Mel (none/she/they)
@librarymel6.bsky.social
Librarian. Cat lover. Queer. Disabled.
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Everyone ends up disabled eventually. Pre-disabled people don't like to think about it.
This idea that disabled people should be made to suffer stems from systemic ableism.
What’s worse, eugenics and fascism always go hand in hand.
Disabled people warned folks for years this was where the US was headed, but because our lives are undervalued, no one listened:
What’s worse, eugenics and fascism always go hand in hand.
Disabled people warned folks for years this was where the US was headed, but because our lives are undervalued, no one listened:
Why Do We Undervalue the Lives of Disabled People?
Ableism is why. Capitalism is why. A 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' mentality is why. We can and must do better, and it starts with a commitment to stop debating a person's worth.
www.disabledginger.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Everyone ends up disabled eventually. Pre-disabled people don't like to think about it.
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How many ADHD-ers does it take to change a lighbulb?
Male emperor penguins feed their babies with a protein substance called crop milk!
Male emperor penguins feed their babies with a protein substance called crop milk!
July 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
How many ADHD-ers does it take to change a lighbulb?
Male emperor penguins feed their babies with a protein substance called crop milk!
Male emperor penguins feed their babies with a protein substance called crop milk!
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Healthcare is a basic human right.
The US is one of the only countries in the developed world not to guarantee healthcare to all.
The budget they just gave to ICE could easily cover universal healthcare.
They would rather fund a militia than provide food, medicine and vaccines.
The US is one of the only countries in the developed world not to guarantee healthcare to all.
The budget they just gave to ICE could easily cover universal healthcare.
They would rather fund a militia than provide food, medicine and vaccines.
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Healthcare is a basic human right.
The US is one of the only countries in the developed world not to guarantee healthcare to all.
The budget they just gave to ICE could easily cover universal healthcare.
They would rather fund a militia than provide food, medicine and vaccines.
The US is one of the only countries in the developed world not to guarantee healthcare to all.
The budget they just gave to ICE could easily cover universal healthcare.
They would rather fund a militia than provide food, medicine and vaccines.
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There is no such thing as “saving” money by cutting social programs. Need still exists, hunger still exists, illness still exists. Cuts merely push the remedies for these many forms of suffering into crueler social relations and more chaotic social outcomes.
July 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There is no such thing as “saving” money by cutting social programs. Need still exists, hunger still exists, illness still exists. Cuts merely push the remedies for these many forms of suffering into crueler social relations and more chaotic social outcomes.
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Governments – even fascist ones – are still ultimately just A Bunch of Guys Pushing Paper, and can be stymied accordingly.
Not everyone ones that the actual Gestapo were perceived as omniscient/omnipotent but in reality were not as big as you'd think, and relied on citizens ratting each other out, so yes it is our duty to gum up one of their primary sources of info, the rat-out lines
July 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Governments – even fascist ones – are still ultimately just A Bunch of Guys Pushing Paper, and can be stymied accordingly.
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anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :
July 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :
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What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
July 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
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Source: eds.hannahlouise on Insta
July 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Source: eds.hannahlouise on Insta
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Hot take: Young men “playing video games all day” deserve access to health insurance too. In a humane society everyone should have access to health care regardless of who they are or what they do. We should be expanding health insurance coverage, not kicking people off it.
July 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hot take: Young men “playing video games all day” deserve access to health insurance too. In a humane society everyone should have access to health care regardless of who they are or what they do. We should be expanding health insurance coverage, not kicking people off it.
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Even knowing this is where fascism was headed, it's still haunting and terrifying to the core to see the fully built camps
July 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Even knowing this is where fascism was headed, it's still haunting and terrifying to the core to see the fully built camps
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Good morning 🫡
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Good morning 🫡
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1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
July 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
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In 80 seconds, AOC has completely dismantled the #BigUglyBill.
Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW.
“This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥
@aoc.bsky.social
Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW.
“This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥
@aoc.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In 80 seconds, AOC has completely dismantled the #BigUglyBill.
Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW.
“This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥
@aoc.bsky.social
Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW.
“This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥
@aoc.bsky.social
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Make no mistake:
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
July 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Make no mistake:
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’
As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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Disability Pride Month is here! Here is a surprisingly insightful article from…Good Housekeeping? On the origin, history, and meaning of our Pride flag.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
Understanding the Design of the Disability Pride Flag
Here's what you should know about the flag's symbolism and origin.
www.goodhousekeeping.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Disability Pride Month is here! Here is a surprisingly insightful article from…Good Housekeeping? On the origin, history, and meaning of our Pride flag.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
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The Nazis had incredibly effective propaganda campaigns aimed at dehumanizing anyone they wanted to target
This regime is doing the same thing
They’ve got social media influencers touring Alligator Alcatraz and crowing about how “great” it will be
They’re conditioning you to “just follow orders”
This regime is doing the same thing
They’ve got social media influencers touring Alligator Alcatraz and crowing about how “great” it will be
They’re conditioning you to “just follow orders”
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Nazis had incredibly effective propaganda campaigns aimed at dehumanizing anyone they wanted to target
This regime is doing the same thing
They’ve got social media influencers touring Alligator Alcatraz and crowing about how “great” it will be
They’re conditioning you to “just follow orders”
This regime is doing the same thing
They’ve got social media influencers touring Alligator Alcatraz and crowing about how “great” it will be
They’re conditioning you to “just follow orders”
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The reason I talk so much about extending grace to multi marginalized people especially is because they're often victimized. No victim is perfect. No human is perfect. So it's unreasonable to expect them to never have made a mistake. And to use that mistake to further harm them.
June 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The reason I talk so much about extending grace to multi marginalized people especially is because they're often victimized. No victim is perfect. No human is perfect. So it's unreasonable to expect them to never have made a mistake. And to use that mistake to further harm them.
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Growing up in Tennessee, Elliot knew the importance of allowing people like him to get the gender-affirming care they need to thrive and live freely.
The Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti is dangerous for trans youth, but we won't back down.
The Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti is dangerous for trans youth, but we won't back down.
June 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Growing up in Tennessee, Elliot knew the importance of allowing people like him to get the gender-affirming care they need to thrive and live freely.
The Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti is dangerous for trans youth, but we won't back down.
The Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti is dangerous for trans youth, but we won't back down.
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I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
June 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
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We are just 6 months in…
the amount of cruelty seems to be never ending. 😢
So much pain, anguish, cruelty, & harm are being intentionally inflicted onto our population.
Are these considered crimes against humanity? (Even folks not directly involved are suffering)
Class action lawsuits?
the amount of cruelty seems to be never ending. 😢
So much pain, anguish, cruelty, & harm are being intentionally inflicted onto our population.
Are these considered crimes against humanity? (Even folks not directly involved are suffering)
Class action lawsuits?
June 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We are just 6 months in…
the amount of cruelty seems to be never ending. 😢
So much pain, anguish, cruelty, & harm are being intentionally inflicted onto our population.
Are these considered crimes against humanity? (Even folks not directly involved are suffering)
Class action lawsuits?
the amount of cruelty seems to be never ending. 😢
So much pain, anguish, cruelty, & harm are being intentionally inflicted onto our population.
Are these considered crimes against humanity? (Even folks not directly involved are suffering)
Class action lawsuits?
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Democrats have been asked to disavow Zohran more than Republicans have been asked to disavow the guy who murdered two Democrats.
Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now.
Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now.
June 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Democrats have been asked to disavow Zohran more than Republicans have been asked to disavow the guy who murdered two Democrats.
Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now.
Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now.
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Medicaid provides care to 2.3 million children with disabilities.
If it gets cut, kids will die.
They’re willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of disabled children to ensure that the rich get richer.
Call, write & email your elected officials. Tell them to vote “No”
If it gets cut, kids will die.
They’re willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of disabled children to ensure that the rich get richer.
Call, write & email your elected officials. Tell them to vote “No”
Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid.
I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.
I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.
June 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Medicaid provides care to 2.3 million children with disabilities.
If it gets cut, kids will die.
They’re willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of disabled children to ensure that the rich get richer.
Call, write & email your elected officials. Tell them to vote “No”
If it gets cut, kids will die.
They’re willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of disabled children to ensure that the rich get richer.
Call, write & email your elected officials. Tell them to vote “No”