"Psychotic" is not a synonym of "vicious, malevolent, nasty, cruel, heinous, atrocious, despicable, fiendish, inhumane, uncontrolled," or any number of other words that are both more accurate and not ableist.

Normalize not using "psychotic" as a synonym for dangerous.

this post has 7k likes now and nobody except me just now opting to push back against this wording, so just to reiterate: psychotic is a medical term that suggests scared, confused, cognitively struggling, experiencing delusions and hallucinations. not evil, dangerous, cruel, sadistic, or organized

Psychosis is also common! Stigmatizing it isn’t helpful. We see it in folks who are manic, who’ve used a lot of stimulant drugs, who have a brain issue like Huntington’s, or who have an endocrine issue. (Among many other causes.) It’s a thing that we can treat. It doesn’t define anyone!

Hi friends 👋🏾 back w/a request on behalf of a Sudanese refugee surgeon-to be. Surgical exam is coming up & she is w/out means to pay the (frankly insane) fee—$1700. We need just $1024 to help her afford it. If you can help, please do: PayPal.me/BSonblast Ven: BSonblast #KeepEyesOnSudan

中秋節快樂! 🥮 Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! To celebrate, it would mean a lot to support @divyampersaud.com’s current birthday drive for Spark Space, a workspace in Gaza that is STILL supporting students and workers. I’ve donated £10 - can you match me? linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

Please help Sakher get some food gofund.me/f116bf44 I'm directly linking his fundraiser because Palestinian accounts are once again being mass deleted by bluesky.

This is huge. They can't intercept everyone and keep their eyes on everything all at once. The more people who go, the more chance we have to aid Gaza. The more people who go the more pressure there is on govts to send backup or speak out against intercepting their citizens

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel, after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted #GlobalSumudFlotilla She said: “I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.” #Athens airport

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

Long Covid is the most common chronic illness among children now. Congratulations?

The Great Barrington Dec. aka the “let covid rip” policy, legitimated the death of over a million Americans, is disabling of tens of millions more, & failed to achieve its own instrumental goal, ending the pandemic. It did succeed hwvr in gutting public health & eroding public trust in science

this is for survival as a trans woman in 2025 America. As always, I appreciate everybody and am so grateful for your help. Thank you. ♡ www.paypal.me/XP1991 - cash.app/$Meztiza91

I wish I felt like literally anybody else in the entire hospital cared about stopping chains of infection. About keeping both workers and patients free of a virus that can have lifelong consequences. Maybe someday.

SARS-CoV-2 is airborne. It spreads and can linger in the air, a bit like cigarette smoke. High quality masks/respirators are critical to prevent infection from this dangerous SARS virus and other airborne pathogens

This is a policy choice

Greta doing what she's doing for Gaza really puts a spotlight on all the big climate scientists who've never once said 'genocide is bad for the environment.' The people who once shared stages with her now don't even retweet her. Bankrupt centrism

Change starts local. When national health guidance falls short, our cities, counties, and states can step up. That’s where you come in.

Mohammed and Heba are a young couple from Gaza with two small children, the youngest of whom is chronically ill and needs medication. Please give if you can and share: gofund.me/20679cef5

Can we give Divya a birthday gift of a donation to this wonderful initiative helping Palestinians on the ground in Gaza? ❤️🎈

I think it will fall on us 💔 Your support save our life ❤️ chuffed.org/project/help...

Final 4 hours! Every day we're here for SIX families and a displacement camp, today highlighting dear Akram who's responsible for his five siblings and their mom. Displaced again, they are traumatized and need food, warm items, medicine. 622/750 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Now that I have lured you in with this picture of a butterfly, please read the original post and donate what you can. You can be a lifeline if you choose to be one.

Mithqal's accounts are suspended and/or deleted and he can't post on Bluesky. He's exhausted & has asked me to share his fundraiser. Please help if you can, his son needs urgent treatment for injuries.

It’s astonishing how much money we collectively pour into right-wing organizing.

All these “security conferences” we fund w/ tax dollars gave cops new ways to ease their job of silencing people through rules and violence when those get broken. Calgary G7 also had a “designated protest zone.” These must be challenged in the streets & then courts when arrests happen.

Hey friends. I have $1929 remaining to try to raise in time for my surgical date on October 23rd. Out of pocket medical expenses are detailed in the GFM. Thank you to everyone who's helped me get this far. You are literally helping me survive in a very real, tangible way.

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Please share & give 😓 Sarah has lupus. These are unliveable conditions chuffed.org/project/help...

Interesting use of the passive voice you've got there, CNN..

"Protests Are Highly Effective, Met Police Confirm"

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Baraa. Baraa is the mother of 3 children Masa, 6, Ibrahim, 4 and Maha, 7 months. Tragically Maha was killed after a nearby bombing caused gasses to overwhelm her little lungs. Masa is in the hospital because of kidney issues from malnutrition.

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social: "You’re either on the side that is singing and showing up and holding other people, or you’re on the side of the helicopters and the gas canisters and the guns." truthout.org/audio/holdin...

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

They’ve roughed up and arrested people for trying to get in ICE’s way. That’s more than complicity. The state of IL is not resisting, it is culpable.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

Major commotion as IL state cops shove back crowds trying to stop an ICE vehicle. I was grabbed and shoved repeatedly while filming the incident.

A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

This is what the state of Illinois sent to greet protesters at Broadview.

Deported for journalism. A denial of due process and violation of First Amendment rights. What happened to Mario Guevara sets a chilling precedent that any member of the press, who wasn’t born in the US, could be detained and removed by the Trump administration.

Which is what Black people have been saying about law enforcement for centuries. No one listened though. Now here we are.

watching waffles turn from a light-hearted joke about social media dynamics into a right-wing dog whistle in a few days on here has been wild.

“They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” says Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik Interview here: x.com/anadoluagenc...

Canadian police murder and disappear Indigenous women and girls. Today is the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. No more stolen sisters.

Today is the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Gathering at Grandview Park in so-called Vancouver. No more stolen sisters.

🚨 URGENT DONATIONS NEEDED FOR SIX FAMILIES IN GAZA AND THEIR SURVIVAL FUNDS 🚨 Divya is a trusted fundraiser and tirelessly shares Palestinian families who need help. If you are able, please chip in with a donation.

This is what @govpritzker.illinois.gov is protecting

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨