Sid
@swampgoth.bsky.social
They/it/he
disabled / ancom / trans enby / artist
1312, terfs eat dirt, wear a mask
disabled / ancom / trans enby / artist
1312, terfs eat dirt, wear a mask
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Pay editors.
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
I will never use AI for my covers, editing, translation, or anything else. It is not only useless to me as an author, it is actively hostile and harms every skill related to book production.
If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.
If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pay editors.
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
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While the flowers of Fringe Lilies (Thysanotus sp.) are usually a beautiful deep purple colour, occasionally you can spot a Fringe Lily with flowers in other stunning colours 💜🤍🩶🩷
These were flowering today in the Perth Hills
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomsrolling #nature #inaturalist
These were flowering today in the Perth Hills
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomsrolling #nature #inaturalist
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
While the flowers of Fringe Lilies (Thysanotus sp.) are usually a beautiful deep purple colour, occasionally you can spot a Fringe Lily with flowers in other stunning colours 💜🤍🩶🩷
These were flowering today in the Perth Hills
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomsrolling #nature #inaturalist
These were flowering today in the Perth Hills
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomsrolling #nature #inaturalist
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Today is Dysautonomia Awareness Day.
This condition has been devastating to live with.
It’s so much more than “just fainting”
When your autonomic nervous system doesn’t work, you get issues with your heart rate, breathing, temperature, digestion, respirations & more.
This condition has been devastating to live with.
It’s so much more than “just fainting”
When your autonomic nervous system doesn’t work, you get issues with your heart rate, breathing, temperature, digestion, respirations & more.
October 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Today is Dysautonomia Awareness Day.
This condition has been devastating to live with.
It’s so much more than “just fainting”
When your autonomic nervous system doesn’t work, you get issues with your heart rate, breathing, temperature, digestion, respirations & more.
This condition has been devastating to live with.
It’s so much more than “just fainting”
When your autonomic nervous system doesn’t work, you get issues with your heart rate, breathing, temperature, digestion, respirations & more.
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SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
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I told you I had a new vintage photo to show you if you hit the fundraising goal, so here it is! Meet Mr. Big. New photo in my collection, no date/info. 🖤
October 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I told you I had a new vintage photo to show you if you hit the fundraising goal, so here it is! Meet Mr. Big. New photo in my collection, no date/info. 🖤
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No.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
No.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".
It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.
And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
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Showing off the magnificent chublet. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
October 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Showing off the magnificent chublet. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
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"Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCOVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found":
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...
"Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCOVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found":
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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"Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCOVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found":
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...
"Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCOVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found":
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...
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The #DisabledJoy hashtag was started in March 2018 by Andrew Farkash on Twitter.
It's quickly evolved as a disability concept created for and by the disabled community.
As such, we want to celebrate Disabled Joy as a part of Disability month which is October.
#ChronicLoaf #Criptober
It's quickly evolved as a disability concept created for and by the disabled community.
As such, we want to celebrate Disabled Joy as a part of Disability month which is October.
#ChronicLoaf #Criptober
October 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The #DisabledJoy hashtag was started in March 2018 by Andrew Farkash on Twitter.
It's quickly evolved as a disability concept created for and by the disabled community.
As such, we want to celebrate Disabled Joy as a part of Disability month which is October.
#ChronicLoaf #Criptober
It's quickly evolved as a disability concept created for and by the disabled community.
As such, we want to celebrate Disabled Joy as a part of Disability month which is October.
#ChronicLoaf #Criptober
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This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
Breaking: Donald Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals from October 1
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
www.abc.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.
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This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.
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#Recall
#Cinnamon
"460 cases of reported lead poisoning in children after they had eaten apple sauce. Quickly discovered it was the cinnamon in the apple purée that caused the lead and chromium poisoning."
Product identification included in article.
www.allrecipes.com/fda-lead-war...
#Cinnamon
"460 cases of reported lead poisoning in children after they had eaten apple sauce. Quickly discovered it was the cinnamon in the apple purée that caused the lead and chromium poisoning."
Product identification included in article.
www.allrecipes.com/fda-lead-war...
The FDA Just Announced More Ground Cinnamon Products With Lead Contamination
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has discovered more ground cinnamon products containing elevated lead levels, which are deemed unsafe. Here's the updated list.
www.allrecipes.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#Recall
#Cinnamon
"460 cases of reported lead poisoning in children after they had eaten apple sauce. Quickly discovered it was the cinnamon in the apple purée that caused the lead and chromium poisoning."
Product identification included in article.
www.allrecipes.com/fda-lead-war...
#Cinnamon
"460 cases of reported lead poisoning in children after they had eaten apple sauce. Quickly discovered it was the cinnamon in the apple purée that caused the lead and chromium poisoning."
Product identification included in article.
www.allrecipes.com/fda-lead-war...
If you havent started yet, NOW is the time to make sure you + your people have ALL your vaccines. Get your childhood vaccine records & fill in whats missing or has been added since you were a kid. Need help affording them? Look up your area + free clinic, call the health dept, goodRx has vax coupons
A vaccine panel just tabled a vote that would have delayed universal use of the Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. For now, nothing has changed on use of the vaccine, which is safe and credited with saving lives. But how did we get here? My latest for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/09/hepa...
How the newborn hepatitis B vaccine landed in MAHA’s crosshairs
A panel handpicked by RFK Jr. just tabled a vote to delay use of the hep B vaccine at birth. The debate shows how these early decisions on behalf of a newborn can be used as a litmus test of fitness f...
19thnews.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you havent started yet, NOW is the time to make sure you + your people have ALL your vaccines. Get your childhood vaccine records & fill in whats missing or has been added since you were a kid. Need help affording them? Look up your area + free clinic, call the health dept, goodRx has vax coupons
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it’s never been more apparent that right wants to demonize masks and it’s working bc the majority of folks aren’t working to neutralize these threats. bc neutralizing them means normalizing them. wearing masks in your daily life. 5/5
September 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
it’s never been more apparent that right wants to demonize masks and it’s working bc the majority of folks aren’t working to neutralize these threats. bc neutralizing them means normalizing them. wearing masks in your daily life. 5/5
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"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
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Hey y’all, Amihan is a wonderful BIPOC performer, artist and all around creative soul. If you have any video editing or artistic work, or can help hymn out with #mutualaid, please do.
I feel really unseen currently. I don't know if folks see my posts, but I'm disabled, I don't make enough with my current job to survive, and my situation is becoming more dangerous in the current climate.
I'm doing everything I can, but I cannot survive without help.
💠 ko-fi.com/therosecleric
I'm doing everything I can, but I cannot survive without help.
💠 ko-fi.com/therosecleric
September 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hey y’all, Amihan is a wonderful BIPOC performer, artist and all around creative soul. If you have any video editing or artistic work, or can help hymn out with #mutualaid, please do.
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Extraordinary and alarming that vaccines are perhaps the most polarizing topic that threatens the strength of the union.
September 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Extraordinary and alarming that vaccines are perhaps the most polarizing topic that threatens the strength of the union.
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Some parts of society have always tried to downplay diseases. History has almost always proven them wrong.
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Some parts of society have always tried to downplay diseases. History has almost always proven them wrong.
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I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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i'm not asking ya'll to mask up everywhere. but can you at least mask up in places that ill and disabled folks *have* to go to? grocery stores? pharmacies? appointments? government appointments? keep some masks in your car. keep a couple in your backpack.
"I don’t know how to convince everyone that we can’t give up. So many people consider COVID to be endemic, or accept that everyone will eventually become infected, thinking nothing more can be done... but I know a better world is possible and we will move forward together."
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
i'm not asking ya'll to mask up everywhere. but can you at least mask up in places that ill and disabled folks *have* to go to? grocery stores? pharmacies? appointments? government appointments? keep some masks in your car. keep a couple in your backpack.