Nancy Bird
@nancyinmke.bsky.social
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Nancy Bird
@nancyinmke.bsky.social
· Jan 30
This is why virtual options and mitigation protocols are needed for in-person events. This way, when someone requests this type of accommodation, it is not seen as “too much” or “difficult” but as a way to ensure accessibility. This is especially true for high-stakes in-person events.
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When we spoke in 2020, Alice Wong wondered if a million Covid deaths would drive Americans to care.
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
When we spoke in 2020, Alice Wong wondered if a million Covid deaths would drive Americans to care.
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.
To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
Winnie always looks so dramatic mid yawn 😻
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Winnie always looks so dramatic mid yawn 😻
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Deer in the forest | Ivan Generalic
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Speculative fiction: just escapism, or - at its best - a form of protest? What do you think?
Keep lifting up your voices and your stories!
#WisCon #WisCon26 #WomenInSFF #FeministConvention
Keep lifting up your voices and your stories!
#WisCon #WisCon26 #WomenInSFF #FeministConvention
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Speculative fiction: just escapism, or - at its best - a form of protest? What do you think?
Keep lifting up your voices and your stories!
#WisCon #WisCon26 #WomenInSFF #FeministConvention
Keep lifting up your voices and your stories!
#WisCon #WisCon26 #WomenInSFF #FeministConvention
Hope 💗
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hope 💗
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Disability rights advocate and writer Alice Wong has died at the age of 51. Watch our 2021 interview with Wong here: www.democracynow.org/2021/2/9/adv...
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Disability rights advocate and writer Alice Wong has died at the age of 51. Watch our 2021 interview with Wong here: www.democracynow.org/2021/2/9/adv...
It marked a before and after for us.
This 23-hour radar loop shows Category 5 Hurricane Maria approaching Puerto Rico on September 19-20, 2017. It made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane ~6am on the 20th, but right around that time, the winds in the outer eyewall obliterated the radar and the loop ends. Maria devasted the entire island
September 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It marked a before and after for us.
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“I’ve never seen this before—I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid."
Democratic leaders refuse to endorse Zohran Mamdani, and their voters are fed up.
Democratic leaders refuse to endorse Zohran Mamdani, and their voters are fed up.
Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani
"It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."
www.motherjones.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“I’ve never seen this before—I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid."
Democratic leaders refuse to endorse Zohran Mamdani, and their voters are fed up.
Democratic leaders refuse to endorse Zohran Mamdani, and their voters are fed up.
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It's funny how vaccines worked so well that now infant mortality is low enough for all the new generations to forget it was ever a common thing.
Vaccine stability has made us forget why it was so important in the first place.
Before vaccines, 450 children died out of every 1000. Now? 20.
Vaccine stability has made us forget why it was so important in the first place.
Before vaccines, 450 children died out of every 1000. Now? 20.
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It's funny how vaccines worked so well that now infant mortality is low enough for all the new generations to forget it was ever a common thing.
Vaccine stability has made us forget why it was so important in the first place.
Before vaccines, 450 children died out of every 1000. Now? 20.
Vaccine stability has made us forget why it was so important in the first place.
Before vaccines, 450 children died out of every 1000. Now? 20.
Milwaukee
Labor Day 2025
Labor Day 2025
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Milwaukee
Labor Day 2025
Labor Day 2025
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New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine
Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA
www.koat.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
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If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments on state property and expanding access to shelter and services. The State Acti…
ktla.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
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the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together”
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
August 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together”
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
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Vaccines are no different; just like seatbelts, airbags, and other medications, they are risk mitigation measures that we know are effective.
But we know NONE of these things are always effective.
Vaccines must be viewed the same.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/moving-the...
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But we know NONE of these things are always effective.
Vaccines must be viewed the same.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/moving-the...
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Moving the vaccine goalposts: sterilizing immunity was never the rule
Vaccines aren't magical forcefields, but anti-vaxxers keep inventing fake standards so they can claim “failure” of life-saving medicines.
news.immunologic.org
August 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Vaccines are no different; just like seatbelts, airbags, and other medications, they are risk mitigation measures that we know are effective.
But we know NONE of these things are always effective.
Vaccines must be viewed the same.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/moving-the...
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But we know NONE of these things are always effective.
Vaccines must be viewed the same.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/moving-the...
🧵
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Good morning to you too Yellowtail Damselfish 👀☀️🐟💎 #yellowtaildamsel #jeweldamsel #mrbrightside #sideeye #slowmo #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
August 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Good morning to you too Yellowtail Damselfish 👀☀️🐟💎 #yellowtaildamsel #jeweldamsel #mrbrightside #sideeye #slowmo #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump's anti-homeless crusade
Ugly laws: the blueprint for Trump's anti-homeless crusade
DC's crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.
www.motherjones.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump's anti-homeless crusade
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In case people think this is solely a JD Vance/GOP problem:
Gavin Newsom withheld funds from cities if they didn't throw unhoused folks' stuff out, and he personally went and threw some out himself
ktla.com/news/local-n...
Gavin Newsom withheld funds from cities if they didn't throw unhoused folks' stuff out, and he personally went and threw some out himself
ktla.com/news/local-n...
August 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In case people think this is solely a JD Vance/GOP problem:
Gavin Newsom withheld funds from cities if they didn't throw unhoused folks' stuff out, and he personally went and threw some out himself
ktla.com/news/local-n...
Gavin Newsom withheld funds from cities if they didn't throw unhoused folks' stuff out, and he personally went and threw some out himself
ktla.com/news/local-n...
The “mild” Covid infection is like a hurricane 🌀 whose eye didn’t touch land. Might not have experienced the worst of it, but effects are cumulative. If the immune system is already compromised/the infrastructure has been diminished, it’ll have negative effects for however long. #CovidSurge
a red heart wearing a face mask with the words wearing is caring written below it
Alt: a red heart wearing a face mask with the words wearing is caring written below it
media.tenor.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The “mild” Covid infection is like a hurricane 🌀 whose eye didn’t touch land. Might not have experienced the worst of it, but effects are cumulative. If the immune system is already compromised/the infrastructure has been diminished, it’ll have negative effects for however long. #CovidSurge
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and this is the guy some of you are busily, noisily pledging allegiance to three years early. ok.
August 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
and this is the guy some of you are busily, noisily pledging allegiance to three years early. ok.