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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8h

Automatically tops himself up with water?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8h

He also has…a dark side

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8h

My new vase is very encouraging. He’s sure you can do it.

A little orange vase with a pleasant smiley face.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

You stopped saying the r word. Briefly.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

I’m queer, so I understand feeling betrayed as ground is lost, but believe me when I tell you on ableism, not much ground was gained.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

“Time to do conversion therapy about it.”

(Yes, conversion therapy, which is considered torture for neurotypical queer kids, has its roots in ABA, and you’re just all sort of fine with that.)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

“Could my child have a rich inner life and sense of self even if it’s not what I pictured for them?”

“…no, it’s the vaccines that are the problem.”

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

“They just love their kids so much”

Uh huh uh huh quick question, then why are they saying vile shit about them?

If you can’t handle loving a disabled kid, do not have kids. End of.

(This is not about the dearth of resources.)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

“They just love their kids so much”

Uh huh uh huh quick question, then why are they saying vile shit about them?

If you can’t handle loving a disabled kid, do not have kids. End of.

(This is not about the dearth of resources.)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

“Ewwww that person is *different*” is the source of so many evils. “That person is different and vulnerable” is a particularly noxious blend.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

“Why is RFK going after autism so hard?”

Because you all can’t fucking get past your hangups about disability in the year of our gourd 2025.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Also, some lady-adjacent disabled people have kids and manage to get them their shots, so pretty sure it’s just the fucking ableism.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe I’m not feeling very charitable, but I don’t love excusing parents’ ableism with “but sexism” and “doctors gaslight them.”

Uh, hi, let me introduce you to being a lady-adjacent disabled person. It doesn’t turn off the capacity for critical thought and compassion. Promise.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

It’s ableism. That’s it. Milder shades of it in some, but ultimately it’s the fear of not being “normal”.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

It drives me slightly up a wall when people are like “no one working full time should…”

NO. NO ONE SHOULD.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Also? If you can’t work, temporarily or permanently? It’s not your fault and you don’t deserve to starve.

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 17h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. we might to physically defend ourselves and our communities. If that's your task, you have my gratitude.

But that alone doesn't keep hospitals open, grocery shelves stocked, the roads paved and the grids up, you know?

Making the other side back down doesn't mean we won if we don't have shit

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16h

Today’s parent tip is that you can request lidocaine lotion at some drs before your kids get shots, or if they don’t have it, you can buy it over the counter and apply it yourself. You can also do this for yourself! There are no rules, and we don’t need to suffer for the cause!

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h

My professional opinion: yes

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h

This should not be laudable; it should be normal. And here we are!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h

*babe immediately rolls over and goes back to sleep and they are not wrong*

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12h

Obviously this is antisemitism. Claiming genetic inferiority via ableism is an old song.

It’s also, frankly, a fuckin batshit thing to say not only out loud but on TV.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12h

Really came around on Babette’s Feast last year. Delightful.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 13h

Name your Fav Non-American Film.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12h

I think I need to see ANY peer reviewed studies of circumcision and autism to understand how one justifies even considering allistic-ness is stored in the foreskin.*

*I am fully aware there are none.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Haunted Rickobrine @abnormal.gay · 13h

The “we can’t stop thinking about children’s genitals” party strikes again

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 13h

Today's been a day of little irritations adding up to a big bad mood, but I've begun talking like an outraged Victorian schoolmaster, and it's actually quite cathartic.

"The impudence! The effrontery! Why, I will fetch them six good ones on their gluteus maximus for this impertinence!"

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