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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On this day of 9/11, I want to LOUDLY SAY: I love my muslim neighbors. I love the good our local mosque does for the whole community. In fact, it's high time I get to know them better and show them the support they deserve.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Listen, I understand that it can be overwhelming to have out brain-off socials filled with all that downer mutual aid stuff.... ...Suck it up, turn your brains on, help and signal boost your fellow struggling human beings. Thanks to Sykosonik for this info.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We're in a whole political moment that's largely about white guys being upset that social norms were starting to make them have to be aware of and respect other people's boundaries. Kind of awkward to be defiantly on the side of "I'll say whatever I want no matter how harmful; you can't stop me."

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I wanna point out that to a lot of people, "allergy" and "poison" are synonyms. So just imagine how it feels when people around you don't care enough not to shove poison in your face. Actual, can-kill-you poison. And then they call you dramatic for getting intense about it. Fucks sake

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On this Labor Day, I would like to put forth the radical idea that maybe society would survive EVEN IF we all spent less than half our waking hours selling our minds and bodies as labor.

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Helen LP @helenlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awareness of visible and hidden disabilities. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

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Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK

Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awarene...

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Silv Stevenson - comics writer @silvstevenson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A woman was shot in the fucking face by an agent of the state but OH NO, DISABILITIES!!!!! Why are we trying to judge whether or not random young women are disabled when there are actual issues??? Which includes albelism and accessibility, by the way. Those are real issues as well.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Periodic reminder to check your voter registration

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The disability community needs allies. We need people to understand we’re in the middle of a eugenicist cull. When Dr Fauci publicly declared the vulnerable would “fall by the wayside”, he was fueling the fire. He deemed people like me expendable Acceptable casualties to achieve “back to normal”

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Elissa Grossell Dickey @elissadickey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shooting my shot this #DisabilityPrideMonth: my indie book, Across the Earth and Sky, is a thrilling near-future adventure with chronic illness rep, coming September 8. If you're looking for books to feature or making a list of recs for the rest of 2026, please consider it!📚 Thank you!❤️✨ #BookSky

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Nerdy [Monocular Musician] @nerdynanny.com · 30/07/2026

I look forward to the day when we can accept a person's gender identity with the same air as accepting a person's favorite color. Where ALL accessibility aides are as normalized as glasses, the most common. Mamdani gives me hope for that future. The rest of the government, not so much.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Although it's a lil embarassing it took this long, I'm happy to announce that I finally added alt text to every image on my website that I could. I'm still trying to figure out if there's a setting that lets me do it for blog post images. Working on it!

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Is it about drugs? Is it about disability? How about we spend some time obsessing over a word and seeing where we go? Part of a journaling series I'm starting to think a bit deeper about the words I use. Chronic seemed right for #DisabilityPrideMonth #blog #amwriting regwaltney.com/blog-writing...

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Obsessing Over Words: Chronic — Re Gwaltney

The first in my series where I deeply overthink a word or concept in order to improve my writing. Today’s word: CHRONIC. What meaning does it have? What tones and themes? How can it be used outside it...

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Attitude Magazine @attitudemag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Attitude Pride Award winner urged allies "to accept, to understand, and to really take to heart the message of the queer community" www.attitude.co.uk/news/jessica...

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Jessica Kellgren-Fozard urges LGBTQ+ allies to 'listen' for Disability Pride Month (EXCLUSIVE)

Social media sensation Jessica Kellgren-Fozard has urged LGBTQ+ allies to “listen” while marking Disability Pride Month 2026.

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Simco @simco.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Came across a woman with learning disabilities who had been effectively locked out of the playstation she owned because it presented her with a QR code for age verification. She couldn't play the games she bought nor talk with her overseas partner in-game. She was in her forties. #disabilitymonth

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I genuinely respect and want to support all my fellow authors in this really tough time for artists. Thing is, I can't just not comment about how we shouldn't be using #AI when I'm seeing people use it. Boldly, brazenly, out and proud, making jokes, sharing snippets, AI cover images, seeking advice.

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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Disability assistance accounts for a tiny fraction of government funds and so everyone trying to push even more austerity on it is simply disgusted at the idea of peasants who dont toil in service to them being allowed to eat.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So the social security fund that keeps millions of people alive based on their decades of paying taxes into the system is due to be insolvent by 2032. Unrelated: y'all remember that $70 billion that went to ICE recently?

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Gabriel Hargrave (he/him) @ghargravewrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you've been waiting to donate until things were the most urgent and dire that they've ever been, now would be an amazing time. *lolsob* gofund.me/49a4a2dbd

I have 3 days to raise $900 or the eviction process starts. The housing navigator I was working with ended up not being super helpful and gave me contradictory advice, so now I'm scrambling like mad to try and stay housed.

If you can donate, please do. And please share.

And if you need an edit done later this year and want to book now, please let me know.

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mariomeow.bsky.social @mariomeow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Speaking Directly: Always engage directly with the person with the disability, rather than going through their companion or interpreter.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

JSYK one of the subliminal social tactics of AI rn is to reframe every conversation away from "should we use it" to "how should we use it." This is to make us think the former is a foregone conclusion. It is not. WE CAN DESCIDE TO STOP USING THE EARTH-KILLING IDIOT BOTS IF WE WANNA.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well, now not only do we have AI misdiagnosing us and leading to denied care, but we've got AI offering to draft up letters of appeal for medical denials. They've got us coming and going #fuckai

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Alisha @alishawhittam.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Disabled people shouldn't only be consulted after decisions have already been made. I've written an open letter about accessibility, inclusion and why lived experience should help shape policy from the beginning. #Disability #Accessibility #Journalism

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Alexithymia is knowing your heart is breaking but being unable to feel more than a quiet hollow in your throat, a soft pull in your gut. Then you get to wait, wait, the hours or day or weeks until it hits.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Does anyone realizing how fucking scary it is to be a disabled person while whole medical systems are onboarding AI and LLMs into their patient care? Did anyone ask us about it first? Of course not. Not only do I hate AI for all the environment destroying, suicide-inducing shit, but it gets worse.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Accessibility should be built into everything from the VERY beginning of the process. It is elegant and useful for more than 'just' (as if we're not worth it? We are) disabled people, too. Universal access as a design practice helps EVERYONE.

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Coleen (she/her) @thatsilvermagpie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

True story. And since I'm in the US, I get to pay for it too. #disability

Unsolicited opinions. Having an invisible disability should not mean having to be rediagnosed every 3-5 year because your doctor doesn't believe you/"see it".

Yes, really.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Author Melissa Whitney, who is blind, is refuting the argument that there’s no HEA in her romance books because her FMC is still blind at the end of the story. She’s right to push back because that argument is hogwash. #Disability #Romance 1/4

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kc kc kc (ichabod was my great-great-uncle) @katecrane.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hale Zukas and the Rolling Quads insisted that disabled people should control where they lived, how they worked and what services they received—a philosophy later encapsulated by the disability rights movement's rallying cry: NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US

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The Activist Who Helped Bring Curb Cuts to America's Streets | HISTORY

Hale Zukas helped launch Berkeley's independent living movement and reshape accessibility across America.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Tarot is really good for anger management. The mix of meditation, introspection, and journaling helps you think clearly. Even if one of the cards is just "yeah you hate it here." #witchsky #tarot

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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

July is #DisabilityPrideMonth! Support a disabled crafter today and check out my disability pride hat pattern, and you can make one of these hats for yourself! Other original patterns for sale in my shop, too. ko-fi.com/s/773612c643 #BSNM #DisabledArtist #ShopSmall #Knitting #FiberArts

Photo of the disability pride hat laid flat. It's the disability pride flag with diagonal stripes in red, yellow, white, blue, and green on a black background.

Photo of me modeling the disability pride hat

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Alex | Haoso @haoso.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Tomorrow, I'll be working on turning those three into prints! I can't wait 💙 The clouded leopard and the wolf are my favorite pieces so far. #cloudedleopard #redpanda #wolf #watercolor #disabledartist #adhd

Three watercolor paintings.

The left one is the size of a bookmark, and depicts a red panda jumping down. The background is an orange-to-white (top to bottom) gradiant.

The top right one is a clouded leopard, with black marking over a soft, pastel rainbow pelt. Their eyes are silver grey.

The bottom right one is a grey wolf with black marking on the head and cheeks, and deep amber eyes.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I wrote a paragraph today. Of an unrelated project. In the wrong tense and POV. ...and it feels like a win. #writesky #amwriting #disabledauthor

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#SpoonieAuthChat Beau: So a mysterious letter turns up, telling me my father's in trouble and... Cinder: I didn't warn him so he would come running to the Witch's den, I warned him so he would STAY AWAY. Sure, I already have to cook, clean, and make the poisons, why don't I just fix this too?

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London Reproductive Justice (Ontario) @londonreprojustice.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Pride is more than celebration—it is resistance. Disabled and queer communities have long faced eugenics, institutionalization, conversion practices, and reproductive coercion. Reproductive justice means rejecting systems that decide whose lives are valued. 🌈♿ #DisabilityPride #ReproductiveJustice

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Freedom Day to all the ADVOCATES and all the PEOPLE CALLING SENATORS and all the MUTUAL AID GIRLIES and all the POSTCAPITALIST DREAMERS and all the TEACHERS and all the LIBRARIANS and everyone who is FIGHTING for what this nation SHOULD BE.

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Ali 💥 @phenylethanol.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

oops one more note. intersectionality is a requirement of disability justice. the section 504 sit ins were only successful because of aid provided by the black panther party. ableism is only amplified through racism, classism, transphobia, etc. an anti-ableist world requires us to be anti-injustice.

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Icey System 💫 🔞 @iceyisdrawing.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Please help me I'm already dehydrated and I'm constantly drinking water and I'm pouring water on my skin but it evaporates so fast I'm DYING AND IM HUNGRY #emergencyMA #urgentaid #signalboost #disabledcrowdfund #crowdfund #helpsky #helpfolkslive Seriously please boost its free and I am at risk

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This book is amazing and critically important in current conversations of accessibility tech--and just how we structure progress in general. Even if you're a layperson to both disability AND tech, it's relevant. Read it!

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So for day 3 of #DisabilityPrideMonth I meant to have something cool like "check out one of my fav disabled video game characters" or "here's some into on [trope] for you writers!" That's coming. But my bodymind is not allowing it today, so I'll talk about that instead. +

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BROHONKY @brohonky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

this was supposed to be a joke but i was just informed it's disability pride month so it actually kinda is Pride Month 2

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This month we're celebrating disabled stories, brilliance, joy, and the ongoing work of making our communities more accessible for everyone. Read disabled authors. Support disabled creators. Make access non-negotiable. ♿ Check out our Disability Pride Month Nonfiction booklist right now on Libby.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

When you wake but cannot move And you see her in your room Don't cry out - not a peep She may kill you if you speak Like horror? Want some good disability rep this #DisabilityPrideMonth? Check out my story in THEY HUNT BY NIGHT, then check out all the others, too! books2read.com/TheyHuntByNi...

A grayscale drawoing of ahand reaching toward a mouth with smoke coming out. Text reads: When you wake but cannot move, And you see her in your room, Don't cry out - not a peep. She may kill you if you speak. Feast of the Old Hag

Book cover of They Hunt By Night, featuring a werewolf snarling under the moonlight. Edited by Lyn Worthen

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