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michael-w-k.bsky.social
Loves 🎮game🕹️ mechanics, 🎼soundtracks🎹, & 🎵remixes🎶; ♿disabled (MD-haver)👨‍🦼, 🇨🇦Canadian🍁, socialist. AKA Extra Ampersand, Michael, Birdseye, Wheels, nyKad, &. 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ rights = human rights🏳️‍🌈. New and 💙bluesky🦋 improved!
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Once upon a time, many children lived in iron lungs due to polio. Vaccines eradicated it Public health matters. When you shake confidence in public health, people die The last man living in an iron lung was killed by Covid when a carer refused to mask This is where anti-science rhetoric leads

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

OOF, right in my 1986 childhood

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Canada must speak up against the arbitrary detention of travellers. Canadians and other nationals have been kidnapped by ICE. These are not the actions of a democratic nation. This is the creep of fascism. I am calling on Canadians to avoid all travel to the USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt_q...

submitted 16 days ago • 355 comments

I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.

submitted 29 days ago • 276 comments

I'm no longer in this position, but it's 100% true for those like me that need care.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

... am I going have to be worried about being ANNEXED now? Come on, we're already in the darkest timeline - also wasn't this part of the original Fallout storyline?

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Many who speak about DEI being removed from employment are forgetting disabled people in that conversation. It’s not surprising since most forget about us as a whole but this is going to make it so disabled people can barely get hired or receive any accommodations. We’re barely surviving as is.

submitted 70 days ago • 58 comments

Man is a monster. I enjoyed some of his work, once. I'm basically at the point where I think all famous charismatic creatives are at the very least toxic and at worst dangerous & not to be trusted. Fame really does make & enable monsters, huh? Non-paywall article link - so many CWs archive.is/2n1F6

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

I'll keep saying it until people in power start listening: It's not social media that is primarily causing mental health issues for young people. It's the material economic conditions they face and then see/express on SM that causes it. (healthcare worries, cost of living, unaffordable rent etc)

submitted 89 days ago • 6 comments

Happy new year, may you experience

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives. Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?

submitted 97 days ago • 315 comments

Just realized we can save America if we all pretend Elon Musk is cool and funny. It’s like the peoples of Middle Earth quietly agreeing to lie to Sauron that his ska band rips so he’ll call off the orcs.

submitted 98 days ago • 152 comments

Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie because of the setting. It's a Christmas movie because it has The Christmas Plot: A man who is neglecting his family to focus on work learns What Really Matters through an improbable crisis around the holidays and rededicates himself to his wife and kids

submitted 99 days ago • 347 comments

🎄Happy holidays🎄! And Merry Christmas Eve, if that's what you celebrate. My partner and I do our big Christmas dinner friends/family thing tonight, and then actually take a break on the 25th & enjoy the day. Even though my fiancé is THIS >< close to passing out from working her butt off for the 🧵1/2

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Do yourself a favour. DON'T LOOK ANYTHING UP, watch Secret Level, episode = New World: The Once and Future King. Enjoy the ~12 minute ride. You're welcome! 😁

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, we are the official Square Enix Games account! Be sure to follow us for all the latest news. ✌️

submitted 107 days ago • 320 comments

a wheelchair is simultaneously freedom, and all in the same, a restriction. We need to stop seeing mobility aids as one or the other... when in fact they are both. And, we need to lean into that conversation a whole lot harder.

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

Day 23 #ocremixdaily 🎧 Upping the Ante 👤 @mattmatatt.bsky.social 🎮 Balatro In honor of Balatro's #vga Best Indie Game win, I thought this would be a fitting choice! This "chill shred" mix takes an adaptive source track, and makes a compelling session jam! #vgm @ocremix.org

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! OC ReMix = 25 YEARS OLD! 4,500 ReMixes later, video game music is STILL an art form! ♥️ if you agree! • Community Forums: ocremix.org/community • Discord: discord.gg/ocremix • YouTube: youtube.com/ocremix • SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/ocremix • Facebook: facebook.com/ocremix

submitted 115 days ago • 12 comments

This is a great 🧵 about ♿

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Sooooo... officially diagnosed with (inattentive) ADHD recently. Took a two year wait (!) but now I can move forward with things rather than ASSUMING & get actual treatment. 😌

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment