Sometimes understanding you have dyspraxia allows you to be gentle with yourself, and sometimes it just makes you grumpy af. Does not help that my new hip is sore tonight (PT got stepped up and it's tired; objectively better than pre-op arthritis pain). #chronicillness #disability

The Brothers Sinister series by @courtneymilan.com is carrying me through a major surgery (The Governess Affair kept me distracted through the last day pre-op and I just finished The Duchess War about 1.5 days post-op and am plowing ahead). #booksky #Romancelandia

They have identified a Neurotype that causes you to think you might be Autistic but also constantly question that you might not be Autistic. It’s called Autism.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Romancelandia When you like a girl, you loan her books, obviously.

Trans kids deserve to live. Trans kids deserve to be happy. Trans kids deserve to be themselves. Trans kids deserve to be kids. Trans kids deserve to become adults. Trans kids deserve to choose. Trans kids deserve better. Trans kids deserve love. I love you, Trans kids. 🫶🏻 You deserve better. 😔

OMG this series is SO GOOD!

I want to nap and nurse my chronic pain, but kiddo is having a bad abdominal migraine and he needs me awake until he stabilizes. Go, chronically ill family, go!

NEW: While House Republicans are grappling with Trump's Iran stance, Republicans in the Senate are full steam ahead. Elizabeth Warren said "There's evidently a serious medical problem with the Senate Republicans. They've all had their spines removed." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

Post a fictional death that devastated you.

9yo building a Lego Minecraft fox first enjoyed how much the tail articulated, then decided the fox has arthritis in his back leg so he uses his tail as a leg instead and I love that he is incorporating disability into play.

Recently finished FIRE'S HAND, FATE'S HEART by Lindsey Brounstein, and the sequel drops next week, so here's my plug: epic fantasy, ensemble cast, found family, queer rep (incl. bi, ace, and poly). Not spicy; the beginnings of romance subplots in book 1 but lots of focus on friendships. 5⭐️

Abundance! www.fastcompany.com/91307514/ice...

In addition to dehumanizing Autistic people they didn’t find worthy of existence … Ivar Lovass (the inventor of ABA) & Hans Asperger were both Nazis. The concern that Autistic ppl have when RFK Jr. wants to start collecting data on Autistic ppl is a legitimate concern. #RemoveRFK

Police departments have exponentially more control over how officers are recruited, trained, and overseen than a protest does over its participants, but are allowed by a sympathetic press to use the "bad apples" defense to separate deeds from goals and institutions in a way protestors often aren't.

Regarding the utility of protest, the final word goes to Harvey Milk: "I know that you cannot live on hope alone. But without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you...you gotta give 'em hope."

okay so we've got -- DHS goons handcuffing a U.S. Senator -- Marines in LA violating posse comitatus -- political assassinations in MN And that's just, like, the last couple of days

Dear News Networks: The term for a “targeted politically motivated shooting” of a currently serving legislator is “Assassination.”

Protest sign from my relative who works in the public school system! W00T! #Resist #NoKings #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne #Indivisible #Protest

Horrifying news out of Minnesota this morning as political violence takes the lives of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. @Chasten and I are holding their loved ones in our hearts and praying for State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette as they recover.

On the way to today’s No Kings rallies! Come protest with us in Evanston (until 12) and Des Plaines (1-3). See you there.

This is what we do to people who risked their lives to help Americans.

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

We need an #actuallyautistic singer/songwriter to make a song listing all the famous Autistic folks. (Like Adam Sandler did for the Jewish community with his Hanukkah Song, but a new song, not a parody.)

Happy Pride!

Don’t let anyone tell you Pride isn’t political.

My kid's birthday is few weeks before my hip replacement surgery. My in-laws know about my surgery-- they will be taking care of my kid for a week post-op. Their suggestion for family birthday party: HIKING. Hi #disability and #chronicallyill community. I just had to tell people who would get it.

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“All who value human diversity and the continued expansion of the rights of people with disabilities must push back against eugenics politics” especially now that ableist ghoul Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments “remind us that eugenic ideas are alive and well.” theconversation.com/uninformed-c...

Delete a letter, ruin a movie: A New Hoe

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

I almost forgot since it's a fake Monday:

Just started/got caught up on Murderbot and feeling this so hard.

say it again, slowly and out loud. I've said it before, will say it again. If you support Generative AI, you are no friend to any artist or creative, and can feel free to eff right off.

I feel seen

Me when I'm trying to figure out if an image is AI:

What are you wearing to the bsky prom? (Either or both outfits, I could change halfway through.)

being more likely to be incarcerated is not the same thing as being more likely to engage in criminal behaviors & it's time we all get on the same page about that

FWIW, blue and red states have some of the highest number of Medicaid recipients: -California (27 percent of its residents use it) -New York (29%) -New Mexico (34%) -Kentucky (28%) -Arkansas (25%) -Louisiana (32%) -Kentucky (28%) -West Virginia (26%) www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Republican congressional districts with the most Medicaid recipients via @kff.org: #CA22 (Valadao) #KY05 (Rogers) #CA23 (Obernolte) #CA01 (LaMalfa) #LA05 (Letlow) #NY11 (Malliotakis) #LA03 (Higgins) #WV01 (Miller) #LA04 (Mike Johnson) #WA04 (Newhouse)

🧵 Recovering from a night spent in the ER with my kiddo. In some ways I feel like being a chronically ill adult equips me to parent a chronically ill kid, but I don't know how to teach him the things that help me most. #chronicillness #disability

Pay no attention to the piracy. #WIPSnips

I nearly passed out in the parking lot (just managed to get into my driver's seat and call the office so they could send out nurses with juice and crackers) when the second arm popped into place while I was walking. As they stood watch over me, they chuckled about how this happened all the time.

Explaining my EDS and resulting osteoarthritis in my 30s to a colleague today and came up with "my joints are very mature for their age." #chronicillness #chronicpain

Blocking every person I see sharing that Biden wheelchair story without critical reflection on the fact that a wheelchair is NOT a problem. DO NOT EXPLAIN THE ARTICLE TO ME. I HAVE READ IT. I AM TAKING ISSUE WITH *YOUR* ABLEIST POSTS. FDR used a wheelchair. Sen. Duckworth uses a wheelchair.

Praise from @aoc.bsky.social for the disability rights activists who protested: "I think that they have demonstrated a tremendous amount of courage and bravery putting themselves on the line in order to defend Medicaid for people across the country." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

oh cool, we're doing this again

This hasn't really gotten the attention it deserves. All Democratic governors need to be more like #JBPritzker https://apnews.com/article/rfk-autism-research-privacy-data-jb-pritzker-6a78b885deef9df9ccf196cef3c48e72 #autism #RFKJr #publichealthmalpractice