[December 6th, 1985] Bob Ross' "The Joy of Painting" airs the episode "Mountain Glory"

I'm always excited for underground artists but I worry if or when they reach mainstream audiences. Sum'n bout most of them shifts.

Sick of these hypothetical antiracists. They get down with it on paper, but any chance to interface with a real Black person they blow it & their whiteness shows.

They have this myth. In the beginning America was a pure white land where whites were safe to be superior. How did these other subhumans get here? Oh wait, the land was already inhabited when we came! We abducted by the millions from another continent! Our empire devastated their survival at home!

Just don’t forget this country was *NEVER* white It never will be.

It's white supremacist capitalist scarcity mindset that led us to STILL (ugh) be needing to talk about what if abled people fake it. There's enough help & support to go around. It's not going to run out. When you reach that point you add capacity. There's not actual the need to gatekeep services.

Listen, if a Fast and the Furious themed reality TV dating shows where people blind-pick their partners based on their cars, I would not be shocked. Man's desperate for it.

The discourse on accessibility in higher ed where disabled people have to bear these constant microagressions & wrongheadedness in the mainstream is flat out insulting on world disability blah blah whatever day. Shut it all down & say you don't care about disabled people, we already know.

If Nuzzi thought it was the public interest to let people know that RFK Jr. Was not sober, why did she not say this after she was fired? Why not before he was named Health and Human Services Secretary? Why not before he changed guidance on vaccines and autism? Self-indulgence disguised as service

Amen!

really wish PE classes were disability informed because the way every disabled person i know were failed by those teachers and coaches is so insidious.

I have ongoing obligations to folks who've already asked me for mutual aid. Tons in line in desperate situations waiting patiently for a boost. It's not a one-off thing because mutual aid is relationship building with someone who becomes a comrade. That's why I can't respond immediately to everyone.

Being Black, autistic, and a woman isn’t just a triple identity it’s a triple challenge 👌🏽 For many of us Black autistic women, understanding and embracing our authentic selves comes with extra layers of societal pressure, masking, and misdiagnosis.

The later-half seasons of Game of Thrones were the equivalent of when the teacher asks someone, who copied on their test, to go solve a problem they "got right" on the chalk board in front of the class without bringing their test with them.

It upset me enough I stopped watching for my sanity. Not for nothing, I’m disappointed there wasn’t cannibalism.

I will never forgive what they did to Jaime.

Y'know there are times when I'm just minding my business and then the last season of Game of Thrones crosses my mind. 😑

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Can we nix the narrative that autistic people can't text please? If anything else, plenty of autistic people can, do, and prefer to text.

Please help if you can 🙏🏾

@rahbeeuh.bsky.social Happy birthday Rabia! Have an awesome day!

Amplifying. Rabia is amazing! If you have it, please help her out.

For my birthday please help me reach $700 for essential items and upcoming bills. If y'all can help send monetary gifts/donations here #mutualaid #donation #crowdsource venmo.com/u/rahbeeuh

Rep. Sykes joined a bipartisan group of Members to send a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urging them to include House Members in negotiations ahead of the promised health care vote in December to address the expiring ACA subsidies.

It’s wild actually to think about. So much of how I was raised is the legacy of slavery. Middle class 90s professionals were raising me like their parents raised them & their parents raised them going back to the plantation with all this assumption children are property who need to stay in line.

Yeah we did not get y'alls mental health revolution with severely marginalized mental disorders. None of that trickled down just y'all making sure everybody knows you're not THAT type of crazy, you're the good kind.

Latino voters should have soured on him at the polls 😑

Autism advocacy isn’t complete without intersectionality 👍🏽, publicly commit to an anti-racist framework, share your progress transparently, and invite community feedback especially from Black autistic people

Planned obsolescence is the scourge of our times.

Is there a #nostalgiasky? Who remembers this Schoolhouse Rock throwback? I'm just a Bill: youtu.be/SZ8psP4S6BQ

If your organization claims to support all autistic people, anti-racism must be a core value, require annual anti-racism and cultural humility training for staff, volunteers, and leadership etc

Reminder for autism organizations: “Neurodiversity-affirming” must include anti-racist. Black autistic community members report real harm in diagnostic processes, services, and peer spaces. Your policies and culture need to reflect that reality

My birthday is this weekend and while gifts are appreciated I could really use financial help. If that's affordable please Venmo me: venmo.com/u/rahbeeuh

Some white autistic people say “I can’t be racist, I’m autistic.” But Black autistic people keep saying: the harm is still happening. Accountability isn’t ableism. It’s how we make our spaces safer for everyone.

Being autistic doesn’t make anyone immune to racial bias 🤷🏽‍♀️ Black autistic people deserve communities where we aren’t talked over, doubted, or treated like our experiences don’t count. Listen. Believe. Do better.

Time is a scary thing sometimes. It's even scarier when one cannot gauge its passage.

This is from a 70-minute Zoom interview I did with Alice for The Viral Underclass in the summer of 2020. I will transcribe it and make it freely available soon, so that people can learn from Alice in her own words.

“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:

This. Is. So. Annoying.

We learn languages in community. That's why your app isn't teaching you how to speak a foreign language, because you're not using the language in community. That's why you can't use AAVE without sounding foolish to Black people, because we learn it in a community context & we learn the rules it has.

That's why I'm committed to mutual aid, I don't feel above people who need help, I feel like them, & sometimes need help myself.

I'd also point out (gently) that the language of failure applied to the only two women nominated by a major US party is inherently problematic.

As I finished my re-watch of Desperate Housewives yesterday, I was taken aback by the introduction of a non-speaking Autistic character named Laura Delfino. Completely forgot about her. Sad bc they added her in the 2nd to last episode as a throwaway. Buckle up I've got thoughts! 🫣😁

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Thoughts on this list? @dismoviepod.bsky.social @kitteninacave.bsky.social letterboxd.com/journal/disa...

I picked an interesting time last year to take a break from social media –during the time a certain rapper begged another to "drop, drop, drop" I wanted to join in the commentary but I needed to protect my well-being. It was quite the time 😂

Not Like Us should be our The Rains of Castamere

Leading up to what'll be another trip around the sun, I've made a birthday wishlist and would appreciate (for those who are able) to send me a gift(s). 🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.giftster.com/gift/VVTrn/

They live in a bubble where our reality doesn't touch them. They not like us.

@thacalebdume.bsky.social Omgsh you're here! Hey Caleb ✌🏾