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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

'Mortal' by Atul Gawande is an eye-opening read. I've never been too fond of the way our culture prioritizes how long we live over the quality of our life, especially when we're looking at the end. And if you're disabled, you're treated as if you've no right to either.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

No one should be coerced into Assisted Death in lieu of being provided adequate supports to thrive. Yet this is happening to disabled people in Canada. People who need housing. Home care. Specialized medical care. We must commit to providing the right to live if we’re offering the right to die

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

What angers me most is that people who WANT and are actively seeking to use MAiD... Get the runaround. They get denied. They're never "bad enough." But someone who DOESN'T need or want it? Magically all the hoops and red tape vanish?

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Rigan the Mini Horse @riganthemini.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It was a great day for a nap!

On the other side of a green livestock panel, a black miniature horse lies sleeping on dirt and gravel. There's a ZZZ emoji on the photo.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'm trying to get myself feeling well enough to go out... ... to work on training the service horse I need because I feel unwell. 🙃

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This, so much. I've given up the guilt over being an "armchair activist" because I only have so much energy. I only have so much mental + emotional bandwidth. Using most of it to prioritize my day-to-day survival is not a moral failing when the current regime's goal is for me NOT to survive.

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skelliefranky @skelliefranky.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

normalize shaming people for nonconsensually posting videos of strangers online. the stranger being recorded isn't the cringe weirdo, it's the fucking goon who's so incapable of separating the internet from reality they think it's acceptable to treat strangers like content generating npcs.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

And now, update on my mobility horse: We're starting ground driving training soon! Still only doing short sessions because he's still young but I'm proud of how quickly he catches on. Just a matter of finding the equipment in "extra tiny" size now!

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is why I take my spouse with me to nearly every appointment, regardless of what it is. Simply having him *in the room* even if he doesn't say a word changes how I'm treated. /🧵

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is exactly what I was afraid of... And now that the plan is to deport "homegrown" folks, you KNOW what happens. If you're disabled, no matter how minor, be worried.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Alright, angry hours are over. I'm glad I'll see this little shaggy beastie tomorrow. We're just about to begin "big boy training" now that he's reached two years old. He's looking 🥴 here because this was the day he was sedated for his first float (horse dentist). He's fine! Just veeeerry sleepy!

A miniature horse with a thick, shaggy winter coat stands in front of a fence, its head drooping towards the ground.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

He's already thrown several Canadian, one UK citizen, and one German into ICE detention centers/prisons for VERY minor things. Once someone it detained it's purposely near-impossible to get them out regardless of who they are or why they were detained. Do. Not. Come. Here. NOBODY is 'safe.'

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Ah. Well, I only mentioned this yesterday morning and here it is. 🤷‍♀️

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

He's absolutely going to find a way to ship off political dissenters. The timing is too convenient. Don't think he wouldn't repeat the Boston Massacre either. He's already said as much about protesters.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My spouse told me about this. There is absolutely NO WAY a man who is (allegedly) 6'3" and weighs (allegedly) 40 lbs less than me looks like THAT unless he's a gd pro athlete or a body builder/weightlifter, with the other vitals of a 30 yo. Oh & JDV? I know some men who'd LOVE his growth secret.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Every time some shitweasel says something akin to "wow, such tolerance from the left" this is my same reply. There is no amount of racism, fascism, transphobia, or other such attitudes that is "tolerable."

A picture of a large white sign with multicolored writing that says "The tolerant left? They're down the hall! We're the ”FUCK OFF AND DIE YOU RACIST MOTHERFUCKERS” left!"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Apparently today is "give mom a heart attack" day. I opened the door to 'our' room (temporary sleeping arrangement) and... no cat. *rustle rustle behind me* "Mrow?"

The face of a grey tabby pointed Siamese cat peaks out from the side of a white bookshelf, surrounded by several flattened boxes and other assorted clutter.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Louder. For the people who STILL don't know that businesses are exploiting us, preying on us as "cheap labor," and exploiting us literally to our deaths.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Proud of my state (for once)! This is why our legislature is SCARED right now, because decades of unquestioned conservative Republican control are weakening.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I won't (miss it) because I'll never be able to retire, I've been denied disability, and yada yada. But my dad? Who relies 100% on his because he's retired? Yeah. I'm SURE the utility companies take IOUs...

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I spotted a Swastitruck in the wild! The thin veneer of SLC pollution is a nice touch rofl

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Atlanta KnightHawks🦅 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

For some reason in our culture we treat people with certain diseases better than others. Sometimes it's because people know someone who has something similar, who isn't in that bad of shape maybe? The problem with that is every illness exists on a spectrum. Everyone is unique. #Disability

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Atlanta KnightHawks🦅 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Want more proof the Republicans are literal Nazi's? Notice their obsession with "work" and how people who don't are viewed as morally bad. That's intentional. The sign in front of the Death Camps during the Holocaust translates to "Work sets you Free" #Fascism en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_...

Picture from Wikipedia page that link will be in this post about the Nazi slogan arbeit Macht Frei is a German phrase translated as work makes one free or more idiomatically Works sets you free that was the sign at the entrance to the death camps

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This isn’t the first time New York has tried to ban masks. Both Hochul and Mayor Adams have previously said they want to ban masks, with Adams using Luigi Mangione as an excuse to push for them a few months ago. Mask bans don’t stop crime. They just stop people from safely accessing public spaces:

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NYC Mayor Wants to Ban Masks in the Wake of Shooting Death of CEO Brian Thompson

A look at how the shooting death of Brian Thompson is being used to re-ignite interest in banning masks in New York City - a move which would be a devastating blow to the disabled community.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Something I've also found (and friends have confirmed) is that because we're in pain daily, we don't respond the same way. When you live with a 3-5 pain and learn to function around it, you don't react the same to 6-10 that someone else does. /🧵

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The Pain Scale is a Pain, but Doctors Ignore Alternatives — Pain News Network

By Crystal Lindell When I first started having debilitating rib pain more than 10 years ago, doctors would constantly ask me to rate my pain on a scale of 1-10.  It was the worst pain I had eve...

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Remember that the ADA wasn't established by disabled people begging for our rights. They PROTESTED. These people are heroes who established a legacy for people like me born after the ADA.

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ADAPT Kentucky @kyblueblood.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🕯 Via Unify

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Atlanta KnightHawks🦅 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Times are tough right now guys I am broke for the month because I had to pay for some medical expenses. I really don't like begging for money, but I could sure use some help if you're able, every little bit helps. If you could share this too 💙♿ ko-fi.com/knighthawk889 All Goes to essentials💙💙💙✨

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

People need to know. Even if it doesn't directly affect YOU, someone you know relies on these programs. Someone you love, maybe, like a senior parent, aunt, uncle, a friend who is young and disabled. It's a matter of life and death for them to lose these.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We all have intrinsic value. Governments and the billionaire class want to tie it to economic productivity as a means of propping up end stage capitalism. You don’t have to work to have value. You aren’t “less than” if you can’t work.

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DanSternCardinale @dsterncardinale.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Don't fall for the anti-trans propaganda, featuring @reasontodoubt.bsky.social and myself: youtu.be/RF5fbnbwGGo

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Don't Fall for the Anti-Trans Propaganda

YouTube video by Creation Myths

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

CW for talk of self unaliving: . . . . . . . . "I could never live like you" is really them saying "I would kms rather than live like you do because I think being disabled= no quality of life." and "I am FULLY AWARE of how society treats you, and would rather be dead than be treated that way."

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The Speech Prof @thespeechprof.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

But this is why I don’t believe anything will change. Voters didn’t learn last time or the time before that or the time before that or the two times before that and they won’t learn this time.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If your first thought when creating an accessibility aid/tool is "okay, now how to monetize it," you've failed spectacularly. It's not accessible if you put an exorbitant price tag on it, limiting it to being a novelty item for ablebodied folks.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Imagine your fitness level is just "fine." Now go for a vigorous 3-4 mile hike, swim for an hour, and lift some weights. I'm sure you know how your muscles would feel the morning after. That's my EVERY morning with myofascial pain syndrome.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If you find out that the person you're interested in dating has a chronic illness or disability: DON'T be salty when we're late or cancel a date (or two). DON'T make it about you with "I sprained my ankle once" stories. DON'T give us medical advice we didn't solicit.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And for us. I 100% guarantee you know someone disabled. Not all of us are visible. Not all of us are as open about it. Some us are physically 'fine'. Someone YOU KNOW is disabled but we're all scrutinizing who would sacrifice us and who would defend us in the worst case scenario.

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Ola Ojewumi @olastruth.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Happy International Wheelchair Day! There is beauty in disability. These photos were taken by The Hill Newspaper when I was nominated for the Top 50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill. #DisabilityPride #DisabilitySky

A Black disabled woman wearing a white and blue ombré dress. She has long curly Black hair and is smiling.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And VP Herbert Derber Verber is on a family vacation. Oh, and maybe remind y'all this is JUST AFTER they publicly humiliated Zelensky & a Russian reporter "snuck into" the WH. Insert gif of dumpster on fire.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"Cancel your Prime!" They make it sound so simple, so easy, as if the people who choose not to (or can't) are too lazy to wait on shipping or drive to local businesses. And every article about it? The "I did it and I'm fine" stories? Always, always ablebodied white folks with good incomes.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

And flying is inherently anti-disability even if you get through security so... Why would we? Last time I flew I had to prepare a MONTH ahead of time to get the letter for my service dog and leave my chair home for fear they'd mangle it in-transit. Security was the LEAST of my worries.

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Microwavable Thot Pocket @menoiti.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Huh. I remember something about someone wanting to do something about price gouging but that got thrown out when mangolini took office. Oh well! Shucks.

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Reason to Doubt @reasontodoubt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Vance and Trump are both traitors. If you support them, you're a traitor too. Full stop, no required nuance.

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It’s wanting to abolish Section 504, wanting to cut Medicare, wanting to get rid of DEIA, wanting to stop people working from home. All of this will kill disabled people. When we tell you that pandemics lead to fascism, this is what we mean. When you excuse our deaths, these policies are pushed.

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