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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

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Anne @anneriitta.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I wonder this often too. I’m currently fighting way harder than I should have to *to return to work* from disability leave. One thing you’d assume would be easy to do — but nope.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy." Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even! Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY! Working from home: EASY!

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This obituary is a beautiful tribute to Alice Wong, but I wish it would've included her incredible contribution in co-organizing "Crips for esims for Gaza" which raised over $3 million to help Palestinians under siege. chuffed.org/project/crip...

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Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/11/2025

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

For the November/December issue of @motherjones.com, I dove into the history of the word "able-bodied"—including how it's been harmful to disabled Americans since the 1930s and it most certainly will be when Medicaid work reqs come into play again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge

How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2025

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Seeing an awful lot of people sick with Covid right now. Many saying “Covid is back”. It never left. That’s why some of us are still advocating for mitigations. Every infection is a dice roll with disability. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Have the fascism, genocide, and manmade famine scholars finally started speaking out on Gaza or are they still quiet? I don’t expect much of people but their near two-year silence on the very sort of atrocity they study for a living is revolting. A betrayal to scholarship but really to morality.

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday.

I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times.

Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman:
We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves

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Dr Ben King 🌍 @benking01.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

'I’ve already been disabled by one COVID infection, and cannot afford another. Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day.' #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/07/2025

It is really telling that billionaires have enough to buy anything they want and the thing they want is fascism.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat. For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

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Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled

Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hi @theglobeandmail.com, if you're going to publish a whole article on the history of how masks have been stigmatized - please get the science right. We're still in an airborne pandemic. N95 masks are FOR everyone. Not just the vulnerable. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6f8ae90...

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A mask is never just a mask

Long before the pandemic, masks carried historical baggage and cultural meanings

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I had a rheumatology doctor's appointment right before the House passed the bill. I can't help but think of people with autoimmune disorders who may be kicked off of Medicaid, in part because they're too sick but can't prove they're "disabled enough" for work requirement exemptions.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“Finland’s success isn’t a matter of luck or the outcome of quick fixes. It’s the result of a sustained, well-resourced national strategy, driven by a ‘Housing First’ approach, providing people experiencing homelessness with immediate permanent housing.” oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/f...

Graph showing reduction in homelessness in Finland between 1989 and 2020

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The thing I want most from social media is smart people with a different frame of reference – often due to race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, country of origin, class, academic training - to tell me what the world looks like to them right now. Bluesky does this. /3

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/05/2025

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Wearing a mask is not “living in fear”, it’s adapting to reality. Covid changed things. It’s a multi system vascular virus that spreads through the air. Its killed & disabled millions. A well fitted respirator is one of the best ways to live your life while safeguarding long term health.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Canada treating MAID like a pressure release valve will never not horrify me. The cold cruelties of a system that exists to repeatedly communicate the message to disabled people that they are disposable, and more efficient at dispensing death than it is at care.

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Good: * Poilievre isn't Prime Minister. * Poilevre lost his own seat. Bad: * Everything has shifted substantially rightward. * 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons. * Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right. * Left leaning parties wiped out.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

In my first article for The Guardian I analyze the Canadian election, the political environment we are voting in and how the leaders are faring in the changing political landscape www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Mark Carney is riding an anti-Trump wave. Will that be enough to win Canada’s election? | Erica Ifill

He’s got name recognition and gravitas. But he lacks ideas for how to heal the fissures in Canadian society, says political columnist Erica Ifill

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"No disabled people use this so why do we need to make it more accessible?" Have you ever considered that the very reason they're not using it, is because it's inaccessible? And even if no disabled people do use it, that's not an excuse imo. Accessibility should be standard.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“The three individuals who ran that DEI office in the medical faculty — all of whom are members of racialized minorities — are being replaced by a single person who does not come from such a minority background” Why are Canadian institutions bending a knee and complying in advance?

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Exclusive: McGill closes DEI office, replaces racialized staff

Meanwhile, medical program put under probation for failed diversity targets

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

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Dom Kelly @thetattooedjew.com · 17/04/2025

What nondisabled people are missing is beyond the fact that this is ugly and false, it’s completely in line with the eugenicist playbook. Convince the public that “these people” live sad, unproductive lives, that we need to eradicate this “disease,” and then eventually, eradicate the people.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A consistent experience had by marginalized people who have been speaking out for years is that they said things were already bad and people didn’t listen until it was dramatically worse. Listen to people when they tell you their communities are in trouble or pay the price yourself

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

These useless tariffs will disproportionately target disabled people. You know what comes from overseas? Wheelchairs, medications, hearing aids, medical supplies. It will all be more expensive and many disabled people are on a fixed income, which means many will die. This is eugenics at play.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is a very hard time to promote a book -- especially if you've written bestsellers critiquing the regime. If you've appreciated any of the work I've done, please share this and get the word out. Thank you!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

someone shared this on insta and I thought, i better not reshare this bc it’ll piss ppl off. anyway.

Shaking hands in agreement meme—liberals, conservatives, and an upsetting amount of leftists:
NOT MASKING IN PUBLIC SPACES.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 22/03/2025

McMaster leads creation of Canada’s first guidelines for Long COVID — suggesting indoor ventilation, air filtration and metformin as treatment among 100 recommendations brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/lon... @macdeptmed.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

The Canadian Guidelines for Post COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC) provide clear, evidence-based recommendations to educate and help patients, health-care professionals, and policymakers navigate the condition commonly called Long Covid.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is what adaptation and community care looks like. There's a market for mask mandated events. Many people will show up if you create a safe space for them. Masks, clean air and ventilation are the way forward!

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

a lot of people go on to develop autoimmune diseases after a covid infection (or two or three). when i urge you to wear a mask i’m doing so from a place of enthusiastic discouragement— if 18 years of autoimmunity has taught me anything it’s that you do not want this.

Figure 2 from Peng, Kuan, et al. "Risk of Autoimmune Diseases Following COVID-19 and the Potential Protective Effect from Vaccination: A Population-Based Cohort Study:" eClinicalMedicine, vol. 63, Sept. 2023, p. 102154. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/to.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102154. —

A bar graph of “Crude incidence of each autoimmune disease by COVID-19 and non-Covid groups” showing major increases an autoimmune arthritis, immune related thrombocytopenia, Graves’ disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, spondylarthritis, pemphigold, systemic lupus erythematosus, vasculitis, inflammatory, bowel disease, antiphospholipid syndrome, sjögren’s disease, pernicious anemia, Dematopolymyositis, systemic sclerosis, and more for covid patients.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/02/2025

Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Huge news: FDA approval today for suzetrigine, the first new drug approval for acute (not chronic) pain in decades and, critically, a non-opioid analgesic: edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/h...

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FDA approves first new type of pain medication in 25 years | CNN

A new pain relief drug, suzetrigine, is a prescription pill that’s taken every 12 hours after a larger starter dose. It will be sold under the brand name Journavx.

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