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@aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
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Thank you dear Quark Amaya McFluffers for being my kitty buddy for 16 years. I miss you.

I live alone in a city, and like to #write, compose music, and make art […]

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aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
Ahhhh, first time ever doing digital coloring. This took me over a month. I had to do most of it by mouse as my pen tablet (it's a hand-me-down and old) refused to play nice.

I think I'll go back to handdrawn though. I like the feel of pencils, pens, and […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
A digital drawing of Avatar Korra laying on a sofa holding Asami Sato, who lays between Korra's legs. It's in full color and they are wearing their usual outfits: Korra's blue tunic and pants, while Asami wears her red and black engineering jacket and pants. The sofa is a grey-blue.
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
For us targeted:

1. Go into your Public Profile Settings
2. Look for Reach section.
3. Uncheck box that allows for follow requests to be automatically approved.

Yes, this will create a queue to examine, but anyone suspended gets kicked off the queue. It can […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
Screenshot of Mastodon Preferences Menu. It shows the Public Profile Preferences under Privacy and Reach. There's a violet arrow pointed to "Automatically accept new follows" box, and another arrow by the "Show follows and followers on profile" box. Both boxes are unchecked.
October 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
Update. Due to my #fediblock post, he's now resorted to DM's to harass.

This is the new account. His 'attempts' to diversify his tactics is failing. What a pathetic human being.

Keep reporting and suspending.
Screenshot of a private message from the Ramon harasser that reads "Hey how's it going? as mentioned yesterday you're wasting your time getting rid of me"
September 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
#fediblock

The irritating Jimmy/Jay harasser, who continues to target people on Disabled.social and in the mutual aid tags, is back but using the name Ramon Salazar.

So now be on the lookout for Ramon Salazar along with Jimmy/Jay. He targets Black and LGBT […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
Screenshot of Ramon Salazar @ramonsalazar@rassilni.com and the picture of a white man in a tank top.
September 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
Star is orange and Nebula more gray. This is them cuddling. #caturday
Two short-haired calico cats sleep on a bed with violet sheets. They face each other and are cuddling.
August 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
[Discussion of US fascism]

Happening now on Bluesky:

Discussion by Democrats on what words to not use in order to win the next election. The list eerily resembles the one Trumpocalypse and his cronies are enforcing to censor and erase Black, Indigenous […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
Jess Calarco ‪@jessicacalarco.com‬ writes: "Ignoring the power and problems of privilege is precisely what got us into this mess." ‪Tom Nichols‬ ‪@radiofreetom.bsky.social‬ writes: "It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses." Under his post is a picture that includes a list of words for "Democrats to avoid" such as privilege, critical theory, triggering, cultural appropriation, heteronormative, LGBTQIA, cisgender, microaggressions, food insecurity, patriarchy, incarcerated people, and involuntary confinement. These are words that describe the harmful systems that impact marginalized people's lives.
August 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
#making4mutualaidjuly2025 is a challenge to create 1 thing (digital art, painting, poem, music, etc.) every 3 days during Disability Pride Month. You can do as many or as few prompts as you want, the only rule: use your art to uplift direct aid requests […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
Masked Cutie Art Club #Making4MutualAidJuly2025 Prompts: 1 thru 3 Heart, 4 thru 6 Gauze, 7 thru 9 Nest, 10 thru 12 Cosmos, 13 thru 15 Masked, 16 thru 18 Spectrum, 19 thru 21 Fog, 22 thru 24 Roots, 25 thru 27 Care, 28 thru 31 Memory. #Making4MutualAidJuly2025 is a challenge to create 1 thing (digital art, painting, poem, music, etc.) every 3 days during Disability Pride Month. You can do as many or as few prompts as you want, the only rule: use your art to uplift direct aid requests. @RadicalBirding.Art Format Inspo from @MEGALODART
July 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
People on Bluesky and Xwitter are spreading misinformation about suicide hotlines. It's frustrating.

People keep sharing "Canada is opening up lines, and here's the one for Americans." The number provided is NOT Canada's official #suicidehotline. It's the […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
Trans Lifeline's Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call us if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you're not in a crisis or if you're not sure you're trans. US (877)-565-8860, CAN (877)-330-6366.
April 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
Books I'm slowly reading. Three of them I'm almost finished, and the others are next in line. If anyone here are also reading these, I'd love to chat about the topics. I find it helps me understand and retain it better if there's folks I can chat with about […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
A photo of nine books. Starting at top left: Overcoming Capitalism by Tom Wetzel, Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili, The Black Antifascist Tradition by Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, The Black Panthers Speak edited by Philip S. Foner, What it Take to heal by Prentis Hemphill, The Future is Degrowth by Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan, A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice by Katie Tastrom, Surviving the Future Anthology edited by Branson and Hudson and Reed.
March 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
#writerscoffeeclub Feb 6: Have you tried creating your own book cover designs? Share your work/attempts.

I never got around to fixing the font color for my poetry chapbook cover I did:

I used my own fractal art for the background.

Thought about making […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
A cover design that has a fractal art with swirling waves around circular holes that look like eyes or mouths. Interlude of Truth is written at the bottom.
February 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
[us politics, SS]

Crosspost: I fought for four years to get on #disability and it harmed my health even further. I finally got on it last year, and now DOGE's illegal activities could steal those benefits from me.

Benefits I PAID TAXES FOR during the […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
Screenshot of the my Social Security website. It shows an error message box that reads: "We're Sorry.... There has been an unexpected system error. your login session has been terminated. For security reasons, please close all of our internet browser windows."
February 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy
[USpol describing Musk's thefts]

Musk is stealing federal data and demanding access to the treasury.

This is illegal, hostile takeover and theft of resources, data, and money. He's not doing this to make the government efficient. He's doing it to destroy […]

[Original post on disabled.social]
Alt National Park Service post reads: "Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA). His staff encountered resistance when demanding that Treasury officials grant access to systems managing the flow of more than $6 billion annually to programs like Social Security and Medicare. Tensions escalated when Musk's aides were discovered at OPM accessing systems, including a vast database known as the Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which contains sensitive information such as dates of birth, Social Security numbers, performance appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service for employees. In response to employees speaking out, Musk's aides locked civil servants out of computer systems and offices with reports of personal items beings searched."
February 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM