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Speculative fiction writer, book inhaler, and queer disabled human.
Practicing the discipline of hope 🍄‍🟫
(original phrasing Mariame Kaba’s)
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dly.bsky.social
[Johnson's formulating adult shampoo]

no. let them cry.
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
Adobe acrobat telling me “this looks like a long document, summarize with ai?” when I open a 4-page booklet.

Like did you know that I read? six books at a time?? for fun? ??? I think I’m gonna be okay

#AI #Adobe #Why
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
@bennessb sick pal:I'm not able to do that activity anymore due to illness other pal: oh no! i'm so sorry! i'll really miss you in my life! sick pal: we can still be in each other's lives, just with new activities other pal: [not listening] RIP sick pal, you'll live forever in my heart
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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demskeys.bsky.social
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

Racial profiling, no warrant, no due process; but what else can one expect from a regime committing extrajudicial murder on the high seas?

Trump's gotta go.
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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duangjai.bsky.social
RiP #AliceWong
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
I’ve been reading through the Disabled Voices Anthology and just happened to turn to this piece today. Thank you #AliceWong for everything you’ve offered to the world.

#Disabled #Books
An excerpt from Alice Wong’s essay, “Valuing Activism of All Kinds,” in which she unpacks some difficult feelings around missing out on in person actions and needing to be part of the movement in other ways.
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
Shoutout to that fly currently buzzing its last in the gas station bathroom, we know you’re on your way out but we heard you. We heard you.

#Animals #LifeMagazine #Literary
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
What are they so scared of???
katelynburns.com Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12d
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
police dressed as military in front of a police tank police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
An unwrapped tamale.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
😭🥹🙈🙈🙈
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 15d
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
Pretty sure when I die my library is gonna be the first to check on me like “bitch why aren’t you checking out 20 books at once anymore you good?” #books
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
If only I had the skill to fully execute on all my cool ideas 🥲 #Writing #BookSky
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
Yesterday we had a meeting on the block. We had to. The state of the government and its affect on the community was the topic. We discussed the best way to proceed in all of the uncertainty. The other day there was no SNAP in November. Then it was half. Then it was none again. Then it was half again. Then 65%. Then 35% in the exact same day. So you can see what I mean when I say, uncertainty. The hokey pokey of this administration had us wondering should we keep doing dinner everyday and lean in, or stop because people are getting a percentage (I think? ) of their SNAP benefits? Now, preparing meals outside on a street corner in the summer is hard. But, outdoors in a Chicago fall/ winter is brutal. We've done pop ups before in the winter but never everyday... BUT, knowing how difficult it could be and will be, every single volunteer who cooks and shows up to serve everyday STILL voted that we can't stop. The kids need us. Even with a fraction of the benefits. Even with the indecisiveness of the government. Even in the cold, wet, ick, that is sure to come. Even without funding. They all voted to still show up. And then people in the neighborhood started dropping whatever they had in their pockets on the table. Because we're all in this together. 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
It’s not even “papers please” anymore…

Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”

This is illegal, immoral and cruel.

22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:

www.boston.com/news/local-n...
‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash
The employees were detained Tuesday morning before they could present their documents, according to the car wash’s manager.
www.boston.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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peter-butler.bsky.social
ProPublica is doing great work

www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
Someone tell me why the word palimpsest makes me irrationally angry !!!! #weridwords #booksky
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.
stevebowen.bsky.social Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 29d
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
@sihoorain starting to feel like like most of my consequences don't even have actions
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it.

He responded. The people have the upper hand.
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
sadassbadass.bsky.social
If one more person says “covid was just a really traumatic time and people just don’t want to be reminded of that” I’m going to throw a stuffed frog at them!!!!!!!

It’s like saying “ww2 was just a really stressful time so please don’t use the fascism word”

#covid #covid19 #longcovid
October 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM