When I had to say goodbye to my last job due to disability, my coworkers said I shouldn't worry. Someone who's "really" sick would get benefits, they said. Whenever I wonder why non-disabled people act the way I do, I remember that.

or who tell us "but they're family. you should reach out"

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Guilty. I also practice other radical risk avoidance behaviours such as washing my hands, cooking my food, and wearing seatbelts in cars.

When I was a data engineer, the thing I heard most often from users was "if I can't trust the data, it's worse than useless." Technical folks who are pushing AI think they know better than their users and users cop to it immediately.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

This whole thread. Thank you. I needed this today.

Florida

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I could smell it through the screen

Community video for Severe ME awareness day, please share and tag politicians and public figures who need to see this! All participants IG handles tagged at the end 💙💙 #SevereME #SevereMEAwarenessDay #MECFS #MillionsMissing #UnitedForME

What if your body couldn’t bear light, sound, movement — or even touch? Today, #SevereMEDay, we ask you to imagine living that way not just for a day… but for years. For people living with Very Severe ME, this isn’t a metaphor — it’s reality. 🧵

Great information and recommendations re: severe ME in the below thread

Or a social life, or anything else. Facts.

Disability communities have so much to teach the world about community & resistance. About creativity, love, & anger. About power, justice, & politics. About acceptance & change. I wish more of you would listen to, learn from, and collaborate with us. The world would be better for it.

Folks love to quote @timothysnyder.bsky.social, often "don't obey in advance" but there're further lessons—So what’s keeping you from wearing a mask? It’s easy to fall in step if there are only maskless faces around you; break the spell of denial, set the example—we must protect the health we have.

happy independence day to those who celebrate, pls enjoy dumpster diving bald eagles with me

Agreed. And ableism underlies every other marginalization, including race. Ableism is used to control us.

The evil that men do lives after them

Drew just sent me this

Barbara Lee tried to warn us.

I don't know who's going to see this but I stand with trans folks of all ages. What SCOTUS did is wrong. Everyone should be able to make their own healthcare decisions. I'm sorry there's so much transphobia in the world.

"I suspect of all the humbling wisdom and necessary perspectives that so many people I love with chronic conditions have developed could be valuable for so many if only we would listen and engage with the content instead of pushing it away."

My Army father taught me how to do the half-step when I was a kid. He said they teach it in boot camp.

Reminds me of the ESPN producer I dated who, when learning that I write fiction, told me that I "should write". I do, dumbass. I just don't write copy for basketball ads.

time for my new favorite tumblr post

Same, but for me it was engineering

Not just good, but specifically tailored to our horrific historical moment.

Ok this is sending me into full-on panic mode. Everyone. Get your shots. Don’t wait. We’re going to go back to the days of fill-on masking and self-imposed lockdowns, for those who can go into reclusion. Otherwise, there’s Covid.

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

Quote this post with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe

if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Happy Easter! Hope the Easter kaiju visits you all.

Me: My friend wished us a happy 420 Mom: That's nice. Is he Jewish?

First they came for the Palestinian protestor and I said “hey you Nazi fucks, you’re being Nazis, everyone else we need to shut these motherfuckers down RIGHT now” because I actually paid attention to the poem

Thinking about this today for no particular reason

There are few things insecure people fear more than people who are brave, sure of themselves, and believe in what they're doing. And anyone can have that power, not just heads of state.

Slightly buried the lede but: if you're a queer couple and you want to get married ASAP in a state with strong protections before Obergefell inevitably gets overturned by fascists I will do an officiate for you for free (if you drop by the shop when I'm here just call/email ahead to make sure I am).

I love watching shows with absurd fictional premises, like on House where there are doctors who actually try to figure out what’s wrong with you

Weasel riot is the name of my next band

This is hardly a novel observation but I never expected the government coup that ends democracy as we know it to be carried out by such rando dudebro g4mergate fools

I've had rabbits. Those adorable little floofs have teeth from hell.

TFW you put off going to the doctor for months for fear you won't be believed, and when you finally go, you're not believed.

Bucky?

Uh oh.

Added alt text because lol (horrified)

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