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Pale woman with wavy rainbow hair wearing a red top and sweatpants. She has a large scar down her midline

1yr ago today, got sliced open & had my veins rearranged!

Surgery was 200% success, took care of an entrapment the surgeon acknowledged in advance AND a compression he wouldn't.

15 yrs of begging brick wall doctors to help, then a new life.
I have the world back, I have myself back. I'm so lucky.

Orange and white cat sitting with arms outstretched across the arm of a pale woman with rainbow hair in a bun wearing a grey sweatshirt

Fitz, lil baby old man angel

Basically, the " #Profoundautism" label is profoundly useless, because "clustering autistic people under an arbitrary, demeaning label erases their individual humanity & needs" plus it shunts those who are nonspeaking &/or intellectually disabled into a medicalized, QoL-free corner of existence. 2/

Malik is a queer Black/Palestinian Muslim anarchist political prisoner. This is their blog, where you can read more about them and their political analysis.

malikspeaks.noblogs.org/updates/

(Last I checked, Malik uses they/them pronouns btw)

Welp, we have a new IACC (Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee), the US government’s advisory panel for autism issues. It is entirely planted with worst case pseudosciencers who will “Fight Against Autism”—and ignore autistic rights and needs. Just awful news.

www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

The sweetest thing I have seen all week bless

I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.

ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

It's impossible to express how it feels to repeatedly live through the exact same cycles over and over and over again. The reformers just consistently fucking everyone over.

This country has locked up so many children in one prison that the CHILDREN ARE LEADING PRISON UPRISINGS. As a country we are not furious enough yet.

Is everything really fucking difficult? Yah

Is everything really fucking beautiful? Yah

Lucky lucky lucky I have this mind.

Feeling grateful to a guy this week who helped raise me +made art out of the sharpest things, Rick Heldt. He's been gone for years but this week he's really really Here.

The life I am living, where I have survived and have capacity and support for the self and community advocacy that I do, while writing the things I get to write and talking to and working with the people I get to talk to and work with, is completely fuckin absurd. Ridiculous! 💜

Wtf? ICE is not a private security force, nor an international agency. It has no business in Italy. Italy can just refuse them entry.

Unseen Post-COVID Diabetes: Causes and Forecasts As we navigate through the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most alarming outcomes is the increasing prevalence of diabetes among those who have been infected with the virus.

“Epidemiological studies have begun to show a concerning trend: individuals with a history of COVID-19 infection are at an elevated risk for developing diabetes, often within months of recovery...” This has actually been known for years, but I’m glad to see more attention on it.

The last few weeks in d&d my players have been very creative and also very confident and the combination has made for some silly stuff. Love love love my friends so much.

No Pride without solidarity | Xtra Magazine Queer activism has never been solely in the service of LGBTQ+ people

Queer people have been involved in solidarity movements and hybrid struggles forever. Our activism has never been about us alone.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

Folks tend to assume that anyone who claims to be an autism advocate is working on behalf of autistic people's wellbeing. Unfortunately, that is often untrue—especially with parents who promote " #ProfoundAutism." Why? @ejwillingham.bsky.social explains in our latest, thread-worthy newsletter. 1/

Orange and white cat lying down wearing a tiny black cowboy hat and bandana and brown belt, looking pleased

Like. He knows he does not have to do this. He poses very much on purpose. And he loved this fit lol

Orange cat wearing a cowboy hat, bandana, belt, and round tiny sunglasses, glowering

Fitz was v cool about the shades, and while wearing them he got v into character.
As a legendary old man who semi-frequently gets scared + deploys weapons, i think he could really relate to Pappy.

Thank you dearly to @dimension20.bsky.social for the inspiration for his favorite costume in ages.

(He is, obviously, dressed here as Daisuke 'pappy' Bucklesby from the dnd show Cloudward Ho on @dropout.tv 💗🙏)

Medium orange and white striped cat sitting against a blue background wearing round black shades a tiny black cowboy hat and bandana, and belt

Oh my gotch I never showed bluesky the halloween costume that Fitz loved to wear the most last year.

Starlight tours being used by ICE in Minneapolis.

Two article screenshots side by side. The first: Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite provides services to US Homeland Security. The second: 'Fantastic news': Ford welcomes ICE plan to order Ontario armoured vehicles.

1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.

Reupping Sarah's article now that I've seen the show:

I thought Shane was one of the best portrayals of an autistic person in media ever. Nothing was cliched. The quiet moments worked. The "obvious autistic" moments and characteristics aren't called out for attention.

It's a really good show.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

So, so many tiny arrows and spears lol

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