Martha Garvey
@marthastewpot.bsky.social
Writer. Content designer. Dogs. Vampires. Masks. Sober. Coffee. Covid is airborne, people who wear masks are sexy. I've read Middlemarch three times. That's all I got. #wearamask #covidisnotover
Substack: https://writelife.substack.com/
Substack: https://writelife.substack.com/
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"in the targeted attention economy which pits art forms against each other for audience consumption, one sees how people are segmented and fragmented into monolithic groups whose only power is the one of purchase."
today in pocket theatre, i write abt theatre's attention market. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
tension economy
theatre's attention market
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"in the targeted attention economy which pits art forms against each other for audience consumption, one sees how people are segmented and fragmented into monolithic groups whose only power is the one of purchase."
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When someone with a history of addiction does something really bad (whether murder or RFK Jr nonsense), can we please not vilify addiction overall?
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
When someone with a history of addiction does something really bad (whether murder or RFK Jr nonsense), can we please not vilify addiction overall?
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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More performative seahorse hustle-bro influencer bullshit 🙄
December 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
More performative seahorse hustle-bro influencer bullshit 🙄
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I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others.
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
Donate to Help Augustine Goba battle Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, organized by Michelle McGraw
Mr. Augustine Goba is the Emeritus Director of the Kenema Gov… Michelle McGraw needs your support for Help Augustine Goba battle Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
www.gofundme.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others.
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP.
Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...
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December is the month the grief comes out to play and blindsides folks.
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
December is the month the grief comes out to play and blindsides folks.
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Finding out that a person you thought was not a dolt turn out to be a really big dope is something of an epidemic these days.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Finding out that a person you thought was not a dolt turn out to be a really big dope is something of an epidemic these days.
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Great thread! Ebony and Jet magazines chronicled his every move when he was at the height of his career. 🧵
Have you ever heard of Reginald F Lewis? Probably not, and I believe that's by design, as Black erasure is endemic in America.
Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.
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Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Great thread! Ebony and Jet magazines chronicled his every move when he was at the height of his career. 🧵
What happens when "showing up" in person means I will have to ask you to wear a mask, and you won't? Where are the groups who know that progressive change must include accessibility? Please highlight those groups.
Find your local organizing home and show up, friends. That's how things change.
In NYC, check out the @nywfp.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social and @socialists.nyc. And check out all the groups in this starter pack. There's a group for you. go.blacksky.community/RKuK1Hz
In NYC, check out the @nywfp.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social and @socialists.nyc. And check out all the groups in this starter pack. There's a group for you. go.blacksky.community/RKuK1Hz
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What happens when "showing up" in person means I will have to ask you to wear a mask, and you won't? Where are the groups who know that progressive change must include accessibility? Please highlight those groups.
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As expected, ACIP will officially be voting today to change the recommendation for the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine to a process that is simply going to make pediatric Hep B cases increase.
It’s just their latest science-free policy-based evidence making.
It’s just their latest science-free policy-based evidence making.
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
As expected, ACIP will officially be voting today to change the recommendation for the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine to a process that is simply going to make pediatric Hep B cases increase.
It’s just their latest science-free policy-based evidence making.
It’s just their latest science-free policy-based evidence making.
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Yass girl I love that Chappel Roan was your top artist on the AI war payola for genocide ice recruitment app
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Yass girl I love that Chappel Roan was your top artist on the AI war payola for genocide ice recruitment app
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In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
Seventh patient in HIV remission after stem cell transplant | News | ConnectSci
connectsci.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
To mark this we are looking at ways to help those house-bound or bed-bound with Long Covid or chronic illness with vital screening & testing. 🇬🇧 /1
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To mark this we are looking at ways to help those house-bound or bed-bound with Long Covid or chronic illness with vital screening & testing. 🇬🇧 /1
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December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
To mark this we are looking at ways to help those house-bound or bed-bound with Long Covid or chronic illness with vital screening & testing. 🇬🇧 /1
🧵👇
To mark this we are looking at ways to help those house-bound or bed-bound with Long Covid or chronic illness with vital screening & testing. 🇬🇧 /1
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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On this day in 1970, Cesar Chavez was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for his work boycotting lettuce produced by farms that had used coercive tactics against the United Farm Workers.
Dec. 3, 1970 | Cesar Chavez Jailed for Leading Boycott Against Coercive Farmers
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On this day in 1970, Cesar Chavez was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for his work boycotting lettuce produced by farms that had used coercive tactics against the United Farm Workers.
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Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
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Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
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This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.
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for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan