Em
@wordsbymj.bsky.social
Word maven, facilitator, ethical story hacker. Multiply disabled vegan empath. Agender. Atheist pagan. They/she. #GoodTrouble #CripCulture #FuckGatekeepers
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Harvest festivals centering gratitude & celebrating abundance are an ancient & widespread tradition that we should continue in the US. But not on this day. Today is a #NationalDayOfMourning for the historical & ongoing settler colonialist violence committed against #Indigenous peoples.
The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue
In truth, massacres, disease and American Indian tribal politics are what shaped the Pilgrim-Indian alliance at the root of the holiday
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Harvest festivals centering gratitude & celebrating abundance are an ancient & widespread tradition that we should continue in the US. But not on this day. Today is a #NationalDayOfMourning for the historical & ongoing settler colonialist violence committed against #Indigenous peoples.
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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As someone whose lungs are messed up from growing up in a working class industrial Detroit neighborhood, this makes my blood boil.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
As someone whose lungs are messed up from growing up in a working class industrial Detroit neighborhood, this makes my blood boil.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
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“Mr. Charlie, cracker, peckawood, hoojah, and so on—nice words and bitter. The stock is always increasing because as the whites get on to the old words we invent new ones.”
Banjo, Claude McKay, 1929
Banjo, Claude McKay, 1929
May 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Mr. Charlie, cracker, peckawood, hoojah, and so on—nice words and bitter. The stock is always increasing because as the whites get on to the old words we invent new ones.”
Banjo, Claude McKay, 1929
Banjo, Claude McKay, 1929
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For those who need it, I've updated my #Uplift feed:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
February 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
For those who need it, I've updated my #Uplift feed:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
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New teacher snitch line opened up. You know what to do. Spread it far and wide.
Doing my part 🫡
Doing my part 🫡
February 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
New teacher snitch line opened up. You know what to do. Spread it far and wide.
Doing my part 🫡
Doing my part 🫡
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“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
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Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
February 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
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A source that can be helpful and backs up everything Frances Elizabeth has noted.
nativegov.org/resources/te...
nativegov.org/resources/te...
Terminology Style Guide
This is a version of the style guide that Native Governance Center uses to guide our communications so we are respectful and consistent in talking about Native nations.
nativegov.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A source that can be helpful and backs up everything Frances Elizabeth has noted.
nativegov.org/resources/te...
nativegov.org/resources/te...
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Alrighty, so, since a lot of folx suddenly want to discuss Indigenous peoples a couple of reminders:
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Alrighty, so, since a lot of folx suddenly want to discuss Indigenous peoples a couple of reminders:
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
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Native people serve in the military at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group.
The Defense Department will not celebrate Native American Heritage month this year.
indianz.com/News/2025/02...
The Defense Department will not celebrate Native American Heritage month this year.
indianz.com/News/2025/02...
Department of Defense cancels National Native American Heritage Month
American Indians and Alaska Natives serve in the military at the highest rates per capita of any group but celebrations of their contributions are being erased by the Trump administration.
indianz.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Native people serve in the military at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group.
The Defense Department will not celebrate Native American Heritage month this year.
indianz.com/News/2025/02...
The Defense Department will not celebrate Native American Heritage month this year.
indianz.com/News/2025/02...
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Alt text serves as a lot of different purposes, too! All of which improve accessibility (for more than just people with vision-impairments).
I use it quite often to understand memes and read fine-print screenshots.
I use it quite often to understand memes and read fine-print screenshots.
November 14, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Alt text serves as a lot of different purposes, too! All of which improve accessibility (for more than just people with vision-impairments).
I use it quite often to understand memes and read fine-print screenshots.
I use it quite often to understand memes and read fine-print screenshots.
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you should be saving these locally if possible as links can easily be deleted.
browser > Ctrl + P > save as PDF
or download the DIY HRT webpages as PDF's from the internet archive
live website link: diyhrt.info
archive:
archive.org/details/the-...
browser > Ctrl + P > save as PDF
or download the DIY HRT webpages as PDF's from the internet archive
live website link: diyhrt.info
archive:
archive.org/details/the-...
The DIY HRT Directory
All the information you need to be informed on DIY Hormone Replacement Therapy
diyhrt.info
January 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
you should be saving these locally if possible as links can easily be deleted.
browser > Ctrl + P > save as PDF
or download the DIY HRT webpages as PDF's from the internet archive
live website link: diyhrt.info
archive:
archive.org/details/the-...
browser > Ctrl + P > save as PDF
or download the DIY HRT webpages as PDF's from the internet archive
live website link: diyhrt.info
archive:
archive.org/details/the-...
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
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A woman once suggested cornering her in an elevator at 4am and inviting her to your room wasn't a great way to make a good impression and now the CDC won't publish current bird flu spread warnings.
I gotta find a cliff face and carve WE REALLY DID THIS BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T SEXY LADIES IN THE BURGER ADDS AND GIRLS STARTED PLAYING VIDEO GAMES I SWEAR TO GOD IT'S WHAT HAPPENED in letters ten feet tall because no historian is going to believe it.
February 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A woman once suggested cornering her in an elevator at 4am and inviting her to your room wasn't a great way to make a good impression and now the CDC won't publish current bird flu spread warnings.
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It's always a good time to share this phenomenal TEDTalk by the late Stella Young. We are not your inspiration porn.
Good talk by Stella Young on the unexceptional nature of #disability. H/t @kitchencollective.bsky.social
#DisabilitySky
#DisabilitySky
I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young
YouTube video by TED
m.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It's always a good time to share this phenomenal TEDTalk by the late Stella Young. We are not your inspiration porn.
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Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
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Wow what’s that like, must be awful to find someone ripped off your hard work to make a buck
OpenAI reportedly claims it has evidence China’s DeepSeek ‘used its model’ to train AI chatbot – business live
OpenAI reportedly claims it has evidence China’s DeepSeek ‘used its model’ to train AI chatbot – business live
White House advisor David Sacks says there is ‘substantial evidence’ of DeepSeek using OpenAI technology
It’s a mixed opening for Europe’s stock markets. The FTSE 100 has dropped by a single point, but other indices have gained on Wednesday morning.…
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Wow what’s that like, must be awful to find someone ripped off your hard work to make a buck
Good talk by Stella Young on the unexceptional nature of #disability. H/t @kitchencollective.bsky.social
#DisabilitySky
#DisabilitySky
I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young
YouTube video by TED
m.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Good talk by Stella Young on the unexceptional nature of #disability. H/t @kitchencollective.bsky.social
#DisabilitySky
#DisabilitySky