persephone
@sirensplight.bsky.social
“The plight of the siren is no one believes her.”
Multiply-disabled former high school teacher of drama, spec ed, alt ed, English, & more.
♾️ AuDHD
🍁 settler in Tkaronto
🧶 crochet artist
✨Sicilian witch
Gender = hoodies
Extremely married.
Multiply-disabled former high school teacher of drama, spec ed, alt ed, English, & more.
♾️ AuDHD
🍁 settler in Tkaronto
🧶 crochet artist
✨Sicilian witch
Gender = hoodies
Extremely married.
Pinned
How It Happens:
Disability & Poverty 🧵
1. You get sick &/ injured & cannot work. You don’t qualify for WSIB, so you go on STD, if you have it, & start pursuing treatment &/ rehab options as soon as you’re physically & mentally able to do so.
Disability & Poverty 🧵
1. You get sick &/ injured & cannot work. You don’t qualify for WSIB, so you go on STD, if you have it, & start pursuing treatment &/ rehab options as soon as you’re physically & mentally able to do so.
Poverty IS a choice.
Not by the individual, but by our society.
Every single step of the way, someone is trying to make sure you do not get access to something you need to survive.
You soon learn that they’d rather pay to keep you poor than help you live.
Not by the individual, but by our society.
Every single step of the way, someone is trying to make sure you do not get access to something you need to survive.
You soon learn that they’d rather pay to keep you poor than help you live.
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and of course I don't think I personally know a single playwright who makes a living as ONLY a playwright, everyone teaches or directs or runs theatre outreach programming so they can afford health insurance
you guys would cry if you heard how little we make lmao
you guys would cry if you heard how little we make lmao
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
and of course I don't think I personally know a single playwright who makes a living as ONLY a playwright, everyone teaches or directs or runs theatre outreach programming so they can afford health insurance
you guys would cry if you heard how little we make lmao
you guys would cry if you heard how little we make lmao
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I don't have children or student loans, and I bought a house with money left to me when my mother died, and I never leave those three things out of the "how did you transition into freelancing full time" conversation because otherwise it is WILDLY disingenuous to talk about how writing pays my bills
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I don't have children or student loans, and I bought a house with money left to me when my mother died, and I never leave those three things out of the "how did you transition into freelancing full time" conversation because otherwise it is WILDLY disingenuous to talk about how writing pays my bills
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
I have no idea what this could possibly mean but as a crocheter I support it
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I have no idea what this could possibly mean but as a crocheter I support it
Is it bad that this (1) doesn’t surprise me (2) I’ve suspected this all along
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Is it bad that this (1) doesn’t surprise me (2) I’ve suspected this all along
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
I will never understand people who treat dogs better than other people, especially when those other people are their family members, & especially when they’re their own children. I’m sorry if that’s controversial or unpopular but I think it’s problematic to treat humans badly but revere dogs.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I will never understand people who treat dogs better than other people, especially when those other people are their family members, & especially when they’re their own children. I’m sorry if that’s controversial or unpopular but I think it’s problematic to treat humans badly but revere dogs.
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One of the more interesting twitter fights I ever got into was when anti abortion laws were starting to ramp up, some folks who i don't know how well meaning they were, started posting herbal abortifacient recipes.
To which my response was a not at all measured NO DO NOT EVER DO THAT 30 tweet rant.
To which my response was a not at all measured NO DO NOT EVER DO THAT 30 tweet rant.
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
One of the more interesting twitter fights I ever got into was when anti abortion laws were starting to ramp up, some folks who i don't know how well meaning they were, started posting herbal abortifacient recipes.
To which my response was a not at all measured NO DO NOT EVER DO THAT 30 tweet rant.
To which my response was a not at all measured NO DO NOT EVER DO THAT 30 tweet rant.
One must imagine that person you cut out of your life for your own sanity but that you still love happy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
One must imagine that person you cut out of your life for your own sanity but that you still love happy.
Have I mentioned that on top of everything else I’m also trying to sell a house bc I can’t afford to live anymore? This is why I have retreated into the world of stupid card games that turn my brain off & obsessively crocheting baby blankets for my pending nephew
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Have I mentioned that on top of everything else I’m also trying to sell a house bc I can’t afford to live anymore? This is why I have retreated into the world of stupid card games that turn my brain off & obsessively crocheting baby blankets for my pending nephew
*Logs on, sees the word ENRON, logs off, cries in Millennial*
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
*Logs on, sees the word ENRON, logs off, cries in Millennial*
Catholicism is at once a culture of colonization & diaspora. It’s a culture that forms the root of my child’s heritage & yet I’m wary of how, when, or why I may want him to encounter it for himself. As a Polish-Italian Canadian it is a major part of his family history but how to tell that story?
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Catholicism is at once a culture of colonization & diaspora. It’s a culture that forms the root of my child’s heritage & yet I’m wary of how, when, or why I may want him to encounter it for himself. As a Polish-Italian Canadian it is a major part of his family history but how to tell that story?
I think I can confidently speak for my husband when I say: LMFAO NO
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I think I can confidently speak for my husband when I say: LMFAO NO
Sometimes I get really frustrated by the fact that I spend so much of my limited time & energy on stacking & then tweaking or recalibrating interventions to manage my chronic illness only for the outcome to be “still can’t function but w less acute suffering,” like what is the point
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sometimes I get really frustrated by the fact that I spend so much of my limited time & energy on stacking & then tweaking or recalibrating interventions to manage my chronic illness only for the outcome to be “still can’t function but w less acute suffering,” like what is the point
This is shockingly common & unless you have a lawyer friend who can tell you otherwise most of us end up believing it. Even then if you do have a lawyer friend now you need to hire a lawyer to help you fight it.
Soon after being diagnosed I wanted to be a good employee and I proactively set up a meeting with HR. I explained my disease and the normal ADA accomodations and gave suggestions on what I might need. The HR Lady looked at me and said If you can't do the job as contracted they need to let me go.
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is shockingly common & unless you have a lawyer friend who can tell you otherwise most of us end up believing it. Even then if you do have a lawyer friend now you need to hire a lawyer to help you fight it.
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“But it’s illegal!”
Sure. But we decided some laws are only enforced through private civil lawsuits. Then have the nerve to complain about “too many” lawsuits instead of too many violations of the laws.
Sure. But we decided some laws are only enforced through private civil lawsuits. Then have the nerve to complain about “too many” lawsuits instead of too many violations of the laws.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“But it’s illegal!”
Sure. But we decided some laws are only enforced through private civil lawsuits. Then have the nerve to complain about “too many” lawsuits instead of too many violations of the laws.
Sure. But we decided some laws are only enforced through private civil lawsuits. Then have the nerve to complain about “too many” lawsuits instead of too many violations of the laws.
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anti-discrimination laws, like all laws, don't really prevent crime so much as punish it after the fact. so when someone discriminates against you and now the onus is on *you* to drag it through the court system, which most people can't afford, there is rarely any justice
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
anti-discrimination laws, like all laws, don't really prevent crime so much as punish it after the fact. so when someone discriminates against you and now the onus is on *you* to drag it through the court system, which most people can't afford, there is rarely any justice
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It's like herd immunity. The ADA and other regulatory agencies only protect us when enough people follow the social contract.
When too many people abuse the social contract, the damage is so great regulatory agencies can't restore equilibrium.
Like vaccines. Without compliance, no herd immunity.
When too many people abuse the social contract, the damage is so great regulatory agencies can't restore equilibrium.
Like vaccines. Without compliance, no herd immunity.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
It's like herd immunity. The ADA and other regulatory agencies only protect us when enough people follow the social contract.
When too many people abuse the social contract, the damage is so great regulatory agencies can't restore equilibrium.
Like vaccines. Without compliance, no herd immunity.
When too many people abuse the social contract, the damage is so great regulatory agencies can't restore equilibrium.
Like vaccines. Without compliance, no herd immunity.
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Without the money to afford an attorney who is willing to give you the time of day, the ADA is just hypothetical
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Without the money to afford an attorney who is willing to give you the time of day, the ADA is just hypothetical
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“They can’t do that! The ADA protects you!”
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“They can’t do that! The ADA protects you!”
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled
Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t
Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled
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genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states
Mating is so weird like hi hello I am attracted to you for reasons that even I don’t fully understand, please can we smush our genes together? Gross.
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Mating is so weird like hi hello I am attracted to you for reasons that even I don’t fully understand, please can we smush our genes together? Gross.
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I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole
don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!
don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole
don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!
don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!
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In part that's because the most effective ways to get large numbers of followers are antithetical to good organizers.
I don't have a lot of followers relative to my post count & frequency, but many of them are incredible people who do a lot of good.
I don't have a lot of followers relative to my post count & frequency, but many of them are incredible people who do a lot of good.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
In part that's because the most effective ways to get large numbers of followers are antithetical to good organizers.
I don't have a lot of followers relative to my post count & frequency, but many of them are incredible people who do a lot of good.
I don't have a lot of followers relative to my post count & frequency, but many of them are incredible people who do a lot of good.
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It might be that the loudest people online are also the least connected to social action.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It might be that the loudest people online are also the least connected to social action.