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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h

“she placed the frogs under interdict” that’s a curse guys

she cursed them

you canonized a witch

a gay witch probably

this is my new favorite saint. team Ulphia forever. just a baby lesbian and her old man hermit bestie vibing in their French swamp

a portrait of two Saint weirdos standing on a swampy marshy riverbank with a bunch of frogs looking up at them. one is a very very old bald man in a brown robe with weirdly voluminous sleeves. the other is a young woman in a kind of sand beige gown with a white head scarf

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 3h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2h

My SIL recently brought me truffle chocolate

No the OTHER kind of truffle

Like why does my chocolate taste like a pasta sauce, who did this, why

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 6h

Anne Frank 2025

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

Me: I've gotta get my ball
Spouse: but is it on the table?
Me: THE ball is on the table
Spouse: the BALL is on the table?
Me: the ball IS on the table
Spouse: the ball is ON the table?
Me: the ball is on THE table
Spouse: the ball is on the TABLE?

Anyway shout out to @maryrobinettekowal.com alums

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

Ooooooh

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 1d

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

I knew we liked the sound of him

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 2d

I always recommend folks see a physiotherapist, too, so that they can have their stuff finely tuned for height, preferred rubber thingy on the bottom of the cane, etc.

Mom hadn't realized she was using the wrong height for hers. Physio adjusted it all for her.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

The thing I wish everyone knew about canes is that you don't need a prescription to use one

If you think one might help you, try out a cheap one. Does it make it easier for you to get around? Does it increase your range, endurance, energy?

Congrats - you are "disabled enough." You can use a cane.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

Like first of all who wants to tell them that the whole point of trampolines is they make it possible for people to do cool looking stunts

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

It was in Washington Post, about how veterans are "defrauding" disability benefits. The header image was footage stolen off a veteran's social media of him (gasp) using a trampoline while claiming disability benefits

Veterans of Foreign Wars has a good takedown.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

It me. I can walk much more easily than I can stand - and I walk pretty fast. Still disabled. Still need a seat

SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 2d

I finally realized I had a temporary/transient and invisible disability when I realised I was walking extra to get the train at the first station so I could guarantee getting a non-disabled seat.

I could walk MILES but I couldn’t stand for longer than a minute or two on a crowded train w/o pain

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Dj Connell @itbodes.bsky.social · 2d

There are days I need to use an electric cart in a grocery store, days I can manage with just my cane, and days I can walk in, and do all my shopping sans aids. I never know which till the day.

What people don’t see: after putting things away at home, with help from my spouse, I need to lie down.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

I don't need my cane to get from my seat to an airplane bathroom, but I also don't need the drama of someone deciding they "caught" me defrauding the pre board accommodation.

Your iPhone is not an MRI.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

This, and also the opposite: most wheelchair drivers are ambulatory. Most cane users can walk at least a few steps without a cane.

Most of us are also aware that complete strangers will whip out their phones and film us without permission if they see us doing something "normal."

Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 2d

I would add that the social pressure to perform ability is huge. My employees and boss all had visceral reactions to my use of a cane, it took a lot for me, just emotionally, to use it on days I needed it. Until I had more confidence I would often go without, exacerbating my issues.

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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 2d

I would add that the social pressure to perform ability is huge. My employees and boss all had visceral reactions to my use of a cane, it took a lot for me, just emotionally, to use it on days I needed it. Until I had more confidence I would often go without, exacerbating my issues.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

When your range of capabilities impacts your daily life, and your ability to independently navigate a world that is assuming a higher range?

That is called disability. That's what being disabled is.

It does not mean being housebound, unable to work, socialize, or function.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

This is a thing no one struggles to understand about elite athletes:

Even Usain Bolt lost races sometimes. Serena Williams doesn't win every match. Simone Biles doesn't win every gold.

Even the best of the best have a range of capabilities.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

For example, I can usually walk without my cane for short distances. I can even run if I have to. It would not be difficult to creepshot some footage of me walking "normally."

Filming a few moments of someone's day doesn't tell you the full range of their capabilities, or the impact on their life.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

Welp that article is going to be seared into my brain.

I'm not linking to it, but I will shout again that DISABILITY IS NOT STATIC. Disabled people, like everyone else, have a range of capabilities.

Just because you see someone do something you don't think they can do doesn't mean they're a fraud.

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3d

Maybe they can find a copy of the 25th amendment while they're dicking around looking for shit no one is going to use

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 3d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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