If you are considering or planning to seek appointment or run for your local library board, FTP is here to support you. You can complete this form and we'll be in touch soon re: applying to join our next candidates' cohort kicking off in early 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

this will be my only post this month on the subject, there's about $1500 left to go but only $70 this month help this month and next will mean I can more comfortably focus on paying for the dental care I need. thanks for your consideration #DisabilityCrowdfund #MutualAid 💸💕 gofund.me/ca77ae1b2

This Banned Books Week on 10/9, join For The People: A Leftist Library Project to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tomorrow (9/17) 👇🏻👇🏻

Well happy Book Launch Day to me! Check out this great rec from @bookriot.bsky.social Get you a copy of Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds and start your own reading group with the intention of reading radically The world needs changing bookriot.com/new-books-se...

I should be asleep but instead I am lying in bed in the dark making a spreadsheet about local library circulation on my phone, as one does

just gave myself a little nervous system break to harvest and hang some tulsi 🌱 I let my tulsi bed grow a little wild this year since it self-seeded & I never thinned it. so the plants were thick but short basically. so I just harvested a lot to dry for later (but I left some flowers for the bees!)

where are people finding the most recent estimates of the prevalence of long covid? like how many people in the US have lc right now? I know I’ve seen this reported many times over the years but ofc now I can’t find it or can only find research papers with wildly varied percentages reported. ty!

yesterday i went to a jeopardy taping and someone in production asked me to take off my n95 for when the camera sweeps the audience. i said “…no?” and then i didn’t do it. and nothing bad happened! so: try saying no more. it’s good practice for the fascism.

Not in NYC but want to get actively involved in public library organizing? For The People has you covered on Oct 9. Sign up for "I Did It: You Can Too." us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions to strengthen public libraries.

I am just sitting here needing to buy groceries and also get some meds and I do not know how I’m going to do either of these things this week

I just keep thinking about how many people won’t even try to get vaccinated this year because they’ll assume it’s not available to them, even if it is.

does anyone in #NEISvoid or just bluesky generally have experience with "intersection syndrome" I'm finding... Not very concrete info on which exercises are good/bad for it, and hoping someone here has personal experience with it It is allegedly "rare"

I’ll be all caught up on Sullivan’s Crossing tonight and THEN what will I watch? I love how it’s like… the same as Virgin River so much. Jack & Cal have the same haircut that I’ve never seen in real life.

I’m not active on fb but I do still belong to a lot of different chronic illness groups there & it’s really striking how much mis/disinfo is still spreading even in the face of 10/10 veil lifted MAHA ableism. it really speaks to how medical neglect breeds distrust & opens the door to charlatans.

we have officially started watching Star Trek Discovery. I watched s1 in real time but not much else so I’m excited to catch up. I got it on dvd from the library!

I’m not active on fb but I do still belong to a lot of different chronic illness groups there & it’s really striking how much mis/disinfo is still spreading even in the face of 10/10 veil lifted MAHA ableism. it really speaks to how medical neglect breeds distrust & opens the door to charlatans.

tried my hand at my first market yesterday! Thread below of some pieces I made for the market that you can now order ✨✨ shares are appreciated

Hey, I have an #ArtShop! I love designing colorful mugs for folks who cherish their morning coffee/tea rituals like I do ☕️ https://destinytoro.com/shop Support a disabled artist for free by sharing my work 🖤 #art #illustration

#NEISvoid i am basically bedridden. is there a way i could get new glasses from home? i’m in California USA either in my old prescription from years ago (i have no paperwork for that) or somehow get new glasses for my new needs? my eyes got a little bit worse thank you 💛

The Back Braces are now available for pre-order! Please read this thread and the listing. They're available in 6 sizes. In the strawberry, galaxy and bats patterns. The 2 support plates on the back are made of curved aluminum. Which one are you getting? Details below!

Anyone heard of/dealt with something called anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome? #NEISvoid

I'm queer, visibly trans, invisibly disabled, largely unable to work, trying to get by on less than $50\mo, & not succeeding, please help me patreon: patreon.com/SoupGargoyle ko-fi: ko-fi.com/soupgargoyle PayPal: paypal.me/SoupGargoyle cashapp: cash.app/$oupGargoyle Venmo: venmo.com/u/SoupGargoyle

If you are angry, as you should be, that restricting access to the vaccine will make covid worse and more dangerous, please start wearing a mask, which actually does a significantly better job of preventing transmission in the first place.

This got moving again! Blue states are forming coalitions ... lots of vulnerable people who DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS SHIT are stuck in red states. Please don't leave them behind. www.gofundme.com/f/lgbtq-fami...

blowing my own mind by remembering I can check out tv seasons on dvd from the library. (gonna watch all the newer Star Treks.)

back from a little vacation to see family in Canada, getting back into writing. today it was 940 words of notes to kick off my Imagining Accessible Futures essay. many of those notes are like: rewatch/reread this thing to describe in better detail! it’s fine. words are words.

I made an audio recording of my first Substack post (briefly describing what's happened for me since Through the Shadowlands came out, along with my plans for the Substack). I plan on doing this with every post, since I know some ME friends can't read. jrehmeyer.substack.com/p/what-the-w...

Devastated The Late Patty Berne Was a Visionary Leader in the Disability Justice Movement truthout.org/articles/the...

It's nearly midnight and I'm really fearing that i won't be able to pay my rent before they begin the eviction process tomorrow 🥺 $maelee21 V: @ Maelee-Johnson PayPal.me/maeleeJ ko-fi.com/maedaej Please chere, like, b00st and contribute if you can!

update: tulsi zucchini bread was a success. tastes like tulsi!

good morning! I'm a little late getting started this month since I was worrying about other expenses this months bill is coming up for the loan for my sewer repairs, I need to raise $120 to cover it the remaining balance is down under 2K, it would be amazing to pay it down 💸💕 gofund.me/587b159f

I started outlining the last essay I want to write, about imagining accessible futures, and it’s hard bc I made the list of essay topics in 2022 so the shape of imagined futures has changed A LOT. but the reality that we are in a mass disabling era has not changed, accessible futures are a must.

todays feature painting: lavender skies on folly to me the Charleston area is home and will always have such a special place in my heart. I'm not sure how long it'll be until I find my way back, but until then I'll keep painting all my favorite moments this piece is in my shop!

The time for disability justice, as it always has been, is now. Disability justice underlines and ties together all anti-oppression movements. If you want to learn more about #DisabilityJustice and how you can support disabled communities, any of these 18 books would be a good place to start!

what I don’t understand about facial shape wear, besides everything, is like… what does it DO? normal shape wear is worn under clothes to change your shape, but these aren’t for under face clothes? and sleeping in shape wear doesn’t change your day shape? I’m so baffled. mostly rhetorical.

I keep some lists at Bookshop.org mostly so I don't forget 😂. Many of these already mentioned by people but some others too. I have a few different disability/CI related lists but this is the broadest - uk.bookshop.org/lists/notes-...

Ask me about my uterus by Abby Norman Abby Norman — Book share.google/S6bFVt7V7K7c...

I really liked "Easy Beauty" by Chloé Cooper Jones.

Question for disabled friends: anyone have a walking aid that doesn’t ultimately put pressure on your hands or shoulders?? Canes and walkers and crutches aren’t ideal for the situation. #NEISvoid #disabled #walkingAid

write some notes for the final section of my grief essay today before putting it away for a bit. I’m trying to get to the bottom of something about holding people close when your capacity is low and the future is uncertain, but also I don’t want to get too prescriptive about it. work! in! progress!

what have been your favorite chronic illness & disability books from the last 3-5 years? (I’m playing cultural catchup since my last crash!) reposts also appreciated :)

with car repairs and this nearly double electrical bill and still no work for the foreseeable future, I've adjusted my wishlist in case you'd like to help there's some groceries and then household stuff reordered to reflect priority. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

highly recommend Pastiche by Celia Lake to folks looking for a cozy romantasy full of unique worldbuilding, kindness & competence as well as thoughtful disability representation. audiobook is available for accessibility 🙏✨ www.celialake.com/book/pastiche/

THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND is really well done. It bears no resemblence to my brand of chronic illness, but it was really interesting.