Some Indiana lore relevant to Whitestown: this highway sign

A Latino cleaning lady was shot and killed thru a closed door yesterday in WHITESTOWN, IN (no arrests) But today the Attorney General is trying to sue Indianapolis Public Schools for demanding a warrant from ICE....

More information on deaf technologies, ticket system, call for papers, and why you should join the #deaftech2026 conference! youtu.be/KFCYmGPobqo

Indianapolis is launching the BIRTH Fund. The program provides financial support to mothers living in the ZIP codes with the city’s highest infant mortality rates: https://bit.ly/499GUSt

This is awesome: Every dollar donated to @mirrorindy.org between now and the end of the year will be matched (up to $80,000). Help us continue our work getting vital information to residents of Indianapolis. mirrorindy.org/donate/

For.fucks.sake. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is suing Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) for “thwarting” ICE. Same guy that launched “eyes on education” portal that’s purpose is to report anything remotely “woke” seen in schools. I hate it here

One of the hardest parts of grief for me, so far, is change. It’s so very much everywhere right now. Cooler weather, brown leaves, emptying trees, halloween already replaced with christmas theme. Soon I’ll be 31. Then Thanksgiving. Then Chrismat. Then New Years. Our traditions. But no You.

“We need law and order restored,” said Indiana’s chief legal officer, the state’s Attorney General since January 2021. “It’s shameful that the leadership here refuses to do anything about it,” he also said.

my husband is nottttt ~online~ so he’ll never see this. but i just want to say he’s such a good man. i’m the saddest i’ve ever ever ever been and somehow he just has the answers. 2010/2011 me would be so thrilled for 2025 me. damn. greatful. ❤️‍🩹

This grief made me a different person overnight. I can feel it on a metaphysical level. There are the silver-lining-or-whatever things I guess. But wtf am I to do with everything outside that? One example: am I now a person who publicly cries at any moment? How, after 30 years the opposite?

This is such a shit show

Over 90 days without her. How? And how is it physically possible my tear ducts still haven’t gone dry? I’ve cried more in the past three months than all of the 30 years prior. Fall is my favorite, but the season change is hard. So visibly marks the passage of time and that no one can control it.

But does he eat avocado toast

Does anyone have a word for when you’re ok as in, not in danger of harming yourself, but still broken and having a hard time

⚠️ subtweet ahead If you, likely a tech bro, make $450,000 a year, and think you’ve “got it all” but your bodymind is not where you want it to be, please pay a therapist or doctor to help you. I mean that genuinely, I’m subtweeting in case it seems less dunk-y. Therapy is cool. It works!

Netflix: “Enjoy 4K ✨ on us!! ✨” Me: I literally just rewatch original Grey’s season leave me tf alone

Indiana is known for having beautiful sunsets. And I hope I always, always, always remember the one I witnessed the day my Grandma died.

Some people pay $5000+ for this

I wouldn’t have healthcare without the ACA because of my collection of “pre-existing conditions” and it really sucks how many people are fine with that if it wins them some kind of political edge

It’s that time of year where my migraines are sinus related, sooo I get a whole lovely package of thorough head pain. Eyes, teeth, jaw, sinus, temples. I love absolutely fall but #OctoberSlide kicks my ass

I cry at the Izzie-Denny scene in a totally different way now so that’s an interesting grief discovery

Elon has a brother named Kimbal who, among a bunch of other random shit, was on the board of Chipotle from 2013 to 2019. Apparently Epstein set him up with an ex, trying to become besties with the fam? Guy’s wikipedia page is very detailed

I was pretty offline this week and guess I missed the queerphobes panicking over DND??? Surely they’re all rage baiting… right???

Love when a physical service provider pops in the inbox with “we’re raising your bill by $16 in two weeks. because we can.”

Hearies always think sign language interpreters are “overly expressive” and the more ASL I learn the more irritating that gets 😒

I was just getting my footing in journalism when news broke of a complaint against officials at this detention center in 2020, alleging a pattern of forced hysterectomies. At the time, I wrote for @teenvogue.com about how coerced sterilization is nothing new in the US.

Not a single mention of disabled people or how we actually use voice assistive technology. Just a nod to *the accessibility community* which is NOT code for disabled people. I'm so tired of the tokenization of accessibility & disabled people to force AI/LLMs into every crack & corner of tech.

It’s that time of year again (please don’t be worse please don’t be worse please don’t be worse)

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

Hearing from a lot of good founders that React tools are writing most of their code now. Software engineers orchestrate the React. They are also finding it extremely hard to hire because most experienced engineers have their heads in the sand and refuse to learn the latest tools.

I haven't kept up — is a <span> on every work a sign of using Figma Sites? This is the America by Design home page; an official US govn't website and created through an August 21, 2025 executive order. #a11y #accessibility

Does National Design Studio know you're not supposed to put link elements inside button elements #a11y #accessibility

She always told me not to wish my life away, that it goes so so fast. In this moment, as I dread the arrival of my first birthday without her, I know she’s right. But I wonder if grief like this is what she was talking about. Or was it joy? Smelling crisp fall air? Reading? Naps with windows open?

First day back to taking adhd meds in the morning and HOOBOY was my brain quiet today

Beautifully chilly day in Indy. I wore one of my Grandma’s 25+ year old jackets. I could recognize its pattern anywhere. It made a comforting pillow when I needed to cry. And I thought, “I don’t want to be able to wear this,” on the way home. But it all was still like carrying a hug from Grandma.

Some grief/loss cliches are so true, despite being cliches. “Life is short” is one I think about often. But almost always with the suffix: “to not…” find joy, bring others joy, brighten someone’s day, create art, engage with art that truly moves you, do the things that feel SO silly bring joy

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I think of Łink’s mutual aid threads

Łink made so much of this place what it is, and how interesting it is that Jay and co find it so easy to ban poc, trans folk and Palestinians while fighting tooth and claw to protect transphobes

Re: deep grief Is there a name for when you feel like you don’t know how to act in public anymore? Similar to “I don’t know what to do with my hands” but like my entire body. Similar to anxiety about being perceived, but not exactly that.

My nervous system can’t take these kinds of posts or the constant barrage of rage baiting fake screenshots

“Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating” — Octavia Butler

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

Absolutely crushing when you can feel it in your body, so deeply, that it wants this to be a bad dream but your mind knows otherwise

Genuine question, if anyone has seen it answered — Why isn’t this a website which can be bookmarked and saved to home screens?

Thank you @edenroyce.bsky.social, your essay is so so so good. Grandma showed me her death folders many times, the last time Feb 2023. She wore the sweater I knit the Christmas prior. This sweater & folder live in my home now. 😞 I hope to write about Grandma outside character limits one day.

Anyone know the threshold for when to rename “corn belt” to “data center belt”

Kimmel’s show was off-air for less than a week. It’s infuriating how many Americans will mobilize like this every once in a while, self-congratulate as if it’s revolutionary, then meticulously itemize every excuse for not mobilizing against multiple ongoing genocides, for one example.

I’m not caught up on every single contextual detail, but from my current knowledge, a couple of things stand out: 1) Celebrities SO selectively mobilize, usually just for white people 2) Sarah Paulson is supposedly unsure about the necessity of a revolution, but seemingly signed pretty decisively?

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.