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Any Oregon writers with disabilities want to establish a critique group? One with social and networking events? #oregon #writers #disabilities #group #critique #social #networking

Today in Arizona I am thinking about the subtle differences in meaning between “strip mall” and “shopping center” Because today there was a shooting at a strip mall and also a whole different shooting over at a shopping center

My graphic novel “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” is the perfect present for every opera-loving, anti-war sf/fantasy fan in your life. Give the gift of dark comedy and creative resistance this holiday season. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730993...

Not the least of which is shooting him from above, so he looks like a lil harmless baby, and I know that’s a rosary but it’s giving teething necklace

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

No one has ever been cooler than the best rollerskater at the local rink. This holds true across all decades and generations since rollerskates and, specifically, rinks were invented

mmm mmm gross

Little Free Libraries are like private schools. Beloved by people who want to sidestep, opt out of, undermine or ignore actually public things while vigilantly policing who accesses their private, and substandard, replacements for them. Sorry.

And also besides being totally useless, AI is also really bad for the environment but besides that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

“Armadale,” Wilkie Collins’ tortured bromance novel, has no baronets but it has two (!) shipwrecks!

I don’t think I could go totally back from smart phone, but is there an option for a not-that-smart phone? Like an iPhone with a 2010 level of AI but a really good camera?

I am not convinced that “young, untested newbie who’s never governed anything” is automatically worse than “corrupt career politician who has never done any other job, and does it poorly.” Call me crazy.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend." @mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

Alice was the first person to ever encourage my creative writing. She was a thoughtful editor and a beloved mentor. I learned so much about activism just by watching her move through the world. May her memory be a blessing to us all.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.

Somewhere someone is naming their cat GPT i just know it

Get in the habit of bringing up accessibility at meetings, in stand-ups, and in demos. Bring up things you've done to address accessibility. Likewise, don't be afraid to ask, "Have we tested this on a keyboard?" or "What's the experience like on a screen reader?"

Maybe don’t make an inedible toy (designated as a choking hazard and containing “compounds and polymer sprinkles”) and call it “Play-Doh scented butter” (even “butter-scented Play-Doh” would be marginally better, with a good graphic designer on the case) and put it in food-style packaging?

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Thrifters, please stop bringing your non-thrifter husbands and boyfriends with you and letting them stand in all the wrong places while staring at their phone

If I had one of those limited edition 20-ounce Bearista cups and I filled it with 20 ounces of the instantaneously sold out Tillamook butternaise, could I sell that and retire

This is brilliant!

Hello to the writer at @Variety who tried a Kendrick Lamar/Sally Field mashup in the paragraph I just saw screenshotted on Threads, where they’re eating you for Girl Dinner but don’t worry. Gen X sees you

Guess who’s back on her Wilkie Collins bullshit. Again.

Bsky:Threads :: Teachers’ lounge:high school students

#Arabic speakers: Can I use يالا to mean “let’s go” in the LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO sense?

you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW*

do you think SOME Manatees spell it Manaty #Kimberlee #Kimberly

I know “poked the bear” is established idiom but when you say “Trump poked the bear last night” it sounds really dirty and nonconsensual and between that and RKF I just feel really worried about bears

The newspaper: Ah, ah, ah, not so fast, Mamdani could never be president because of the Constitution Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question

CNN reaction to Mamdani’s speech was wild. Tone-policing is all they got! He was loud! The way he used the microphone hurt their baby ears! He didn’t unite and include and invite everyone in! And it wasn’t just the conservative panelists. Duh, he’s the exterminator and you all are the cockroaches!

Does the original Knicks logo look like a sticker you’d get at the Boys and Girls Club but throw away rather than put it on your water bottle too?

I will say this. The neckwear in All’s Fair is kinda great. But did the neckwear write it?

The LA Fires earlier this year were devastating for so many people and communities. For disabled people who were displaced, now it's a nightmare of trying to find accessible housing while also competing with everyone else for ANY housing, ANYWHERE.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

More Billie, less -ionaire please

99 problems and, well, they’re all mosquitoes

He’s going to do the flag next. Mark my words.

And let’s not let anyone forget that this is the direct consequence of voting. I know there’s a lag between action and consequence but voters are adult people, not dogs. they can be made to understand what they did. I would never rub a dog’s face in his mess, but someone who voted for this shit?

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Demonheads

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Boston Naked Beans

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Reese’s Pisces