Looking for volunteers from people inside and out of the #disability community, for a project to gather stories from around the country; it's time to change the narrative, and I gots me a plan. Start with the video, end with Medium. youtu.be/-RC1EaQ0y88 medium.com/katsemantics...

Weeks after turning 50, @timminchin.bsky.social manages to coin the best moniker for Gen X I've ever heard - while also summing up why LLMs cannot make art, and revealing one of his best songs/vids ever. Art IS #ContentPlusIntent Sincerely yours, #OptimisticAndDefiant youtu.be/ODSKfN6pSMs?...

Was reading a thread about people dismissing the need for benefits like SNAP, based on the old "Give a man a fish..." and "God helps those who help themselves" schticks, and I was so pleased with how well my reply flowed that I thought it was worth sharing elsewhere. www.reddit.com/r/disability...

Still hoping for a little help here folks. Sharing or contributing - many thanks either way.

That take is, indeed, quite wild. Yeah, PV/LS banter/bickering was hilarious, but no one was really seeking just 10ish minutes of scenes with legit lightening-in-a-bottle sexual tension. Also, I was glued to all 4 shows, but must be said; Remington Steele and Scarecrow & Mrs. King did it first.

Sorry... is this a thing? Having one party to a ceasefire turn it off and on like a f*cking light switch?

There are no national media outlets in Durango, CO - 8 hours from Denver - like there are in Chicago or LA. Grateful to have local journalists + the Durango Herald covering the latest ICE thuggery.

Help My Family Continue Our Halloween Tradition - handing out variety-stuffed goodie bags to trick-or-treaters - despite losing 2 jobs in a couple of weeks (and not looking good for my November food stamps). Just $1-2 can make it feel like the right timeline again! www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

Am I the only person who saw a promo image like this, and thought: "Ooh, did they actually get Jason Patric to star in new Lost Boys TV show and... is... wait... Is Lost Boys part of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and I never knew that?!! Because I know WTF #Talamasca is!"

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

This means that marine biology classes cannot discuss, say, parrot fish. (Parrot fish typically start out as female, then later say, you know, I've had enough of this, and turn male, all while munching away with powerful teeth on coral.)

How can she serve her constituents if she’s not in office, you absolute numpty

Were? WERE?! My ass. Your search system is entirely non-functional right now! aje.io/4s0ns5 Figures, happens the moment I'm researching neck braces after the surgeon suggested it as a method of managing some pain issues I'm having - there are negatives to using this method that have me hesitant.

I wanted to first share this amazing list of ways to be prepared and safe when going to a protest march or similar event, where you expect to encounter hostile anti-protest forces. substack.com/@twvme/note/... But I'm also looking for ways to adapt this list for the #disability community. [1/2]

This is a scary reality, but also a good way to put more and more pressure on the administration, from the public. Hang as many lanterns as possible. Always! substack.com/@dissentinbl...

John Carpenter made some of the greatest movies of all time and then retired to make music with his son and play video games. It’s possible he has lived the greatest life in human history.

Oregon residents have a right to know the identity of this loathsome fascist terrorizing a U.S. citizen

The current government cannot be clearer that they hate their constituents and they hate democracy.

“Nuts out for freedom” 😂😂 Please someone make that sign for the next naked bike ride

I would also just like to point out that it is currently 52° in Portland, & we've gotten about half an inch of rain today. A lot of people were literally nuts out for freedom in some rather cold rain today. I'm willing to bet that most of the people turning their noses up aren't willing to do that.

I have located the conversation. It is even more ridiculous than I imagined. Oppression Olympics never solved a single problem in the history of humankind.

Also if your complaint is that people are protesting even though they haven’t been impacted themselves uh, you are badly missing the goal of protests It’s not a spotlight for your performance.

They did the “I know better than you, Jew” thing. And then they blocked me after I told them that the best way to protect me was to actually listen to me.

Uhhhhhhhh no. You’re taking the wrong lesson. You do not gotta hand it to MTG. Ever. You absolutely do not gotta hand it to an actual monster.

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin) STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!” Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

I admit, I'm quick to get annoyed when entertainment writers get a major story detail or dialog point fundamentally wrong But whoa nelly did this one, from the now retired "Mel Magazine," piss me the fuck off. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/... Though the context of both Now and Then matters. [1/9]

Clearly the National Guard is needed to save us all from: Dancing unicorns Gyrating frogs ICE fisherman And our hard working immigrant friends and neighbours.

Ah yes, the man who wrote a book on the “unfortunate consequences” of the Civil Rights act is here to (quite turgidly) defend Hegseth’s anxiety-riddled bigotry. And, despite having never served has thoughts about unit cohesion.

we have “auntie tom”. works for all the letters in LGBT.

💯 And need an equivalent for uncle tom too FFS 🙄 this was so cringe AF to see as I peel back this fraud's onion.. what a bootlicking traitor

I am forever thinking that we queer folks need a catchy equivalent to "your skin folk ain't always your kin folk." Because it comes up a lot.

Whole thread is worth a read. But bill will never see daylight. The film/TV industry alone will decimate it - you cannot strip the internet of Victor/Victoria... Torchsong Trilogy... Monty Python... Mrs. Doubtfire! THIS! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?... Even SCOTUS will balk at that transparent overreach.

ICE would have shot at Christ, too

I'm attending EducateUS's event, “KNOW MEANS KNOW: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/educateus/ev...

Moranis & Zuniga - plus Bill Pullman & his kid, who was Bob the Void in Thunderbolts, which knocked me flat in ways I'm still searching struggling to fully articulate. Even Sandurz is back! I'm in a geek spiral, but how could I not be? Holy. Mother. Forking. Schwartz Balls. 2027 is far far away.

Well...

I just heard a BBC World News reader refer to a situation that is escalating as "hotting up" and I categorically reject that this could be an acceptable journalistic term phrase. Absolutely not.

I have never had the privilege of stepping into a Greggs in my life, nor have I tasted an actual sausage roll. And yet, I am totally here for this. Totally. Sis and I did get to have Nandos take-out on my 50th bday trip to Chicago this year. Was a singular experience.

And as for this “you can use them to report potholes” guff, have you ever heard a bigger pile of shit in your life. The problem with potholes is not that people do not report them - it’s that when they do, councils don’t have the fucking money to get them fixed. I HATE KIER STARMER SO FUCKING MUCH

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Holy Mother-forking Shirt Balls! This is what comes from how disconnected I am by my situation. Somehow I didn't even hear this happened, and it's epic. When I remember back to the days of SESTA/FOSTA first darkening doorsteps, and how hopeless a fight it felt sometimes, this is truly remarkable.

ICE is calling on Americans to shut up and accept ICE's violence against immigrants. If we don't, they say, we're responsible for attacks on ICE. I have another idea: Let's stop *all* the violence, both by and against ICE.

What sucks about having seen that email about the screenwriting contest last night though; I stayed up until 430, and I never did get around to playing Palia. Oh well. Just revisiting that 20YO (damn I feel old) script to remember timeline details for the summary, was certainly a form of self care.

Considering the 'fanfic' I've been writing in my head since I first tested out the #Palia Romance features with Reth (and then Tish), this image makes me feel fairly pervy. Like when I'm reminded that Mason Alexander Park is 6 months older than my son and it doesn't stop me gazing @ her besottedly.

@angeamene.bsky.social My apologies for dragging that person back into your space. I tried to make sure you weren't attached to my goodbye, as I should've had done w/my 1st reply. I have muted her & I will take more care in the future - assuming you haven't already muted me, which would be fair. :)

I should be frustrated right now but I feel too good. I discovered an email tonight, from @networkisa.bsky.social about a free-to-enter script contest ending soon. Most contests I cannot remotely afford to enter, so I rushed to submit, and realized I never attached a summary to the script. [1/7]

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)