Sebastian (they/them)

PLEASE HELP! I NEED TO CLEAR MY PHONE/INTERNET BILL BY TOMORROW!

$300 NEEDED ASAP

Anything helps! 🙏🏿 #TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BeAPatron #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #BlackSky 💸💕🏳️‍⚧️

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

If you were just laid off by the Department of Education and your job was to help distribute IDEA funds, please be in touch for a @motherjones.com article. I can protect your identity in an article, though I'll have to confirm who you are. My signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.

*rehabilitated by substack

$100 RECEIVED TODAY! CAN ANYONE MATCH OR DOUBLE?

Apparently people have been getting their needs fully met from that thread I started as well as the multiple other threads inspired by Link.

If this doesn’t demonstrate Link’s impact and the value of BlueSky as a mutual aid network, I don’t know what can.

Keep it up y’all.

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.

The biggest #strike of the year starts on Tuesday, featuring 45k #healthcareworkers. This means tens of thousands across Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii, in particular. Picket lines at 6 KP locations in Portland area, and will lead the labor march on Oct 18th.
truthout.org/articles/23-...

Hello, internet! My friend K is *so* close to getting a (really great) accessible apartment, but needs $500 for the deposit basically asap. Please help out if you can!

(The deposit should get reimbursed if the funding source gets approved, but there's a chance it won't because bureaucracy sucks.)

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

Alaa and her daughters have lived to see a ceasefire, but they are still in dire need of assistance. They have only managed to navigate displacement, genocidal violence, and her daughter's deteriorating health with the help of donations. Let's help them continue to endure.

Sanctuary District gear now comes in dark colors! bonfire.com/sanctuary-district-dark

For everyone who has been asking us for black shirts, a spooky season gift for you. Sanctuary District now comes in black and other dark colors! Get it here: bonfire.com/sanctuary-district-dark

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

A close up profile of a child wearing a teal KN94 respirator. The text reads, "The Sick Times. Long COVID research updates. Risk of Long COVID doubled in children following SARS-C0V-2 reinfection. Researchers may have found a potential biomarker and treatment target for cognitive dysfunction in Long COVID. A phase 1 clinical trial is recruiting to test the GLP-1 agonist drug Liraglutide for Long COVID."

🧸 A new study that found the risk of Long COVID doubled in children following SARS-C0V-2 reinfection made mainstream headlines this week. As part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) RECOVER program, researchers assessed health records from over 460,000 participants under the age of 21 across 40 hospital systems and found that the risk of developing Long COVID may be cumulative with each infection. The authors stated the findings aligned with studies on adults and emerging evidence on immune waning post-infection. “The new evidence that reinfections can trigger or worsen this chronic condition suggests that the societal burden is set to grow,” researcher Danilo Buonsenso (who was not involved with the study) wrote in an editorial about it.

🩸 Researchers in Japan may have found a potential biomarker and treatment target for cognitive dysfunction in Long COVID. The small study, published in Brain Communications, assessed 30 participants with the disease and compared them to 80 controls using advanced brain imaging. They discovered a significantly increased density of AMPA receptors in people with Long COVID; these are learning and memory receptors found in the brain and spinal cord. Based on their findings, the researchers suggested future clinical trials on drugs that target AMPA receptors, like perampanel, which is used to treat some types of epilepsy.

💉 A new phase 1 clinical trial is currently recruiting to test the GLP-1 agonist drug Liraglutide for Long COVID, multiple sclerosis, and acute leukemia. The small study plans to recruit 30 participants with a body mass index over 27 at its study site in Chicago, Illinois. Researchers will measure how the drug affects a disease marker called Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF). The NIH’s RECOVER-Treating Long COVID initiative is also planning a clinical trial for Long COVID using another GLP-1 agonist drug (the exact drug has not been officially announced). Study contact: cancerclinicaltrials@bsd.uchicago.edu.

🧸 Risk of LC doubled in children following SARS-C0V-2 reinfection

🩸 Researchers may have found a biomarker & treatment target for cognitive dysfunction in LC

💉 Clinical trial recruiting to test the GLP-1 agonist drug Liraglutide for LC

This week's #LongCOVID research updates: bit.ly/48j2kMt

I am just so weary supporting my friends across the country and across the world who have been in bed for years, some post-COVID, some prior to COVID. My friends are blaming themselves for thinking, talking to feeling too much when the issue is lack of access to quality healthcare.

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

Screenshot of a text message conversation on a purple background. The first message from AJ Link at 7:48 AM reads: “Howdy pals. Can I ask for a favor. If anyone has capacity or time today can they do a fund Friday post. I know lots of people need help.” This message has a heart reaction. The second message, also at 7:48 AM, replies: “Obviously what everyone does with their CPU is sacred. So no pressure.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Courtesy of Link himself

Fund Friday post :

Happy Friday Yall. Post fundraising links, cashapp links, whichever campaign needing help on . ♥️

Another reason to mask at protests, aside from COVID safety and protection from doxxing, is that a lot of responsible documenters don't want to publish protesters' faces (esp without their consent) right now. Your face being in a shot may prevent people from sharing a worthwhile image publicly.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

A better close-up of another faceless cusk eel! You can only see these guys down deep like this! 4539m @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

Hobbes the orange and white tabby cat curled up on a rug in a sunbeam, looking peaceful and content in his sleep. He is 19.

Would you care to see a contended cat?

Wilson Building Bulletin: Curfews and closed doors The D.C. Council rejected a bill extending the youth curfew. Until it didn't.

By the letter of the law, the D.C. Council shouldn't have been able to to discuss an issue behind closed doors that was on their public agenda that day.

But earlier this year, they created a loophole.

What happened this week, and why does it matter? @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

Wilson Building Bulletin: Curfews and closed doors The D.C. Council rejected a bill extending the youth curfew. Until it didn't.

"Something interesting happened in the D.C. Council on Tuesday. But there’s only so much I can tell you about it – because much of it happened behind closed doors...this year the council passed an emergency bill creating a significant loophole [for secret meetings]."

51st.news/wilson-build...

Donate to Daniel Kingery, a beloved unhoused DC vet arrested by MPD, organized by Graeme Eddolls Imagine being taken from the only place of safety you have, d… Graeme Eddolls needs your support for Daniel Kingery, a beloved unhoused DC vet arrested by MPD

Last week, Daniel was involuntarily committed during an encampment eviction. He was almost instantly released, but most of his belongings were destroyed. This is a common tactic used in this city to clear encampments.

www.gofundme.com/f/daniel-kin...

Help him get some stuff back. Donate if able!

A horrifying must-read from my colleague Kristen Gelineau on the starvation that has gripped parts of Myanmar after the dismantling of USAID.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza   Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…

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We’re still going!

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social

#ConnectingGaza

STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m looking for Brown University-affiliated trans/gnc people (especially trans/gnc alumni, students, staff) and any others who feel affected by the university’s transphobic actions and are interested in speaking with me for a potential upcoming reported piece. (If you’ve not read them already, check out my Boston Globe op-ed blasting the university’s administration, as well as my Assigned Media essay about my time as a closeted trans student back when.) For those who want to share their stories and are concerned for whatever reason, you can request anonymity if you like in your initial email. Please write me via my contact form.

I'm once again asking anyone else who's trans/gnc affiliated with Brown University who wants to speak on record to please reach out ...

More info here:

www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

reposts/sharing this with anyone you know is greatly appreciated, thanks!

#brownuniversity