Avalon Jacka
@avalonjacka.bsky.social
A writer and creator above all else | Colorado-based fantasy/horror fiction author | Chekov's Gun Enthusiast | All opinions are my own
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You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
I started following Alice years ago and learned so much from her words. She was talented, funny and a voice for the voiceless. Thank you, Alice. Rest in power.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I started following Alice years ago and learned so much from her words. She was talented, funny and a voice for the voiceless. Thank you, Alice. Rest in power.
Not the point, but Elon doesn't even know that The Odyssey and The Iliad are TWO DIFFERENT POEMS.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Not the point, but Elon doesn't even know that The Odyssey and The Iliad are TWO DIFFERENT POEMS.
If you were pissed about Jimmy Kimmel being kicked off the air for a couple days, this should enrage you.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If you were pissed about Jimmy Kimmel being kicked off the air for a couple days, this should enrage you.
Shaved 2,000 words off a 7,000-word story, and now it's all Grade-A meat, baby.
October 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Shaved 2,000 words off a 7,000-word story, and now it's all Grade-A meat, baby.
Does this woman not know what a social media manager is?
Perino: You have to stop at with the Twitter thing. If I were his wife, I would say you are making a fool of yourself, stop it… He's got a big job as governor of California but if he wants an even bigger job, he has to be a little more serious.
August 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Does this woman not know what a social media manager is?
Ah yes, the autoimmune disease that I inherited from both of my parents is totally my fault, my bad.
Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault
These attitudes are shaping policies that affect millions of people
www.medpagetoday.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ah yes, the autoimmune disease that I inherited from both of my parents is totally my fault, my bad.
We is one of my All-Timers, but I'll be honest, in the four times I've read it, not once did I pick up on the fact that they are building a ship for space invading 😂 It's about so much more than that. Highly recommend, even if you don't like dystopian works.
The first dystopian novel was We (1921) by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin. It takes place in the One State, a totalitarian society constructed almost entirely of glass. The protagonist is an engineer tasked with constructing a spacecraft for the government to invade other planets. #WyrdWednesday
July 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
We is one of my All-Timers, but I'll be honest, in the four times I've read it, not once did I pick up on the fact that they are building a ship for space invading 😂 It's about so much more than that. Highly recommend, even if you don't like dystopian works.
What is happening in Gaza is a genocide perpetrated by Israel and aided by the U.S., U.K. and any country providing support to Israel. Full stop. No room for nuance, interpretation or debate. "Never again" is happening now and has been for years. We are all complicit for watching and doing nothing.
July 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
What is happening in Gaza is a genocide perpetrated by Israel and aided by the U.S., U.K. and any country providing support to Israel. Full stop. No room for nuance, interpretation or debate. "Never again" is happening now and has been for years. We are all complicit for watching and doing nothing.
Wow, a man in power listening to the people's feedback. How novel.
NEW: Gov Jared Polis (D) is dropping his plan for a $28.5M pedestrian bridge at the State Capitol, acknowledging overwhelming public opposition to his idea. #copolitics www.9news.com/article/news...
www.9news.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Wow, a man in power listening to the people's feedback. How novel.
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July 4, 1776 - July 3, 2025
July 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"no one wants a government handout"
It's OUR MONEY. Our. Money.
Every purchase, every paycheck, every year's filing, we pay into taxes. That is alllll a government money is. Our money, pooled in hopes it can be used to better everyone's lives, not to provide a "government handout" to the rich.
It's OUR MONEY. Our. Money.
Every purchase, every paycheck, every year's filing, we pay into taxes. That is alllll a government money is. Our money, pooled in hopes it can be used to better everyone's lives, not to provide a "government handout" to the rich.
June 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"no one wants a government handout"
It's OUR MONEY. Our. Money.
Every purchase, every paycheck, every year's filing, we pay into taxes. That is alllll a government money is. Our money, pooled in hopes it can be used to better everyone's lives, not to provide a "government handout" to the rich.
It's OUR MONEY. Our. Money.
Every purchase, every paycheck, every year's filing, we pay into taxes. That is alllll a government money is. Our money, pooled in hopes it can be used to better everyone's lives, not to provide a "government handout" to the rich.
This is incredibly bleak. What is the point of art if not to experience the world through another person's view or to immerse yourself in an imaginary setting? I want AI to do the mundane tasks that keep me from reading all day, not to summarize art so I can go write emails for executives like this.
Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
June 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is incredibly bleak. What is the point of art if not to experience the world through another person's view or to immerse yourself in an imaginary setting? I want AI to do the mundane tasks that keep me from reading all day, not to summarize art so I can go write emails for executives like this.
I read this book in... 2016? 2017? and I'm still recommending it to people. A work of art.
It's Pride month, so I'll say that my debut THE DEVOURERS, a novel about shapeshifters and queerness, sex and sexual violence, probably helped me figure out I was genderqueer & had experienced sexual assault (both belatedly, after publication). It also helps (v modestly) me earn an income:
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I read this book in... 2016? 2017? and I'm still recommending it to people. A work of art.
If you can't see the point in commemorating the liberation of an entire race in the land of the free for one single day, you are not a patriot, you're an ignorant fool. Happy Juneteenth to those who celebrate, and double birds to those who don't!
June 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If you can't see the point in commemorating the liberation of an entire race in the land of the free for one single day, you are not a patriot, you're an ignorant fool. Happy Juneteenth to those who celebrate, and double birds to those who don't!
Yesss I need this yesterday.
Alright! Here’s the lineup for Never Whistle at Night Part II: Back for Blood. Foreword by @richardvancamp.bsky.social!
All horror, all the time.
@shanehawk.com and I are so excited to get this into the world. Edits and whatnot, here we go!
All horror, all the time.
@shanehawk.com and I are so excited to get this into the world. Edits and whatnot, here we go!
June 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Yesss I need this yesterday.
Can't wait to fill in my husband on the day's events today.
This is a big day for couples that are one super online person and one normal
June 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Can't wait to fill in my husband on the day's events today.
Jonathan Joss was murdered in a horrific hate crime. His blood is on the hands of the San Antonio Police Department for failing to do anything about the threats to him and his husband in the past two years. I hope Tristan is able to find peace after such pain.
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
June 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Jonathan Joss was murdered in a horrific hate crime. His blood is on the hands of the San Antonio Police Department for failing to do anything about the threats to him and his husband in the past two years. I hope Tristan is able to find peace after such pain.
Oh honey, you didn't even have *this* story in you. May he never have another byline.
This is from the guy who “wrote” that best book list that ran in the Chicago Sun Times and other papers yesterday. I actually feel a bit sorry for him, although he did cheat and was caught and should summarily be punished. Like he said, his writing career is over. It should be.
May 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Oh honey, you didn't even have *this* story in you. May he never have another byline.
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It's especially obnoxious that this AI book list news is all over the place today, a Tuesday, a day for talking about new releases. There's a new Alison Bechdel! Yiyun Li's memoir! Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive? Caitlin Starling's Starving Saints! Madeleine Thien's Book of Records! & more!
May 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's especially obnoxious that this AI book list news is all over the place today, a Tuesday, a day for talking about new releases. There's a new Alison Bechdel! Yiyun Li's memoir! Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive? Caitlin Starling's Starving Saints! Madeleine Thien's Book of Records! & more!
*sighs for eternity*
Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!
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May 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
*sighs for eternity*
Wow, what a stunner.
"The girl’s mother had a rule: not to whistle at night because the ghosts would come. But all girls are curious so she whistled anyway."
— Mizuki Yamagen 🦋
wow, these stories from the HAD x hex collab call have been stunners, every one!
https://www.havehashad.com/fblmk
— Mizuki Yamagen 🦋
wow, these stories from the HAD x hex collab call have been stunners, every one!
https://www.havehashad.com/fblmk
Butterfly Woman Effect by Mizuki Yamagen
The girl’s mother had a rule: not to whistle at night because the ghosts would come. But all girls are curious so she whistled anyway. When her mother caught her she was scolded. After that, she…
www.havehashad.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Wow, what a stunner.
Happy May Day to all the workers. Power to the people. Unions forever.
May 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Happy May Day to all the workers. Power to the people. Unions forever.
Just barely beat the buzzer to get a sub in for @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social Women of the Weird West call. I've been getting weirdly into westerns the past year, so I can't wait to read the final selection of stories, whether or not mine's in the mix. Good luck to everyone else subbing! #writersky
May 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Just barely beat the buzzer to get a sub in for @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social Women of the Weird West call. I've been getting weirdly into westerns the past year, so I can't wait to read the final selection of stories, whether or not mine's in the mix. Good luck to everyone else subbing! #writersky
Ok but this playlist slaps.
Clear Channel has released a list of songs not to play in the wake of the stock market crash
April 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Ok but this playlist slaps.