Elly Belle (they/them)
@literelly.bsky.social
foraging for Hope ★ journalist, poet, documentarian ★ organizing + getting in Good Trouble @zenithcoop & more ★ Chaotic Do Gooder For The People. rep'd by Mina Hamedi.
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this anti-surveillance protesting and direct action guide that I helped to organize and create in 2020 is still as relevant as ever, there's a plethora of tips for reducing risk before, during, and after actions, please use it to try to be safer. full site with resources: maskon.zone
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now please, and i’m so serious: take that anger and go buy some masks to wear in public indoor spaces so everyone knows how much you don’t fuck with eugenics. if you need low cost or free masks, or just don’t know where to start, check out covidactionmap.org and maskbloc.org for groups near you.
July 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
now please, and i’m so serious: take that anger and go buy some masks to wear in public indoor spaces so everyone knows how much you don’t fuck with eugenics. if you need low cost or free masks, or just don’t know where to start, check out covidactionmap.org and maskbloc.org for groups near you.
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You are not being snubbed, people find AI usage unethical and harmful.
I’m a historian and a K-12 educator and I use AI. My Bluesky is full of people I respect, all regularly posting about how they dislike AI and the people who use it. Many are in higher ed and/or the larger history field.
So - we’re just alienating K-12 teachers and others who are using AI tools now?
So - we’re just alienating K-12 teachers and others who are using AI tools now?
July 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You are not being snubbed, people find AI usage unethical and harmful.
I really need to stop forgetting this website exists
July 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I really need to stop forgetting this website exists
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The ban on gender affirming care for trans kids that the Court upheld as constitutional today in Skrmetti is so obviously *un*constitutional that John Roberts basically just writes 20something pages of buffoonery
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
Supreme Court Not Sure Why You Thought the Equal Protection Clause Meant Anything
A law banning healthcare for trans kids does not discriminate against trans kids, and other pearls of wisdom from the country’s sharpest legal minds.
ballsandstrikes.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The ban on gender affirming care for trans kids that the Court upheld as constitutional today in Skrmetti is so obviously *un*constitutional that John Roberts basically just writes 20something pages of buffoonery
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
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Mx. Yaffa, a non-binary Palestinian writer and organizer, is raising money to distribute to queer and trans Palestinians and front-line organizers:
givebutter.com/iPxsAf
givebutter.com/iPxsAf
SAD MUTUAL AID FUND FOR Queer and trans Palestinians and front line organizers
By SAD and Pol's mutual aid fund for Mx. Yaffa and MASGD
givebutter.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Mx. Yaffa, a non-binary Palestinian writer and organizer, is raising money to distribute to queer and trans Palestinians and front-line organizers:
givebutter.com/iPxsAf
givebutter.com/iPxsAf
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Today is a particularly good day to support trans mutual aid as a concrete way to fight back against the fuckers trying to take their healthcare and other rights away.
🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:
🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:
June 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today is a particularly good day to support trans mutual aid as a concrete way to fight back against the fuckers trying to take their healthcare and other rights away.
🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:
🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:
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This week on Live Like the World is Dying, @jamesstout.bsky.social and Miriam talk about how to stay safe with danger all around. They talk health and safety basics for protests like security culture, protective gear, first-aid kits, and dangers like projectiles, tear gas, and pepper spray.(1/2)
June 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This week on Live Like the World is Dying, @jamesstout.bsky.social and Miriam talk about how to stay safe with danger all around. They talk health and safety basics for protests like security culture, protective gear, first-aid kits, and dangers like projectiles, tear gas, and pepper spray.(1/2)
this anti-surveillance protesting and direct action guide that I helped to organize and create in 2020 is still as relevant as ever, there's a plethora of tips for reducing risk before, during, and after actions, please use it to try to be safer. full site with resources: maskon.zone
June 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
this anti-surveillance protesting and direct action guide that I helped to organize and create in 2020 is still as relevant as ever, there's a plethora of tips for reducing risk before, during, and after actions, please use it to try to be safer. full site with resources: maskon.zone
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Am I revising this poem or is this poem revising me?
June 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Am I revising this poem or is this poem revising me?
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Kinda worried about this not gonna lie, since it’s the same tactic used in Masterpiece Cake Shop which then led to the 303 Creative ruling which probably allows the precedent for this suit to be successful.
XX-XY Athletics, a Denver-based company, is suing Colorado over an amendment to the Anti-Discrimination Act that prohibits intentional misgendering and deadnaming of trans people.
They're saying it restricts them from marketing their core message, violating First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
They're saying it restricts them from marketing their core message, violating First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Kinda worried about this not gonna lie, since it’s the same tactic used in Masterpiece Cake Shop which then led to the 303 Creative ruling which probably allows the precedent for this suit to be successful.
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there’s no freedom for anyone unless police power is weakened
Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants
Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants
The NYPD cleared the path for ICE's vans, despite pledges from the mayor and the police commissioner that the City doesn't assist in civil immigration enforcement.
hellgatenyc.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
there’s no freedom for anyone unless police power is weakened
having this knowledge makes me :(
Oh I am not shitposting, folks.
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Meanwhile Stephen Miller is furiously subtweeting Musk on X
May 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
having this knowledge makes me :(
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What the latest COVID vaccine changes mean for pregnant people and children 19thnews.org/2025/05/covi... via @19thnews.org
What the latest COVID vaccine changes mean for pregnant people and children
Can you still get the vaccine? Will insurance still cover it? The 19th answers questions pregnant people and parents might have about the recent change.
19thnews.org
May 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What the latest COVID vaccine changes mean for pregnant people and children 19thnews.org/2025/05/covi... via @19thnews.org
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For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die
My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?
www.msnbc.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
I just want people in media and publishing to be safe and like any other industry it's a hot mess of institutions protecting serially abusive and harmful people for basically no good reason other than men in power looooove to do that shit
May 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I just want people in media and publishing to be safe and like any other industry it's a hot mess of institutions protecting serially abusive and harmful people for basically no good reason other than men in power looooove to do that shit
I just think it's so beautiful and sweet that you can out a serial abuser who personally harmed you and many others and instead of getting fired, the premier trade mag in publishing promotes him and gives him even more power... boys clubs that protect and defend violence are so cute huh
May 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I just think it's so beautiful and sweet that you can out a serial abuser who personally harmed you and many others and instead of getting fired, the premier trade mag in publishing promotes him and gives him even more power... boys clubs that protect and defend violence are so cute huh
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jaw dropped at the argument 'oh ho, you were upset that cops abuse Black people & foolishly thought journalism should interrogate injustice. now women journalists are upset that you abused them & are foolishly interrogating that injustice. serves ya right!'
then I realized FP is Bari Weiss's outlet
then I realized FP is Bari Weiss's outlet
I shit from a great height on this characterization
May 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
jaw dropped at the argument 'oh ho, you were upset that cops abuse Black people & foolishly thought journalism should interrogate injustice. now women journalists are upset that you abused them & are foolishly interrogating that injustice. serves ya right!'
then I realized FP is Bari Weiss's outlet
then I realized FP is Bari Weiss's outlet
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Utah Republicans accidently did an honest scientific and medical review of the evidence behind youth gender care instead of the overtly political reports done by the UK government and federal HHS.
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Utah Republicans accidently did an honest scientific and medical review of the evidence behind youth gender care instead of the overtly political reports done by the UK government and federal HHS.
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Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier
Under the ACA, plans sold on the individual or small-group Marketplaces have to provide coverage for certain treatments called Essential Health Benefits (EHB). Only a few treatments (like abortion) are prohibited from coverage as an EHB by HHS--but insurers are not banned from covering it altogether
Information on Essential Health Benefits (EHB) Benchmark Plans | CMS
The Affordable Care Act requires non-grandfathered health insurance coverage in the individual and small group markets to cover essential health benefits (EHB), which include items and services in at ...
www.cms.gov
May 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier
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hi hi hi my friend @literelly.bsky.social has had a helluva time with sars2— who can match my $20 to help them properly rest through recovery?
gofund.me/59c029a9
gofund.me/59c029a9
May 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
hi hi hi my friend @literelly.bsky.social has had a helluva time with sars2— who can match my $20 to help them properly rest through recovery?
gofund.me/59c029a9
gofund.me/59c029a9
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Please help my friend Elly make ends meet!
Elly is a multiply-disabled journalist and community advocate. Despite taking as many precautions as they could, they recently contracted COVID-19 and ended up in the ER. They are still recovering weeks later, and they are currently unable to work.
Elly is a multiply-disabled journalist and community advocate. Despite taking as many precautions as they could, they recently contracted COVID-19 and ended up in the ER. They are still recovering weeks later, and they are currently unable to work.
I've had a tough time recovering from a severe case of COVID, am still symptomatic, and have been unable to work. I'm already disabled and this has been scary. I need community help to recover and am very grateful for all support, including sharing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...
Donate to Support disabled freelancer to recover from severe COVID, organized by Elly B
My name is Elly and I'm a multiply-disabled freelance journalist and c… Elly B needs your support for Support disabled freelancer to recover from severe COVID
www.gofundme.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Please help my friend Elly make ends meet!
Elly is a multiply-disabled journalist and community advocate. Despite taking as many precautions as they could, they recently contracted COVID-19 and ended up in the ER. They are still recovering weeks later, and they are currently unable to work.
Elly is a multiply-disabled journalist and community advocate. Despite taking as many precautions as they could, they recently contracted COVID-19 and ended up in the ER. They are still recovering weeks later, and they are currently unable to work.
I've had a tough time recovering from a severe case of COVID, am still symptomatic, and have been unable to work. I'm already disabled and this has been scary. I need community help to recover and am very grateful for all support, including sharing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...
Donate to Support disabled freelancer to recover from severe COVID, organized by Elly B
My name is Elly and I'm a multiply-disabled freelance journalist and c… Elly B needs your support for Support disabled freelancer to recover from severe COVID
www.gofundme.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I've had a tough time recovering from a severe case of COVID, am still symptomatic, and have been unable to work. I'm already disabled and this has been scary. I need community help to recover and am very grateful for all support, including sharing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...