I Futz With Fire
@ifutzwithfire.bsky.social
Studio jewelry artist- silver, gemstones, vitreous enamel, & everything else (once I get around to it). No I don’t want to buy your gemstones.
AuDHD, multiply disabled, surviving through sheer obstinacy and n95s.
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AuDHD, multiply disabled, surviving through sheer obstinacy and n95s.
https://linktr.ee/ifutzwithfire
And btw such requirements are not new- every couple years I have to fill out ABAWD paperwork. That stands for Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents and is essentially a form wherein people who don’t have kids have to argue that they still deserve to eat, and the able bodied part… yeah.
A proposed work requirement would make Medicaid expansion enrollees prove they’re working or meet other criteria. Most already work, but millions are expected to lose coverage if the provision passes, many from red tape.
@realbrambo.bsky.social reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
@realbrambo.bsky.social reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works - KFF Health News
A proposed work requirement would make Medicaid expansion enrollees prove they’re working or meet other criteria. Most already work, but millions are expected to lose coverage if the provision passes,...
kffhealthnews.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And btw such requirements are not new- every couple years I have to fill out ABAWD paperwork. That stands for Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents and is essentially a form wherein people who don’t have kids have to argue that they still deserve to eat, and the able bodied part… yeah.
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Shorter Alito's concurrence: "The majority said the law doesn't discriminate against transgender status. I disagree. I think it does discriminate against transgender status and that's good."
He's just completely given up on the game and is happy to tell everyone what the majority really believes.
He's just completely given up on the game and is happy to tell everyone what the majority really believes.
www.supremecourt.gov
June 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Shorter Alito's concurrence: "The majority said the law doesn't discriminate against transgender status. I disagree. I think it does discriminate against transgender status and that's good."
He's just completely given up on the game and is happy to tell everyone what the majority really believes.
He's just completely given up on the game and is happy to tell everyone what the majority really believes.
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PIP 4-point rule impact:
• 1.3m people at risk
• 440k (33%) expected to lose benefits
• 860k expected to keep them via worsened conditions/appeals
• Ratio: 1 loses for every 2 who keep benefits
Why terrorize 1.3m people then? #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
• 1.3m people at risk
• 440k (33%) expected to lose benefits
• 860k expected to keep them via worsened conditions/appeals
• Ratio: 1 loses for every 2 who keep benefits
Why terrorize 1.3m people then? #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
PIP 4-point rule impact:
• 1.3m people at risk
• 440k (33%) expected to lose benefits
• 860k expected to keep them via worsened conditions/appeals
• Ratio: 1 loses for every 2 who keep benefits
Why terrorize 1.3m people then? #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
• 1.3m people at risk
• 440k (33%) expected to lose benefits
• 860k expected to keep them via worsened conditions/appeals
• Ratio: 1 loses for every 2 who keep benefits
Why terrorize 1.3m people then? #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
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No, the Skirmetti decision is not "limited" and is not an excuse for transmedicalism or throwing nonbinary people or people who don't or can't medically transition under the proverbial bus.
June 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
No, the Skirmetti decision is not "limited" and is not an excuse for transmedicalism or throwing nonbinary people or people who don't or can't medically transition under the proverbial bus.
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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
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June 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Yeah, it was that stupid.
June 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Yeah, it was that stupid.
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For the most part, trans folks who are disabled / chronically ill face insurmountable barriers to emigrating out of this fucking hellscape
June 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For the most part, trans folks who are disabled / chronically ill face insurmountable barriers to emigrating out of this fucking hellscape
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Labour expects hundreds of thousands to keep PIP via appeals. But appeals destroy mental health and cost millions. So why force this ordeal? Only explanation: you want the appearance of savings, not real ones. Pure cruelty. #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Labour expects hundreds of thousands to keep PIP via appeals. But appeals destroy mental health and cost millions. So why force this ordeal? Only explanation: you want the appearance of savings, not real ones. Pure cruelty. #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
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mask up, prevent it 😷🤙
It's a preprint, but this also suggests COVID damage may reactivate latent viruses. Given CMV is the same family as VZV, I wonder if this suggests increasing cases of shingles to come. Might be a good idea to get a shingles vaccine if you haven't.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
Risk factors for cytomegalovirus reactivation and disease in critically-ill COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients, concomitantly admitted to intensive care
Background Critically-ill patients are at increased risk for cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation, associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Given the surge in intensive care unit (ICU) admissions duri...
www.researchsquare.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
mask up, prevent it 😷🤙
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
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Shortly after Oct. 7th I was invited to this museum for a new exhibit about resistance against the nazis in Denmark and I wrote a piece saying it reminded why we need to brave and stand up for the people of Gaza. I sent them the link and they never replied and I was never invited again lol
At a board member's behest, New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage removed images of Trump from an exhibit on hate speech—a move critics say exemplifies how museum leadership has increasingly catered to the right.
Alex Kane reports:
Alex Kane reports:
New York Holocaust Museum Removed Trump Images From Hate Speech…
Critics say the deletion—due to a board member’s intervention—exemplifies how museum leadership has increasingly catered to the right.
jewishcurrents.org
June 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Shortly after Oct. 7th I was invited to this museum for a new exhibit about resistance against the nazis in Denmark and I wrote a piece saying it reminded why we need to brave and stand up for the people of Gaza. I sent them the link and they never replied and I was never invited again lol
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normalize respirators in your daily life. when you do, when you see the choice to use a personal air filter as more akin to sunglasses (worn by all, often for fashion regardless of ocular welfare) than, say, a cast (indicative of active health concerns, often not a choice), all around you benefit.
June 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
normalize respirators in your daily life. when you do, when you see the choice to use a personal air filter as more akin to sunglasses (worn by all, often for fashion regardless of ocular welfare) than, say, a cast (indicative of active health concerns, often not a choice), all around you benefit.
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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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The FDA approved twice-yearly lenacapavir (Yeztugo) for PrEP, making it the longest-acting HIV prevention method. Advocates lauded the eagerly awaited approval but expressed concern that the $28,000 annual price tag could limit access as HIV prevention funding is being slashed in the US & worldwide.
FDA Approves Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention
More than 99% of people who received Yeztugo in two large clinical trials remained HIV negative.
www.poz.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The FDA approved twice-yearly lenacapavir (Yeztugo) for PrEP, making it the longest-acting HIV prevention method. Advocates lauded the eagerly awaited approval but expressed concern that the $28,000 annual price tag could limit access as HIV prevention funding is being slashed in the US & worldwide.
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Reporting on this story was interesting because it forced me to check my own biases. I'm as anti-gun as they come, but my personal feelings couldn't get in the way of accurately sharing the facts. There's a story to be written about the morality of guns at protests, but this isn't that story.
NEW: A protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City 'No Kings' march. A man is in police custody, booked on suspicion of murder—but not the one who fired the gun. From video, witnesses and interviews, @schotthappens.com and I tried to piece together what really happened Saturday.
Our report-
Our report-
What actually happened at the Salt Lake City ‘No Kings’ shooting?
One man is dead. Another is in jail—but not the one who fired his gun.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reporting on this story was interesting because it forced me to check my own biases. I'm as anti-gun as they come, but my personal feelings couldn't get in the way of accurately sharing the facts. There's a story to be written about the morality of guns at protests, but this isn't that story.
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Rather than celebrating, HIV researchers whose layoffs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were reversed say they’re anxious about the future of their work and the censorship of science.
@amymaxmen.bsky.social reports on the details. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
@amymaxmen.bsky.social reports on the details. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
CDC Staffing Upheaval Disrupts HIV Projects and Wastes Money, Researchers Say - KFF Health News
Researchers laid off in April were putting the finishing touches on in-depth HIV surveys that guide treatment and prevention. Some staff have been reinstated, but data remains in limbo.
kffhealthnews.org
June 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Rather than celebrating, HIV researchers whose layoffs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were reversed say they’re anxious about the future of their work and the censorship of science.
@amymaxmen.bsky.social reports on the details. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
@amymaxmen.bsky.social reports on the details. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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listen ... calling SWAT on ICE* is not an optimal response, but I'm not sure it's a bad response given the givens.
*armed men who don't identify who they are
*armed men who don't identify who they are
NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE.
Inside one day on LI:
theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...
Inside one day on LI:
theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...
ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash
Masked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs.
theintercept.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
listen ... calling SWAT on ICE* is not an optimal response, but I'm not sure it's a bad response given the givens.
*armed men who don't identify who they are
*armed men who don't identify who they are
Get on resistbot or the phone and talk to your reps about this! Tell them your expectations. Specifically that you expect them to base their decisions on legitimate science, and that you expect them to do whatever is in their power to remove this maliciously incompetent ghoul.
Health experts sound the alarm: An HHS document sent to members of Congress uses debunked studies to question the safety of covid vaccines. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say - KFF Health News
A look inside the Department of Health and Human Services document citing vaccine misinformation that could influence congressional perceptions.
kffhealthnews.org
June 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Get on resistbot or the phone and talk to your reps about this! Tell them your expectations. Specifically that you expect them to base their decisions on legitimate science, and that you expect them to do whatever is in their power to remove this maliciously incompetent ghoul.
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Turns out Brian Wilson had Long Covid. Did not know about this one. Still no cause of death released though.
Brian Wilson 'went silent' and 'became detached' after battling COVID-19 uk.news.yahoo.com/brian-wilson...
Brian Wilson 'went silent' and 'became detached' after battling COVID-19 uk.news.yahoo.com/brian-wilson...
Brian Wilson 'went silent' and 'became detached' after battling COVID-19
Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson "went silent" and "became detached" as he battled the long-term effects of COVID-19, according to his bandmate Al Jardine.
uk.news.yahoo.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Turns out Brian Wilson had Long Covid. Did not know about this one. Still no cause of death released though.
Brian Wilson 'went silent' and 'became detached' after battling COVID-19 uk.news.yahoo.com/brian-wilson...
Brian Wilson 'went silent' and 'became detached' after battling COVID-19 uk.news.yahoo.com/brian-wilson...
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Health experts sound the alarm: An HHS document sent to members of Congress uses debunked studies to question the safety of covid vaccines. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say - KFF Health News
A look inside the Department of Health and Human Services document citing vaccine misinformation that could influence congressional perceptions.
kffhealthnews.org
June 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Health experts sound the alarm: An HHS document sent to members of Congress uses debunked studies to question the safety of covid vaccines. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Worth noting why I back Stella Creasy's amendment specifically.
The other amendment does not fully decriminalise abortion — it would still criminalise eg partners and healthcare professionals who help you access abortion, and means you could be forced to give evidence in court.
The other amendment does not fully decriminalise abortion — it would still criminalise eg partners and healthcare professionals who help you access abortion, and means you could be forced to give evidence in court.
It’s time for decriminalisation.
👇 Ask your MP to back @stellacreasy.bsky.social 's amendment to the Policing Bill.
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👇 Ask your MP to back @stellacreasy.bsky.social 's amendment to the Policing Bill.
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June 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Worth noting why I back Stella Creasy's amendment specifically.
The other amendment does not fully decriminalise abortion — it would still criminalise eg partners and healthcare professionals who help you access abortion, and means you could be forced to give evidence in court.
The other amendment does not fully decriminalise abortion — it would still criminalise eg partners and healthcare professionals who help you access abortion, and means you could be forced to give evidence in court.
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when i got married last month, i made a little joke in my wedding vows about how i fell in love the weekend i had to wash my hair with dish soap five times to get the pepper spray out of it. nobody laughed but hopefully they learned something - dawn really does cut through the oil in OC spray.
June 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
when i got married last month, i made a little joke in my wedding vows about how i fell in love the weekend i had to wash my hair with dish soap five times to get the pepper spray out of it. nobody laughed but hopefully they learned something - dawn really does cut through the oil in OC spray.