🧵A thread on observations I made while reading dystopian story submissions by disabled & chronically ill writers:

Wow. What could possibly go wrong, subjecting your personal library to a book thoroughly infused with garlic on every single page?

I will certainly not regret shelving the garlic book among my other treasures.

Love this concept. Just sent mine!

I want your empowering/supportive/disability justice messages, poems, and sentiments for the Disability in Dystopia Anthology!

I'm going to make them into art for the collection.

Submit a picture or typed message to [email protected] 💌 from now until November 1st!
#books #disability

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

The dopamine of "just having written" is usually far more delicious than the dopamine of the doomscroll

There’s discourse on Twitter abt bedrotting & normies not understanding what bedrotting really is (unwashed sheets, don’t get out of bed to shower, etc). Reminds me how even if you & a normie experience depression, being alienated & disillusioned from society means your exp with it is very different

We know it’s not always practical or feasible to mask in all situations, so we recommend focusing on three places - grocery stores, healthcare settings, and mass transit - that will make the most difference for you and for others, especially those who are immuno-compromised.

#covid #covidisntover

I think at least 2/3 of @worldbuildcast.bsky.social have re-launched a series.

Post by @meetjess.bsky.social earlier today:

"Wil Wheaton has been one of the last standing actors who consistently masked (along with his wife)...
Unfortunately he let his guard down at Comic Con, and now has his first ever infection."

OP: x.com/MeetJess/sta...

"The future is accessible." -Annie Segarra

Updating cover art w this amazing #embroidery artwork. Shared w permission, credit to HGEmbroideryArt! www.etsy.com/shop/HGEmbro... 🏳️‍🌈🧵

Based on a photo of me dancing in a wheelchair from my 2018 #HealingVisibly photo-essay project. #TheFutureIsAccessible

Whaddup everyone! Starting next Monday, I'll be hosting #Septopolis, a month-long prompt game for developing a setting for your stories or #TTRPG campaigns!

Wanna build something new? Wanna talk about one you've built? Then COME ON DOWN!

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#WritingCommunity #Worldbuilding #WriteSky #WritingQ

Sometimes I wonder if being famous (or at least recognizable in a community) is a bit like having a visible disability. People remember my wheelchair, and therefore me, at a MUCH higher rate than I ever remember them. They recognize me and start up convos while I scramble to recall names/contexts 🙈

Really cannot overstate how powerful this essay is. My ears were ringing by the end of it

"AI is an accessibility tool!"

But the ai is never built specifically with #disabled people in mind.

And the AI is stealing from disabled creatives.

And the AI is reinforcing harmful stereotypes.

And the AI is misrepresenting and forgetting us.

Disabled people are not your scapegoats.

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.

Here is the text of his email shared with me:

One thought is always hungry.
“I’m not being productive enough.”
We must bundle these words in an old blanket
and sit them by a fire on a crisp night.
We must heal them with wordless wind and smoke.
We must do the same for the culture that made their hunger terrible.

Next year's WorldCon is in Los Angeles, and the theme appears to be Westward Expansion or possibly Manifest Destiny. The guests are referred to as Pioneers and the venue as The Frontier. This year the awards were swept by Indigenous writers. The choice is stunning in its ugliness.

From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”

I set out to write a book about a young woman teaching her mother how to be a witch... and then 2020 happened, and everything changed. Here's the origin story of my new novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster, out today!

More details at buttondown.com/charliejane/... 💝

Hey, good morning, friends. If you're up to it, here is your assignment for today. Do one (1) example of each of these things and report back to be told how awesome you are.

1) Enjoy life.
2) Be someone you would love.
3) Make things better.

I will report back also.

All this talk about how infodumping is a neurodivergent trait—listen, we grew up reading SFF in the Nineties, OF COURSE we infodump. Y’all are lucky we’re not a full on italicized prologue.

Definitely agree, @senabryer.com is 100% magical! (The only reason I didn't tag her above was due to space.)

Lessons in Magic is helping me through a tough morning, I am so grateful for the timing of this book launch. 📖🌼✨

It's SO GOOD! I'm only 5% thru it but I'm loving it & Sena Bryer's narration. The way you balance all the certainties and uncertainties, what can and cannot be spoken, is compelling. No spoilers but Serena on the floor resonated w/ me & how it can feel when I come out of a dissociative episode. 😭