Abigaël
@consentcactus.bsky.social
Educator & researcher. Linguist interested in language use in sexual violence prevention and survivor support. Windowsill gardening enthusiast.
https://acandelas.gitlab.io/
https://acandelas.gitlab.io/
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Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
Snowed in this weekend? Bored with nothing to do? Print some red cards! They list your rights if ICE comes to your home, and provide a way to invoke your those rights. They can be printed in a range of languages to distribute to community
www.ilrc.org/redcards?fbc...
www.ilrc.org/redcards?fbc...
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
www.ilrc.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Snowed in this weekend? Bored with nothing to do? Print some red cards! They list your rights if ICE comes to your home, and provide a way to invoke your those rights. They can be printed in a range of languages to distribute to community
www.ilrc.org/redcards?fbc...
www.ilrc.org/redcards?fbc...
The best thing about being a geek is that there’s always a bigger geek than you. For example, you might be wondering if anyone has ever used LaTeX to make an 8-page mini-zine, and would they share their template with me, and the answer is of course yes #geeksarethebest
GitHub - polychora-org/8up-zine: A LaTeX template for a single-sheet zine.
A LaTeX template for a single-sheet zine. Contribute to polychora-org/8up-zine development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The best thing about being a geek is that there’s always a bigger geek than you. For example, you might be wondering if anyone has ever used LaTeX to make an 8-page mini-zine, and would they share their template with me, and the answer is of course yes #geeksarethebest
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Once again, the mainstream media (The WSJ this time) is making lives harder for disabled people, instead of being furious over how disabled people's legitimate every day needs are neglected. Also, ambulatory wheelchair users are very common! TY Rachel T.
www.facebook.com/tikva82/post... #disability
www.facebook.com/tikva82/post... #disability
Rachel Tanenhaus
I have a lot of feelings about the WSJ article ostensibly about people without disabilities asking for wheelchair assistance at the airport so they can jump the line, etc. And then when it takes...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Once again, the mainstream media (The WSJ this time) is making lives harder for disabled people, instead of being furious over how disabled people's legitimate every day needs are neglected. Also, ambulatory wheelchair users are very common! TY Rachel T.
www.facebook.com/tikva82/post... #disability
www.facebook.com/tikva82/post... #disability
Glad to see these plans to expunge child prostitution convictions in the UK. Hope to see more efforts to prevent child sexual exploitation and provide meaningful forms of redress
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
'Child prostitution' convictions to be expunged
New measures in the Crime and Policing Bill will disregard and pardon unjust 'child prostitution' convictions and cautions received before the law changed in 2015.
www.gov.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Glad to see these plans to expunge child prostitution convictions in the UK. Hope to see more efforts to prevent child sexual exploitation and provide meaningful forms of redress
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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What's happening with SNAP is incredibly uncertain and I'm hearing from comrades all over who are struggling, confused, and getting mixed messages about their bennies. I wrote about how SNAP affects families with medically complex children who use SNAP/WIC at @civileats.com!
Op-ed: The Shutdown Threatens SNAP and WIC for the Most Vulnerable
One in eight Americans rely on food assistance. For families with complex medical challenges, these programs are non-negotiable lifelines.
civileats.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What's happening with SNAP is incredibly uncertain and I'm hearing from comrades all over who are struggling, confused, and getting mixed messages about their bennies. I wrote about how SNAP affects families with medically complex children who use SNAP/WIC at @civileats.com!
What’s the worst thing about the US health insurance system and why is it everything
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What’s the worst thing about the US health insurance system and why is it everything
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Yes, I want my tax dollars going to feed and house people. Those are some of the best uses of my tax dollars, in fact.
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Yes, I want my tax dollars going to feed and house people. Those are some of the best uses of my tax dollars, in fact.
Looking forward to reading Lyndal Roper’s new book
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Malcolm Gaskill · We’re eating goose! When Peasants Made War
The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Looking forward to reading Lyndal Roper’s new book
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“My once-firm stride, the stride of a university instructor who hurried between lecture halls, had turned into a limp. My shoes were worn and coated with much dust, my clothes tattered and stained, and my face—once animated by ideas and humor—had grown pale and gaunt.” mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide
A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what...
mondoweiss.net
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“My once-firm stride, the stride of a university instructor who hurried between lecture halls, had turned into a limp. My shoes were worn and coated with much dust, my clothes tattered and stained, and my face—once animated by ideas and humor—had grown pale and gaunt.” mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
I guess all phishing is designed to capitalise on some sort of crisis, or the fear of one, but I feel there’s something particularly vile about phishing that purports to be from the Department of Homeland Security
October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I guess all phishing is designed to capitalise on some sort of crisis, or the fear of one, but I feel there’s something particularly vile about phishing that purports to be from the Department of Homeland Security
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Uk academics and teachers - just take this in. And huge respect to everyone who has worked to sustain education in the emergency and provide access and lecturing through this devastation.
Gaza’s education system has collapsed under the weight of war. Nearly 658,000 school-aged children and 87,000 university students have been left without access to learning as classrooms and campuses lie in ruins.
🔗: aje.io/r00cl2
🔗: aje.io/r00cl2
October 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Uk academics and teachers - just take this in. And huge respect to everyone who has worked to sustain education in the emergency and provide access and lecturing through this devastation.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Tying people’s insurance to their job and it’s not even free has got to be one of the biggest scams America ever concocted.
October 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Tying people’s insurance to their job and it’s not even free has got to be one of the biggest scams America ever concocted.
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Yesterday was the 70 year anniversary of 14 year old Emmett Till's death.
I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime.
It's not ancient past.
I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime.
It's not ancient past.
August 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yesterday was the 70 year anniversary of 14 year old Emmett Till's death.
I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime.
It's not ancient past.
I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime.
It's not ancient past.
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🧵Ahmed Kamal Junina is a linguistics professor. He writes about trying to teach in Gaza while starving.
"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter."
tinyurl.com/toohungrytot...
"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter."
tinyurl.com/toohungrytot...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
tinyurl.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🧵Ahmed Kamal Junina is a linguistics professor. He writes about trying to teach in Gaza while starving.
"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter."
tinyurl.com/toohungrytot...
"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter."
tinyurl.com/toohungrytot...
“So, are we going to survive Trump?” <- this rideshare is getting a little too real
August 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“So, are we going to survive Trump?” <- this rideshare is getting a little too real
The music in this cafe is a reggae cover of Pink Floyd’ “Wish you were here”, so now I don’t know if I feel sad or upbeat
August 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The music in this cafe is a reggae cover of Pink Floyd’ “Wish you were here”, so now I don’t know if I feel sad or upbeat
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
Going through old papers I find all manner of treasures. Letters from my grandparents. A much loved copy of the Earthsea stories, repeatedly repaired with tape. A Peters’ projection map from 1991(?). The world looks different now, but I loved that map
July 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Going through old papers I find all manner of treasures. Letters from my grandparents. A much loved copy of the Earthsea stories, repeatedly repaired with tape. A Peters’ projection map from 1991(?). The world looks different now, but I loved that map
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Some ways linguists can help support and defend immigrants & refugees in their local communities (free free to add more, these are just things that have come up locally)
-consulting on political communication
-identifying trolls on icewatch apps through their writing style
-interpreting/translation
-consulting on political communication
-identifying trolls on icewatch apps through their writing style
-interpreting/translation
July 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Some ways linguists can help support and defend immigrants & refugees in their local communities (free free to add more, these are just things that have come up locally)
-consulting on political communication
-identifying trolls on icewatch apps through their writing style
-interpreting/translation
-consulting on political communication
-identifying trolls on icewatch apps through their writing style
-interpreting/translation
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🚨🗣️ 52 influential women unite to urge the Government: do not abandon asylum-seeking survivors.
Violence does not stop at the border, and neither should our compassion and support for survivors.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#WelcomeEveryWoman
Violence does not stop at the border, and neither should our compassion and support for survivors.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#WelcomeEveryWoman
Influential women urge Labour to include asylum seekers in plan to tackle violence
Exclusive: Letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨🗣️ 52 influential women unite to urge the Government: do not abandon asylum-seeking survivors.
Violence does not stop at the border, and neither should our compassion and support for survivors.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#WelcomeEveryWoman
Violence does not stop at the border, and neither should our compassion and support for survivors.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#WelcomeEveryWoman
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“ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
www.npr.org
July 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
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In my latest for the @nytimes.com, I wrote about an adorable new dinosaur with something extremely rare: fossilized vocal organs!
This Dinosaur Probably Tweeted More Than It Roared
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In my latest for the @nytimes.com, I wrote about an adorable new dinosaur with something extremely rare: fossilized vocal organs!