Disabled rights and accessibility were not simply bestowed upon disabled people.
These rights came as the result of sit-ins where disabled people sacrificed their comfort and medical needs, years of activism, and disabled people literally crawling up the steps to the Capitol Building in 1990.
Check out the Bubble People Podcast!
Disability issues, amazing interviews, how are more of us not tuned in???
Spread the word about this one.
Absolutely check out this interview with Maysoon Zayid!! ✨
Congratulations and happy book birthday!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Too few spoons today to try live-posting S1E7 & S1E8 tonight, but if there are big #B5Disability themes I might follow up later this week.
Enjoy a full minute of beavers being released into the wild in Cornwall. These little fluffbutts are the first to swim in these waters in a very, very long time - the last official records of beavers in the wild in England are from the 1300s. BBC buff.ly/BnMwCOx
#ShareGoodNewsToo
btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)
ah this is beautiful.
Funny, clever, poignant, and so acute on all the things we promise ourselves about the future and deny ourselves in the present it almost hurts
The Supreme Court could legalize conversion therapy soon. The stakes could not be higher. - buff.ly/fCenDrJ
That feeling when the doomscrolling finally hits something so bad you drop your phone like it burned you.
Maaaybe time to lock myself out of socials and go eat a food, drink a water, try to remember how to keep going.
I am so exhausted.
I'm about 13 hours into the Prairie Fires audiobook and I am so glad to hear you say this. It's wonderful writing and scholarship, I can see why Fraser won a Pulitzer for it! And... I am consistently enraged by Rose's lies and hypocrisy, and frustrated by Laura too. I rarely hate-read but oh man...
OMG new Becky Chambers book and it looks like it's got "disability themes" written all over it! I nearly missed the newsletter this morning announcing the book, that it's her most personal yet, and that it'll be out in October. I am SO EXCITED!!! PRE ORDERING!
www.otherscribbles.com?utm_source=b...
You look amazing! That top is gorgeous!
I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse
newrepublic.com/article/1793...
Not on this bill specifically, but some thoughts on the AI stans who cry ableism: buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
(CW trauma)
Dear RN calling from my GP, sorry you caught me on a rough day, thanks for understanding that "calling to schedule an appt to go over lab results" is absolutely a trigger for medical C-PTSD. Thanks for reassuring me thru my tears & giving me time to regulate. Disability+US healthcare=🫠
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
#DisabilityRepresentation in media matters!
HuffPost has launched “Voices Of Disabled People,” the first national news section dedicated exclusively to #disability coverage. #BlindNewWorld
(Story via @huffpost.com ⬇️)
Just a little post in case people still don't know about Bookshop.org - the absolute best way to buy books.
Good thing you're a badass with a great sense of style. But I get it. If I could teleport you some kind of amulet of temporary invisibility, I'd definitely do that. Best of luck!
New research suggests antibodies from people with ME/CFS and Long COVID may directly change how cells handle energy and inflammation.
The study found these antibodies may fragment mitochondria and alter immune signals.
Ooh, congratulations on being the Guest of Honor! 🎉
Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.
A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.
May this set a precedent.
Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.
It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.
My grandparents included:
A dairy farmer who did grave digging and maple-tree-tapping on the side
A librarian
A paratrooper veteran and pharmacist
A small business owner
Accessibility is not a "trend." And it's telling that the Times frames an issue of equity as "gaming the system."
(Damn, sorry for missing the CW about pregnancy on that one.)
I hate that combination of low spoons / being excited about a thing, and then doing too much and regretting it. Hnnngggg. I don't regret tonight's thread but I'm gonna call it a night now.
Talia Winters is looking down and is clearly upset.
Wikipedia screenshot. Text says “In the final scene, Talia discovers that Ironheart had left her the gift of telekinesis. Straczynski originally had planned to use these powers later in the series. The way that Thompson played this final scene was inspired by her recently becoming pregnant with her child with her real-life partner, co-star Jerry Doyle. She reflected, "When I first found out that Jerry and I were expecting. It's a magical gift, but at the same time, you're terribly afraid. It's all about the unknown, and you have that sense that your life is changing, that something has happened, you can never turn back."”
S1E6. Ironheart gifts Winters w telekinesis. Apparently the actor Andrea Thomspon had just become pregnant w her partner (co-star Jerry Doyle, Garibaldi). So in this scene she focused on how it’s magical, and unknown, and you’re afraid.
Disability & pregnancy have many overlaps.
#B5Disability
Ethereal space man says "In memory of love, I give you a gift."
S1E6. CW talkin' about sex. Mind sex! In space! Side effects of orgasming with an ethereal psychic ex boyfriend may include, uhh, telekinesis?
The psychic Ironheart becomes a transparent, yet buff ethereal star man dude. I dunno man, my brain is tired, just go with it.
S1E6. Don’t you love it when medical procedures come with unpleasant side effects, part deux, ethereal boogaloo.
#B5Disability
Ironheart speaking to Sinclair with sincerity. "The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, commander. Control."
Ironheart says "Can you imagine what they would do with it? What anyone would do with it?"
Ironheart has a wistful, pained look as he says "This is a power we were never meant to have. We're not ready for it."
S1E6. This scene is so good! Straczynski must've been a fan of Octavia Butler's Patternmaster series about psychics, right?? I would give a lot to know if she ever saw this episode and what she thought of it.
#B5Disability
