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Tori the Determined (they/she)@cymbrygirl.bsky.social |
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Late 30s. Broken inside and out (EDS/MCAS/autist/cPTSD). Loves most sci-fi and fantasy.
Cover: A comic of lemmings jumping off a cliff making fun of sheep wearing masks.
Photo: A white femme (#NotAWoman) wearing a pink sunscreen hoodie and black sha
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Gravel Influencer
@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
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At the risk of posting something stupefyingly obvious: If you're among those canceling a New York Times or Washington Post subscription, I guarantee you have a great nonprofit media outlet or local paper in your area that could use some revenue. And that coverage is absolutely vital right now.
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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
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A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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War is a mass disabling event and any approach to disability justice should demand an end to war and a free Palestine, full stop.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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It's so weird. Like... some reclaimed Crip, but that's about it. I'm always saying shit like "I'm broken" or "my brain is messed up." I mean... these are objective facts lol.
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)
@plutopsyche.nicomaramckay.com
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Alt text will be provided for you when you include the tag "Alt4Me." Everyone deserves accessibility.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Tbh as an autist, I saw a little of that this time now that I know the less "mainstream" presentations.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Gonna keep saying this & will die on this hill: Bad news without any guidance on what to do about it [at least some ideas] demobilizes and often encourages inaction. We on the Left(s) have to avoid cynicism which is deeply corrosive and also counterrevolutionary.
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Anna Merlan
@annamerlan.bsky.social
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TODAY: join us in defending the Internet Archive and protecting libraries!! An important appellate hearing is happening this morning, which you can read all about at the link below. And if you’re in New York and you spot our wheatpaste, please snap a photo and share. www.battleforlibraries.com
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Corey Brickley Illustration
@coreybrickley.bsky.social
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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Given that 2024 was supposed to be the year of the Bell Riots, and looking at mass layoffs and unethical uses of AI to replace jobs that SHOULD NOT be using AI, this convinces me that the Bell Riots will still happen...but that we need more time to get to Sanctuary Districts first.
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Margarita Noriega
@margarita.bsky.social
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Re: Chevron, from the lobbying group that contributed most to the American student loan debt crisis
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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hope everyone enjoys the next two to ten years or so of chaos until the supreme court invents chevron deference again
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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For the entirety of this century, Democrats have been naive institutionalists while Republicans have been destructionists. Institutions cannot save you if they do not exist. Conservatives are trying to kill us while liberals are still bitching about following the norms.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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definitely not in team "ditch biden" but 10000% team "fire your comms director tomorrow"
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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New York City's libraries can't fix broken A/C during a heatwave, subways have halted making more stations accessible, but instead of trying to fix these critical problems, the Mayor is focused on a useless mask ban that doesn't improve safety, and in reality makes it worse.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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It depends on the type of media. It would have been erasure to not be on The Good Fight or New Amsterdam. Hell, even Superstore handled it quite well, and the main picture on Hulu is still of the cast in masks!
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Slavery times mindset*
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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They just love diagnosing ODD instead. Cuz when white boys get distracted or don't follow instructions, it's "boys being boys" but when others do it it's "opposition" or "defiance." Really wish we'd leave slavery times.
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Medusa’s Wink😉
@medusaswink.bsky.social
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If you ever experience something like this, take note that this doctor was willing to DIE rather than be called a “difficult patient” You make whatever noise you need to. Demand a second opinion, tell nurses, and by all means get the hospital’s risk management people involved. THAT will scare them.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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I feel like most philosophy programs were designed to create straw man argument and "well, actually" dude-bros.
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melissa~
@melissanarchy.bsky.social
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when it turns out the "transparent png" was actually not transparent and there was instead just a fake transparent checkered background on it
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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It's not quite the same level, but it's why I'm not in EDS support groups too. Plus, I got penalized for correcting someone sharing medical misinformation, which is...oof.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Yeah my computer monitor is at 1% permanently it's so bad.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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My spouse only got out of his depression when he got a great online community. He's met some in person (and they masked for me!). Meanwhile, his local "best friend" put me at risk of seizures multiple times, because he wanted to make copious noise in the bedroom next to ours at 1 am and later 🙃
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Yeah. I'm the kind of low vision with extreme photophobia, crap tracking (concussion made eyes do a ratcheting thing), and intense random blurring (Sjogrens). I use a dark high contrast theme on Windows and slight zoom on desktop. What I NEED on apps is less damn transparent BS and bigger shit.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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I could see this being beneficial to all controls tbh. I have spastic hands and the icon buttons here are too small 😭
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Not everyone benefits from screen magnification. I cannot with that able-splaining.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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The other one was worse though. She headed up check fraud, and all her reports kept sending me super sensitive client data, which I then had to report every time. It was so bad and such high risk that it got to the point where they let me switch to my nickname even though it was against policy lol.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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At one of my jobs, I was one of three Victoria Clarks. One of them made ID cards for new people at a building 1500 miles from me. I ALWAYS got pinged for access, and when I explained I wasn't the right person I'd get "Are you sure?"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Use generative "AI" to spitball, hypothesize, overcome the tyranny of the blank page? I mean if the environmental costs weren't astronomical & the training corpra weren't largely stolen, then yeah, sure. Use it for facts? Knowledge? To fully *Replace* thought, feeling, & creativity? Absolutely not.
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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
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OH MY GOD. “In fact, hair relaxers marketed to children in the United States have been found to contain the highest levels of five of the chemicals prohibited in the European Union.”
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Autistic Adam
@autisticadam.bsky.social
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Being autistic is just existing and then getting punished repeatedly for doing it wrong with no clear explanation as to what exactly you’re doing wrong. Or when someone disagrees with what your saying so you must be wrong. That's autistic life for you.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Y'all may laugh now but I'm telling you, theres a magic about this US cricket team and you won't be laughing when they make a Hollywood summer blockbuster in a couple years about this tournament with Scarlett Johansson as Saurabh Netravalkar
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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It isn't taken away with SSDI only SSI, but the only way to get SSDI is work credits, which I still think is just some weird dystopian shit. I can only be disabled and married if I've worked first?! That's not how disability works.
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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“It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to train these models…So there is deep pressure from companies — that are basically promising God and delivering email prompts — to make some return on investment in this technology."
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Noor ☭ Mothsama Boat Laden
@mothramissworld.bsky.social
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A lot of talk about what/who does/doesn’t belong at pride, but i can promise yall that regardless of who shows up covid WILL be there, so if/when ur going can u at least fucking mask up & (especially) demand mask requirements from local orgs before arguing over who pride is for.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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The variance is among the wider medical community, not really among epidemiologists. You would know this if you were reading up instead of arguing vapidly just to cause the exact conflict you're claiming will happen. (Spoiler alert: You're officially part of the problem.)
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Pretty sure epidemiologists would disagree with you there.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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It should be situational. "Always mask at superspreader events," "always mask in healthcare settings," and "always mask if you're coughing" were always good praxis.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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I'm so curious who this person is, cuz I blocked them lol.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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I've heard that dream analysis it represents uncertainty and I just *gestures at the world*.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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I've been making Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, but I also finally splurged and got air purifiers for bedrooms. The air flow just doesn't get past all the doors and hallways.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Literally bare minimum is advanced filtration, and that's good for our climate disaster too.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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This is what happens when you don't user test 🫠
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Kim Hu
@kimhu.bsky.social
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I feel people need to remember that Meta will very very likely absolutely NOT honor your opt-out requests, even if they are accepted. There has been similar events in the past, and they always preferred to sit it out and/or pay penalties instead. Be careful what you post to their apps in the future.
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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If Linux were an adequate option for most, Windows, Google, and Apple wouldn't be the monopolies they are. 🐸🍵
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
@cymbrygirl.bsky.social
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Woof glad I never went to Mastodon. My new work laptop has Windows 11, and I've been trying to use the new Voice Access while I wait for Dragon to be installed...and it's the absolute worst!! I don't like Windows Speech Recognition much, but it's wild they're removing it without fixing Voice Access.
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Robin (she/he-ella/él)
@merryrobin.bsky.social
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Wikipedia is not a reliable source for Indigenous history.
It’s hard to find good, critical coverage on Wikipedia’s issues and this piece is one of them, pointing at its racist and colonialist core 🔥
slate.com/technology/2...
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Matthew Cortland (they)
@matthewcort.land
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You now shouldn't have to pay more than $35 out-of-pocket for any inhaler made by either Astra Zeneca or Boehringer Ingelheim. This is a direct result of the Senate Democratic Majority – Senate Dems control the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension committee.
www.patreon.com/posts/starti...
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