3d

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back?

From my understanding:

Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned.

opencollective.com/blacksky

Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

opencollective.com

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 2d

Also an important lesson for cis White folks (straight men especially): Your threat of withholding support or allyship means less than nothing to anyone historically marginalized. It's literally the baseline assumption we work from. You're not "showing us," you're just confirming our expectations.

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 2d

how do you do, fellow Mexicans?

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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 2d

"I had a copy of the anarchist cookbook that I had photoshopped..."

Does he think "photoshopped" means "took pictures with my phone"?

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 2d

Someone that is self employed in a physically demanding job told me they lost out on two months of work due to preventable flu/C19 type illness.

Who does public health serve? #NSWHealth.

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors.

They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

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