A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message:

WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY

WE DID WHAT WE COULD

*REMEMBER US*

(Source: Doctors Without Borders)

I often wonder how many of the world’s problems fall into the issue of, “we need to rapidly build emotional intelligence in an enormous, powerful demographic that has never needed it.”

I definitely didn't hit on everything I have to say about this topic.

We could (and should) talk about sanist ableism and intellectual ableism and lateral ableism and how ableist language works with all of them.

Also keep in mind I mostly know about English and talk from that perspective.

Part of why I don't have no-no lists for ableist language is that you can still express the same ableist values and beliefs with synonyms and long academic essays and all sorts of things.

I think of explaining about ableist language as a way to introduce people to recognizing ableism everywhere.

A lot of times talking about ableist language and slurs gets dismissed as memorizing a list of no-no words but honestly that's not why or how I talk about ableist language, because it's not really the point.

The point is how language interacts with behaviors and beliefs about Disabled people.

If you're enjoying Bluesky and you don't want it to turn into the cesspool of hate that Twitter did, you best speak up now. Cut that 'I don't know what to say' shit out and amplify Black and queer voices, because the BS team ain't listening to us.

WE WILL RELEASE A NEW TWITTER CLONE EVERY HOUR UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET

“bluesky won’t have any debate because it’s all left-leaning folks” - person who has never been in a room with two leftists

DMs on Bluesky are called email

Feminism without intersectionality is white supremacy.

Every single space and community has an anti-Blackness problem because that’s how society is built. Until oppression systems are completely ended it will never go away as an important moral priority. There’s no group of people who can responsibly be unconcerned with it.

The setting to require alt text on your images is located directly in Settings under your invite codes. Y'all, please turn this on if you would like to make your images accessible to everyone using Bluesky.

what doesn't kill you makes your amygdala overactive and raises your baseline cortisol levels, often leading to chronic disease

the consequence of reification 😮‍💨

"It is not a matter of prejudice. It is a matter of cowardice. It is easy to blame the N*gg*r or the Arab or the Jew or the dyke or the faggot—anyone that isn't you. You don't want to see that you could be that person; that, in some way, you are that person."

— James Baldwin