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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 · 13h
also tempted, to break my 1:12 scale rule, because they will never make a 6" Elvira 😭
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 14h
I love when cats have like a stack of legs and so many feet!
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 14h
I'm glad to hear this, and for it to happen in my lifetime.
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Rose Broderick @rosebroderick.bsky.social · 18h
It's a really sad day here at STAT. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...
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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 16h
Today @thesicktimes.org: Big feature by @khaoticaa.bsky.social exploring the immense challenges that trans people with Long COVID face in getting healthcare. "Neglect within healthcare and the queer community both contribute to the medical and social erasure of trans people."
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Trans people with Long COVID navigate a new “dark age” in trans health - The Sick Times
We spoke with and surveyed dozens of trans people navigating gender-affirming care and Long COVID during Trump’s second term.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 14h
I just recently learned, on here, that this is called hyperlexia! And not uncommon among the neurodivergent. I also don't remember learning how, but I was reading the newspaper headlines at 2 (nearly 3) and some adults were startled! I was fortunate to live in Manhattan, so not lonely.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 15h
I'm honestly shocked that they let her pull a Led Zep needle drop, it's like invoking a curse! I know she has a long leash cause of Barbie (which I have not seen), but this is some "ChatGPT told me it's a great idea" level ill-advised.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 15h
welp, I guess Greta Gerwig didn't learn anything from "John Carter" being one of the biggest box office bombs in history. I am genuinely interested in seeing her take on "The Magician's Nephew", but she should read the Marketing section of this wiki page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ca...
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John Carter (film) - Wikipedia
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 19h
Horrible. Covid-cautious people are the only people I know getting their vax now. Yet of course all the oblivious ones want their flu shot!
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 20h
hmm now I need to know what Delta chat is
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 23h
Guess what. Disability stops us. Disability defines us. That's just reality. I left our flat three times so far this year, each time for medical appointments. And, I'm still a person, still rich in love, character, history, connection, pattern recognition and creation of beauty. We are real.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 23h
so much ugly news. And sad news. The young actor RJ Mitte has died, by his own choice. Disabled life in a world racing to the bottom of eugenics is really hard; I don't know what other hardships he faced. Even colleagues who loved him are saying ableist shit like "he didn't let disability stop him".
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23h
This happened again last week. Four of them this time, near the same stop. Three boys, one girl. Wearing Lonsdale jackets with the Imperial Germany colours (red, white and black) and Thor Steinar belts. It’s getting worse here, but then again it’s getting worse most places.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h
cops and Christian anti-trafficking app guys worked this kind of tech out on sex workers a decade ago (remember “big data”?) www.vice.com/en/article/t...
company? Rescue Forensics claims it #archives massive quantities of data from
classified advertisement sites
specializing in commercial sex ads." It gathers a lot of text, and even more nude and semi-nude photos. Then it turns all that over to the cops.
Rescue Forensics has said it's "making it harder for bad guys to hide on the internet. And while it's hard to quantify that claim, the company certainly achieved some success in attracting investors: Paul Graham's influential Y Combinator incubator selected Rescue Forensics for funding, after which TechCrunch dubbed the service the
"software [that] eats sex trafficking." With Rescue Forensics, users can
"#tracethetraffickers," as one of its own
Facebook memes puts it.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mexico’s door-to-door health workers have reached 10.9 million people in the last year. As well as providing care, they’re building the data backbone for the country’s planned 2027 rollout of a universal health service, with 2.25 million people already registered. buff.ly/L34CCLJ #ShareGoodNewsToo
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https://www.gob.mx/presidencia/prensa/presidenta-firma-decreto-para-creacion-de-12-mil-750-consultorios-del-servicio-universal-de-salud-entran-en-operacion-en-enero-de-2027
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
babby so smol
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
wow that's horrible
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Adam Wong @adamwong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
AirFanta 5Pro Officially Launched: Two Years in the Making, Fully Evolved We are excited to announce the launch of our new air purifier, the AirFanta 5Pro, following two years of design and manufacturing.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
wow that is the most twink Peter ever.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
nah, we are all just be hitting refresh on our figure news sources!
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
Kansas
A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would like to unsubscribe from this frequency of events
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
History disappeared right in front of us.
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AuDHDreadPirateRoberts 🇯🇲🇧🇧🪮♾️🕋 (Not quite a Bluesky elder) @audhdeepdive.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Apparently Meta just deleted the Instagram account of late Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif.
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Aurel Wünsch @aurel.indoorco2map.com · 11/10/2026
We ended up with 171 Measurements yesterday - mostly in stores. Without going into details, I think one important things these measurements do is to provide context into how bad Ventilation is in schools. Fast-Fashion-Stores having 5-10x lower share of exhaled air than schools is a societal failure
Chart titled "Distribution of CO2-Levels measured on October 10th 2026". Stacked bars with the share of visits in 3 CO₂ categories (GO IAQS: Good up to 800 ppm CO₂, Moderate 801–1,400, Unhealthy above 1,400). Gift: 0% Good, 50% Moderate, 50% Unhealthy; Department stores: 64% Good, 27% Moderate, 9% Unhealthy; Clothes shops: 92% Good, 4% Moderate, 4% Unhealthy; Supermarkets: 41% Good, 56% Moderate, 3% Unhealthy; Cinemas: 25% Good, 75% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Variety store: 33% Good, 67% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Interior decoration: 50% Good, 50% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Shoe shops: 67% Good, 33% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Shopping centres: 71% Good, 29% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Bookshops: 80% Good, 20% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Fast food: 80% Good, 20% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Drugstores: 92% Good, 8% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Sports: 100% Good, 0% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Electronics stores: 100% Good, 0% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy; Station: 100% Good, 0% Moderate, 0% Unhealthy. Source: IndoorCO₂Map open data.
Two charts of daily mean CO2 levels in classrooms over a school year.

Top (Austria, ImpAQS final report): line chart from autumn 2023 to summer 2024 comparing naturally and mechanically ventilated classrooms. Naturally ventilated classrooms rise from about 650 ppm CO2 in September to between 1,300 and 1,750 ppm in autumn and winter, and only fall back below 1,000 ppm in late spring. Mechanically ventilated classrooms stay close to 1,000 ppm in autumn and winter and around 800 ppm in spring. Dashed lines mark the 1,000 ppm compliance threshold and the 800 ppm target.

Bottom (United Kingdom, SAMHE): daily mean classroom CO2 from September to June, with a shaded interquartile range and background colours for cold, intermediate and warm weather. The mean climbs from about 900 ppm in September to around 1,250 ppm in the cold months and drops to about 800 ppm by late June. A red dashed line marks the 1,500 ppm guideline from BB101. Highlighted text says that in cooler periods over 25% of monitors measured above this daily threshold.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
holy heck. I forgot all about the Fringe noir episode, "Brown Betty". Lance Reddick plays the piano and sings Traffic's "Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"! His classical music background coming in handy! What an icon he was. I still can't believe he's gone so young.
screencap from the Fringe episode called "Brown Betty", a '40s noir homage. Olivia and Broyles are both shown wearing fedoras, in a nightclub setting. Lance Reddick as Broyles is seated at a piano.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I've never heard of most of these Image characters but I truly appreciate that you're onsite at NYCC with breaking toy news :)
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Before December there is always a cohort of new couriers who don't know the deal: that we are ideal for them! On first floor, always home, and do contactless delivery. New couriers create stress & misery for us every year. But it seems early this year, and like it's the platforms, not the couriers.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As a disabled household we are entirely reliant on deliveries. Unfortunately, there has been a huge spike of enshittification with most online services and couriers lately.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
sweet babby fasce is literally illuminated by purity and angelic goodness, only faintest intimation of once and future honkerbonkery.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😍
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ordering #nuvaxovid to bring to a doctor? Here's info on how to preserve the cold chain. #DIYmedicine #wetakecareofus
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Leather Archives & Museum @leatherarchives.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're 20 members into our goal of 100! Every membership, at every level, keeps LA&M's work going, caring for a collection of leather, kink, fetish, and BDSM history that exists nowhere else. This work feels more important than ever. leatherarchives.org/support/beco...
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
😭jfk
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm super excited to announce the fanciest zine of mine ever, The Folktales of Lowland Cekon. It's gorgeously illustrated by two dear friends, printed by a worker-owned printer. And it's $6. Pre-order is up now. www.tangledwilderness.org/shop/p/folkt...
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Folk Tales of Lowland Cekon by Margaret Killjoy — Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
These five standalone stories explore the rich folklore of Cekon, the shattered country from Margaret Killjoy's novel The Sapling Cage (Feminist Press, 2024). Follow the adventures of peasant knights,...
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm so sorry. Never enough time.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More tiny joys - made a #lazycustom of Colleen Wing by taking a Sersi Eternals fig and painting her hair red. It was always Chris's headcanon that Misty and Colleen were... very close. And given what a schmuck Danny Rand is, who could blame them. #marvellegends #nightwing
A group of 6" scale 80s superhero action figures in the front garden of a dollhouse X-Mansion. They are feasting on a nice miniature brunch with fancy drinks. Seen are Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, who are holding hands, Starfire, Nightwing, Jericho, Kid Flash and Speedy.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
omg that is GOOD NEWS. I have been performing hilarious and also deeply felt gothic visualization of all c-cells being destroyed for A every night :)
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
oh my gosh you look lovely, that flower is awesome!
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Currently #nuvaxovid #novavax is available, in stock, at Leibniz Apoteke in West Berlin!
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
such a banger.
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SWR Data @swr-data.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This year's creator survey is officially underway! Check your email if you've taken the survey before. It should have gone out to you in the past week. Didn't get it or haven't taken it before? DM us and we'll send you a link.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She is so beautiful! And so young! The rubber-band looong of her makes me really get how our Transylvanian rescue girl was the same age when she came to us last summer. Ellie has changed shape from yearling into grown cat since then, and it's fascinating. Course she still loves to wreck shit!
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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 08/10/2026
Starting tomorrow I'll have a semi-fresh batch of Halloween songs to share! Meanwhile, have a trad goth cover. Production is on the dirty side; I recorded this while we were moving house in 2019. unwoman.bandcamp.com/track/passio... (day 267)
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Passion of Lovers, by Unwoman
from the album Uncovered Volumes 4 & 5
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Infinite Valley of Ugh.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beautiful catteries.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Basically in scale with all modern ML cause of size creep.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Saw a comment on Amazon on the Mattel Kids Line Batman yesterday that they scale perfectly with Legends.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🤣❤️‍🔥🎉
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