Cakelin

Etched in our immune systems..

[Video clips of people talking about being sick and then doctors linking infections to autoimmunes, cancers, and immune damage]

Full cover of print book, front in next image alt Back: Mid Gaussian is about the consequences of normal and hierarchy. The freedom of abnormal: integrating all of our parts and choosing alignment. Humans are unique among species for our ability to manipulate our environment and condition ourselves through that manipulation. Our survival requires breaking out of our capitalistic conditioning and establishing new norms of radical care and creativity for each other and the planet. Cakelin Fable is a multidisciplinary artist, scientist, and technologist. Disabled, immunocompromised, queer, trans, white, and a rural to urban transplant: they bring all of these lived experiences to their work. They are here to ask questions, explore the unexpected, embrace friction, and welcome the abandoned. Their 2022 visual art collection Nucleation Invitation accompanies these poems. "Why is great value Malfoy so upset?" - mmmmbop875 Octopus beaker + cakelin (cake with circuits) logos

Mid Gaussian: Flatten the Hierarchy By Cakelin Fable Middle of page has a normal distribution of black circles under a red curve. Some circles are squished or odd shapes, especially near the edges of the distribution. Two circles have escaped the top of the distribution and are much larger than the others. One of those circles is a gear with color inside of it. Above these escaped circles is the word "MID" "Gaussian" is underneath the distribution and following the curve is "Flatten the Hierarchy". There are gears throughout the distribution in different sizes. Some of the gears look like flowers or viruses or even a ship steering wheel. The gears escape the bottom of the distribution and grow, breaking out of the bands holding them in place. They become odd amorphous shapes in several colors and then align and integrate into one multi-colored shape. Background of the top has colored moon, stars, and hexagons in a swirl.

Every image has an image alt/description and at the back of the book there is an appendix with all the image descriptions. Including the cover, which I designed.

Yep, my testimonial is the best internet insult I've gotten. I am great value Malfoy, when I'm blonde.

so frustrating to see posts rightfully complaining about how federal agents mask to hide their identities, that then refer to covid—which, the gaiters they wear do nothing to contain—in the past tense. “oh, so they’ll mask now, but they wouldn’t during covid.”

“during covid” is right now, actually.

If you have a backpack/daypack, sometimes the support straps have a whistle so you can call for help in the wilderness. Will thread some examples

She’s our senior senator. She has the power to shut down the government and end the occupation of Minnesota.

She will not.

Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.

They sat for hours with untreated pepper spray injuries and were laughed at by ICE agents when they asked for medical attention, or even a bottle of water. They were released hours later with no explanation. Their personal belongings were returned except their cell phones, which remain with ICE.

met the $80 goal for today’s motel but I still am short $66 of my prescription, $15 to get there and back since I’m not eligible for delivery, ntm the other goals for food/1wk motel - anything else still helps so I can finally get my meds 💸💞

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Screenshot of forecast from The Weather Channel for Kansas City showing a high temperature of 18 degrees and low of 8 degrees for tomorrow, and only minimal warming the next few days

Hey, y'all. It's going to be COLD in Kansas City this weekend. I've got a family living w/o power right now. LiHEAP helped with half their bill ($400 left). They have a propane heater but no money for a refill ($20). Please help keep them warm.
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i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

Close-up of a round enamel pin depicting an N95 mask, with words above and below reading, "Masking Is Community Care."

Close-up of a round enamel pin with text reading: "We are living in a mass disabling event / Don't ignore long covid"

Close-up of two round enamel pins. One depicts a blue virus shape behind green text reading, "Airborne" beneath a checkmark and red text reading "over" with a red line striking through, followed by the words, "Covid is not over." The second pin is red with white text reading, "Warning: This Pandemic Won't End Until We Clean The Air."

Close-up of three round enamel pins in a column. The one on the bottom depicts a mask, a shot and a checkmark. Text above these symbols reads, "Mask, Vax, Clean Air Tasks / Ventilate & Filtrate." The middle depicts Shakespeare wearing a respirator beside the words,"Fair is foul and foul is fair: HEPA through the fog and filthy air." The pin on top is red with white text reading, "Warning: This Pandemic Won't End Until We Clean The Air."

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Close-up of three round enamel pins. The first depicts a mask, a shot and a checkmark. Text above these symbols reads, "Mask, Vax, Clean Air Tasks / Ventilate & Filtrate." The second depicts a (negative) white covid test, with text above and below it reading, "Think Positive / Stay Negative." Smaller print reads, ESTD 2020. The third depicts a pixelated image resembling a shield with one stripe in pink on a brown background. Pixelated words over and on the shield read, "spread joy not covid."

A cotton tote bag laying flat on a table, with the straps folded at an angle over the top of the bag. The words, "We are the wayside" appear on the bag three times in black bubble letters outlined with white, each time written over the image of a heart within-a-heart-within-a-heart, dozens of hearts deep, becoming smaller and smaller. Each heart is a different color matching one of the layers of the disability pride flag - red, yellow, white, blue, green, and black. A border of plain white cotton is visible all around the edge of the tote.

Love this community!

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THEY FEED US

Farm workers are as much as 35 times more likely to be killed by heat than any other civilian occupation.

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It's not just AI being used to build software, it's that the large models being trained require huge data pools in the cloud.

It's like putting a bunch of gold in a castle and then having little to nothing guarding it.

And then anyone can copypasta their own shitty castle.

“why would someone need pre-boiled eggs” “why would someone need grocery delivery services” disabled people exist ! anytime you see something that makes life easier its probably beneficial for disabled people !

sontag wrote “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and … of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged…to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”

step thru the portal, stamp your passport

Listen: they make it difficult if not impossible to mitigate the pandemic they refuse to address, which disables you. You can’t work&lose yr job, thus your insurance, so can’t afford the medical help you desperately need. You wrack up credit&medical debt trying, until you cant afford your home—then?

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Best Governor Wisco has had in my lifetime.

He was just in central Wisconsin celebrating removal of 1000 lead pipes in Wausau. The amount of travel and events he does would be rough for anyone, but he's 73.

So grateful for everything he's done for Wisconsin.

The Shadow Pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19 One in three women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence mostly by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, emergin...

By the way, this is still happening to many Covid informed women. Because the pandemic isn't over
www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-f...

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.

(Published May 2025)
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Reminder to help out trans businesses on here 💙
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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

"people aren't ready for all this trans stuff" i dont care. i exist now.

A number of stories of companies replacing workers with AI are simply CEOs putting a positive tech spin on cost cutting.

It’s telling that instead of stories of how AI enables companies to do more, we mostly hear about AI enabling companies to do the same (or lower quality work) with fewer workers.

I'm so so sorry 💔 it should have been your choice, we should all have a right to bodily autonomy.

🔗 Quick reminder that unlike most platforms, Bluesky doesn’t algorithmically penalize posts with links! So if you are posting some striking image or screenshot from elsewhere you don’t need to bury the link in a reply; just include it in your post so everyone will have the context right away.

My rent has increased 40% since I moved into my apt in 2020.

I'm currently moving out and the next tenant will pay 40% more than I'm currently paying, because the income restricted program is ending.

80% higher rent. It has almost doubled.

I WANT MY FUCKING LIFE BACK

I WANT A FUCKING FUTURE

I WANT TO BE ALLOWED TO EXIST IN YHE WORLD