it feels bad my psychiatrist: what feels bad me: it

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ICE/CBP just shot two people in Portland.

Good morning you handsome and gorgeous lot. The Color of Autism Foundation will be offering Crisis Ready: Empowering Families, Building Safer Communities De-escalation Tools, Real-Life Strategies, and Community Collaboration 5 Weeks of FREE hybrid caregiver training tinyurl.com/Crisis2COA

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

I want to live in a country where the lives, wellbeing and happiness of trans kids aren't treated like a political toy that heartless cis adults use to bully and get their way. What cruelty.

Lucky wants to have a serious conversation with you. That is it's not too late to get the Covid and flu shots this year.

i know there will be some folks saying "okay but depression isn't like, you know, cancer or something, it's not like you're gonna die from not getting these meds" bipolar is a very, very dangerous illness. the rate of death from cancer is 1 in 6. the rate for bipolar is 1 in 5, from suicide alone

2026 is going to be more gay. pass it on.

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love seeing ppl on transit just asserting “can i have that seat” in the priority area, go unashamed go!

“but i dress for autism, not for style” thing i just said lol

The largest provider of "mental health services" in the US is the injustice system, and many "mental health facilties" ostensibly focused on patient care are actually carceral.

The words we use to talk about AAC matter. They shape how people feel seen and included, as well as our everyday practices. Not just #AutRes but our sample was Autistic-heavy, and lots of Autistic people (including me!) use AAC. So new, free paper I'm on: assistivewa.re/4j3DCD3 #AcademicSky

The three genders

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

I know this is something I circle back to a lot, but it honestly feels, to me, like half the attacks on our trans siblings roots back to "children aren't people." The doctor said "boy," so I get to be the parent of a boy child! Not a girl child! How dare my child want things I don't want?!

If we could just take a fucking breath and admit "our kids are people, we don't get to decide who they are," and stop using "BUT THE CHILDREN" as a reason to attack trans people, and autistic people, and whoever else we've decided not to like, that would be cool.

Me, not taking anything for pain: ugh why am I still in pain this sucks

...it's *easy* to imagine how horrific it might be if you, or perhaps your child, were forced to endure an unwanted puberty, one that contradicts your fundamental understanding of yourself. if you can't apply this to trans kids' realities you're a f-ing monster juliaserano.medium.com/the-cass-rev...

have bunny

As an aside, it is HYSTERICAL how people think that "Doctor's notes" are some magical balm that are either 1) useful or 2) easy to get.

Damn it sure would be embarrassing for the writer of this if there were any medical conditions where people could walk but not for long distances

News sites aren't fully on this yet, and the paragraph here was removed, but I checked the FDA site and it looks real. www.fda.gov/inspections-...

well i’ve gone from “huh” to “RA labs” to “x-rays” to “topical pain cream” to “huh” to “try tylenol” so i fear my next pcp appt is going to = “cbt time!!!” 🫠🫠🫠

Fyi PNW folks we are on the doorstep of the next big storm front. Extreme high winds + saturated soils means lots of trees down and power outages. Make sure your devices and flashlights are charged and you have loose objects put away or tied down. Be prepared. Please stay safe. 🌲 #pdxweather

"[T]enants say they ... faced opposition as they recruited neighbors to the union, including threats from on-site property managers to issue lease violation or eviction notices to tenants who signed up, or even to call child protective services."

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so like, i’m aware that it’s not a done deal that all dems vote no on this bill flooding folks’ offices with calls tomorrow is probably a good idea if you care about the trans folks in your life

My patio-cam bunny in the cold rain, doing happy feet after I tossed out some parsley.

Daily bunny no.3171 is going underground

the oppression of children runs so deep in our society that one of the primary ways that we disempower people is by assigning them child-adjacent status as adults. license to abuse flows from that

It's an extremely common misconception that people who have verified identities or are using their "real" names are less abusive online, but it's not true. Pseudonymous and anonymous people behave less abusively than people using their "real" names: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Everything is either kitty or puppy. Possums are 100% kitty.

Children have rights. Parents only have responsibilities.

Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority

I hate a lot of stuff, but most of all I hate how hard we fail the kids.

i’m focused on the contradictions of personality disorder experiences. revealing & exploring the tangle of contradictions that lie in all of us. it isn’t so simple that people with personality disorders are bad and everybody else is good. the truth is more vulnerable and jeopardizing and revelatory

A bit more than >50% of the number of Japanese Americans interned during WWII.

every meeting could have been an email. email is a technology of boundless power

If there is an accommodation so desirable that a problematic number of people are “faking” disability (doubt!!) to access it, that shows it’s an accommodation that could have wide social benefit is implemented in abundance. This is often the case with accommodations generally.

terrifying to imagine the consequences of this, as someone who has been stalked and survived domestic violence

what with the "shrug, eugenics isn't inherently bad" guy and the "accommodations have gone too far" defenders, it really feels like a rough week (or rougher week than usual) for disabled people, and I would politely ask the universe to KNOCK IT OFF

Hi other tech folks! Does anyone have recommendations for trans-friendly recruiters on the West Coast? I’m a lead product manager with around a decade of experience. Looking to shift back to a salaried position after consulting the last couple years. Reposts appreciated, thanks!

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I've been trying to connect to my brain all morning but keep getting the same error message 😕

Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.

I've talked about this when it comes to SSI fraud. I'd rather 1000 people fraudulently get benefits than 1 person be denied; others would prefer 1000 eligible people get denied rather than 1 person commit fraud (note: SSI fraud is EXTREMELY rare).

Daily bunny no.3156 can give you some recommendations