And also because I care about you! If there's a simple tool that is very effective at preventing this awful disease and helping you avoid my experience, I want you to know about it.

These are adorable *and* useful.

This is a jewel of a book. Heartily recommend.

This is the year I'm finally piloting February Fiction for Fun (#FeFiFoFu). I need a short, simple, practice of joy and creativity more than ever. For at least 15 minutes a day from today to 2/28, I'll be working on my fiction WIP. Feel free to join me!

Offer: free 30-40 mins virtual author visits for MPS elementary classrooms going virtual to stay safe from I.C.E.’s domestic terrorism of my hometown. DM me. Please share.

Hi, I'm Ruptured Appendix (age 4).

Machiavelli's The Prince (original Italian)

These PDFs are fantastic for *anyone* who struggles with procrastination, motivation, and just getting things done. Get them now and you can reprint and use them endlessly!

This is a fantastic deal. The PDFs are full of amazing, creative jump starters for your brain and energy and tools to help you focus.

It's that time of year again.

Haha I was just about to say this. STEP 1: Make a Gantt chart for Thanksgiving prep STEP 2: Finish Thanksgiving prep in February, full of self-loathing, just like every other Gantt chart project

My last Brother laser multi-function printer lasted me 15 years. So naturally I bought the same Brother printer again, just 15 years newer.

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

I made this salad a lot in my graduate years: Can of chickpeas or white beans Can of tuna Cut up bell peppers or tomatoes Olive oil Red wine vinegar Salt and Pepper Can also add rice or quinoa if you have it or other veggies like zucchini

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It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more! Store details below!

Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”

One of the most straightforward, radical, life affirming actions you can take right now is wearing a K/N95 mask. Community care & self care rolled into one easy act. Show up for yourself and your neighbors.

Christians with #LongCOVID and those still taking COVID-19 precautions feel abandoned by their religious institutions. In a Sick Times survey, the majority of respondents reported their churches are failing to acknowledge Long COVID. Some are creating their own spaces in response. bit.ly/4dRQZn7

An historian friend shared this Quaker-related piece of National Spelling Bee history, and now you can enjoy it too.

The professor tells me in past semesters her mask wearing inspired a few students to mask too, but this semester she has masked alone, but when I ask if she has wanted to stop, she says: “no it’s good for students to see someone doing the right thing when everyone else given up.”

A friend who did not realize her driver's license had expired until she got to TSA (and who did not have her passport) was able to use her Costco ID to fly instead. So putting it with your ID is valid!

🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision. Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...

Disability justice asks: What if care wasn’t conditional? What if rest wasn’t earned? What if worth didn’t hinge on how useful you are to someone else?

There is a common thread among the TV that appeals to me right now and that thread is...competence.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

This. All of this.

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

Today @thesicktimes.bsky.social: I spoke to several federal workers with Long COVID who are deeply concerned about their future employment under the Trump administration. thesicktimes.org/2025/03/03/f...

I can't stop laughing at this (source: imgur.com/gallery/take...)

Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks? #healthpolicy 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Happy Black History Month!! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. All 3 knee brace patterns are available for pre-order!! If I don't sell enough of them. I'll have to cancel orders. So please support!! We're 55% to the goal! Keep sharing!!

MUM: Let’s call him Ian DAD: I prefer Greg MUM: Ian DAD: Greg MUM: Ian! DAD: Greg! MUM: Give me an I! Give me an A! Give me an N! Ian! DAD: Greg, Greg, Greg! Oi, oi, oi! MUM: What do we want? Ian! When do we want it? Now! DAD: Let’s go Greggg! Let’s go! Let’s go Greggg! Let’s go! (Gregorian chants)

Are you interested in quantifying airborne allergen loads (molds/pollens) inside your home? A colleague is recruiting >200 homes across the US for a beta test (no cost, of course) - if you volunteer you get results for your home. Sign up to participate here: boulderblue.com

Join us on February 12 at 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET for a Disability Community Briefing on #TexasvBecerra — a lawsuit that threatens #Section504. Section 504 is a crucial disability rights law that ensures equal access to schools, healthcare, and more. Register: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

if I sold just over 50 more copies of my book, I'd hit a cosmically-arbitrary but personally significant base-10 milestone! buy it here: bookshop.org/a/11130/9780...

New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron

There are multiple folks working on collecting the data that's being deleted & finding accessible repositories for it, such as Internet Archive, a KFF project, etc. @healthjournalism.org is doing this as well. If you have data you can share, pls email andrea at healthjournalism.org

I highly recommend this reusable, approachable, and innovative Anti-Planner by @danidonovan.com for the ADHD and neurodivergent folks in your life. anti-planner.com/shop/the-ant...

I wish I had had earlier exposure to #AutismAcceptance resources from the moment my son was diagnosed with autism. But I am grateful that we now have resources like the @autisticadvocacy.bsky.social Start Here guide for parents of autistic kids: autisticadvocacy.org/book/start-h... 23/

I did my first "Don't engage, just block" today (mask troll). It feels like rewiring my neural pathways. They weren't interested in hearing about how masks are highly effective but not 100%, especially in a viral laden environment where you occasionally need food or water and no one else masks.

President Biden just established the Frances Perkins National Monument in Newcastle, Maine — honoring the historic contributions of America's first woman Cabinet Secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor. Perkins was the leading architect behind the New Deal.

There are no gifs on this app, but everything‘s still shit, so here, once again, is Ted Lasso as academic life:

OK, one last ICYMI on this baby, and then you'll just have to MI.

Great interview with Matt McGorry. Disability activism cannot and should not be carried entirely by the disabled.