Susan Kiddie 🍉

Susan Kiddie 🍉

@susankiddie.bsky.social

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Covid conscious, history, social justice, disability rights. She/Her.

Dystopian living is not as much fun as people led me to believe.

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As someone who has been through chemo, this makes me want to set my hair on fire. Wear a goddam mask. FFS.

I don’t like to be indirect. So I’m telling you that I have active cancer and the health care workers refuse to mask. So for the fourth time in a cow I have come home SICK from CHEMOTHERAPY. You can’t tell by looking who is sick. It feels like I’m paying them to kill me. Please wear a mask.

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“How can you make jokes at a time like this!?!“ Sir, my dark sense of humor is the main loadbearing structure of my soul.

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#DisabilityPrideMonth #MutualAid For those who don't know, you can add gift cards to your Amazon Wishlists. It doesn't work on their app, you have to use a web browser. Search for the card you want, fill out the form, add it to cart. In cart, save it for later, then move it to wishlist.

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It's been nine years since the TRC released its report documenting the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system. Commissioner of Indigenous Languages Ronald E. Ignace explains what’s being done to strengthen Indigenous languages.

Commissioner on what’s being done to strengthen Indigenous languages | APTN Newsyoutu.be It's been nine years since the TRC released its report documenting the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system.Commissioner of Indigen...

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Daily red panda

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Reform it, go ahead and try.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel now says that FIVE Columbus police officers shot and killed the homeless Black man well outside the RNC security perimeter. Columbus Police say the shooting took place within the officers' assigned "operational zone."

Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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Also, if trolls are trying to pit different marginalized groups against each other on this platform, let’s work together to root those fuckers out. I have to believe that at the end of the day we all chose to use this app because we want better for ourselves and each other.

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Covid aware people are engaging in ongoing acts of radical hope. They are doggedly fighting to protect their own health, the health of vulnerable groups, and the overall functioning of society They do this despite shaming, mask bans, social cost, financial cost, etc. That’s surely not doomerism.

I’m just really over people calling COVID conscious/cautious people doomers.

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The idea that banning masks will stop harassment is ridiculous. Asian people have been harassed and attacked for wearing masks by people who were unmasked. It's not the masks. Banning masks does nothing to address the fundamental issues behind hate.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)

1/3 of wheelchair users in UK are ambulatory, meaning they can stand or walk varying amounts. Also 70-80% of disabilities are variable and/or 'invisible'. My point being you can't tell how much pain/struggle someone is experiencing on sight and social 'policing' of accessibility needs to stop.

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Wheelchair users are not exclusively paralyzed. There isn’t reliable data for it, but many, many of us are ambulatory (can walk sometimes, either for short periods or on good days). When you accuse someone of faking because you saw a leg move, you’re not taking into account a variety of conditions.

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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Landlords crying in their internal newsletter that new construction is pushing down the rents they can charge. We have the power to make them cry so much more

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Your reminder of the existence of the recently created Timeline cleanse feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Timeline cleanse

Feed by @joshuajfriedman.com

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Up close and personal with a #dahlia #FlowerReport 🌱🌿📷

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The view northbound, from Dundas Street, of Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway.

2,000 pound bombs. In a densely packed area.

“Israel struck with overwhelming force, hitting it with *eight* 2,000-pound bombs… Scores of Palestinians in the area around the compound—which was home to a market, a water source and a soup kitchen serving displaced civilians—were killed and hundreds wounded.”

To Target a Top Militant, Israel Rained Down Eight Tons of Bombsapple.news Huge deployment of firepower, after years of failed attempts to kill Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, exacted a heavy civilian toll

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Interesting language to consider using when asking someone to wear a mask / respirator: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18129... #Covid #MasksWork #CleanAir

Thread by @tbirdtko on Thread Reader Appthreadreaderapp.com @tbirdtko: Had an appt today and seem to have found the magic order of words to get service providers to mask for me (1/?): “Will you protect me by wearing this KN95? I am immunocompromised and could....

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I wanted to share the latest article by my friend Qasem al Farra in Electronic Intifada. He writes about another recent evacuation order of his city of Khanyounis (after which, those fleeing the occupation were targeted). electronicintifada.net/content/desp...

Desperate for a ride out of Khan Youniselectronicintifada.net When the Israeli army ordered an evacuation of Khan Younis at the beginning of July, there was nowhere else to go.

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timeline cleanse

No shit.

Repeated extreme weather events linked to rise in mental health problems, trauma

Repeated extreme weather events linked to rise in mental health problems, traumawww.theglobeandmail.com A short-term impact because of property damage, loss of life or home could cause post-traumatic stress disorder, while in the long term there may be generalized anxiety around the next potential climate disaster, professor says

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45 out of 100 workers are injured and pay the price of our Prime Day savings. Who here is willing to cause harm for a good sale? Waco.st/3WntNGb

Amazon Prime Day causes workplace injuries, Senate probe findswapo.st The Senate HELP Committee probe found that the company’s annual Prime Day sales event, which takes place this week, is “a major cause of injuries” for the workers.

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My IRL friends call me Chris

The Narwhal has kept a running record of Ford's record on the environment in his second term.

How Doug Ford is changing Ontario’s environmental laws | The Narwhalthenarwhal.ca The Narwhal is tracking how Doug Ford's government is altering Ontario environment and energy policy, from the Greenbelt to housing and more

If there's a bad choice, Ford will find it, part 68584733673378

Doug Ford cut Ontario's flood management programs funding in half in his first provincial budget. Since then, he's accrued one of the most environmentally destructive records of any recent Ontario premier. Toronto gets more than a month’s worth of rain in a few hours amid rainfall warning

Toronto gets more than a month's worth of rain in a few hours amid rainfall warningtoronto.citynews.ca Toronto and parts of the GTA are under a rainfall warning, with Environment Canada calling for "extremely heavy rain."

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This is a long list.

List of Toronto road, transit routes closed by heavy rainfall, floodingwww.cp24.com As residents are advised to avoid areas of flooding, CP24 has compiled a list of some of the ongoing road closures in Toronto.

Timeline cleanse Boop. Photo from British Wildlife Centre on IG

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“At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, health officials have said, including in an attack on a school sheltering displaced people and another on an Israeli-designated “humanitarian zone.””

Dozens killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza Stripwww.theguardian.com Targets include ‘humanitarian zone’ and school harbouring displaced people, where IDF says there were Hamas fighters

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An important article by @pjavidan.bsky.social about #HumanRights violations during the ongoing #pandemic through lack of mitigations in schools... False Divisions and Dubious Equivalencies: Children’s #Rights During the #COVID-19 Pandemic www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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Make some noise, Ontario peoples. Wastewater Surveillance costs $15M a year. Ford's beer obsession? Hundreds of millions. Ford's office: 416-325-1941 Email: [email protected] Let him know his priorities are forked.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ontario can’t make COVID-19 disappear by pretending it doesn’t existwww.thestar.com Being in the midst of a pandemic isn’t when governments should be cutting funding to trackers, advisory boards and surveillance systems. Fatigue, hope and wishful thinking cannot end a pandemic.

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To be in Gaza, you must live under hunger, fear, and bombing in Gaza. If you are injured, your chance of survival is very small. In Gaza, you will not get adequate and healthy food. In Gaza, if you do not die from the bombing, you will die from hunger or from the effects of water pollution.

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Privatisation is a scam. There isn't enough money to satisfy the dividend hungry shareholders, thoroughly undeserved, excessive salaries and bonuses for the directors, and then somehow have sufficient funds for investment, and running an efficient, customer-focused business. It's that simple.