I have two MA degrees. One in a degree program that's unusual (Disability Studies). And let me tell you... I'm looking for fulltime work a year after a layoff.

During "infamous 'Peptide Fridays'... employees injected themselves with gray-market compounds during breakfast in the office"; but it was "scrapped for being too flip." If yr boss asks to you to inject unregulated substances into your body at work, you need a union. sfstandard.com/2026/05/17/h...

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

One thing I try to keep in mind is how certain entities want us to think about other countries is usually not the most accurate depiction of that country.

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

Regular reminder that some medicines can cause MORE sensitivity to heat and humidity. HYDRATE.

There's not a single other medical procedure that has less than a 1% regret rate. Heart surgery has a 20% regret rate.

As much as I love the BNL song, this sounds like an informal form of checking how recession/confident people are? Similar to questions about 'what would you do if you won the lottery' now being things like 'pay off student loans'...

If you just need the basics of the Neil Gaiman allegations, without the horrifying narrative details, this post is a good summary

For reference: this cutie is from the Draw Steel RPG. <3 @hellomcdm.bsky.social

Judge Reyes did what the entire GOP refuses to do: acknowledge basic biology. Intersex people exist. Chromosomes aren’t always XX or XY. Gender characteristics don’t fit neatly into 2 boxes. An Executive Order built on “only two sexes” isn’t “truth.” It’s ideology with a government letterhead.

“Love” is what you are promised in return if you submit and obey. I can’t think of a more accurate depiction of the MAGA social vision.

Note: screen readers like the one used here, are used with multiple applications, browsers, etc. It is not specific (in the sense that Adobe Narrator only works - if that - with Adobe open). A screen reader like VoiceOver for Mac or NVDA for Windows is meant to help navigate computing, system-wide.

Trans people have double the unemployment rate of cis people (Counting Ourselves, 2018) so please please hire us

It will never not be wild to me how quickly the birthrate obsessives went from neo-Malthusian panic about overpopulation to freaking out about demographic collapse and underpopulation.

Name day's in 8 days. Help me celebrate by making sure I don't panic (again) in the midst of overwhelming bills?

Well, I just watched Good Omens: 1) that portrait of Sir Pterry. 2) I am now bawling. I wish I could survive to watch the stars with my spouse. I wish love was enough. Messy or otherwise. Good job, everyone. @terrypratchett.bsky.social @rhi.bsky.social @mchshe.bsky.social etc & Mr Tennant.

Periodic reminder to archive your online work and support online archival projects, folks. :( I'm pretty shocked this would happen to FiveThirtyEight of all sites, but nothing online is immune from owners pressing the delete button.

This meant that if you had accessed trans healthcare even privately, you were barred from any and all health insurance coverage, because of this fear of "serious complications" from "experimental" treatment. And this ban stayed in effect for over 30 years, until it was rescinded in 2014.

It's hard to explain now what 'becoming a pre-existing condition' meant up through approx. 2014, but we're still feeling its effects. This is from a thread about Reagan. (Because of course, Reagan.)

Someone used AI to “create” five songs based on my Iron Druid characters, and damn it, NO. Stealing my characters and then using AI, which is made of more stolen work and is destroying the planet with its water, electricity usage, and greenhouse gas production, is not how you honor a Druid.

Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma

I learned about trained cormorants helping to fish out of an Ian Fleming James Bond novel - talked about ama divers as well. But it's hard to glimpse the truths in fiction. I DO like the series of books over at @doubleproficiency.com ("Herbalists' Primer" etc) for this kind of info!

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

My name day is in 9 days. I'd like to be able to enjoy it without worrying about overdrafts.

I want to emphasize that institutions are not necessarily defined by their founders. The antisemitic white Christian Nationalist with ties to violent neo-Nazis I'm writing about, Walter Huss, founded the Foursquare Church in Eugene in 1955. But that church today does not at all share his world view.

this cannot be understated. This isn’t to say that trans women are immune to having toxic behaviors, or even having learned to blend-in as a “man” for survival. But it’s not accurate to say that we were socialized as a cis man.

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

Happy 3-year anniversary to Don't Play Defense #Art #Pride

Digital #accessibility @ #UX expert — trying to land, undaunted — seeks full-time #RemoteWork helping your org. Fluent in WCAG, keyboard nav, & the particular guilt of well-meaning product teams. #ttrpg Lawful good or chaotic good? Paladin or artificer? Either way I align and get the job done.

I'm one of the signers. In addition to not working on mobile, overlays can cause more keyboard nav & screen reader issues. They do not protect from legal liability. At least one overlay company has been successfully sued for false advertising, as well.

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

💕💸🏳️‍⚧️ Behind on bills and cert renewals. Cert renewal: $200, fees: $350, overdrafts... I'm job searching but I need a cert renewal and fees to HELP me continue to keep my head above water! #MutualAidRequest #HelpSky #Poverty PP: kitchan Venmo: kitwinter GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ke...

Mediterranean trade routes historically meant a LOT of contact with the continent of Africa. And to me, a classic is something you go back to and find yourself in. @kobanya.bsky.social is doing just that.

Wheelchairs are expensive. Even manual ones. Boosting for reach. #MutualAidRequest

Hey if you're a cis person who wants to be a better ally to trans people? Find like 1-5 trans people, at least, and find a way to give em money every month. Doesn't have to be a lot, but if you and other folks give like 5 bucks a month, that adds up and helps a lot.

If I had money (which I don't), I'd support funding Access-Ability. Here's how you can, as an individual. #gamedev

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

the thing about this is if they are adding people to their website as "punishment" then they know full well that being on their website is a bad thing that no one wants lol

So, these guys are actually comic book mustache twirling evil. I messaged them on Instagram last night encouraging them to respect the wishes of the people asking to be removed from their site. They gave me a canned response, and then ADDED me to the website.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

This makes me think about how older people panic about social media being a bad influence on young people when it's often the older people who have little real skepticism about technology and have been completely sucked in by disinfo on social media (and mistake it for the wider offline world).

Related to my previous note about AI literacy... I think that very often the more you *actually* learn about AI (how it works, how it's built, what's behind it, what its impacts are, who controls it -- not "how to use it") the more critical you are likely to become. bsky.app/profile/cfie...

On one hand: more accurate name! On the other hand, because it's a syndrome still, it's literally "oh, you look more hairy than the doctor thinks is appropriate? You have this". It's a condition still not well understood, and often NOT treated unless you want baby.

Re: kickstarter/obscenity: There is no purity test you can pass if someone else decides they don't want you to.

Do I look capable? I have trichotillomania. I wear wigs daily. But NOT wearing wigs & having patchy-to-no hair is worse, socially. #UnconsciousBias is a thing. But people with disabilities - #MentalHealth esp- often are assumed incapable, lazy, deceitful. I'm damned if I do & damned if I don't.

I am so tired of this desperate lunge towards Puritanism in this country on all fronts. Puritanism has never ever made good art. Ever.

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One of my students repeated the Roman vomitorium myth to me the other day. She told me she learned it from her textbook, which was 30 years old. Textbooks should be reviewed and updated every year.