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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I haven't seen a movie in a theater in a decade. My #autism & #disability are getting much worse. Crowds & loudness & dark, confined spaces with lots of climbing are a nightmare combo. I wonder when the last time will be that I'm able to do something like this. But I was able to do it today.

A photo of me standing in front of a display advertising Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey film, taken by my sister. I'm leaning on my cane and wearing my old Owl of Athena shirt.

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was working towards citizenship living with my husband in Ireland before he died in 2007. When he did, a senator & former Dublin mayor wanted to keep me in the country. It wasn't possible, but they tried. To see this slide into anti-immigrant fascism now in my heart's home is crushing to me. 1/2

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Half our lifetimes later, and I've never stopped being grateful for the kindness of this man. 🙏

A screenshot of a paragraph from Wil Wheaton's blog post, "Being A Brief History of It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton". The paragraph reads: "It always felt like a significant accomplishment, even if the editorial hand from the mainstream publications was heavier than it needed to be. For instance, Wall Street Journal. When I wrote about choosing kindness online in a world where that seemed to be less and less common, I included a passage about my fear that Elon Musk would turn Twitter into exactly what he turned it into. The editors cut it because they knew it was true and they know who their audience is. Still, I got to tell the world how important Noah Grey is to all bloggers, so I accepted the compromise." The last sentence is shown highlighted because *duh*. If anyone needs me, I'm just going to be sitting over here making various autistic-squee noises about it.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

the lessons we need to take are clear. Dolly said "find out who you are and do it on purpose", and Tim Curry's line is "don't dream it, be it" they would both be disappointed if we wrote that off as corny. so what? it's necessary. we have everything to lose if we are dishonest to ourselves.

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And now Tim Curry the day after Dolly. Oh, my sweet Barry, I hope you're being surrounded by their smiles and songs right now. 💔

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Shortly before he died, my husband developed a big Dolly Parton obsession after watching a marathon of her films on TV one night — and so as part of Christmas gifts, I wanted to get him what DVDs of hers I could. But our mall store only had one in stock: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. (1/4) 🧵

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, even as the sun rose to shine upon the heaped rubble and steam: 'Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is...'" — Ray Bradbury, "There Will Come Soft Rains"

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

For my late husband's birthday today, some solo improv #piano. The underlying "concept" is that I was improvising to the thought of the walks I used to take through downtown Dublin with him, playing spontaneously* while recreating such a walk in my mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdi...

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Noah Grey - St. Stephen's Green

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I've been planning & poking at a memoir of the early days of being online (I started in 1985, before the web was even invented, and blogged since '94). Don't know if I'll ever have the strength to finish it, but this is a great snapshot of what the gold rush days were like.

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My sister/caretaker just got back from our local food bank. Thank you *so* much to everyone who's been volunteering and donating food to help all of us caught in this cruel insanity. Your spirits helped heal ours today. 🙏

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I rely on SNAP. My state has announced it's halting SNAP if the shutdown continues past Oct 27. We're *already* living on the bare minimum of food and having to pick-&-choose necessities, and I have a ton of meds I need to take with food daily. I thought I couldn't get any more afraid, but I am now.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.” - Gandhi

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"Antifa" is short for "anti-fascist": something I grew up believing all Americans are *supposed* to be. I was fed lies & omissions in history, but I hold THAT to be true. As a mostly-lifelong Texan, my heart's w/ everyone marching at our capitol & around the US. Love, power, & #NoKings now or ever.

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

25 years ago today, I finished v1.0 of Greymatter — the software that changed my life in some... mixed ways, changed the web a lil bit, & "came back" to save my home & life in 2022. (I'll share links about that below.) Happy birthday, you silly, scary, life-exploding, bittersweet child o' mine.

A montage of "windows" from version 1.0 of Greymatter from 2000, complete with a glimpse of it running on Windows 98 Internet Explorer in the background. The visible boxes are the login screen, the main menu, the entry selection list, and the editor. The interface is in greyscale (of course), though later versions were a more soothing pastel. (This montage itself is "vintage", a slapdash example I threw together at the time for illustrative purposes, after I was taken by surprise when other people wanted to use this strange shambling beast of code I wrote entirely for myself.)

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My late husband lived & breathed this movie. He was once part of a drag group that did performances to it in theaters, collected everything he could, went by Franknfurter online. We even had "I'm Going Home" played at his funeral. Hope you're celebrating today, Barry. 👄

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 26/08/2025

My blog, and everything in my life that grew out of it, would not exist if not for you and your work. I am so grateful that you are part of my story. It means so much to me that you still read my blog. <3

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Dear man in the MAGA Pride shirt who called me a fag today in the hospital waiting room while I was wearing *my* 🏳️‍🌈 pride shirt: I may not understand *your* pride any more than you understood mine, but I still want to hope we can both someday have pride in *each other* as basic human beings again. ❤️

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"Celebrated" my 51st birthday today with my 4th visit to the ER this year. As broken as I am in body and heart, I pray to begin the next year of my life holding onto the audacity of *some* hope.

A panorama of my point of view in a hospital ER room.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Being a marginalized person from the deep south has always felt like being abandoned twice: first by our own corrupt conservative politicians, then a second time by liberals who think we deserve to suffer and die for being born in the wrong place.

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This has been happening on my block, in the creek I've lived across the road from for most of my life. Between this, medical & financial trauma, and <waves hands at everything>, I'm feeling broken beyond words.

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Random memories from my former home in Los Angeles. Sending love to everyone standing up against fascism there and everywhere. 🕯 #photography #photosky #losangeles #california #montage

A collection of nine photographs taken in Los Angeles across the time I lived there from 2002-2005. 1) Rodeo Drive; 2) Seagulls and a palm tree at sunset; 3) A small boy facing the waves on the beach; 4) Wayfarers Chapel; 5) The California Republic flag (at the center); 6) A road on a foggy night; 7) Diva Service Center (this one with love for ‪@metadork.bsky.social); 8) The Manhattan Beach pier at sunset; 9) A protestor wearing a rain jacket scrawled with "PEACE", from the 2003 anti-war demonstrations.

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Noah Grey @thatnoahgrey.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

My sister's hand holding mine in the ER. Reposting this for #WorldCaringDay today in her honor, since she's also my caretaker, and without her I wouldn't still be here. #painting #artsky #art #digitalart #blueskyart #hands

A representational, impressionistic portrait of two embracing hands, rendered largely in loose, deeply textured brushstrokes. The painting is chiefly rendered in deep warm reds, oranges, and yellows. My hand blocks the view of my sister's side-turned head, with the suggestion of her hair and shoulder dissolving in purples and blues suggestive of distance. Our forearms fill the bottom frame from either side, with the hands meeting in the middle predominant, clasped very tightly together.

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 23/05/2025

I had a suicide last night because of this bill and I know of several disabled folks who have the same plans if it passes the senate because they will lose everything. I cannot even send them to the hospital because they will just be released in 72 hours with a 50k bill they cannot pay

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