Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…

Alaska has an incredibly precarious food supply chain and it's facing a pretty grim future thanks to the Trump admin.

Just a reminder that abolition means prisons are harmful for everyone, even people you dislike, even people who've perpetrated violence, even people who've traumatized us. Locking up people does not solve domination, oppression, or interpersonal violence.

We want to uplift the critical work of Migrant Equity SouthEast in supporting the community impacted by this raid. Their efforts on the ground are essential, and we encourage others to follow and support their work. #TogetherWeFight

If you are stopped by ANY variety of law enforcement in the United States, you should ID yourself if you're in a stop and ID state, ask if you're free to leave, and say: I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.

We need a better sociotechnical and -cultural paradigm than this. This shit is so untenable

The litfic convo is reminding me of a conversation I recently had with a student who was having a "poetry is worthless" moment and after talking with her I found out some professors are still assigning TS Eliot to first-years, so I showed her some Danez Smith and she was like "oh!"

Asexuality is a spectrum, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

The U.S. government is deploying an AI tool, called SweetREX and developed by DOGE, to gut federal regulations. (More specifically, the tool was developed by an undergrad who took leave from college to join DOGE...) www.wired.com/story/sweetr...

Carolina Chocolate Drops documentary.

Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

A clerk told me today in arraignment court when I checked in "You can't be a lawyer, you're too exotic looking. You're obviously an interpreter." And then the clerk handed me the interpreter registration pass. We really are just saying whatever inside thoughts pop into our heads now, huh?

I updated our Giving Circle list of people/projects - docs.google.com/document/d/1... - Sharing it with others in case you are looking for people/projects to support. The vast majority of these are small, local, and mutual aid focused.

If you are encountering my work for the first time or re-encountering my work after it’s been a while, please note that I have changed my name. My name is Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown. My first name is Ly Xīnzhèn, not Ly. Much of my work was published under my previous name, Lydia X. Z. Brown.

Now starting my AUGUST SURVIVAL MA. I am a severely disabled queer Jewish person who can't work OR get disability. I need money for food and meds as well as repairing or replacing my laptop. Please help and share! C: $FallonBinns V: Fallon-Binns #MutualAid #MAV #DisabilityCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund

Autism is a disability. To be disabled does not mean one is lesser, inferior, defective, or disordered. The claim that autism is not a disability because it is "a healthy neurotype" reinforces the ableist belief that "health" and "disability" are mutually exclusive; this is not true.

The takeover of DC is rooted in racism. It is expressed through fascism. These things matter because it’s not a “distraction” or about “false” ideas around crime. It’s just racism, pure & simple. Media, politicians, social media users, influencers, everyone need to frame it this way. Consistently.

So help me if I see people trying to justify expelling Palestinians to South Sudan or saying it is anything other than genocidal, evil, and utterly devoid of humanity, I'm going to lose it. I do not understand how after centuries of being expelled and oppressed and murdered, we as Jews can do THIS.

There are people in the administration openly calling for women to lose their right to vote. They are trying to denaturalize citizens and take away birthright citizenship. The gestapo is on our streets. The WH tweets Nazi propaganda daily. I need the “mature adults” to get their shit together asap.

My personal opinion is that everyone should be alarmist about everything the conservative movement is saying and planning and attempting right now. Be extremely alarmist about fascism. Be very alarmed about White Christian Nationalism. It is an absolutely appropriate reaction.

I think of Ahmad every time I pass by the mint in my garden; I want him to have the same someday. Help him out? Match my $5? gofund.me/69f962fc

Let me preface this by stating up front that language is not the most urgent or important issue facing any of us, ever. And, at the same time, language shapes/is shaped by culture, politics, and power. That said, I've had many thoughts brewing for a while about the terms "AuDHD" and "neurospicy."

“Speaking out for kids in this situation is more important than my career.” More people need to internalize this.

i understand that other people are in different parts of their political journey than me but please let me turn off their retweets

Glad to have been quoted in this @alexagagosz.bsky.social article by on Brown's disgusting capitulation to the Trump administration. I remain in solidarity with all the students, staff and faculty impacted by this horrendous decision. Unpaywalled in next skeet.

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In America, you get punished for being poor while presidents get rewarded for committing genocide.

No, popular left wing accounts, the video of protesters getting arrested today are not just “the people” getting fed up. These are disabled activists acting deliberately and in a manner we have consistently had to because nondisabled people don’t show up. Every time, it’s on us.

Ok I read this article and I believe everything in it and also I believe that everyone who participated in it did so because the Dems are going to try to blame Joe Biden for all their problems and kids, that ain’t it www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement

Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.

Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

Hold onto your masks, MD! Bills in the statehouse want to charge masked people with criminal intimidation. Despite sponsors' claims, a ban threatens Black, Jewish, & other marginalized people & gives police tools to profile maskers out of public life. Learn & act at linktr.ee/FightMDMaskB...

Read, reread, reread. It will hit differently again today, and next week, and next month.

Here are some nice mushrooms

Part of what’s obscene about this is that women’s and gender studies, far from being a theory hole that is disconnected from every day life, is a place where students who are going into health and human services professions go for pre-professional training so they can be better at their jobs

I'm staying offline as i can, today, but just a note that a LOT of people have been trying to warn about the intersection of white supremacy, eugenics, technology, & the present sociopolitical moment. Those same people also tried to present solutions, tactics to push back. Maybe go find & heed those

So when it comes to "grow community locally" stuff, here's something non-Disabled folks especially have to figure out how to counter. There is a long-standing pattern where chronically ill people, even those who previously had extensive support networks and community, are abandoned and isolated.

MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLES SHOULD ALL BE OPEN ACCESS