Our next Zoom meeting will be Nov. 1st, which is National Bison Day and National Cook for Your Pets Day. So build an animal-themed MOC* and share it in our Discord or live on the Zoom call! Any animal, any scale, just get building and join in the fun! *MOC=My Own Creation

congratulations kyanite! 🏆 (also congratulations tugtupite, you rock). #MinCup25 #minerals Here's my version of the bracket with my hand-drawn minerals.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is a way to communicate without talking, like using a letter board or typing on an iPad. We want AAC available for anyone who needs it, and for autistic people to be supported to communicate in the way that works best for us.

Und manchmal, wenn ich allein durch die Straßen gehe, höre ich dein Lied im Kopf, und lächle. Nicht aus Trauer, sondern weil es schön war. Du warst kein Anfang und kein Ende. Du warst ein Stück Glück, das bleibt, weil ich es erinnere.

Cat approved BrickCon swag!

May, our smallest and oldest cat, who has no claws and few teeth, killed a cricket that somehow got in the house! I didn't let her eat it, but gave her treats instead. Dramatic reenactment with the laser-pointer:

49% of COVID infections are asymptomatic according to Yale School of Public Health. Yale advises layered protection: N95 masks, HEPA filters, good ventilation, vaccines, rapid tests and wastewater monitoring. Source: pdflink.to/yale-covid-1...

Whether you're participating in our collab, #FriendShipTember, #ShipTember (Is that just space ships or can it be nautical ships?), or none of the above... we want to see you build a boat and fancy it up!

Our kitty-boy is home and doing pretty well, all things considered.

Tom is out of surgery & everything went just about as well as can be expected! He's having some minor signs of Horner's Syndrome, which is not unexpected &, hopefully, temporary. Otherwise he's doing great & should be able to come home tomorrow! Pic from our trip down yesterday.

Please send well-wishes to General Tom Foolery as he heads off to the vet specialists at the teaching hospital again. He has surgery again tomorrow on his ear.

Today’s mood. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

even if you don't give a shit about covid you should want clean indoor air in schools/public buildings because getting sick more often is a huge economic hit. it literally costs the economy exponentially more money to *not* filter the air but maybe that pragmatic argument is too reasonable

Every time a patient tells me they have to quit their job or they will make slightly more than the medicaid cutoff this year and would then be bankrupted by healthcare costs, a part of me dies. What a fucked up country. For-profit healthcare is a crime against humanity. #MedicareForAll

I dug into my family history and emerged with an anti fascist blueprint for now. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The next TrickyLug meeting will be 9/6, which is "National Read a Book Day" in the US, so we challenge you to build something book-related! Build a scene from your local library, a pop-up book, a pair of bookends, a mosaic of your favorite book cover, or whatever book-related thing inspires you!

General Tom Foolery has to go back to the specialist vets again. His ear looks very infected, but our regular vet can't see any bacteria or yeast or anything that would be causing it.

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this part's fun: in reality the coders were 19% slower, but before the test predicted they'd be 24% faster. After the test they still believed they were about 20% faster.

Apep's prognosis was way worse than we hoped. We chose to say goodbye today. During our six hour visit to the emergency vet, we chatted with several people in the waiting room and one 6yo made Apep some fanart. ❤️

Please send whatever prayers/thoughts/good vibes you can to my pet snake, Apep, please. He lost his left eye recently and his other eye last night in a much more traumatic way than the first one. Only vet that can see him today is the emergency vet an hour away. 😔

Go Nuts! With TrickyLug!

I promise you, there is not a single friend of yours who masks who wouldn’t be thrilled if you put one on too when you’re with them, without having to ask. No need to guess or wonder if they’d appreciate it. 100% of the time, they appreciate it.

General Tom Foolery helps with my Coptic HW.

Video ID: A post by @eastendjoe.bsky.social (hopefully that's tagging the right person) that says "Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts." With a short video clip of two people in power chairs with zip ties on their wrists surrounded by people in uniforms.

Was checking our security camera footage and went "who the heck visited the front porch at 5am?!"

Guess who got into the hole in the wall inside the bathroom closet!!

My mom's dog snuggled up to my niece's teddy bear!

You know those labour simulators they sometimes put on men so they can understand the joys of periods and/or childbirth? Sometimes I think we need a version for chronic illness. Too many people don’t “get it” until it happens to them. They’re insistent it’s our fault. We don’t try hard enough

General Tom Foolery living up to his name as he managed to get into the drop ceiling in the basement! This is his utter lack of remorse for distracting @abide42.bsky.social from work look.

I made my comment. Please make one as well!

Hi! You're seeing this because someone noticed you posting an image that doesn't contain alt text. This is not a scolding! You are loved! But everyone needs to be convinced using alt text is socially mandatory. (I sure had to be shown the way as well!) Would you mind reading this🧵 about it and why?

NIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities. What would you give up? Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

The “covid is only a threat to the vulnerable” narrative primed the pump for the eugenics movement we’re seeing now. It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”. It paved the way for fascism.

Can't wait to get mine! Since I work at a library now, I couldn't pass up this sticker set!

Some so-called leftists also mocked disabled people who still took protections like masking, because to their minds, Covid was ‘over’ because they had been vaccinated. And their refusal to advocate for wfh is part of this pathological desire for normal.

If you care about what is happening to restrict healthcare to exterminate people—especially disability & trans communities—resist by protecting your community’s health. 1) Vaccinate when possible 2) Mask in public 3) Get loud re heath justice 4) Ask others to do the same Give/get mask mutual aid:

Disabled joy is an act of resistance 💗

"Filtration efficiency for the cloth mask was 47–55%, for level 1 masks 52–60%, for level 3 masks 60–77%. A non-certified KN95 look-alike, two KF94s, and three KN95s filtered 57–77%, and the N95 and CaN99 97–98% without fit testing": Via @dupuisj.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

If you’re not fighting against mask bans because you think they “only” apply to those committing crimes… consider the following: Who decides who’s committing a crime? The police. POC who mask will be disproportionately targeted. Who decides if your medical exemption is “good enough”? Police 🧵

I don't go there anyway (for many reasons), but I think it's a good idea if people call or email!

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

Every aspect of fascism—from racism to transphobia to climate destruction—will kill or disable you. This is why we need disability justice at the center of our resistance. This is why we need to listen to and follow the lead of disabled folks. Give/get mask mutual aid, for illness and pollution:

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Fascism & eugenics go hand in hand Trump has mocked a disabled reporter & said his own disabled nephew should be left to die RFK Jr attacked autistics for not paying taxes Dr Oz says it’s your patriotic duty to be healthy enough to join the military No social justice without disability justice.