Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism.
(This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
Same. I really should have just gone to sleep
When they played the tribute video between 1Q & 2Q, it lasted the entirety of the break and the crowd and all the Grizzlies players were standing and applauding well after the timeout buzzer sounded for players to be back on the court.
This city, this fanbase, everyone here loves JJJ
It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
Fluffy black cat in a brown cardboard box
It’s been a stressful week but the Girl Scout cookies arrived so Bowie has a new box to occupy & I have treats & we are feeling a little better. #Caturday
A perfect explainer for all of us who've needed it. :)
Benito really did the thing tonight and gave us an amazing performance I'm going to be thinking about for a long time
I hope this inspires some of you to become fans and listen to his music
If you do, I'm always here to talk about him with you!! (Starting tomorrow. I'm going to bed)
Hey everybody be quiet this is important
Many people have focused on how straight white women love Heated Rivalry. But @slooterman.bsky.social writes about how older gay hockey fans see themselves in the show. This is a delightful article.
19thnews.org/2026/02/heat...
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
A fidget spinner made from a CD, a marble, a bottle cap, & sparkly beaded stickers
Directions for making the fidget spinner in the first photo. Ingredients: CD, marble, bottle cap. Tools: glue gun, cup. Step 1: place CD shiny side down on the cup. 2: put marble in the hole in the center of the CD & glue it in place. 3: Turn CD over, position on cup, & glue bottle cap covering marble. 4: Remove spinner from cup, grasp bottle cap & spin!
More insights from #ATIA2026 coming as I gather my thoughts now that I’m home, but I went to Maker Day yesterday & made this gorgeous fidget spinner!
Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.
10/10 ICE protest sign
I saw a post saying they used Murderbot to cope the way that Murderbot uses The Rise & Fall of Sanctuary Moon & wow if that isn’t exactly what I’m doing
My book on grief, mourning, and how both of these things are deeply broken in a society of runaway capitalism & positive thinking is coming out in six months. Here are some things you can do to help it find readers, starting with preordering. You can do that through your local indie or bookshop.org
Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.
Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting.
More accurate terms:
- observers
- witnesses
- volunteers
- neighbors
- residents
- people
why some people be mad at me sometimes they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. Lucille Clifton
Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.
You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
I bring you a (tran)script, and thanks to AssistiveWare for giving it a platform
assistivewa.re/4qsH5Ok
#AAC
If European leaders can be said to be enduring embarrassment, they certainly aren’t the only ones
Happy MLK day, gang! Martin was a Democratic Socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, thought white moderates were the bane of Black existence, and died on a trip to support a sanitation workers' strike!
Beware his sanitized and sanded-down edit!
Too many autistic people are in "a double bind; they may be judged to have too little speech to be adequate communicators, but also to have too much speech to be granted access to AAC." One more reason to use accurate language in describing support needs.
tinyurl.com/UseNonSpeaking
#neurodiversity
The Barbie encased in her box
A close up of the ASAN logo on the box
Okay so, this autistic Barbie is a HUGE deal because she was made in consultation with ASAN, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. She comes with headphones (my own headphones are also pink), a fidget ring, and an AAC (augmented alternative communication) device. I love her!
I have rarely been so jealous!! Looking forward to May 5th. I’ll keep rereading/relistening in the meantime
Such great characters that I knew exactly who you were referring to as soon as I read it. 😂🥰 I went through a rockstar romance phase that is still lingering
every time i log on something horrible is happening but also people are trying really hard to help
We're gonna buy so many cookies these kids can go to the moon if they want.
Showing up for trans kids is amazing.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/gracie...
opening my possible rants about today's Chalkbeat event with someone from US DoE today on the future of the Department of Education
