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@crystalotus.bsky.social

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Just a 🪷 They/xe/she/he, any pronouns are fine Language descriptivist English tutor based in USA

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hello bluesky!

I don't visit social media daily, but when I do, I post mutual aid requests, politics, and spirituality, usually. Follow along if you're into it.

A painting of a cat wearing clown makeup

A nonbinary white person with pastel orange hair holding a cane under their chin and wearing a crooked smile.

An orange cat's pink toes curled in sleep, with tail parallel.

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · 20d

Back again with an updated flyer for this comrade! Now with alt text #MABOOST #MUTUALAID #Helpfolkslive2025

MUTUAL AID REQUEST

Saturnia is a Black, trans/nonbinary, disabled person in need of ongoing mutual aid support. Their goal is $2100 monthly for housing, bills, and food.

Donate if you can, and/or share this post!

Ca: $SATURNIAEXISTS
V: @SATURNIAEXISTS
Paypal: paypal.me/SaturniaExists
Z: selfcareconsult@gmail.com

Follow @Saturnia-sustains on bsky for updates!

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · 16d

@fairshare.help

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Shintaro Melodrama @roiskinda.cool · 18d

Mutual aid is one of the key reasons we’ve survived the horror of the US.

Do not trust anyone that speaks negatively or ill of mutual aid.

They are not your friend.

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · 20d

Back again with an updated flyer for this comrade! Now with alt text #MABOOST #MUTUALAID #Helpfolkslive2025

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · 20d

@fairshare.help

Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · 20d

Hey everyone! Today's a great day to support our fellows! If you have the means, please share and donate #mutualaid #helpfolkslive2025

Chronically Ill,
Severely & Multiply Disabled,
Predominately Bed- & Housebound
Mad, AuDHD, Crip
Queer Agender Malayali
Mother & Student
Urgently Needs Ongoing Community Care
VM: streltzia-at-daybreak
CA: strelitziaatdaybreak
PP: magicandsword

Hi! I'm Devi and I'm a queer, agender, severely and multiply disabled,
chronically ill mad,
AuDHD crip Malayali.

I have fibromyalgia,
severe myalgic
encephalomyelitis,
ysautonomia, cognitive
dysfunctioning,
long Covid, glaucoma, bipolar disorder with chronic depression, complex PTSD,
dissociative disorders, ADHD, and I'm Autistic.

I use a rollator and a power wheelchair. I'm receiving
care from a home health aide and palliative care.

I'm the primary parent
to two children and partnered with my nesting person
- all three
who are also
chronically ill and/or disabled.

We are seeking on going community care
as we navigate
emergency
after emergency
- none of which
we were prepared
for and have been barely
getting by so far
thanks to community.

Please Share!
VM: streltzia-at-daybreak
CA: strelitziaatdaybreak
PP: magicandsword

Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · 20d

Hey everyone! Today's a great day to support our fellows! If you have the means, please share and donate #mutualaid #helpfolkslive2025

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23d

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23d

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

Different guy in camo with Arab style scarf, thick black glasses

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Sep 12

My weekly must-reads list and some thoughts about who's being punished for speech this week.

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts About Who Gets to Think and Feel in Public

"It is unconscionable that trans people are being targeted for their irreverent responses to the death of a man who actively called for violence against the trans community."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Mx. Saturnia (they/them) @saturnia-sustains.bsky.social · Sep 11

[September Mutual Aid CF 💌Update Thread]

Greetings! I need $2100 for food, housing, and bills for the month of September! Please like and reskeet my flyer below and/or donate via my cashapp, venmo, or Paypal. Thank you!

Currently at $64/$2100.

#bipocMA #helpsky #TBNC #MABoost #HelpFolksLive2025

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mutual aid request

Saturnia is a Black, trans/non-binary, disabled person in need of ongoing mutual aid support. Their goal is $2100 a month for housing, food, and bills

Donate if you can and/or share this post!

CA: $SaturniaExists
V: SaturniaExists
PP: paypal.me/SaturniaExists
Z: selfcareconsult@gmail.com

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · Sep 8

You’re the most important project you’ll ever work on.

Rest when needed.
Don’t give up.

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Static Before the Storm @staticb4storm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Is this some parallel universe recorded in this video?
We write, we cry, we shout, inform, protest, organise, travel, make movies, do standing ovations.

We just can't stop the genocide.

How can we all be hostages to a bunch of old psychopathic bastards?
How long will we allow for this to happen?

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · Sep 3

‘THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB’ received a 22-minute standing ovation at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

The longest of the festival so far.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · Sep 8

The path the US is charting for trans people closely follows a well established template: the exclusion of Jews from German society and legal protections between 1933-1939. Countries need to recognize the US is on a speed run to genocide. www.damemagazine.com/2025/09/08/t...

The Case for Transgender Asylum From Trump’s America - Dame Magazine

Leaders of free nations of the world need to hear my message: Genocide has already started in plain view, and it is following the exact template of the last great genocide in Western society. So far, ...

www.damemagazine.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · Sep 8

As evidenced by regulations being rolled back because capitalists will bribe politicians

Regulated capitalism will become unregulated capitalism and it will kill us

The solution is no more capitalism. No
owners accumulating a mass of wealth off a laboring class. Socialism is the solution.

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.

Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Updated flyer with zelle and PayPal options now included! Please share with safe communities. #helpsky ##MABOOST #Helpfolkslive2025 #TBNCMA We support us!

mutual aid request

Saturnia is a Black, trans/non-binary, disabled person in need of ongoing mutual aid support. Their goal is $2100 a month for housing, food, and bills

Donate if you can and/or share this post!

CA: $SaturniaExists
V: SaturniaExists
PP: paypal.me/SaturniaExists
Z: selfcareconsult@gmail.com

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · Sep 8

#MABoost #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025

Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey comrades and allies of bluesky! I don't have an updated flyer yet, but this comrade is still in need of ongoing support. Please help them reach their monthly survival goals by sharing and donating wherever possible! ##MABoost #helpsky ##helpfolkslive2025

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Sep 5

Israel "is destroying about 300 residential units daily in Gaza City and Jabaliya, using around 15 robots carrying nearly 100 tonnes of explosives."

"[A]t the current rate, the rest of [Gaza City] could be destroyed within two months."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Housing #Healthcare #Genocide

Israel could destroy Gaza City within 60 days

Five Palestinian boys remain missing after being abducted by Israeli soldiers at aid points in Gaza.

electronicintifada.net

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Aug 26

The FDA has also just removed Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq.

I fear we’re entering a new era where vaccine preventable illnesses are allowed to flourish like the “old days”.

We’re rolling back decades of progress in public health, and it will cost lives.

FDA does a 180, suspending use of Valneva's chikungunya vaccine

Less than three weeks after lifting a pause on the use of Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq, the FDA has done an about-face, banning the use of the shot in the United States. | Less than three week...

www.fiercepharma.com

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Mas🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤 @masarawest.bsky.social · Aug 20

A comrade needs support so they can rest without stress!

Rest is luxury is a privelage most of us have without realizing it.

Give what you can

Remember that we take care of each other
#communitycare
#mutualaid
#community

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Mx. Saturnia (they/them) @saturnia-sustains.bsky.social · Aug 18

[August Mutual Aid 🌟 Crowdfunding Update Thread]

Hello #MutualAid, #Helpsky & #FundSky comrades! I need $2100 to continue to keep myself housed and fed for August 2025. See the flyer below for more info.

Cashapp: cash.app/$SaturniaExi...

Venmo: venmo.com/SaturniaExists

Currently at 253/2100.

Text Reads: Mutual Aid Request: Saturnia is a Black, trans/non-binary disabled person, in need of ongoing mutual aid support. Their goal is $2100 a month for housing, food, and bills. Please donate what you can or share this post!

Cashapp: $SaturniaExists
Venmo: SaturniaExists

or

liberapay.com/saturnia_sustains/

Follow @saturnia_sustains on bluesky for updates!

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Chanlin @crystalotus.bsky.social · Aug 7

Mutual aid opportunity! Please help this disabled comrade and their family get their car working again. #helpsky ##MABoost #helpfolkslive2025

EMERGENCY funds needed for disabled family's transportation

They are concussed AND in an intense flair. Their partner cannot get to work.

Please donate to:
V: @strelitzia-at-daybreak
Ca: $strelitziaatdaybreak
Pp: magicandsword