"Mutual aid is not just a disaster response, it’s a way of caring for one another, building stronger communities, and preparing for whatever life may throw at us next. It’s a labor of love—and a way of life." lithub.com/we-only-have...

Pizza Butter Homos So mote it be 🙏

My favorite strain of 2025 was Lemon Fluffins, a 1:1 sativa hybrid Lemony piney goodness for pain reduction and mood uplifting

Hi, I'm brain tumor

In 2026, I'm not going to provide people with citations to studies proving the harms of SARS-CoV2 infections anymore. It has been 6 years. The data is clear. If you have chosen to live your life with your head in the proverbial virus-saturated sand, nothing is going to penetrate your shell of denial

Those especially harmed by unmitigated illness include people who are BIPOC, trans, queer, disabled, immigrants, children, elderly, women, and/or poor. Those who benefit from illness harming the aforementioned: fascists, colonizers, the ultra wealthy, bigots. Refuse to be weaponized. Mask up.

Air traffic controllers who take basic antidepressants like zoloft have to pay out of pocket ($400-$4k) for specialist exams every 6mths in order to be allowed to work. They go through intense psych exams to get the job in the first place. Meanwhile..

We could be getting anti-cancer vaccines but instead we decided to bring back measles 😩

happy new year to all—especially the small but brave minority who adapted to a new world nearly six years ago and refuse to live in a fantasy timeline forever suspended in 2019. keep strong and carry on in 2026—“don’t let the bastards grind you down” 😷

In 2025 I wasted 6 months of full time effort supporting a baby movement that ultimately refused to center accessibility. On the other side, I offered this group 1 little comment suggesting a name change for inclusivity & they rebranded everything! ❤️ There is no justice w/o disability justice!

Please do everybody a favor. If you went to an event or traveled and took your mask off and ate, drank, etc please stop posting things like "I masked the whole time and don't know how I got SARS2 (or flu A)". There is so magical eating fairy. You didn't mask the whole time.

My New Year’s resolutions is to not get my head stuck in beehive at all, and it’ll stay that way until i get it right

"The tragedy is that the science is exactly what should give people agency. The more we understand the risks, the more we can reduce them: ventilation, filtration, ffp2+ masks, staying home when ill, boosters, clean air."

Absolutely heinous. I can't even begin to comprehend how people are capable of this level of cruelty.

May the coming year be met with courage, humility, and compassion—for one another and for this world we share.

How I'm walking out of 2025

I still find it hilarious that people were willing to brave literal death rather than sit at home with themselves. Also it’s wild how so many people were were coming up with all this fake info regarding the vaccines but were signing up for so much Ozempic that diabetic people were out of meds.

If society made disability less impactful in my life, even in bare minimum ways, maybe it would be less of my identity 🤷 But since my disabling chronic illnesses & nerve impairments affect both my internal & external experiences everyday, I'm gonna be loud about being disabled

I just poured two packs of hot cocoa into one mug of hot water and thought, "it's been a rough day, better pour yourself a double"

"The Science and its proclivity" could be a good band name

The early Buddhist forest-dwellers saw themselves not as individuals with rigid identities but as part of the interconnected flow of all things, just as impermanent and insubstantial as the trees and rivers around them. Goodnight everyone, be aware, be awake.

And if all that massive body of data is a complete fiction, and disease prevention turns out to be a hoax (it’s not, and never has been) then all that has happened is that some people have had fewer colds.

Stop eating sugar? But this is my emotional support sugar.

Looking for a super easy resolution? Wearing a well-fitted respirator mask (N95 or equivalent) helps keep you, your family, your friends, AND your community safe AND is definitely safer (and probably cheaper) then a gym membership.

#OneOfTheTwo It's really gross to be raw dogging everyone's lung butter particles 🤢 I gotta know you and who you've been with before we share air like that 😷

My kids and I had way more social access in 2020 and 2021 than pretty much any time in our lives because virtual events, hybrid events, and masked outdoor socializing was the norm. Unmasked ableds are the ones who aren't creative and resilient enough to stay in reality, not me.

I really like reality tv, especially competition reality tv, so sometimes I'll pretend I'm on "The Challenge". Like TJ just said that whomever folds the most shirts correctly in the fastest time wins this T-Mobile Sidekick

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

I'm listening to Burnout by Dr&Dr Nagoski. In a chapter on finding meaning in life, Emily says to pause and asks, "What am I doing when I feel most powerfully what I'm meant to be doing?" I looked up, and there it is. This little patch of forest I'm meant to care for.

I am neither a gamer nor someone who pays attention to politician names, so whenever I see MTG it takes me a minute to figure out if we're talking about cards or white ladies.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Finally sat down to journal about how traumatic this year was and as soon as I got locked in, the power went out. I'm looking forward to telling this amusing anecdote in therapy this week 🫠

The "nobodies" doing "nothing" are the ELITES and most of the politicians representing you. PEOPLE in their communities are in motion, everywhere. You just have to pay attention and importantly you have to JOIN THEM.

This is an extremely fair point. There’s a LOT to criticize us for, but many people have also been successfully organizing their asses off under a climate of state violence, white supremacy, surveillance, union-busting, and in a legacy media landscape that refuses to acknowledge any of it.

Saying politicians should be better on issues isn't "demanding perfection." One doesn't need to be "perfect" in order to oppose genocide and support trans rights. Those are *base labels of human decency*, not "perfection." And these politicians' stances are *choices*, not inherent traits.

Gov't employees and their family members got letters back in October that our insurance would no longer cover gender affirming care. 🧵

When I was 14 my dad gave me a convention swag shirt with "Adidas" across the front. I crossed it out in red marker and wrote "anti-advertising" in big letters. Some older kids at school smugly questioned me on what I meant, but admittedly I was just going on vibes.

A badass trans woman in my area held a benefit punk show, with masks required, and raised almost $1000 for trans healthcare! You won't see articles about this kind of thing. It goes on underground all the time.

The "but I NEEEED it" folks remind me of little kids who haven't learned the difference between want and need. No, you don't need genAI, you want it. However, we all NEED a liveable planet.

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Peanut butter cookies topped with cranberry sauce are surprisingly delicious

this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...

If you are not wearing a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, you are betraying the common good. #COVID19 #respirator

You know who’s not in the Epstein files? Undocumented immigrants. Trans people. Drag queens. People who write books & create art with LGBTQ+ content. It’s rich, powerful and mostly white men. They want you to blame the “others” so you won’t blame them.

I caught a virus during Christmas 2010 and never got better. Lost my career as an RN and never got to pursue my dream of midwifery. My nervous system is really feeling that grief this year 😩