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Joy Lives Here (day/dem/dares)
@joyliveshere.bsky.social
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Disabled. Queer. Creator. Sr. NPComms Pro.
Trying to help build the world I want to live in.
People > Profit, Productivity, Property.
Prickly when riled.
Boston, MA
Likes: collaboration, curiosity, compassion. Dislikes: competition, coercion, conformity.
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Last three have all given the local police the go ahead to bulldoze homeless encampments, displace the people living in them, and discard personal belongings including wheelchairs, medications, and other essentials.
Screenshot: bostonmagazine.com Boston = O NEWS A Scene from "Operation Clean Sweep" in the South End: Crushed Wheelchairs Witnesses say police are collecting and destroying belongings on "Methadone Mile." by SPENCER BUELL. 8/7/2019, 12:50 p.m. Screenshot: Photo of dump truck crushing wheelchairs via Twitter/Dinah Applewhite As "Operation Clean Sweep" continues in Boston's South End this week, witnesses to a crackdown in the city's so-called "Methadone Mile" say they saw a jarring sight: wheelchairs tossed into trash trucks and crushed. Photos shared online Tuesday night during a police operation in the area appear to show several wheelchairs among a mass of items in the back of a Screenshot: WCVB5 abc Boston’s News Leader Photo of two bulldozers clearing the debris left after tents were knocked down and cleared out of the Mass Cass homeless encampments. Bulldozers start clearing tents from Mass & Cass encampment in Boston Updated: 3:28 PM EST Jan 12, 2022 Boston- Workers used bulldozers on… Screenshot: Cont. from WCVB article …one shelter to another shelter," Norris Cowart said. Photo of bulldozers pushing debris from destruction of Mass Cass encampments Wu said this week that some of the tents are so large and fortified that they may not be all gone by Wednesday, but the city is focused on getting people into warm and safe housing as soon as possible. The city has posted flyers on these tents informing residents of the deadline. Officials have also increased outreach this week to inform people about their housing options.
November 3, 2023 at 3:22 AM
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Thank you! The orange & blue were a really fun color combo. It’s more of an orchid/silver now and overdue for a touch up.
Joy, a nonbinary person with pale skin and colorful hair in orchid and silver.
November 1, 2023 at 6:39 PM
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With alt text:
Screenshot of post by Mohammed EI-Kurd @m7mdkurd with image of flyer in original Arabic attached. Flyer is on red & white paper w/IDF seal visible. Translation reads: The Israeli military drops new messages over Gaza City: "everyone who hasn't evacuated from northern Gaza to the south might be treated as a member of a terrorist organization. «Your presence in Gaza valley increases your chances of death." Genocide.
October 21, 2023 at 9:03 PM
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Hans Elmo Haid • 5d @hanselmohaid.bsky.social 0• #Remigration muss jetzt anlaufen. Was wir gestern in vielen Städten Deutschlands gesehen haben war zuviel des guten. #Frankfurt #Dresden #Köln Diese Araber kamen unter dem Deckmantel der Opferrolle nach D. Jetzt lehnen sie sich gegen andere Völker auf. Es reicht!!! #Remigration must start now. What we saw yesterday in many cities in Germany was too much of a good thing. #Frankfurt #Dresden #Cologne These Arabs came to D under the guise of victimhood. Now they are rebelling against other peoples. It is enough!!!
October 20, 2023 at 10:27 PM
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I’ve started a mute list for the influx of Nazi accounts. I’ll be screenshot if and sharing some of the accounts I haven’t seen others pass around already in this thread with alt text and translations for those in languages other than English.
Den einzigsten Gochtt... .19d @gochdereinzigwahre.bsky.. Wenn Du auch für • Rassismus Faschismus & Queerfeindlichkeit Sexismus Ableismus & Verschwörungstheorien Umweltzerstörung und • soziale Ungerechtigkeit bist, bitte retweeten oder kopieren. Denn #wirsindmehr. Screenshot of translation: If you also for • Racism ~ Fascism & Queer hostility § Sexism • Ableism Conspiracy theories • Environmental destruction and ¿ social injustice If you are, please retweet or Because #wearemore.
October 20, 2023 at 10:22 PM
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(1/B/ii) — Bigotry, particularly as it relates to systemic forms of oppression & discrimination, has a very real impact on the mental health of those who are habitually targets for institutional discrimination and identity-based violence.

www.pjcvt.org/blog/racism-...
https://www.pjcvt.org/blog/racism-isnt-a-mental-illness-and-bigotry-isnt-a-disability/ STRESS The International Journal on the Biology of Stress http://informahealthcare.com/sts ISSN: 1025-3890 (print), 1607-8888 (electronic) Stress, 2015; 18(1): 1-10 © 2014 Informa UK Ltd. DOl: 10.3109/10253890.2014.989204 informa healthcare REVIEW ARTICLE "More than skin deep": stress neurobiology and mental health consequences of racial discrimination Maximus Berger' and Zoltán Sarnyail:2 'Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia Abstract Ethnic minority groups across the world face a complex set of adverse social and psychological challenges linked to their minority status, often involving racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is increasingly recognized as an important contributing factor to health disparities among non-dominant ethnic minorities. A growing body of literature has recogn
October 19, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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(1/B)- Of particular note, using mental health terminology to discuss racism/bigotry adds another layer by implying a pathological origin for behaviors, attitudes, & beliefs that stem from systemic, cultural norms rooted in coercive conformity & supremacist ideologies.

www.nami.org/Personal-Sto...
There are no scientific studies linking someone's mental health with their propensity to commit acts of violence. But by repeatedly pushing that connection, Trump is perpetuating stigma and feeding widespread prejudice that people with mental health conditions, or psychosocial disabilities, are prone to commit acts of violence. In fact, the vast majority of people with mental health conditions are not violent, but rather more likely to be victims of violence themselves. People with actual or perceived mental health conditions are among the most stigmatized and marginalized in the US. Trump's remarks do them a further disservice by using them as scapegoats for a serious problem in the country, as he has done with migrants, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable minorities.
October 19, 2023 at 9:33 PM
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Oh hey, I just started working on explainer content w/references for why & how this harms people w/mental illness & is a really shitty thing to do.

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https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/Don-t-Call-Me-Crazy There are no scientific studies linking someone's mental health with their propensity to commit acts of violence. But by repeatedly pushing that connection, Trump is perpetuating stigma and feeding widespread prejudice that people with mental health conditions, or psychosocial disabilities, are prone to commit acts of violence. In fact, the vast majority of people with mental health conditions are not violent, but rather more likely to be victims of violence themselves.
October 19, 2023 at 9:30 PM
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Are skeet with how people would know if you suddenly became rich.

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Screenshot of AFSC website: AFSC Q < NEWS How to create a mutual aid network BY MARY ZERKEL UPDATED JAN 7, 2022 Photo of a woman picking up food at what looks like a good bank or community kitchen.
October 19, 2023 at 8:51 PM
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Inigo, my ex wife’s blue front Amazon. Smol birb, big personality.
Inigo, a blue front Amazon parrot, standing on her play perch.
October 19, 2023 at 3:51 AM
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This is Sophie, the love of my life.
Sophie, a tan cat curled up in a donut.
October 19, 2023 at 3:39 AM
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(1/B/ii) — Bigotry, particularly as it relates to systemic forms of oppression & discrimination, has a very real impact on the mental health of those who are habitually targets for institutional discrimination and identity-based violence.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
STRESS The International Journal on the Biology of Stress http://informahealthcare.com/sts ISSN: 1025-3890 (print), 1607-8888 (electronic) Stress, 2015; 18(1): 1-10 © 2014 Informa UK Ltd. DOl: 10.3109/10253890.2014.989204 informa healthcare REVIEW ARTICLE "More than skin deep": stress neurobiology and mental health consequences of racial discrimination Maximus Berger' and Zoltán Sarnyail:2 'Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia Abstract Ethnic minority groups across the world face a complex set of adverse social and psychological challenges linked to their minority status, often involving racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is increasingly recognized as an important contributing factor to health disparities among non-dominant ethnic minorities. A growing body of literature has recognized these health disparities and has investigated the relationship between racial discr
October 18, 2023 at 1:54 AM
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(1/B)- Of particular note, using mental health terminology to discuss racism/bigotry adds another layer by implying a pathological origin for behaviors, attitudes, & beliefs that stem from systemic, cultural norms rooted in coercive conformity & supremacist ideologies.

www.pjcvt.org/blog/racism-...
There are no scientific studies linking someone's mental health with their propensity to commit acts of violence. But by repeatedly pushing that connection, Trump is perpetuating stigma and feeding widespread prejudice that people with mental health conditions, or psychosocial disabilities, are prone to commit acts of violence. In fact, the vast majority of people with mental health conditions are not violent, but rather more likely to be victims of violence themselves. People with actual or perceived mental health conditions are among the most stigmatized and marginalized in the US. Trump's remarks do them a further disservice by using them as scapegoats for a serious problem in the country, as he has done with migrants, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable minorities.
October 18, 2023 at 1:46 AM
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(1) Using terms/slurs commonly associated with mental health muddies the waters around what mental health is & reinforces the stigma people with mental illness (PWMI) already experience.
(1/A) - PWMI are more likely to be victims of violence that to perpetuate violence

www.nami.org/Personal-Sto...
nami.org National Alliance on Mental Illness In the light of recent events, there has been a lot of focus on mental illness and it hasn't been positive. Studies have shown that people living with mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violent crimes than the perpetrators, but that doesn't stop some in society from blaming us for almost every violent act reported.
October 18, 2023 at 1:34 AM
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Oh my, the thread has grown and now links to another on a similar them. I’ve screenshot a few choice examples. Enjoy!

Source: x.com/melissabreen...
Screenshot of Tweet: lissaaahh!!! @melissabreenx Ineed a proper hard hitting insult that means 'silly' that isn't an ableist slur 10:29 AM • 10/15/23 from Earth • 19.6K Views 12 Reposts 4 Quotes 257 Likes 31 Bookmarks 17 raider of the lost snark™ @snarkraid... 2d * "you absolute " is a go-to. blank space can be filled with almost any fun noun -walnut -turnip -clownfish -banana -garbage bin -yankee doodle - cantaloupe -cheesewheel 04 17 • 20 flat 518 joyliveshere.bsky.social mi (rol... 2d Ohhh, I like a lot of these! Thank you! Screenshot of Tweet: Gracielita Bi @oldasyouromens 2d Ridiculous is good, contemptuous is more pertinent, but I also enjoy bootlicker, parrot, shill, sellout, and troll in more informal instances. 02 172 53 thil 2,011 lissaaahh!!! g • @melissabreenx • 2d Bootlicker is a real satisfying one! Screenshot of Tweet: 9:05 4 a H Hazel Appleyard ® @HazelAppleyard • 1d •• Tike goldfish. 9 17 thil 494 [ U/C/∞/ @Mifield •2d unserious is very hard-hitting 01 17 © 58 600 that 1,096 ABC is 3 & @ahhbeesea • 2d 1 see chucklehead was said, which I use a lot. That's usually said as more of an insult though. Also laughy pants or laughy taffy - which I use for more light hearted/ silly. 17 that 876 Alan Taylor @Alan Taylor 314 • 2d dunno if it's quite what you're looking for, but i've heard "you complete pineapple" for that 93 17 40 that 1,281 Avrila, Unabashed COVID Avoider • 2d Depending on context, maybe "black hole of 'ought to know better'." 17 9 that 583 1, 8 fierce advocate, msw2d Call them a butternut squash Sabina Beverly @beanverly • 2d ¡like "absolute potato chip" 17 ©4 Ila 334 Aisling @philippaisling - 1d I saw "fish for brains" the other day, which I liked 17 la 83 1 Brendan W @AlpineOpen• 1d "Ya Ning Nong" was used by my former boss on me as a safe yet handy take down phrase. 17 - WISRAD FOR REPORTS A RAPE AND SURVIVING BEING JOANNAPetitioner @JPetitioner • 2d Bless your heart. 17 • 3 ila 264 sad eva & @thedragonborn-2d Absurd would be an option
October 18, 2023 at 1:24 AM
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A few excerpts from my second favorite essay of all time, Yonatan Zunger’s article “Tolerance is not a moral precept.” These words feel particularly apropos right now.

#Peace #Conflict #PowerDynamics

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After a breach, the moral rules which apply are not the rules of peace, but the rules of broken peace, and the rules of war. We might ask, is the response proportional? Is it necessary? Does it serve the larger purpose of restoring the peace? But we do not take an invaded country to task for defending its borders. Unlike absolute moral precepts, treaties have remedies for breach. If one side has breached another's rights, the injured party is no longer bound to respect the treaty rights of their assailant - and their response is not an identical violation of the rules, even if it looks superficially similar to the original breach. "Mommy, Timmy hit me back!" holds no more ethical weight among adults than it does among children. No side, after all, will ever accept a peace in which their most basic needs are not satisfied - their safety, and their power to ensure that safety, most of all. The desire for justice is a desire that we each have such mechanisms to protect ourselves, while still remaining in the context of peace: that the rule of law, for example, will provide us remedy for breaches without having to entirely abandon all peace. Any "peace" which does not satisfy this basic requirement, one which creates an existential threat to one side or the other, can never hold. What this teaches us is that tolerance, viewed as a moral absolute, amounts to renouncing the right to self-protection; but viewed as a peace treaty, it can be the basis of a stable society. Its protections extend only to those who would uphold it in turn. To withdraw those protections from those who would destroy it does not violate its moral principles; it is fundamental to them, because without this enforcement, the treaty would collapse. It is appropriate, even ethical, to answer force with proportional force, when that force is required to restore a just peace. We seek peace because on the whole it is far better than war; but as history has taught us, not every peace is better than the war it prevents. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry, speech to the 2nd Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
October 18, 2023 at 12:41 AM
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“Innocent” is a social construct. And a highly subjective one at that. It’s often deployed as a dog whistle.

In conversations about reproductive choice - the implication is that people who terminate their pregnancy are not by virtue of having gotten pregnant in the first place.
Screenshot from Twitter: Apache117 @Apache117-22h An embryo is innocent. Screenshot from Twitter: You can call me Ecta @EctaFoole Innocence is objecthood. Your child, your wife, your house, your car. Possessions
October 18, 2023 at 12:31 AM
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Another study, this one specifically looks at how stigma towards patients seeking pain treatment impacts prescriber willingness to treat chronic pain with medication.

The challenge isn’t fear of legal consequences or appropriateness of treatment - it’s stigma.

watermark.silverchair.com/pnw158.pdf
Pain Medicine 2016; 17: 1391-1393 doi: 10.1093/pm/pnw158 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE OXFORD Patients with Pain Need Less Stigma, Not More "Protection from and relief of pain and suffering are a fundamental feature of the human contract we make as parents, partners, children, family, friends, and community members, as well as a cardinal underpinning of the art and science of healing." With these words a blue-ribbon panel of clinicians, researchers and policymakers convened by the prestigious Institute of Medicine opened its landmark 2011 report, Relieving Pain in America. To prepare this report, the panel distilled a vast literature and developed new, detailed estimates of the economic cost of pain in the United States. The panel also reached out to the public, soliciting written or oral testimonies from more than 2,000 persons with pain, their family members and care providers. These testimonies eloquently convey the stigma experienced by nearly every patient with chronic pain: * It has been hell. First, you have to find someone who believes you. (testimony #135) * Doctors don't recognize pain they cannot see or diag
October 17, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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And again, I’m saying “most doctors would prescribe when…” is not accurate.

Doctors often dismiss chronic pain patients & question the need for pain management meds. Doctors denying the need to treat chronic pain in patients is an ongoing challenge & it costs lives. www.apa.org/monitor/apr0...
AMA Journal of Ethics® pain. 13 Illuminating the Art of Medicine Physician Workforce and Training According to the IOM Report, in 2011 there were "strong indications that pain receives insufficient attention in virtually all phases of medical education, "5 and many physicians were still unprepared to provide high-quality pain care. 10 A study published in 2011 showed that almost 80% of US medical schools required courses on pain but that the curriculum was "limited, variable and fragmentary." 14 In 2013, an interprofessional committee developed core competencies for pain, which recognized that pain care goes beyond knowledge of anatomy to integration of knowledge with skills in preventing, assessing, and treating pain, sometimes as part of a multimodal team. 15 Enhancing the pain management curriculum in medical education is increasingly being seen as a priority. 15, 16, 17 Enhancing education for practicing physicians about pain and related areas is also increasingly a priority. AMA Journal of Ethics® Illuminating the Art of Medicine Stigma Patients reporting pain have sometimes been disbelieved, dismissed, or seen as "drug seeking" for wanting to continue opioid analgesic therapy that has provided relief and maintained or improved function. Acknowledgement of the presence and impact of this stigma on patient care for chronic pain is crucial.23 Patients seeking care should be treated with compassion and dignity without dismissing the need for careful management of opioid therapy. Stigmatizing of medications used for opioid use disorder has resulted in barriers for pain and opioid management. Co-prescribing naloxone with opioid medication is an accepted and encouraged practice for risk mitigation and can provide lifesaving overdose reversal. However, it is not always in stock in pharmacies?4 and misperceptions about naloxone are common.25
October 17, 2023 at 4:34 PM
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How I look posting.
A cat sitting on a rail facing the camera one paw stretched out, mouth open, a look of dismay on it’s face.
October 17, 2023 at 3:47 AM
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Karl (Spooky Version) @karlhung... 2h Yeah, it's unfortunate that some people think this way. In general, I find that actual doctors are less willing to see people in pain. That's not always true, mind you, but [highlighted] generally speaking as long as the doc isn't afraid of the legal system they would rather prescribe than let ppl suffer.[\ highlighted]
October 17, 2023 at 2:22 AM
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Ack, grabbed the wrong excerpt. Not that the other doesn’t also apply here, but:

“Mommy, Timmy hit me back!” holds no more ethical weight among adults than it does among children.”

Is the key point I really wanted to make here.
medium.com/extra-extra/...
Unlike absolute moral precepts, treaties have remedies for breach. If one side has breached another's rights, the injured party is no longer bound to respect the treaty rights of their assailant - and their response is not an identical violation of the rules, even if it looks superficially similar to the original breach. "Mommy, Timmy hit me back!" holds no more ethical weight among adults than it does among children.
October 14, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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You think this is a double standard?

Well then, I have news for you. When it comes to everyday racism - you also have to consider the structural power dynamics at play.

Please take a seat in the corner & read Yonatan Zunger’s article “Tolerance is not a moral precept” medium.com/extra-extra/...
Unlike absolute moral precepts, treaties have remedies for breach. If one side has breached another's rights, the injured party is no longer bound to respect the treaty rights of their assailant - and their response is not an identical violation of the rules, even if it looks superficially similar to the original breach. "Mommy, Timmy hit me back!" holds no more ethical weight among adults than it does among children.
October 14, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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I always want to respond to this sort of thing with aggressive eye contact and ask “Are you familiar with the character Kaz Brekker from Sgadow and Bone?” Then just continue to hold their gaze in silence.
Kaz Brekker from Shadow and Bone face Per Haskell with his signature crow head cane placed menacingly close to Haskell’s chin.
July 30, 2023 at 6:42 PM