Do you actually know what Disability Justice means, or are you putting together "Disability" & "Justice," 2 words you know the meaning of separately, & assuming that term applies? 👀 If so, please take a few moments to educate yourself about the 10 Disability Justice principles from Sins Invalid! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

Everyone started taking about Nuzzi again and I was trying to remember where I knew that name from. Now I remember. My life is considerably worse-off for it. 😖

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

Community is the only way.

I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Does anyone know if CO Governor Polis will follow the lead of other blue states and make COVID vaccines available via competent medical guidance? Or no? Asking for a “me and my family.”

😳 FFS! I worked in these areas, on the ground, at elevations not much higher than this about 8-10 years ago. Not any more, apparently. This is... concerning. Jeezus. (My head swims with hydrology questions about this. My PhD research drains into high-elevation crevasses like this.)

This is literally the plot of Minority Report (2002) except instead of 3 psychics accurately predicting murders it’s a tech startup doing nothing to stop crime, but ramping up the surveillance state against minorities and public activists to solidify fascist power. “Torment Nexus, but worse!”

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

CostCo is *so good* at setting things at the exact price-point where doing division in your head at the store it’s like “WOW that’s an increíble deal, really.” Until you get home and then you go “but I did not actually need 97 of these today, holy crap.”

They’re closing schools because of COVID outbreaks running wild. Meanwhile I can’t get my kids an available vaccine because they’re not considered “high risk.” FFS. Backward-assed country.

Community organizing rocks. Our neighborhood started coming together in January to organize politically. 15 of us in a room. We lost a big fight this summer, major blow. But our ranks continue to grow (dozens active now) & we take things back next month. Action is the cure for despair. Full stop.

URGENT: If you have ANY information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and/or the process to send him to Uganda, PLEASE message me on Signal: marisakabas.04 Your anonymity will be fully protected. I know it’s scary to speak out, but this is a man’s life.

This movie is beautifully realized. Watch it and you'll feel human again in spite of the dark times we're in.

I will never pass up an opportunity to post a link to the Crip Camp film. ➡️ youtu.be/OFS8SpwioZ4 And 100%, this approach is completely needed now. Systems will not save us. We win together only by lifting each other up, figuratively and literally.

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Owning a home for the 1st time is a constant repeat of “Obvs you shoulda been cleaning the bellicated-reticulum flange beneath the fridge compressor every 6 months, you idiot…” …and realizing not a single one of your landlords ever did these “standard” maintenance items, not even once.

I’m at the end of a 3-week road trip where I purposely stayed off social media. In that quiescence I’ve concluded: Crunchy Cheetos are vastly superior to their Puffy counterparts.

Incredible and exciting. All the best to her and her impressive mind. #Mathematics

As my PhD comes to a close, I am looking for work! I’d love to continue in research and education, but I am also a skilled program coordinator, policy analysts/writer, & facilitator. Happy to share my CV & chat. Let me know if something crosses your desk that you think I’d be a good fit for!

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

“We used the bullshit generator to make up some bullshit and then were shocked to find it’s actually bullshit” will be a recurring headline until this behavior has professional consequences. Journals need to make “check every citation to make sure it’s real” be a standard pre-review step, to start.

Building something new is possible. Never forget that.

Aside from Cuomo being a creep who shall never see office again, I love that the phrase: “…used ChatGPT to…” has become synonymous with “…is lazy and doesn’t have a clue what they’re actually doing.”

Hot damn. You know what doesn’t work (at all) to reduce violence? More police. What does work? Investing in communities. This is what cities (and states, and the country, but start w cities) need to all be doing.

My daughter cleaned the bathroom today and left this.

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

this is precisely why the technofascists who own OpenAI, and the other ‘AI’ companies are pushing LLMs into every level of education: it’s not only profitable, it’s about controlling an entire generation’s capacity to think. And why educators should resist as hard as we can.

I'm working on an article about NOAA research and looking to speak with more people knowledgeable in this space about the proposed 2026 budget. My messages are open or you can email me at [email protected]

Come what may, I will bet on us, every time, because there is no other bet worth placing. I am all in, fam. I will never stop looking for openings and aiming at them. I will never stop reaching for people and saying, “Take my hand. We can do this.” Because we are worth it.

it is going to take so much love and kindness to deal with the amount of hate and violence we are going to experience. we need to be as sweet with each other as we are brutal with them. we need to have as much love for each other as we have hate for the fascists. together is the only way.

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July is Disability Pride Month in honor of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law on July 26, 1990. More than 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. have a disability. Organizing for better benefits and safer workplaces through your union is disability justice!

You know those “Antarctica Today” posts I’d put up for a while, showing surface melt extent accross Antarctica for every day of the melt season (Oct - April)? They relied 100% on this data stream. Take it offline, that goes away completely. Sea ice extent uses it too.

he's right and he's right to say it

It’s not my city, but I’m really proud of all the people who fought so hard in the NYC mayoral election and *won* last night. Especially abuse survivors. All the love and solidarity to y’all. 🔥✊

Feeling despondent this morning. In a very-local grassroots conservation effort I and others had been organizing, it appears the fascist dipshits have pulled the correct strings of power and we likely lost. (At least, this round.) We’ll get back up, but today I’m feeling very 😔😞.

I unsubscribed from the MAGA blocklist just long enough so I could personally block JD Vance, and then re-subscribed.

Reminder there are a TON of bot accounts on BlueSky making annoying cringey comments about protests today. It’s not worth arguing. Just block & move on.

The Nazis targeted disabled people first. They knew no one would speak up for us They tested the gas chambers on us Ableism and eugenics feed right into fascism and white supremacy Now more than ever we need folks to engage with disabled activists. Learn about disability justice. Help us resist.

I honestly don't know how Facebook conditioned people to be okay with "more than 90% of your feed is just 'content' we feed you; only a tiny fraction is from friends you actually follow" and people just kinda shrugged and accepted that like "sure, fine, legit."

I’m really heartened that our small goal was met in about 6 hours. We have 20 large flags (ranging from 18” to 6 ft long) and 70 tiny flags on order arriving this Wednesday. We’ll distribute them freely to anyone who wants one in the neighborhood, replacements or otherwise. Love wins.

Last night someone wearing a mask on a motorized scooter stole every Pride flag hanging in our neighborhood. Maybe a ~dozen of them. Threatened at least one resident too. Police were called but are doing jack-all so far. We want to replace them x3, at minimum. Hang ‘em E’RYWHERE.

In the past six months, it occurred to me that people who doom online a lot don't know what's happening locally because they park themselves on the internet. And therein lies the problem. You can't sit on your hands and then complain about idle hands. If you want something change, go change it. 🤷🏿‍♀️