This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

It’s #transgender Awareness week. More than 100 years ago, #transgender surgeries and support were happening, and #trans people were organizing against N*zis. Plus c’est change… www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

To one and all she seemed best friends with her cousin, the Spanish duchess Crystal Pepsi, but behind the smiles, in the world of court politics, they were the most deadly of adversaries

If you’re a survivor of sexual abuse… it is a tough time to be online. It’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to cry. It’s ok to rage. Whatever you’re feeling is valid. I like to remind myself what Gisele Pelicot said… “shame must change sides” We’re going to make the abusers feel shame now.

"Guillermo del Toro was so intentional about EVERYTHING" and yet hardly anybody is talking about how he put more disability and illness into the story than exists in the OG Frankenstein texts!! 😶‍🌫️ I want to yap about it!!

We have this in Australia too.

If KDP is even going to mess with *Subterranean Press*, for goshsakes, I really think indie authors ought to think twice before using KDP for ANYTHING. I know it's cheap, but the risk of this sort of nonsense tanking an indie's income stream is unreasonably high.

Yet another new study that's found that ABA therapy is linked to worse mental health outcomes. The number of hours of "therapy" did not make a difference--any exposure to ABA is traumatic. You can't fix conversion therapy. LGBT conversion therapy has similar results in studies. #autism #ABA #trauma

Spoilsports.

🎉It's my book day!🎉 SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library! Full of short fiction and poetry retellings! books2read.com/u/b6EDMA devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...

AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

I owe ~$1500 (see image) to the hospital for my 10/20/2025 procedures. Donations to Help Hope Live=TAX DEDUCTIBLE. I can't access funds w/out medical receipts! W/ACA premiums skyrocketing, I will be uninsured by 01/01 & need to raise $500 for that ... helphopelive.org/campaign/159...

A showcase of my smaller works available

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

#disanilityrights #disability #ADA #ADArights #humanrightsabuses

Portraits from Photoplay Magazine, Jan 1915. This is a great source for actors of the period, and I suspect some in the #geneology community will love it as well. archive.org/details/Phot... UPenn also has a list of available issues. onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/seria... 🗃️ 📷 #c20th

Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋ (I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)

BREAKING: I GOT MY SNAP BENEFITS. (NYC HERE) CHECK YOUR EBT CARDS AND PLEASE REPORT BACK!!!!!

I’ve pre-ordered the audiobook! This thread made my blood boil on Tom’s behalf. I will buy every former Unbound author’s books I see promoted, as and when I can afford them & at times it’ll be most helpful for their releases. Everyone who can afford to should do the same!

@gillianpolack.bsky.social Have you heard of Sarah Campion? She wrote several books set in Australia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_C...

Community garden progress, still a ton of work to do but im out of funds, please consider donating or sharing so i can continue this work and hopefully grow enough food to feed some people and myself ko-fi.com/systemerror

Few people care about this, I know. It's just another way that Black people are USED to grow the prison industrial complex by claiming that we do mainly want more cops. No nuance ever. Just more cops.

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

The Walking Sticks Pre-Orders are delayed due to manufacturing issues. They had to be completely redone to the quality I wanted. So there is a delay. They won't be ready until late January most likely. I will be sending out a few emails to update customers in the coming days.

\Content warning\ @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has been on Sky News to finally respond to the below groups who have asked her to hear our concerns about the separation of powers, due process and unintended consequences. She has dismissed these concerns in the vilest way possible.

okay. he’s now mayor. time to get critical. when he said “New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant” that slapped. but. i wish he mentioned it was also built on stolen land. or that NYC was built by Natives.

Disability groups have released a statement: "We are deeply concerned that communities traditionally over-policed & disadvantaged, including First Nations people with disability, would be at heightened risk" The whole statement is well worth reading. Ty @amyremeikis.bsky.social for reporting.

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

I run a program for marginalized families and individuals to get presents over the holidays. If you would like to adopt an individual to get a gift for please leave a comment and I will get you a wish list! Please consider sharing this so more people see it. Thank you!

My friend Ace is dealing with shitty people harassing them and trying to get them to take down their little free library and food pantry by claiming they're a 'code violation' when said structures are ALL OVER TOWN like come on bro we see you, anyway, sign a thing, help Ace and their neighbors!

A poem I wrote some months ago showed up at my door today in the first issue of the relaunched Southerly magazine.

Sunday = fun day~ wild bears playing at a public playground, captured by someone just passing by~🐻

Please dont ignore this. Your shares are incredibly valuable, even gaining two monthly supporters would mean so much and allow me to keep going

Did I forget to say - I'm dancing in this ballet? I play the Sea Queen, and a smaller seperate role for two scenes. I'm the token middle-aged performer. 😁 Everyone else performing is under 30.

Forgot the wee tags! #dance #disability #WA #theatre #FairyTales

Yesterday was the final dress rehearsal for The Little Mermaid here in Perth, WA. We have created a new and original retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. An 80 minute ballet starring disabled, queer, trans and mixed-race dancers. It runs from 4-22 November 2025.

Today I learned that the silent era was considered a golden age of accessibility in film (both in terms of work in the industry and for the audience) for the deaf community. Because deaf actors and directors had experience expressing things without sound, they could get jobs.

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

Just chiming in here, I know cc fees make paying by the article a pretty bad deal for pubs, but I’d love to see places like Hydra offering a bundle where you pay for 10 articles at a time and use up a credit with each one you read. Bet plenty of those folks would convert to subscriptions too.

Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil is a Kindle deal this month! it's 99p, you might as well steal it and smack me with a kipper —I move up the rankings, you get an almost-free, not-exactly cozy book about goblins, seems very fair

I depend on these sales to survive, and I never get enough just from sales to survive. Knitting is slow work, which drives up my prices somewhat, but I do try to keep them within a "reasonable"-to-consumer range. Since I can't possibly sell enough to eat enough, I also need Mutual Aid.

It is not just 'appropriate' that anyone eligible for a welfare payment receive that payment—it's the law. A police officer should not be able to request the cancellation of a welfare payment for any reason, and there are no good reasons for doing so.

"We have this idea that those in poverty have to be punished and we don't — we're already punished enough." @artistaffame.bsky.social @antipovertycentre.org www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

We've got a delightful interview with @alixeharrow.bsky.social by @katwithsword.bsky.social to celebrate the publication day of Alix's dynamite new novel, THE EVERLASTING. You can read it over at our FB page: www.facebook.com/Subterranean...

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social get a load of this! (It ties into my deeper thoughts about how vampire trends match economic downturns but that’s too scary for a Sunday night.)

this might be one of the dumbest comics i’ve ever made

For Colorado, the pet food bank is coloradopetpantry.org. Lots of places accept donations, lots of distribution sites around the state. It’s not shameful to need help. It’s shameful to harm someone, including yourself, including your four-footed people, because you won’t ask for help.

Puberty blockers are ‘safe, effective and reversible’, finds independent research which was commissioned by the New South Wales government in Australia. www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/10/p...