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👩🏽‍🎨♿️ meheen ruby
@meheenruby.bsky.social
visual artist, designer, art educator, speaker, disability advocate. I make art, art prints, and wearable art: t shirts, hoodies, bags. I stream art & games, and am developing a podcast/site relaunch. check me out http://meheenruby.com
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every day i invent a new tired
my parents are putting up curtains while cooking and i decided any crashing noises are not my business until i actually hear "help" im assuming business is normal
December 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.

But ProPublica did.

@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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"Dr Gatenby described how senior colleagues said "you're not a real #doctor " because she cannot do on-call shifts. "Yet when I ask to be included in weekend rotas, I'm told it's too much hassle..": buff.ly/h8b2nui

via BBC
#disability #MedSky #ChronicIllness #NEisVoid
Disabled doctors consider leaving NHS over shift inflexibility
Disabled and neurodivergent doctors say the lack of reasonable adjustments is pushing some out.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, a mass wedding for more than 50 Palestinian couples took place in Khan Younis as hundreds gathered to celebrate.
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
the math is nathaning
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers...
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021.

Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Not Just Measles: Anti-Vaxxers Have Produced 3 Infant Deaths From Pertussis

In all of our conversations surrounding RFK Jr.'s appointment to lead HHS and the legitimization of his anti-vaxxer beliefs as a result, we have understandably been hyper-focused on measles. The reason for that is mostly…
Not Just Measles: Anti-Vaxxers Have Produced 3 Infant Deaths From Pertussis
In all of our conversations surrounding RFK Jr.'s appointment to lead HHS and the legitimization of his anti-vaxxer beliefs as a result, we have understandably been hyper-focused on measles. The reason for that is mostly that this is as stark an example of just how stupid and horrible anti-vaccination misinformation is combined with the horror that is measles infections. This disease was essentially…
www.techdirt.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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“The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.
How an Air Purifier Can Make Your Art Event Safer
The Brooklyn collective A.I.R. loans out the devices under the tenet that “illness need not be the price of living in community or participating in the arts.”
hyperallergic.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Did BART address disability access in rolling out its new gates?  @SFBART @BikeEastBay @SFBike oaklandside.org/2025/11/17/b...
Did BART address disability access in rolling out its new gates?
Card readers on only one side, gates that are slow to open — an accessibility task force raised multiple concerns, but BART didn’t always listen.
oaklandside.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Conde Nast fired her last week.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Hey folks,

I just had to renew my health insurance and I’ve got to pay my car registration this month—all while I’ve finally got the big move to a permanent new home underway. I could use about $300 so I don’t get overdrawn in a few days. See the post below if you can help. Many thanks.
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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great work from disabled folks and organisations in queensland - this is the result of years of work. now to have disability-inclusive disaster planning from agencies

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Uncle Willie was evacuated twice during a flood. Now, he's prepared
More than 80 per cent of Queenslanders with a disability have a plan to stay safe during disasters, a report finds.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
that 5th heart couldnt get past 84 huh. i wonder which 4 other people on the transplant list all those years ago could have been given extension to their non-evil lives. cheney got public paid healthcare we could only dream of.
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Winter time has dawned. The dogs are demanding to be under the blankets officially. I will report when they thaw for Spring
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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they found a turning point usa / patriot front guy
NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/
October 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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People with experience: please give food banks *money.* They can make it go much further than you can.

Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma.

Shopper 2: did you say canned beets?

“Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like
I’m going to need well to do people to remember that unhoused people, disabled and sick people, recovering people, survivors, etc are not feel-good or learning opportunities for your kids. They’re not traditions for the holidays. They are people, and if you can’t treat them that way, stay away.
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Boys (Thirsty Boys)
October 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i find something to watch on Tubi not even thinking about justin long and 7/10 times its a justin long movie
(horror heavy watcher lol)
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Federal agents raided the WRONG HOME in Portland—no warrant, guns drawn on a family with a baby. ICE still arrested 2 people after realizing the mistake. ICE official on the aggressive tactics: "If people interpret that as aggressive, so be it."
ICE official defends agency's tactics amid fallout from raid on wrong home in Portland, Oregon
In footage shared widely on social media last week, federal immigration agents​ were seen breaking into a home Portland, Oregon — but the person they were looking for doesn't live there.
www.cbsnews.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM