Mazana Boerboom (they/them)

Go check out Emma’s work! She did some amazing research and reporting to paint a picture of the current vaccine policy in the United States!

a digital drawing in two parts depicting a scene from the end of Campaign 1 of Critical Role. In the top half, gnome bard Scanlan Shorthalt shown from chest to hips, right hand starting to glow with a spell. At the bottom, Sam Riegel, looking unsure, asking long-time friend and fellow actor/DnD player Liam O'Brien "Is it worth it?" to which Liam replies with certainty, "To keep him here? Yeah, he's getting away!"

The 9th level Counterspell made me cry last year, a LOT. And draw. 1/7

Happy 10th, @criticalrole.bsky.social! Here's to many more years - more laughter, more love, and more legendary moments like this one 💔

#criticalrole #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart #voxmachina

Also if you use AI I hope your computer turns into a wheel of cheese

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

Please stop believing we don’t owe each other anything. We owe each other so much! We owe each other love, equity, understanding, community, compassion, and much more. Don’t let this toxic hyper individualism cut you off from humanity. We’re all connected. We all need each other.

Disabled people are worthy of relationships. We’re worthy of sex. We’re worthy of being romanticized. Disabled people are worthy of love. Happy Valentine’s Day to all disabled people. 🥰

🫂 at my lowest moments I remind myself that hate wins if we give up.

A Year Without Nex Benedict "We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights.

how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

It’s been really hard to push through.

The physical fatigue that comes with feeling grief every single day about the country you live in, the people who run it, the world you are a part of.

Trump claimed that DOGE has uncovered billions in “fraud, waste, and abuse.” However, no evidence has been provided, and all public fraud claims from both Elon Musk and Trump have been debunked as false.

Sometimes I really really miss Missoula

we need to make cynicism uncool.

like having doubts in your heart and being overwhelmed is one thing, but a lot of us got trained by twitter to post our most cynical snark for engagement and that broke something in a lot of us. (me included!)

giving up is not actually that sophisticated!

This is very very bad

Download time: What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data Following a Jan. 29 memo, staff at the CDC are removing any content related to “gender ideology,” with a deadline of Friday afternoon.

What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...

Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews? Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.

PLEASE REPOST: Health equity researchers, Please let me know if your centers or programs are being altered, closed, or threatened by your universities to comply with new EOs or if staff are being laid off. Signal: usha.22 or 👇(Won't use anything without permission.) www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.

The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.

This one at UVA Hospital.

If you're a Forest Service employee who got an email telling you to delete all references to climate change on agency websites...I'd love a copy of that message. You can reach me 509-953-7883 on Signal for secure communication.

I’m going to report now. Thanks!

Screenshot of false tweet claiming the Black Hawk pilot was trans woman Jo Ellis

Screenshot of false tweet claiming the Black Hawk pilot was trans woman Jo Ellis

Screenshot of Jo Ellis post on Facebook saying she was not the Black Hawk pilot

Screenshot of Jo Ellis post on Facebook saying she was not the Black Hawk pilot

Viral posts that claim the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis who deliberately caused the incident are false and baseless.

Jo Ellis has posted on Facebook to confirm she's alive, and not the Black Hawk pilot.

Even with DEI initiatives, disabled people are very much underrepresented in the workforce. Ableist stigma drives that. The same ableism that Donald Trump showed in full display he has this morning at a press conference.

Screenshot from the news story

Remember when I mentioned I didn’t think they would actually send these people home…

🍊 directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants

‘Mormon Land’: Amid national attacks on transgender rights, a former stake president tells her story Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”

Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”

Clearly your beautiful Imogen art.

Of course! I appreciate the care you put into your reporting. Thank you for bringing it to light.

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican.

Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.

We are not going anywhere.

Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.