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Brooke

@usuallyflannel.bsky.social

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Librarian in the before times, artist in isolation, disabled not disposable. There will be cats. She/Her

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Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · Oct 11

Normalize telling people what they mean to you.

Big things or small. The person that helps you think about things differently or the pet posts that make you smile for a minute.

You won’t loose cool points for being sincere. I promise.

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 6h

I like this idea. A lot.

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 6h

I've never played, but this made me want to. 😂

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 1d

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Please help Mae!

The next $500 of donations will be matched— if you have a few bucks they can make such a huge difference!!!

Mae_DayJ @maedayj.bsky.social · 1d

Someone has very kindly offered to match the next $500 in dough-nations!

Any amount you can give will have double the impact! Please please help if you can 🙏

V: @ Maelee-Johnson
PayPal.me/maeleeJ
ko-fi.com/maedaej
$maelee21

Please help me stay housed!

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 11h

Sending love and hopefully some luck. 🤞

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Mair Dundon @quietaction.bsky.social · 1d

Soft, small, slow, simple, gentle, fierce #alive #dailies

Pink flowers with dark red and yellow centers along with yellow green balls without petals.

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 23h

Nothing like having a precious animal snuggle with you when you need it most.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 1d

For reference of Portland frog facing off ICE art being made.

Photograph at night of a 2-3 deep line of feds in tactical gear and sheilds outside the ICE building in Portland. Facing them alone is someone in a green and white belly frog outfit.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 1d

I hope it goes well. 🤞❤️

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #FullMoon in October!

I love circles and astronomy. I find calm and even joy in seeing them and in the process of creating my own. I hope you find your own moments of calm and joy as we fight things far scarier than werewolves.

#ArtPrompt #Criptober #ChronicLoaf #DisabledJoy

Graphite drawing of two circular objects. One is completely dark. The other is light, with the circle of negative space surrounded by a halo of marks suggesting a celestial event and disruption.

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 1d

That's really nice. Thank you. 🫂🩷

So far, so good. Just some autonomic dysfunction weirdness, but that's my system. Now I wait 2 weeks and if my immune system behaves, I get the flu shot. 🤞

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 1d

Me too! Resting is underway. 🫂🩷

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 1d

Just got Novavaxed at Publix. They asked if I met any of the criteria, I told them, and had no problem. It hurt a little more this year, but it still wasn’t as bad as the pneumonia vaccine.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 1d

A Listeria outbreak tied to spinach supplied by FreshRealm has sickened 20 people across 15 states, resulting in four deaths and the loss of an unborn child.

Hello Fresh recalls meals due to Listeria

Supplier of spinach, FreshRealm, linked to 20 Listeria illnesses with four deaths. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service

www.foodsafetynews.com

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 2d

🫂

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 2d

Link & I were mutuals. While he’s gone, I encourage you to support some of his causes:

1) Use alt text on all images to support disability justice. Adjust your bsky settings: settings > accessibility > require alt text.

2) Reply here with mutual aid requests. Donate if you can, boost if you can’t.

Infographic featuring a photo of a capybara.

Writing Alt Text: identify who, expression, description, color, and interesting features.

The completed example reads, “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Screenshot of the bluesky accessibility settings that shows the “require alt text before posting” setting toggled on and underlined for emphasis.

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 2d

I had this question sometimes during my MLIS program too. So I'm sorry to say you are not, in fact, made up of raccoons.

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 2d

tell me what words your pets know

Gemma knows "chicken"

Gemma, a tiny orange cat, extremely focused on the photographer/human who feeds her chicken.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 3d

🫂

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∫ lisa b dt ✡️🦄🇵🇸 | ty everyone i love you all @lisa.butterflies.top · 3d

hey y'all don't forget lots of folks already ended up losing their fundraising ability because they weren't safe on xwitter, and this year we've lost huge numbers of folks here who supported direct aid too.

please help people share aid. it's going to be really fucking dire. folks deserve to survive

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Mike Mort @mikeemort91.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t wander too far into the woods… #FrighteningForest is back and creepier than ever!

#ArtPrompt #SpookySeason #Criptober #PrimalFears #CriptoberWeekOne #CriptoberRevival

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Karrie @karriehiggins.bsky.social · 3d

I am $500 from a milestone on the Help Hope Live that would help with paying for the biopsy, the consult at the U, meds, RX sunscreen & EEG! This fundraiser is scam proof because I can't even access the $ w/out a receipt & it's tax deductible!

helphopelive.org/campaign/159...

Donate to Midwest/West Catastrophic Illness Fund in honor of Karrie Higgins

Help Karrie Higgins's friends and family raise money for medical expenses associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Catastrophic Illness. Donate today.

helphopelive.org