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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

If I get extrajudicially got because I did research and writing about fascism being bad, you all need to scream from the rooftops that who they got was a mom of young kids who volunteers at a preschool.

I will haunt each and every one of you if you do not

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Wilhelmina Jenkins @wilhelminaj.bsky.social · 12h

An excellent article by Laurie Jones, executive director of @meaction-mi.bsky.social, about the difficulties that proposed Medicaid work requirements would cause the ME/CFS community.

MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 15h

"There is nothing beautiful about shifting the burden onto those least able to bear it. But this is precisely what our nation is now poised to do."

ME/CFS and long COVID advocate Laurie Jones writes on Medicaid work requirements. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117839?trw=no

Opinion | Medicaid Work Requirements Will Devastate People With Invisible Disabilities

ME/CFS and long COVID patients must qualify as 'medically frail'

www.medpagetoday.com

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dawnruhnaybrown @dawnruhnaybrown.bsky.social · 15h

This person has amazing stuff on their website: Bibipins.com

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 1d

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We’re still going!

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#ConnectingGaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16h

If you've fallen down inflammation-type wellness circle rabbit holes, hmu for a @motherjones.com essay I'm working on. My email is [email protected]. I can you your first name only.

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A Jelly Squishes Slowly By @ubiquisquish.bsky.social · 16h

When artists said AI was endangering their livelihood the response was, “LOL. LMAO.”
I don’t see why the gen AI industry gets anymore grace than that.

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 17h

If anyone in Toronto is renting out or subletting an apartment that meets my peculiar requirements, please message me! Not having much luck on Facebook. Budget is negotiable.

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 2d

With Link unfairly banned, I don’t want to see the work he was doing get lost.

It’s Mutual Aid Monday, so post your mutual aid needs here, and let’s try to help some people today. We’re in this together.

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Dingbat Cat of Light and Friends @uncanon.kinsleycity.net · 2d

The compression gloves have been a god-send for when ye old arthritis comes knocking. Can highly recommend!

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 4d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Wrist Braces

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Thumb Splints

Elbow braces in the strawberry, Galaxy and Bats patterns

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Deadanie @delrex.bsky.social · 3d

Very cool store with truly fantastic items--the slider pins and compression gloves are on my Christmas wishlist. The tariffs here in America are making things hard for small businesses so if you can check this out!

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 4d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 3d

Link is an IRL colleague and friend; his values and commitment to those values is beyond reproach. Through her actions, @jay.bsky.team continues to demonstrate her values are rotten.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 3d

so now link is suspended with no email

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 3d

I know Falco. He's legit.

Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · 3d

NEW DUE TIME: 3PM.

Stalled at $265 of $700 rent due TODAY. #PleaseShare, and help me keep my room if you can? My life *actually* depends on staying housed.

#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#HelpFolksLive2025

Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · Oct 18

Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!

$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)

Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 4d

If you're looking for a spooky read this October, my entire Sacred Dark trilogy is dripping with gothic drama, featuring three queer romances about witches, shifters, and ghosts.

Buy the series: tinyurl.com/j2jjvucx
Book pages: www.maypetersonbooks.com/books/

Lord of the Last Heartbeat, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a cyan flower blooming through silver chains.

The Immortal City, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a mountain city in violet and blue tones.

The Calyx Charm, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a smiling young trans woman with flowing red hair and violet eyes, surrounding by swirling violet magic.

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A Jelly Squishes Slowly By @ubiquisquish.bsky.social · 4d

USC has a hotline to help move immigration hearings online
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/06/18/u...

USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online

Since Monday, a group of 15 USC student, alumni and faculty volunteers have already received thousands of calls for help on open immigration cases.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · 4d

Need help for $700 rent due 11AM tomorrow!

#PleaseShare, and chip in if able? My survival hinges on staying housed- literally impossible to survive if I lose the room. Nowhere else to go.

#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#HelpFolksLive2025

Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · Oct 18

Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!

$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)

Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf

Hey! I'm Falco! (He/him, xey/xem)

I'm a queer, Autistic heart patient struggling to stay housed. My disabilities mean I need careful hygiene to eat or sleep, so if I lose my room I cannot survive!

Hotel's summer rate is currently $700/week, and I owe about $250 monthly for storage and phone.

I'd be honored if you would sponsor me on Patreon for $3 - $20 per month, for sneak peeks at new art, requests, and exclusive coloring mandalas.

Or you can snag fun merch at FalcoSkyWolf.Redbubble.com! Over 200 of my designs on dozens of garments, accessories, and home and tech items. Undercover Dragons, Pride art, and a wide mix of mandalas!

But the fastest way to help is donating through PayPal or CashApp, and I also take commissions for mandalas and text art. DM if you'd like custom designs!

Please help if you can!

(Background- extremely dark purple, with some simplified coins on top and pale blue feathers on bottom.)

I'm a very pale transmasc with long brown hair, part in a braid over my right shoulder, the rest loose down my left. I'm in a black winter sleeveless vest and a black fedora with an orange flicker feather, with thin blue spectacles, a blue and purple heavy-duty respirator, a silver ankh necklace, a dog-tag style necklace with Captain America's shield, and a black chain bracelet with a metal TARDIS (resembles a British phone-booth-like police call box) and a safety pin that has rainbow and trans pride beads on it. Behind me is a fuzzy blue blanket.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 5d

we're not going to have a good, sustainable social media site as long as it is made or run by tech people. that is why I am building my own out of water, small rocks, moss, snails, brightly colored shrimp, one of those sucking fish, a mermaid statue. I'll be honest, this may actually be an aquarium.

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undead girlfriend @hausofholes.bsky.social · 5d

what if we all went goblin mode

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

at this point "is Mike Johnson also in the Epstein Files" feels like a question worth pondering

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 5d

This GOP move does several things:
+ No votes in the House until at least October 14
+ No swearing-in for Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ
+ No 218th signature from Grijalva on the Epstein Files discharge petition
+ Continues the House 'jam' of the Senate on the CR

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 5d

🚨🚨The House reading clerk just read a letter from House Speaker Mike Johnson where he declares a 'District Work Period' from October 7 to October 13.

That would mean no votes in the House until mid-month.

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 5d

Pssst, if any Long COVID (or ME/CFS, IACCI, etc) friends are thinking of using the new free RTHM AI tool, worth noting that their terms of service explicitly grant them permission to use any medical history you upload to train their models.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

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Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · 5d

Storage has been SAVED, thank you so much! Now I must start on rent.

Can you help me get this going EARLY? $700 due 11AM Sunday. #PleaseShare, and chip in if able?

#DisabilityCrowdFund
#HelpFolksLive2025
#MutualAidRequest

Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · Oct 18

Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!

$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)

Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf

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phil mccrevice @jewkrainian.bsky.social · 6d

general rule of thumb: if your argument includes “the jews” as a generality, you’re probably an antisemitic piece of shit

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6d

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

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