Geechee, Bipolar, Bisexual, and still wanna be an astronaut when I grow up!
E/He/Him
Pfp: Shoulder up picture of me a Black man with glasses and beard. Dreadlocked hair shoulder length parted to the right partially covering the right lens of my glasses.
Remember that poem?
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller (his impromptu speeches sometimes included disabled people.)
Long Covid study finds SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can persist in the brain’s protective layers and skull’s bone marrow 4+ years after infection via binding to ACE2 receptors —
Plus mRNA COVID-19 vaccines significantly reduce spike protein buildup in the brain
“This includes accelerated brain aging, potentially leading to a loss of five to ten years of healthy brain function in affected individuals.”
https://scitechdaily.com/long-covid-breakthrough-spike-proteins-persist-in-brain-for-years/
Been thinking about queer communities and the inherent anti-blackness we need to exorcise. Here's some excellent books by queer Black authors that I read that discuss this and the intersection of Leftist politics and Disability:
* Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk: there's an open access link as well as a place to buy it on her site
* Anarcho-Blackness by Marquis Bey: AK Press has it, but it also exists in the Anarchist Library
* Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorten: Available here.
* Queer Necropolitics edited By Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, Silvia Posocco (See Chapter 9 for a direct discussion of queer and anti-blackness): Available here. Chapter 9 by itself is available here.
* Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: The focus is on Disability, but it also discusses the intersection of queer identity, fem identities, and impact of anti-blackness on the movement. Found here.
* Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies edited by Shuli Branson, Raven Hudson, and Bry Reed: there's a few chapters that covers the intersection of queerness and Blackness. Found here.
I'm sure there's plenty of others! Those are just the ones I read and recommend. I made sure to find ways to access them that is NOT Amazon.
Feel free to contribute to this list if y'all have read something pertinent to these topics.
Way to be #UnionStrong!
Remember to stand with your fellow workers!
Five more Amazon facilities authorize worker strikes
#Amazon #Strikes #Workers #Labor #Union #NewYork #Illinois #Tech
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?” https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/18/judith-butler-interview-el-pais-gender-trans/
Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism.
Luigi Mangione killed 1 CEO with the motivation to rebuke healthcare injustice—charged with terrorism.
Class warfare is when wealthy CEOs are a protected class but working Black people are not.
If you follow any trans people here you’ll probably see some posts about Trans Day of Remembrance today.
Like everyone, we all have special days we mark… birthdays, those of loved ones, anniversaries, graduation dates, first kiss, when we got a beloved pet.
But there are two days we in the trans community all mark.
One of them being Trans Day of Visibility in March and the other today, Trans Day of Remembrance. .
#TDoV is essentially: “Hey! Look at us. We really do exist.”
#TDoR is: “Please stop murdering us.”
There have been at least 30 trans and gender diverse people who have been killed this year. There have been too many trans people who have attempted suicide and so many who think about it constantly because local, state and federal governments actively and deliberately make it difficult for us to exist.
We need your help allies. Speak up in our defense when you can.
I see myself smoking black n milds again
Been telling myself it mania but maybe it depression or mixed episode not sure. Pent up energetic but depressed.
I have been switching my meds. So that may be the issue not sure.
I hate feeling like this.
Gonna go for a walk.
The cognitive decline that comes with being bipolar scares me to hell
I already feel myself not having the mental capacity to do things I used to before
I slipped and fell in the tub
31 starting to feel real
Every solid object, such as the rods in the image below, has an inertia tensor. We can write the inertia tensor for the black rod, which keeps changing its orientation, as a sum of various multiples of the inertia tensors for the 6 fixed rods. The plot at the bottom shows how these 6 components change as the black rod points in different directions.
But why do we need 6 components? In 3D space, shouldn’t 3 be enough?
To see why we really need 6, let’s look at the inertia tensor. This is a matrix, I, that we use to multiply the angular velocity vector of an object, ω, to get the angular momentum, L.
The velocity of a point mass whose angular velocity is ω is given by:
v = ω × r
where r=(x,y,z) gives the coordinates of the point mass.
The linear momentum is:
p = m v = m ω × r
and the angular momentum is:
L = r × p = m r × (ω × r)
To get the same thing using matrices, note that we can write the cross product of r with any vector like ω as:
r × ω = C(r) ω
where C(r) is the matrix:
0 –z y
z 0 –x
–y x 0
This lets us write:
L = m r × (ω × r)
= –m r × (r × ω)
= –m C(r)^2 ω
Minus the square of the matrix C(r) is:
y^2+z^2 –xy –xz
–xy x^2+z^2 –yz
–xz –yz x^2+y^2
So the inertia tensor for a point mass is:
I = –m C(r)^2
This is the matrix above, multiplied by m.
In general, we add up (or integrate) over all the point masses in the body, to get the inertia tensor for the whole thing.
The inertia tensor we obtain this way will always be a symmetric matrix, so it can be specified with 6 numbers: 3 on the diagonal, and 3 above. So the inertia tensors belong to a 6-dimensional space.
Via the wonderful Just Seeds website! #Unions #CreativeCommons #Graphics
https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/
My dad is the same age as Ruby Bridges lol
Reading "The Housing Question" by Frederick Engles seeing the parallels of housing crisis over 150 years ago.
Also Marx and Engles absolutely despise Proudhon. Every writing of theirs they gotta put a few swipes at bra lol.
I am switching meds and am able to read again. I didn't even know how bad I needed this.
I am physically stronger than I thought.
Did some exercises I thought were impossible for me.
Not gonna lie very affirming lol
So what do you call this level of hatred? This fanatical desire to annihilate an entire civilisation?
Image description: Israeli occupation soldiers set fire to #Gaza’s Al Aqsa University library and took photos of themselves doing it #Israel #Palestine
Having a conversation about religion with a friend.
Getting to the point where they implying that I'm an Atheist because of trauma and I need overcome the trauma to come back to "God"
Love my friend trying to calm myself down and trying to explain my position clearly. Gonna have to be upfront with my disagreements and not try to people please and compromise just to get thru the convo.
I'm an Atheist because I'm an Atheist not because I'm mad at "God".
Ahhh this feels so infantilizing.
this is the best diss track i have ever listened to
if anyone wants 60 dollars off your first year of #speechify (bringing it to 40 dollars), lmk.
it's costly but it is the best text to speech reader app i have found. it even will read text on pictures. i use it at work too. so for me, it's worth it.
if you had a scans of pages, it can read those too.
i use it to read most of the things i read. one of my favorite #accessibility tools.
i'll pm you the discounted link if you leave a comment (could literally be a thumbs up or a "yes")
