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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 18h

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 18h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Doaa @doaaomar.bsky.social · 4d

🤲 Your support is more than a donation — it’s hope, warmth, and humanity.
Every share brings us closer to healing. 💫
#Charity #MutualAid #SupportOmar #gaza #freepalestine chuffed.org/project/1153...

Please Help Doaa and Omar Survive After Fleeing Gaza

Hello everyone I am Duaa Jad Al-Haq, 37 years old, Palestinian from Gaza I have a 5-year-old child named Omar who suffers from autism and does not speak and is going through the worst period of his li...

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Jubilee 🔞 @jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social · 1d

May there be justice yet for all these destroyed families torn apart by drones, by tanks, by soldiers, by fucking bulldozers.

The only state of Israel to exist in is a perpetual state of shame.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Doaa @doaaomar.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hello dear, how are you? Please help me. My father's body is full of sores. He had a stroke and can't move. He needs treatment and a hospital bed as soon as possible. Please don't ignore me.
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Please Help Doaa and Omar Survive After Fleeing Gaza

Hello everyone I am Duaa Jad Al-Haq, 37 years old, Palestinian from Gaza I have a 5-year-old child named Omar who suffers from autism and does not speak and is going through the worst period of his li...

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Panchi 🎃 @merafera86.bsky.social · 2d

I'm an unemployed Puerto Rican trans woman desperately trying to save up enough money to flee from the USA. Any donation would be greatly appreciated and used to pay for visa, travel, and shelter expenses—which would help me flee earlier than I could without assistance.

Thank you for reading. 🫂❤️

Panchi 🎃 @merafera86.bsky.social · 19d

Shamelessly piggy-backing off of Wylder's post to share my own request for #MutualAid.

I'm a currently unemployed Puerto Rican trans woman living in Texas desperately trying to raise funds to help me flee these Fascist States of America.

Whether you donate or boost, I'll be forever grateful. 🥲💖

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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equally hater and lover 🇵🇷🌺🌻 @captainsparrow.bsky.social · 22h

Alguien en NYC porfa avísenme si saben donde puedo comprar ajíes pal sofrito. Recao a veces lo tienen en mi supermercado pero ají nunca he visto por ninguno de los 3 apas que he tenido. Y mind you que yo vivo en El Barrio

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WokeAlarm🇵🇷 🔨 @basedalarm.bsky.social · 23h

Lo más impresionante de estos animales es que lo que estamos viendo no es un solo organismo sino una colonia de muchos organismos especializados trabajando juntos como un solo *super*organismo

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 23h

People not treating Google AI Overview as Gospel challenge: impossible.

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Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 1d

Hello friends, I am Joy, a writer stuck in #Gaza. I live in a small rented apartment after my house was destroyed during the #genocide
I have set a goal of $500 the week.
I GOT 2 donations only today!

Please help me to achieve it to pay the rent.

www.chuffed.org/project/evac...

#palestine

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like the flipside to the hasbara trolls who ask people in bad faith to name a single Palestinian who’s made a positive contribution to humanity. Democrats can’t name any of the Puerto Ricans in Bad Bunny’s video, but they’ll insist that they all contributed greatly to the USA.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1d

Last time Benito tried to put Puerto Rican history in the spotlight for a gringo audience was when he reacted to “island of garbage” by posting his 2021 concert intro video. It had Lolita, Albizu, Blanca Canales, Corretjer… and gringo Dems said it was about “Puerto Ricans’ contributions to the USA.”

Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 2d

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show Could Finally Bring Puerto Rican History Into the Spotlight
www.teenvogue.com/story/bad-bu...

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Could Finally Spotlight Important Boricua History on the Mainland

Bad Bunny is perhaps the only pop star fully equipped to take on the current American sociopolitical ecosystem and the fact that a show must entertain.

www.teenvogue.com

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andrea (she/her) @andrealausell.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing puts me off more from someone's video or stream like hearing them say "during covid". The past tense is wild and violent.

Covid is now, it never went away. People are still becoming disabled & dying at alarming rates.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

This is how the Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City now looks like after the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

Raghad, a nurse at Nasser Hospital, spends her days saving others while her own mother lies paralyzed that froze half her body, and her father is too weak to provide.
She’s breaking under the weight of it all.
Please, don’t abandon her.

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Raghad. Raghad is 22 years old and was finishing her studies to be a nurse. She wanted to go into nursing because her mother had a stroke that made her lose movement in her arms and legs. They are now displaced with her 10 siblings.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

Raghad is exhausted she works, she cries in silence, trying to save her mother just as she saves others, but her hands alone aren’t enough.
She isn’t asking for much only for help to continue her mother’s treatment and keep her family alive.

If you can, please reach out. 😔

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

Raghad is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social, has social media that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID.

Raghad is hoping to complete her studies (she has been volunteering this whole time at Nasser Hospital) and also take care of her large family including her mother.

Donate to Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation, organized by Yomi Abdulazeez

Hi my name is Yomi and I'm fundraising for my friend and h… Yomi Abdulazeez needs your support for Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation

www.gofundme.com

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 1d

Tiene pinta de que vende perico y dice broki y “eso esta mckein” sin sarcasmo

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 2d

NSFW? You mean OSHA should get involved?

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Oubao Moin 𓆏𓆌𓆉𓆈𓆚 🇵🇷🇱🇧|🍉🌻🌿 #VivaPuertoRicoLibre @astrophobia.bsky.social · 2d

Puerto Rico es un país diseñado con el sumo propósito de ser hostil contra las personas con discapacidades y contra los peatones. Son las últimas personas que se toman en consideración ante todo. Esta sociedad de carro maligna e híperindividualista será nuestra tumba.

Metro Puerto Rico @metropr.bsky.social · 2d

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2025/10/11/atropellan-a-mujer-en-silla-de-ruedas-en-toa-alta/

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

La mujer fue transportada a una institución hospitalaria, donde posteriormente se certificó su muerte

www.metro.pr

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Fiquito Yunqué 🇵🇷 @fiquito.bsky.social · 2d

Y todos estos becerros del Norte elogiándola porque le quitó el “premio” a Trump…

Un primate @amirovs15.bsky.social · 2d

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Was all set to cheer and then I read it.

"It's not all the time, it's just when you're in that six-feet distance."

While I applaud any measure that increases mask usage in health facilities, I would REALLY like for the people making these policies to learn how AIRBORNE spread happens.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-mask-mandate-health-facilites-9.6934985

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Health P.E.I. is reinstating a mandatory masking policy in all of its facilities in response to the growing presence of respiratory illnesses on the Island.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 4d

🧵 One of my goals coming into this year was to insert more looseness into my work, to allow muscle weakness and spasms and exhaustion to become part of my art instead of fighting against it.

It's a personal embracing, but it's also an unintended protest against generative AI, which can't do this.

TORO @destinytoro.com · 5d

It’s a “put on my exoskeleton” kinda day today as I uncontrollably shapeshift into an invertebrate (complimentary) thanks to my mutated connective tissue (derogatory) 🪲

#SupportDisabledArtists #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #cEDS

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Destiny’s hand is holding an Apple Pencil on an iPad. Metal joint splints/braces are seen on her index finger and on her thumb wrapped around her wrist.

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Spooky Sazón 🇵🇷 @mister-nico.bsky.social · 2d

Are we done pretending Lin Manuel Miranda isn’t corny as Hell, or is that an opinion I still have to keep to myself?

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 2d

LOL!

Pablo José de verdad es El Muerto Parao. Ni con media caja de Phoenix Down lo reviven

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