I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing. Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion. Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow. www.patreon.com/posts/148814...

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

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Wild to think it'll be my birthday in five days, though I'll be spending most of it in psychotherapy class... But if you ever want to help me out during a challenging time (no luck in job-hunting), any ko-fi dono would be greatly appreciated, but only what you can manage! ko-fi.com/queerportents

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Almost every day i think about the world before ai and how i had no idea how lucky i was to be in it

Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.

My friend Adam just left a terrible living situation bc it was making his disabilities worse every day. His only option was to live in his car. If youre able to pls help a disabled person in crisis even if its just a dollar or two CA $agrimmsounds Vmo @Adam-Grimm-94 www.gofundme.com/f/DisabledBu...

As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.

Hey y'all 👋💚 I'm really struggling to afford groceries, gas, and bills right now. Most immediately, I need gas to go buy cat food tonight. If anyone's able to help with a dollar or two, or sharing this post, it'd mean a lot! Venmo swampgoth CA $gothswamp ko-fi.com/swamp_goth

girl,,, i am begging politicians to be normal about trans people and not trip over their dicks

Pay editors. Pay artists. Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor. Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!! AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!

While the flowers of Fringe Lilies (Thysanotus sp.) are usually a beautiful deep purple colour, occasionally you can spot a Fringe Lily with flowers in other stunning colours 💜🤍🩶🩷 These were flowering today in the Perth Hills #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomsrolling #nature #inaturalist

Today is Dysautonomia Awareness Day. This condition has been devastating to live with. It’s so much more than “just fainting” When your autonomic nervous system doesn’t work, you get issues with your heart rate, breathing, temperature, digestion, respirations & more.

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high. SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”. Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers. People need & deserve assistance Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich Be mad about that

I told you I had a new vintage photo to show you if you hit the fundraising goal, so here it is! Meet Mr. Big. New photo in my collection, no date/info. 🖤

No. Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling". It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask. And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.

Showing off the magnificent chublet. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

1/ "Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCOVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found": www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

The #DisabledJoy hashtag was started in March 2018 by Andrew Farkash on Twitter. It's quickly evolved as a disability concept created for and by the disabled community. As such, we want to celebrate Disabled Joy as a part of Disability month which is October. #ChronicLoaf #Criptober

This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

#Recall #Cinnamon "460 cases of reported lead poisoning in children after they had eaten apple sauce. Quickly discovered it was the cinnamon in the apple purée that caused the lead and chromium poisoning." Product identification included in article. www.allrecipes.com/fda-lead-war...

If you havent started yet, NOW is the time to make sure you + your people have ALL your vaccines. Get your childhood vaccine records & fill in whats missing or has been added since you were a kid. Need help affording them? Look up your area + free clinic, call the health dept, goodRx has vax coupons

it’s never been more apparent that right wants to demonize masks and it’s working bc the majority of folks aren’t working to neutralize these threats. bc neutralizing them means normalizing them. wearing masks in your daily life. 5/5

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Hey y’all, Amihan is a wonderful BIPOC performer, artist and all around creative soul. If you have any video editing or artistic work, or can help hymn out with #mutualaid, please do.

Extraordinary and alarming that vaccines are perhaps the most polarizing topic that threatens the strength of the union.

Some parts of society have always tried to downplay diseases. History has almost always proven them wrong.

I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

i'm not asking ya'll to mask up everywhere. but can you at least mask up in places that ill and disabled folks *have* to go to? grocery stores? pharmacies? appointments? government appointments? keep some masks in your car. keep a couple in your backpack.

(un)friendly reminder to my fellow faculty as the semester starts that accommodations for disabled students aren't optional, rewards for good behavior, some sort of challenge to see how much you get away with, or a challenge to your authority. it's your job to provide them. stop being asses about it

If you are cisgender, I almost certainly have more offhand empirical fact-based technical knowledge about every aspect of trans healthcare than you do. I've had more time and been more interested. You can argue with me about hormones and surgery, but I will win.

Don't do this shit in general. By experience I've been cuffed and put in a cell for like 2 days because I had a relative try and pull me out of my own house when I was 19 by conducting a "wellness check on a kid with schizophrenia". Like that diagnosis isn't demonized enough.

Clean up your links before you share them with others. It's a small and simple piece of operational security that anyone can integrate into their practice.

Two things had a huge influence on the CDC shooting: 1️⃣ The head of HHS spreading antivax rhetoric 2️⃣ Social media companies failing to address rampant antivax misinformation on their platforms

And yet, more and more educational institutions and educational administrators are imposing these technologies upon both faculty and students.

Here's a plenary talk I did at a skin cancer conference on social media misinformation, where I tried to place sunscreen myths on plot of expert buy-in vs appeal to nature fallacy (very proud of that plot) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFny...

Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

“It should be terrifying to every person that the U.S., which has long held political prisoners, is ramping up its oppressive tactics.” interc.pt/3TRHoDR