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Worth reading

Landslide; a ghost story

wrecka.ge · Dec 23

On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.

Shared by @bitswamp and 56 others.
Andy Jackson (@anj) · Dec 24
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Giles (@gilesdring) · Dec 23
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

skry (@skry) · Dec 24
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Dec 24
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

icy (@otterly_icy) · Dec 24
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Clive Thompson (@clive) · Dec 24
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Tyler Sticka (@tylersticka) · Dec 24
🔁 @beep:

> There is a spooky power in having things *by heart*; knitting knowledge well into our minds changes us. As a beloved friend noted when I was rat-scrabbling around the edges of these ideas, to learn something well is to make friends with it—or to be in relationship with it, at least. Ghostly index cards in the brain referring out to the slurry are better than nothing, but I want more and I want it for everyone else, too.

@kissane, wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Ulrike Hahn (@UlrikeHahn) · Dec 24
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Dec 24
🔁 @kissane:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Worth reading

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

404media.co · Dec 24

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

Shared by @jkohlmann and 41 others.
COMPU73E ❄️ (@COMPU73E) · Dec 24
🔁 @404mediaco:

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

404media.co/why-i-quit-streami

Christof Damian 💙💛 (@cdamian) · Dec 24
🔁 @404mediaco:

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

404media.co/why-i-quit-streami

peter honeyman (@peterhoneyman) · Dec 25
🔁 @404mediaco:

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

404media.co/why-i-quit-streami

Dilman Dila (@dilmandila) · Dec 24
🔁 @killyourfm:

"Artists are tired of tech platforms that pay them virtually nothing, owned by degenerate billionaires that see all human creativity as interchangeable aesthetic wallpaper, valued only for its ability to make numbers go up. Everywhere I go, people are exhausted by the never-ending scroll, desperately wanting to reconnect with something real."

404media.co/why-i-quit-streami

Compassionate Crab (@Compassionatecrab) · Dec 24
🔁 @404mediaco:

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

404media.co/why-i-quit-streami

Faraiwe (@faraiwe) · Dec 24
🔁 @killyourfm:

"Artists are tired of tech platforms that pay them virtually nothing, owned by degenerate billionaires that see all human creativity as interchangeable aesthetic wallpaper, valued only for its ability to make numbers go up. Everywhere I go, people are exhausted by the never-ending scroll, desperately wanting to reconnect with something real."

404media.co/why-i-quit-streami

Why Leisure Time is an Act of Radical Feminist Resistance

thepersistent.com · Dec 24

In a world where a woman’s work is never done, perhaps the biggest form of rebellion is taking time for ourselves.

Shared by @Binder and 26 others.
samiamsam (@samiamsam) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Ducky 🇨🇦 (@ducky) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Eye (@grb090423) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Shaula Evans (@ShaulaEvans) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Brian Kerr (@chrkrhc) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

skry (@skry) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Sci-Fi Girl (@5ciFiGirl) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Bernie Merrily Does It (@BernieDoesIt) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 (@vaurora) · Dec 24
🔁 @amydiehl:

Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. thepersistent.com/women-leisur

Worth reading

Russia incinerates birthplace of famous Christmas song

counteroffensive.news · Dec 23

While much of the world sings the iconic ‘Carol of the Bells’ melody this holiday season, the tune’s birthplace is slowly being erased by Russia. Oleksandr, a priest, witnessed this destruction firsth

Shared by @ZhiZhu and 28 others.
John Burns *We Ain't Buying It (@JohnJBurnsIII) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Anny is antifa la la la la (@annyr) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Dec 24
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Aslak Raanes (@aslakr) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Faraiwe (@faraiwe) · Dec 24
🔁 @timkmak:

You can also find our latest story about Russia destroying the first place of the famous Christmas song, " Carol of the Bells," there. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

almondtree (@almondtree) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

hypebot (@hypebot) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (@osma) · Dec 23
🔁 @timkmak:

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.

That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. counteroffensive.news/p/russia

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here

newrepublic.com · Dec 24

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

Shared by @samiamsam and 25 others.
The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Dec 24
🔁 @heidilifeldman:

This long-read synthesizes the Republican Fascist lawless terror operations in the U.S. so far, and what is coming. Even if you have been following, worth your time as seeing it reported in one place will alert and galvanize you anew. newrepublic.com/article/204227

GLC (@glc) · Dec 24
🔁 @heidilifeldman:

This long-read synthesizes the Republican Fascist lawless terror operations in the U.S. so far, and what is coming. Even if you have been following, worth your time as seeing it reported in one place will alert and galvanize you anew. newrepublic.com/article/204227

J.L.1285 :cangoose: (@CAWguy) · Dec 24
🔁 @heidilifeldman:

This long-read synthesizes the Republican Fascist lawless terror operations in the U.S. so far, and what is coming. Even if you have been following, worth your time as seeing it reported in one place will alert and galvanize you anew. newrepublic.com/article/204227

icy (@otterly_icy) · Dec 24
🔁 @heidilifeldman:

This long-read synthesizes the Republican Fascist lawless terror operations in the U.S. so far, and what is coming. Even if you have been following, worth your time as seeing it reported in one place will alert and galvanize you anew. newrepublic.com/article/204227

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) · Dec 24
🔁 @radleybalko.bsky.social:

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare:...

Chuck Darwin (@cdarwin) · Dec 25

Trump’s assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.
As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb of Franklin Park on his way to his job at a diner on the northwest side.
Villegas-Gonzalez had come to the United States in 2007 to flee the violence in his home state of Michoacán, Mexico
—violence wrought by the Mexican government’s militarization of its drug war, a policy encouraged and funded by the United States.
(In November, the mayor of the city of Uruapan was assassinated after calling for a crackdown on organized crime.)

Described by friends and co-workers as kind and soft-spoken,
Villegas-Gonzalez had two sons and met a woman from his hometown as he worked long hours in kitchens around the city.

After he dropped off his sons on the morning of September 12, two Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers approached the 38-year-old in his car.
He put the vehicle in reverse and attempted to flee. One officer continued to chase him on foot and eventually fired his weapon, striking Villegas-Gonzalez,
who crashed into a delivery truck and was pronounced dead an hour later.
Officials of the Department of Homeland Security would later say that Villegas-Gonzalez
“drove his car at law enforcement officers,”
a claim clearly refuted by surveillance video.
DHS also claimed the officer who killed Villegas-Gonzalez had been struck and dragged by the car and feared for his life.
That allegation is more difficult to confirm or refute—the officer is obscured by the car in the video.
The officer was later treated for “minor” injuries.

Villegas-Gonzalez had no criminal record.
Over eight years, he had only a series of traffic citations for offenses like a broken taillight and driving without insurance.
His most serious citation was for driving 30 miles per hour over the speed limit.
In its press release laying out the ICE agents’ version of events, DHS referred to him as
“a criminal illegal alien with a history of reckless driving.”
The release included the striking line, “The illegal alien was pronounced dead.”

In the weeks that followed, immigration agents continued to arrest parents and nannies as they dropped off and picked up children from school,
a tactic unheard of in prior administrations.

Videos posted to social media showed ICE and Border Patrol agents pointing their guns at unarmed protesters,
unnecessarily tackling children and elderly people,
and shutting down streets and intersections as they extracted people from their cars.
Agents tear-gassed entire neighborhoods, in some cases enveloping schools and even Chicago Police Department officers in clouds of chemical irritant.
Videos showed federal officers engaging in "Precision Immobilization Technique", or PIT, maneuvers to cut off fleeing vehicles,
a dangerous tactic banned or limited by the Chicago Police Department and many other police agencies in the country.
On at least three occasions, ICE officers violently pulled U.S. citizens from their cars and detained them,
claiming the drivers had deliberately crashed into agents
—despite video and witness accounts contradicting the officers’ narrative
newrepublic.com/article/204227

Grassroots Joe (@joeinwynnewood) · Dec 25
🔁 @radleybalko.bsky.social:

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare:...

Another Chronic Illness Christmas

disabledginger.com · Dec 24

When you're chronically ill, the holidays can be lonely. Feelings of guilt are common. A look at how to set boundaries, support other disabled people and a reminder that you're never alone.

Shared by @RandomCanuck and 23 others.
May is Seasonally Seasoned (@mayintoronto) · Dec 24
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu) · Dec 25
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Dec 25
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Peter Brown (@peterbrown) · Dec 25
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Dec 25
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

trending_bot (@trending_bot) · Dec 25
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Frans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻 (@apenkop) · Dec 24
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Disabled Voices Channel (@disabledvoices) · Dec 24
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Kevin Russell (@kevinrns) · Dec 25
🔁 @broadwaybabyto:

Social media generally slows down at the holidays. Why? Because people are celebrating and spending time with their families.

I’m not one of those people.

Why? Because I’m having another Chronic Illness Christmas.

When you’re disabled and chronically ill, the holidays hit different.

They’re lonely. Isolating. Exhausting.

As a result many of us are excluded and left on our own.

When I created The Disabled Ginger I wanted to build a community where everyone felt included.

I wanted to reach across the internet and connect people so they could always have someone to talk to. Someone who understood them. Someone who could make them feel a little less alone.

This Christmas that’s my wish for all of you… that you feel a little less alone.

That you find comfort and joy in the small things, whatever they may be.

If you’re healthy, please remember that not everyone is. That many people are suffering this Christmas and could use a kind word or a bit of love.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Thank you for spending another year with me.

disabledginger.com/p/another-c

#disability #chronicillness #ableism #holidays #loneliness #christmas #happyholidays #inclusion #accommodation

Gaza: The Reckoning

brunomacaes.substack.com · Dec 20

The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.

Shared by @Jesticulated and 14 others.
Kyle Memoir 🍉 (@f800gecko) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

GeofCox (@GeofCox) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Jes (@Jesticulated) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Court Cantrell does not comply (@courtcan) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Ned Hamson (@nedhamson1) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Kyle Montanio (@FantasticalEconomics) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Khrys (@Khrys) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Totts (@Geri) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn) · Dec 24
🔁 @junesim63:

"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaz

Worth reading

Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around | Larry Elliott

theguardian.com · Dec 24

Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Shared by @glynmoody and 5 others.
Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Dec 24
🔁 @ianbetteridge:

Yet another column on Britain's economic woes from Larry "Lexit" Elliot that manages not to mention the words "Brexit", "Europe", or "EU". Why would that be, Larry?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Annother (@Avonan) · Dec 24
🔁 @ianbetteridge:

Yet another column on Britain's economic woes from Larry "Lexit" Elliot that manages not to mention the words "Brexit", "Europe", or "EU". Why would that be, Larry?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

aljazeera.com · Dec 24

Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.

Shared by @harold and 7 others.
Harold Jarche (@harold) · Dec 24
🔁 @villebooks:

📰 Featured #oped -- Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

By Rev Munther Isaac

#palestine 🌴 🫒 🌟

When Western Christians forget that #bethlehem is real, they disconnect from their spiritual roots. And when they forget that Bethlehem is real, they also forget that the story of #christmas is real.

They forget that it unfolded among a people who lived under empire, who faced displacement, who longed for justice (...)"

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12

M.S. Bellows, Jr. (@msbellows) · Dec 24
🔁 @villebooks:

📰 Featured #oped -- Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

By Rev Munther Isaac

#palestine 🌴 🫒 🌟

When Western Christians forget that #bethlehem is real, they disconnect from their spiritual roots. And when they forget that Bethlehem is real, they also forget that the story of #christmas is real.

They forget that it unfolded among a people who lived under empire, who faced displacement, who longed for justice (...)"

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Dec 24
🔁 @villebooks:

📰 Featured #oped -- Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

By Rev Munther Isaac

#palestine 🌴 🫒 🌟

When Western Christians forget that #bethlehem is real, they disconnect from their spiritual roots. And when they forget that Bethlehem is real, they also forget that the story of #christmas is real.

They forget that it unfolded among a people who lived under empire, who faced displacement, who longed for justice (...)"

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12

broken_pipe (@broken_pipe) · Dec 24
🔁 @villebooks:

📰 Featured #oped -- Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

By Rev Munther Isaac

#palestine 🌴 🫒 🌟

When Western Christians forget that #bethlehem is real, they disconnect from their spiritual roots. And when they forget that Bethlehem is real, they also forget that the story of #christmas is real.

They forget that it unfolded among a people who lived under empire, who faced displacement, who longed for justice (...)"

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12

Andrew Henry (@AndrewHenry) · Dec 24
🔁 @villebooks:

📰 Featured #oped -- Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

By Rev Munther Isaac

#palestine 🌴 🫒 🌟

When Western Christians forget that #bethlehem is real, they disconnect from their spiritual roots. And when they forget that Bethlehem is real, they also forget that the story of #christmas is real.

They forget that it unfolded among a people who lived under empire, who faced displacement, who longed for justice (...)"

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12

VEGA (@vega) · Dec 24

Je suis athée, mais cet article d'un pasteur palestinien m'a touchée, car il rappelle la similarité entre la situation de naissance de celui que les chrétiens considéreront comme Jésus, et la situation actuelle des palestiniens.

lisez cet article, qui rappelle que noël n'est pas une histoire de nos pays développés, mais que c'est une histoire palestinienne.
Pensez y bien, vous qui allez vous rendre à la "messe de minuit".

extraits traduits:

"Même les paroles familières du chant de Noël "douce nuit" occultent la véritable nature de l'histoire : Jésus n'est pas né dans la sérénité, mais dans le tumulte.

Il est né sous occupation militaire, dans une famille déplacée par un décret impérial, dans une région vivant sous le joug de la violence. La Sainte Famille a été contrainte de fuir en tant que réfugiés car, selon le récit évangélique, les enfants de Bethléem ont été massacrés par un tyran craintif, déterminé à préserver son règne. Cela vous semble familier ?

En effet, Noël est une histoire d'empire, d'injustice et de vulnérabilité des gens ordinaires pris dans son sillage."
.................................................................................

"Pour les Palestiniens d'aujourd'hui, ce n'est pas seulement une question de théologie, c'est une expérience vécue. Lorsque nous lisons l'histoire de Noël, nous reconnaissons notre propre monde : le recensement qui a contraint Marie et Joseph à voyager ressemble aux permis, aux points de contrôle et aux contrôles bureaucratiques qui façonnent notre vie quotidienne aujourd'hui. La fuite de la Sainte Famille fait écho aux millions de réfugiés qui ont fui les guerres dans notre région. La violence d'Hérode fait écho à la violence que nous voyons autour de nous.

Noël est une histoire palestinienne par excellence."

Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.

Every December, much of the Christian world enters a familiar cycle of celebration: carols, lights, decorated trees, consumer frenzy and the warm imagery of a snowy night. In the United States and Europe, public discourse often speaks of “Western Christian values”

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12

#palestine
#jesus
#christianity
#christmas
#gaza
#christmasIsPalestinian

@palestine@lemmy.ml
@Palestine@masto.ai
@gazanotice

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