Ciara
@ciaralavelle.bsky.social
Editor, mother, chaos wrangler. She/her.
🌈 committed to joy
🐾: Zeno, Chi mix, senior and sassy
cr: The House in the Cerulean Sea 📚
🌈 committed to joy
🐾: Zeno, Chi mix, senior and sassy
cr: The House in the Cerulean Sea 📚
Put feathers on the Jurassic Park dinosaurs you cowards
May 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Put feathers on the Jurassic Park dinosaurs you cowards
To the man in the “Midwest Princess” T-shirt at this Pearl Jam show: Let’s be friends
April 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
To the man in the “Midwest Princess” T-shirt at this Pearl Jam show: Let’s be friends
oh cool, so it’s a crying bc Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor” came up on the playlist kind of day
April 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
oh cool, so it’s a crying bc Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor” came up on the playlist kind of day
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I can’t emphasize enough how much accessibility benefits everyone. Ramps, elevators, ventilated air, automatic doors. You caring about accessibility is literally caring about your future. You will become disabled unless you die young. Investing in the disability community is investing in yourself.
March 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I can’t emphasize enough how much accessibility benefits everyone. Ramps, elevators, ventilated air, automatic doors. You caring about accessibility is literally caring about your future. You will become disabled unless you die young. Investing in the disability community is investing in yourself.
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People with glasses and contacts have to realize that we have a disability that just happens to be highly accommodated for in modern society and that accommodation is the only reason why poor eyesight is not considered a disability.
March 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
People with glasses and contacts have to realize that we have a disability that just happens to be highly accommodated for in modern society and that accommodation is the only reason why poor eyesight is not considered a disability.
The content I needed this morning
This is Ramsey and Rebel. Ramsey can be a little needy sometimes. But Rebel doesn't mind because Ramsey’s needs are very cozy. 13/10 for both
March 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The content I needed this morning
Surely I cannot be the only person who sees #thetraitorsus and reads it as The Traitorsaurus
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Surely I cannot be the only person who sees #thetraitorsus and reads it as The Traitorsaurus
I met capybaras today. That is all.
February 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I met capybaras today. That is all.
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My children have no option but Medicaid—private insurance won’t cover their therapies or services. Cutting Medicaid doesn’t just take away opportunities; for many kids like mine, it threatens their progress, their health, and their actual lives. #ProtectMedicaid #HandsOffOurMedicaid #MOMSky
February 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My children have no option but Medicaid—private insurance won’t cover their therapies or services. Cutting Medicaid doesn’t just take away opportunities; for many kids like mine, it threatens their progress, their health, and their actual lives. #ProtectMedicaid #HandsOffOurMedicaid #MOMSky
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the professor in my real estate law class had to use the wayback machine for HUD pages on disability accommodations in housing for this week's unit on fair housing. grim.
February 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
the professor in my real estate law class had to use the wayback machine for HUD pages on disability accommodations in housing for this week's unit on fair housing. grim.
If you are a special educator who will be affected by President Trump's executive order on the Department of Education, I'd love to speak to you via Signal. My Signal number is 909-957-6133. I'll protect your identity. #SpecialEducation
February 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Also because if you don’t include disabled people now, you won’t understand how to create a world that works for everyone when it’s time to rebuild
Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day.
This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.
This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.
February 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Also because if you don’t include disabled people now, you won’t understand how to create a world that works for everyone when it’s time to rebuild
Aaand in *personal* “everything about this week is garbage” news, my kid broke his wrist this morning 🫠
January 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Aaand in *personal* “everything about this week is garbage” news, my kid broke his wrist this morning 🫠
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Fred says "We don't wait for our friends to ask for help, we seek our friends where they rest and comfort them there. Nurturing love doesn't need an occasion or request, we can simply show up and provide it." Or maybe he's just snuggling with the twins, I'm not a cat expert. #catsofbluesky
January 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Fred says "We don't wait for our friends to ask for help, we seek our friends where they rest and comfort them there. Nurturing love doesn't need an occasion or request, we can simply show up and provide it." Or maybe he's just snuggling with the twins, I'm not a cat expert. #catsofbluesky
I didn’t realize that funding for Developmental Disability Councils is at risk. Among other important work, Florida’s DDC runs our state Partners in Policymaking program, which teaches disabled people and their family members to know their rights and advocate for them. It literally changed my life.
AAPD put together an explainer on the federal funding freeze. While the explainer goes into more detail, what we know can be said in one sentence: Lots of critical programs are impacted by this freeze, & within its first day, this action has already caused serious harm.
www.aapd.com/federal-fund...
www.aapd.com/federal-fund...
Explaining the Impact of the Federal Funding Pause on People with Disabilities - AAPD
Last Updated January 28, 2025 at 11:50pm ET Note: This explainer is based on a rapidly evolving situation and will be updated as we receive more information. What is the federal funding pause? On Jan...
www.aapd.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I didn’t realize that funding for Developmental Disability Councils is at risk. Among other important work, Florida’s DDC runs our state Partners in Policymaking program, which teaches disabled people and their family members to know their rights and advocate for them. It literally changed my life.
Zeno would like to remind you to step away and care for yourself today. Also, don’t forget the treats.
#dogsky
#Chihuahua
#goodmorning
#dogsky
#Chihuahua
#goodmorning
January 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Zeno would like to remind you to step away and care for yourself today. Also, don’t forget the treats.
#dogsky
#Chihuahua
#goodmorning
#dogsky
#Chihuahua
#goodmorning
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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#booksky
#bookchallenge
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January 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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#booksky
#bookchallenge
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An essential thread (and bonus cutie at the end!)
Some thoughts about living in crisis mode for long periods of time, from someone who's done that in her personal life and is in a career that mostly operates there. Even if it's hard, you need to find ways to ground and take care of yourself or you WILL burn out and you WILL crash out. (thread)
January 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
An essential thread (and bonus cutie at the end!)
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hey boss can i call in "panicked"
January 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
hey boss can i call in "panicked"
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This goes so fucking hard dude
January 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This goes so fucking hard dude
I can’t find a clear answer anywhere—are Medicaid waivers affected by this EO nonsense or not?? #disability
January 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I can’t find a clear answer anywhere—are Medicaid waivers affected by this EO nonsense or not?? #disability
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Even tho it's now Tuesday, this still and will forever apply. I don't make the rules ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
It's Monday! Be a menace. But also hydrate - you know ✨balance✨
January 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Even tho it's now Tuesday, this still and will forever apply. I don't make the rules ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
January 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.