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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

This is a fantastic article I encourage everyone to read.

The damaging effects of COVID on our immune system are not up for debate.

It’s not hypothetical.

And it’s not limited to “only the vulnerable”.

This is why many of us mask. Respirators like an N95 do a great job preventing covid.

Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 17h

‘While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion & dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection incl opportunistic, accelerated bio aging, neurological, & systemic damage provide parallels... .’
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 17h

If able, please consider donating to help care for baby Asiah: fundly.com/missmajor

Please at least share this post if unable to contribute! 🫂

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

i’ve gotten to give out 17 $50 venmo “buy yourself a bag of grocery” gifts to Indigenous folks who could use it today

$50 can really make someones day

want to help do more?

OMG YOU ARE THE BEST
THANK YOU SMMMM
I NEEDED FOOD MONEY UGH
YOURE AN ANGEL

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Sophia Banks @sophiabanks.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity to the striking public workers in BC, and to Canada Post workers.

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 1d

If you can send Debbie a few $, email for e-transfer is in her bio 💜✨

Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone can help today, we have to use laundry that costs us outside of the home. We have to do some serious laundry after cleaning our basement from the damage of the one who left it for us to do. If you can help, thank you. 💕🪶

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 1d

Ive decided to extend the donations to the American Indian Center of Chicago from Every Child Matters beadwork sales indefinitely! As of now we've raised $55 for them 🎉🧡

Shop my Every Child Matters beadwork: cvkvlv.com/collections/...

#EveryChildMatters #Indigenous #Art #Beadwork

A pair of mini beaded fringe earrings in orange ombre, black, and white, with silver findings

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 1d

Here’s another Indigenous person you can support today with a few $ 💜✨

BeadsAgainstFascism @baf.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm a broke, disabled, queer, trans Cree person who's been through some awful stuff and really hard times lately— grieving a friend's passing, dealing with multiple acute injuries plus a new chronic condition...

PayPal.me/beadsagainstfascism

Pay Beads Against Fascism using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/BeadsAgainstFascism and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

PayPal.me

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 1d

If you can send Debbie a few $, email for e-transfer is in her bio 💜✨

Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone can help today, we have to use laundry that costs us outside of the home. We have to do some serious laundry after cleaning our basement from the damage of the one who left it for us to do. If you can help, thank you. 💕🪶

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Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 3d

Sorry to the folks here that I didn't share my book “ By My Ben “published last month, due to BlueSky's obstinacy and its suspension of Palestinian accounts.
But I will share it with you here.❤️

I hope @mommunism.bsky.social will share it too.

#gaza #palestine #genocide

About the Author
My name is Joy. I'm a 22-year-old writer from Gaza, currently studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has recently been bombed. I've lived most of my life through war, enduring five conflicts that have stolen my right to live in safety, peace, and love.
I write stories, reflections, and poems. Since I was young, I've been passionate about poetry and literature. Recently, I started my biggest project yet: writing a book documenting everything I've lived through during the ongoing genocide.
I currently live with my mother and four siblings in a shelter, seeking refuge from the constant threat of death due to the violent airstrikes shaking the ground around me. I am my mother's eldest daughter, her close friend, and her supporter (just as she supports me). My father hasn't been with us since we were young; we've always been under our mother's care. I've lost my beautiful, warm home. I've been displaced to over 17 different shelters and locations, each one worse than the last due to the lack of any safe place to go. We face countless struggles, most notably the starvation we endure as part of the siege and strangulation, designed to create a complete cycle of Nazi-like genocide against us.

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 2d

The Zimi mask is great for lots of breathing space between the filter and one’s face too! I love my Zimis 😅

There’s some fun limited edition Hallowe’en designs now ✨

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 3d

What is it about tech that gets a pass when it comes to respecting Indigenous rights?

Why is it that the Internet itself depends on trespassing through Indigenous territories yet it's framed as something that we're given access to through some sort of charity?

Why are we never even considered?

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 3d

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 3d

I think it really speaks to the lack of hope from which most people are suffering.

Things don’t have to be this way! We can have and deserve better than all of this if we’d just have some courage ✨

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 5d

What can we do to provide language learners more resources to focus on learning? ✨

In the meantime, if you can send a few $ to help, check their bio for link

#LanguageReclamation

mohawkemotions @mohawkemotions.bsky.social · 5d

I'm back studying Cayuga language full time. This program is not an accredited program, it's community designed and administered, focused intensely on teaching grammar. At the end of the program, there's no diploma, no accredited institute recognition. Just the community knowing you put the time in

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 5d

What can we do to provide language learners more resources to focus on learning? ✨

In the meantime, if you can send a few $ to help, check their bio for link

#LanguageReclamation

mohawkemotions @mohawkemotions.bsky.social · 5d

I'm back studying Cayuga language full time. This program is not an accredited program, it's community designed and administered, focused intensely on teaching grammar. At the end of the program, there's no diploma, no accredited institute recognition. Just the community knowing you put the time in

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 6d

what does Timothee Chalamet have in common with a proposal for the world's largest data centre? @savannahridley.bsky.social has the answer:

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 7d

Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...

What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal

Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta

thenarwhal.ca

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Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin) @sacredcolours.ca · 5d

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 6d

I appreciate every repost or share that can reach to more kind hearts.❤️
gofund.me/264fdc263

Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 7d

I carry the full responsibility for my family's needs.
No plans, no guarantees — only faith that there are kind hearts who won’t let us fall. 🕊️

Help us give our children a life without worry. 🧡

🙏Donate if you can / Share if you can't.

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 7d

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 9d

"How does your community practice hope and grief in collectivity? Are such efforts planned intentionally? Has your group created any space...for people to process their hope or grief...? 1 exercise that might allow for the practice of...[both]...might be the creation of a memorial time capsule." 🫂🫂🫂

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · Aug 26

I started reading this earlier at the doctor's office, but then got home, & other priorities took precedence. Given how demoralized I feel, I am returning to it and hoping that posting quotes that resonate as I go may help me with finishing it. Channeling my past self, who read 450+ books in 2017! 🥹

A book cover is seen.

Against a background of stars, folx with held hands raised in solidarity are seen.

Text, as follows:

LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU: ORGANIZING AND THE REVOLUTION OF RECIPROCAL CARE
KELLY HAYES & MARIAME KABA

THIS IS A PROPHETIC WORK.
- NAOMI KLEIN

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 9d

Your sharing and reposting is everything I have to rebuild ❤️‍🩹🫂

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 28d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

chuffed.org

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Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca · 13d

We will never waiver in our support of CUPW's demands for a just future for their members, for disabled communities, and for all people across these territories.
@cupw @OFLabour @CanadianLabour
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