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

THANK YOU for sharing this. I'll quote post it too. Blueskly really isn't keeping it's reputation as the 'good' place very long, huh?

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

Thanks for spreading the word. I had no clue. Why would they do that?

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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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Lenin's left nut @leninsleftnut01.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A lot of people in this discussion admitting they didn't know about electric shock treatment still going on in the US before even these gloves were introduced. Some lefties badly need to start reading disability history. People shouldn't be surprised at this in 2026.

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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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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's not yuck. It's hard and heavy and maybe people can't always carry other people, but it's not yuck. We can't talk about ourselves like we're gross contagious things, that's ablism's rhetoric. When I let the right people help, often we both feel better. That's community.

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The ones that stick around have always been the ones that'll reach out to me in the first place. Maybe the answer isn't to try and unilaterally forge these friendships, but to make ourselves open for whatever comes our way. Not forcing things saves so much energy...

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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That in itself can help us feel more sane, huh? I'm just tired of constantly grappling with the reality of an uncaring world.... But curating my effort has left me with a few diehard friendships I cherish.

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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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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Rooting for you. I was told by lawyers when I was applying that at this point the rejections are automatic, the appeal is a normalized part of the process. Which is really fucked. But it also means you still have a strong chance.

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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 · 30/07/2026

I'd never heard this term before. Wanted to let you know that sharing this impacted me and...now I have words to help me think through this fully. So much of my life is about being in and forming community, and it feels like an endless battle with entropy because of chronic illness.

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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

We can realize things are harming ourselves and others and decide to go in a different direction. We took the lead outta make up. We took the drugs outta cola. We can take the AI back out of our art.

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

Please stop. Stop supporting it. Stop leaning into the fallacy that it's here so we should just try to use it "ethically". That's not true. It's propaganda. We are humans. We have choices, we can stop doing things.

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

The AI is alienating whole swaths of potential audience and peer support. The AI is ruining the environment. The AI is a part of a larger LLM infrastructure that is being forced into spaces where it is literally ripping people's lives apart.

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

This is bad. On every possible axis it is bad. The AI is stealing art and writing from your peers who did NOT consent. The AI is giving you soulless, lower quality work. The AI is taking away your personal touch.

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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 catgirl 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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Ré Gwaltney (she/they) ♿📝 @regwaltney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ah, thank you for the clarification. I admit I'm still somewhat confused, as I have never seen it color graded like that anywhere, from anyone.

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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

I would like to report that your 'muted' colors version actually feels a lot like glare to my light sensitive/migraine-prone eyes. It hurts way more to look at than the one with normal colors. I'd go back to the drawing board.

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

That's such bullshit that you're dealing with that. I wish I knew of avenues that could help, but right now AI is a wrecking ball in our health system. I'm rooting for you to get the care you need.

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

This is an important thing I'm seeing a lot of disabled people fight for on many levels. Organizations doing trainings on incorporating these considerations early on in processes, disabled individuals on planning teams providing consulting from the beginning. I have boosted!

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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

Gods, screw them for doing that to you. I'm so sorry.

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

If anyone has something actionable, throw it my way. I'll boost it. Petitions, coordinated calls to local officials, protests, other stuff? I don't have the action item yet but I sure have the rage to help with one that's presented to me. Disabled people, sick people, ALL people, deserve better.

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

It's enough to say this. I'm angry and scared every time my trusted providers ask me to consent to having AI listen to every word of my appointments. I'm pissed that doctors and practitioners are going along with this. I'm more than ready to burn down the insurance industry that never cared at all.

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

I haven't even gotten into how AI is being used to assess and diagnoses and choose treatment plans in some places. Because that is starting to happen. And it is killing people. And I just can't go into it right now.

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