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Hi internet stranger. I’m so sorry for your loss. Please check out Lap of Love’s free daily Zoom support groups. I lost my baby girl last year, and the groups were the only thing that helped—community among folks who know it’s not “just an animal.”
Sending hugs 🫶
www.lapoflove.com/our-services...
Sending hugs 🫶
www.lapoflove.com/our-services...
“We’re here to do this together, and we’re here to give you permission to grieve.”
www.lapoflove.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Hi internet stranger. I’m so sorry for your loss. Please check out Lap of Love’s free daily Zoom support groups. I lost my baby girl last year, and the groups were the only thing that helped—community among folks who know it’s not “just an animal.”
Sending hugs 🫶
www.lapoflove.com/our-services...
Sending hugs 🫶
www.lapoflove.com/our-services...
If you include the text within the image (Success is knowing who you are) in your post, or adding it to the alt text box, it’ll be accessible to screen reader users (blind folks and others who benefit) and reach more people!
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August 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you include the text within the image (Success is knowing who you are) in your post, or adding it to the alt text box, it’ll be accessible to screen reader users (blind folks and others who benefit) and reach more people!
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Fortunately, there’s an option to be reminded to add alt text before your post can be published! Then you don’t have to remember yourself, and your posts can be accessible ♿️
August 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Fortunately, there’s an option to be reminded to add alt text before your post can be published! Then you don’t have to remember yourself, and your posts can be accessible ♿️
Airlines are The Worst. I’m sorry.
August 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Airlines are The Worst. I’m sorry.
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disability_with_phil
To any disabled people who are feeling unworthy and overwhelmed by the increasing amount of eugenics that have been so casually thrown around in the last few years, you're not alone.
Having to justify your existence on a daily basis is exhausting.
disability_with_phil
To any disabled people who are feeling unworthy and overwhelmed by the increasing amount of eugenics that have been so casually thrown around in the last few years, you're not alone.
Having to justify your existence on a daily basis is exhausting.
August 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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disability_with_phil
To any disabled people who are feeling unworthy and overwhelmed by the increasing amount of eugenics that have been so casually thrown around in the last few years, you're not alone.
Having to justify your existence on a daily basis is exhausting.
disability_with_phil
To any disabled people who are feeling unworthy and overwhelmed by the increasing amount of eugenics that have been so casually thrown around in the last few years, you're not alone.
Having to justify your existence on a daily basis is exhausting.
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Post by Misa on Wheels that reads: People with disabilities should not need to crowdfund in order to be able to afford basic independence.
Post by Misa on Wheels that reads: People with disabilities should not need to crowdfund in order to be able to afford basic independence.
August 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Post by Misa on Wheels that reads: People with disabilities should not need to crowdfund in order to be able to afford basic independence.
Post by Misa on Wheels that reads: People with disabilities should not need to crowdfund in order to be able to afford basic independence.
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Quote, I do not like the world as it is; so am trying to make it a little more as I want it, unquote.
Helen Keller.
Author, activist, and co-founder of the ACLU
Quote, I do not like the world as it is; so am trying to make it a little more as I want it, unquote.
Helen Keller.
Author, activist, and co-founder of the ACLU
August 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Quote, I do not like the world as it is; so am trying to make it a little more as I want it, unquote.
Helen Keller.
Author, activist, and co-founder of the ACLU
Quote, I do not like the world as it is; so am trying to make it a little more as I want it, unquote.
Helen Keller.
Author, activist, and co-founder of the ACLU
I know that machine! I’m in for session 19 tomorrow. Hoping treatment is going well!
August 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I know that machine! I’m in for session 19 tomorrow. Hoping treatment is going well!
That! Yes!
August 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
That! Yes!
Ugh, I’m sorry. Have people not already realized that, yes, unbelievably shitty things we might have previously thought impossible are already happening?!
August 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Ugh, I’m sorry. Have people not already realized that, yes, unbelievably shitty things we might have previously thought impossible are already happening?!
Yes, for the April 2026 deadline. Great to see training being provided! You’re legally responsible for the accessibility of your instruction and materials, including those “hidden” behind your LMS.
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Yes, for the April 2026 deadline. Great to see training being provided! You’re legally responsible for the accessibility of your instruction and materials, including those “hidden” behind your LMS.
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"Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies; it is about transforming those systems and
structures to make it better for everyone."
Diane Richler
"Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies; it is about transforming those systems and
structures to make it better for everyone."
Diane Richler
July 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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"Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies; it is about transforming those systems and
structures to make it better for everyone."
Diane Richler
"Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies; it is about transforming those systems and
structures to make it better for everyone."
Diane Richler
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A chronic illness can take someone who is educated, ambitious, hardworking and tireless, and rob them of their ability to work, clean house, exercise, think clearly and ever feel awake or healthy again.
A chronic illness can take someone who is educated, ambitious, hardworking and tireless, and rob them of their ability to work, clean house, exercise, think clearly and ever feel awake or healthy again.
July 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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A chronic illness can take someone who is educated, ambitious, hardworking and tireless, and rob them of their ability to work, clean house, exercise, think clearly and ever feel awake or healthy again.
A chronic illness can take someone who is educated, ambitious, hardworking and tireless, and rob them of their ability to work, clean house, exercise, think clearly and ever feel awake or healthy again.
Great, thanks for this!
July 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Great, thanks for this!
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ACLU nationwide.
Breaking: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
ACLU nationwide.
Breaking: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
July 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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ACLU nationwide.
Breaking: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
ACLU nationwide.
Breaking: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
Check out Jim LeBrecht’s Change, Not Charity! www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act | American Experience | PBS
The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. The film highlights the determined people who literally put their bodies on the line to pass the legislation tha...
www.pbs.org
July 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Check out Jim LeBrecht’s Change, Not Charity! www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Photos: public domain (ADA); Gareth Copley/PA (Grey-Thompson)
#history #OTD #TIH #HistoryTeachers #EduSky #Paralympics #sports #DisabilityRights #Skystorians #UDL #paraplegia #SpinaBifida
#history #OTD #TIH #HistoryTeachers #EduSky #Paralympics #sports #DisabilityRights #Skystorians #UDL #paraplegia #SpinaBifida
July 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Photos: public domain (ADA); Gareth Copley/PA (Grey-Thompson)
#history #OTD #TIH #HistoryTeachers #EduSky #Paralympics #sports #DisabilityRights #Skystorians #UDL #paraplegia #SpinaBifida
#history #OTD #TIH #HistoryTeachers #EduSky #Paralympics #sports #DisabilityRights #Skystorians #UDL #paraplegia #SpinaBifida
Check out #DisabledInSTEM for disabled STEM heroes! ✨
July 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Check out #DisabledInSTEM for disabled STEM heroes! ✨
Such a cool idea! Lovely!
July 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Such a cool idea! Lovely!
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What the teacher is, is more important than what s/he teaches.
Karl Meninger
What the teacher is, is more important than what s/he teaches.
Karl Meninger
July 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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What the teacher is, is more important than what s/he teaches.
Karl Meninger
What the teacher is, is more important than what s/he teaches.
Karl Meninger
Have a Quiet Room for folks to escape the introverts’ nightmare of full-day socializing.
Request use of unscented products to keep folks safe.
Mask!
Provide fidget spinners.
Request use of unscented products to keep folks safe.
Mask!
Provide fidget spinners.
July 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Have a Quiet Room for folks to escape the introverts’ nightmare of full-day socializing.
Request use of unscented products to keep folks safe.
Mask!
Provide fidget spinners.
Request use of unscented products to keep folks safe.
Mask!
Provide fidget spinners.
Require plain language and defining all jargon and acronyms (as academics, our norms are inherently ableist).
July 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Require plain language and defining all jargon and acronyms (as academics, our norms are inherently ableist).