I don't know how anyone accomplishes anything, I am always in thrall to a headache and/or executive dysfunction and there are too many tabs open in my brain. You're all so accomplished!

My spouse shut the bedroom closet door before the thunder started so poor baby Amy, our 16 year old cat, has wedged herself under the bathroom sink cabinet with her face towards the wall so the bad thing can't get her. I pushed the sheepskin and a laundry basket towards her for more protection 🥺

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Other people have noted why the infusion of AI into everything has made grammar and spellcheckers effectively useless (because the tools are now checking against common usage by OTHER users), but can I vent for a second? 1/2

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“The lessons he has drawn are often striking: #people are fundamentally #egalitarian but are led to #collapses by enriched, status-obsessed #elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please show Usama and his beautiful family the love and kindness they deserve gofund.me/edee2aeb

Not to be like all ideating on main but between the genocides and the climate collapse and AI coming for our jobs and AI erasing all art I don't see myself willingly remaining topside much longer.

A billionaire has a chance to do something useful for once...

Every day, Calgary. Every day.

But @mark-carney.bsky.social is gutting services for women.

In case it helps anyone else, you can't do this. Your spouse has to get a credit check and create a new account and then move the numbers over? Asinine. Ask how many phone calls and how many hours on hold it took them to tell us this. EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS LIKE THIS NOW.

It took significantly less time, hassle and effort to GET A MARRIAGE LICENSE than it is taking to ATTEMPT TO SWITCH THE OWNERSHIP OF THE TELUS ACCOUNT FROM ME TO MY LEGAL SPOUSE. Love me some Canadian telecommunications monopoly.

When Carney's first cabinet did not have a Minister for WAGE, my colleagues & I sounded the alarm that it was a huge 🚩; that he doesn't understand the importance of having gender based analysis. Partisans called us hysterical. Well, now we're looking at an 81% (!!!) budget cut.

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Feeling helpless about Gaza? @wawog.bsky.social have an online template that makes it easy to email editors of major English language pubs in the U.S. & Canada to demand they make the forced famine front page news. I'm working my way down the list now: www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/action

Everything Is Humiliating: A Memoir (of Life as a Late Diagnosed AuDHD Nerd with Multiple Chronic Illnesses, or, Why This Dork is Constantly Sick and Exhausted to the Point of Ideation and They Don't Fit In Anywhere)

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#Calgary: Vandalism at Raytheon Warehouse "The vandalism includes smashed windows, a fire set within the warehouse and ‘Let Gaza Live’ spray painted in red across the exterior."

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Just so we’re all clear, and for the dozenth time: there is a direct through line between our society deciding that we’re fine with disabled and immunocompromised ppl dying and being driven out of public life so we can all have fun and the resurgence of this word

Let's talk about the elephant in the room regarding the current fascist US regime and Alberta seperatism: Christian Nationalism. Long🧵 ahead #canpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #bcpoli #Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #turtleisland #Indigenous #mbpoli #skpoli #DanielleSmith

I realize this sounds like a bit but I was seriously asking.

This is the sort of thing Suzuki was referring to when he said we're out of time, not that Our Glorious Leaders (TM) give two rips

Are there any companies that respect disability rights and are there any jobs that aren't marketing?

For anyone who knows anything about the extreme lack of children’s mental health support in Alberta, this looks like children suffering and maybe not making it because our government has utterly failed on governance in every way

Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.

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#MarkCarney is no progressive. He's just another full-fledged #ClimateVillain. This will literally kill Canadians and people all over the world. And he KNOWS it. I voted for him. There was no other choice. Now I have to live with enabling a monster. Shame on you @mark-carney.bsky.social #cdnpoli

Another week of countless, discriminatory, war crime concealing deletions Of further dehumanising genocide survivors In case you missed it, there's a petition that is calling for your signature So please, go sign and share! chng.it/LCKM55jdng

Ashraf has been really struggling to have his voice heard, and his family fed Please, give him a loving hand Follow him and his journey. Share his message. Don’t hesitate to contribute if you can today. chuffed.org/project/1268...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.

Not gonna be boosting this constantly but I figure a few times is good. Share if you can, that'd be wicked appreciated, this has already raised more than I ever thought it would so thank you all.

95% of the 'cute' portmanteaus coined by academics are actually cringe and bad I will not elaborate.

A chapter I'm reading for my lit review (Gieseler on death positivity in the digital era) mentions Lincoln's "180-city, seven-state, 1,600-mile funeral tour by train" and, holy shit, what kind of spectacle will they put on when He finally kicks it, can you imagine?

A colleague (or perhaps not a colleague as they are a tenured professor & I am a unionized staff worker & grad student so I am on a lower tier but anyway) remarked to me yesterday how bonkers it is that there's no bike infrastructure leading to the university, which is something I've thought before

Some combination of my brain and the birds are conspiring to prevent me from getting more than 5 hours of sleep per night, which is not helping with either perimenopause symptoms or general coping. And I'm meant to be working on my lit review this month but have been too fried to touch it all week.

"It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services... more to the point, the idea that only science really matters has been enormously destructive." There is no research infrastructure without a full research infrastructure.

Sometimes, as a multiply disabled person, I feel like nondisabled people are the aunt from The Importance of Being Earnest. “Well! To have one disease, Ms. Holmes, may be regarded as a misfortune; to have several looks like carelessness.”

Our society absolutely sucks at talking about disability. There’s very little early education about it that’s mandatory. It’s left to parental discretion. You know, parents, who literally drag their kids away from us and hiss DON’T STARE, therefore setting us up as other.

UCP: your pro-disease party.

Can you imagine if we all had a consent-based and trauma-aware approach to our relationshops and business dealings? Never happen, but can you imagine?

Burnout, as praxis