Soft Hearts Society

I've been taking some time away following the peaceful passing of a family member 🕯️🤍🕊️ June was a foster child who became a nurse until her retirement. She was a lifelong cat lover and a loving Aunt. 😻 She had a great laugh. She took no shit. Rest in power, June 💕🌻

If you're still using period tracker apps, stop

If you need to digitally track them, call it something else. Visit with your aunt

If you're helping someone access abortion pills, no you aren't. You're buying groceries

If you're taking someone out of State for abortion, you're visiting family

If you want to start a garden and seriously can't afford the seeds send me your address to gate2plate@aol.com
Add: "seed swap" in subject line. Tell me your zone. I can send you a full set of veggie seeds to get you going. Ask for the Snarky Special.
#SeedSwap
#TheOutpost
🌱🌿🍅👨‍🌾🍴

I think trying to make the best choice for right now that meets & honors your needs is very valid. For some folks it’s much easier than others to just run out somewhere when they need things. I think disability justice & equity is also about accommodations like this being prioritized by society. 💝

I very much hear you on this, I’m stuck home most of the time when my partner isn’t here to help me get around 🫂 years of living alone was like unbearably hard & even now he does so much to care for me & works long hours. It’s hard to manage without getting some things delivered.

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤

This government’s attempt to take the “T” and “QIA+” from LGBTQIA+ is horrifying, but also genuinely pathetic. They’re so irrelevant, folks. *We* make those definitions. Not the other way around. Natives have been here.

The next generation won’t stand for this erasure. Be loud, make art, make love.

If you’re curious on this, look up when the government suddenly “decided” Native tribes and names didn’t exist anymore in the 1950s, and thus the government didn’t have to uphold any treaties because we “weren’t real.” It didn’t work (Look up Termination Era.)

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Our first Radical Reading Room will kick off this month with a beautiful text from radical black feminist, author, theorist, educator, visionary bell hooks 🖋️💕

📖 Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope 🕊️

Sat Feb 22 3PM PST 📆

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#booksky #bookclub #feministlit

Ughhh I’m sorry!! 😣 I hope you find good options. Etsy is trying a subscription that lets you get free shipping for a lot of things, which doesn’t help with everything but I’m doing a vintage theme for my wedding & did find a lot of lovely things there ☺️

A lot of companies are trying to cut out customer support & site moderator salaries entirely. It was a huge trend to move customer experience offshore more cheaply & now they’re trying to use AI that isn’t ready or well-designed for more & more.
So could be an intended evil or the unintended fallout

I’m sorry, that’s so weird! I’ve never had this happen but have had an account for many years so it might also be that new ones without positive seller ratings are being reviewed by AI which may or may not be working as intended. Not defending them & can totally see it being sketch or a crap system

CDC removing information on preventing chronic disease.

An uninformed public is a danger to the rest of the world. Viruses don’t care about borders.

Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one:

Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are.
Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group.
Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.

It’s our 1st Crip Yoga this Sunday at 3 PST! 💝

All invited: levels, abilities, ages, etc!

(kiddos must be supervised by a grownup)

Come as you are!

FREE on Zoom

If you have em bring:

Yoga mat / blanket
Extra blankets / towels
Pillows / bolsters
Water
Blocks

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Screenshot of the accessibility settings on the Bluesky app. The setting for Require alt text before posting is turned on.

If you want your posts to be as accessible as possible, alt text for photos is the minimum effort. If you forget sometimes, you can set the app to force you to add alt text before posting! Go to your settings and click #accessibility. The app will not allow you to click post until you add alt text.

SAY YOUR AFFIRMATIONS & ADMIRE YOURSELF BUTT ASS NAKED IN THE MIRROR TODAY🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

If we can make it to HALF of our goal today we can continue our lives on without a CRISIS tonight.

If we can make it ALL the way to our goal we can make our lives actively a little bit easier.

Every bit helps! 🙏⚒️💕💸🏳‍⚧♿💜

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before

I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there

From threads: tootiredtobemad My political stance is landback . That’s it. I do not believe some idealized whitewashed version of “democracy” will save us, I do not believe there is or will be a savior among us or that any system is the “right” one. I believe I was born on stolen land, that the people who are Indigenous to this land deserve to have it returned to them, and that it’s none of my business what they choose to do with it after that.

same. please let us lead. this is our home. your systems, your laws, all of it is foreign here and at the end of the day, red or blue, your ways hurt us, collectively. the earth is hurting. she needs us restored to our leadership here. please. before it's too late.

You are powerful

Hope when it seems irrational to hope

Dare to envision & write & draw & dance & move & talk & be about your vision of peace

Let it be informed by stories and art of other revolutionary liberatory dreamers

Take care of each other & together we will create it over generations

If crimson pools
On sinner's robes
Forgive them Mother
They must not know
How water and light
Could hurt so good
Or shine so bright

❤️‍🔥

#resist #lovewins #strongertogether #giveyourgriefahome #theworldneedsyourart
#intersectionality #survive #loveoneanother #thegreatestoftheseislove

You can't breathe without us
Can't be without us
Extinct without us
Dead world void of color
And empty of life

Who knew
Water and light
Could hurt so good
Or shine so bright

If I am found dead
Bury me in the clothes I chose
Use my name
When you shut my page
Let them know
How I was slain

Sharing until it isn’t relevant ❤️‍🔥🌈🏳️‍⚧️

CW trans, queer trauma, death

☮️🦋

#transpoetry #queerpoetry
#queerart

When will they learn we cannot all be burned

By Lilia Joy

There will always be survivors
Or children
Who grow up
Like seeds
And become us
Like weeds
We're endemic and essential