George Formby would be proud.
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Disabled adult here, and the answer is: homelessness. That's what. It keeps me up most nights, tbh (not just on my own behalf, but on behalf of my also-disabled sibling, who needs more/different help than I do). We will never not be scared that an incorrect eval will result in homelessness. America!

I stg, some ableds just can't wait to punch down and it shows. I saw you when I was 4 and I still see you now, and I'm done being nice about it. You think "accommodation" means "special favors" and "make it easy?" Kick rocks as you walk your way right out of the education sector, please.

Signed, a disabled former student who will never go back to academia because of exactly this happy horseshit, and because I've been making the same argument for *forty years* and the same crowd of "but can't we be ableist tho?" educators and wonks in media still won't listen.

The best compliment I've *ever* got was "Writing with you is incredible because I never know exactly where we're headed and we take some *wild* detours, but you always manage to make sure we stick the landing, and it's SO cool." Friend died 6 months later. I still think about that compliment daily.

Thanks, Andrew. I needed that. Hope you're hanging in there, too.

You can't force people out of denial, especially when they've pinned everything they have to the notion that "things will be fine, actually, because... reasons?" as the world burns around them and their brain goes to goo. Might help to agree the fire *exists*, though. 🤷‍♂️

So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.

Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?

It is Profumo on stilts

HOW are people managing to pick five?! I had to leave off Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, and Phil Collins, and I feel like that deserves some sort of fine.

Oh, and I saw Smashmouth open for U2 before they'd mastered any sense of musicality; people were passing earplugs around, deservedly so.

And the narrative was quickly shoved into "humanity 'survived' this before (by ignoring the victims and the wider consequences), so let's definitely do that again!" and all the ableds cheered while every disabled person I know frantically pointed to disabled historical narratives to the contrary.🤷‍♂️

Happy birthday! Mine is 15 days after my younger sibling's and ~8-10 days before Thanksgiving, so tight finances mean I too have experienced what I jokingly call the "IOU birthday." Hope yours is a good one, and that your loved ones make you feel special today.

That's why I'm so grateful for @njbbari3.bsky.social & others who are more capable than I of meeting people where they are. I tried to do the same, until my disabled-to-begin-with body entered a steep decline and 100% of my social circle died or was further disabled. ❤️ to all those still explaining.

I am aware that this is an opinion tantamount to sacrilege, especially for a writer, but no amount of "But Tolkien was influential and Flatley is not without flaws!" will dissuade me - the joy in seeing Flatley bring to life the myths of my childhood was, and remains, too strong to deny.

I genuinely don't understand how anyone could read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air (or encounter any of the vast amount of media around the disastrous summit he documented in '96) and have any other opinion. Wealthy, underskilled climbers caused deaths then too, and Krakauer wasn't shy about saying so.