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mdryebecce.bsky.social
Reader, writer, thinker, evaluator. Communities: Long COVID, Quaker, evaluation, Ex-vangelical, neurodiverse families, special education, anti-racism
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An historian friend shared this Quaker-related piece of National Spelling Bee history, and now you can enjoy it too.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The professor tells me in past semesters her mask wearing inspired a few students to mask too, but this semester she has masked alone, but when I ask if she has wanted to stop, she says: “no it’s good for students to see someone doing the right thing when everyone else given up.”

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

A friend who did not realize her driver's license had expired until she got to TSA (and who did not have her passport) was able to use her Costco ID to fly instead. So putting it with your ID is valid!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision. Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...

submitted 64 days ago • 57 comments

Disability justice asks: What if care wasn’t conditional? What if rest wasn’t earned? What if worth didn’t hinge on how useful you are to someone else?

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

There is a common thread among the TV that appeals to me right now and that thread is...competence.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 74 days ago • 1680 comments

This. All of this.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

submitted 87 days ago • 42 comments

Today @thesicktimes.bsky.social: I spoke to several federal workers with Long COVID who are deeply concerned about their future employment under the Trump administration. thesicktimes.org/2025/03/03/f...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment