Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing

@literalgrill.com

1.1K followers 890 following 3.7K posts

I'm On The Fediverse: https://sakurajima.moe/@literalgrill My Website Is Neat Too: https://literalgrill.com

sakurajima.moe

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · Oct 17

Since we got a bunch of new folks checking out BlueSky, here's a little bit #AboutMe! I'm a cool person to follow if you like #anime, #VHS, #BoardGames, and care about #Disablility justice.

Looking forward to meeting even more cool people on here!

About Borealis AKA LiteralGrill (She/Her)

Just call me Allie! I'm an award winning author and poet mostly writing essays about anime these days. I'm also big on board games, VHS tapes, LaserDiscs, and other weird old media formats.

You might remember me for my esports writing for Smash Bros. or Vainglory or that time I spent as as president of the Furry Writers' Guild.

I'm a trans cripple and a and a fierce fighter for all marginalized people. Covid isn't over and I mask up to keep myself and others safe.

When I'm not watching anime you've never heard of, I'm likely visibly mending my clothes so they can last forever and look punk as fuck! !

Yes, I'm a certified Hentai Master, ask me about it!

And yes, I did watch Groundhog Day that many times!

tlhIngan maH taHjaj - Conduct yourself with honor!

2 8 36

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 2h

The answer is yes. So maybe consider why disabled folks in particular might enjoy the visible solidarity also required by mask wearing.

Iunno. Not excited seeing massive accounts on here being like "just let cripples die" and people nodding sagely along with it. Wish they'd think it through a bit.

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 2h

Yeah. People don't even care enough to wear a mask. And get hostile when you even ask. I'm sure they'll do a lot of work to do other political things for disabled folks.

Say, how's MAID going in Canada? Still trying to literally kill disabled folks rather than provide care for em?

1 1

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 3h

Sigh... Also don't love the number of "big accounts" I thought were better people on here just following the deepthroaters of eugenics.

Iunno y'all. Bluesky depresses the fuck outa me. Why am I doing this to myself? I really need to just not log on unless I have to for some reason.

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 3h

*cracks knuckles* So ya know how the Department of Education being gutted is partially strategy by Republicans to make sure disabled people don't have any schooling paid for to keep us out of society?

Think about what you not masking does to disabled folks. You republican allies you.

Reposted by LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing

Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 4h

If I have to see another post on here claiming there used to be good republicans and they got replaced by the baddies I’m going to fucking scream. The Southern Strategy was in the 1960s. Lee Atwater was giving speeches to these “nice people” where he just shouted the n word in the 70s

6 77 390

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 3h

So disabled people can just die if it's convenient to folks is your stance? At least you can say it with your full chest. I mean, it's disgusting eugenics, but you should own it if that's gonna be your position.

1 1

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 3h

Yes, I do. It's called having empathy and not acting like it's damn impossible to have a piece of cloth on your face as a start. No one is going to think harder goals like good air filtration are even possible if folks like you laugh away disabled people's concerns and pleas.

1 2

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

WAIT WAIT WAIT EVEN BETTER!

"Hey, would you put alt text on this?"

"Oh my fucking GOD I'm so tired of people harassing me about alt text!"

This is a post about why you should wear a mask in public spaces. You are the alt text complaining person, but even worse.

1 1

Reposted by LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts.

Six people are being deported because of what they said online.

Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.

It won’t stop with these six people.

Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

17 380 1.1K

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

WAIT WAIT WAIT I got it! Perfect metaphor!

You know how Bluesky is pretty terrible to use for blind folks, so way more of them are on Mastodon?

You've been advocating for those folks here, even if you can't see that struggle, right?

No? This a post about why everyone should wear masks in public.

1 1 1

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Libs: I can't believe we live in a country where one group of people could be discriminated against so terribly. Donald Trump is HORRIBLE for what he's doing with ICE!

Also Libs: If cripples need to die so I can openly cough on people's faces in public they'd better fucking die already.

1 6

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Anyways, gonna go CRANK IT to porn on MASTODON where I DON'T have to fight against PEOPLE HORNY FOR EUGENICS all the damn time lmao

Reposted by LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

8 170 580

Reposted by LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 8h

“i’ve gotten in five car crashes, so my body is stronger than yours that’s never been in a car crash”

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 8h

Getting COVID 5 times doesn’t make you “stronger.” The immune system isn’t a muscle—repeated infections can cause cumulative damage and raise long-term risks.

Protect your immune system by avoiding repeat infections: clean air, masks, vaccination.

Source: x.com/Engineer_Won...

Alt text: Screenshot of a tweet by Adam Wong.

Quote: Someone claims having COVID 5 times gives them antibodies and makes them stronger than someone who hasn’t had it.

Adam (masked, with air purifiers) replies: “Then why did you have it 5 times??” Laughing emoji.

3 24

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

I barely got to see many... Though the ones I did see were quite fine!

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Damn, we just throw disabled people under the buss so the rest of society can be comfy? Not willing to do the work so we ALL get to see the other side of fascism?

People see THAT and don't wanna join up. Cuz they know you might turn on em as soon as it's convenient.

2 4

Reposted by LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @katieklocksin.bsky.social · 12h

You all are welcome to advocate for improved indoor air filtration any time! The Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics says long covid is now the most common chronic illness in children. The biggest misconception is that only the (already) vulnerable are at high risk.

From The Sick Times on Instagram: a new study found that one in seven children under age six with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection met the probable diagnostic criteria for long COVID. Studying over 1,000 infants, toddlers, and pre-school aged children, researchers revealed differences in how long COVID presented between age groups. “Young children have been largely excluded from public conversations about the impact of COVID,” said one co-author. “[This research] should be a wake-up call to providers and parents: babies and toddlers can develop long COVID.” The authors also put together a resource designed for caregivers of children with long COVID, which identifies long COVID as “the most common chronic health problem in children.” Citation: journal of the American medical association pediatrics.

1 5 30

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Golly, if ever you get disabled by long covid and have your own social life cut off because people say this kinda shit at you...

I honestly hope it never happens, but I've seen this exact kinda story play out so many times it's crushing. Good luck on the sickness roulette.

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

I was supposed to be enjoying some nice drawings of titties on here but y'all just haaaaad to remind me why Bluesky sucks so much ass instead lmao.

Can't even have a good time anywhere without people who wanna give the concept of eugenics a blowjob ruining my fun.

1 2

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

That's a real fucking thing btw, the $2000 bit. Literally. If I got more than that saved, I lose my disability.

Hell, if I even fuck up the buttloads of paperwork I get all the time I can. Glad brain fog makes it so easy to not make mistakes on paperwork!

1 1

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Wait, cripples in the US can't have more than $2000 in their bank accounts if they're on disability? You didn't know that?!?

See, if you can save up $2000 you no longer are disabled! It's a cheat code to life! so if you could send $2000 to my paypal...

1 1 1

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Anyways, if y'all are gonna decide disabled people have to sacrifice being able to participate in society for your comfort, maybe you should be cutting me a fat fucking check every month so I can afford all these amazing air filtration solutions y'all seem to think I got the money for.

1 1 3

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Anyways, if people wanna ask why I'm wearing a mask all the time and whine about me asking others to mask...

I mean look, if you wanna start a fight with me, just do it. Coward. What, you think my crippled ass can't still throw a mean left hook? I'll knock you down harder than long covid will bitch

4 15

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

It really REALLY is infuriating. But I suppose for these folks, it's easier doing these mental gymnastics than admitting they are bad people who hate disabled folks.

It ain't easy doing the whole self reflecting and growing deal.

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Y'all, maybe we need to get even MORE radical so asking to wear masks will seem like the "reasonable" position...

What if we go for, "all people who advocate for eugenics against disabled people of any kind must be permanently, and horrifyingly disabled by force" instead? 🤔

LiteralGrill - Bluesky Is Viscerally Depressing @literalgrill.com · 8h

Yeah ya see, funny thing! Folks who mask, especially disabled folks, ask for that too! Y'all just seem to only complain about folks asking for masks BECAUSE YOU ACTIVELY IGNORE OUR EXISTENCE OTHERWISE.

Then seem "shocked" when folks ask for people to do ANYTHING.

Elvie 🍂🎃 @elviereads.bsky.social · 1d

"every single person masks in public at all times" is about 1,000,000 times less workable, reasonable, or possible a solution than something like "improve access to high quality masks and air filtration"