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@tuttleturtle.bsky.social
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I'm that person who taught introductory abstract algebra to the people you refused to show multiplication saying they were "too disabled" disabled queer trans aac user. eternally exhausted they/them

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I haven't been active on here for a while because of overwhelm but wanted to let people who knew him on twitter and blueskiy more than elsewhere know that @bra-dyke-inesia.bsky.social died of compounding medical malpractice last night. In the end he chose hospice and at least had friends visit.
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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
people punish autistics for being too blunt > autistic people learn and incorporate scripts to avoid punishment > large language models use the same scripts > people get suspicious of the script > people accuse autistics of being AI > people say “Don’t do this,” without offering solutions 🙃
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/04/2026
I filled in the survey and so can you! tomorrow is the deadline, so get on that. headlight glare is bad for other drivers of course, but also for pedestrians and cyclists and other non-car travellers. tell them to regulate that shit!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/04/2026
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
Her father shook his head. “And you like doing this?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
Tiffany had to think about this, her father’s eyes never leaving her face. “Well, Dad, you know how Granny Aching always used to say, ‘Feed them as is hungry, clothe them as is naked, and speak up for them as has no voices’? Well, I reckon there is room in there for ‘Grasp for them as can’t bend, reach for them as can’t stretch, wipe for them as can’t twist,’ don’t you? And because sometimes you get a good day, that makes up for all the bad days and, just for a moment, you hear the world turning,” said Tiffany. “I can’t put it any other way.”
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
my to do list over the next few days: things for getting ready for service dog - 5 items things for dealing with MCAS being a nightmare - 4 items things for dealing with trying to navigate support services - 3 items other disability things - 3 items other Adulting - 2 items Disability is Exhausting
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/04/2026
It’s a good day for everyone to turn on two factor verification on Bluesky. Also on all your other online accounts.
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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It's ALIVE!!! dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...
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Cyborg Maintenance: The Invisible Work of the Technological Bodymind
In this article, I describe the concept of Cyborg Maintenance: the being and doing of upkeeping a bodymind that relies on technologies. I focus on the “common” or “everyday” cyborg: the disabled perso...
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.
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Drew @drewking.dev · 12/04/2026
Where as a society are we investing our resources if the labor of caring for and accommodating disabled bodies is labour worth automating? This is the insidious ableism in the rhetoric of pro-AI apologists who hide behind positive disability principles.
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I'd like to have a working sleep schedule made of something besides pain and anxiety please
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The operators of any site have access to a lot of metadata that the average user can't see, and it's anywhere from "pretty easy" to "trivially easy" to identify around 90% of batch account creation once you get the metadata patterns of a particular network mapped out well enough.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/04/2026
omg those astronauts who are parents? THEY CAN LITERALLY TELL THEIR CHILDREN “I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
a spacecraft landing is literally like ALL THE SCIENCES AT ONCE textile strength is important and wind and water are important and what kind of metal they used on the outside and the trajectory of re-entry and the distribution of weight and mass inside the thing and atmospheric conditions and
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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 08/04/2026
[Food intolerances] I will say, I do have a very small sample size of people besides myself who tolerate homemade ferments WAY better than store bought Who are also diagnosed with MCAS, or have the related HATS mutation + a bunch of digestive issues Again: it's hard to know why without a lab!
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Turn your lights off for the migratory birds!
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My high school keeps emailing being like we want impressive alumni stories! What great things have you done so we can tell the current students! And I'm like lol it'd be funny to propose writing an article for them about quitting and going on SSI in order to survive
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Choosing what to get my dog for her birthday is the hardest challenge. 2 years old is such a milestone for a dog!
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I really enjoy that introducing myself in ASL class is actually introducing my cat and feel like this is appropriately autistic
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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Stickman Communications @stickmancomms.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Don't forget: It's okay to leave an event or interaction to manage your symptoms if you need to. I've lost count of how may times I've needed to go outside to cool down or to relieve sensory overload, or so I can process an environment and work out how best to navigate it in peace/where I can think.
This card with a multicolored striped border, and a stickman casually following an 'exit' arrow, says "I need to leave to manage a medical condition/disability. Don't worry, this is normal for me. I will return if and when I can."
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
the inability to get text messages to an ip relay phone number is an incredibly annoying limitation made worse with two factor authentication Anyways i can't make a patient portal for this doctor because it requires texting me a number and i can't receive a text in the only number they saved for me
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"Freedom isn't free" is "thoughts and prayers" in wartime.
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
they have a giraffe version of my dog's favorite toy i feel like i need to get this for Autism Party Giraffe reasons
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
like its *so very hard* when what the best thing is for me is overwhelming and exhausting and takes up all my energy. when i can't get a moment's piece. when the things that people say about service dogs feel so very simple and low effort. it's hard and exhausting and life changing
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
its like every day i keep being like omg i really am getting a dog here Sometimes its with screaming about how overwhelmingly exhausted i am but its always like omg this is really happening
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
every time my watch gives me an end of the day alert that it was a high stress day i'm like thanks for the info lol its 2026
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Reminder that you can mute words for a specified period of time like say 30 days
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
graphic that says in bold lettering "remember: no lilies for kitties. even ingesting a tiny amount of pollen can cause fatal kidney failure. don't risk it." the background is a wallpaper of lily drawings and there is a photo of a perfect, fluffy white cat in the bottom right corner.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/04/2026
I do think it can be frustrating for people to confront the fact that you can do everything right in terms of skill, talent and work and still not succeed because of factors outside of one's own control. But this is just a fact of life, in writing and outside of it. Just do the best work you can.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII
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Jeremy Hansen's patch for the Artemis II mission
CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen's patch was created for his participation in the Artemis II mission by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond. It includes personal and Indigenous elements important to Jeremy.
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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The fact that every different part of who I follow is talking about the artemis launch feels like one of those so very important things about what brings people together
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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 01/04/2026
Guess we now have an answer to "how far will I go to manage my sensory sensitivities" And the answer is, email a complete stranger and complete a side quest in order to obtain the pattern that will hopefully let me hand sew a garment to accommodate my sensory needs
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The one good thing about April is that nearly all the big AAC companies have sales for part of the month so really if you're looking into AAC at all look into these sales and also look into AAC more whether or not you get an expensive app
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
going from trans day of visibiility to autism bewareness month is always a mood anyways, april is terrible and support your local autistics i can't even say anything about acceptance or anything with all the discourse. just. support your local autistics. april is such a multiplier on the awful.
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Having more than survival is good actually. Things that make you happy are good and necessary and important.
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
anyways i may or may not be being forced to apply to a waiver program under threat of losing access to other supports if i don't and if i apply it may or may not be causing me to lose supports i am reliant on any may or may not otherwise help literally this is the amount of information i've gotten
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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
you'd think that the disability support people who have been talking to each other about maybe needing to change what Official Mechanisms you go through for supports would know better than to say just "a meeting about future plans" when they're literally talking to an autistic person
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Exactly! I can see a little, but not well enough to read a screenshot on my phone. And if someone has slow internet the picture might not load. There are many reasons it is considerate to include.
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Marrok Sedgwick @ms-pats-anmls.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I think I’m connected to some Alaskans here, please consider asking your attorney gen to protect disability rights (also FL, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, SD, TX): autisticadvocacy.org/2026/02/take...
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Take action to protect disability rights!
This is an Action Alert about how you can help protect important rights for people with disabilities. It is about a lawsuit called Texas v Kennedy.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
While many of us are focused on ICE and Trump, anti migrant violence is escalating everywhere. Today EU Parliament voted for far-right deportation regulations that would allow member states to deport migrants to offshore detention hubs outside EU borders & more militarized immigration enforcement
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I deleted a post of cool recent story recs by trans authors because people seem to be already going back into the closet and I don't want to out anyone, but I also don't have the time right now to meticulously check because this was to be a short break while I am finishing up Passover prep. Sorry 😢
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Chiaki Mitama 🐾🌭 @terrible.moe · 31/03/2026
Sorry to be blunt, but we think there's two distinct TDOVs happening today: One is the performance of activism for allies to coddle them with good vibes, the other is by the mass of unemployed desperate people hoping someone will buy them pizza today.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/03/2026
I do not think that "abolish ICE" is unpopular or fringe. I think it is an extremely mainstream view. More people should say it. More people should be calling for it.
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Rachel | Stitches and String Theory @stitch-theory.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! My newest knitting pattern, Thrive, is live now on my PayHip! 100% of the proceeds from sales go to the Transgender Law Center, and the pattern is a celebration of trans joy, love, and gender euphoria stitchesandstringtheory.com/b/XebnY #TransJoy #Craftivism #Knit 🧶
A white woman with her back to the camera, holding the edges of a small shawl that is pressed against her back. The shawl is worked in gold yarn, and features a thick center cable with smaller cables branching off in both directions at regular intervals.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
For Trans Day of Visibility I am again going to hope my trans friends and loved ones can get a little less visibility and a lot more peace
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