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my nice thing of the day is a care package i + my partner signed us up for bc of TDoR. it was beautiful and needed and healing

The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza

It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias

Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations

She fought for the people of Gaza

She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue

I want you to get vaccinated if you can, for everything that you can, to protect both yourself and those who cannot.

I used to have this argument about the flu shot. People I know were all "well i'm young and in good health so i don't need to." Do you care about anyone who is not those things?!

For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can.

If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.

my nice things of the day: art journaling, a baby babbling and laughing, letting myself cry, reading alice wong's writing to ppl i love

Thank You Alice Wong Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.

“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.

She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”

If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up

for a while my province had one of the highest infection/death rates in north america bc of this exact plan and can confirm !! Bad, extremely Bad

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

a black cat with yellow eyes peaks out from behind a nest, you can see at least 3 blankets on the bed. they're various shades of blue, green, and brown

gonna show my bby this portrait of him as his halloween gift

happy halloween, i have 1 of my last appointments w/ the only truly helpful therapist i've found in 15 yrs today bc we refuse to invest in health care and social services! 👻🎃🍭

Twitch thinking about implementing AI clipping tool, this means yalls voice is gonna be scraped.

You better vote against it.

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92471...

#twitch

listening to horseglue by @ekkoastral.bsky.social on repeat as a sort of bedtime ritual. we're gonna feel our feelings. we're gonna sleep. we're gonna wake up and fight harder tmrw. deal?

Adding alt text to your images is a small kindness you can extend into a very unkind world 💜

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

my nice thing of the cptsd hellscape is that 2 different neighbors helped me this evening independently of each other with almost no notice

seeing my favorite deep sea diver album and the new ekko astral together made my heart glow in a moment of overwhelm

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

PLEASE keep talking about COVID. please keep talking about how crucial masking is to stop the spread of infectious disease. we need more people to understand that their government lied to them and threw them to the wolves.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

nice thing of the day: going back and forth on the phone saying hi with a 1 yr old that's happy to hear my voice

sometimes i convince myself it's just me and i'm being ridiculous bc "all platforms are compromised" and i start to get in my head about it 😭

It’s not too late to wear a mask.

It’s not too late to protect your health.

It’s not too late to show you care about the health of those around you.

It’s not too late to do your part to make public spaces inclusive & accessible.

It’s radical kindness & community care.

in the strange disability mindfuck space where i was well enough last night to stay on the phone and give directions during an emergency and manage pain for an hr of roadtrip and put 2 kids to bed but waking up w all the unfamiliar fragrances is the thing that takes me out i guess ??

also: new mountain goats singles on the way home frm the graveyard

“I’m afraid of what happens if I stop feeling too much. I don't want to become someone who moves and breathes like all of this is normal. I am afraid of what that would make me. I am afraid of what that tendency has already made me, in some ways, and what it has made the world.”

seeing the updates (both directly tour related and everything else) has srsly been keeping me sane. the joy and euphoria coexisting w everything else 🫂

a graveyard in autumn with the sun poking out from behind a tree. the sky is a clear blue, the shadows from the headstones are long, reachimg towards the viewer. many of the leaves have fallen. the grass is still green

nice thing(s) of the day so far this week: physio assessment going well + teaching me about my body, gender euphoria at a queer barber shop, reading Wicked on the couch during quiet moments, singing in the graveyard w family ⚧️🍂♿️

77 years of the same lies