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Desiree
@lookitsdesiree.bsky.social
Teacher, learner, poet, change agent living with long Covid, ME/CFS, & POTS in Tovaangar aka Los Angeles

Author, big future (dancing girl press)

I've had a big, community centered career in #k12 #OST #summerlearning and #equitableredesign.
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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2, even non-admitted patients who tested positive for covid-19 had higher rates of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections in the year that followed. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...
www.bmj.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
And check out www.slipsslips.net their second issue is forthcoming and I bet you can submit to issue three soon.
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Some of these lines, "to swim through the inky black bruise of my memory spread out on the floor, spread out on the solar system" is what having a leaky brain barrier felt like to me before anyone said the words "leaky brain barrier"
I’m ready to share that in May the first poem I wrote and submitted post Covid infection appeared in the inaugural issue of slips slips.
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m ready to share that in May the first poem I wrote and submitted post Covid infection appeared in the inaugural issue of slips slips.
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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For #perspective:
• Google the total number of US military deaths from major conflicts since the #Revolution
• Google the total number of US #Covid deaths
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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My periodic reminder that Sarah Palin (quite correctly) called for Rahm Emmanuel to be fired when he used the "R" word.

And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it.

Like any reporter.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Introduce etc:

Al Green
The Violent Femmes x5
Blood Orange x2
Lilith fair 1997
Tom Petty once with tickets and once from a patio in the Hollywood hills where we could perfectly hear the last show of his life at the bowl 🥺
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Chaka Khan
siouxsie and the banshees
Radiohead
Ron Carter
Björk
Also: Iceburn for their Rite of Spring album tour which was a transcendent experience
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

U2 (in 1987)
Rival Sons (twice)
Robert Plant
Monster Truck
Vintage Trouble
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
My upstairs neighbor is having a reggae phase but it's only first thing in the morning and it's only the Island records over produced versions of Bob Marley songs, help
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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"ZOSO, Gossip Girl." - someone having fun recommending Led Zeppelin IV to Gossip Girl

Can we still do posts like this sometimes?
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
August 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Wow. @404media.co uncovered the names of additional dozens of people who were disappeared by the Trump administration on the March flights to El Salvador.

www.404media.co/flight-manif...
July 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I keep having to tell people eugenics didn’t start with Trump.

It’s quite literally the foundation of America and needs to be discussed as such.
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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New — I did a brief history of the ‘Fork in the Road’ email to show how Musk screwed up by treating federal workers like fucking idiots, and how the pressure to resign is about breaking morale more than culling the workforce.
How Elon Musk forked up his mass resignation plan
Incompetence and desperation are a bad combination.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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the groundhog just explained jungian shadow work to me in excruciating detail
February 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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"Look for the helpers."

Friend, you are forty two years old. You are supposed to be the helper.
January 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Incredible folks at @maskblocla.bsky.social distributed more than 10,000 masks in under 48 hours, and they’re still going. Any amount helps support that work, and if you have $100 to spare, Alice will send you a terrific gift.
🔥 Sending solidarity to all the seniors & disabled folks trying to survive #LAFires #LAFirestorm2025

📖Receive a signed copy of Disability Intimacy for every $100 donation to @MaskBlocLA

💰Venmo account.venmo.com/u/MaskBlocLA

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January 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:
January 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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It would be a tragedy if President Biden dIdn’t pardon Leonard Peltier, who deserves clemency if anyone does and who is emblematic of our nation’s grotesque mistreatment of Native Americans.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Joe Biden is Leonard Peltier’s last hope | Rose Styron and Alex Matthiessen
The imprisoned Native American is long overdue for clemency. Joe Biden is probably the last president who can give it to him
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...
Consumer Complaint Against A Business/Company
oag.ca.gov
January 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Oh.
‘Firenadoes,’ a rare whirlwind created by a combination of intense heat and high winds, have been spotted in the Pacific Palisades fires.
January 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Ngl I keep forgetting abt this platform but I’m trying to do better.

Thread of resources I’ve shared elsewhere for LA survivors and for those looking to support:

Help Historically Black #Altadena rebuild:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
docs.google.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM