Feels a little too late now but once again: tell people about Aktion T4 and what happened and how the doctors, even the ones who weren't Nazis, almost all complied. And how that ended up.

The difficult part is how disability and chronic illness are used as justification for Ai. The community wants and needs it for medical applications, accessibility and early detection. We don’t want generative Ai. Disabled people need imagination to survive, why would we need it to create?

I could really use some help, if anyone would like to buy a thing from my shop or toss me a ko-fi. End of year costs go way beyond rent, and taxes are currently unpayable. I'm in a real bind and I'm hesitant to open for any more commissions till I get more done.... www.etsy.com/shop/Eskiworks

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok? Signed, a librarian.

Yuuuuuup. I hate it. I have always hated it. We shouldn’t gatekeep knowledge, it should be freely available to everyone.

Former Amazon worker here; do not cross this picket line. Don't do it. Don't even order from them (unless absolutely necessary). They're a disgusting company to work for and the reason for my knee problems that required years of physical therapy. Fuck Amazon. We stand with the workers! 👊🏻✨

BEGGING the general public to listen to disabled people when it comes to assisted suicide. The point is - drs enact eugenics every single day - were not IN a post-eugenic world.

Healthcare workers didn’t have a problem masking prior to COVID. Especially in NICU, oncology, transplant and/or around vulnerable patients I never received pushback. Now ALL I get is pushback Masks were made political & the patients suffer. Wear a mask. It’s the right thing to do.

Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever. In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following: - Masks in healthcare - Clean air in public spaces - Free vaccines, tests & respirators - Paid time off

Wear a damn mask in public. Care about, fight for, model cleaner air. Don't hold a single organizing event that people would be prevented from attending due to concerns about covid. That's the work. That's what confronting disinformation head-on will look like. Confronting *all* of it.

I'm not talking down to anybody, I'm not even mad. I'm a staunch believer that when people want to join your political tent, you welcome them instead of grouching at them for not being there sooner. But if you wanna join this tent, you gotta actually join this tent. The whole thing.

I appreciate liberals suddenly caring about disinformation again, but those of us that've been tending this home fire for the past four years are gonna need y'all to recognize the covid disinformation you need to undo in your own mind if you want to stand in solidarity with disabled people.

Wise words from Matt Haig.

If you're one of the folks who has told me you enjoy writing alt text, I encourage you to volunteer to help people who cannot write alt text, for whatever reason, and follow the Alt4Me feed. There aren't enough volunteers to get through the volume of requests. NoAltFeed

She dances across the horizon, her cloak of daylight breaking the quiet of night. ✨

mr lover loves all of you and wants you to protect yourself and others by masking!!! (he is not wearing a mask bc hes at home inside and is also a cat)

This is hugely important. VET YOUR BLOCKLISTS. Go to the page of the person who created it and make damned sure they’re not a spoof account. Fuck, I hate these dickwads with the fury of a thousand suns

The disability tax is real. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

If you’re not a fan of ai images, or even just want to know when something is ai so you are not misinformed, sub to the @aimod.social labeler 🙂 The team works really hard to review reports and label what we can find so that users don’t have to guess or see those images if they don’t want to.

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Please. I am begging you. Now, while you have the luxury of preparation, start washing and sanitizing your hands like your life depends on it--it might. And if you've stopped masking in public, please resume.

Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I felt disgusted & hurt watching the HIPAC video where every HCW but one voted against using respirators for all airborne infectious disease in hospitals Patients are dying & being disabled due to nosocomial covid. Don’t wait for a mandate. You don’t need permission. Mask up now! /1

That's just Blinky. Don't mind him. #art

Canada needs a national Covid inquiry bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The Sick Times--a digital long-COVID newspaper--is 1 yr old today. I couldn't be prouder of what Betsy, Miles, and their team have accomplished. thesicktimes.org/2024/11/14/p... If you have the means, pls join me in supporting their end-of-year fundraiser. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Disabled & chronically ill people have sacrificed SO much over the last 5 years. We’ve lost friends, family, jobs, healthcare AND the right to safely exist in public spaces. We make choices every day to protect ourselves & others… and we still get told we’re expendable. The cruelty is the point.

Whheeww, people need to hear this.

I don't think your average person living "normally" realizes: - Just how many people are currently shut out from public spaces almost entirely - That if all the people pretending we don't exist would join us in lobbying for cleaner air, we'd *all* be a lot better off for it Yes that means you too

Remember the eclipse back in April? Since eclipses are rare I practiced camera settings and timing... then changed travel plans, watched the weather like a hawk, and ended up driving quite a bit. It all worked out. I'm proudest of this image and would love to do projects like this more often.

Please please please sign this if you haven't yet. The NIH continually fails to properly fund research into my debilitating illness. Before the pandemic, there was 1-2 million of us with ME/CFS, now there's more like 9-10 million. Only 13% of us are healthy enough to work full-time jobs.

I am committing myself to the perspective that I am a skeleton wearing biological power armor and not a flesh bag of hurt and diarrhea

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, stickers, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, hoodies, compression leggings & more! Store details below!

Folks are shocked at the increase in racist, misogynist, ableist beliefs. Especially where “your body my choice” is concerned. You know who’s not shocked? Disabled people. Those who’ve been fighting for Covid mitigations. The masks came off years ago - Tuesday’s election just made it louder:

Starting a thread of blocklists to share (feel free to reply with your favorites)

"Bird flu begins it's human spread, as health officials scramble to safeguard people and livestock" The fifth year of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic says what? fortune.com/well/2024/11...

If you are desperate for something to do right now in support of Palestine, remember this list of vetted crowdfunds to help Palestinians escape the violence of genocide.

So, here it is folks. The launch of the Canadian Covid Society. Honoured to work with @kashprime.bsky.social @ladyscorcher.bsky.social Nancy Delgrave and Chris Houston to make this happen. Please read our intro op/ed here: 1/3 canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/03/06/i...

clocks go back this weekend, hopefully to when one full time job could support a family

it is my personal opinion that when you direct a bomb at a military target within a crowd of civilians, with the full knowledge that the civilians will be hit, you are in fact "targeting" civilians for all intents and purposes

A new placebo controlled clinical trial of NAC for ME/CFS is recruiting in New York. clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT045...

One thing I really want to get across about alt text: A lot of people are overthinking this. Tell me what's in the image like you're describing it to a pal. An extremely detailed description is actually an image description, which is a different thing (and useful in the right context).

Want to change your life? Read Terry Pratchett! 🥰