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Fascists want you to see your fellow human beings as the enemy They want you scared. They succeed when people are fearful, isolate & uninformed Lift up those who refuse to buy into that rhetoric Who stand up for the marginalized. Who support the oppressed Who recognize we’re all in this together

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This is what happens when you throw policing at a public health problem.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Great story here in @nature.com from @helenpearson.bsky.social on the state of health in the US and what happens when RFK's Make America Healthy Again rhetoric meets the evidence on what actually needs to change. Ft. this shocking graph on US health exceptionalism: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

As it's International Asexual Day, I'm promoting my resource guide to ace sci-fi again! Contents and resource key are below, come take a look at this link! And Happy Ace Day! works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I literally warned against exactly this in my dissertation and i am very tired of eugenicist fascist authoritarians using all the things we've warned about as a fucking shopping list

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I don’t know, peeps, but I just keep coming back around to the idea that what so many people want is a hopeful vision of a better world, with autonomy, dignity, & respect for all, affordability of food/shelter, education, medical care, clean air/water, & a place in a community. That’s the message.

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

And RFK, Jr. wants people in rural areas to have AI nurses instead of real access to healthcare.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

This I've seen it with crochet patterns. Baking recipes. Soap recipes. Gardening tips Fiction books. It used to be a joy to search something and spend an hour leisurely clicking blogs and websites of people who were into their hobby. Not anymore.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Can’t wait for a time when Americans will be denied access to life saving drugs and therapies based on their step count, and sleep scores.

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

🚨CALLING ALL ACCOMPLICES💜 ⚠️ZAY LOST SHELTER AND NEEDS TO BE SAFEGUARDED ASAP 📲 SHARE if you can't spare 📢 REPLY & REPOST to increase visibility to this #MutualAid request 💕💸SEND what you can to #KeepFolksAlive

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🚨SURVIVAL NEEDS🚨 Two days to deadline- THIS IS SO URGENT!!! I think people who are securely #housed don't realise how awful it is to be #outside in extreme #weather - PROTECTION IS NEEDED⚠️⚠️⚠️

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I'm so tired of the "we did x when I was a kid and nothing bad happened" BS.... it's nothing but survivorship bias. Nothing bad may have happened to you buy that doesn't mean something didn't happen to other people. It doesn't MEAN it was ever actually safe or not risky to do the thing.

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Had the conversation yesterday about how Black autistic people have to build up such elaborate masking strategies because if they don't, it could be the difference between life & death while white autistic people will be out here using their diagnosis to defend their heinous & harmful behavior.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I literally hate "if they/I can do it, so can you" because that is not how any of this works.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I decided to check out the nearby indoor climbing gym (used to do it with some friends years ago before I moved to Massachusetts). While I do still like climbing I do not trust the auto-belays enough to come down with them so I only climbed a few feet up to practice falling bit / climbed back down

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I would love if we stopped using saneist language and language that's derogatory towards folks with intellectual/developmental/learning disabilities when we talk about people we don't like who do evil and inhumane things THANKS.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The Cubs game has been paused because the home plate umpire is having a bad reaction to the heat and humidity. There's nothing to joke about with heat and humidity. School-aged athletes in great shape with youth on their side die every year from heat and humidity.

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I just wrote 'Disability / LGBTQIA+ / Health News Roundup June 21, 2025'. buttondown.com/jenrohrig/ar...

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Reached $65! Need $700 for weekly rent by 11AM on Sunday. My survival depends on staying housed due to complex, exhausting disabilities. #PleaseShare, and chip in if possible? Anything helps! #MutualAidRequest #HelpSky #DisabilityCrowdFund

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The public was 100% ready for trans rights just a few years ago. What we’re seeing now is a massive shift in public opinion after a coordinated and expensive propaganda blitz, one that Dems happily ignored. Trans rights aren’t new. We had them for years and everything was cool.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Q&A on AI and Disability - sharing the notes I made for an interview, in which I was trying to challenge the disability-washing of AI. danmcquillan.org/ai_disabilty...

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Review of "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon On my blog: madeofstardustandstubbornness.com/2025/06/21/a... #BookSky #BookReview #ScienceFiction #Dystopian #Disability #LGBTQIA+

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#OpEd: Thanks to the anti-worker, anti-regulatory actions Trump and his enablers in Congress are forcing through, our jobs may become even more dangerous. That’s very bad news in a country where a worker died on the job every 99 minutes in 2023. Read more from @kimkelly.bsky.social ⤵️

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PLZ don’t skip 🚨 We risk our lives daily trying to get aid or some flour & everyone is being shot at and we receive nothing💔 We’re dying of hunger, we want food to survive! Your interaction could save us🥺 I beg U to donate to feed my daughter & family🙏🏻 gofund.me/32c68d64 ✅ @mommunism.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

This is a huge failure of understanding. CripTax is not just healthcare costs. It's also the costs of accessibility when accessibility is considered a luxury. Like when you have to pay for grocery delivery because you can't get to the store to shop in person or do pickup.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Today I'm proud of myself for not expecting even more money from my wonderful friends who are also poor. Why are you proud of this, you might ask. Because the optimism of 'maybe a not-poor stranger who had PTSD therapy sees this and buys me audio books' would've been impossible 2 months ago!

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Don’t use AI to identify whether or not a plant is edible. Don’t use AI to generate a trail route. Don’t use AI to create a recipe. Don’t use AI for creative work (it turns your brain into mush!). Maybe, like, don’t use AI!!

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

I’m launching my virtual book tour service next month! I have 3 book tours ready to fill PLUS access to ARCS for several exciting new releases - I'd love to have you involved! 💙📚 Please share & feel free to drop me a DM with any questions &/or sign up to be a tour host: forms.gle/RUu8vQngzZQE...

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If you wonder why I am making such a big deal about this right now, it's because I honestly have just found out that UBI advocates not only know about the potential collision between UBI and SSI and think people on SSI should be happy to have SSI lowered if it means we get UBI. it's a nightmare.

submitted 365 days ago • 3 comments

I keep thinking about this comment about it making sense to cut back SSI if people are getting UBI. But SSI is already far below what people actually need to get by. Even with UBI of $2200/mo, that's still far below what is needed monthly to get by in Indiana ($4155). www.cnbc.com/2023/08/29/t...

submitted 384 days ago • 8 comments

Everybody bemoaning they can’t get off the Nazi blog, please do this.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I'm willing to help folks pro bono move from Substack to Buttondown (used them for years). cal.com/jackyalcine/... to schedule time (starting in March)

submitted 120 days ago • 7 comments

Happy Juneteenth! Have a little clip of me reading from my Nebula & Sturgeon Award winning short story, TANTIE MERLE AND THE FARMHAND 4200, which is about an old woman, a robot & a goat-- --but also about personhood, acceptance, community & labor rights. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tant...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to make America healthy again, start with Universal health & UBI Masks in healthcare Clean air & water Affordable housing & food Guaranteed education Paid time off Affordable child care When we accept that caring for one another is essential for health & happiness, we all benefit

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

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When I speak about climate justice folks often say “climate change affects everyone, no one can escape climate change even the wealthy” and that’s correct. But they have the resources to adapt and be resilient to it. It’s the ability to respond to disaster that is at the core of climate consequences

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Many disabled folks rely on powered devices to keep them alive. The extreme heat of summer often causes power outages, which kills disabled people. This is a downstream devastation of climate change - and why climate justice is so important. It’s the marginalized who will suffer the most.

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