which is completely ironic since having eveyone come into an office unmasked during an ongoing mass-disabling event is exactly how you end up with more chronically ill/disabled enployees!

This one hits hard.

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

It's really upsetting that only the first two books of The Agency series by Y.S. Lee are available in audiobook. The narration by Justine Eyre is so good, and I just really love this series.

Movie watch party for CC folks today at 3pm EST! We’re watching Colossal on Netflix. It’s a fun movie in which the main characters discover how their actions affect others halfway around the world. Will they chose responsibility…or radical change? 😉 guinesspig.ghost.io/movie-watch-...

If you see this, post a monster!

1. Outstanding article from Tess Finch Lees: 'Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics” '. Please click on the paywalled link first, archived link in next post. Also consider sharing. m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Absolutely disgusting, and our for-profit healthcare system needs to be held accountable for every death and every disability acquired due to this outrageous lack of infection control. And ffs sake, clean the air and require N95s in ALL HEALTHCARE SETTINGS!

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

I GOT TO DRAW THE PERCY JACKSON COVERS!!!!! Finally revealed! I can finally talk about this!!!! AHHHHHH

While most of the music industry has “moved on,” COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders. Read more from @katiechow.bsky.social: bit.ly/3ZIW4YQ

Gonna go out of my way to check all of these artists out now!!! Covid safety is also better safety from many other viruses like flu and the measles: Sick of getting con and concert crud after events? Mask up!

Read this thread, please.

Yeah they don’t understand that they are to the RIGHT of you. Any leftist who does not mask is to the right. Disabled ppl are the most vulnerable group on earth other than children, and if you’re not protecting them, you’re not as left as you think you are 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ive tried telling people who call themselves leftists to mask. They instead call me a bad person and accuse me of "Punching left" rather than admit they fucked up. They're addicted to killing people

Vaccines alone will not solve this. You don’t get to pick one small measure of public health to preserve and just ignore the rest. This country is going to continue to fucking suck until we come to terms with just how badly we fucked up with COVID and how our behavior has harmed all of us 🤷🏻‍♀️

Disability scholar here yet again to remind you that dropping COVID protections and getting “back to normal” facilitated their vision. It’s exhausting to point out yet again that abandoning disabled people is eugenics, and eugenics feeds the rise of fascism and to have most ppl just…ignore it

What is the rest of your life worth? Preventable death worth €8,000? Being without your mum or dad for the rest of your life €4,000..... Because hospitals have no mandate to check their breaks, their tires or wear "seat belts" 🤷

The reason LLMs suck at chess is the same reason they initially sucked at drawing fingers and currently suck at counting to 100: state space Hands are photographed and drawn from every angle, all chess books show every piece in every position, every list of numbers up to 100 shows every such number

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

I’m going to say again, infecting your allies with a potentially debilitating and deadly illness is extremely foolish behavior in any kind of movement. You’re doing work for the other guys.

Honestly at this point people posting defenses of AI on this platform just have a humiliation fetish.

Most families have no idea their child can develop Long COVID. They aren’t hearing it from pediatricians, schools, or public health agencies. Parents can’t advocate for their children if they don’t know there’s something to advocate for.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #PediatricLongCOVID

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Getting long covid will make it much harder to do organizing or mutual aid work. If you want to preserve your ability to help, wear an n95 when you share air.

If you want to fight fascism, you must practice disability justice. If you’re claiming to be on the left but believe disabled people are “expendable”, you’re aligning with fascists. If you are against tyranny but refer to people like me as “a drain”, you’re carrying water for the Nazis.

consider that they are preparing you for the next pandemic by removing any pretense of protection—they never wanted it for covid, which is why sars2 remains in harmful circulation, & they don’t want it for the next novel pathogen. this is the preparation. prepare to suffer. better to mask up now.

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

The same corrupt elites who over time managed to get a frightening amount of people to believe that climate change is a hoax, later got nearly everyone—in a frighteningly short amount of time—to believe that COVID is basically harmless & that it’s okay to get & spread it.

Really important thread that everyone needs to take time to really think about and absorb without immediately jumping into denial and defensiveness.

BLM, Covid, & Gaza were all lead-ups. “Covid never left. It didn’t get milder. Vaccines don’t stop it. It’s an enduring threat to human life. In 2021…your govt [told you] you could move on from it… If [you] said “fine by me,” you showed your govt the full extent of what they could get away with.”

Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events

A virus that causes vascular damage is not mild and children need protection. We all do. @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...

PSA for podcasters & other reviewers of stuff: It's disabled people. When you say "but does anyone really need this [device that helps cut/peel/prep food]… Or "I can't imagine who would use this [widget for making household tasks easier]… It's us. We exist. You absolute prize lawn ornaments.

If you see this, post a rabbit 🐇

Since it is #Caturday, I offer this absolutely devastating photo of Daphne du Meowier to the #CatsofBluesky collection:

Do you see it yet? “Die faster”.

You don't have to be sick to wear an N95 mask, either. There are some really great breathable models out now. It's a good time to stock up before wildfire season, anyway. Not being sick is awesome.

I can't think of better rebranding ambassadors for masks than the 2026 Olympians. Our leaders have tried to pass off masks as something you only wear if already sick or older with comorbidities. But everyone is vulnerable to post viral illness. These athletes get it 👏🏼👏🏼

N95 and dark glasses.

Artists, quote with something silly!

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

There’s only so many Emerald Fennel interviews I can read where she says Wuthering Heights was set in the Victorian era - it was the 1700s like just admit you didn’t read the book

Remember: In the prevaccine era, measles would peak in late winter- early spring. Don’t be surprised if in the next few weeks we see a surge www.aol.com/articles/us-...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

These men are a threat to the long term survival of all life on earth

mask blocs will often handoff, drop, or mail you masks and/or tests 🤩 mask wearing is nonbinary. if you are unable for work or whatever it doesn’t mean you can’t mask in other places pick a place and try! public transit is a great place to start! masking is also *antifascist* need masks? dm me

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Some of us have been screaming this for years www.bmj.com/content/392/...

It’s mindblowing that most people do way more research before buying a 4K TV or a new car than they did before deciding to stop masking and vaxxing for a virus that is still as deadly and debilitating as the first year they did everything they could not to get infected by it.