#MCAS folks talk to me about how to help a flare. Woke up in the middle of the night with puffy eyes, swollen painful fingers, stomach bloating, flushed cheeks, etc. This morning my blood sugar and resting heart rate are unusually high too. Took an extra zyrtec but what else can I do?

Trans Kids Care Packages assembled and on their way to 16 kids in 7 states. A great way to spend this afternoon!

I really, really needed to read this today.

Berkeley #TeslaTakedown HUGE turnout, musicians, chanting crowd, kids, dogs, someone with a free Arnold Palmer sign, a fabulous guy doing on the spot screen printing of protest signs

Spent a fabulous hour with @karinakahazel.bsky.social at the www.stateofplay.space building absurd contraptions, laughing, jamming to eighties tunes, and generally enjoying how amazing clowns are.

So so much is bad but look at these flowers from my garden #bloomscrolling

Why pray tell does my CGM refuse to report my blood sugar accurately when it is on my left thigh? Had to take off the new sensor and put a new one on my arm. They're so expensive!! I am cross.

Berkeley's Tesla protest had 200 + people and shut the Tesla store down: the staff left and locked the doors. Keep showing up!

Join us for the 2nd week of protesting Elon Musk in front of Berkeley's Tesla store on Saturday at noon. Last week 300+ people were there, let's have even more showing up to say no to fascist takeover of our democracy. actionnetwork.org/events/berke...

Putting together a zoom book group to read books (nonfiction and speculative fiction) that fall into that fascinating fourth box "build alternatives". Who might be interested?

I have to say I really really love my doctor. This has not been the case very often in the past and I am extremely grateful. #eds

@stephanvernier.bsky.social we'd be compatriots! I am for this

Appreciating TCG and @robkendt.bsky.social 's timely laying out of ominous changes to NEA funding. www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/10/n...

Really appreciate this as I try to shed the urgency habit:

I found our other senator! Guys this showing up at their offices shit is working.

Protesting at Senator Padilla's office (they wouldn't let us in despite the POURING rain). We presented our demands to a staffer who came outside.

In good news today, the late lamented Homemade Cafe has been resurrected through a partnership with neighbor restaurant Breads of India. Heartwarming and belly-filling. #berkeley #goodnews

Join me and my rabble-rousing friends at Senator Padilla's SF office tomorrow at 4. We want him to stand up and publicly resist however he can!! Indivisible is organizing these senator visits in every state. Join ours, create your own or sign up for another one! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: NYS Attorney General Tish James warned all New York State hospitals—including NYU Langone—that if they deny gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents they could be violating the anti-discrimination laws of the state.

Literally the first time I've even seen a picture of this senator. I hope Senator Padilla gets louder and takes some real action. California can't have a useless, deadweight senator.

Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit

Hell yes California!!!

Today was my first day of following my new rule that I can't look at social media till I'm done with work. My god, I can't even begin to catch up with the horrors of today. What the fuckity fuck......

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

I read this glorious defiance out loud to my family to cheers . I recommend you do so too! "I do not shake hands with white slavers" says Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

Anyone got a good running list of "call your Senator" actions? Especially if CA specific. Our new senators need to get off their butts!

In the process of getting of Facebook and curious if anyone has a good list of recommended steps: can you download your post history and photos? What about friend list? What are the possiblities of keeping your account if you need it for some work reasons but not being active? #theater folk?

Apropos of my previous thread

Terrible news on many fronts and a big loss for theater education in the Bay.

Things I did today as I'm recovering from the flu and trying to take a Shabbat break from EVERYTHING: watched some episodes of Night Agent S2, pretty fun watch but not was good as The Diplomat. Watched Conclave - this is obviously going to win some Oscars because it has no women in it.

Good piece of advice I read somewhere today: each day try to do something to help yourself and something to help other people

ADL telling us who they are AGAIN

Posting a few things that have helped me understand what's happening and what's next. As @miabirdsong.bsky.social wrote - none of this advice helps if we don't actually practice it. And the Talmud @theradr.bsky.social shared earlier today "study is better than action only if it leads to action"

@bluecanarygirl.bsky.social can you share how you made a mutuals feed on here? I would love to do that

Truly lovely video about a guy who won a map store and is figuring out what maps are in the 21st century @suldrew.bsky.social it's in RI and you have to go visit!

Yes! Did you know @ebbooksellers.bsky.social has a new spot on College closer to Rockridge BART! And the bookshelves are so new they smell like sawdust

I was looking for somewhere to donate that does advocacy for trans youth and found this fantastic list, if you scroll down there are organizations working on behalf of specific communities and in particular impacted states www.reddit.com/r/asktransge...

Someone on here referred to that other site as "Vichy Twitter" and I laughed really loudly and freaked my husband out

Insurrection in Georgia, coup attempt defeated by civil society and parliament in South Korea, and now Assad may be gone, Damascus liberated, and prisoners in Sednaya prison released by rebels. It had been a week.

Extraordinary. History-making day.

There are many reasons that organizing must be different now, like: 1/x the mechanisms of the State will function VERY differently—the old ways no longer work. After the last 10 years of stress/activism, many of our adrenals are trashed already, to say nothing of the impact of COVID on the +

Now do #earthquake response Bluesky!

This is what it looks like to be a leader and actually champion the will of the people.

Is anyone taking Cromolyn for #EDS #MCAS. I was prescribed it a couple of weeks ago and I'm getting the sense that there are more details to the timing with food then my doctor told me. I am supposed to take it 4 times a day and am working up to the full dose slowly.

I missed this so much from old Twitter and am really glad it's possible here again

Just finished reading @thellpsx.bsky.social amazing book The Future is Disabled. As I lean into this new identity as a disabled person I am held up and inspired by her writing on disability justice.

Adrienne Maree Brown is on here!! bsky.app/profile/adri...