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Christina Ng

@reconnectsreiki.bsky.social

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half-blind chronic hand washer ☆ traumatic brain injury survivor ☆ fan of Earth, paper, artist colors, lucid dreaming, words, Octavia E. Butler, and Ursula K. Le Guin ☆ dead & living bigotry not welcome ☆

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · Apr 8

“Men who have no art at all, nothing but wealth— they pit us one against the other, for their gain not ours. We sell ‘em our power. Why do we?
If we went our own way together, we’d do better, maybe.”

- Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Finder”, Tales from Earthsea

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13h

I'm going to say what many are embarrassed to admit--providing masks is one of the kindest and considerate things an organization can do because many people genuinely cannot afford a box of masks.

Brian (Stuttering Loudly) @stutteringloudly.bsky.social · May 12

Disability related conferences (or ANY conference) can easily do this, rather than coming up with so many excuses

Buy 1-2 boxes of masks for those who don’t have masks or forgot, or didn’t know, etc

Conferences that don’t try have shown what they REALLY think about disabled / immunocompromised ppl

Tweet by Clean Air LA
@CleanAirLA
Tweet reads:

No mandate necessary.
Just a kind request & free resources provided.

1st image in tweet: a sign by a bar that says deerhoof kindly asks everyone to mask up thank you deerhoof and clean air la

2nd image in tweet: green lit audience. guitar player on stage left. an audience of folks wearing respirator masks

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 14h

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · Aug 29

“… figure out who you are. Because that’s the most important strength and power an artist has.”

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Closeup of fiber art woven by Consuelo J. Underwood. Tiny print on lower right says: “American Food: Corn, Bean, Squash”. Yellow patterned strips of fabric for the weft/woof, light green and gold threads for the warp. Bottom edge is pierced by copper-gold safety pins, each having one wooden or colored plastic (or ceramic?) bead.

“If you want to be an artist, figure out who you are. Because that’s the most important strength and power an artist has...If you don’t do art for who you are, you’re doing it for your teacher, for your mom, for the color that you like so much. That’s fine when you’re starting, but if you’re a professional, serious, and you’re going to make this a life walk, then focus. Who are you, what do you need to talk about?”
(Quote from Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, in an undated article/interview saved as a PDF on her website. Posted here because that PDF is too damn hard to read on a phone screen.)

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19h

Today is International Breast Cancer Day

el Día Internacional contra el Cáncer de Mama

elnortedecastilla.bsky.social @elnortedecastilla.bsky.social · 1d

Día Internacional de Lucha contra el Cáncer de Mama | Las mamografías del cribado detectan el cáncer tres años antes de que el nódulo sea palpable leer.elnortedecastilla.es/...

Las mamografías del cribado detectan el cáncer tres años antes de que el nódulo sea palpable | El Norte de Castilla

Alrededor de 600 mujeres afrontan cada año un diagnóstico de tumor de mama en Valladolid: «El cribado es clave, reduce la mortalidad y permite optimizar el tratamiento»,

leer.elnortedecastilla.es

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 19h

Paging @korybing.bsky.social for this & the comments

Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 19h

Ouch.

Mi Madre (Mexico-born) confirms this. 🙁

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 20h

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published OTD in 1953.

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

#booksky 🐡

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 19h

Good.
Gratitude to those doing what I and mine cannot.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump

Crowds of Americans, many in costumes, aligned behind message that US is sliding into authoritarianism

www.theguardian.com

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 20h

You have to click on the icon below the individual post

Showing my Bsky friend where the Share This Thing (circled with red and with a red pointing arrow) icon is on a Bluesky skeet.

Text box:
Send via direct message / paper airplane icon.
Share via… / upward arrow thing icon.
Copy li k to post / pill-shaped link icon. (Last item circled in red).

Sorry for not knowing proper icon names!

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 20h

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 1d

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 20h

Had to find the Copy Link To Post to do it like this:

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 20h

Timely reminder 💜

Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 1d

“Today I learned about a term called a ‘glimmer’. Which is the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers are those moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. Once you train your brain to be on the lookout for glimmers, these tiny moments will appear more and more.” #AltText

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 1d

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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 1d

ALT text:

To the Editor:

I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.

I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger’s syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.

For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.

Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking in a new dentist

Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the heads up
🫡

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

South Koreans held their government accountable earlier this year. And now they’re protesting for American’s rights and democracy on No Kings too!

Thank you South Korea! #NoKings ❌👑

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

#withalttext

Tweet from the verified NYPD News account reads: "The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The post is timestamped 3:27 PM on 10/18/25 and shows 50K views. The NYPD badge is displayed in the top left corner.

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 1d

My thoughts exactly

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 29d

excellent news
📌 water and earth

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 29d

The High Seas Treaty has been ratified by 60 countries! This is about protecting oceans beyond the coastal zones controlled by single countries. There are still lots of steps between where we are and the future we dream of, but wow, this is a big one!

apnews.com/article/high...

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 12d

Good eye

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 13d

“Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating” — Octavia Butler

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 13d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 12d

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 12d

About time. 🔆

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds