every november my ideation goes sicko mode and im a good boy and take a shower and eat a snack and sit with her and say ok babe have a seltzer take a nap

if i could wish for a thing it would be a false memory of my parents coming to say goodnight to me, letting me speak uninterrupted for 3 minutes, saying “wow thank you for telling us that,” tucking me in, kissing me goodnight and then looking at me and then each other with a positive expression

"ICE is grabbing people from the streets who aren't even undocumented or don't have criminal records at all" babe i don't think there is a group of people ICE should be grabbing people off the streets in the first place

i think having a therapist i really loved for six months and then never getting to speak to him again is worse than never having a therapist i loved. i would prefer to feel awful still than to have felt nice and now feel this weird pathetic loneliness about a medical relationship

i do so many things with the desperation of a kid asking their parents if they still love them after they’ve done something bad, forgetting that i am the kid who asked that and their parents said “no, in fact, i don’t love you”

llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever

november bad

I want everyone to know her work. I also want folks who aren’t masking when we share air to sit with what their actions are doing to people like Alice and to anyone who knows they don’t have the luxury of risking infection. Two way masking is best, and Alice’s disablity meant she couldn’t mask.

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

wanna echo this and add the term “sex offenders“ specifically. it’s a term fascists wield often, very rarely in a way that combats actual abuse on a systemic or individual scale. abolition is for everyone.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

whenever ti’m robinso is in his normal clothes i’m like feral im like if this man does a goblin yell but he’s in hot boy mode i’m throwing all my clothes at the wall

i remember finding alice wong for the first time, reading on an airplane. it was before i identified as disabled or even understood disability justice, a movement that has given me everything. i owe alice (and so many who have passed in the last few years) gratitude beyond measure

sending so much love/this hurts

just absent-mindedly rubbed a giant spot on my body completely raw, a thing i have been doing off and on since i was 7 year old and don't know how to stop//is the weirdest manifestation of whatever mental thing i got going on

good luck babe, you won't win!

Thread. Remember earlier today, when I celebrated being able to drink a specific tea blend again? Yeah. This is what I’ve got, and I got it from COVID. Mask up. PLEASE.

i am most authentically myself when i am about to fall asleep. if i’m with my gf im like “ed im so sleepy i’m scared! am i ok? i’m Too Sleepy” which is my favorite sleep med side effect. if i’m with the cat i’m calling her a name she likes, nanooteetees, over and over while she rolls around

#stillcoviding #disability #mecfs #mcas #longcovid #covid

my gf of seven years was like “i will never forget your birthday since you told me it was the opposite of 9/11”

anyone find novavax or nuvaxovid in chicago this season? plz boost if you might know someone who has

scout coming to live with me was one step away from total accident and like a year into uh autistic breakdown, she is the reason i get up every day.

steven graham is so sexy to me

i don’t live in skokie but i protect skokie with my life, i love skokie, leave her alone

AIM away message: youtu.be/WE9C7P4Fn7w

the way this fucker looks ai generated

ama im allergic to most synthetic or lower quality fragrances and i accidentally bought scented toilet paper and decided to roll with it

zine where i badly doodle each of my moms piece of shit boyfriend and their insane preferences and behaviors. including dean, the one i was convinced was a vampire and trying to kill us.

my therapist was like “it makes sense that you don’t know what you need when you feel bad, if a child cries and no one helps them or punishes them for crying, they don’t learn what help is. they learn to stop crying.“ i started CRYING lmao

have this book sitting in my to read pile and this is pulling me

hi all my birthday is this week and what would really mean a lot to me is if you could help my dear friend secure hormones and medical apptmts for the next few months. she’s a young trans woman, her activities are under surveillance and it’s not safe for her to be out. vm: @/heyhellowhatsup

i miss being hot and sexy and having a huge rack

actual top to bottom image of me a person turning 36 this week who cannot recall the last time i engaged in a vice of any kind and wants to just go to bed for 6 years

"on the road to obstruction" (i'm done i'm so sorry)

Bovino here covertly informing us that all members of ICE are actually non-binary.

NINETY TWO PERCENT of Starbucks union members just voted to authorize a strike, kicking off on 13 November unless they (finally) get a fair contract: www.cbsnews.com/news/starbuc... #labor #1u

screaming crying and throwing up in “my medical team told me i should probably be treated for an eating disorder” right before my discharge date and ive been doing ok but also i spend all my time thinking about how i will eat and probably i have arfid

how many “national night outs” do you think the cops and pritzker have to host to undo sibling cops kidnapping a preschool teacher inside a preschool?

plz don't share detainment videos without faces blurred i'm begging y'all

As both a legal reporter and a born Chicagoan, I cannot get over the juxtaposition of masked goons ripping apart my communities and those of my friends and family, and smartly dressed attorneys telling federal judges it is the government's right and duty to do so.

Hello. Let us imagine our wildest dreams (complementary) instead of marching unbidden towards our literal nightmares

i met the guy who supplied the groundhogs for groundhog day and he a) hates groundhogs and b) has a giant scar from a groundhog bite that he whipped out to show me while explaining that groundhogs are essentially the source of his personal unending hell

Zohran playing "Dhoom Machale" at the end of his victory speech lmao. Fantastic.

24 hours from now, DHS will be forced to change how it operates in Chicago. The facility which it uses to detain people arrested in Operation Midway Blitz is going to be under court order, and the agency will be forced to make improvements — and may have to slow down arrests in order to comply.

i apologize to my folks, my first reaction to something good is the feeling that i am going to die and then i get very excited an hour later

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

hell is i was a magazine and newspaper journalist in the “pivot to digital” era (who hoped to be a long form editor) and now i have a new writing ish career and get edits from people who uh plugged my writing into chatgpt to clean it up

Agustin Zamacona, who speaks and reads English, further says an agent in Broadview tried to get him to sign a self-deportation form by telling him it was court paperwork. "I saw they weren't court papers, they were for deportation, so I didn't sign it," he says.

Shortly after Trump took office, DHS wiped from its website a policy regulating facial recognition use. Face rec tools — like Clearview AI, which Illinois cops are barred from using, and Mobile Fortify — are now being used to support Trump’s deportation campaign. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

“Chicago has long been a laboratory for policing. From the repression of labor movements in the early 20th century, to COINTELPRO surveillance, to Jon Burge’s torture regime... the city has been central to testing and refining state violence.” -Ilā Ravichandran truthout.org/articles/thi...