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Shannon Williams

@smirkpretty.bsky.social

Life (such as it is) with #ME/CFS and Long COVID. #Disability justice. The pandemic is NOT over. Don't let them take your art, never abandon the beloved future. Eat the rich. Queer she/her Read me at https://shannonelysewilliams.substack.com/

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First time I've giggled all day.

27.03.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"But her emails"

19.03.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fuck these fuckers.

19.03.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Already: Real estate listings up. Unemployment claims up. Job fair attendees/job applications/job inquiries up. Sales tax revenue down. And this is only the beginning.

14.03.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neoliberal self-serving spineless dinosaurs. The entire old-guard Democratic establishment needs to burn to the ground.

14.03.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"When faced with two awful choices, pick the one that requires less courage."

- The Art of Losing, by Chuck Schumer

14.03.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 16478    πŸ” 3705    πŸ’¬ 404    πŸ“Œ 225

They always manage to find the straightest path to disability cuts...

14.03.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.

Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

11.03.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 65466    πŸ” 16091    πŸ’¬ 2732    πŸ“Œ 1148

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving crew.

11.03.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't underestimate the power of developing a late-in-life belief in hell.

11.03.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government recordsβ€”a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.

11.03.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15062    πŸ” 2478    πŸ’¬ 173    πŸ“Œ 103

You forgot the three teetering piles of papers on your desk and the two teetering piles of books flanking the doorway.

11.03.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, of course, the queers are the biggest threat to democracy.
These fucking cowards. I despise having to vote blue in every election, it makes me feel like my hand is stuck in a garbage disposal.

11.03.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Boycotts now "illegal." It'll be interesting to see them try to enforce that one.

11.03.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been wondering what these delightful outlaws were up to. Probably a little of everything, just not getting reported on. Good. Keep it up, burn it down.

11.03.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But at least our president now has a Tesla. We can all sleep better tonight.

11.03.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Color me shocked.

11.03.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Except now Trump is going to use our taxes to buy himself one. That'll turn it around for sure.

11.03.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amen.

11.03.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL. Speak, brother!

11.03.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Against Anticipatory Obedience While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free...

The AAUP published this important piece. Apparently Columbia didn't get the memo. www.aaup.org/news/against...

07.03.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck around. Find out.

07.03.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations β€” again Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.

Hard to believe 6 days old is "old news" but here we are. I just want to cheer on everyone in my circle who has cancelled WaPo subscriptions. Including my parents who have been getting daily Post delivery since 1979 (even the 7 years they lived in Vermont). www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...

06.03.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cowards.

06.03.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You'd be right.

04.03.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Chronic diseases misdiagnosed as psychosomatic can lead to long term damage to physical and mental wellbeing, study finds A ‘chasm of misunderstanding and miscommunication’ is often experienced between clinicians and patients, leading to autoimmune diseases such as lupus and vasculitis being wrongly diagnosed...

Encouraging to see a study that supports what so many afflicted know intuitively. Next challenge: getting our doctors to catch up to the research. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

04.03.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Drump in there looking like a kid who can't quite work out how to play a grownup in a meeting

27.02.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As if we didn't have enough reasons to fear/despise AI

25.02.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just chatting friends last night about pre-internet days when we used to mail each other heaps of zines, to and from all over the world, learning sharing shit about resistance movements and anarchism and culture and music and radical ideas. There was nowhere else for it. These are those days again.

25.02.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dude what.

25.02.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0