Lindsey Carmichael

Hooray! Best of luck with this next stage of the process. And thanks for carving out more space for sapphic stories in this world!

Ffs, the late stage capitalist urge to demand people become (and stay) a brand is so toxic. I know we all want a simpler world when everything is on fire, but stuffing people into boxes is truly not the way

We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT

As the elected government officials pop on here to rationalize their enthusiastic complicity in the bombing of children, a reminder that this fun labeler identifying who is funding them exists.

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What a cool concept! Congrats! 🎉

Unleash hell, my friends.

Alice Wong's Celebration of life March 25th, 2026 11am PST This toolkit is an invitation and a resource for individuals and communities to participate in Alice Wong's Celebration of Life. Be it from bed, your living room, local community center, classroom, or in the streets... You can join Alice's Celebration of Life through: * The livestream + virtual reception: Join the livestream and gather for the virtual reception hosted by Calling UP Justice & San Francisco Disability Cultural Center. * In-person livestream watch + your own gathering: host an in-person gathering to join the livestream and connect in person to celebrate Alice. * Detailed Toolkit with links, photos, and resources to make your gathering accessible, plus ways to honor Alice Wong's legacy: https://bit.ly/aliceislove

Oof. I felt that back at least four generations.

There is so much anger in me for the "let it rip," "we don't need to mask/you don't need to mask" "All schools and universities must be in person" people, I think its possibly unhealthy for me

Archived link here, thanks to @jacky.wtf for sharing

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Crips for eSims for Gaza Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

chuffed.org/project/crip... this is my regular reminder that we are still here and working to stay out of the red. Celebrate and honor Ramadan by considering spreading the word and donating to us. Let Gaza communications ring freely. You can't stop the signal.

@dorkslikecheese.bsky.social: Well that [grafting yourself onto other life forms in order to get around] sounds like a pain in the ass.

Me: Seriously. I love my wheelchair.

@vashallasilverwind.bsky.social: Well, for the other guy, it'd be a pain in the chest.

Me: Ayyyyy

#B5Disability

Garibaldi with subtitles reading "because it's easier than finding something worth living for."

(PTSD) S1E4. Wait, are two men really having a discussion about PTSD and mental health at the end of all the trauma in this episode?? WHAT. (I wish I were not so amazed at this.) #B5Disability

Sinclair lit in green looking ferocious: "They didn't feed you facts, they fed you propaganda!"

(Fascism, eugenics) S1E4. Damn, they are NOT holding back. Sinclair in a shootout, shouting talking points against eugenic bullshit. "They killed anything that was different. But we're all aliens to one another... imperfect." Where's your perfect world? Your supersoldiers ended it. #B5Disability

Dr. Franklin and Sinclair in medbay, looking horrified. The doctor says "Or a pure human? No one is pure. No one."

(Fascism, eugenics) S1E4. Genetic engineering super soldiers based not on DNA but ideology. And then making that into a virus to infect anyone w/ similar ideology. Cool. Cool cool cool.

"Who set the parameters of what it means to be a pure Ikarran?"

#B5Disability

S1E4. Another missed screenshot opportunity (especially w/ sapphic tension between Ivanova looming over a blonde reporter). This out of context quote from Ivanova:

"Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain."

DON'T I KNOW IT, Ivanova

#B5Disability

In the med bay, the skeezy archaeologist talks with Garibaldi from security and Commander Sinclair. Text says "In order to achieve mobility, they graft onto another life form."

S1E4. Well that's one way to get around. Never been more grateful for my wheelchair, tbh.

#B5Disability

Henchman in a leather jacket gasps openmouthed as a green light beams into his eyes. It's giving big "Pikachu face" vibes of surprise.

(CW quarantine) S1E4.

Dr: You guys followed the quarantine procedure, right?

Skeevy archeologist: Oh of course, we did that, uhhh... with a layover.

Dr: Ok

Skeevy henchman, five mins later: *opens box and downloads bright green light into his brain*

#B5Disability

Screenshot of Babylon 5 tech screen that shows an outline of a device, capilaries, and "biomechanical DNA traces found" with a list including thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, etc. Subtitles say "This is composed of living tissue. This is organic technology."

S1E4. Oh shit. "Living machines" from an ancient civilization in an episode titled "infection." This is gonna end well for all involved, I'm sure.

#B5Disability

S1E4. Small detail, but I love that A. this 1994 scifi TV series is willing to acknowledge bathrooms exist and B. the Babylon 5 space station planned bathrooms for methane-breathing people. Somehow I doubt citing this will help me when I encounter future inaccessible bathrooms, tho. #B5Disability

Welp, love that I followed that up directly with... *checks notes* talk about multiple kinds of death 😬

Screenshot of a Babylon 5 video call showing a man sitting up in a hospital bed. He is white and has greying hair and beard, and he looks tired, in pain, and maybe a little grateful. The subtitles say "Susan..."

(CW death, pandemic) S1E3. I did not expect Babylon 5 to predict the gut-wrenching technological blessing and agony of Zoom calls for patients on their deathbed. That was respectfully done. I have no more analysis on this, it's too heavy for me tonight. #B5Disability

Quiet night so far on the Babylon 5 front. Tho I do wish I'd moved fast enough to screenshot S1E3 Garibaldi whacking a computer, yelling "Damn I.C.E.!"

Trying to decide how much I want to clutter up this thread with random B5 takes, like how much I love the phrase "you moon-faced assassin of joy"

Poster's Madness A streaming PowerPoint telethon for mutual aid

We are counter-programming the State of the Union with a fundraising telethon featuring everyone’s favorite Bluesky posters doing short presentations and sketches on stuff they are passionate about. Will stream on YouTube starting at 8:30pm EST

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The key word here is "engaged." So, ongoing action. What are you protesting, what are you protecting, what are you teaching or healing or helping to survive? And can you make that sustainable?

(I say this from bed, exhausted from high pain. Surviving, sustaining life, resting to fight another day.)

Also @amphipodgirl.bsky.social if you're into interesting chronic illness rep in romance (and ND and MM pairings) I was going to ask if you'd read Heart of Stone by Johannes T Evans. But then I kept scrolling on your feed and saw you took some kind of class w/ Evans recently?? I'm envious!

You're welcome! IAIYH knocks it out of the park. It's the first I've seen of a chronically ill / mobility disability romance, and I felt seen from BOTH sides—even from the post-Games depression angle.

This is my barely coherent thread on it: bsky.app/profile/utar...

I see. Thank you for your thoughts on the topic.

Thank YOU so much, for writing this book and for being so supportive of disabled community! It's overwhelming to see (in the best way).

I'm not really interested in competing about hill heights in different metro areas. I'm interested in the probability of this project in my city, which engineers and designers said was possible. I understand it's a moot point a decade later, so I'm just expressing sadness about what might've been.

YouTube video by TEDx Talks We were promised flying cars: Jared Ficklin at TEDxKC

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on this 2013 TED talk, though it does not address the height of hills. I met the people behind The Wire plan, they had engineers and submitted a full plan to the city council. I'd be surprised they got that far if it were impossible. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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