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That Eb. Stuff-Doer. Autistic. ADHD. ND. (More). Disabled. Disability Justice. A-spec. Filipino-USian. Same name most places. They/Them. Esme and Bella live here. Justice before civility. https://linktr.ee/ebthen

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Nov 14

If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong...

this thread is for you.

First: prompt questions to get you started.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · May 20

Alt text prompt Qs:

What would someone who can't see the image need to know about it in order to take part in the conversation? What is it about this image that made you choose it? What are the important details someone who could see the image would take away from it?

(Not for images of text.)

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 1h

And the Cubs have not surprised me tonight, so.

And frankly they didn't deserve to win with Matt Shaw on the team.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 1h

Bella is pleased USC has won because it means we can go to bed.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 1h

except when it's an actual tennis shoe

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 1h

Especially when there are obvious and clear benefits people get from harmful social behavior.

Like more money. And more power.

Literally it's so weird to try and slap a diagnosis on people who have learned there are tangible benefits to being harmful.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 1h

medicalizing harmful social behavior is still weird

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 1h

medicalizing harmful social behavior is still weird

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Mar 6

And, again... psychopathy is literally not a psychiatric diagnosis. Not in the DSM and not in the ICD.

It's a term used by criminologists but...

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 3h

Also I literally cannot make myself want Michigan to win.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 3h

This Michigan—USC game is very difficult for me because I loathe Michigan but USC is a more relevant Notre Dame rival.

I decided to want USC to win because it can only be good for ND if Michigan drops in the rankings.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 3h

Oh wow Drew Allar out for the whole season.

Also looking at the Lions' injuries and it feels like a repeat of last season in the bad ways.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 3h

Different evil murder program.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 5h

Delivery people resist the urge to knock on doors and just take the picture and send the text so my dogs don't freak out challenge.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Grandma: "No. He wants to give power back to the states."

I pointed out if that were the goal he'd allow for transition time and that the DOE is what pays for Disabled kids to be supported in public schools and that if the states wanted to do that they'd make charter schools support Disabled kids.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Jan 24

It's rare for folks doing local community organizing to ask who's not there and why they're not there.

The assumption is "the people who care and who we should care about are here".

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Jan 24

And chronically ill people look at the stuff talking up local community organizing and more or less know we're not included in that and no one is coming to save us.

Partly because no one knows we're here. We get forgotten as we are abandoned. When we're thought of, people assume we must be fine.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Jan 24

Related to the above: the stories here provide just one kind of example of how community-building and planning that does not intentionally seek out the people being abandoned and isolated and excluded and forgotten leads to the literal deaths of those people.

Disabled Journalists Association @discojourno.bsky.social · Jan 24

For Disabled folks, news coverage of the LA fires, which’ve now killed at least 28 people (many disabled), has been dark.
Here’s a Top 4 🧵of (still too rare) skilled disability coverage from LA – so readers can see how climate change, and ableist neglect during disasters, impact Disabled people. 1/

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Jan 23

This is not something that can be put on the people who have been abandoned and isolated to correct.

It cannot be made their responsibility to connect or re-connect with those who previously decided it was, for one reason or another, easier not to try.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Jan 23

So when it comes to "grow community locally" stuff, here's something non-Disabled folks especially have to figure out how to counter.

There is a long-standing pattern where chronically ill people, even those who previously had extensive support networks and community, are abandoned and isolated.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 5h

Heartbroken because I'm certain he's neither the first, nor will he be the last.

Heartbroken because cops of all flavors have always been dangerous to Autistic people, and especially Autistic BIPOC.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 13h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 6h

Oh good grief.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 6h

There we go. That's what I wanted to see. That was a lovely pick and some great blocks too.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

And not just because people who lose their health insurance will die. They will, but that’s not the only reason. Rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and community health centers depend on Medicaid payments to stay open.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 7h

some cognitive dissonance there.

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 7h

5 minutes for $10-$15!

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 7h

THANK YOUUU to the person who sent $160 oh thank god

but after all the transfer fees im still $11 short 😭

20 minutes left! (oh and I haven’t eaten since Wednesday lol)

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cash.app/$katiwithoutthee

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 8h

Do people really think media wasn’t “corporate” in the 1960s? Or that the newspapers and broadcast outlets that covered the Civil Rights Movement were all, or even mostly, on board? Or that King et al never had trouble capturing public attention?

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