Casey (they/he)

This is what our world has come to.

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Assembling a book list and I always get good recs I didn't know about from strangers SO: Hit me with adult fiction by disabled people with disabled characters (and good representation). Yes, you can plug your own books.

I remember my family in Iowa living in a flood plain, complaining about FEMA...but it *did* do things for them. Dismantling it is just wild to me...that's not going to magically help people survive or deal with disaster. Good grief.

That’s my county … I can be denied shelter and aid under this law and I am disabled so I already cannot access many shelters! Please share. You saw what happened in Texas … now imagine reducers saying “nah, not you. Go die,”

I love my Visible app/armband for tracking my heart rate wonkiness...but I've had to hard reset it yesterday & again today, & have had to re-pair it several times since I've had it (for less than a month). I'm thankful for the data...when I have it...but dangit, this is annoying. Dud band maybe?

one talking point I end up using with people who are weird about masking is that I think of my mask the same way I think about seatbelts.

like, I’m not walking around terrified & anxious about the worst case scenario all the time, I’m taking an easy & sensible precaution.

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This is awesome! I took ASL classes online with a local group several years ago. A lot of the instructors were queer folks, so it was awesome on that front. As for cameras off & the other accessible things, I wish they had it. Maybe some day I'll take classes with them to get my skills back!

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“I asked chatgpt”,” “I asked grok,” well I asked Shammai to teach me all of the Torah while standing on one foot and he chased me away with his builder’s cubit??

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SOME ARE POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA SOME ARE PROTESTING IN THE STREETS SOME ARE DONATING SILENTLY SOME ARE EDUCATING THEMSELVES SOME ARE HAVING TOUGH CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS & FAMILY A REVOLUTION HAS MANY LAYERS BE KIND TO YOURSELF AND TO OTHERS WHO ARE TRAVELING IN THE SAME DIRECTION JUST KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS.

Happy Saturday! Read something, learn something, hug something. Keep going!

Y’all, having “fawn” as a stress response is sometimes a beast. Trying to tease this apart sucks…& I’m also stuck with “what will people say if I ask them to change to another set of pronouns??” Maybe offering either he/him or they/them, knowing that they’ll probably choose the binary ones?

My presentation is masc & my IDs say male (X wasn’t an option in NC & I didn’t want my gender markers to vary between my license & passport). On a surface level, he/him is fine…but trying to figure out if that’s fine for actual friendships & family is a different beast.

Seriously in the brain space of trying to figure out if I want to keep having people even bother using they/them pronouns for me. I can see & hear the mental gymnastics folks go through & it’s exhausting (but I’m a pathological people pleaser).

A stacked bar chart (oriented horizontally) labeled: Living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome) Each horizontal bar is a disease status: Pre-ME, Mild ME, Moderate ME, Severe ME, Very Severe ME. The width of each bar represents how much energy is available in each status (100, 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 respectively). Each bar is divided into sections for how one might allocate their energy: hygiene & nutrition (gray); caregiving, cleaning errands (red); work (orange); exercise (yellow); friends (green); hobbies (blue); fun (purple). With worsening ME, the hygiene & nutrition takes up a larger proportion of total available energy and the amount of energy available for all other parts of life shrinks. Mild ME has most things cut in half, with exercise cut smaller. Moderate ME removes exercise altogether, and everything else shrinks. Severe ME has only tiny slivers of red, orange, green, blue and purple. Very Severe ME has only a tiny sliver of green.

NIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities.

What would you give up?

Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?

So spent. At least studio time (before my body crapped out) was good

I just got home from Sinners. If you liked that you would def like this story.

That movie was so damn good.

I found more academic books that I need to sort through. It’s a kick in the head sometimes being a recovering academic.

I will say though, as mad/sad as I am that I didn’t finish my PhD, I’m glad to not be fighting this political climate with my work (marginalized communities & physical activity)

I now have a new metric for how shitty I’m feeling: turning down the opportunity to lift heavy things (like cat litter) & asking for help. I’m glad I did ask for help, but dang…I used to lift heavy things for fun & for showing off 😿

They used to…I’ve known trans & disabled folks that would specifically get jobs there because of it (& it used to be pretty decent from what I heard)

It doesn't help that my PT appt this morning involved me not remembering much about my last appointment, other than she was too rough with delicate skin last time & caused a wound (that thankfully healed), but I couldn't remember anything else. It's another good example of why I'm on disability

I really wish that I wasn't still ruminating about the parents of a friend asking me about job hunting when we move. I'm not on SSDI for fun. Poverty isn't fun. I miss working. I've now been on SSDI for...almost 10 years? I've been recertified even. I just feel like a failure right now.