systemcanary.bsky.social
@systemcanary.bsky.social
Being the canary means knowing the air is toxic before anyone believes you.
People with disabilities are repeatedly put in positions where persistence requires self-harm.
January 21, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The legacy of neglect: responsibility without protection....
January 21, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Needs don't become illegitimate just because support structures cracked...
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Being inconvenient is not the same as being wrong or unethical. Institutions punish inconvenience. They don't punish correctness unless it threatens authority.
January 5, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Competence is not the opposite of disability....
January 5, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Falling apart in a space where you stop masking is evidence of how much effort masking costs, not evidence that you're faking.
December 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
What gets labeled as "social decay" is usually framed as coming from below: moral decline, cultural conflict, loss of values, and unruly groups. If you trace causality instead of blame, a different picture shows up.
December 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Marginalized groups often function as early warning systems. Suppressing them just isn't about them, it's about preventing models of collective resistance from generalizing.
December 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Ability amplifies the load...disability increases the cost...and the system demands output as if neither was true
December 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There's an extra cruelty to late diagnosis: You don't just discover who you are...you discover what you were never given...
December 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Human interaction is a dance of perception; whether or not we agree with what is being perceived.
December 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Christmas exposes system gaps.
When routines disappear and support is assumed, some people are left carrying it alone.
I’m the canary — and if you’re here too, I see you. 🐦
December 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When you have to have a lawyer to engage with ODSP obviously the program isn't supportive of people with disabilities...
December 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If you create a system with no viable exists, the mind will eventually model non-existence as a hypothetical escape.
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It’s strange how many efforts toward equality end up creating more division instead. So much energy goes into arguing over labels that people start fighting each other instead of the systems that actually create inequality.
December 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Quality of service in Ont
DSO: Fuck you! You’re too smart
CMHA: Fuck you! You’re too complex
The Royal: Fuck you! You already have a psychiatrist
CAMH: Fuck you! Autism isn’t our problem
ODSP: Fuck you! Here’s $1,308 a month, good luck surviving
PCP: Fuck you! That sounds like a psychiatric issue
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
When you've been down so long and your system has been pushed past it's limits that crying isn't even an emotion anymore...it's exhaustion leaking out of your body...
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’ve spent years being the system’s ‘canary,’ falling through gaps until engaging became a trauma trigger. I’m AuADHD and this space is my outlet and a way to speak about barriers that harm the people systems should protect.
December 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM