Micayla

I’m hearing a lot of despair and “what’s the point”-ing.

Here’s the point:

ONE less person kidnapped by ICE.

ONE more child vaccinated.

ONE grant reinstated.

ONE more PEPFAR treatment.

ONE more meal to a hungry kid.

ONE more person covered by Medicaid.

One life is ALWAYS worth resistance.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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@maskblocmsp.bsky.social

A photo of me in a sweater, Flo Mask, sunglasses, and hat. I am surrounded by goreous autumnal leaves.

Your friendly neighborhood artist here, reminding you that today is a great day to take care of yourself and others by wearing a respirator mask when you are out and about. Show your concern for your fellow humans: Put your mask where your mouth is! 🫶😷

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

Let’s see what “God-loving Catholics” the SCOTUS 6 really are.

Good time for @pontifexleoxiv.bsky.social to weigh in on our collective humanity & obligation to the poor, no?

I think this bag is fake.

Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.

This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.

I would encourage trans folks especially, but LGBTQ+ folks more broadly, to understand:

We are going to *lose* (maybe even a lot) as cases move up to SCOTUS.

*and*

Every delay & pause, even temporary, is a win. And we will ultimately win.

Care for yourself. Care for community. Keep organizing.

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology

Hi if you’re working for justice and striving for a better world you can do one small but hugely impactful thing: WEAR A MASK WHEN YOU GO TO VOTE

You will protect yourself and you will also protect all the vulnerable people around you who are literally risking their lives to make their voices count

The only thing I need ppl to understand about Spanberger’s win in VA is that it was ENTIRELY due to Black women across Virginia endlessly and tirelessly endorsing her, advocating for her, and swinging whole communities for her.

I will take it personally if she fails them.

Hey sweet thang,

This is your reminder that every living thing in the world slows down during these next months. You’re not lazy cuz you’re doing less. It’s okay that the early darkness makes you tired (it’s supposed to).

Humans the only ones who keep fighting against the natural patterns of life.

there is no hierarchy of citizenship.

there are only citizens. All citizens are imbued with the same legal protections and rights in the U.S.

Some citizens born, some citizens are naturalized, both are fully and equally citizens.

the end.

It's not like we were born with an innate understanding of N95 masks and airborne transmission. Many of us put in the intellectual effort to understand it, starting in 2020. You don't need a medical degree to understand this stuff. It has been explained, and explained, and explained.

If you still wear a mask & take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19/other infections:

Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.

You should be able to eat even if you are not working.

Access to food is a human right.
Access to clean water is a human right.
Access to adequate shelter is a human right.
Access to healthcare is a human right.

Screen shot of my setting screen. Settings > Manage Apps shows a list of apps that are connected to my account with the checkbox "Use by default" next to Gemini checked

Check Settings > Manage Apps in your Google Drive, Gemini was enabled by default for me. I only checked because someone had pointed it on Twitter

just in case your not tracking:

cis women taking testosterone: medical magic
trans mascs taking testosterone: end of civilization

i feel like more people would care if they knew/believed that white people are the primary beneficiaries of SNAP

You may think Covid is over, or just a small problem. But if you or a loved one gets long covid, you are suddenly going to realize this is a series of problems that is completely overwhelming our government and medical care systems, with all of the responsibility- including financial - on the sick.

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing.

find your people and build something real.

Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Public Schools In 16 States That Refused To Comply With Trump's Trans Ban The judge will block the Trump administration's attempt to restrict funding for sex education from schools that teach it in an inclusive way.

1. A federal judge has just ruled in favor of 16 states and schools that refuse to comply with Trumps trans ban demand.

The administration is threatening to pull tens of millions in federal sex ed funding.

Now, they will be blocked.

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Great news guys we’ve made AI that can do art and take vacations for you so you can work every single hour of every day

rules about nighttime “quiet hours” where like it’s considered an offense to disturb people by being loud after 10 pm or whatever should extend through 10 am, and they only don’t because our society thinks anyone still in bed at 7:15 is a morally weak person

Come November 1st when SNAP benefits get shut off I want to make sure we’re all on the same page.

We didn’t see ANYONE “steal” food from the store. Nope. That person walked out with a full cart and as far as we’re ALL concerned they paid we just didn’t see it.

We. Saw. Nothing.

I still mask all the time. I haven’t gotten con crud in literal years. It rules. I’ll keep masking forever

A thing that kills me about these posts is that when they believed there was a pandemic they ABSOLUTELY wanted others to take care of them. They railed against antimaskers and cheered for healthcare workers. And the second the threat to them, personally, lessened, they became diehard libertarians?