I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me! bit.ly/4aiUIKQ

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

It’s rare to come across a heartwarming story about disability that avoids falling into the “disability porn” trap. This one doesn’t even toe the line. Just a genuinely heartwarming (and heartbreaking) story about community care:

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

You can be clear-eyed about what happened without reading about child sexual abuse in granular detail. I promise.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Desperately trying to “look for the helpers” these days. Ahmed Al Ahmed is definitely one. And in a different way, so was Reiner.

In which my wife's dog tries a) covering his eye with his tail and b) fake snoring and c) trying not to wag when he's called a good boy to pretend that he's asleep so that I don't move him out of my spot on the bed.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

Honestly, I’m furious. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this. Yet on its anniversary more children are dead, injured, and traumatized. It is a horror that is entirely preventable. And we should prevent it. It is not impossible. No matter what the received wisdom has become.

At a street market in Buenos Aires a week ago, there were a handful of loud, muffled “bang” noises and it was surreal to realize I was the only one to immediately flinch and scan for the source. To arrive back in the states and have the Brown news be the first thing I see? Horrifically on the nose.

Looking for suggestions on new podcasts for some long travel days coming up! I like: - Long form with a well-crafted narrative - Investigative journalism - True crime can be fun, but only if it feels ethical and humane rather than exploitative Whatcha got, Bsky denizens?

“I am not in denial, I am in open rebellion.” Perfect.

Traveling is important bc it opens you to new cultures and experiences, and helps you unlearn falsehoods you accepted as fact. For example, I thought the American Midwest held the crown when it came to consuming heart-stopping quantities of cheese. Argentina has disabused me of this assumption.

Looking to speak to members of the Illinois National Guard Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: [email protected]

"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…” - Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit

Live your life so your homies send you txts like this bc your reputation is about community and bikes. We take care of us. 🫶🏽✊🏽🥰

I’m currently in Argentina, and some very nice ladies (50’s?) at a museum were excited to learn I was from Chicago and asked how it is. I genuinely didn’t know how to explain what’s happening w/o making it seem as if I didn’t recognize the context here of saying the govt was kidnapping ppl.

New HHS guidance

they should invent a day that doesn't feel like four days

I know Mamdani isn’t in charge yet, but I am simply going to lie to myself about who is reasonably for this, as a little treat. Self-induced disinformation.

The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition. People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.

ICE abducted two day laborers as they were walking into a local Ralph's today. I was interviewing staff and they were shook up; one seemed like he might even have been in shock. One said they had no idea this was happening here at all, but there have been dozens in the last week or two.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

I needed this today. Was genuinely tempted for the first time today to break the boycott for “just one little thing.” But that one thing is very much not worth my integrity. Sharing in case you needed this today, too.

Imagine its AI chatbot regurgitates that you owe $23 million dollars in taxes, and then that you can pay them by brewing a jimsonweed tea. You try to call their customer support but connect to another chatbot that tells you that it is mistaken, the federal government owes you a tortoise.

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design. This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all." Gonna try to hold that.

ALSO. If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community. WEAR A MASK.

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them. Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.

She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.

NO. My god, what a tremendous loss for not only the disability community specifically, but also society at large.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

I knew that the police valued property over people, but I didn’t realize that it was enshrined in law by the Supreme Court. My God.

In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.

In case y’all are not familiar with this, Sheryl’s summary in this thread is excellent.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

also if any black queer/trans masking (😷) folks need a room for rent in portland, please lmk!!! available jan 1st, 2026 (probably sooner) $700 for rent + utilities inna 4 bed, 2 bath house!! #PDX #StillCoviding #SignalBoost

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If-fucking-ONLY people are still indicating they have a shit about Covid by socially distancing.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...