Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

LA folks, get on this.

Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 16h

Upcoming Courtwatch LA training for immigration courts--an important role in community defense. Court watchers, like cop watchers, show that the community is actively participating in its own safety, and in holding the justice system accountable.

bit.ly/imm-training-116

A flyer with text on it:
CourtWatch LOS ANGELES
Thu. Nov. 6th | 6:00 p.m.
GET TRAINED
TO COURTWATCH
IN IMMIGRATION COURTS
REGISTER
bit.ly/imm-training-116

courtwatchla.org

97 170

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 11h

This! Deciding that YOU can take the risk of other people getting sick is NOT morally neutral. It’s individualistic and egocentric.
The “collective good” requires all of us to take care of each other. Governments have ditched us. We only have each other.
#WearAMask

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 1d

it’s also so ridiculous.

pretend getting other people sick is morally irrelevant, a completely neutral act.

would YOU still want to risk getting a bunch of new, energy-limiting chronic illnesses? most of which have no cures, and which no one is going to meaningfully help you survive having?

4 10

Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 9h

Some of you are so mean and I think you should work on that

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

a big aspect of rightwing politics is being an adult who intentionally bullys children

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 14h

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

16 300 1.8K

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

8 200 870

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h

If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?

2 64 270

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 11h

"the republicans have always been racist" yes, that is correct. they have not always felt empowered to be openly Nazi in their public life, and worked to install a Nazi president for life. These things are worse, and require an urgent response rather than an above-it-all dismissal.

1 33 190

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 11h

"“COVID dead-enders”? what’s more dead-end than promoting repeated mass infection of a virus that weakens the immune system & invades the body’s every organ?"

this. no one wants All This to be over more than the people engaging in the behaviors that prevent the thing from continuing.

Kevin Ball @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social · 1d

asserted with the arrogance unique to overconfident white-ass reply guys who’ve *no* clue of the science. also is there a greater misnomer than “COVID dead-enders”? what’s more dead-end than promoting repeated mass infection of a virus that weakens the immune system & invades the body’s every organ?

1 9 31

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 11h

Oct 15 Rana update:

❌ from Rana today so idk her status but last I heard from her the sitch was still v bad & chaotic in 🇵🇸

She’s trying to raise money for a phone so she can take her high school exams in under a week

$1009/$2000 📱

gofund.me/f33094165

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

gofund.me

1 20 15

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 11h

For sashabarkov on tumblr, a male American Kestrel! Here he is, scouring the field of dead sunflowers for mice feeding on the fallen seeds. Thanks for the #Waymakers donation!

The 2025 Waymakers Challenge ended Sept. 30 - check back next year if you missed your chance to donate! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Illustration of a male American Kestrel perched on the dead stalk of a sunflower, golden and dry. He fans his rufous tail as he sits alert and watchful, head extended, as if looking for prey. He has a blue-gray brow with a dark reddish crown, white cheeks with black vertical bars, and lightly spotted orange and cream belly. Behind him is blue sky and the blurred remains of more dried sunflowers.

2 30 110

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

mike @mdv.bsky.social · 1d

Doing a little reading, trying to keep that piece of meat with electricity in my skull pulsing

'The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right' by David Renton

@haymarketbooks.org

The argument of this book rests on certain definitions. One is the distinction between left and right. The two terms have an essential difference. As Norberto Bobbio argues, they can be dis- tinguished by their attitude towards equality. 12 The left believes that most inequalities are capable of reduction or eradication. The right, by contrast, exists to oppose 'the liberation of men and women from the fetters of their superiors, particularly in the private sphere.'2º The distinction between left and right dates to the early days of the French revolution, when the Con- stituent Assembly debated whether the King should have a veto over its decisions and parliamentarians were asked to stand to the left or the right. It has recurred through global politics ever

since.

The difference between left and right works to simplify...

2 4 17

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 23h

🎃 October 15 🎃
Urban cowboy

Large tortoise wearing jorts and a tiny black cowboy hat

30 140 820

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 14h

The messaging is both simple and true: Trump took 40 billion dollars of your grocery money and gave it to Argentina

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

1 59 220

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

makeshift 🎃👻🦇 @makeshiftwingsplush.com · 16h

a poison apple owl ☠

[ #plushart #sewingpattern #owl #halloween ]

A plush of a stylized owl shaped like an apple. It has drippy green "poison" running down its red body.

4 40 140

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 1d

Us: Hey please consider wearing respirators in public spaces to prevent the spread of airborne illnesses and protect the most vulnerable among us

Them: Omg why are you so hysterical why do you make masking ur whole personality it's a you-do-you world you freak of nature never leave ur house

1 1 2

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12h

I just want to make it clear that the reason people ask this question isn’t genuine, and no response you can give to it will be taken in good faith.

GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 12h

I didn't ask OP a question, I asked you! Is your supposition that leftist solidarity requires masking every time, forever? (let's say, just in the specific types of places you named)

8 22 150

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 12h

unsure why you should wear a respirator in a crowd ostensibly gathered in the name camaraderie against a government gone awry in the big year of 2025? consider the following...

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jul 10

last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.

so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

4 8

Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 12h

Shit's so fucking bleak

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 14h

Hey folks, money is PRETTY TIGHT this month and I'm waiting on a couple comics paychecks that are dragging their feet

Call it a birthday present, if you like, but anything is appreciated

ko-fi.com/blankzoe

Buy Zoe Tunnell a Coffee

Become a supporter of Zoe Tunnell today!

ko-fi.com

1 120 99

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 14h

hey i cannot replace Link and i don't want to

but i DEEPLY care about mutual aid

i would like to do his thread until Bluesky comes back

i will boost it and bump it and do my best to moderate it

---- if a few people want to help me, i'd appreciate it, but let's do this. we can't let people die

Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 14h

If you're on SNAP and you need help, add your links below so I can boost them.

If you're not on SNAP, please share the replies and donate if you're able.

Link's not around so we do what we can, right?

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 14h

SNAP runs out in a couple of weeks

2 20 22

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13h

-AI startup plasters STOP HIRING HUMANS posters around cities, gets $25m
-AI device startup launches obnoxious NYC subway campaign, gets weeks of coverage
-Startups by ex-OpenAI execs get $2b and $3b while refusing to discuss a product

AI profiteering is now indistinguishable from trolling

AI profiteering is now indistinguishable from trolling

And what that says about the state of the AI bubble

www.bloodinthemachine.com

3 47 210

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 22h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

60 610 2.2K

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

Kristin @kristinarcher.bsky.social · 13h

"You could direct your frustration over said unreasonable, untenable situation upward, where it belongs: at the government, not downward, at struggling sick people, who have no choice but to engage with COVID safety practices including masking." - @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 18h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

14 56

Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 12h

Wishing you the absolute best

I hope you can rest up soon

1

Reposted by Scaredy Kat (she/they)

onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

38 800 2.7K