I forgot to post reminders, but I will be be live on #Twitch playing #Palia and fundraising for Alzheimer's Association today from 1pm to 3pm eastern My twitch stream is here: www.twitch.tv/jenrostardust My Fundraiser is here: events.alz.org/fundraisers/... #DoWhatYouLove #ENDALZ

💯 this! I laugh when I’m anxious and cry when I’m angry. It takes a lot of effort to try to “moderate” myself to fit in the standard box, and I sometimes shutdown when I need to do important, difficult social interactions because preparing myself for them is too much.

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

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Food aid has never been cut off during a shut down. Secretary Rollins is refusing to use USDA emergency funds for SNAP. She was also the one who said no amnesty for farm workers because all the “able bodied” Medicaid recipients can do their jobs. They want us sick, hungry, scared & poor.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

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Modern Slavery. Sorry, but it is. If companies make vulnerable individuals work for zero pay, and have no intention of ever paying them, that is exploitation, not 'charity'. Well done to ASDA.

One of the things we're talking about at work today is the need to put together food bank resources for families with the impending SNAP shortfall. But the reality is food banks barely have enough supply to meet demand as it is, especially with furoughed workers. It's really, really grim right now.

I had a very expensive car repair and while I'm okay-ish with paying rent, I have zero wiggle room and could use some. V3nmo at dexanderson

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Hey folks, Kelly has lost access to her health insurance due to high costs. So she and her husband have had to sacrifice their Covid boosters because of the price. Surely we can quickly an easily meet this need with donations to her Cash App or Venmo! $290 is an easy ask!

This morning's x-ray says it's time for an ultrasound. I think I'm gonna have to set up a GoFundMe. An obstruction is looking more likely and an ultrasound is a grand all on its own. I want to cry. This little doofus is my heart.

I think it’s good and important to spread the word about companies that are doing bad things and offer people alternatives to those companies that aren’t evil. I also think shouting “cancel that!” “Stop using that!” “Why are you still on that!” isn’t a great way to help ease people’s transitions.

Where I lived before, I couldn’t afford groceries from anywhere other than Walmart. I couldn’t get to the store personally and delivery was my only option. A lot of boycotts are inaccessible. It’s a powerful tool in the world of choice, which being poor and disabled already limits.

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

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Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger

This image needs to be in every mainstream news outlet It’s why I spend so much of my advocacy on ICE & the militarization of US cities It’s a disability justice issue They’re literally targeting disabled people because we’re easy marks ICE will disable more people with their vicious attacks.

I know this is funny, but I struggle to laugh at it. It's very isolating to have strong food preferences/ dietary needs. It's often the people who say "food is love" or "food builds community" who also communicate clearly that YOUR food needs are a massive burden.

This is why I think the Food Preference Profile worksheet in COLOR TASTE TEXTURE (or something like it) is something that should be normalized amongst extended family and friends.

One place I donate to locally is Haven from Hunger in Peabody, which is connected to Citizens Inn. They do incredible work.

Will anyone help me start on next week's rent? Storage is also due soon after on the 1st, so total I need is $1000. (Storage went up to $300 this month. Need to redo pinned thread but don't have energy.) #PleaseShare, and help if able? #DisabilityCrowdFund #HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAidRequest

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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Humans in the #UK, be advised, they want to strip consent from those who cannot advocate for themself. Time to be the advocate you wish you had, yeah? Link below, explanation via quoted post. #AutRes #AutChat #Restraint #Consent #MentalCapabilityChallenge #Autism #HumanRights

this should be so embarrassing for AI boosters - a claim that ChatGPT had “found” solutions to longstanding maths problems: turned out not that it had SOLVED them but had found solutions by googling for them they’re seeing what they want to see, not what’s there garymarcus.substack.com/p/erdosgate

It utterly baffles me that someone would think taking away from disabled people to save money is the better option when the super rich are right there, with tonnes of spare money that they wouldn’t even miss. No one needs to be a billionaire. Disabled people do need money and transport to live.

I have an appointment with DVR today. 1. My autism keeps me from working jobs meant for non autistics. 2. My husbands measly paycheck doesnt qualify us for Medicaid 3. And his private insurance is not accepted at Autistic Diagnosis and Counseling clinics #medicaid #medicare #HealthcareforAll

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Regular reminder that the “reptilian” people masquerading as human conspiracy theory is antisemitism and when they say reptilian they mean Jew who is a non-human that secretly controls the world.

This is why shit like "I may be x but my brain is fine" ableism is so prevalent among those with other disabilities. Because being perceived as unintelligent is seen as the worst thing you can be. And intelligence is a bullshit concept anyway based on other people's ideas of what is "smart" .

This is a reply to someone asking people to pay attention the words they use… I don’t want to go off at someone else in their comments but for crying out loud. This is the ableism we have to fix.

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

I would like to know how many people they asked and what they were actually asked before assuming the worst of people. There's also the possibly of "I haven't thought about it in so long I don't really even care" kind of answers. Like you can know something but not both with it.

The hashtag resist types - and prominent media figures - who go on here, share AI image garbage, and say things like “it doesn’t matter if it’s real as long as the image is effective” are kinda terrifying tbh If we too are passing off AI slop as reality we’re in an even darker place than we thought

Thanks to everyone who participated in this in any way. Please be aware that there are a lot of people in the comments who still have open fundraisers, are selling wares or crafts or that have called attention to causes that are important to them.

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing. And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power. When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

Food banks are going to need support, y'all.

This one goes out to all the people who said states will pick up the legislative/financial slack for disabled kids' education without DoEd 🤡 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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A vitally important story, memorialized in Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi."

I wonder what it's going to take for a history textbook to ever state plain the fact that a Black liberal being elected President of the United States broke this country's psyche so hard that it spent the next (at least) 8 years simultaneously schisming itself & pretending it wasn't. Because, like…

I feel like a disabled autistic 15 year old child going missing and ending up with ICE/HHS should be far bigger news. Especially considering he’s been located yet NOT returned to his mother. This is kidnapping. Yet the combination of racism & ableism means it gets ignored.

Reminder that I'm fundraising for Alzheimer's Association by Streaming on #Twitch. Tomorrow & next Sunday I will play #Palia from 1pm to 3pm eastern My twitch stream is here: www.twitch.tv/jenrostardust My Fundraiser is here: events.alz.org/fundraisers/... #DoWhatYouLove #ENDALZ

Hot take: We’re unfairly turning everything these children do into some sort of problem or rebellion instead of recognizing it as expression. Every generation had its own slang and “coded” talk. Our language connects us.

Arnold Schwarzenegger went on Bill Maher and said that Lincoln gave "the blacks" the right to vote. "Lincoln made sure that the blacks got the right to vote. The Republican Party made sure that the blacks become citizens of the United States." Not enough people know Lincoln was fucking racist.

It's why conservatives turned "woke" into something derogatory to be mocked. Because one of the most dangerous things to a conservative is a woke white person.

Hey @edmarkey.bsky.social, my senator. Can you please teach out to Fenway Health and see if you can get them to restore the trans youth care they just ended? Your words are great and we need your action too.

Periodic reminder: Sometimes people think that they can use their marginalized identity to stop me from speaking up against anti-Black racism. You can't. Sometimes people think their marginalized identity gives them the right to demand that I speak about their identity in every post. It doesn't.