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Kate 🏴‍☠️

@maskonalways.bsky.social
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Disabled nurse, voracious reader, infertility struggler (fuck that warrior nonsense). It's never too late to start wearing a mask again.

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
$35 MEDICATIONS RN URGENT! Disabled chronically ill parents. They're in Disability application process. Only their brother *can* work so he's job hunting RN. 4 ppl $10 each does meds. 20 more ppl $10 each keeps food in the house. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026
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Q Minnesota @qminnesota.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Q Minnesota is looking for writers. We want pitches from writers across race and ethnicity, trans and nonbinary experience, generation, rural and urban Minnesota, disability, immigration status, class, and faith. Pitch us: qminnesota.com/pitch/
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🔞 🇺🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ Spencer Owens, High-Value American 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇸 🔞 📺🦌 | 🦋🦌🔞 @spencerraerichey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Martha Lillard was that last known person living in an iron lung. Guess what killed her? Long COVID. Unprevented contagious disease screwed Martha Lillard over at pretty much BOTH ends of her life (she caught polio when she was like 4 or 5).
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We have to get real about this and reinforce to young women and girls that this kind of transformation isn't something to aspire to. I am telling you, this trend is going to kill people, and it requires actual cultural resistance.
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Kate 🏴‍☠️ @maskonalways.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I miss the trending topics on Twitter where you could parachute into some other subculture's low-stakes but insanely juicy drama. I just got super bad news and wanted to cheer myself up, but on bluesky my options are childhood vaccination or more Trump "news".
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Like, a lot of us right now have a prior assumption that "AI is driving water shortages." And no, it absolutely tf is not. It's agriculture. It's always been agriculture. Most of us have spent our whole lives not seeing it. We need to stop that ag water blindness before it screws us all over.
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Kate 🏴‍☠️ @maskonalways.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm not sure I like this hidradenitis suppurativa rep...
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Kate 🏴‍☠️ @maskonalways.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. So just the normal introduction then?
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Meta using disabled people to justify the obscene pervert glasses & the disgusting violation of privacy for everyone, everywhere. Meta is being sued for targeting & firing its own disabled workers. It’s not about accessibility, it’s faux-inclusion. #spéirghorm novaramedia.com/2026/07/15/m...
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Meta Used AI to Target Disabled and Pregnant Workers for Layoffs, Lawsuit Claims
Dozens of workers are suing Meta over claims it used AI to identify workers for mass layoffs, with those taking disability or maternity leave disproportionately targeted.
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the “dobby’s grave” landmark is just a small dead guy who died on the beach a few days ago. he’s not even buried, someone just saw him and said “that’s dobby” and everyone started piling harry potter merch on him. a sad end for lindsey graham
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm seeing a lot of people invoke the figure of the intersex person in current discourse on sex and gender, especially in relation to the UK government's anti-trans segregation regime. But the actual voices of actual people are getting lost. This buried report offers vital evidence to counter that.
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Anne Frank died of typhus in a camp much like the ones Trump & co are running today.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A transparent public examination of the true failures of the pandemic is critical. Not the anti-vax silliness, but hard science: the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand essential basic concepts of airborne transmission highlighted by the UK COVID Inquiry. It happened here too. 🧵:
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/08/2026
If you are a lawyer barred in Minnesota, I will personally sponsor your admission to the District Minnesota (you need one other person as well) and teach you how to do habeas cases. It's going to be all hands on deck.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 07/08/2026
i feel like more people need to know that the “men don’t read books anymore” blogger also posted one of the vilest transphobic rants about trans boys i’ve ever read. she says that hrt for trans teen boys is worse than anorexia. as with all gateway clickbait there is something NASTY under there
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 06/08/2026
Breaking: @markey.senate.gov continues to lift up the significant concerns with KOSA raised by LGBTQ+ youth and human rights groups. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-08...
A photo of Senator Ed Markey with a speech bubble reading "I have concerns about how this legislation could be weaponized against LGBTQ+ young people. These concerns are especially heightened today when the Trump FTC is unlawfully and viciously targeting trans kids."
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
One important detail: Gerika said that she is questioned in bathrooms regularly (a common experience for many queer women). But in most cases, she tells the person she's a girl and they leave her alone. In this case, she felt she had to prove it. www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
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Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
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Gobbo, Allegedly MILF @missbarbiet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
my sons' school started using AI this year and both of them had to go to each of their teachers with a presentation about blatantly obvious falsehoods in the curriculum. not even counting my youngest's math teacher using it for grading. he had to get EVERY assignment regraded because it was so bad
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Cloth mother, just a regular cloth mother it’s fine. @gay-goth-mom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We're in an air quality crisis in Oregon right now. I am constructing air filters for those who need them. Cost for a whole- house filter is about $80. If you can afford it, please reach out to fund more air filters for others.
Smoke is insane! In Portland the low air quality will continue for another week. Please google 'corsi rosenthal box' and make yourself onecorsi rosenthal box instructions: create a box with the top side being a box fan, four sides being furnace filters, and the bottom a sheet of cardboard, seels the sides with duct tape.I am constructing air
filters for those who need
them. Cost for a whole-
house filter is about $80.

If you can afford it, please
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filters for others.
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Kate 🏴‍☠️ @maskonalways.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You can basically line up a map of immigrant detention centers with the covid outbreak map. To be clear, this is because the conditions and health care are so poor in these prisons it fules outbreaks, not because immigrants are dirty or however the Rs would frame it.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026
Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
These guys won’t stand up for the daughter of a Republican US Senator and they’ll never stand up for your daughter. But they will send some goon to inspect her crotch.
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don’t care if you like its cultural output. The BBC has been a major player in the immiseration of this country, in the persecution of trans people, immigrants, muslims, travellers and disabled people, in the spread of dangerous rhetoric about climate change and vaccines. It must be dismantled.
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Kate 🏴‍☠️ @maskonalways.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Fellow southerner here, and this is only like 10% exaggerated
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One of the striking things about studying sexual violence is realizing how many people became abolitionists *because* they were victims of crime.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 01/08/2026
"what can I do?" Call your reps and tell them to vote no on the Online Safety bill package because things will get worse the more censorship laws are allowed to pass. Tell your reps that payment processors must allow legal content. Go yell at youtube for their shitty TOS.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is *EXACTLY* why what Ken said was dangerous. If he was some smol beans account it would still have been fucking disgusting but faded into obscurity But Ken’s a celebrity. And he provided ammunition for monsters and essentially doxxed a trans woman making her a subject of international news
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026
just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights
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Kate 🏴‍☠️ @maskonalways.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Roku Channel has all the major news networks' streams, but the advertisements, OH MY GOD! The advertisements are designed to look like news segments. Like, one minute there is a story about a lifeguard saving a child, and then
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
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Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have grown tired of the workwear guy. He is paying the world’s richest Nazi for the privilege of a blue check in order to provide sassy engagement in the replies of a notorious sex trafficking serial rapist. These are the actions of a dunderheaded fool
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Blast Professing @gaymerherb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
it's still OK to just protect yourself/others to the best of your ability/access/privilege you don't need permission or approval from anyone it's tougher without community but not impossible you can still hand the person $5 or hold the elevator door open or put a mask on or boycott xyz just help
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Kate 🏴‍☠️ @maskonalways.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Charts for dinner is the left wing I identify as an attack helicopter now, apparently.
Series of two skeets by EAII ©ealluia.bsky.social 2h  Something I've noticed when reading people slapping their knees at the comic is many people are treating the argument it contains as this great, novel insight - mic drop! - when it's been the boilerplate strawman retort among that exact same social circle for about 4 straight years. It's like if a popular alt-right comic artist did a "If I have to respect your pronouns, then what if I identify as something ludicrous?" in comic form, and a bunch of neo-Nazis started high fiving each other and acting like no one thought to put it that way before.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is a great read, and it's also a lesson. This is what everyone could be doing, at every level. This is the possibility open to every one of us, while every single cry of "we had no choice" was and is a cowardly lie.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There are a lot of well-meaning guidelines on suicide prevention that frankly should not apply when the government is intentionally causing a suicide epidemic in a specific minority population.
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 20/07/2026
ICYMI: Research shows abortion is safe for all body sizes, but arbitrary BMI limits at clinics push some patients into different care and higher costs. This story was originally reported by @19thnews.org, and republished through RNG‘s partnership with The 19th News Network.
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Delayed and Turned Away: How Access to Abortion Can Depend on Your Weight – Rewire News Group
Research shows abortion is safe across body sizes. But BMI limits at clinics are still pushing some patients into different care and higher costs.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
if a democrat used a racial slur, would we still need to get behind that democrat because "the republicans are worse"? i can tell you that as a black person, i would not. there are things more important than party identity. why are we asking transgender people to do any different?
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Flock's platform is far more powerful and invasive than they and police pretend when they are at town halls talking to the public. You just need to look at what it's actually used for and how they teach cops to use it to see that: www.404media.co/how-cops-use...
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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Children are absolutely an oppressed and marginalized class and hating them and their existence in public is telling on yourself and your relationship with your own power in a *very* specific way. You are outing yourself as not a safe person
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
For a lot of folks who "poop weird after Taco Bell," it's bc Taco Bell is their main source of fiber. 💀 Some people also like to pair Taco Bell with lots of ethanol. But "I drank so much I pooped crazy" sounds like YOU have a problem, & "Haha Taco Bell gross" sounds like *Taco Bell* has a problem
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The Tex Ramone Chainsaw Massacre🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This also underscores the point that the people who are currently “running the government like a business” don’t know how to run businesses either
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Kristyn J @sciencekristyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I am sick today and feel awful, so trying this again. Hello! Teacher wishlist time! I teach high school science. I share most things with my department. There are some dream items on here I don’t expect to get, but anything helps, including shares! Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Students practicing embroidery stitches with donated materials thanks to Bluesky. Multi colored bacteria stitched on a variety of cloth colors and put in Petri dishes for a Petri dish embroidery project
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