Camille Buckner

Great 🧵. I appreciate the optimism (paired with realism) and think it’s key. The doom and gloom can overwhelm ppl and inhibit action.

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Pro birth

In honour of Long Covid Awareness Month, here are 2 asks for fellow Blueskyers

1. Wear an N95 in public to reduce transmission & in solidarity with the millions living with Long Covid

2. Please stand up to large accounts that minimize this illness & who dunk on disabled folks

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March is International Long Covid Awareness Month. I have #LongCovid & haven’t had the luxury of feeling well for a single day since 3/19/2020. That’s 2,173 days of sick.

Health is a precious resource. Protect yourself & those around you. #CovidIsNotOver #StopTheSpread #MaskUp #VaxUp #CleanTheAir

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

As Veterans, we have not forgotten and will fight to stop another gen. of lives from being destroyed by corrupt politicians who don’t care about the price the rest of us pay while they languish in their gilded offices. If you’re a Vet & agree, join us bit.ly/vafmeeting /4

Things people with chronic illness wish you knew (but are too tired to explain) I'm not lazy—I'm exhausted. I cancel plans because I have to, not because I want to. Rest isn't a luxury—it's a survival strategy. I'm grieving the life I used to have. Being told to "just push through" makes it worse. I want to feel better more than anyone else. You don’t have to understand it fully—just believe me when I say it’s real. cfshealth

7. Time and time again, the New York Times spikes the ball on transgender people. The paper has become a central source of misinformation on this issue, repeatedly publishing articles built on falsehoods about trans people, our care, and the medical guidelines that govern it.

#MECFS is such a punishing & invisible illness which has nothing to do with fatigue. It’s a neuro-immuno-MEtabolic systemic dysfunction. It takes so much fortitude, endurance and courage to survive 24/7 on the edge of an abyss. We #PwME are reverse marathoners.

Liberation Toolbox by YK Hong Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice for our expansive world

FUN FACT:

If no one uses OpenAI, OpenAI dies.

The same goes for many Big Tech corporations and their platforms.

We are the ones that set the expiration dates.

Tell your friends.
Tell everyone you know.

If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.

Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment

Many disabled and chronically ill people are demonized for not working full-time jobs, when the truth is they can be forced out due to inaccessible policies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Celebrating Black military service is not “DEI woke shit.” It’s essential to America’s defense. The Trump administration has sullied the legacy of soldiers our nation relies on.

In the Army, nearly a quarter of all active-duty enlisted personnel are Black, and Black women make up 36 percent of all enlisted women.

Against this backdrop, it is important to recognize individual stories of Black valor and sacrifice.

CAKE, I love ya, but your messages would reach more people if you used alt text

I don't know how you can honestly look at the last 7 years of thousands of anti-trans bills, a billion in anti-trans spending, laser focus by right wing think tanks, and billionaires personally engaged in the effort and think that all of this is a backlash to some trans people being mean online.

I think Andrew’s level of depravity rots him from the inside out.

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published Feb. 2025)

May it be the first of many!

Hospitals are killing people with unnecessary infections because their internal politics are more important than patients' lives. Make negligent IPAC leaders pay a price - in money, but also loss of licensure and public humiliation - and the deaths will stop overnight.

More of this. More lawsuits. Larger penalties. Money talks and it’s the only thing that motivates some people. It should be otherwise with public health officials but alas.

Yeah. WHAT. Incorrect.

Evidence:

Richard Buckner- Here
The Gourds- Gin & Juice
Vic Chesnutt- Buckets of Rain
Cake- I Will Survive
Gnarls Barkley- Gone Daddy Gone
Norah Jones- Cold Cold Heart
Hansard & Irglova- Into the Mystic
Obadiah Parker- Hey Ya
Garbage- Kick My Ass

Shall I go on?

💯! Was coming here to say this.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

I feel your pain. We had a similar experience this past October. Tested positive for 14 days. My first infection in March 2020 wrecked me and we try so hard keep SARS2 at bay. I figure having 2 infections in 6 years is much better than it could have been. Still devastating tho

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Yes. Same goes for indoor air. #CovidIsAirborne #CleanTheAir

Excellent 🧵 about the moral & legal bankruptcy of ICE abductions. A must-read.

This is life & death. Do not look away.

Thank immigration lawyers.

Donate, if able:

Immigrant Law Center of MN: www.ilcm.org/donate/

Or search your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)