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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta

@suzanneforbes.bsky.social
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Queer disabled MECFS (and Filth!) Elder in Berlin, housebound retired artist. Still respirator masking. Trans rights FOREVER. Sex worker ally. Baby vegan. Location: Atlantis by Gaslight. She/her.

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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 11m
Can't believe Im in another hitting refresh nightmare. Could we just not have snap elections called in Spain this week, that's my one request for this week.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h
man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 49m
This is hitting like a gut punch. Honestly I'm goddam terrified. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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How Brazil's election winner could reshape its institutions as vacancies mount
The next president will inherit a large number of appointments to Brazil's most ​powerful institutions.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 56m
not now Brazil please fucking PLEASE
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 1h
"Having heard from thousands of people what they have been through, it is appalling that the only thing that consistently seems to help is giving up work. There are even studies that show this." True for me. Giving up my life's work, my vocation, seemed impossible, but it's been such relief.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 10h
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 4h
When your Chancellor is so unpopular he has to go to a war zone to try and help his ratings...
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 5h
Did you know each emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers? This demo by Alexa Heinrich shows what happens when a screen reader encounters a post that uses an emoji to function as a bullet point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMs...
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Taylor Nation Emoji Bullet Point Tweet
Demonstration of what a tweet with emoji used as bullet points sounds like when read by a screen reader. The tweet also uses a "show more" cut, which isn't accessible when the tweet is seen in the…
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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 6h
There are many #opensource #science projects out there and a decent number of #DIYMedicine projects as well. We recommend using these hashtags to find them (and so people can find you!) We'll be watching our comms for a while so we can help people replicate and expand on our work.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 7h
omg sooooo good
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Goddess Flora Sparks @goddessflorasparks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ps if u are a baddie w EDS or HSD I have a pdf book about the PT process for us! If you don't have money to go private for a hypermobility specialist this can help a regular PT, and if you want you could also DIY the process.
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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For those building a pod: 1) I'm giving a virtual, public Intro to Pods on Sat Oct 10th. It's free (tho donations are greatly appreciated) w ASL + Spanish interp. Register: bit.ly/intro-pods 2) this resource www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res... has all kinds of info + worksheets (it's also in spanish)
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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Recently pulled together an emergency preparedness pod with people who live near me because of the many (worsening) crises that we are in or are heading our way. Can't stress enough for others to do this asap. Even just having a couple of conversations about it is better than nothing and will help.
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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
read it here!: hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-wil...
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noob 🌈 @noobfl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
cn sexuelle gewalt
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...
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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS
YouTube video by David M Tuller
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are treated horribly. It is appalling. There is no treatment, so we fall by the wayside, and almost no one cares. We can't even go to the doctor safely. Grateful to the researchers who keep trying to unravel the mystery, and to the advocates like George that we do have. 🙏 😷
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to support a photo, and usually depend on users being able to see the photo. But alt text is meant to be the stand-in for the photo. The alt text is what a screen reader user gets in place of the photo.
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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will be delivering the opening keynote at BSides NYC on October 17th. 45 minutes of screaming followed by 15 minutes of Q&A: bsidesnyc.org
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BSidesNYC
BSides NYC is an Information / Security conference that’s different. We’re a 100% volunteer organized event put on by and for the community, and we truly strive to keep information free.
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Jiz Lee @jizlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New York! Experimental short film "RED LIGHT GREEN" by Eva Wu is on display at the Leslie Lohman Museum now thru November 15. I had the best time modeling with Valentine and April Flores, and a very green screen. Gallery: leslielohman.org/exhibitions/... Film info: evawu.art/redlightgreen
Valentine, April Flores, and Jiz Lee pose together on a green screen.Valentine, April Flores, and Jiz Lee pose together on a green screen.
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Dr. McCoy 😷 @drmccoy.info · 30/09/2026
In der Tivoli Apotheke in #Aachen #NRW #Nordrhein-Westfalen ist jetzt #Sanofi #Novavax #Nuvaxovid #XFG verfügbar! Wer hat in der Region Interesse? #nuvaxfg #impfxfg #TeamVernunft #Impfung #Covid19
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Doctor Beverly Crusher @spacedocmom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You're not being lazy, you're managing resources for future needs. Good job! Excellent pacing! I'm so proud of you! 🖤💙😷🥄
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Doctor Beverly Crusher
@SpaceDocMom
Incoming Transmission...

You're not being lazy, you're managing resources for future needs. Good job! Excellent pacing! I'm so proud of you! emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
The cover of X-Men annual no 6 by Bill Sienkiewicz. An Art Nouveau influenced illustration of Storm, a tall Black mutant woman, transformed into a vampire. Storm is wearing Mucha style drapery and jewels; she holds the body of Kitty Pride, a young white mutant girl, who has bite marks on her neck. Around Storm's feet the other early 80's X-Men lie wounded or dead. Behind Storm, Dracula is lurking around.
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Dr. McCoy 😷 @drmccoy.info · 30/09/2026
🧵1/x Wir haben Ende September - #Sanofi #Novavax #Nuvaxovid #XFG ist zwar inzw. verfügbar, wurde auch schon verimpft - aber nur vereinzelt, über den Monat hinweg. Viele von Euch haben Probleme, ihn vor Ort zu bestellen. "Nicht lieferbar", heißt es oft. Woran liegt das, u. welche Lösungen gibt es?⤵️
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"John Richard Green, who is imprisoned in Texas, wrote that, w/ Long COVID, his health is “more messed up than the floor of a New York cab...Now I am bedbound, sick, and all alone." Vital feature by @octoberk.bsky.social about the disease's invisibility in prison. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A wonderful online training, taught by renowned experts in the field, that doctors won't attend because the disease is highly stigmatized and they don't believe it's real.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is great but what if your doctor won't do it? Because he is hopelessly burned out, because he thinks ME is a trivial concern since if people would just do GET/activation Reha they'd be fine, because there's no incentive for German doctors to do continuing education?
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“We’ve had wasted decades in which huge numbers of patients have been abused, mistreated and their very horrible condition made even worse by medicine.” George Monbiot talking about the PACE trial, graded exercise therapy (GET) and CBT as treatments for #MECFS.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026
A lot of people being at each others' throats is from scarcity, fear, and trauma. I always try to keep that in mind when I see intra-community fighting, and to have extra empathy for everyone involved. things are not going to be normal until November, and possibly quite a bit longer :/
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 28/09/2026
The latest fiction from @annaleen.bsky.social is a subversive adventure tale told from the perspective of a single-cell alien creature. Read an excerpt here, then go see them (Annalee, not the slime mold) read in SF Oct. 6. www.coyotemedia.org/excerpt-anna...
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Excerpt: ‘A Wall Is Also a Road’
The new novel from San Francisco sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz is a thought-provoking meditation on human nature, told from the perspective of an adventurous alien amoeba.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Severe & Very Severe ME Research Registry has been created. It gives people with severe and very severe ME from Germany, Austria, & Switzerland the opportunity to participate in research through home visits severe-me-registry.de #SevereME #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #VerySevereME #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
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Severe & Very Severe ME Research Registry
Das Severe and Very Severe ME Research Registry verbindet ME Schwer- und Schwerstbetroffene mit biomedizinischer, häuslicher Forschung.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This sounds like a terrific book an omg that photo. ✨💖
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMG there is a name for it?? And in fact the name was created the year I was born, whoa. I was spontaneously reading the newspaper at age 2, and I know at least one other person with the same thing. Hyperlexic: it's just a thing that some people randomly get, and that's so cool.
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Tove Harris @toveharris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Der Berlin Buyers Club fordert in einem Offenen Brief die STIKO, den Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss und Bundesgesundheitsminister Linnemann dazu auf, angepasste COVID-19-Impfstoffe jetzt zugänglich zu machen. www.berlinbuyersclub.com/offener-brie... #COVID #Impfungen #COVID19 #STIKO #CovidIsNotOver
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Offener Brief an die STIKO — Berlin Buyers Club
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a housebound person whose life mainly consists of pain, medication, doomscrolling, ADL chores, and tiny bits of giving help to community, I cannot express what a treat the new Crave series "Yaga" will be for me. Carrie-Anne Moss as a professor with a taste for younger men, and Hudson Williams.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A marvelous "degenerate" Berlin artist I did not know!
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is the thing from the WHATWG HTML standard I am referring to. Source: html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/im...
The most general rule to consider when writing alternative text is the following: [begin bold text] the intent is that replacing every image with the text of its alt attribute does not change the meaning of the page. [end bold text]

So, in general, alternative text can be written by considering what one would have written had one not been able to include the image.

A corollary to this is that the alt attribute's value should never contain text that could be considered the image's caption, title, or legend. It is supposed to contain replacement text that could be used by users instead of the image; it is not meant to supplement the image. The title attribute can be used for supplemental information.
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Minette Dreier @achkunst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ein weiteres Portrait der Serie „The Queer Berlin Bohème“ ist fertig: How to tell if an orchid is happy (featuring Pham Minh Duc), 2026 100 x 100, Öl/Leinwand #art #kunst #painting #nature #lgbtiqa
Gemälde: eine Person mit langen dunklen Haaren, die untere Hälfte blondiert, trägt ein schwarzes Kurzarm-Jacket mit übergroßem spitzengesäumten Kragen, dazu einen hellen bauschigen Tüllrock. Hält in der linken Hand einen kleinen blauen Plüschhund, in der rechten eine blaue Orchideenrispe. Der Blick ruht auf den Blüten.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Beautiful new works from one of my favorite Queer Berlin artists!
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 16/11/2024
Cool girl in the Russian (?) Metro (?) wearing a trench coat. She's looking at you conspiratorially and allows you to glimpse a cute little kitten hiding in her coat.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It has sent many people from having mild or moderate cases to severe #MECFS… it has turned people housebound, bedbound. It has completely destroyed their lives.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the harm caused by graded exercise therapy (GET) for #MECFS.
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Waldmeer @waldmeer.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Was mir besonders wichtig ist: Pacing ist KEINE "behutsame Steigerung" und KEINE "vorsichtige Aktivierung"! Pacing bedeutet Anpassung der Aktivität zur Bewahrung und Stabilisierung vorhandener Spielräume. Diesen Begriff dürfen sich an ME/CFS erkrankte Menschen auf keinen Fall nehmen lassen!
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Enno Park @ennopark.de · 27/09/2026
Es wird international wahrgenommen. Gut. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/e...
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Outrage as East German town bans Holocaust ‘stumbling blocks’ | CNN
There has been outrage after a small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of the ...
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I would go so far as to say most people with virus induced fatigue have no idea that’s what the cause is, and they are stumbling from pillar to post trying wellness hacks to solve the problem. Some don’t want to know even if I mention the possibility.
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Jiz Lee @jizlee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BACKSEAT is touring with the HUMP! Film Festival, playing at theaters across the US, Amsterdam, Berlin, and select cities in Canada. Get tickets if it's playing near you! @humpfilmfest.bsky.social @robinastera.bsky.social @raethreat.bsky.social @jizlee.bsky.social 🌎 Map: www.humpfilmfest.com#map
Nonbinary trans masc adult film performers Jiz Lee and Robin Astera sit in the back seat of a car, laughing. 
Laurel and Text: Hump! Film Festival 2026 Official Selection BACKSEAT
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Fringe rewatch is a trip. The incredible Anna Torv is surrounded by a crew of amazing actors, and her character is a woman surrounded by men who believe her, believe in her, and care about her. Plus she has a sister & niece she deeply loves. Hard to believe men created this show in the Oughts.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Symptoms are “horrible” and severe cases are a “living nightmare.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social speaks to @natashadevon.bsky.social on LBC about ME/CFS, its long history of being dismissed and psychologised, and the role of governments and insurers.
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 26/09/2026
📻 Superb @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Interview on LBC with Natasha Devon. "A long & vicious history in this country of dismissing predominantly female diseases & calling them hysterical." 🔥 Thank you George & Natasha 🙏
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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another blistering Guardian column about ME/CFS from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: virology.ws/2026/09/26/t...
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Trial By Error: Blistering New Monbiot Column on ME/CFS Mistreatment, Neglect | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH George Monbiot, the British investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Guardian, has written a corker of a column about ...
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