People should just switch to another app. Hemingway app is great for quick checks of your spelling and grammar and will help you craft your writing for specific grade levels. Trying to steal a particular writer's style and voice without paying them for the privilege should be a career-ending move.

It's been a while actually which totally surprises, hitting a real low mood and some yellow BP flags. My cycles have been really short when depression hits, and meds are stable. Yellow flag monitoring.

This is pretty scary stuff to me.

Reminder to the bipolar bloomfies that spring time causes an increased chance of manic episodes to that of the other seasons (known as Spring Mania) 🙂‍↕️ take care of yourself and if anything starts feeling off for no reason, good chance there is a reason.

Interesting read. Not much new for us BP, but some interesting data. 81 percent feel comfortable being friends with someone with a mental illness. But 33 percent agreed "people with mental disorders scare me." 39 percent agreed “I view someone differently if I knew they had a mental disorder.”

Have a report they aren't responding to a transgender woman who has been seeking assistance. I'm calling/emailing to see what's up and if we can get them to correct. I posted in thread the email sending to Werq.

Self-organized student protests and walkouts against ICE show no signs of slowing down. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/09/c...

I just want to note off tangent that Will is the one who started it up all over again. Sometimes it's fun to know the originating point.

This is so funny. And I thought the people who put me on multiple lists were bad weirdos. This, well, huh a bit extreme

will remember jay as the person who deleted lexi alexander and link, worked hard to cut palestinians off from their one chance at survival, ignored the ongoing abuse of Black and trans users, and then when confronted about the whole thing said 'waffles'. and for that fugly no caesars shirt.

The comments to their QP are making me cackle.

Fascinated. Marvel game has alliances of 24 players with chat. Can't tell gender by many names, but a lot of men. They're hyping up a guy starting therapy. No mockery. No trolling. It's really sweet to see.

In complicity, we have to confront impact right now, not in some future where "Ai" improves. We talk then about life and death decisions from healthcare (and racism in those impacts) to bombing an Elementary girls school in Iran and murdering 165 girls. 1/2

THIS PART. When I graduated from high school my counselor (who was great) told me it was good I wanted to be a physicist because I'd never be a great writer. I was also the worst writer in my frosh expos course. I am now an award-winning writer. BECAUSE I PRACTICED!!!!!!

Clarifying, I do not vet these and have no access to transparency data of numbers seeking, assisted, $, etc. I just added a link to an search index of vetted relocation orgs, Project Traction, by Open Arms.

Didn't want to reply on a tangent and distract. I've been an advocate among NPOs and K-12 educators that "critical use" prof. development must be proceeded by real world ethics cases. And health crisis, chronic illness, mental health, etc. cut down to the bone.

Wild that Councilor Morillo -- the most effective legislator in year 1 -- lost co-chair of the climate committee (which was dissolved), & is not on the housing or transportation committees which are her strongest subject matter areas. Pretty unserious for others on council to allow this to happen.

one strange assertion, or at least somewhat counterfactual to my exp, is that humanities profs teach empathy. It's definitely done by some, but as a field of study or discipline?

Need to bookmark this. Some of us are brainstorming how we can start creating comms for ICE response neighborhood blocks, assemblies, support NPOs, etc. Hyper local and city wide. Where do we go to find out how we can help, donate, organize? How do we start?

The critique of scarcity mindset and how we non-profits need an ethos of plenitude was always weird to me. It's the big-type non-profits that really need the ethical lesson to not hoard. Never heard much from folks about collaboration, the primary solution, as exploitation.

It's reminding me of flippantly "you need therapy" without addressing real circumstances, staff shortages, finding someone actually qualified and well trained, insurance/cost that make it entirely inaccessible. At out-patient, this was a constant conflict of I want to get better and I am fucked.

Parents, pls tell your autistic kids they are autistic: "You may think that an autistic child won’t notice they are different than their non-autistic peers; I have not met one autistic person (me included) who hasn’t noticed their difference early in life." thinkingautismguide.com/2017/02/pare...

From @wsj.com: "Of the 279 people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year, 181 were U.S. citizens, the Journal found. Close to half of those Americans were never charged with assault. None have been convicted at trial." www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

Testing a new primer for NTs and NDs to have discussion about neurodivergence impacting community--goats not fed, damage to vehicle, etc. Also as expected a lot of ND frustration with NTs.

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

A person posed to me is trauma a neurodivergence. I said yes as studies have tried looking at neurological changes from it. As with just for example Bipolar and TBI, it is not neurodiverse only if inborn and unchangable. Anyway, FB neurodivergence group is on fire about narcissism.

I suspected who this is about, and decided to keep away from the, uh, analysis. But it is always weird how counterfactual people are about mass non-voters and what it takes for some to become voters.

Immigration attorneys are scrambling to find a Bay Area mother and her two young children, one of whom has severe disabilities, after she was arrested by federal immigration officers in San Francisco this week.

Well today is good day to learn more from health communication experts that actually have studied vaccine hesitentance!

this website sucks sometimes

Take a look Portland for our local org for trans folks to relocate into the PNW. They've helped 80 so far. looking for volunteers for their March 29 event.

Something holding me on with a coder friend really into Ai is he likes my critical posts. So I know he isn't in denial, even when we disagree.

AI isn't just going to take our jobs, it's the perfect tool for fascists who are more than willing to kill innocent people to get what they want. Unless we take a stand, our future will be defined by worsening crimes against humanity. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-future...

Trying some modified tactics in talking to prof colleagues about "Ai" in non-profit sector.

Oregon, our emails and calls to the Education budget committee worked. They are not cutting STEAM hubs. Kicks it down the road for 1 year to next appropriations budget, but I'll take it as a win.

here, i'll give it a shot. they are in fact not people with small dicks, cognitively disabled, mentally ill, or children. they are just bigoted and evil

We're coming up on budget season, and we want to know your priorities, what is and isn't working, and what questions you have for your District 2 Councilors.

N/NE Portland - this is for D2!

Banging heads with Non-profit CEOs doing the let's have a policy for "ethical Ai use" because it's inevitable. The other one they goto is many companies are moving to Ai, so you already use it. This is the running doc thats been going around in my circles.

This is who will replace Crockett in the House

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes* Arkansas state house special election. Flip from R to D.

Some good today: a South Dakota bill that would force teachers to out students their parents has failed in the legislature and will not be reconsidered during this session.

Who has cool, accessible for normies, writing on neurodivergence and systems of dIsability liberation/access/support? We have a community convo coming up about "accomodations" because critical tasks are not getting done, causing community impact from goats not being fed to damage of vehicles.

American Jews have been TRYING to tell folks that yes, AIPAC is evil, & fuck them, but Christian Zionists in the US outnumber Jews IN THE WORLD & have risen to power in all areas of our government, & they want to bring the End Times (& kill all the Jews btw), AND THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

How exactly do you today, after all the campus protests and blowback, says Jews haven't been called anti-semitic for critiquing Israel, Zionism, or it's US elements in APAIC, etc. Why are you asking Jews for proof of that?

getting hired as a high-level administrator or bureau director at the City of Portland is a great investment strategy because you get paid *a lot* and if you fail at your job / or get run out for being perceived as too dangerous, you will probably get a year long severance

Interesting thread from a medievalist.

My friend Sher wrote this about my work and I and I’m crying tears of gratitude 🌻🐦‍⬛🌞❤️‍🩹💙💛❤️‍🔥: open.substack.com/pub/shergrif...

I'm fascinated not that I ever went.