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ContraindiKateLoved this: Four Feet High — a relaxed and sparkly Bildungsroman-type series from Argentina. Great storytelling. Short little episodes were perfect for pacing, allowing me to watch one a day without crashing :) Streaming on arte in Europe <a href="https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-021939/four-feet-high/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-021939/four-feet-high/</a><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/tvShows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tvShows</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entertainment</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disabilityJustice</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/NowWatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NowWatching</a>

Caro S.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@richlitt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@richlitt</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@skinnylatte</a> As disability activist Imani Barbarin, and many others, say: "Ableism is a tool of White supremacy." It will always work against us.<a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ableism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

Radical Care CollectiveNext social alert 📢 come hang out with us Sunday, August 17, 2-4pm in Montebello Park. Chill vibes, fun hangs, disability community. <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/NiagaraCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NiagaraCommunity</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Niagara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Niagara</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/NiagaraEvents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NiagaraEvents</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsNotOver</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/WeKeepUsSafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WeKeepUsSafe</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/AQI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AQI</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

Jay<a href="https://www.andererseits.org/wie-firmen-inklusion-vermeiden/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Marketing+FDS+SZ+Recherche+24+8+&utm_campaign=Wie+Firmen+mit+Exklusion+84+Millionen+Euro" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.andererseits.org/wie-firmen-inklusion-vermeiden/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Marketing+FDS+SZ+Recherche+24+8+&utm_campaign=Wie+Firmen+mit+Exklusion+84+Millionen+Euro</a><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/inklusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inklusion</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/exclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#exclusion</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inclusion</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Andererseits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Andererseits</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/teilhabe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#teilhabe</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/behindertenwerkstattenabschaffenjetzt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#behindertenwerkstattenabschaffenjetzt</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Behindertenwerkst%C3%A4tten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Behindertenwerkstätten</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/behindertenrechte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#behindertenrechte</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/behindertundwutend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#behindertundwutend</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ableism</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/ableismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ableismus</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/ableismexists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ableismexists</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/disabilityawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disabilityawareness</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/disabilityrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disabilityrights</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/DisabilityActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityActivism</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/disabilitypride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disabilitypride</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/notalldisabilitiesarevisible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#notalldisabilitiesarevisible</a>

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)Long Covid-19 Weakens Immunity In Children, Increases Risk Of Infections: Study<a href="https://www.news18.com/india/long-covid-19-weakens-immunity-in-children-increases-risk-of-infections-study-9143263.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.news18.com/india/long-covid-19-weakens-immunity-in-children-increases-risk-of-infections-study-9143263.html</a>“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! <a href="http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/</a><a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidRealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidRealist</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidIsAirbone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsAirbone</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YallMasking</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)Racial disparities noted in Lyme disease treatment<a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease/racial-disparities-noted-lyme-disease-treatment" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease/racial-disparities-noted-lyme-disease-treatment</a><a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)Greater than one-fifth of NZ children reported persisting symptoms after Covid-19 infection. Post-Covid-19 symptoms impacted the quality of children's day-to-day lives. Preventing infection is key to preventing post-Covid-19 symptoms.<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpc.70104" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpc.70104</a>Summary -Long Covid is the continuation or development of new symptoms after an acute Covid-19 infection that cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis. Research into the long-term impacts of Covid-19 in children and young people is emerging. -This cross-sectional survey reports that greater than one-fifth of NZ children had ongoing symptoms that they did not have prior to having Covid-19. -The proportion of children in the survey who reported good or very good health reduced from 82.6% before NZ's two large Omicron waves to 66.9% after these waves, with changes in health significantly more frequent in those who had a Covid-19 infection compared with those who had not. Post-Covid-19 symptoms are impacting the quality of children's day-to-day lives.“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! <a href="http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/</a><a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidRealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidRealist</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidIsAirbone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsAirbone</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YallMasking</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)Immunity Debt: The Conspiracy Theory Elevated to Popular Pseudoscience That Is Making Children Sick<a href="https://lilscience.substack.com/p/immunity-debt-the-conspiracy-theory" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lilscience.substack.com/p/immunity-debt-the-conspiracy-theory</a>The concept of “Immunity Debt” was adopted to explain global surges in respiratory virus illness during the 2022-23 cold and flu season. The problem is, it was only recently invented and there is no evidence that supports “Immunity Debt” as being responsible for our earlier and more severe respiratory virus seasons. As we face another early increase in respiratory virus infections and heightened severity of these infections with “white lung syndrome” filling pediatric emergency rooms, finally, the hypothesis of “Immunity Debt” is finally falling flat.The term “Immunity Debt” started in the shadowy realm of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as a justification for why people should not wear masks to avoid infection with respiratory viruses.Note the wildly flawed logic of simultaneously proclaiming that masks don’t work but also work so well they cause “Immunity Debt”. “The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! <a href="http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/</a><a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidRealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidRealist</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidIsAirbone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsAirbone</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YallMasking</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)ANSWERED: Is COVID-19 Harmful to Children?<a href="https://www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-is-covid-19-harmful-to-children" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-is-covid-19-harmful-to-children</a>“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! <a href="http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/</a><a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidRealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidRealist</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidIsAirbone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsAirbone</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YallMasking</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)Infectious diseases spike when kids return to school − here’s what you can do about it<a href="https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-spike-when-kids-return-to-school-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it-235169" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-spike-when-kids-return-to-school-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it-235169</a>“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! <a href="http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/</a><a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidRealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidRealist</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidIsAirbone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsAirbone</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YallMasking</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

emeritrix"Papers, please" Shasta Willson Jul 25, 2025[see link for citations, etc.]Yesterday, to little fanfare, the police state metastasized. The media covered Trump’s executive order as a response to homelessness. Few explained the larger context: this is the legal basis to arrest and indefinitely detain any American citizen.Here is the first full sentence of that order: Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. That sounds more like Trump’s description of BLM protests in Portland, or ICE resistance in liberal cities, than it does a depiction of our all-too-real homelessness epidemic.The order goes on to instruct agencies to dismantle progressive, research-based responses to homelessness, substance addiction and mental illness. A punitive anti-science response is hardly surprising for this regime, but don’t think for a moment they care—even poorly—about homeless veterans or opioid addiction.They care about control.July 4th we saw the funding for a massive police state drop into place. The BBBudget makes ICE larger than all but a few national militaries. It was never about immigration.That budget provides 45 Billion dollars for concentration camps. That’s a lot of people.Fascist regimes start with controversial steps against unpopular groups because it weakens resistance. I’m going to explain why this order threatens you, but I want to be clear: you should also oppose it because it’s the wrong answer to real social issues. Research says that treating homelessness first, and then addressing addiction and mental health from a harm reduction approach, works best. This order strips those programs. It’s not about helping vulnerable citizens.Instead, it establishes the legal basis for a growing police state to demand your papers and detain you indefinitely on vague government-defined criteria.That isn’t hyperbole.One of the strongest protections you have is your right not to be detained or forced to produce identification without cause. When we say “papers please” in our best Nazi accent, we are referencing the alternative: a nation where you must prove you are an upstanding citizen on demand, or disappear.This order establishes that inversion in Section 3: Fighting Vagrancy on America’s Streets. Vagrancy is a vague legal term historically used to evade “reasonable suspicion” laws. Instead of police demonstrating a reason to stop you, you need to prove you aren’t a vagrant. Your papers are only the first requirement—vagrancy laws enforced racial segregation, criminalized “chronic” public speech, and punished refusal to work. It’s a slop-term for authoritarian control, and its inclusion should chill anyone familiar with fascism, civil rights history, or other oppressive regimes. They want more than the right to stop you anywhere, anytime, to prove you aren’t a neer-do-well, though. That’s where criminalizing mental illness delivers!They want to lock you up indefinitely too. Not all of you—just anyone who doesn’t spitshine fascist boots with sufficient alacrity. They aren’t being coy either: RFK Jr. advocates for work camps for “lifestyle” diseases. He means all mental health conditions and many physical diseases like diabetes. Trump put him in charge of a commission to look into the “threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), antipsychotics (and) mood stabilizers.”Maybe you’ve never had a day of depression in your life. They haven’t forgotten you! Legislation to “research Trump Derangement Syndrome” was introduced to Congress last term, normalizing the idea that resisting this regime is, prima facie, evidence of mental illness. Like everything else they do, this isn’t original. Early feminists were lobotomized for their self-evident social deviance.It’s a scary scenario, but we knew it was coming. From the day they began detaining documented immigrants, we knew this was the goal. When they passed the BBBudget, we knew why it was so big. This is a major escalation, but it’s also an expected one, so let’s talk about next steps.They’re going to start with populations even the left struggles to agree about.They’ll round up the people you look away from on the street, so stop looking away. See the people who don’t get to shower on sweltering summer days. Buy a coffee or hand them some cash. Don’t worry about how they’ll spend it—first we help. I’d guess mental health roundups will start with transgender people. For years we’ve forced transgender people to establish mental distress as a prerequisite to medical transition. Most will therefore have mental health records, and admit it—some of you are a little ambivalent, right?Easier to look away from uncomfortable questions and people.Once they’ve established that homeless people in tents and transgender people who once considered suicide can be forced into government run camps, they can come for anyone they want.So we push back hard, now. The first step is to make this a topic of widespread conversation and refuse to let go of it. Remember how we had nonstop stories about the flight to El Salvador, and we learned Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s name, and then stories of all the disappeared began circulating?*[*my note: Yes, Kilmar Abrego is back in the USA, as are a few of the others sent to CECOT--but most are still there, without due process. We are already not pushing back hard enough on that.]We do that again: everyone needs to be talking about this.We also need to organize. A lot of the practical implementation will come down to local decisions and internal sand in the gears. Medical professionals needs to talk about protecting patients and records. We all need to attend city council meetings and vote in Sheriff’s elections. If you have old counseling notes or medical records ask if they can be destroyed. Scan your life, and your community, for ways to slow down the transmission of records that could be used to target people under these laws. Publicize the stories of brutal work conditions at protests outside every ICE hiring event. If you haven’t before, study safe protest protocols, and then refuse to comply in advance. Get out there and be loud for as long as you can. Study the history of vagrancy laws, the research on addiction and homelessness, and how fascists divide us. Read every footnoted link on this article. Learn the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp, and admit this awful truth: America did this before, to our Japanese citizens. It can’t just happen here: it already has.We can look to the model of resistance used to push back against immigrant rendition: visibility, protest, community resistance, organizing and mutual defense each play a role. We’ve won a number of fights—none of them perfectly—and regime popularity is underwater on every measure. We fight hard to make this cost them dearly. We make them fight for every inch they steal, and we fight for everyone because they are a human being, deserving of dignity.We hold the line.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vagrancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vagrancy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a> <a href="https://shastaw.substack.com/p/papers-please" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shastaw.substack.com/p/papers-please</a>

Harmony SeekerI woke up feeling flat. No spark, or real reason. It is a deep deep heaviness that settles in sometimes. A good coffee outside helped. The warmth, the stillness, the routine of of my Monday. That kind of grounding works better for me than trying to force a mood shift.Tonight I am attending an online group for autistic people. It will be my first time and I have been looking forward to it. One of the things I already appreciate about the neurodivergent community is how much detail is given about events. People actually explain what to expect and list options. They do not assume you will know. That matters to me as I need to know how things will run before I join in. Unstructured situations are exhausting.This group sounds amazing! You can join with or without your camera. You can speak, or type in the chat, or you can listen if that is what works. I am highly verbal, but speaking can still be hard. Sometimes the words are in my head, but I cannot get them out. It is not just about anxiety. It is about processing. It is about how much effort it takes to speak clearly when your hearing is unreliable and your brain is working through five layers at once. I have to concentrate on how the words feel on my lips. Reading is easier. I can read a chapter, absorb it, and retain the meaning far more efficiently than spoken conversation.Today I have been preparing for lectures and tutorials. My autism and learning subject is focusing on different models of disability. I already knew about the social and medical models, but the charity model was new to me. That one is built on pity. It treats disabled people as objects of sympathy. It frames support as something to be given out of generosity, not rights. It highlights deficits instead of needs.The social model is stronger. It shifts the focus to the environment. It says that the problem is not the person, but the barriers around them. That makes sense to me. Public transport. Education systems. Physical spaces. Social attitudes. All of these create exclusion. But the social model has a gap. It does not fully address impairment itself or the supports a person might still need.That is where the human rights model fits. It blends both perspectives. It says people deserve access and participation, but it also recognises that disability can bring real impacts and real support needs. It centres autonomy. It asks what the person needs to live with dignity and full agency.This course is igniting something in me. I am not just studying for the sake of knowledge. I want to do something with it. I want things to change, not in vague ways, but in actual lives.So yes. A flat morning. A helpful coffee. A good study session. And tonight, I will join a space where I do not have to mask or explain. That is something worth looking forward to.<a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Neurodivergent</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AutismStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AutismStudies</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/HumanRightsModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRightsModel</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AutisticCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AutisticCommunity</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AutisticVoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AutisticVoice</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/OnlineSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSupport</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AccessIsEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AccessIsEverything</a>

AutisticRealmsExploring why and how Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) can harm Autistic people. <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Neurodiversity</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AutismAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AutismAcceptance</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PBS</a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a><a href="https://autisticrealms.com/why-pbs-is-harmful-for-autistic-and-neurodivergent-young-people/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://autisticrealms.com/why-pbs-is-harmful-for-autistic-and-neurodivergent-young-people/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social</a>

WHN"Criminalizing masking in the middle of an ongoing pandemic is a massive failure of public health.”Adam Reich joins us to talk about the erosion of disability rights, the dangers of repeated COVID infections, and what it means to truly “move on.” We also cover practical tools for protecting yourself at work — from ventilation tips to the ADA.Watch the full conversation here: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=fSCCglx-c90" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=fSCCglx-c90</a><a href="https://forall.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/COVIDisNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#COVIDisNotOver</a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/CleanAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CleanAir</a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityRights</a>

emeritrixBeatrice Adler-Bolton reminds us of Marta Russell's work on disability--a "Marxist theory of disablement that explains how even the most neglected care systems become profitable under capitalism."Russell argued disabled people who can’t be exploited as workers are used to “shore up capitalism by other means.” Through Medicaid, nursing homes, rehab clinics, and long term care facilities, etc. our survival needs are commodified. Care, study and warehousing makes markets."It’s not enough to defend Medicaid as it exists—we have to build beyond it. Russell’s work helps us see the trap: how systems that should provide care end up designed to extract from the very people they claim to serve."<a href="https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/marta-russell-money-model-of-disability" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/marta-russell-money-model-of-disability</a><a href="https://lpeproject.org/blog/capitalism-disability-a-symposium-on-the-work-of-marta-russell/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lpeproject.org/blog/capitalism-disability-a-symposium-on-the-work-of-marta-russell/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthcareForAllNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HealthcareForAllNow</a>

Mark Anderson :bakfietsv:Hi, I'm Mark. I'm on ODSP, which leaves me well below the poverty line. To survive, I’m trying to raise $500/month on Ko-fi to cover basics like food, hygiene, and staying connected. If you can help—or just RT—I’d be so grateful. 💛 <a href="https://ko-fi.com/sharpieguy/goal?g=0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ko-fi.com/sharpieguy/goal?g=0</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ODSPoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ODSPoverty</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MutualAid</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

Rook 🏳️‍⚧️Ableism underpins every other ism and phobia out there, and I will die on this hill!<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ableism</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/intersectional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intersectional</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/intersectionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intersectionality</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transphobia</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/queerphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#queerphobia</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misogyny</a>

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)Having Long Covid and other chronic illness in Sout Spain Someone reach out to me via email and I explained my situation with healthcare in south Spain, I wanted to share it here: Im in south spain and the truth is that I've been living on medical leave for quite a few years. In this case, there's a huge difference between the north and the south due to the medical infrastructure. In the south, there are more people, but the structure is worse, and they hire fewer staff. In the north, there tends to be more infrastructure, staff, money, etc.All of this is in terms of public healthcare.In my case, I've had chronic pain since I was 12 years old, but doctors never paid attention to it, and I didn't know how to insist because I was a kid. After six years of pain, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, but it was too late. It was so bad that I would have to undergo three surgeries in less than a year (for the first one I went to a private healthcare because it was April 2020 and my mom was terrified of me dying of covid, but they fucked up and I had to go to public healthcare at may 2th because I was dying for their negligence).<a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidRealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidRealist</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/CovidIsAirbone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsAirbone</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YallMasking</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>

Health Self Defense ❤️‍🔥😷Masks are community care❤️‍🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves. • There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key. • Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives. • Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. • Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! <a href="http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaskUp</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CovidRealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidRealist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CovidIsAirbone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsAirbone</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongCovid</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YallMasking</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabledLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabledLiberation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityJustice</a>.

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