For the last day of Disability Pride Month, here's my angry story about accessibility.
Come for the punny superhero lols, stay for the much-needed catharsis at the end.
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For the last day of Disability Pride Month, here's my angry story about accessibility.
Come for the punny superhero lols, stay for the much-needed catharsis at the end.
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
βAre you okay?β
No? Yes? In a manner of speaking?
Amid The Horrors, weβre all just doing the best we can.
American adults have such a pervasive culture of demanding obedience from children, and that will always be antithetical to art.
29.07.2025 18:00 β π 77 π 17 π¬ 4 π 0The best boy :')
28.07.2025 21:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When everything is on fire, daily Bagel soothes my soul π
28.07.2025 20:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Bugs Bunny in all her femmed up glory
Femme Bugs Bunny on stamps
Happy 85th birthday to a trans icon
27.07.2025 22:15 β π 122 π 32 π¬ 6 π 0a closeup of a dachshund-mix's face, he's resting his head and one paw on a person's leg.
Hello it's Bagel
#DailyDoggo
I wrote about the role of literature (as an author and a lit prof) in these hard times.
#writingcommunity
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I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
85% of Gazaβs population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition β the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.
I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.
19.07.2025 04:17 β π 1996 π 1079 π¬ 35 π 74Tell @npr.org what books you do want students to be reading and what books impacted you! www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...
22.07.2025 02:56 β π 13 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0"The reason people of evil try to smother any point of light is because they know that in a field of darkness, light becomes something undeniable and unignorable; a point of reference and a point of distinction. Dark needs perfect darkness to be perfectly dark.
So I ask myself: what light can I be?"
Publish it again. Every journalist who has published Epstein stuff before should just publish it again.
17.07.2025 22:38 β π 8844 π 2049 π¬ 84 π 49Picture of bird. Text is Plain Chachalaca. Ortalis vetula. To 2 ft. (60 cm) Comment above reads "Les flamboyant relative of the Boom Chachalaca"
I didn't do it, but I wish I had.
14.07.2025 23:51 β π 6139 π 814 π¬ 133 π 49Both this and your YA sound so goodβI'd love to read when you're on submission! I hope you'll keep me in mind! π₯°
14.07.2025 04:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ahh I'd LOVE to read this when you're on submission!! I hope you'll keep me in mind! π₯°
14.07.2025 04:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This sounds so good!!!!! I'd LOVE to read it when you're on submissionβI hope you'll keep me in mind π₯°
14.07.2025 04:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0UM!! π₯ This is incredible and I would love love LOVE to see it when you're on submission! I hope you'll keep me in mind π₯°
13.07.2025 21:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0*whispers* "DEI" should never be a programming category, it should be the core of all programming okay bye
10.07.2025 17:54 β π 1398 π 197 π¬ 11 π 8Cardboard box propped up on a curb along the sidewalk that says FREE PLUMS and TAKE ME!
William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:
10.07.2025 18:05 β π 1241 π 197 π¬ 27 π 0ππ mamdanitimes.com/
09.07.2025 05:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP β which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
Please believe me when I tell you:
Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.
You are going to need it.
And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.
The thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.
More present.
More:
Dissent is patriotic.
We have a right to disagree and dissent with those in power and demand a better world.
A screenshot of 5calls.org. It's has the number and name for my local house representative. There is also a written script provided to use.
A screenshot of a part of 5calls.org website. Put in your locatioon, pick a struggle (a topic lol), and info will come up for you (ie; your rep's name and number and a script you can read during your phone call).
I JUST CALLED MY HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE TO LET EM KNOW I OPPOSE THE "One Big Beautiful Bill Act".
Steps:
1. Went to 5calls.org
2. Picked a topic I cared about
3. Entered where I live and BOOM I get a script and phone number to call.
DASSIT! YOUR TURN!!!!
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support independent journalism, we need it
22.06.2025 20:41 β π 60 π 17 π¬ 1 π 0So much this, your public library is paying for you to have access to journalism - and when you actually use it, it helps the library justify the cost! It's a win for everyone.
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