April the Chaotic Good

Meal Train for Ky My dear friend, Ky, and her partner Ke, are working 4 jobs between them. K is a chronically and mentally ill person who needs to be Covid Cautious. Since SNAP benefits were cut in their state and they were no longer eligible--unless they worked more and would then lose their state medicaid--they have been food insecure. Food restrictions have made this especially hard. Without transportation to get to the food shelves in her city, and their limited hours, they have had to spend on groceries and put rent on credit cards. Food pantries serving hot meals are all indoors (not Covid safe) and with allergies, are impossible to use. I, and another close friend, are organizing this meal train to help them with food so they can catch up on rent. Please help us provide gift cards for groceries at the stores near them: Cub Foods and Target. Donations will be used to purchase gift cards. Photo ID: close up of Ky's original artwork, with lines quoted from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, that read: ALL THAT YOU TOUCH YOU CHANGE ALL THAT YOU CHANGE CHANGES YOU THE ONLY LASTING TRUTH IS CHANGE Text is white on black made with label maker, with photo of clouds in background

Please consider helping my food insecure friend afford food for the month of February. Boosts appreciated! 💗

https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/56g64r

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@chronicillness @spoonie @disability

The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem

The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem.

I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...

New profile pic, hat tip to all my fellow recently migrated resistors! 🫶🏻 Double hugs if you are still masking in crowds! 🥰

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If you want to understand the far right, violent extremists, White Supremacists, and Christian nationalists, these are the journalists, researchers, academics, and other experts that monitor, research, and provide analysis on all the flavors of the far right and extremist movements.

a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and saying `` i need coffee '' . Alt: a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and saying `` i need coffee '' .

Apparently we’ve all over here now. I need to update my stuff. I haven’t touched this account for a year.

Well, hi everyone! Let’s get to resisting again (my god I’m already tired)… time for a cup of coffee!

I need to post more over here.

Tell me what you’d most like to see me talk about.

Options: Disability, Autism, parenting, complaining about capitalism, Covid safety, sci-fi shows and TV, aspiring writer thoughts or my personal life.

I’ve received many heartbreaking emails after my hospital masking story from people whose loved ones contracted covid at a hospital with dangerous consequences. What do you even say or do in response?

“I’m tired and my head hurts.”
- This post has been brought to you by my undefined disability that does this to me for no apparent* reason.

*This is untrue. Last week I ate gluten to purposefully create a flare for a medical test to hopefully define what’s undefined. Flare occurred. I’m miserable.

I know this is silly, but I’m proud of my brand new little neighborhood for 10 followers. Welcome to my tiny digital BlueSky living room 🥳.

There are no prizes to be won

This is not the disability olympics

Absolutely! 💯💯💯

It’s so upsetting I can barely wrap my head around it. There’s the trauma of Disabled people left behind & shut in for years just to stay alive & the trauma of Long Coviders who’ve been double traumatized by the pandemic, because it was the poor Covid response that disabled them in the 1st place! ❤️

If you’re new to the Disability community and you want your pain to be heard, share your story. Many of us want to listen! I do!

But please, please don’t push this narrative that your disability is the worst disability to ever happen. You have no idea the intense pain others have gone through.

One thing we shouldn’t do in the Disability community is compare disabilities like “I am more Disabled than thou.”

I’ve been various levels of Disabled, many folks have. All Disabilities can suck by the very nature of NOT being able to do stuff. All Disabled people should be protected & celebrated.

I’m a bit confused. Can you elaborate? Are you saying I participate in causing Covid? I have been in a bubble since March 2020, not entering any buildings but my house and Dr, and masking always.

Or were you saying that Long Coviders are struggling with trauma because people caused their illness? ❤️

I hear ya! This tweet came from a conversation on another platform in which a person got angry at me for telling them there’s hope for them. Adjusting to being disabled, aka, finding support, treatment and acceptance of what’s gone actually is extremely healing. But some aren’t ready to hear it.

Elderly people lined up at casino slot machines pressing buttons incessantly

Disabled life is refreshing your medical app, waiting for test results like

I’m ashamed of the things I thought about Disability when I was newly Disabled over a decade ago.

I see newly Disabled people (mostly Long Covid) making my old mistakes.

They think treatment will come. They think it’s their only hope. They think Disabled life isn’t worth living. 💔💔💔

Being on a new site is like being the new dog at a shelter, forlornly waiting to get adopted.

If you’re disabled and have been looking for me, here I am!

If you are Disabled, Autistic, Queer, or a parent trying to be the best version of yourself for your kiddo, or you’re an artist/writer working on your craft… we already have something in common!

Also… I watch a ton of TV/film and adore memoir. If we have something in common, I’d love to connect! 🥰