I am well aware of the price of insulin, and I've been fighting for years to bring it down. Patients are not "consumers" of healthcare because we don't have much choice. Use healthcare, pay the cost, or die. This is what we're left with. I still need insulin, despite the high price.

I think it turned out too thick (I somehow lost my 1/8” rolling pin guides 😭) but I have all of my gingerbread house pieces baked and I’m hoping they dry out a bit overnight

On my way to see the Beths! I wish this cold streak would break though 🥶

Is there anything as sweet as a kitten who trusts you so much that you can pet her while she naps snuggled up next to you?

Have been on a baking spree lately and it’s been nice. Tomorrow I’m making a small batch of mini cupcakes for a friend and next week I’m doing a gingerbread house from scratch

Something I’ve been thinking about since this afternoon: if you cannot write clear test steps in your PRs, then I am not going to be rushing to try to review them. This person didn’t write ANY. We are all on a new project where many people don’t know the business rules yet. Write test steps!

Darn I just realized I forgot to put the chives in the quiche

oh HEY peeps -- Cold Magic at $2 on Kindle. Book one of my Afro-Celtic post-Roman regency icepunk fantasy adventure trilogy, with Phoenician spies, well-dressed men, revolutionary women, and (of course) lawyer dinosaurs.

Today I managed to finish the brioche buns, move all my books to newly hung shelves, make pie dough for quiche, hang 2/3 Christmas stars, and update my jazzy Christmas playlist. Oh and I worked. No big deal!

Am I baking my own brioche hamburger buns because the store was out of them? Yes, yes I am. Mine are better anyway I’m just not usually annoyed enough to put forth the effort

I was doing so good at not spending money this weekend, but…I caved a few times today 😂 Pleased to say mostly from small businesses (got my bread baking classes from KAB! Ordered a bunch of things from the Cookie Countess…are you sensing a theme?) Gracie is already enjoying her cattasaurus tube

I have to say, I really miss my cats and my bed. Can’t wait to be home on Sunday morning

Have hooked my mom on GBBO by forcing her to watch Christmas specials 😂 but am I going to attempt Val’s chocolate cherry truffles wrapped in edible gold leaf? Definitely!

Oh good. Seems like my brother’s whole house is coming down with something just in time for our flight home tomorrow

It's common to hear "fully accessible" to describe products which pass WCAG 2.2 AA. But, are they really? In this post, I explore 5 examples of why WCAG, as awesome as it is, is not a measure of great usability or performance. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2025/5-... #accessibility #a11y #wcag

Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:

My pie hot take is that if your apple pie has allspice in it, it’s trash 🤷‍♀️

I gather we’re discussing pie. I was thinking earlier about some general pie tips as I baked 5 pies for an order this week. Like put a few folds in your pie dough! It brings together the dry bits, and really makes the layers pop! Just 3 or so - you don’t want it to get tough on you

My handyman is over taking care of a couple of things for me and Gracie is going absolutely hog wild getting into all his tools and having zoomies all over his work space. I keep hearing him say in the softest voice, “Miha, miha, miha” 😂

Is there anything better than your kitten quietly curling up as close as possible to you?

Insulin should be free!

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Alice was an incredible person who worked hard to widen the path to liberation so others could follow. May we be called to rise up in the wake of her passing; may she rest in power.

Six young Black moms were allegedly killed by suspects who were on probation but not being monitored in person by probation officers because of a warrant out for their arrest. Their deaths left 12 children without mothers. In partnership with @wpln.bsky.social

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

In less than two hours my bloodsugar has dropped by over 300 points. So I feel fucking weird, thanks for asking! And no I don’t know why it did this, but if someone could figure it out and let me know, that would be great!

When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional. crutchesandspice.com/2025/11/11/c...

Since people in Congress folded to Velveeta Voldemort, I have to get back to the grind double time. My partner needs help. We are 54% to our goal. I’ll have an update done tomorrow on the GoFundMe page, but if you would please share and or donate we would be grateful. Thanks. gofund.me/bb9182fa2

If you know of anyone looking for internships or entry-level roles in tech, please share this with them!

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

I am never voting for TimKaine ever again and I have nothing else to say about that

I made Portuguese chicken and rice from Recipetineats tonight and wow! This is so good. I can’t wait to eat more of this tomorrow!

This looks so cool! Why is my disabled craft baking? I’m supposed to be doing pie prep on Saturday 😭

Successfully got Gracie to swallow her pain pill this morning! 💪

When you equate disabled people with burden, the lives of disabled people are always in jeopardy.

You know what’s fun? You take your kitten to one of the rescue-partner vets for her spay surgery and they call you to say they found a heart murmur but are doing the surgery anyway - nothing to see here! I’m not worried at all!

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

The problem I have when going to German style beer gardens here is that, having lived in Germany (and Berlin specifically), I ask questions like “what does Berlin style ketchup mean?” knowing full well the American ass bartender isn’t going to know the answer

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot! www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

anna wintour, the unconscionable coward that you are www.vogue.com/article/teen...

I really wish more publications would run opinion pieces/analysis of what's happening with the state of disability education by adults who had IEPs and 504s, not just parents of disabled kids.

I just finished decorating 30 alien-themed royal icing cookies and tomorrow I have to complete 60 monster-themed mini cupcakes. Yeah I’m working on Halloween night…. I don’t think I charged enough for this job 😂

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Not my kitten sticking her face in my water glass and licking the inside rim!? 🤦‍♀️

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/15187764 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth #Richmond #RVA Please help me share to 100 folks! (It really helps.) Ill be on stage with a legend--Dr. Leni Sorenson formerly of Monticello! October 28 2025 6-7:30 pm

Disabled folks feeling guilty for not protesting today: *it is not your fault* that organizers don’t make an effort to make protests accessible and don’t encourage masking And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way

I have a gnarly cold for the first time in a long time. It’s really annoying!