Lauren
@fkajennifer.bsky.social
Immunocompromised. HoH. Adoptee. Researcher. Introvert.
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Thank you. Not sure if I should tag y'all but I see you. 🙏💚
Fwiw this lets us contribute back to MA, too, which ngl, makes me feel a shit ton better.
Fwiw this lets us contribute back to MA, too, which ngl, makes me feel a shit ton better.
So if any of you who aren't struggling w/ groceries or bills want to contribute to feeding discarded cats or rebuilding overlogged forests, we're opening donations
I'll make a post on the farm account soon, but we do need help to continue:
Venmo@BurdockAndBramble
Cashapp$BurdockAndBramble
🙏💚
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I'll make a post on the farm account soon, but we do need help to continue:
Venmo@BurdockAndBramble
Cashapp$BurdockAndBramble
🙏💚
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November 13, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Thank you. Not sure if I should tag y'all but I see you. 🙏💚
Fwiw this lets us contribute back to MA, too, which ngl, makes me feel a shit ton better.
Fwiw this lets us contribute back to MA, too, which ngl, makes me feel a shit ton better.
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My invitation remains open to all #adopted, displaced, trafficked, stolen, bought-and-sold people—anyone who accepts (not necessarily happily) the designation “adoptee”—to be added to my starter pack. Just let me know!
Here’s hoping we’ll play a little less Bingo here! (h/t @bekhenson.bsky.social)
Here’s hoping we’ll play a little less Bingo here! (h/t @bekhenson.bsky.social)
November 13, 2024 at 10:51 AM
My invitation remains open to all #adopted, displaced, trafficked, stolen, bought-and-sold people—anyone who accepts (not necessarily happily) the designation “adoptee”—to be added to my starter pack. Just let me know!
Here’s hoping we’ll play a little less Bingo here! (h/t @bekhenson.bsky.social)
Here’s hoping we’ll play a little less Bingo here! (h/t @bekhenson.bsky.social)
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the choices disabled people have to make that no one else thinks about are a lot. There are so many mental gymnastics, and things to consider that seem unfathomable to others. For instance, do you know how much work goes into me making other people feel comfortable around me? Probably not.
November 13, 2024 at 5:35 PM
the choices disabled people have to make that no one else thinks about are a lot. There are so many mental gymnastics, and things to consider that seem unfathomable to others. For instance, do you know how much work goes into me making other people feel comfortable around me? Probably not.
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So if any of you who aren't struggling w/ groceries or bills want to contribute to feeding discarded cats or rebuilding overlogged forests, we're opening donations
I'll make a post on the farm account soon, but we do need help to continue:
Venmo@BurdockAndBramble
Cashapp$BurdockAndBramble
🙏💚
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I'll make a post on the farm account soon, but we do need help to continue:
Venmo@BurdockAndBramble
Cashapp$BurdockAndBramble
🙏💚
2/2
November 13, 2024 at 4:04 PM
So if any of you who aren't struggling w/ groceries or bills want to contribute to feeding discarded cats or rebuilding overlogged forests, we're opening donations
I'll make a post on the farm account soon, but we do need help to continue:
Venmo@BurdockAndBramble
Cashapp$BurdockAndBramble
🙏💚
2/2
I'll make a post on the farm account soon, but we do need help to continue:
Venmo@BurdockAndBramble
Cashapp$BurdockAndBramble
🙏💚
2/2
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Alright y'all I can't put it off any longer.
We're on one income that just got cut two weeks ago, we're always flirting with losing everything bc of taxes, and I'm out here doing shit that needs to be done, namely taking care of pets other people ditched and rewilding.
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We're on one income that just got cut two weeks ago, we're always flirting with losing everything bc of taxes, and I'm out here doing shit that needs to be done, namely taking care of pets other people ditched and rewilding.
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November 13, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Alright y'all I can't put it off any longer.
We're on one income that just got cut two weeks ago, we're always flirting with losing everything bc of taxes, and I'm out here doing shit that needs to be done, namely taking care of pets other people ditched and rewilding.
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We're on one income that just got cut two weeks ago, we're always flirting with losing everything bc of taxes, and I'm out here doing shit that needs to be done, namely taking care of pets other people ditched and rewilding.
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Since I've gained some new followers, let's keep going with #NAAM facts. Did you know that ten states use TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) money for "Alternatives to Abortion" programs, including campaigns to promote adoption, rather than food and housing for families in poverty? 🥚
November 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Since I've gained some new followers, let's keep going with #NAAM facts. Did you know that ten states use TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) money for "Alternatives to Abortion" programs, including campaigns to promote adoption, rather than food and housing for families in poverty? 🥚
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So, I’m putting an #adoptees starter pack into the world! Adopted people: PLEASE reach out if you would like to be added. This is just a list of recommended follows. The feed is a whole nother thing!
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
November 11, 2024 at 10:45 PM
So, I’m putting an #adoptees starter pack into the world! Adopted people: PLEASE reach out if you would like to be added. This is just a list of recommended follows. The feed is a whole nother thing!
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
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On #adoption terminology: a treacherous terrain.
I always prefer “lose a child to adoption”, but I will occasionally use “relinquish,” despite connotations of agency.
I *never* say “place a child for adoption.” That is industry propaganda.
It’s like saying “placing a home for foreclosure.”
I always prefer “lose a child to adoption”, but I will occasionally use “relinquish,” despite connotations of agency.
I *never* say “place a child for adoption.” That is industry propaganda.
It’s like saying “placing a home for foreclosure.”
November 11, 2024 at 2:11 PM
On #adoption terminology: a treacherous terrain.
I always prefer “lose a child to adoption”, but I will occasionally use “relinquish,” despite connotations of agency.
I *never* say “place a child for adoption.” That is industry propaganda.
It’s like saying “placing a home for foreclosure.”
I always prefer “lose a child to adoption”, but I will occasionally use “relinquish,” despite connotations of agency.
I *never* say “place a child for adoption.” That is industry propaganda.
It’s like saying “placing a home for foreclosure.”
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I'm sure I'm gonna get blocked but it sure is something to see y'all understand family separation is a threat enough to make a "joke".
Fwiw these are the adoption "jokes" I refer to when I say they fuel adoptees' 4x higher suicide rate.
We see you. We hear you.
We know what you think of us.
Fwiw these are the adoption "jokes" I refer to when I say they fuel adoptees' 4x higher suicide rate.
We see you. We hear you.
We know what you think of us.
November 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
I'm sure I'm gonna get blocked but it sure is something to see y'all understand family separation is a threat enough to make a "joke".
Fwiw these are the adoption "jokes" I refer to when I say they fuel adoptees' 4x higher suicide rate.
We see you. We hear you.
We know what you think of us.
Fwiw these are the adoption "jokes" I refer to when I say they fuel adoptees' 4x higher suicide rate.
We see you. We hear you.
We know what you think of us.
"The disproportionate rate of child welfare system involvement in families headed by parents with disabilities-Children of parents with disabilities comprise only 9 percent of the nation’s youth, they make up 19 percent of the children in foster care." www.theregreview.org/2021/10/26/p...
Justice for Parents with Disabilities and Their Children | The Regulatory Review
The child welfare system disproportionately harms families headed by parents with disabilities.
www.theregreview.org
November 11, 2024 at 2:46 PM
"The disproportionate rate of child welfare system involvement in families headed by parents with disabilities-Children of parents with disabilities comprise only 9 percent of the nation’s youth, they make up 19 percent of the children in foster care." www.theregreview.org/2021/10/26/p...
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children raised in someone else’s care (through adoption, fostering, trafficking and displacement) are 10x more likely to suffer abuse. it’s national awareness adoption month, but this is the awareness we need
A Florida teen raped by her adoptive father was charged with filing a false report after authorities accused her of lying. She later captured evidence using her cell phone
Not believed: Charged with filing false report, Polk teen captured own evidence during rape
PBS NewsHour reported on Lakeland' s Taylor Cadle, who was charged with filing a false report at age 12 after accusing her adoptive father of rape.
www.theledger.com
November 3, 2024 at 3:53 PM
children raised in someone else’s care (through adoption, fostering, trafficking and displacement) are 10x more likely to suffer abuse. it’s national awareness adoption month, but this is the awareness we need
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How Stevie Nicks responds to mask-shaming 🔥
"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"
"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"
![Where do you prefer that I sit?
You’re good right there, as long as you don’t think you have Covid.
No, I don’t.
Well, thank goodness we’re done [touring] for a while, so I can go home and not have a mask on all the time. As a singer with asthma, I fucking hate the masks, but I wear them. People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, “Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.”
I can’t get [Covid] again. I mean, I’m old, so I’ll only be around for another 15 years. But you guys have another 30 or 40 years, so you should think about it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dcpvyzm4ou74j6zcz67il5fk/bafkreic3mgflsukjku6zudd2dqpmmiejeq6gdxbbpuzjgie42nz6deccta@jpeg)
October 24, 2024 at 7:45 PM
How Stevie Nicks responds to mask-shaming 🔥
"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"
"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"
Now I have to remember how to use this site. :)
October 24, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Now I have to remember how to use this site. :)
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Readers of Gretchen Sisson’s Relinquished, and of the work of #adoptee -rights activists, will know that the idea of entitlement to children and to the status of parenthood drives an entire industry devoted to making vulnerable women into breeders of children for others. The idea is ingrained.
I wrote about the three Republican Attorneys General who just went to federal court to fight for their purported right to *pregnant teenagers* in their states
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Republican AGs Issue Unsettling Demand For More Pregnant Teens
A group of Republican AGs asserted an unsettling right to pregnant teens in a new filing in their ongoing mifepristone lawsuit.
ballsandstrikes.org
October 21, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Readers of Gretchen Sisson’s Relinquished, and of the work of #adoptee -rights activists, will know that the idea of entitlement to children and to the status of parenthood drives an entire industry devoted to making vulnerable women into breeders of children for others. The idea is ingrained.
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Housing people is cheaper than treating the effects of people being unhoused
Free school lunches are cheaper than the consequences of children being hungry
Free medical care is cheaper than the costs of people being sick
Universal Basic Income increases productivity and makes people happy
Free school lunches are cheaper than the consequences of children being hungry
Free medical care is cheaper than the costs of people being sick
Universal Basic Income increases productivity and makes people happy
So weird how as soon as the pandemic started it became very immediately clear that things like socialized medicine and giving people money so children don’t starve actually work really well but now that it’s been a couple years we have to all pretend we didn’t notice that
October 17, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Housing people is cheaper than treating the effects of people being unhoused
Free school lunches are cheaper than the consequences of children being hungry
Free medical care is cheaper than the costs of people being sick
Universal Basic Income increases productivity and makes people happy
Free school lunches are cheaper than the consequences of children being hungry
Free medical care is cheaper than the costs of people being sick
Universal Basic Income increases productivity and makes people happy
I've been avoiding social media to the best of my ability because... <list of 100+ reasons>
October 18, 2023 at 2:37 PM
I've been avoiding social media to the best of my ability because... <list of 100+ reasons>
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Gift link.
RIP Florence Fisher, an adoptee who fought relentlessly to restore adoptees’ identity rights, founding ALMA (the Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), and who once “dressed as a nun to sneak into the records room of a Roman Catholic adoption agency.” 🔥
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RIP Florence Fisher, an adoptee who fought relentlessly to restore adoptees’ identity rights, founding ALMA (the Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), and who once “dressed as a nun to sneak into the records room of a Roman Catholic adoption agency.” 🔥
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Florence Fisher, Advocate for Opening Adoption Records, Dies at 95
After spending decades searching for her birth parents, she led a movement to help millions of others find their own.
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Gift link.
RIP Florence Fisher, an adoptee who fought relentlessly to restore adoptees’ identity rights, founding ALMA (the Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), and who once “dressed as a nun to sneak into the records room of a Roman Catholic adoption agency.” 🔥
🥚
RIP Florence Fisher, an adoptee who fought relentlessly to restore adoptees’ identity rights, founding ALMA (the Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), and who once “dressed as a nun to sneak into the records room of a Roman Catholic adoption agency.” 🔥
🥚
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Long COVID is real.
Long COVID is not rare.
Vaccines offer limited protection against long COVID.
Paxlovid reduces your risk of long COVID.
Repeat infections make long COVID more likely.
There is no standard treatment for long COVID.
The best prevention against long COVID is not getting COVID.
Long COVID is not rare.
Vaccines offer limited protection against long COVID.
Paxlovid reduces your risk of long COVID.
Repeat infections make long COVID more likely.
There is no standard treatment for long COVID.
The best prevention against long COVID is not getting COVID.
October 10, 2023 at 4:21 PM
Long COVID is real.
Long COVID is not rare.
Vaccines offer limited protection against long COVID.
Paxlovid reduces your risk of long COVID.
Repeat infections make long COVID more likely.
There is no standard treatment for long COVID.
The best prevention against long COVID is not getting COVID.
Long COVID is not rare.
Vaccines offer limited protection against long COVID.
Paxlovid reduces your risk of long COVID.
Repeat infections make long COVID more likely.
There is no standard treatment for long COVID.
The best prevention against long COVID is not getting COVID.
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Hey so reminder that referring to both pets and children with the same marketing language is one of the reason adoptees (the human ones) commit/attempt suicide at 4x higher rates.
Your microaggressions matter and we SEE THEM ALL
Your microaggressions matter and we SEE THEM ALL
October 8, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Hey so reminder that referring to both pets and children with the same marketing language is one of the reason adoptees (the human ones) commit/attempt suicide at 4x higher rates.
Your microaggressions matter and we SEE THEM ALL
Your microaggressions matter and we SEE THEM ALL
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If you have used 23andMe - or any similar site - change your password and turn on two factor authentication (2FA) NOW.
If 23andMe’s explanation of what has happened (a user-side credential exploit) is true, there’s no way of knowing yet if the current theft includes your data, or is still active. 🧪
If 23andMe’s explanation of what has happened (a user-side credential exploit) is true, there’s no way of knowing yet if the current theft includes your data, or is still active. 🧪
“The initial data leak was… 1 million lines of data for Ashkenazi people.”
“The information… includes full names, usernames, profile photos, sex, date of birth, genetic ancestry results, and geographical location.”
Well, that’s surely not going to be a fucking problem. (sarcastically)
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“The information… includes full names, usernames, profile photos, sex, date of birth, genetic ancestry results, and geographical location.”
Well, that’s surely not going to be a fucking problem. (sarcastically)
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Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
October 6, 2023 at 9:28 PM
If you have used 23andMe - or any similar site - change your password and turn on two factor authentication (2FA) NOW.
If 23andMe’s explanation of what has happened (a user-side credential exploit) is true, there’s no way of knowing yet if the current theft includes your data, or is still active. 🧪
If 23andMe’s explanation of what has happened (a user-side credential exploit) is true, there’s no way of knowing yet if the current theft includes your data, or is still active. 🧪