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Just your average dominatrix turned anarchist bookstore social worker turned therapist turned policy researcher. Zine queen @ FairySlipperPress.com Other words at Mic, Mask, PMPress (she/her)

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I’m pretty nonchalant about the healthy people who choose to play Covid roulette at restaurants and karaoke, but if you’re not masking during a Covid wave in places high-risk people should otherwise be able to safely access— and especially places we *have* to access— I want you to know I hate you.

Spread this toolkit! (Also the graphic because wow 🔥 🔥 🔥)

Jailed for wearing a COVID mask? Yes, that is literally what could happen if the NY Mask Ban goes through which would make "deceptive mask wearing" a class b misdemeanor. TAKE ACTION: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny #NoNYMaskBan #COVIDIsntOver #WearAMask #MaskUp #Disability

Saw someone say we’re being asked to choose between a candidate who is physically Mr Burns and a candidate who is psychologically Mr Burns, but I think it’s more like Mr Burns vs Sideshow Bob after Bart sent him to prison

We live in the stupidest possible timeline

Breaking News: Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance, the Ohio senator and “Hillbilly Elegy” author, to be his running mate. nyti.ms/4d1NIjo

Only thing I’ll say about whether a person can do good work at a rotten institution like the NYTimes is that no one has this shade for academics, and I’m genuinely curious as to why. Is it because they do more than just one thing? Is it because so many of you are still kiiiinda considering a PhD?

Was gonna make a joke about how crazy it is that my kids won’t ask me this bc IVF will be banned in a year, but try as I might I couldn’t make it funny. The rise of fascism, amIright?!

Sorry to say the monkey’s paw heard you reciting “I Want a Dyke for President” and is readying the former mayor of Chicago to be Genocide Joe’s replacement as we post

One thing I think we can all openly enjoy is the MAGA crowd being mad at police incompetence for the first time. How delightful!

Anyway I’m seeing Longlegs tonight and after all the hype, I BETTER walk out of that theater deeply traumatized

You’ll know you’re a grown up when you’re worried enough about your government dossier to recognize this as a situation when you text your little jokes and firey takes instead of posting them 👀

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Here’s one disabled person who was arrested this year for wearing a mask to cover facial scars, these laws are being enforced and most often harming Asian, Black and African American people Fight anti-mask bans, even ones with “medical exemptions” — they all harm www.wdbj7.com/2024/04/04/1...

18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’www.wdbj7.com The law prohibits anyone over the age of 16 from wearing a mask that conceals their identity in public.

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Watching Tarkovsky’s Stalker, and you can’t tell me I’m *wrong*

Have started describing myself as a femcel because Im on 4 weeks of pelvic rest after surgery

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"Knowing who to be mad at is praxis." @prisonculture.bsky.social

Some seem to get mad at the wrong people on purpose. It means they don't have to actually fight against those with power. Punching down or laterally can feel like catharsis.

One of the highlights of being chronically ill in 2024 are the constant auto-reminder texts from CVS that are like “Hi EMILY Are you picking up your prescription for XYZ: 1. Today 2. Tomorrow 3. Or should we use it to poison a street urchin, hmmm? Please reply with a number”

Theft really doesn’t have to be a violent crime and brandishing a gun at people is violent and ugly, but— and I am being so serious here— so is walking past people begging on the corner with $100,000 on your wrist. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes; the world is not your gated community.

I know the takeaway is supposed to be “oh no crime” but a gang of thieves that exclusively steals rich people’s fancy watches at high-end restaurants both: 1. is not an issue most people need to worry about, and 2. sounds like the work of a Batman villain called Clockface or something

Moped-Riding Thieves Frighten Diners at Upscale N.Y.C. Restaurantswww.nytimes.com In Williamsburg and Manhattan, robbers have stolen watches worth tens of thousands of dollars before fleeing on motorbikes.

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ugh white liberals are trying to fearmonger by saying we’re gonna live in The Handmaid’s Tale again instead of recognizing that we are already living in The Parable of the Sower

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Yes, instrumentalization of disability language—shocker, almost entirely by people who aren’t themselves disabled—has been one of the most intolerable parts of this for me

Listen, I had to quit doing a job I loved when I got Long Covid because it was too hard on my body, and the brain fog made it impossible to communicate like I needed to. That wasn’t ableism, that was me respecting my own limitations so as not to cause harm to myself or anyone else. Fuck this guy.

Welp

Release her immediately I’m so serious www.wired.com/story/prisci...

She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafiawww.wired.com Priscila Barbosa came to the US with a dream of making it. Using gig-economy platforms she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one huge problem.

Sometimes I lie awake thinking about how Karl Marx would change his tune on the degenerate lumpenproletariat if he could see all the excellent shit our biggest weirdos do.

Every month or so gay furry hackers pull off something politically noteworthy and I feel like I never hear about any other kind of hacker doing stuff like this.

It’s so weird that people assume I’m ashamed of having done sex work, when I am actually ashamed that, as a 22-year-old, I dated a McKinsey analyst *for free* because I didn’t know what McKinsey was and just assumed he was rich for no apparent reason like so many other NYers. I was such a dumbass!!!

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Your move, Hemingway

I studied the blade

Kicking myself off the chronic illness support forums after reading a post about someone’s mysterious symptoms and without Googling, letting them know that sounds very much like ankylosing spondylitis and they should see a rheum. Why do I know what ankylosing spondylitis is?! I need new hobbies

This is it: the most American thing I’ve ever seen

I used to complain about the liberals who talk about electoral politics like sports, but now it’s like… peewee sports? Somehow even stupider?! “Don’t be mean to him, he’s trying his best!” Oh word, the President of the US is trying very hard during this ongoing ethnic cleansing, everyone be gentle

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Damn, they got Everything You Wanted to Know About Starting a Union on these things? 📆Thursday, July 11, 2024, 8:30–10 p.m. ET (5:30–7 p.m. PT) (You can also register on your phone or computer.) us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I joined Reddit after being diagnosed with 3 chronic illnesses like one right after the other and needing to ask questions into the ether, and the chronic illness subs are fine, but then they show me everything else??? Against my will?!