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NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE. naturalist educator, gardener, river rat, leftist, artist, writer, book sniffer, etc. 24. she/they. invisibly disabled. 
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Just so you’re aware, if you know someone who’s high risk or immunocompromised and don’t do everything you can to make them feel safe during this pandemic, that will forever effect the relationship you have with them and how they see you.
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Oh cool. great. It’s not like hiking in the Utah desert is what I do for work or anything. haha
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Not an article I wanted to write.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals.
For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans.
We must act now.
nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opi
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I work multiple part-time jobs rather than 1 full-time (it helps me avoid burnout and boredom). I ask for clear directions, for verbal directions to be written down, and to have more time for tasks that involve reading or writing.
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Neurodivergent people who work - what adjustments do you have to help you be able to do your job?
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Anyways!! not everyone wants a strange dog bounding up to them, even if you’re like “oh he’s just friendly! He won’t hurt you!” like. You actually don’t know that. Leash your fucking dog. As the article says, it’s not your fur baby, it’s an unpredictable animal.
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fast for me to react and use it. The owner also didn’t utter a word of apology or ask if I was alright; he just called his dog’s name in an admonishing tone and they walked away as I yelled at the guy. 😒
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I did everything “right” btw - didn’t make eye contact w/ the dog as it ran up to me, held my hand out for it to sniff. It appeared to lose interest and walked away, but then suddenly snarled, whirled around and bit me behind my knee. I carry pepper spray, but it happened too
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important article. I was bitten by an off-leash dog last week (I’m fine, it tore my leggings but didn’t break the skin); totally preventable had the owner been responsible. Dog owners need to keep their dogs leashed at all times in public areas - yes, even on lightly used trails.
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Milton Keynes dog attack: Your dog isn’t your ‘child’ – it’s a dangerous animal | The Independent independent.co.uk/voices/milton-
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People realize that adults get flu ~twice a decade, right? Setting aside even all the terrible Long Covid, if the severity of acute COVID becomes similar to flu, and you get it 15-20x a decade, you are at a 7.5-10x more risk of dying from it.
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The directory is live! 115 providers across eight countries who've affirmed they won't shame you for continuing to take COVID seriously.
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would love to know if other disabled folks here have tried CPT (cognitive processing therapy) and what your experience w/ it has been. It seems futile to me but that may be bc I’m just starting out? idk. #Disability #DisabilityTwitter
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So a huge problem here is that most people are looking at acute covid from an individual viewpoint and seeing low risk, when they should be looking at long covid from a societal viewpoint and seeing that we're in massive trouble.
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alas, in my rageposting I forgot to add alt text to that pic.
Alt text: a photo of my corsi-rosenthal box, made with two sets of 3 asiahorse 360 RGB fans, two fíltrete MERV 13 filters, and duct tape. The fans are emitting a hot pink glow, causing the filters to glow pink as well.
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Or see me wearing an aura N95 and ask “oh! Do we have to wear masks in here?” like unfortunately no, but it would be a lot cooler if you did, debra
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we’re in year 4 of a deadly and disabling pandemic and customers will come into my work maskless, hacking up a lung, covering their mouth with their hand, and then ask why I have the door propped open and what my CR box is. like please be fucking serious
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But he was also a raging blue lives matter misogynist so there’s no way I could have safely brought up the idea that “hey maybe being that obsessed with calories and freaking out if you skip a day at the gym isn’t super healthy”
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I had a coworker a few yrs ago who was a gym bro, and after he found out I drank beer he’d hound me about how many calories and how much sugar it had (“like drinking a whole loaf of bread! Ew!”) and tell me to drink straight vodka instead, like he did. it was really sad
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For the 15 mins you're at the pharmacy, or the half hour you're on transit, or the hour you're at the grocery store, masking in indoor public spaces helps make that space safer & more accessible during an ongoing mass death & disabling event
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part of the reason I’m so vocal about the pandemic not being over is that once this happens, the very few tools that we all supposedly have will go away & not only will we have no data (or every little) around covid rates etc. but we’ll literally be on our own navigating covid.
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In case you missed it: Atlanta is under a state of emergency until Feb 9 and the governor of Georgia has activated 1000 national guard troops who have been granted law enforcement power after protesters threw rocks and burned a cop car.
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DivestSPD has identified the Seattle police officer responsible for the collision that killed 23-year-old student Jaahnavi Kandula last week as Kevin Austin Dave.
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things i feel the need to add because i keep seeing these
5) don't lie to people about your risk levels because you feel bad
6) don't lash out at your friends who are taking this more seriously than you
7) don't hide the fact that you were infected because you're ashamed
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Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.
I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
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And I will just say it so there is no ambiguity: solidarity with disabled folks is both foundational in the fight against fascism and self-protective as you are one infection/injury/unlucky genetic mutation away from being seen as surplus
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People need to understand that we have:
- an ongoing pandemic that is disabling millions of people
- a huge and growing hatred and dismissal of disabled folks
- mass abandonment by govts
- the solidification of the police state
Please do the math.
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The footage is as damming as it possibly could be. The officers immediately escalated everything, brutally handling #TyreNichols, while shouting contradictory commands, making it impossible for him to comply.
This wasn't an attemptped arrest, this was a lynching, simple& clear.
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Be careful on social media today. The Tyre Nichols video drops tonight & it's very brutal. I would please advise against watching & sharing it. Your black friends and family already have enough pain & trauma. we don't need to see another black body disrespected.The fact it was 5
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The Tyre Nichols footage shows a grown man screaming for his mother as he's clearly already subdued and not posing a threat to the multiple men beating and pepper spraying him.
Unrelenting brutality of someone scared for his life
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I rly don’t know when “asking me to wear a mask is the same as locking me up in my home and throwing away the key” migrated from fascists to kinda everybody but like if anyone is being hysterical here, it’s literally you!! I’ve never had COVID. I see ppl constantly.
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2/ Let me tell all of you something. Protecting those dearest to me, those unknown to me, and myself, from an airborne pathogen that can cause significant morbidity and mortality both acutely and chronically *is* getting on with my life.
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5/ As context, the avg cost to educate a child in the US is $13,000/yr. We can signficantly reduce student & teacher inhalation dose of virus-laden respiratory aerosol particles (& other aerosols) for less than 0.034% of cost of educating a child. (photo courtesy Andre Knoesen)
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The actual crisis: Cops killed more people last yr than any yr on record. We don’t get public pleas from officials to stop the killings or for cops to be “peaceful.” We get pleas for people to respond in an orderly manner to the heinous violence inflicted upon their communities.
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I often wonder what the people around me think 'being careful' about covid is. 'I'm still being careful' they say, as they return from their maskless holiday in Barcelona.
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oh so now the president of the country that fucking routinely murders Black people for existing is gonna preach to us about how violence is “never acceptable”??? That’s rich
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Do you know how bad this footage must be for the White House to comment in this way. Instead of adding alt text to the image I’m going to make the statement a thread.
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CW: ableism, eugenics
Trotting this guy out to normalize death and devaluing anyone over 75 as the US sees huge reductions in life expectancy and elders were and are decimated by COVID is a move. And saying that our contribution to society determines right to life is eugenics
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Replying to
yes! reminds me of ’s essay on why we need art, not just entertainment
“Art exists in an uncanny valley of familiarity—art is like a dream that some higher being, more aesthetically sensitive, more empathetic, more intelligent, is having.”
erikhoel.substack.com/p/exit-the-sup
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In case you were wondering why the Biden COVID response is the way it is, here is one of its advisors.
Not only does he care little about disabled people surviving Covid, but those who he helped disable are also now disposable.
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2. Death is a loss but living too long is also a loss. It leaves most of us debilitated and unable to contribute to society. We are no longer remembered as being vibrant and engaged, but instead as feeble and ineffectual.
thetimes.co.uk/article/zeke-e
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some guy on r/castiron is up to 80 coats and I've never seen something going this wild on there before. happy for him
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