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· Dec 14
i'm not gonna finish this so please enjoy my silly piano playing polar bear 🌹
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I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one.
It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.
It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.
The Origins of the Word "Moron" Are Actually REALLY Sinister
It's much more than just a casual insult.
www.teenvogue.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one.
It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.
It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
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It hurt my feelings to be called an idiot today. It's supposed to hurt because, like moron, it's an ableist slur. The reason that these two words are ableist slurs is that they are old clinical terms from an era of eugenics for intellectual disabilities. I miss Link on here when I explain this.
How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ableist tropes
When it comes to disability, a lot of ableist language and tropes are perpetuated by the media. Here's what experts have to say about how to talk about disability.
www.npr.org
January 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
It hurt my feelings to be called an idiot today. It's supposed to hurt because, like moron, it's an ableist slur. The reason that these two words are ableist slurs is that they are old clinical terms from an era of eugenics for intellectual disabilities. I miss Link on here when I explain this.
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this bears repeating:
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
this bears repeating:
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
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First yt post of the new year!
www.YouTube.com/shorts/2Zxnt...
www.YouTube.com/shorts/2Zxnt...
www.YouTube
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
First yt post of the new year!
www.YouTube.com/shorts/2Zxnt...
www.YouTube.com/shorts/2Zxnt...
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Heart burn, burning in my soul
January 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Heart burn, burning in my soul
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Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.
Disabled friend doesn’t particularly want your Not-Covid either
Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed. In a statement released today, your disabled…
thedailytism.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.
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WIP… I’m not sure what the background should be??
December 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
WIP… I’m not sure what the background should be??
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
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Hawai‘i is nearing a pivotal deadline on military land leases, exposing how the US has long abused Hawaiian land and opening a rare chance for Native communities to assert Indigenous sovereignty and demand the land’s return for public and ecological healing.
Hawai‘i Has a Rare Opportunity to Reclaim Land From the US Military
The US military is abusing Hawaiian land. Will residents be able to exert Indigenous sovereignty and get it back?
truthout.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hawai‘i is nearing a pivotal deadline on military land leases, exposing how the US has long abused Hawaiian land and opening a rare chance for Native communities to assert Indigenous sovereignty and demand the land’s return for public and ecological healing.
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Happy 8th night of Hanukkah!
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Happy 8th night of Hanukkah!
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I’m dealing with very severe income & work loss, which impacts housing & more and need urgent support. TY so much.🤍🤍
tinyurl.com/gfm-care-support
tinyurl.com/gfm-care-support
December 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’m dealing with very severe income & work loss, which impacts housing & more and need urgent support. TY so much.🤍🤍
tinyurl.com/gfm-care-support
tinyurl.com/gfm-care-support
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Everytime I leave a place now, I say, "I'm gonna bounce like a castle."
This is going to catch on any day now.
This is going to catch on any day now.
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Everytime I leave a place now, I say, "I'm gonna bounce like a castle."
This is going to catch on any day now.
This is going to catch on any day now.
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Hey y’all! Here’s the YouTube video of my interview if that’s what you prefer:
youtu.be/L7vWR5nquFQ?...
youtu.be/L7vWR5nquFQ?...
Imani Barbarin on disability rights, COVID and the war on Gaza | The Take
Why does the public understanding of disability lag so far behind reality? TikTok influencer and disability activist Imani Barbarin lays this out for her audiences on social media, where she has…
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hey y’all! Here’s the YouTube video of my interview if that’s what you prefer:
youtu.be/L7vWR5nquFQ?...
youtu.be/L7vWR5nquFQ?...
i'm getting back into reading again 🐛 recent reads below:
visual novel - soul of sovereignty
manga - the green yuri aka The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
graphic novel - simplicity
novel - death of the author
visual novel - soul of sovereignty
manga - the green yuri aka The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
graphic novel - simplicity
novel - death of the author
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i'm getting back into reading again 🐛 recent reads below:
visual novel - soul of sovereignty
manga - the green yuri aka The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
graphic novel - simplicity
novel - death of the author
visual novel - soul of sovereignty
manga - the green yuri aka The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
graphic novel - simplicity
novel - death of the author
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print this out, laminate it, put it up everywhere you might be tempted to get into an argument with fascists. kirby ALL THEIR FRAMES, EVERY TIME. (also highly recommend the rest of the thread for concrete examples)
i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:
Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $
Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $
Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
For example:
Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $
Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $
Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
December 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
print this out, laminate it, put it up everywhere you might be tempted to get into an argument with fascists. kirby ALL THEIR FRAMES, EVERY TIME. (also highly recommend the rest of the thread for concrete examples)
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Her favorite winter spot!
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Her favorite winter spot!
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We're all supposed to be 100% in tune with white men's feelings. We're supposed to care about them at the expense of our own. We are supposed to live in fear of them getting upset. Treating their feelings as grenades that can go off at any time. They on the other hand do not need to care about ours.
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We're all supposed to be 100% in tune with white men's feelings. We're supposed to care about them at the expense of our own. We are supposed to live in fear of them getting upset. Treating their feelings as grenades that can go off at any time. They on the other hand do not need to care about ours.
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Just ..
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just ..
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
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December 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
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This photo is from a display at the Manor House at Wildwood Metropark in Toledo, Ohio. Volunteers decorate the rooms in the house to celebrate the season.
December 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This photo is from a display at the Manor House at Wildwood Metropark in Toledo, Ohio. Volunteers decorate the rooms in the house to celebrate the season.
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