Certified Calamity
@purpleturtle23.bsky.social
Learning to live with Long COVID while watching the Empire fall. Currently living off spite and my ADHD sense of justice. Determined to be good trouble. Oh, I love dogs.
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Exclusive: Zohran Mamdani reacts to Eric Adams dropping out of the New York mayoral race. "I think it's very much the same race," he says, criticizing attempts by President Trump and other outsiders to affect the election.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/28/zohran_mamdani_eric_adams_nyc_mayoral
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/28/zohran_mamdani_eric_adams_nyc_mayoral
September 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Exclusive: Zohran Mamdani reacts to Eric Adams dropping out of the New York mayoral race. "I think it's very much the same race," he says, criticizing attempts by President Trump and other outsiders to affect the election.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/28/zohran_mamdani_eric_adams_nyc_mayoral
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/28/zohran_mamdani_eric_adams_nyc_mayoral
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Great job from Violet Affleck!
“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Great job from Violet Affleck!
Where are all of those mediocre white male comedians who bitched about cancel culture for a decade? Too afraid to speak up for one of your own?
Or is it only bad when you’re held accountable for hurting women and marginalized communities and good when a federal government does it?
Or is it only bad when you’re held accountable for hurting women and marginalized communities and good when a federal government does it?
September 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Where are all of those mediocre white male comedians who bitched about cancel culture for a decade? Too afraid to speak up for one of your own?
Or is it only bad when you’re held accountable for hurting women and marginalized communities and good when a federal government does it?
Or is it only bad when you’re held accountable for hurting women and marginalized communities and good when a federal government does it?
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
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Mass deportation is political violence. Drone-bombing a civilian ship is political violence. Funding genocide is political violence. Eugenic healthcare policy is political violence.
I hope everyone saying today that political violence has no place in the US is working to stop all of those things.
I hope everyone saying today that political violence has no place in the US is working to stop all of those things.
September 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Mass deportation is political violence. Drone-bombing a civilian ship is political violence. Funding genocide is political violence. Eugenic healthcare policy is political violence.
I hope everyone saying today that political violence has no place in the US is working to stop all of those things.
I hope everyone saying today that political violence has no place in the US is working to stop all of those things.
I’m almost positive that 80% of these people condemning the apathy of Kirk’s death have NEVER heard the vitriol that came out of his mouth….
September 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’m almost positive that 80% of these people condemning the apathy of Kirk’s death have NEVER heard the vitriol that came out of his mouth….
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One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new.
They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.
It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.
It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
August 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new.
They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.
It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.
It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
Having one of those rare days where my brain and body are functioning AND they want to work and communicate with each other! Trying not to over do it….
September 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Having one of those rare days where my brain and body are functioning AND they want to work and communicate with each other! Trying not to over do it….
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I need to stay off Facebook.
I was just in a yard sale group telling someone they can’t use an ethnic slur for Travelers in their post talking about a scam they encountered. What in the hell goes on over there.
Oh well I sent screen shots to his Teacher wife 🤷🏻♀️
I was just in a yard sale group telling someone they can’t use an ethnic slur for Travelers in their post talking about a scam they encountered. What in the hell goes on over there.
Oh well I sent screen shots to his Teacher wife 🤷🏻♀️
September 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I need to stay off Facebook.
I was just in a yard sale group telling someone they can’t use an ethnic slur for Travelers in their post talking about a scam they encountered. What in the hell goes on over there.
Oh well I sent screen shots to his Teacher wife 🤷🏻♀️
I was just in a yard sale group telling someone they can’t use an ethnic slur for Travelers in their post talking about a scam they encountered. What in the hell goes on over there.
Oh well I sent screen shots to his Teacher wife 🤷🏻♀️
My mom and I are going in a road trip next week, any audiobook recommendations? We both just read “Someday” by Jackie French Koller a novel based in a 1930’s MA town being decommissioned for the Quabbin Reservoir and really liked it.
Any historical fiction recommendations welcome!
Any historical fiction recommendations welcome!
September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My mom and I are going in a road trip next week, any audiobook recommendations? We both just read “Someday” by Jackie French Koller a novel based in a 1930’s MA town being decommissioned for the Quabbin Reservoir and really liked it.
Any historical fiction recommendations welcome!
Any historical fiction recommendations welcome!
There is something about Cape Cod that heals my soul.
August 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There is something about Cape Cod that heals my soul.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
August 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Starting the experimental Nicotine Patch protocol for my Long Covid today.
Anyone else tried it? Tips and tricks?
Anyone else tried it? Tips and tricks?
May 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Starting the experimental Nicotine Patch protocol for my Long Covid today.
Anyone else tried it? Tips and tricks?
Anyone else tried it? Tips and tricks?
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
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When you’re chronically ill, your baseline is everything. Managing it can be a full time job.
Non disabled people can’t understand how hard we work to ration energy, avoid infections & minimize setbacks.
Even when you do everything “right”, progress can be wiped out in an instant 🧵
Non disabled people can’t understand how hard we work to ration energy, avoid infections & minimize setbacks.
Even when you do everything “right”, progress can be wiped out in an instant 🧵
February 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
When you’re chronically ill, your baseline is everything. Managing it can be a full time job.
Non disabled people can’t understand how hard we work to ration energy, avoid infections & minimize setbacks.
Even when you do everything “right”, progress can be wiped out in an instant 🧵
Non disabled people can’t understand how hard we work to ration energy, avoid infections & minimize setbacks.
Even when you do everything “right”, progress can be wiped out in an instant 🧵
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Reminder that protecting each other from illness and potential disability/death when the people in charge actively want us dead is actually punk as fuck.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
February 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reminder that protecting each other from illness and potential disability/death when the people in charge actively want us dead is actually punk as fuck.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
I don’t know if it’s the WORST part of chronic illness… but losing friends you thought were in it for life, has to be one of the hardest.
February 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I don’t know if it’s the WORST part of chronic illness… but losing friends you thought were in it for life, has to be one of the hardest.
Hey so everyone gloating to Arab American that Trump is going to continue the genocide- You’re 100% victim blaming.
It’s absolutely disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Go after those WHO ACTIVELY allowed this to happen- ya know the Dems who REFUSED to listen to their constituents.
It’s absolutely disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Go after those WHO ACTIVELY allowed this to happen- ya know the Dems who REFUSED to listen to their constituents.
February 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hey so everyone gloating to Arab American that Trump is going to continue the genocide- You’re 100% victim blaming.
It’s absolutely disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Go after those WHO ACTIVELY allowed this to happen- ya know the Dems who REFUSED to listen to their constituents.
It’s absolutely disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Go after those WHO ACTIVELY allowed this to happen- ya know the Dems who REFUSED to listen to their constituents.
I am struggling today.
I am terrified I will not survive this political climate.
Everything in my body is screaming to GTFO, but how? Where to? How can I convince my parents- who I am now 100% reliant on?
They didn’t come for the communists first… they came for this disabled…
I am terrified I will not survive this political climate.
Everything in my body is screaming to GTFO, but how? Where to? How can I convince my parents- who I am now 100% reliant on?
They didn’t come for the communists first… they came for this disabled…
February 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I am struggling today.
I am terrified I will not survive this political climate.
Everything in my body is screaming to GTFO, but how? Where to? How can I convince my parents- who I am now 100% reliant on?
They didn’t come for the communists first… they came for this disabled…
I am terrified I will not survive this political climate.
Everything in my body is screaming to GTFO, but how? Where to? How can I convince my parents- who I am now 100% reliant on?
They didn’t come for the communists first… they came for this disabled…
Little tip if you’re feeling the existential dread of the world:
Go watch some Queer Eye. It will remind you that good, loving people exist.
It will also make you unconsciously smile- which scientifically helps you feel better!
Go watch some Queer Eye. It will remind you that good, loving people exist.
It will also make you unconsciously smile- which scientifically helps you feel better!
January 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Little tip if you’re feeling the existential dread of the world:
Go watch some Queer Eye. It will remind you that good, loving people exist.
It will also make you unconsciously smile- which scientifically helps you feel better!
Go watch some Queer Eye. It will remind you that good, loving people exist.
It will also make you unconsciously smile- which scientifically helps you feel better!
Any other Long Covid sufferers have days where their brain feels almost back to normal? You get this burst if energy and try to make good use of it.
Then it hits you- how much you have lost in your everyday. How “dumb” you feel most of the time now.
I miss myself sometimes.
Then it hits you- how much you have lost in your everyday. How “dumb” you feel most of the time now.
I miss myself sometimes.
January 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Any other Long Covid sufferers have days where their brain feels almost back to normal? You get this burst if energy and try to make good use of it.
Then it hits you- how much you have lost in your everyday. How “dumb” you feel most of the time now.
I miss myself sometimes.
Then it hits you- how much you have lost in your everyday. How “dumb” you feel most of the time now.
I miss myself sometimes.
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"First, they came for the trans people, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem." - Artur Wawrowski
January 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"First, they came for the trans people, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem." - Artur Wawrowski