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Sara Nicola Ruth

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#AdopteeAnthropology 🥚 | “We’re here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is” - Kurt Vonnegut

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you're in the UK, autistic or not, please sign this. Millions of autistic people have been abused and traumatized by ABA, including myself. I haven't been in ABA since 1997 and I'm still managing the trauma today.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
hell yeah what a precursor
TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
Moon to turn blood red on
March 14, 2025
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Nelly Delly @marconi333.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Garcia was removed from her mother a few days after birth and sent abroad for adoption, one of as many as 20,000 children authorities estimate were forcibly taken from their parents by a military government that saw int'l adoptions as a way to reduce child poverty. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Mother reunites with American daughter taken as baby during Chile's dictatorship
"I knew she'd find me," Edita Bizama, 64, said from her home in the Chilean port city of San Antonio after finally reuniting with the daughter who was taken from her over 40 years ago during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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Marysia Kurowski @ishabluebell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today is the deadline to send your response 👇👇👇
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025
Again, it is not enough to throw up your hands and say "well every platform hosts Nazis." Substack is not merely a hosting platform. They make editorial decisions when they pay people like Bari Weiss to launch media outlets. They pay Nazis and have said they refuse to demonetize them. So... yeah.
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Mary Bowers @eatbemary.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
My adoptive mother split my original name into syllables, then added her name to one of them. My name meant "beautiful blossom 🪷." Now, it roughly translates to "do things with emotional difficulty 😢." My name became my reality 🥚
Merriam-Webster definition of "find it in oneself": to bring oneself to do something (such as forgive another person) that is emotionally difficult > used with to + infinitive
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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"Adoptees are equated with immigrants in new legislation. A new amendment to the unemployement benefit system means that the rights of adoptees are equated with immigrants, if they entered the country after 1968." 🥚 nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2025...
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Adopterede sidestilles med indvandrere i ny lovgivning
En ny lovændring i kontanthjælpssystemet betyder, at adopteredes rettigheder sidestilles med indvandrere, hvis de er kommet til landet efter 1968.
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Be Your Own Light @beyourownlight.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
In fact, Ron passed a law prohibiting us from talking about climate change effects in Florida.
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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
i have bad news for you about most modern adoptions
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
They really are.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Throwing sand in the gears of terrible machinery is also resisting.
Post on Bluesky from alyssaharad.bsky.social: "Listen, did you ever had a bad boss, a terrible person, at a job that you can't, for whatever reason, quit? Did you learn to delay, obfuscate, frustrate, and otherwise fuck up that person just to the line where you could keep your job? Congratulations, you have the tools to resist authoritarianism!"
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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Dr. Lisa Munro (she/her) @llmunro.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Belgium ordered to pay reparations for colonial kidnappings in Congo
Mixed-race children were forcibly removed from their families under a state policy in the 1940s.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/01/2025
Hey, it’s been a while since I updated this starter pack, and in the meantime a lot of #adoptee folks have joined Bluesky. If you’re interested in being added, let me know! I only add an account when I have consent.
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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Initially designed not to be accessible for those with non standard bikes or a disability that stops them using the infrastructure. Local authorities need to brush up on the equality act 2010 and design inclusive cycle and pedestrian routes that everyone can use.
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📝 Kep Rinvelo 📚 @kep.rinvelo.com · 21/12/2024
I'm still convinced the folks in power are intentionally not doing anything about climate change until all the ice in the Arctic & Antarctica is gone year-round so they can mine more resources & have unobstructed shipping routes And I just wonder if humanity will survive to that point
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C 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 @crouhana.com · 21/12/2024
#AI is an #energy hog. This is what it means for #climatechange. www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/23/1...
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AI is an energy hog. This is what it means for climate change.
How worried should we be about AI’s effects on the grid?
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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lisajane.bsky.social @lisajane.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Yes! 🥚Great article, clear writing. You may have already seen this. If not, you might enjoy this from Tony Corsentino. @notalegalrecord.net corsent.substack.com/p/fourteen-p...
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Fourteen Propositions About Adoption
These propositions are grounded in reflection on my experience as someone who was relinquished in a closed, same-race, same-religion domestic adoption in the United States.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 17/12/2024
“Within the scope of adoption practices and policies, the part or parties with more power and privilege tend to define whether the #adoption was conducted ethically, even when there is ample evidence to the contrary.”
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Rebekah #CitizenshipForAdoptees Henson @bekhenson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Being adopted is an adverse childhood experience, regardless of the age you were relinquished and adopted. 🥚 #AdopteeRightsAreHumanRights
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The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @autisticbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Autistics Unmasked are an intersectional advocacy nonprofit AND they have a FREE PDF guidebook for those wondering if they're Autistic! Am I Autistic? Your Guide To Self-Evaluation And Navigating The Clinical Assessment Process autisticsunmasked.org/2021/10/22/e... @autisticsunmasked.bsky.social
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Am I Autistic? Your Guide To Self-Evaluation And Navigating The Clinical Assessment Process
Most autistic people are likely undiagnosed, unidentified adults. With the increased awareness and the amplified voices of autistic people, many adults who went undiagnosed as a child are now disco…
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Katie Keech @keechmft.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Folks never seemed to know this is an anarchosocialist workers song. They gave about 90% of the profit on this song to orgs fighting colonialist capitalist slavery models.
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Sam (formerly Barisan Hantu) 🇸🇬🍉 @neuroliminality.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I don't think the social model of disability is beyond critique but people always stop understanding it "society is what disables me" and if course that's kind of untrue
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Emily Goss @barrowmember.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Agreed.The #ChronicallyIll & #disabled people I know are some of the funniest (dark!), smartest (living disabled is a constant dynamic risk assessment: rapid problem-solving well honed), wisest (bed often = much reading), most thoughtful (as they face thoughtlessness) & best people I know #CripPride
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The Quebec government has suspended most new international adoption applications, echoing moves by other jurisdictions that are rethinking the once-common practice because of human rights and trafficking concerns. #adoption montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
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Quebec suspends international adoptions amid human rights, trafficking concerns
The province said it does not believe the current international system guarantees human rights set out under The Hague Convention.
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Julia Hanigsberg @hanigsberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Raising the disability pride flag at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital as we get an early start on our celebration of International Day of Persons With Disabilities.
Disability pride flag on a flagpole with sky and clouds in the backgroundTwo people, one woman with brown hair, brown skin and glasses holding a paper and a man with brown hair and light skin stand in front of a flag pole.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In Slavic folklore, the hero often encounters Baba Yaga, whose hunched back and cane disguise her immense power. Her physical quirks add to her mystique, showing that disability in folklore often coexists with strength. #MythologyMonday Artwork: Ivan Bilibin
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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#adoption 🥚
“If I offered you $50,000 for your child right now, you’d probably call the cops on me. But if I gave that money to an agency so they could take a child from a poor family (while keeping the money for themselves), you’d call it #adoption.”
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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Never get tired of repeating this: You cannot be an intersectional feminist and anti-racist and also support the adoption and surrogacy industries. #adoption #adoptee #adopteevoices 🥚
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Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Always worth another read. #adoptionistrauma 🥚 @notalegalrecord.net www.notalegalrecord.net/archive/four...
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Fourteen Propositions About Adoption
These propositions are grounded in reflection on my experience as someone who was relinquished in a closed, same-race, same-religion domestic adoption in the...
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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The culture of neglect and abuse that disabled people experience today is the same culture that will pervade assisted suicide, if it's legalised. Disabled people are treated illegally and horrifically every day now, and assisted suicide will be no different. #AssistedDyingBill
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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday -- Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday
Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis
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lisajane.bsky.social @lisajane.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024
🧵 @llmunro.bsky.social gave me permission to recreate her outstanding Twitter thread of writings about the history of family separation + plenary adoption as it’s practiced in the US. It also includes additions from others on Adoptee Twitter. Here we go!
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Karen P. Stevens PhD, RN @nursepub.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Reposting this great directory for Bluesky Starter Packs. This will help you find everyone again!
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Pileus Media @pileusmedia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
No. It’s time to stop stigmatizing and misrepresenting this illness. Allyship and disability justice require that we care about facts and listen to people who have the actual condition! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ten myths about functional neurological disorder
Click on the article title to read more.
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Ashley ShooOOOooo @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
#BorgDiem, the community dictionary of disabled words, is now in its 2.0 edition with Including Disability journal: ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu...
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BORG.DIEM | Including Disability
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ImJamss @imjamss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Made this a bit ago as a way to let those aware im proud to be disabled myself with a jar of jam with the disability pride flag colours.
a jam jar where the jam's content colours are the green, blue, white, yellow and red to represent the disability pride flag colours. the jar is tilted to where the jam contents are dripping out.
it also has font below in the disability pride flag colours stating 'proudly disabled'.
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Kay Jay 🦋👩🏾‍🦼‍➡️ @everkayjay.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This girl just said “ people with disabilities don’t need to be out here making decisions on their own”.. wait what?! She literally said it with her whole chest.. non disabled people never seen to amaze me 😩 #disability
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/11/2024
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We call on Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy to confirm their acceptance of the ICC's ruling and the UK's commitment to upholding international law in regard to arrest warrants issued for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
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ICC arrest warrants: British government must respect ruling and international law
Project for Peace and Justice, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. A hub for discussion and action, building solidarity and hope for a more decent world.
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