Lindsey Carmichael

(CW trauma)

Dear RN calling from my GP, sorry you caught me on a rough day, thanks for understanding that "calling to schedule an appt to go over lab results" is absolutely a trigger for medical C-PTSD. Thanks for reassuring me thru my tears & giving me time to regulate. Disability+US healthcare=🫠

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Introducing Voices of Disabled People A letter from the editor of HuffPost Voices about how excited we are to launch a new section that takes a novel approach to disability justice.

#DisabilityRepresentation in media matters!

HuffPost has launched “Voices Of Disabled People,” the first national news section dedicated exclusively to #disability coverage. #BlindNewWorld

(Story via @huffpost.com ⬇️)

Just a little post in case people still don't know about Bookshop.org - the absolute best way to buy books.

Good thing you're a badass with a great sense of style. But I get it. If I could teleport you some kind of amulet of temporary invisibility, I'd definitely do that. Best of luck!

New research suggests antibodies from people with ME/CFS and Long COVID may directly change how cells handle energy and inflammation.

The study found these antibodies may fragment mitochondria and alter immune signals.

Ooh, congratulations on being the Guest of Honor! 🎉

Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

My grandparents included:

A dairy farmer who did grave digging and maple-tree-tapping on the side

A librarian

A paratrooper veteran and pharmacist

A small business owner

Accessibility is not a "trend." And it's telling that the Times frames an issue of equity as "gaming the system."

(Damn, sorry for missing the CW about pregnancy on that one.)

I hate that combination of low spoons / being excited about a thing, and then doing too much and regretting it. Hnnngggg. I don't regret tonight's thread but I'm gonna call it a night now.

Talia Winters is looking down and is clearly upset.

Wikipedia screenshot. Text says “In the final scene, Talia discovers that Ironheart had left her the gift of telekinesis. Straczynski originally had planned to use these powers later in the series. The way that Thompson played this final scene was inspired by her recently becoming pregnant with her child with her real-life partner, co-star Jerry Doyle. She reflected, "When I first found out that Jerry and I were expecting. It's a magical gift, but at the same time, you're terribly afraid. It's all about the unknown, and you have that sense that your life is changing, that something has happened, you can never turn back."”

S1E6. Ironheart gifts Winters w telekinesis. Apparently the actor Andrea Thomspon had just become pregnant w her partner (co-star Jerry Doyle, Garibaldi). So in this scene she focused on how it’s magical, and unknown, and you’re afraid.

Disability & pregnancy have many overlaps.

#B5Disability

Ethereal space man says "In memory of love, I give you a gift."

S1E6. CW talkin' about sex. Mind sex! In space! Side effects of orgasming with an ethereal psychic ex boyfriend may include, uhh, telekinesis?

The psychic Ironheart becomes a transparent, yet buff ethereal star man dude. I dunno man, my brain is tired, just go with it.

S1E6. Don’t you love it when medical procedures come with unpleasant side effects, part deux, ethereal boogaloo.

#B5Disability

Ironheart speaking to Sinclair with sincerity. "The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, commander. Control."

Ironheart says "Can you imagine what they would do with it? What anyone would do with it?"

Ironheart has a wistful, pained look as he says "This is a power we were never meant to have. We're not ready for it."

S1E6. This scene is so good! Straczynski must've been a fan of Octavia Butler's Patternmaster series about psychics, right?? I would give a lot to know if she ever saw this episode and what she thought of it.

#B5Disability

S1E6. CW death, dehumanization. I love that Ivanova, the daughter of a telepath who died bc of Psi Cops dystopian rules, calls out the Psi Cops as being the problem here for how they're dehumanizing the people they're experimenting on.

#B5Disability

Ironheart looks up in agony, holding his head during a "mind quake" and subtitle reads "Get out! While you can."

S1E6. Don’t you love it when medical procedures come with unpleasant side effects. Like earthquakes.

#B5Disability

S1E6. CW medical experimentation. PSI Ops episode, I think there’s a name for the trope where science gives you superpowers but you can’t control them & become a liability. I’m too brain foggy (lol) but something, disability & superpowers being intertwined & on a messed up continuum.

#B5Disability

Ironheart is a Black man with short hair, looking distressed talking to Talia, who is a white woman with medium blonde hair. Subtitle from Ironheart says "Five, 10, sometimes 15 injections a day. The pain was--"

S1E6. CW injections, pain. Ooof. Reminds me of some experimental infusions I had to do in 5th grade for my bones. Luckily not this intense. But still. My point is that this episode of Babylon 5 definitely belongs in a dialogue about sci fi & disability.

#B5Disability

Psi Cop with an open gloved hand looks intensely at Talia Winters who's holding her own face in distress with gloved hands.

S1E6. CW nonconsensual medicine, psychic. I hate that Talia Winters isn't allowed to decline the deep-scan, described as a "deeply unpleasant procedure" or some shit. While Sinclair & Ivanova watch. Not to get personal but I hate how many medical procedures never feel consensual. #B5Disability

Psi Cops talking to the commander.

S1E6. CW non consensual telepathy. PSI Ops episode. Apparently Psi Cops don't have to get consent, and these two don't care that the person they're deep-scanning asks them to NOT. #B5Disability

S1E5. I'm exhausted tonight so I may not post much. (CW Eugenics) Apparently this episode starts by showing the Centauri getting drunk at a festival commemorating how their species wiped out the sentient Xon and laughing about how they're all dead. Played for laughs, I guess?

#B5Disability

anyway as someone grappling with very fresh grief over the loss of a parent, can I just say read more poetry, folks. For millennia, we've been feeling pain and grief, and translating it into art and poetry, and its all there, waiting for us.
There can be a kind of healing and comfort in that.

A 39 second meditation with a red admiral (Vanessa atalanta).

Inhale. Exhale. 🧘🏾‍♀️

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

A sleeping kitty is always more than sufficient. I love how long haired cats especially seem to defy the laws of physics. How are they bending into a pretzel of cute? It's hard to say, just go with it

Oh my gosh the back paws curled up ever so slightly! I might be projecting but I can feel the sleepiness coming right out of this photo. Thank you!

You certainly can, thank you! What a wonderful manager. That branch never stood a chance.

Screenshot from Threads, user @bongoism. Text: my sons first day of wizard school. A small raccoon wears a dashing purple cape with stars and in both tiny paws holds a silver wand with a star on the end. The raccoon is making puppy eyes, but, like, mischievously.

I don't have any pets in my life currently, but for my contribution here's a raccoon I stole from the Internet.