DARVO style of gaslighting is way too common in society (USA). Deny Accuse Reverse Victim Offender The person denies that their actions caused you harm. They then accuse you of harming them by making the claim OR claim that the behavior they did was actually you doing it (often despite you […]

Wish this was talked about more. Medical Trauma Is Real and is More Common Than You Think (Video by Jessica Kellgren-Fozard) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uijou2QXB8 #trauma #disabled

Can we make 4th of July a day of literally anything but USA? * Make it a day to mourn those we lost to USA's past, current, and ongoing genocides. * Ignore it and make it the day of napping * Make it a piss off a fascist or punch a fascist day * Make it a day to craft items to help others * […]

RE: https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116766418326923867 Alt text for the photo: A Trump Lackey stands at a podium that reads department of justice and points his slimey finger at the crowd.

I crashed pretty bad this weekend. Means I'm behind on things again. Then I remind myself that I'm on Crip Time, so I don't have to set ridiculously silly and useless deadlines. I just need to be honest about where I'm at in the process. It's hard to undo the icky "must be productive or I"m […]

RE: https://mastodon.art/@thelatestkate/116760903675596420 This is my response (usually just in my head, not out loud or posted here) when people say things like, "Why fight? They've rigged the system and they're going to win anyway!"

The US Postal Service (USPS) published a proposed rule to allow the federal government to control who can cast a mail-in or absentee ballot. States would have to send a list of every voter slated to receive a ballot by mail to the USPS. Public comments are now being accepted on this rule. See […]

too real #shitpost

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838861 If you’re still using Proton mail: The company is sponsoring the videos of French right-wing YouTuber Vincent Lapierre. If encryption is part of your vision for a better society, find a better service provider. #proton #fash

This is bad. Submit a public comment and urge your state to sue and fight back against implementation of these federal rules: https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed If implemented we won't have science anymore, just another political arm of the […]

RE: https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/116640578558884764 Quote: "Long COVID did not create medicine’s discomfort with invisible illness. It exposed a preexisting pattern that millions of patients had been navigating for decades. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) […]

"What changed was not the existence of invisible illness. What changed was the number of people experiencing it all at once. Once millions of previously healthy people began experiencing chronic exhaustion, cognitive dysfunction, and functional instability simultaneously, the limitations of […]

"Generally speaking, I think it takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up." organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

Had a horrific hospital experience, but thankfully I had an advance directive and POA, and she with my younger sister went to bat for me. Hospital kept trying to discharge despite my frequent nonepilectic seizures and semi conscious state. They had no care plan. My day nurse alerted me and […]

Seizures suck and can lead one to feel so dazed and confused for a long time after. #seizures #disabled

Hi, 'Shop. I'm stepping slightly out of my local, community-care lane to share something I feel is very important to Canadians. We're facing another terribly damaging, wrongheaded attempt by our government to "regulate" digital communications by compromising everyone's security. If you're a […]

In order to go viral on Mastodon, your post should include at least one cat and some criticism of AI. So here is Binah disliking large language models.

#DisabledSocial A reminder that when people signed on to Disabled Social, they committed to the rules we have. One of those rules is making posts accessible to all our members. This includes AltText on photos and videos. AltText doesn't need to be much. Just to explain in a sentence or two what […]

I often get replies that really clearly fit into the pattern described by those who warn about the literacy skills crisis — where readers see only the keywords, and construct a completely different sentence in their head with the same keywords and respond to it. It’s 100% not your fault if you […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116563821063587689 This is an user-bility and accessibility nightmare. If you move your mouse Gemini will harass you? I'd toss the laptop into the wall before I even opened my writing and art programs. I do not need AI telling me anything. Can we just delete […]

Why do I curl up in my chair, with my feet tucked like a cat, and me scrunched up into smallest space possible? I KNOW this will cause my feet and ankles to go numb and for the pain to start, and yet I fall back into this same position every few hours. I learn nothing from the pain […]

Perfect Loaf. #Cats #caturday

I love it when the bots line up perfectly in my feed:

#DisabledSocial For our new people, do you have any questions? Mastodon is a little different from the corporate social media like Facebook and others. You generate your home timeline by following people and tags. If you'd like further tips, reply to this thread. For established members […]

Do people on the fediverse know about Ellipsus? It's a really great app by writers for writers, and they are anti-AI and pro-privacy: https://ellipsus.com/ Pros: * Easy to collaborate, examine, and merge changes. Including chats and comments. * Good set of editing and writing features. * All […]

Do people on the fediverse know about Ellipsus? It's a really great app by writers for writers, and they are anti-AI and pro-privacy: https://ellipsus.com/ Pros: * Easy to collaborate, examine, and merge changes. Including chats and comments. * Good set of editing and writing features. * All […]

Star is hard to nab a picture of as she keeps headbutting for pers. She's 15 and diabetic. Her buddy Nebula died at age 12 three weeks ago. Nebula died of the same cancer as Quark. So both Star and myself are still grieving. When I adopted Star and Nebula […] [Original post on disabled.social]

Lately, discourse on trans, race, disability, immigrant, and queer issues is exhausting. We lay out facts of what is happening and make calls for action, but I don't solidarity actions or much fighting back. I feel like I'm yelling into the void, but not even the void is listening. I watch as […]

Earlier this week, I mentioned to someone when people (especially trans people like myself) attempt to point out JK Rowling's harm and how she funds it, the defenders of the Potter Universe swarm to derail and turn antagonistic if we suggest alternative books. They demand separation of author […]

It's cute how people still treat SCOTUS as legitimate.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116479413863131044 Please boycott JK Rowling and read way better novels by way better authors. Stop wasting energy on defending this franchise and join us in boycotting her so she has less money and visibility to destroy the lives of trans folks life me. If […]

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116490353686695651 Alt Text: The Supreme Court's Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling In A Century. This evisceration of Voting Rights Act Requires Us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously. Article date is April 29, 2026.

People think "restorative justice" is soft and fuzzy but it's not. It's the most difficult and complete kind of justice. It might not even be practical to implement. But, it's also what really "ought" to happen.

I wish to remind folks that voting can't be the only action taken to stop fascism. Voting can help in smaller ways, but the best way to stop fascism is to build up community power from ground up and protect one's neighbors. We, the people, are many, and decentralized movements can help us […]

Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit) Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites below magnitude 7! (They have not […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I witnessed a discussion where someone called themselves an ally to trans people. A trans person then asked them to share actions/behaviors they have done in support of us. The "ally" proceeded to engage in ad hominen attacks, shifting the goalposts, and other fallacies instead of sharing […]

I think there is a concert or festival happening at the State Fairgrounds, which two blocks south and two or three east of where I live. I can hear the bass that sounds like Ranchera -- a Mexican musical style that has a waltz or polka-like rhythm but played with Mariacha instruments. It's just […]

Daily reminder that there are tons of lovely, brilliant, kind Jewish people in the world who aren’t Zionist - the two things have next to nothing to do with one another - and that even as a simple nerd I can make an effort to boycott and refuse to amplify Israeli cybersecurity software and tools.

RE: https://mas.to/@dmacphee/116448543666416003 Oh hey it's me!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@effinbirds/116448901576507948 This is how I feel about Facebook, TwitterX, bluesky, and Discord. The first two I deleted my profile years ago. Discord is a necessary evil since I haven't felt well enough to test workable alternatives. Why am I not using them? […]

#DisabledSocial #introduction Several new people were approved and I believe a few have introduction posts now. Welcome to our corner of the internet! I'm making this post to slowly, over this next week, locate and boost them and link in this thread so members can welcome them to our server […]

Spikes tear thru my skin pierce my sides and I hang dripping blood like rain. People avert their eyes, others grab sharpened rebar, and my pain echoes like thunder. A person stands near me. they yell about rights, but others sneer and mock, as the laws seethe and grow to accommodate more spikes […]

Spikes tear thru my skin pierce my sides and I hang dripping blood like rain. People avert their eyes, others grab sharpened rebar, and my pain echoes like thunder. A person stands near me. they yell about rights, but others sneer and mock, as the laws seethe and grow to accommodate more spikes […]

I think I'm burnt out.

RE: https://disabled.social/@Aaidanbird/116383719236415352 Oh! I meant to ask: if other countries send people to space and livestream it, can y'all send me those links? Finding anything in search in America is frustrating. I want to watch more humans excited in space.

A reminder Artemis II was a relic of Obama's term and this mission was a success in spite of trump, who defunded and harmed the success of NASA his entire time in office. Kudos to NASA and especially the Artemis crew who focused on the wonder and curiosity of the human spirit, on sharing […]

I say "Dude, Dudette, Dudexxe" mostly as a joke but my friend group found it hilarious, and I'm beginning to suspect I'm starting a local trend as a mutual recently used it. lol #trans #genderedwords #silly

One thing to remember on confederate surrender day is that after the war many thousands of elite rebel officers and government officials had their citizenship restored and their lands left unconfiscated. They worked their way back into public life -- white zillionaire class solidarity is a […]