El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
Yesterday 🍊’s team put out an executive order, demanding the current president be given more power than any president before him ever had.
Today he called himself a king & officially decided to ignore court orders.
A slideshow of my daughter’s art. She was 8 when she drew all of these last summer. I found her notebook while unpacking moving boxes last night.
#art #autisticcommunity #rainbow #cats
Autistic mothers in maternity care felt many staff didn’t understand how autistic people communicate & experience pain, & can "feel pain at the same level as non-autistic people—but often show it differently, including having fewer outward signs of pain."
theconversation.com/autistic-wom... #autism
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
I’ve been writing up a storm, lately. So I splurged on this meteorite pendant from one of my favorite Etsy jewelers — an early Valentine present from me to me. It’s a little nod to my late father, who worked on Project Mercury.
#WritingCommunity #AutisticCommunity #Jewelry #Meteorite #Nerd #Writer
The day after the election, I was overcome with emotion. This is what I wrote but never shared until now.
#WritingCommunity #Writer #Blogger
Disability rights are human rights—needless to say, yet still necessary to say.
#Disability #HumanRights #SDGs #HumanRights #Equity #Poverty #Accessibility #WeAreBillionStrong #AXSChat
As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.
Writing: A first draft isn't ever going to be your final story draft, nor should it be. But it needs to get done, so you can review the story, find the best ways to enhance it, and have follow-up drafts after it to make a book possible. - Wrtr #amwriting Be #Writing. #author #writer ~ #authorsky
“I coached football long enough to know that, when somebody draws up a playbook, they plan on using it.” @governorwalz.mn.gov
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
Now we are surrounded by inexplicable pain and death, no death is more mysterious or portentous than others, because every death which is not the fruit of a long life is now unaccounted for...
- Stanley Cavell on King Lear and the avoidance of love
Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.
Authors are the best people. We write despite all the people and things in the world saying not to. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting Keep Writing. Be Writing. #author #writer #writing ~ #authorsky
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
they are labeled just incase you didn’t know
I love this. 🩷
happy new year! 🎊
Thank you!
😆 I’ve tried to go back to edit way too many times and then just dealt with typos or lack of hashtags. Editing is an accessibility feature for me with my ADHD. 🫠
I had plans in early 2024 to self-publish a collection of old essays on March 21st, but my life was upended by an illness in the family and multiple moves. Now that I’m settled back home, I decided to mete it out in memes instead.
The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
Hey, at least they’re giving the land a vote in their maps—finally, representation for dirt and trees!
Thank you. 🙏🏻 I appreciate that understanding and encouragement. 💖
Since my mother died in 2022, I have been stuck as a writer. I’ve dumped all my energy into being an advocate and lost my voice. Even after attending a workshop with Nancy in late ‘22, I wasn’t ready to heal.
But now I’m home.
And I’m ready.
#WritingCommunity #DisabilityCommunity
‼️Urgent ‼️
Please take action to let your congresspeople know that the gender-affirming care bans in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act are unacceptable.
mdcdsa.org/ndaa
The absence of a disabled tech professional org reflects systemic biases & low disability visibility in tech.
We need a space to champion accessibility, innovation, and leadership by disabled professionals.
#WeAreBillionStrong #AXSChat #HumanRights #Disability #Technology
