My mom may or may not have taken Tylenol, but pretty much my whole damn family is autistic going back generations. My grandfather liked taking photos of random crap and making them into slideshows. My grandmother religiously watched the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It’s genetic.

The word is out! I'll be Guest of Honor at Arisia this January! This is baby's first Guesting. I don't think I've ever been a 'guest' at any event. But now I shall guest... WITH HONOR.

one of the drivers of the nazi rise to power was that a ton of ppl got disabled by the 1918 flu pandemic and so conservatives started crowing about how expensive it is to care for all these useless non-workers and then the nazis started just killing them so, if you were wondering where this is going

This cat used to bite you for walking too close.

Man, it is weird having come from library practice (bodily fluids! People yelling at you! At least one inappropriate question a day!) to library theory (what IS information? Can we ever really define data? Does information need to be true?). Most of my librarian colleagues did the other direction.

There’s actually a lot of people on Bluesky who have moderate political beliefs that do fine because they’ve discovered a hidden trick where they don’t start every post with “listen up Fuckos”

If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans? Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/ Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social

Okay. First day of instruction tomorrow. Train ramp requests in. GP call Wednesday. Leg looks better. Slug juice came off the CPAP with repeated washing, and loans may or may not disburse Oct 1. Maybe the nonstop exstressfulganza will slow down. I hope.

We have come a long way with medicine. Pain is not something that people "just have to live with" anymore and it is certainly not something that anyone "deserves." Pain control should be accessible for everyone.

Alright, we understand it's ridiculous that pregnant women are being discouraged from using Tylenol... Now we just need to take that a bit further & consider how tough it is for people with chronic pain to get adequate pain management & how stigmatized their meds are. Everyone deserves pain control.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Oh hey this is terrifying

Gently: instead of whatabouting the Kimmel thing, you can use the win to motivate people who are new to collective action. Don’t punish behavior you want to see, especially if you want to see more of it.

Happy autumn equinox to all, but especially to my fellow spooky bisexuals, who begin their rise to peak power today.

like okay, i get wanting to just see cool papers and stuff, but uhh i'm a trans scientist in the US as funding crumbles trying to support my students, including those who are Black, Indigenous, disabled, neurodivergent, immigrants, international, queer, trans, the list goes on- idk what to tell you?

Watched some undergrad in pricey athleisure walk straight into a blind guy using a cane and give him shit for it, then come jump in front of me for the elevator, so what I’m saying is parents, teach your children not to be assholes.

This is horrible news: When I look for informative reporting on politics and elections in Washington state, most of what I find and learn from is from Crosscut/Cascade PBS. This will leave a huge void.

CYBERBULLYING WORKS BABYYYYYY

It's the "we've always done it this way" method of leadership that does no one any favors. Libraries and their communities deserve so much better, and leaders who dare break the mold don't deserve to be demonized for it.

not loving how fast the r-slur came back from the grave where it belonged

Need a Monday pick-me-up? Here's what you get if you look up the Tesla showroom where we held Seattle's first #teslatakedown protests ✊🙌 Remember: Every act of rebellion pushes our lines forward. And you have friends everywhere.

dudes rock

A HOUSE BETWEEN SEA AND SKY has over 1000 reviews on Amazon! 🤯 And it's not officially out until October 1st! Remember: it's a free pick this month for Prime subscribers, or $1.99 for other customers. Next week, it's out in paperback & audio & sold everywhere. Preorder at your local indie!

We don’t deserve dogs

"Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike...long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome." apnews.com/article/ital...

THEY WROTE NUMBERS ON THEIR WRISTS I can’t see straight. Obviously there is so much wrong happening here, but this detail is fucking chilling. These are human beings.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

And listen, this isn’t about shaming their sexuality; it’s about the fact they can’t wait to do this while trying to destroy out queer people.

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If the world’s ending, I am pretty sure we can blame the people we can’t trust to think critically about Jesus Christ Superstar, let alone modern morality and responsibility. In short: Gail’s right. If they are right and there’s any justice metaphysically, I look forward to their disappointment.

Sweet Jesus this 11 page “what IS information, really” article from 1991 literally says “if a tree stands in the forest and no one is aware, is it information?”

ok having not looked too deeply into this, this seems like it could be a replacement for parents who are hesitating to cancel the other apps bc they need Bluey?

I am a stuck and broken record but every time it's true: scratch a terf, sniff a racist.

It’ll never not be weird to me that Hamilton is playing in London. Do they have to apologize for portraying George III like that or

the worst is when you get that cross with the one wonky wheel so it just goes all over the place and don't get me started on people who leave their crosses in a parking space and don't take them back to the cross corral

Okay, B&N, I have a bone to pick with you. “The best books of October”? It’s September. Yeah, you and your trad pub network probably feel pretty confident about that assessment, but maybe don’t give the game away?

Emphasizing this excellent point: speaking only positively of any health condition isolates people who are really suffering. Even if it isn’t a policy, discouraging people from talking honestly about conditions, treatment, etc endangers people at the highest risk to protect people from discomfort.

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

This is very true, and also, disabled people have been feeling this for quite a while, including on a huge scale since 2020 as we've learned just how expendable our lives are the second that we inconvenience capitalism

Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.

The key to keeping public discourse at a high level is to take a leaf from the Edwardians, with their love of decorum.

IKEA just sent me an email. “Anna: seek and you shall find.” Well, thanks, IKEA?

hello all! i am doing a reading at Two Hour Transport with Cliff Winnig this Wednesday at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern! Do you want to hear me give my *own* voice to the hills and to the Death of Mountains? heck yeah! clicky link:

Hi, new followers from the disability thread or any of the exasperated threads the last week or so. I write books, and right now I am studying in Scotland to ascend to my final form (librarianship). This means the writing and active selling is on pause, but it doesn’t mean I don’t love my books.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

Like I am pretty sure even someone with fuck you money making Captain Planet would get forced to apologize to Chevron and OpenAI.

god: ye shall not know the day or the hour some fringe christians every few weeks: IT’S HAPPENING THIS TUESDAY AT 7:12 AM

So my sister said that she’s been finding a lot of comfort watching the cartoons we loved as kids taped with commercials. I just tried and about threw up with grief. Things really did feel like they could only get better. 9/11 and the Bush years really were the death knell.

Like, I’ll do it, but I will not enjoy it