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I want to know the groups not just say running a training is enough to say a training is trustworthy at all. That's even moreso when they're collecting names about anything like this.

I think part of the question to me is do you actually have reason to trust a specific group for their sign ups. Is it a long term group that has been doing things and are they having sign ups for a specific known reason or are they just popping up.

Looks like we need to share notice on this one far and wide. That's a lot of products.

I think one of the best superpowers for parents and teachers to cultivate is the ability to refrain from taking developmentally appropriate behavior personally.

having been floxed at all is awful :( Having it save your life because of sepsis is worth it. I wish we had better options.

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.

people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

(the one other med was "probably MCAS react to, might or might not be anaphylactic, which do you want, flouroqunolones, or something that you have a high risk of anaphylaxis", we went for the anaphylaxis risk, and I reacted in non-ana ways). Still glad we had the last resort if it was ana.

I've almost had to be on IV flouroquinolones despite diagnosed EDS because of high risk of developing sepsis and anaphylactic allergy to all but one of the other medications that could treat the infection. It is both terrifying and sometimes necessary.

1. I'd look at places which foster - they tend to have a lot more information about the dogs in their care and it can be a lot easier to find a good match that way.

2. Make sure you research to find a good match about what you want. Different dogs can vary so much. You want what fits you.

Same dog plushie as in the previous post. Now from the back view, wearing a dark red vest.

Update: I found red yarn

Pattern is www.crochetingsavvy.com/shop/p/mini-... but I modified it to have pointy ears because her ears are the weirdest always changing between upright and flopping over almost being able to stand but not quite.

A little brown and black chenille plushie dog with pointy ears in a sit position

Looking down at a brindle dog in a red service dog in training vest. There's bookshelves behind her.

The two main things going on for me (besides recovering from an adrenal crisis ugh) are training with my SDIT who I've started doing outings with and the #FastenOffYAL which I volunteer for because an accessible yarnalong means a lot to me.

So of course I had to make was a little dog plushie.

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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.

Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

Every day there's aurora the sky is covered in clouds. its the most predictable thing.

But everyone else getting colorful sky is cool.

Whenever I have to think about mortality, about the fragility of my body, I want to make things. I want to do traditional art or fiber arts. I want to put something of me into the world.

🧶DESIGNERS: BARELY MORE THAN ONE DAY LEFT!

After Sunday, November 9 (ET), designer sign-ups close for 2025!

Sign up at www.fastenoffyal.com/designer-sig... - we'd love to have you on board this year!

#FastenOffYAL #crochet #knitting #TunisianCrochet #loomKnitting #yarnalong #stitchalong

Not a designer so never participated as a designer but I've participated as a participant and volunteer and I super recommend FOYAL. Designer deadline is coming up.

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Wikipedia has a mild conservative bias, as it insists on what it calls 'reliable sources' - which mostly means they have been published by capitalist gatekeeping institutions.

The only reason anybody imagines that it has a liberal or left-wing bias is because it's largely accurate. They hate that.

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We take care of each other ❤️

Today is my kitty's birthday! He is 2 years old! Happy birthday kitty floof

Boston friends!

I never knew this was a thing and have been struggling with meds that are so less effective for me its dangerous

Is any of this "offensive"? No, but it's instructive. Notice the people blurting "waffles!" above aren't internet randos, like the reply gals that got Jay so upset to start with. They're operators of startups and journalists who were published in the economist, like, last week.

They're an ingroup.

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

As someone who has hypoxic brain damage from respiratory failure; the way a lot of you conflate any kind of brain injury and/or neurodivergence with immorality really fucking sucks.

Disability doesn't cause fascism. Colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy do.

You're telling ME and a lot of other people to deny our own disabilities, and not to bother seeing ourselves in kids like yours, and frankly, MY life would be worse and less sustainable if I did that.

...but you're trying to cut US off from the knowledge and experiences of kids like yours.

And I have learned AT LEAST as much about my own disability from autistic people w/ support needs much higher than mine, as I have from people whose lives look more like mine superficially.