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nice thing of the day: spent the afternoon stretched out on my grandma's floor drawing trees and flowers for her 🪻🌱🌻

great video from @fdsignifier.bsky.social—this is such a solid essential breakdown that all people benefit from hearing, and i'd bet so many in your audience wouldn't get anywhere else, especially the call to action to get people to organize for clean air in workplaces and schools!

The boycott of OpenAI(ChatGPT) has now surpassed 4 million. We’re also seeing many small businesses (and even some mid-sized companies) cancel their subscriptions. One of the most amazing things over the past year has been watching consumers remind big corporations just how much power they have.

I have discovered a planet. It is eensy and wretched. It is under my pillow. We could journey there in a bureau drawer.

[🎮 Steam Next Fest] Find your Words Play a unique and short cozy game about AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) created by two dads, celebrating their kids’ journeys to find their voices.

[🎮 Steam Next Fest] Find your Words Play a unique and short cozy game about AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) created by two dads, celebrating their kids’ journeys to find their voices.

[🎮 Steam Next Fest] Find your Words Play a unique and short cozy game about AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) created by two dads, celebrating their kids’ journeys to find their voices.

[🎮 Steam Next Fest] Find your Words Play a unique and short cozy game about AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) created by two dads, celebrating their kids’ journeys to find their voices.

[🎮 Steam Next Fest] Find your Words

Play a unique and short cozy game about AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) created by two dads, celebrating their kids’ journeys to find their voices.

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nice thing of the day: a friend brought my meds (didn't realize it was a long weekend) w/ less than 24 hrs notice. my meds got messed up last week and i was terrified to go through that again. disabled love can be so subtle and so fulfilling at the same time

Disabled people still don’t have marriage equality.

If we fall in love and want to marry, we can’t.

Why? Because our benefits are ripped away.

We become dependent on our spouse.

This increases the odds of becoming trapped in an abusive relationship you can’t afford to leave.

I've been enjoing making these videos about self care and compassion. I hope they resonate with some folks too. 💜

Listen to her.

nice thing of the day: 2 hrs and counting call w/ my partner's youngest. so many joyful moments 🥰

idk who needs to hear this but if the auto captions for ur videos aren't catching most of ur words, U NEED TO DO THEM URSELF. or u do not have captions, it's not accessible. they're not doing their primary job. it's not funny or cute to leave the incorrect captions there

she said "i fucking hate these things" while putting it on this evening. i deadpanned "i fucking hate long covid"

then she took it off in the restaurant for a coffee. some days are better than others

i’m not gonna remind people on every single post but if you’re going to reply with an image or gif, you should really alt text it. i just hide anyone who doesn’t.

alt text isn’t hard, makes everyone’s lives better, & if your sole raison d’être is spiting bad orange man, he hates accessibility.

nice thing of the day: my mum found a KN95 that doesn't make it harder to breathe and she wants to make sure we never run out !! after over a year of working together to find the right mask and stay consistent, we did it 😷💗

i feel this 🫂 i've honestly had to stop picking simple projects/be careful how i explain them to myself bc it's always something out of my control, and then it's so hard not to be hard on myself. i've been trying to bake 5 ingredient cookies since mid december

this was almost immediately after 2 hrs of talking and him asking "having lived w/ family members w/ severe OCD, do u think u might have it?" and trying to answer that

yeah almost definitely but like.........in a chill way 🫠

leaving the appointment: "max, ur actually a really calm and relaxed person!" "weirdly, i get that a lot"

i know the ableist translation but... okay. sure. yeah. sure. thanks 🙃

"are there any thoughts that keep u awake? do u have trouble falling asleep?" YEAH BUDDY AND UR SETTING ME UP FOR A SHIT NIGHT BUT LET'S GO, write it on the yellow paper, go on

now that it's The Night Hours i can't stop thinking abt how in a psych eval today i had to explain that i am clinically afraid of sleep, that it's my most intense phobia. then explain what it's like. he said that makes a lot of sense actually given my background.....cool. happy to be of service ig ?

taught a baby how to snoot boop on christmas eve. we went back and forth booping each other while we waited for bedtime. he also stole one of santa's cookies off the kitchen table and i love him extra for that. the vibes on that one

my grandma (who i'd never had a good relationship with until the last couple yrs) crocheted me the 🏳️‍⚧️ as a blanket for my unbirthday/unchristmas. snuggle up, sibs

Merry Christmas to everyone spending today alone.

Who’s sick in bed and unable to participate in festivities.

Who’s in the hospital wishing they could be at home.

Who’s caring for someone who’s sick and having a difficult time.

The holidays hit different for us and that’s ok.

you can also change how severely (if at all) the game punishes you if you ever want to explore or have a more chill playthough. it has those accessibility settings. celeste was the first game i played that let me do that and it meant so much to me

idk if tunic counts but i'd check it out. it's the closest thing i've found

using this timely, spine-tingling skeet as a reminder:

two weeks til new years
less than ten days till christmas
it’s already hanukkah —
do you know where your clean air is?

better to plan ahead n practice prevention than get stuck in bed wishing you had!

i swear some ppl have memory holed and buried their own pandemic trauma so well that they can't understand why someone like me refuses to have a "casual" conversation about it all

i will never feel neutral abt covid. it's not a casual topic for me. it's serious conversation, or leave me alone

it's been a year since one of the most vulnerable ppl in my life died of covid. i've spent the last couple days curled up under his blankets, focusing on my mental health

i already didn't want the unmasked festive pics frm friends but this year i can't even find it in me to acknowledge them tbh

at this point it's a dogwhistle

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!

A lot of people are sick right now.

Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!

A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.

My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.

Mask up & save lives!