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I WISH I WERE A BIRD. Chicago, chronically ill, collecting records and playing rpgs, mad about disability justice, misses the old internet. she/they
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Tricky as hell with COVID and anti mask sentiment, especially for housebound and/or immunocompromised people. (I'm both.) Mask tf up. If enough people do, I can have the in person social life I deserve & won't have to be so dangerously lonely.

there is lots of sneezing and coughing on this plane and i’ve had to take my mask off a lot to drink and blow my nose because i was sick this week. I’m scared!!!!!!

none of the books i wanted were at the barbara’s bookstore at ORD so i panic bought this. am i cooked

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

i don’t live in the tristate anymore, but as a bridge and tunnel gremlin who always made a fool of myself and inconvenienced others when i drove in manhattan i think congestion pricing is great. it should be expensive for me to be there and i should be encouraged to seek other routes

me on this plane youtu.be/PhaHIFZDrh0?...

tiny, tiny handful of people masked at ORD. i miss Asia.

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

nervously humming along with the Weyland-Yutani customer care hotline hold music as screams of terror draw ever nearer

after a week of having a headcold i just got a loadbearing booger out of my sinuses and feel like a new human (for at least the next ten minutes)

tag yourself i'm Josh Goes to Hell

Things are bleak, but there’s also good news: 1) Montana refused to ban mRNA vaccines! tinyurl.com/bdftjezm 2) CA is fighting trans healthcare bans! tinyurl.com/yyadcnsv 3) Public outcry scared ‘em off firing parks employees! tinyurl.com/yck9yb7s Stay loud. Demand more from your local leaders.

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

Here are the Palestinian children that Zionism killed before they reached their first birthdays. Shared on X by Laila Al-Arian.

#MutualAid for 🔭 affected by the illegal firings and attacks on 🧪 by the Trump-Musk administration! Thanks to all involved in organizing this ✊🏽 www.choircollaboration.com/mutual-aid

every day

how to write a substantive public comment, with examples and templates. examples provided are by experts so feel free to not get *that* in depth (though it’d be great if you did!) publiccommentproject.org/how-to

the last couple months HAVE kind of felt like the "bad ending" of wayne's world. hope we get to the scooby doo ending soon

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

welp, it's another trump presidency, so it's time for @owenbrazas.bsky.social and i to indulge in our number one coping mechanism: rewatching the waynes world movies every couple months

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

much and more has been made of the simpsons' accurately scathing portrayal of the democratic party over the last 35 years, but for my money this is what i think of when i see them flailing over and over again to meet the moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Thv...