so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

i’m not exaggerating btw the last couple days have been so beautiful i really did write a poem about it

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

It's Wrong Jacket Week in Chicago, we are celebrating the changing seasons by making sure that you are 100% always wearing the wrong jacket no matter what you do

First scroll up, then down through the rest of this thread. There’s a Pullman National Historic Park here in Chicago and, while my time in the visitor’s center was a little abbreviated, I don’t recall seeing anything about this. (And yes, I went before the current rounds of historical erasure.)

heart health PSA (especially for folks of African and/or South Asian ancestry): - there's a type of "bad" cholesterol called Lipoprotein A - it raises the risk of heart disease - it's hereditary, & not modified by "eating well and exercise" - new treatments are being developed #NEISvoid

12/27: What we fought for, we crip activists, was for anyone with a need, temp or perm, to use the space. The space was never intended to be walled off for the deficient ppl. The space wasn't meant to be DISABLED. The space was meant to be ACCESSIBLE to ppl in need.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Trump: We're invading your country Cuba: Umm, we're already a U.S. territory Trump: *whispering to aide* Is that true

Today I watched a group of third graders sing “here comes the sun” and you know the “I feel that ice is slowly melting, it seems like years since it’s been clear” line hit hard Fuck ICE and their enablers

WHAT

Yes the lake really is that color. Yes it really is that big. Yes we do have beaches with public bathrooms and lifeguards and hot dog stands. Yes winter is worth it.

Repeatedly explaining that the “expensive” frozen meals at TJ’s are significantly less $ than so many alternatives is a conversation I have with myself *frequently*. I’m stuck in a pre-disability “from scratch” mindset that doesn’t align with the reality of disabled energy/motor skill limitations.

Crime doesn’t pay! unless there’s a specific government fund created to do exactly that

I’m old enough and was socialized in such a way that I still occasionally knee-jerk wonder at a stranger’s gender based on presentation and style choices, and then have to remind myself “that is actually not something I need to know; if it’s important to them they’ll find a way to tell me.”

say does anybody know what is going on with nicolas maduro is he just hanging out in a jail in NYC or

Also, internment camps are just...always bad. I do not and will not ever support internment camps FOR ANYONE. EVER. Because even if you say "we're only putting 'x' bad people in these camps," once you have an internment camp, all of a sudden EVERYONE starts looking like 'x'. EVERYONE.

Yeah man jazz is the notes that you don’t play

"You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces" is supposed to mean, like, you might end up in the background of someone's photo, not that you should expect surveillance of your every move every moment you're in public.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

All forms of oppression—transphobia, racism, sexism, worker exploitation, etc—ultimately result in disability or death. Oppressors disable targeted group or redefine them as disabled, then wait for ableist society to abandon them. You must be actively anti-ableist to be effectively pro-liberation.

My friend and I have started meeting this year about once a month to discuss over drinks one or two books we’ve been putting off reading and I cannot recommend this enough.

Chat, is it good that my Boomer mom just described the NBC Nightly News as, “‘Good Morning, America,” but in the evening” because it’s all feel-good fluff and no actual news stories?

A moment of self-radicalization was when it occurred to me that not only should transit accessibility mean being able to get on and off, but that I should be able to take a bus without it causing me physical pain. Removing cars will never fix the problem if we’re don’t define the problem fully.

The bar is in hell so I don’t need to know much about this candidate in order to give them a boost - to challenge the system, if nothing else. But at first glance she even seems quite promising!

Voting for me is easy. You can write my name in the write-in box and then fill in the bubbles accordingly. If you need to pull out your phone to look up how to spell my name, that’s completely fine. I hope I can earn a first place ranking on your ballot. Andreaformaine.com

E-BIKES ARE MOBILITY AIDS

Phenomenal thread:

I’ve continued to mask consistently and have been fortunate enough to not experience much overt aggression from people due to my mask. Until recently. And I’m convinced that it’s anxiety over hantavirus that’s coming out sideways because they’re once again being forced to confront mortality.

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

I adore this fountain, and still think about it frequently despite having left Mpls nearly a decade ago. I’m absolutely over the moon to know it will be restored.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Some day, long after we're all dead, we'll decide whether Grant Park is actually a public park, a special events venue, or a critical transportation artery.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

I find myself on an accidental kick of media about WWII from a non-U.S./Western Europe-centric perspective. After *devouring* the book “The Last Train to Istanbul,” I hit play on a random podcast only to find it’s about the Bulgarian king during the same time period. What should I queue up next??

I learned how to put in library acquisition requests thanks to Bluesky dot app and its many phenomenal authors.

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

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People are comparing this photo to the 60s when most of you were actually alive in the 2020s when young Black people have essentially had to confront white cops in this same way.

In honor of David Attenborough’s 100th bday, please join me in actively appreciating that the Planet Earth documentaries are now even BETTER than when they came out. If they’d been released in the era of GenAI it would be impossible to believe that some of the camera shots were real, BUT THEY ARE.

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

If you are having a hard day just remember there are dogs

“We are the luckiest bastards alive,” he says of living in Marblehead. “We can’t also be the most self-interested bastards alive. They can’t be the same thing.” www.marbleheadindependent.com/he-asked-if-...

If you just got hit on your bike on Damen at Elston/Fullerton, my in-laws saw the whole thing. Let me know if you need them, and I hope you’re OK!

New from me: Turns out we can move parking meters en masse w/o violating the terms of a 2008 sale of our meters. The deal's terms are restrictive, loopholes are closed, and city council mismanagement has led to $161M in costs. I have a way to fix that. citythatworks.substack.com/p/lets-move-...

If you’re a podcast kinda person, the CBC also has multiple long-form investigative journalism series/seasons to explore that (to me) feel ethical and not exploitative. These two seasons aren’t the only ones, but they’re a great starting point: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

May 5 is MMIW Day, which honors and brings attention to the missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and 2-spirit people who face much higher rates of murder than the general US population. If you want to know more, a good place to start is NIWRC. www.niwrc.org/restoration-...

5/6 For this poster, SSRIs were lifesaving. She also struggled with stigma around taking them. Messages comparing SSRIs to heroin risk increasing that stigma and may make people hesitant to seek care that could genuinely help them in mental health treatment.