One thing I’ve learned about life is that dreams have a tendency to turn into nightmares. Be careful what you wish for, because reality is stranger than fiction.

If you were who you used to be, you’d do it yourself. You can’t right now. Ask for help. Remember how much you like helping? Let others do that too. It’s okay.

This poem is called Slip. It was written April 2024

If I cant raise $975 today I’ll likely be facing eviction this month I’m out of time Please help if you can!🙏🏽💚 $maelee21 V: @ Maelee-Johnson PayPal.me/maeleeJ ko-fi.com/maedaej

🥚 There is zero evidence for the claim that baby boxes save lives and lots of evidence that infant abandonment produces lifelong trauma for everyone and also lots of evidence that financial support of mothers—in amounts far less than the cost of baby boxes— would prevent relinquishment altogether.

What does your future hold? Tragedy, joy, or mysterious trickery? #criptober #soothsayer #digitalart #halloween #spookyseason #spookyartwork #digitalartist #disabledartist

This is profoundly generous.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Désirée is a lovely, sweet person who has faced things after thing after thing. No person should face the indignity of fundraising for their survival. And yet, she does. Please. Give whatever you can. Every plan has fallen through.

🚨URGENT🚨: If I can get $500 more I can pay my rent today and beat the eviction proceedings! My 3 day notice expired today! $maelee21 V: @ Maelee-Johnson PayPal.me/maeleeJ ko-fi.com/maedaej #MutualAidBoost

I know. You were really excited about all of that work stuff. You had projects to work on and progress to make. And you’re really upset that you can’t right now. Is there maybe someplace other than work you can channel those feelings? #GentleParentingSickWorkaholics

Hey, you said you were out of capacity 15 minutes ago. Turn on the TV and turn off your brain. #GentleParentingForSockWorkaholics

Reinstate Link as a gesture of good will Apologize Hire a comms person Hire a team of consultants Tag in the multiple orgs who backed you This is not hard

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

'I am depleting my savings...' Do y'all understand the gravity of this? The lengths people have to go to in order to stay in business? In order to continue paying their bills? If the price is too high, move along, find it elsewhere, but don't harass the shop owners to lower their prices.

Please help me reach my rent goal in time so I can avoid homelessness while I continue my fight for SSI! This is extremely urgent! 🙏🏽💚 $maelee21 V: @ Maelee-Johnson PayPal.me/maeleeJ ko-fi.com/maedaej #neisvoid #disabilitycommunity #spoonie

Bibi is one of the most compassionate, kindest people I know. Even if you can’t donate, please share. 💜💜💜

Bibi's compression socks work better for me than the "proper" medical ones I bought at the local store. AND they're cute as hell! So if you or anyone you know needs some part of their body squished for some reason, go check out Bibi's shop!

That better be a friend Discord call and not a work Discord call. Is there an agenda? Let’s say goodbye to our colleagues. Bye, colleagues! #GentleParentingForSickWorkaholics

Would you like to rest on the couch or rest in bed? I know you want to work. That isn’t one of the options. Make a decision or I’ll make one for you in five, four, three… #GentleParentingForSickWorkaholics

@chronicloaf.bsky.social hey, just wanted to let you know that the invite link for the linktree is out of date

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

I'm telling you that that world doesn't exist. Either we're all safe, or none of us are safe. Kimmel and Colbert and jokes cannot save you from what's coming. You need the people that you won't fight for, to fight for you. But one-way solidarity ain't it.

You want to live in a world where Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and Matt Parker and Trey Stone are inside the line that must be protected at all costs... but Black journalists and academics and professionals are outside of the castle walls, and are acceptable losses in a siege.

Y'all fight for comedians. Which is why you don't have Black journalists to oppose Trump, but you do have famed resistance leaders *check notes* Matt Parker and Trey Stone.🤷🏿‍♂️ Kimmel is interviewing Gavin Newsom in his return. His podcast guests were the dudes that got the Black journalists fired.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Dang, he’s right. I didn’t hear about this. Here are some names and articles I found on this subject. Black journalists are key for effective media and are being pushed out of their jobs. Here’s some names and articles.

I don't think enough of y'all understand that there is no neutral option under fascism. You either fight or fall in line. Those are the choices. And unless you resolve yourself, ahead of time, to make the hard choices to fight, the easy way will be so tempting. We must do better. Choose wisely.

Stonewall happened because trans and cisqueer people showed up for each other across lines of difference and recognized their collective queer liberation could only happen if they took collective risk to oppose systems of harm. medium.com/prismnpen/ma...

NB: I do not like or trust this man; I'm just expressing shock at the fact that he's even nominally sticking up for free speech in the face of his paymasters, when ostensibly liberal institutions are folding like a fitted sheet (i.e., badly and messily). bsky.app/profile/did:...

Whether you like or dislike what’s said, free speech is at the heart of our democracy. Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation. If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.

Why is moving so damn expensive, and why do folks act like you should have seventeen times as much money as you need when they know damn well the majority of people haven’t been able to save since Bill Clinton was president?

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Any organizer worth their salt isn’t posting about the work they are doing—they are doing the work. Especially now.

Every Star Trek episode that was derided as "unrealistic", where Kirk argues a computer into destroying itself, is vindicated.

Transmasculine absence from so many narratives, historical and present, harms transmascs and undercuts the trans movement at large. I am tired of transmascs being flattened to "men" or "technically not women" as convenient. We are complex. We deserve care. We deserve to live our multitudes.

When I feel horrible and down on my luck, I look at my friends and am grateful. I would not have survived without their couches or help moving or getting to the grocery store.

Next month will be @tinu.bsky.social 's yahrzeit and this is still not finished for her family. This is so close do the goal now!! If Tinu meant something to you, please share this everywhere! If you can't help, please share everywhere! Let's get this done! 💖❤️🌸🌺 www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

New: The Trump admin excluded all mention of LGBTQ+ people in its annual human rights reports. Former State Dept workers told me this omission will make it harder for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to demonstrate fear of persecution in asylum proceedings in the US and abroad www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Let me preface this by stating up front that language is not the most urgent or important issue facing any of us, ever. And, at the same time, language shapes/is shaped by culture, politics, and power. That said, I've had many thoughts brewing for a while about the terms "AuDHD" and "neurospicy."

Great opportunity. Bibi’s gear is great quality. Take a second and enter if you need a cane and definitely consider buying one.

Tomorrow is the celebration of Patty's life, and the enormous difference they made by choosing to understand the importance of deliberately inclusive, revolutionary thinking that centres disabled people, rather than dismisses them. RIP Patty, and I hope we can all do you proud. #DisabilityJustice

No, one group of autistic people is not “eclipsing” others, because NO autistics are getting enough support. NONE. Shame on organizations that let parents with unfounded claims make life harder for autistic people whose struggles are less obvious, but no less real or brutal. #neurodiversity

Shame on any media outlet or university that allows Trump to silence it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/trump-silencing-of-american-media

I forgot how much I love doing workshops.

the richer you are, the less you know about how the world works this is because the richer you are, the fewer of your own problems you have to actually figure out how to solve rich people are stupid because they outsource thinking and problem solving by paying others to solve all their problems

I really need you all to start understanding and acting on this

Once you understand this, not only are you better prepared to recognize it when it's being done *to* you, but you are also more equipped to deploy the same and attendant mechanisms toward prosocial ends