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Nonbinary, disabled communist. Also darksidecat@mastodon.social.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h
If Brown is fanatical on the anti-Slavery side, why aren't people who enslaved, raped and brutalized others fanatical on the pro-slavery side?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h
Brown is STILL often portrayed as a crazed fanatic. My question has always been why enslavers aren't also portrayed as fanatics...
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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/10/2026
the pope should have had to wait for a council of pregnant and trans teenagers decide if he really deserved to have his cancer nodule removed before the surgery was made available to him
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hi all, We need help again this month, especially due to circumstances like being ill, not getting our food stamp card, and missing work. We appreciate any donations or boosts! Thank you! gofund.me/7715b479c
Hi all,
Another month with setbacks and difficulties making ends meet. Our income last month was not as good as we'd hoped it would be. BG and I have also recently been pretty badly sick, so that we've both been unable to work for over a week, which means we're going to come up short for this month, too. 
In addition, we've been approved for EBT, but the EBT card has been surprisingly late in arriving, leading to us also coming up somewhat short on food bills.
I'd love to raise at least $800 to make sure our rent is covered in the next couple weeks.
Thank you all again, we appreciate any help you have to give.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AI Bros are like "yeah there's an estrangement crisis. it's a crisis i can't completely estrange my kid until they're an adult"
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busty pixie demon @0xafaebabe.gay · 29/09/2026
you do not gotta hand it to third way. wtf is trans advocates have “gotten more pragmatic” plus there’s a whole quote where the implication was it was fine to dog on trans rights when that meant kids care and sports. fuck off (3rd way, not assigned)
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Anton ☾ ❦ ⟡ @antonarcana.gay · 28/09/2026
This is getting slightly urgent; It’s 4 pm ish, and I’ve already had a therapy appointment today, so my energy for actually going to the store is rapidly dwindling. Anything helps ❤️❤️
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Despite agreement of all parties, sharply divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejects trial court’s finding of constitutional error in #MelissaLucio's case. Trial court had previously found her "actually innocent”. Read: bit.ly/4rtkfaP.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s so cute to see everyone having fun with this,you might enjoy the other story about Covid this morning, about a young mom with long covid who killed herself, possibly partially because her husband describes it as her being “obsessed” with her health and “refusing” to get out of bed. Funny, yeah?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/09/2026
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of public funds.” buff.ly/6enmhe0
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Arab Americans Feel Betrayed After Michigan Grants $1 Million to Israeli Military Contractor
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of public funds.”…
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Kashkabald | EN VTuber 🌻 @kashkabald.skillissue.moe · 18/09/2026
Kind of a longshot, but looking for any leads to help a trans friend of mine escape homelessness in Belgium, she's in Flanders near the Antwerp area. Any types of resources are welcome. RTs appreciated, thank you!
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This nurse withheld oxygen from a dying patient to save herself paperwork. This is why disabled people are angry. This is why we scream about eugenics and that our lives aren’t valued. Even in our final days or hours, those meant to care for us don’t care at all.
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Hospice nurse takes away patient's oxygen after fall for 'easier' paperwork — DA
A Wisconsin hospice nurse faces 15 years in prison after being accused of depriving an elderly patient of oxygen for 90 minutes, claiming that death paperwork is 'easier' than one for a fall.
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
«Most trans people aren’t trans, they are seriously mentally ill, and so are you» This is what my primary care doctor told me when I first came out, citing his wife, a PhD student at the national gender clinic. Now, having been found guilty of misconduct, all her work is being retracted ⬇️
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Abortion is healthcare. Abortion bans kill people. They criminalize pregnancy. They result in arrests for miscarriages, shamefully delayed care and patients bleeding out unnecessarily. Roe saved lives.
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FunkisHen @funkishen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This assessment is ghoulish, absolutely vile. "Hey, you can't afford to live and get care? Dying is free!"
Those experts also found that, even when access to assisted dying was restricted to those at the end of life or with a terminal illness, disabled people, older people, and particularly older disabled people, "may feel subtly pressured to end their lives prematurely due to attitudinal barriers as well as the lack of appropriate services and support".

Despite fears that extreme poverty could increase pressure on people to seek an assisted death, as has happened in Canada, the government's equality impact assessment instead concludes that the bill "may have a positive impact on those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds by making assisted dying available without incurring cost".
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If people are hungry, feed them. If they’re homeless, house them. If they’re sick, treat them. If they’re struggling, provide support. When basic human needs are met, people thrive. Food, housing and healthcare should be given to all.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yup. Long article here: bsky.app/profile/sara...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026
I also can't tell the full story yet, but when Gloria Steinem was a co-chair of the Women's March, language supporting sex workers vanished from the march platform—but it was put back. Between the lines: sex workers won that fight, over Gloria's objections. The story as I could report it:
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The Women’s March Is Pro-Choice and Pro-Sex Workers’ Rights — and Should Be Proud of It
(Photo: djc/Flickr) This Saturday in Washington, thousands of women — tens of thousands, maybe — will march, defining what women’s rights look…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honors roll student who applied for legal admission through the now-defunct CBP app. Lost his college sports scholarship when the feds revoked TPS for all Haitian refugees. Wanted to be a doctor. They're killing our kids, our neighbors www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨 My children sleep hungry, waiting for food that may never come. I don’t know how much longer I can bear seeing hunger in their eyes. Mahmoud faces death because of his infected wound, and Sham cries from fever and pain.😭 £250 isn’t a luxury—it’s a chance to survive.💔 chuffed.org/project/omshamm
Mahmoud sleeping in a hospital bed with both his legs broken and bandaged Mahmoud's and Lina's three daughters, sitting on a blanket with serious expressions
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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Om jameel :We are in our final moments with illness inside the tent; it's a matter of life or death.I suffer from a heart condition,&my husband is severely injured. Now, rats&mice are scratching &biting my kids inside the tent,I need $250 to rent a room&save the kids🙏🙏🙏 chuffed.org/project/1839...
a dead rat next to some trash on the dirt floor of this family’s shelter.Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - plead for help in a tent shelter. Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - sleeping together under blankets, on carpets laid on dirt, in a tent shelter. A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026
NEW: 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row. Despite his overturned conviction, Louisiana could force him to go back. with @veritenews.org
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He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?
23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/08/2026
Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz said “I don’t want anyone in America concerned inappropriately” about the GOP-fueled surge in measles infections after Pennsylvania officials announced that a newborn baby died with complications related to the disease this week.
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Oz Says Many “Concerned Inappropriately” About Measles After Death of Unvaccinated Baby
“I don’t want anyone in America concerned inappropriately” about the surging disease, the health official said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026
NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical treatment as their children die. At least five sets of parents have lost multiple children.
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These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Last week, we brought you the story of Merle the bat - her rescue from our galleries and her rehabilitation by our volunteer Rose-Ann, a licensed bat carer. Yesterday evening, Merle was safely released back into the wild, flying off healthily into the night 🦇
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I just donated to help SPIDER-MAN, who took on nazi scumbags trying to invade Minneapolis again. Arrested by our local cops (boooo) who were diligently defending their racist turd pals. Let’s help good ol’ Webhead with his defense! (PS I can vouch for the GoFundMe creator) gofund.me/6f36a1ac1
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Donate to Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense, organized by Ash Chudgar
Awesome update: I'm in touch with Spider-Man's family, and we're setting things up so t… Ash Chudgar needs your support for Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/08/2026
Keshia Golden was eight months pregnant and had just celebrated her baby shower. Her boyfriend, Calvin Sidney, attacked her, slamming her head into a kitchen counter. She grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Sidney in the leg. Golden was charged with first-degree murder shortly after he died.
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She Defended Herself From Domestic Abuse. She’s on Trial for Murder Next Week.
Keshia Golden’s advocates say the legal system is stacked against both Black women and survivors of domestic violence.
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thedarksidecat.bsky.social @thedarksidecat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's important to remember that what's called "AI" currently in the media is stuff like generative AI & LLMs, not the sort of computer &database learning applied by scientists&actual scientific researchers. They're not talking about google forcing you to look at LLM bullshit instead of a real search
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/08/2026
AI did not discover a cancer vaccine. Scientists discovered it because their research was supported and funded.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇
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thedarksidecat.bsky.social @thedarksidecat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Tasers also kill and cause long term or permanent injury. It's not safe to shock people, and deaths absolutely do occur. These trainings often pretend that shocking people is "benign" (beyond the pain inflicted), but it's absolutely not.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The kids are not alright. Emily was only 9 when she got Covid, and she’s been disabled ever since. She’s 14 and struggling with the crushing loneliness and isolation that comes from living with chronic illness. We must do better. Mask up. Clean the air. Protect the kids.
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/08/2026
Educators warn that repression under a new California law is fueling censorship in LAUSD, the nation’s second-largest school district, and could set a nationwide precedent.
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Censorship in LA School District Could Become National Norm, Educators Warn
Educators in the country’s second-largest school district are facing repression in the wake of a new California law.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/08/2026
Also, nothing about self ID requires us to treat seriously people who are obviously bad faith actors. If you can't see the difference between a troll and a trans person, that's on you, not Self ID.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/08/2026
"Trans people don't need to medically transition to be valid" and "Enes Kanter and Royce White are assholes pretending to be trans for yuks" aren't contradictory positions. Self ID is vitally important, especially in a world where our healthcare is increasingly inaccessible.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Healthcare is suicide prevention. Housing is suicide prevention. Childcare is suicide prevention. Universal basic income is suicide prevention. When we ensure people have their basic needs met, mental health improves.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/08/2026
Oh so we CAN honor sacred places and not disturb them with infrastructure projects as long as "sacred" means "important to the fictitious canon of a racist transphobic fascist's children's book series." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🚨🇵🇸👇🏿 Soad has appealed to you with all the meanings of humanity, and pleaded with you with the heart of a mother who could no longer bear to see her child suffering before her Omar is a patient who lost 2 kilograms of weight They need $180 to buy his medication and vitamins. tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx
Suad, a young Palestinian woman in a purple hijab, taking a selfie with her young son Omar as he holds a peace sign over his head. There is the rubble of a destroyed building behind them.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Haverford codifies antisemitism into campus policy, stipulating that fascism and genocide are intrinsic to Jewish nature.
Tweet thread from Barak Mendelsohn, self-described "College Professor. Author of "Jihadism Constrained" "The Al-Qaeda Franchise" and "Combating Jihadism". Proud Zionist, fighting antisemitism at Haverford College"

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More details about the Haverford College antisemitism settlement:
1. Zionism is treated as an element of Jewish identity, not merely a political position. Total prohibition on discriminating against Zionists and Israelis, not just prohibition the traditional Jew hatred;  1/5
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2. Haverford finally adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism!!!;
3. Mandatory (!!!) yearly antisemitism training to students, faculty and staff. We asked for that for years. And there are a bunch of professors in real need of such training.  2/5
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4. End to the use of masks to disrupt, intimidate people, and avoid accountability;
5. Students’ honor code revised to eliminate distinctions between “privileged” and “marginalized” students 3/5
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6. Title VI director will be responsible for responding to claims of antisemitism. Our bias reports will no longer be sent to DEI office that dismissed them for ideological reasons; 4/5
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7. Establishment of antisemitism committee to advise and provide oversight. The college will not be able to manipulate its composition. It will provide annual report to the Board;
These are major achievements. And we will make sure the college keeps its commitments! 5/5
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What's going to happen to these fucks is, either they're not gonna get the media attention they want, in which case they'll quietly drop this scam, or they'll find out about testosterone blockers and quietly drop this scam They're bigoted scam artists. Say that
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