And you can request books from libraries and they might get them. Or get interlibrary loans. If you are like me and have massive amounts of executive dysfunction, there's now e-books and audiobooks. And using your library means that it is more likely to be funded.

I do not understand people trying to justify book piracy when libraries exist. I know that it's not always possible to get every book from a library, but when I've not been able to buy books, I've still had plenty to read from libraries.

AW YIS CHRISTMAS BEETLE

I have so much respect for people who are 60+ who seek ADHD assessments after a family history is discovered. These are some of my most gratifying assessments if I ever have the privilege of doing them. Helping people understand why their lives have been difficult beyond personal blame is humbling.

Dang violins and fiddles are also a social construct

Chronic illness people, does anyone have recommendations for a hypermobility-aware physiotherapist in the Boston area? (Or who can do online consultations?) Asking for a friend. Welcome to repost this. #eds #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #hypermobility

SO hyped for advent to start so I can play my advent playlist. "Eat the rich" and "I'm so tired of waiting" and "when will life ever get better in this hopeless mess of a world" songs hit REAL GOOD.

People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex. These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.

Everyone shut up, SHUT UP!! LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED!! That is a WILD KING PARROT 🥹🥹

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

I'm like 95% sure I got a super mild case of covid a couple weeks ago and the reason it was mild is due to antihistamines + masking.

Dang. And Canada's road fatality rate is still too freaking high.

There is an EPIDEMIC of roumd

Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Billionaires are the result of a failed system.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...

Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast. This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.

I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.

Poster hoster hehehe.

Today I used the university computers for the first time and UUUUGH why is Adobe ADVERTISING to me on an institutional computer?? Computers are so much more annoying than when I was in college over a decade ago.

Wearing a mask at your medical appointments is important not just to protect yourself, and to protect other patients, but also to protect the ever-dwindling number of healthcare providers. The people helping us all live healthier lives deserve health protection, too.

So sick of rightwing grifters being able to sound reasonable because most people have no idea how things work. The pharmaceutical industry is built on low quality evidence because ethically double blinding life saving medicine is not possible due to violating ethical principles.

This is going to be a long and convoluted thread, but I'm going to try to lay out what I'm pretty sure has happened to my body re the interactions between my endometriosis and covid that has presented as long covid symptoms in case it helps someone else. 1/?

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

I can see, but my vestibular issues mean I use a lot of menus by feel to reduce migraine triggers and this is the fucking worst. I ditch apps entirely over this on a regular basis.

It is unfortunately really true that some of the things society may consider luxuries for an abled person really are just table-stakes accessibility aids for disabled people Collectively as a society we gotta fix our mental models around this

staging a raid, a daring heist if you will, on the scrunchie dimension, the mysterious quantum space where hair ties, clips, barrettes, and bobby pins disappear to the second you turn your back on them

Woah. Albertans are TICKED OFF. (AFL = Alberta Federation of Labour, I think.) Spontaneously organising petitions to recall their members of the legislative assembly. (I hope it works. I'm sick of this government.)

This is genius and I am stealing this.

What are your top 5 movie genres? mine: - A community comes together - A person grapples with the complexity of being human but in a holistic and realistic way (strong feelings but not dark or heavy feelings) - Young woman comes of age AND THERE'S MAGIC - Whimsical shenanigans - Clarity of Purpose

Fucking SUVs. When are we going to regulate their size and shape already. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One perk of having a November birthday is all the seasonal Christmas goodies are already in the grocery store to nab for party food.

Begging Christians to learn the difference between addiction and compulsion / impulse control issues. (Yes I'm back on my "y'all being weird about porn is making porn a problem, not the porn itself" soapbox.)

There is no blueprint for systemic, society-wide veganism that will not harm chronically ill people, people with food allergies, or indigenous people. The idea is fundamentally eugenicist. (This is about the argument that everyone should be vegan, not veganism as a personal choice)

It took me WAY too long to scroll through the quote tweets to find somebody else talking about disability / chronic illness stuff so yeah. I feel justified in saying that's my most woke opinion.

A world designed by and for people with disabilities and chronic illness is the best world for all of us to live in.

To bring this back to games: one thing I had to learn the hard way, while making The Price of Coal, was that the amount of reading aloud the game asks of players was at least kind of off-putting to a good chunk of people, and an outright barrier to a smaller percentage.

This is probably my most-referenced YouTube video, I think about it so often, and share it frequently.

I stand by "people can't fucking read, because they were never taught to read" being the answer to like.... not EVERYTHING, but certainly A LOT OF THINGS

A Mary Oliver poem to start the morning 💜 The Uses of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Yeah one of my family members is flying to Costa Rica tomorrow and very intentionally picked flights that avoid layovers in the US.

I received a DM on instagram that someone received a surprise Eel Facts Advent Calendar in the mail, and i applaud whichever one of you sent your friend a surprise eel facts. I encourage this behavior in the rest of you. EelFacts.net

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Because of a lot of prominent nondriver activists are people who do it by choice, there is sometimes a skewed perception of the sort of people who would benefit from bike lanes and more sidewalks. but car centric infrastructure hurts disabled people, children, and people living in poverty the most

I also asked this on Facebook and OH LORDY THE AMATONORMATIVITY.

I'm lucky in that while I was once down to literally only 3 safe foods (white rice, chicken, kale)--which took me 3 weeks and 15 lost lbs subsisting on multivitamins and broth to even figure out--I'm now up to "just" a strict low histamine diet. But this is why we tell you to protect yourself--

Ok question for people familiar with evangelicalism, what are reasons for saving sex for marriage that DON'T ultimately come back to the answer "because God said so"?

MOOD.

Speaking of bits, and powers of two, and coincidences. Me, an XX/XY chimera - born on July 14. 128 days before July 14 is March 8th. 128 days after July 14 is November 19th. Now go look up the international days on those dates.

Asking anyone who's got energy to do so to call their Dem Senators and urge them not to back down on healthcare. 🙏 Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.