Dr. Galen Bergsten
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Accessibility advocate, manga-reader, and indie game enthusiast. 💜🌱 gbergsten.github.io
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🐁 Luka The Mouse - SQUEAKROSS 🧩
3 days ago
Very good read! We need to think more about accessibility embedded in game design from the start in games.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆
13 days ago
Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
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emily moonlight
22 days ago
here we go again, folks. it’ll take a lot of pressure on dems again to get them to fight! i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall. contact:
reps.fyi
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✨ 🌕 Luna Awoona 🐺 ✨ 🔞
3 months ago
Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word.
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Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy
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Ask Finch about the Library
3 months ago
Most of us “become disabled“ by finally admitting it to ourselves. We have to fight the medical community and our own community to get any sort of accommodations, and when we run out of energy to fight, we just don’t get accommodated—and we’re shut out of society. 
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Dr. Caprice Phillips
3 months ago
So very excited to see our collaboration with Nature Astronomy out today on
#Juneteenth
. These articles for
#BlackSpaceWeek2025
were labors of love and I encourage folks to check them all out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Emily Zhou
5 months ago
every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease
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Kat Abughazaleh
4 months ago
Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list. I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants. Inaction is complicity.
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Astrobites
4 months ago
From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
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Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya
For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!
https://astrobites.org/2025/06/13/joy-bhattacharya-interview/
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
4 months ago
HELP FAMILIES SURVIVE FAMINE 🌹 We’ve made it easy to take action & bet on Palestinian life. 🌿 Give to 6 families + a displacement camp. No aid is reaching them. 300 will be matched:
chuffed.org/project/hope...
🌿 Print our premade flyer for your community:
tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
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Alex Graudins
4 months ago
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
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Haymarket Books
4 months ago
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
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FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-the-border-abolish-the-police
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
5 months ago
Join our giving circle 🌹 We’ve made it easy for you to materially help a number of families survive: 🌿 Contribute to the giving circle (click Recurring!):
tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
🌿 Download digital graphics & printable flyers for offline sharing:
tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
http://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle
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Morgan Baker
5 months ago
Given recent conversations in the industry, I wanted to highlight some amazing organizations, resources, and community-driven groups working hard to advance accessibility in gaming. There’s a lot of great work happening — and it deserves more visibility. A thread ♿️♥️
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Grant Stoner
5 months ago
I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest
@ign.com
story here:
www.ign.com/articles/for...
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Former Employees, Community Members Allege AbleGamers Founder Fostered Abuse Behind Closed Doors - IGN
Over 20 years, AbleGamers has become synonymous with the accessibility movement as its presence and influence grew across the industry. However, new reports from former employees and members of the ac...
https://www.ign.com/articles/former-employees-community-members-allege-ablegamers-founder-fostered-abuse-behind-closed-doors
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Arevya - Gaming is for EVERYONE 💕♿️
6 months ago
@ubisoft.com
has made a tool for game developers that lets you detect colour blindness related issues in your game: UbiChroma! It is open source and free to use! 💕 Accessibility win for the day!
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Dr. Adeene Denton
6 months ago
Anyway you don't have to just take my word for it,
@palestinespace.bsky.social
's database has all the info you need on just how intertwined NASA and the defense industry are:
www.palestinespace.org/psi-database
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Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
https://www.palestinespace.org/psi-database
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
6 months ago
For 48 hours, we’re helping Mai, a single mom facing CONSTANT, terrifying displacement & bombardment. 📣 I have a bold challenge—she’s found housing but needs rent. In two days I want us to get HALF her rent. I think we can do it. 📣 0/453 - every 5 is life 💜 let’s do it!!
tiny.cc/HelpMai
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
6 months ago
For 48 hours, we’re helping Mohamed, his siblings, their parents, & their grandma survive after catastrophic displacement. It’s hard to get even a trickle of support, but I believe in us. Can we get 250 in two days so they can eat & replace supplies?
bit.ly/Help-Mohamed
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My time as an IPAC VGSF was great, I highly recommend applying! Happy to answer questions / offer advice for those interested.
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
6 months ago
👋🏾 We’re 24 hours into this 48hr drive for Mai to literally survive. I hope you can share this if you can see it. I’ve known Mai for over half a year. You’ve previously helped so much with survival needs but the needs persist. Don’t be shy about 5-10:
tiny.cc/HelpMai
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
6 months ago
All listed here:
linktr.ee/divyamp
Everyone is very worried between being displaced today / a few days ago, losing relatives and friends every day, going to the market and finding nothing to buy. Give boldly and raise hell everywhere
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Chuck Wendig
6 months ago
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
6 months ago
For 48 hours, we’re helping Mai. Mai is a single mom doing her best for her family, while also enduring separation from her kids. Goods are now 20x the price so a bold $5 really helps this family survive catastrophe. Goal is a modest 335 (7500 on gfm)
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
7 months ago
🚨URGENT APPEAL - prices are 10–20x. This mutual aid project is trying to secure some goods for local families ASAP. PP (preferred; fastest option): divyamper, note "J" Chuffed:
chuffed.org/project/save...
Accountability:
tiny.cc/JP-Accountab...
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Dr. Adeene Denton
7 months ago
Folks, if you've stopped giving to families in Gaza, now is the time to please please step back in and help. We are not helpless! Amplifying their calls for aid and giving money where we can helps families survive. Please circulate the posts you see - you never know who can help.
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline)
7 months ago
For 48 hours we’re getting eyes on this community effort empowering students & freelancers to continue their studies and careers! The team secured a generator to help with electricity costs, & now is working to expand internet access. Anything helps💡
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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…
https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza
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Catherine Slaughter, M.Sc. 🔭
11 months ago
Hey! Are you an
#astronomy
grad looking to grow your network? Astro undergrad interested in seeing what grad school is like? Astro professor looking for some gossip? General fan of astronomy interested in learning more? Drop a follow!
go.bsky.app/G1JVEGr
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Oh hey, I'm on this site now! I'll kick off this account by sharing our paper that hit arXiv yesterday. The title says it all: we found Kepler offers no evidence that Earth-sized habitable zone planets should be more common around M versus FGK stars. Check it out here:
arxiv.org/abs/2310.11613
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