People don't realize how an assistive device entwines with a nervous system, becomes an extension of the body, as much a part of you as your own tongue. Its interface, battery life, maintenance, malfunctions—even its obsolescence—are yours. You don't just wear the machine. You live its life.

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180 job applications. 10 months of unemployment. 3 rejection notices. 0 interviews.

Astrologers, if you're using your lore prescriptively, congrats, you've found religion and dogma again. Leave me out of it. 🫶

Amy graduated from her Co-Active Leadership Program with her new service dog Bronwyn and her old service boy Hayden helping her to the end! Our last week in Sonoma was one of laughter, tears, access, barriers, coffee runs, dirty jokes, service dog shenanigans, queer joy, and cripple-punk kinship. 🤟

I was inspired by the regal @haymayden.bsky.social for this morning's color study drawing. Just in time for #tummytuesday.

Any other gay men struggling to vibe with Heated Rivalry? The excitement and joy among you all is genuinely wonderful, but I feel like I must be missing something.

I am going to Latin America on a small travel grant, but need $3,000 more for coverage of unions fighting back against Trump. I've covered unions in Latin America for 20 years & feel workers abroad need to hear their stories. Donate & fightback! paydayreport.com/send-a-labor...

You shouldn't need to see a woman's death in photos or videos to care about her. That isn't empathy. Empathy is the ability to find within yourself the means to love someone in abstract. It does not demand evidence or ask that the last intimate, violent moments of her life be made into spectacle.

With One Story's support, I ended the year with 100+ pages of my first novel—entirely different from the one I committed to writing at the start of this fellowship.

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Anyone have any disability advocacy / rights / justice connections in Los Angeles? Really trying to find a job. I'm looking for anything, but would prefer to be doing the work that is important to me, and for a safe, access-driven employer. I keep trying to network, but I'm not getting anywhere.

2025 gave me psychic damage.

Almost every single job opening cites "strong verbal/oral communication skills" as a requirement. Not a preference. A requirement. Even "inclusive" and "equity-focused" employers. Even disability and Independent Living employers.

How do I stand a chance in this job market when I frequently have to disclose my disability just to be able to interview?

I guess I should have posted this on Tummy Tuesday, but I came early, which happens to the best of us sometimes

sorry

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Bruna Ferreira isn't some political prop of comeuppance for Karoline Leavitt. She's a person, a young woman and mother forcibly detained by ICE and awaiting deportation as a prisoner.

Gaza is still starving.

Hey pals, I'm trying to connect with some people who have hemiparesis and/or level 1 cerebral palsy. If that describes you or anyone you know, hit me up, please + thank you.

DJT absolutely fawning over Zohran Mamdani was no surprise whatsoever because there is not a single person who isn't secretly in love with Zohran.

Why do all blockbuster films look like Marvel slop now?

Can y'all just read Gregory Maguire's books? I'm begging you to read the books. There are four novels in the Wicked Years series: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. I don't want to be "that guy" (🤓☝️📚) but the film/musical is comparatively quite superficial.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

on Alice's account over on twitter posted by Sandy Ho

Just heard the news about Alice. What a devastating loss ... an oracle, a brilliant human, a leader.

Alice Wong has died. The world will never be the same because she lived.

Moving to Los Angeles. Ready or not, here I come. 👊

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Is "The Old Religion" the best song of Florence Welch's career? Possibly. Probably.

I was asked this morning if I'm Deaf or deaf—if I'm a part of the culture, community, and language, or if I just can't hear. I reject the Deaf/deaf binary. Deafness is a universe. How can you possibly cut a universe into halves?

If you depend on SNAP benefits and food banks, please read this thread. If you don't rely on those programs, share this for the people in your life who do.

Damn, I had a dead Linktree in my bio for like a year and someone just told me. 😭 Anyway, check out my website that I'm about to completely burn down and redesign, my Tumblr so you can see me share photos of dad bods once every three months, and my Instagram so you can see me share photos of mine.

When I get my prince albert, where do I include that on my resume? I'm never sure about these things. 🧐

Low effort slutty costume ideas go!

I hate doom posting here but also it’s the only way I feel like I’m not alone in seeing how bad everything is

Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.

Gay sex hits different on Sundays.

Hey folks, I'm moving to the Altadena/Pasadena area in California in November. Since I'm uprooting myself from a life lived entirely in Indiana up until now, I'm hoping to find some friends in Los Angeles to make this major life event a little less scary and isolating. So, hit me up. 🫶

I have loved being the Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow this year. It's been so rewarding, encouraging, and motivating as a writer who's been struggling with craft for the last few years. If you have any questions about applying, just ask! Also, the deadline was extended to October 13!

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

Some of you kids have been playing "Killing in the Name" on Guitar Hero since 2006 and still grew up to vote for fascists.

Have you taken your Tylenol today? 🩵

I'm so tired of sharing a planet with people who only dream of escaping from it, who treat the earth as fundamentally evil and disposable. So fucking sad.

The call is coming from inside the house, folks.

You all love to blame victims all the time until it's an American Nazi literally dying from the kind of violence he endorsed and the instruments of warfare he worshipped. Weird.

Too many of you lamenting "political violence" today have been silent about Gaza.

What are the known Zionist literary magazines/journals? I've taken The Atlantic, Guernica, and Gulf Coast off my submission list, but are there others?