Reposted by elk𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOgothamist.comNYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minorsThe funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care. 688551872
Reposted by elkKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Prime Day is a great time to boycott Amazon and send a clear message that you don’t support the Bezos behemoth That said, please be kind to disabled people who can’t boycott Many rely on Amazon for necessary supplies and are unable to get them any other way Help build networks of community care 44925181
Reposted by elkMike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Censored on TikTok in <30 seconds. Appeal filed. They will allow California residents to know after the COVlD wave has subsided. 211941
Reposted by elkWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"they're crazy" guess what rape does to your mental health! "she's broke" guess what rape does to your finances! "he's bitter" guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world! 71305266
Reposted by elkNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.thecut.comThe Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual ViolenceThe “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail. 221246464
Reposted by elkNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Studies find that universities see an increase in applications and an increase in the number of donations after a public scandal about mishandling sexual violence. These tactics are a part of why. The school declares themselves “changed” and a “leader” in PR campaigns. 14814
Reposted by elkKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Disabled people tried to warn you. We were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. Fascists will always come for the “useless eaters”. They want to institutionalize us. Hide us away from the rest of society. Remove our supports so we either die or disappear. It’s eugenics. 11285154
Reposted by elkTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing 301813692
Reposted by elkIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We've seen a distinct drop in interest in these conditions as people have memory-holed COVID; they'd like to forget infection-associated chronic conditions, but they're impacting everyone, including kids. I'm the Scientific Director at #MEAction, and I advocate for #MECFS, #LongCOVID, & other IACCs. 015061
Reposted by elkC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Examples of researchers talking about how many people volunteering for studies as healthy controls turn out to have Long Covid: 07129
elk @e-as-in-elk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Another thing about the globe article is how clearly it demonstrates not only the sheer social acceptability & indeed *social capital* of ableism, but also how that capital then functions to qualify misogyny & queerphobia that would otherwise be too stigmatizing to express "on the left" 110
Reposted by elkPlague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you look you will see that the CDC has changed its COVID wastewater benchmarks so that it seems like things aren’t as bad as they really are. And if you look you will see that it isn’t just the CDC that wants to pretend like things aren’t as bad as they really are. 18724
Reposted by elkLee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What was this, the second time in a month that leftists gleefully joined in on a harassment campaign initiated by reactionaries against covid cautious people? Seems like that indicates a critical absence in awareness and analysis. Maybe y’all should fix that. And your hearts too. 5509140
Reposted by elkDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460681070
Reposted by elk💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 24/09/2026💖🤎🧡 love is love 💖💚💛 19856231095
Reposted by elkMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 684249235522
Reposted by elkErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Like this is deeply bad and fucked up actually??? Making disabled, chronically ill, and marginalized people a national laughing stock?? Cause we don’t have enough trouble existing already?? Y’all already forced us out of your communities how about now just leave us alone? bsky.app/profile/yash... 7729107
Reposted by elkErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing. 332944908
elk @e-as-in-elk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's cool most on here/the left seem to agree transphobia is bad but endlessly exhausting how reliably and casually so many of these same ppl wield sane- & ableism as if 1) some marginalized folks *are* disposable, actually & 2) trans ppl are not disproportionately also disabled. 100
Reposted by elkCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This was unpinned for a month while I was doing my birthday fundraiser, but don't forget my starter pack of bluesky cat accounts run by real people who use ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN 15595124
Reposted by elkThomas @godribbon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Everyone please look at this dog I saw 672101130
Reposted by elkBotticellibelle @botticellibelle.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026Alternative text would be great and you're a large enough company to be able to do it or pay someone else to. 11004
Reposted by elkMike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4) 9390279
Reposted by elkKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“If you were really that sick you would…” Have help Be in a home Not be online Be dead People are incapable of believing that support doesn’t magically show up when you need it You don’t necessarily die just because things become dire Disabled people need more support We deserve to be believed. 161022246
Reposted by elkKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11897001923
Reposted by elkWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026COVID helped fuel the rise of the far right globally. The uncertainty, grief, anger, and fear made for fertile ground for conspiracist thinking and right-wing indoctrination. Is it one of many drivers? Yes. But it’s an important factor nonetheless—and one that is too often overlooked and unexamined 1942898
Reposted by elkKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Lindsay Clancy had good insurance, a well paying job and a husband to advocate for her. The medical system still let her down. Now imagine how hard it is for the uninsured, marginalized, homeless or disabled to access proper care. Misogyny, bias & racism in medicine kill. 517046
Reposted by elkA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058482036
Reposted by elkElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.inquirer.comThe CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. ShapiroHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak. 6929821343
Reposted by elkOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp 3540911147
Reposted by elkErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate. 6580726
Reposted by elkvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 11/08/2026crying laughing bc i know there are people who will see this and get so pissed they throw up 1482721583
Reposted by elkThe Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 11/08/2026A summer COVID-19 wave is still rising in the U.S., according to data through late July. Increases in disease spread are most pronounced in the South and West, but all regions have growing outbreaks. thesicktimes.org/2026/08/11/n... 36831
Reposted by elkDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/08/2026When you are the only masker in the room, but you just don’t care #saltingthevibes 736545
Reposted by elkChris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it. 6062991901
elk @e-as-in-elk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Fauci used his Power as a public health leader to frame sacrificing the vulnerable for the economy as acceptable, inevitable. He manufactured consent. Every person uncritically praising him is not only memoryholing atrocity but romanticizing the foreclosure of their own capacity for critical thought 000
elk @e-as-in-elk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Governance here would look like protecting the public from this openly, multitudinously predatory industry that has provoked massive public backlash. Instead our senators are manufacturing consent for the predatory industry by shifting focus to "taxing AI so you can share in its success." Pathetic 100
Reposted by elkTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026i personally don't think child molestetion should be required to play volleyball 151360280
Reposted by elkC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Something to remember whatever the illness they’re telling you only the weak need worry about. 35426
Reposted by elkMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/08/2026people could respond to this framing around reporting deaths—"had significant underlying health conditions"—with more confidence if we weren't also living through a pandemic in which we have been told only people who have "underlying health issues" are "vulnerable" or "at risk" 15578139
elk @e-as-in-elk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026They're making sure to reframe the 1st 2 cyclosporiasis deaths as exceptional bc of "underlying" health conditions. Nvm capitalism enforces bodily harm & an ever-increasing percentage of the population is becoming disabled by it. These ppl always deserved to die & have gotten their due. 100
Reposted by elkChantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If we care about disability justice, one of the lowest-hanging fruits is masks in healthcare. It remains unacceptable that vulnerable patients must ask, sometimes beg, healthcare workers to mask, while also explaining to them why respirator masks are better 3307107
Reposted by elkLastOneOut @lastoneout.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Actually just dropping this here. This shit really opened my eyes to how much of the argument that this is safe for weight loss is just "well the company that made it said it was safe and good so???" like, legit horrifying.tandfonline.comGLP-1 medications for weight-loss: a triumph of marketing over patient careGLP-1 weight loss drugs are receiving an avalanche of positive press. From major media outlets to trade publications, clinical, policy, and lay audiences have been inundated with articles declaring... 074
Reposted by elkDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/08/2026As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future. 131318404
Reposted by elkDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/08/2026It’s always odd to me when I get asked if I am wearing a mask because I am sick. In my experience, these days most people wearing a mask are doing so to prevent themselves getting sick, and most people who are sick don’t wear a mask at all. 42828164
Reposted by elkDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/08/2026Important history lesson: Fascism rose partly as a result of the 1918 pandemic. 9457174
Reposted by elkJen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 31/07/2026The most infuriating thing about all the Fauci stuff this week is that everyone is past tensing a pandemic that is still happening. Covid is still disabling and killing people. 20700190
