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Petra Writes

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she/her | histrom writer | demisexual | spoonie | autistic | enby | writing misfits who fit together

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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Sometimes understanding you have dyspraxia allows you to be gentle with yourself, and sometimes it just makes you grumpy af. Does not help that my new hip is sore tonight (PT got stepped up and it's tired; objectively better than pre-op arthritis pain). #chronicillness #disability
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Brothers Sinister series by @courtneymilan.com is carrying me through a major surgery (The Governess Affair kept me distracted through the last day pre-op and I just finished The Duchess War about 1.5 days post-op and am plowing ahead). #booksky #Romancelandia
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
They have identified a Neurotype that causes you to think you might be Autistic but also constantly question that you might not be Autistic. It’s called Autism.
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a man wearing glasses is standing with his arms crossed .
Alt: Chidi can’t choose a hat
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Romancelandia When you like a girl, you loan her books, obviously.
Another day he was just looking for his copy of the second volume of Pride and Prejudice, could not find it anywhere in the house, it seemed. Had Miss Rawlins read it yet? Did she care for novels? Anne was reading the first volume now, but she was very welcome to borrow it after, assuming the second volume could ever be found. (He would, of course, retrieve it from under his mattress this evening. He was nothing if not thorough, so he had squirrelled it away that morning and had been searching Ridgefield high and low since breakfast.)
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 19/06/2025
Trans kids deserve to live. Trans kids deserve to be happy. Trans kids deserve to be themselves. Trans kids deserve to be kids. Trans kids deserve to become adults. Trans kids deserve to choose. Trans kids deserve better. Trans kids deserve love. I love you, Trans kids. 🫶🏻 You deserve better. 😔
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
OMG this series is SO GOOD!
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I want to nap and nurse my chronic pain, but kiddo is having a bad abdominal migraine and he needs me awake until he stabilizes. Go, chronically ill family, go!
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a cartoon character says " i can do this " in a green shirt
Alt: GIF of Bruno from the animated movie Encanto. Bruno, a middle-aged Latino man with chin-length curly black hair and a green poncho, anxiously says, "I can do this, I can do this."
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
NEW: While House Republicans are grappling with Trump's Iran stance, Republicans in the Senate are full steam ahead. Elizabeth Warren said "There's evidently a serious medical problem with the Senate Republicans. They've all had their spines removed." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Senate Republicans circle wagons as Trump beats war drum on Iran
Senate Republicans are largely standing with President Donald Trump as he escalates U.S. involvement in Israel’s war with Iran.
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...
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Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Post a fictional death that devastated you.
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a blurry picture of a woman screaming with the words come on artax below her
Alt: Gif of The Neverending Story movie. Atreyu, a boy with long brown hair wearing a leather tunic, stands thigh-deep in a muddy swamp pulling at the reins of a white horse that has sunk into the swamp all the way up to its shoulders. The boy is shouting, "Come on! Artax! Fight against the sadness, Artax!"
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
9yo building a Lego Minecraft fox first enjoyed how much the tail articulated, then decided the fox has arthritis in his back leg so he uses his tail as a leg instead and I love that he is incorporating disability into play.
Close-up of a small Lego animal figure on a woodgrain tabletop. The Lego figure is a Minecraft-style arctic fox made of white bricks with a few light blue and gray accents. The figure is so small that the fox is only one brick stud wide, so it has one front leg and one back leg. Its tail is on dual hinges that allow it to twist left and right and/or up and down. It is currently straight back and tilted down 90 degrees. Since the tail is longer than the legs, the fox is tipped forward slightly, balancing on its tail and front leg, with its back leg raised off the table.
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Recently finished FIRE'S HAND, FATE'S HEART by Lindsey Brounstein, and the sequel drops next week, so here's my plug: epic fantasy, ensemble cast, found family, queer rep (incl. bi, ace, and poly). Not spicy; the beginnings of romance subplots in book 1 but lots of focus on friendships. 5⭐️
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Abundance! www.fastcompany.com/91307514/ice...
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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?
Haraldur “Halli” Thorleifsson has helped build thousands of ramps across Iceland. Now, he wants to bring accessibility to other countries.
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In addition to dehumanizing Autistic people they didn’t find worthy of existence … Ivar Lovass (the inventor of ABA) & Hans Asperger were both Nazis. The concern that Autistic ppl have when RFK Jr. wants to start collecting data on Autistic ppl is a legitimate concern. #RemoveRFK
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/06/2025
Police departments have exponentially more control over how officers are recruited, trained, and overseen than a protest does over its participants, but are allowed by a sympathetic press to use the "bad apples" defense to separate deeds from goals and institutions in a way protestors often aren't.
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Regarding the utility of protest, the final word goes to Harvey Milk: "I know that you cannot live on hope alone. But without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you...you gotta give 'em hope."
Black and white photo of Harvey Milk seated on top of a car with an open moonroof at the head of a marching crowd holding signs. Harvey's sign says "I'm from woodmere, New York," while the signs behind him largely say "NO! ON THE BRIGGS INITIATIVE B.A.C.A.B.I"
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
okay so we've got -- DHS goons handcuffing a U.S. Senator -- Marines in LA violating posse comitatus -- political assassinations in MN And that's just, like, the last couple of days
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 14/06/2025
Dear News Networks: The term for a “targeted politically motivated shooting” of a currently serving legislator is “Assassination.”
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Holly Chessman @hollychessman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Protest sign from my relative who works in the public school system! W00T! #Resist #NoKings #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne #Indivisible #Protest
A crossed out “321.94” and the words, “Librarians against fascism!”
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Horrifying news out of Minnesota this morning as political violence takes the lives of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. @Chasten and I are holding their loved ones in our hearts and praying for State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette as they recover.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
On the way to today’s No Kings rallies! Come protest with us in Evanston (until 12) and Des Plaines (1-3). See you there.
I’m (Trans Up Front tee and neon orange campaign jacket) sitting in the front seat of Scott Blue’s (devilishly handsome in a keffiyeh) car with my best friend Helena Hind (flannel) in the backseat. Not pictured: Ben :)
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is what we do to people who risked their lives to help Americans.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/06/2025
1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We need an #actuallyautistic singer/songwriter to make a song listing all the famous Autistic folks. (Like Adam Sandler did for the Jewish community with his Hanukkah Song, but a new song, not a parody.)
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride!
Festival Kirby from the game Kirby Star Allies. Kirby is a round, pink animated character with a little red smiling mouth, big blue eyes, and pink blush spots on his cheeks. He wears dark pink shoes and a red marching band hat with a black bill, gold trim, decorated with a pink star and gold wings. He also wears a set of seven feather plumes splayed out like a peacock tail. They are a rainbow of colors, one orange, the next yellow, then green, blue, indigo, purple, and red. At the tip of each feather is a star. Confetti falls around Kirby.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Don’t let anyone tell you Pride isn’t political.
The first pride was a riot.
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
My kid's birthday is few weeks before my hip replacement surgery. My in-laws know about my surgery-- they will be taking care of my kid for a week post-op. Their suggestion for family birthday party: HIKING. Hi #disability and #chronicallyill community. I just had to tell people who would get it.
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Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 31/05/2025
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH🤬🤬🤬
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 30/05/2025
“All who value human diversity and the continued expansion of the rights of people with disabilities must push back against eugenics politics” especially now that ableist ghoul Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments “remind us that eugenic ideas are alive and well.” theconversation.com/uninformed-c...
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Uninformed comments on autism are resonant of dangerous ideas about eugenics
Part of a eugenic logic is the ongoing belief that erasing disability and people with disabilities is a desirable and commonsense objective.
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Delete a letter, ruin a movie: A New Hoe
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/05/2025
When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 27/05/2025
I almost forgot since it's a fake Monday:
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Liberal Jane @liberaljane.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
digital illustration of a disabled nonbinary person with leg braces. They have a green mullet and are wearing a black t-shirt, purple cargo pants, green chunky heels and a green belt. There’s text that reads, ‘being disabled shouldn’t equal being poor.’
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Just started/got caught up on Murderbot and feeling this so hard.
Screencap of a Tumblr thread.
First post by user chesh-ires-deactivated20210426 on Jun 27, 2019:
being nonbinary and a fan of nonhuman creatures isn't easy. like i'm constantly struggling with the fact that i'm both like "i wish there was more enby representation in humans" and "i'm the same gender as mewtwo and that fucking rips"
Reblogged by ckret2 on Jul 29, 2019, adding:
the tension between "representing NBs only as nonhuman characters is dehumanizing and othering" and "but monsters, aliens, and robots are so much cooler than humans"
Reblogged by mypunkpansexualtwin on Aug 24, 2019, adding:
Meme of three hands clasped in the center. Wrists are labeled (1) Neurodivergent ppl, (2) Nonbinary ppl, (3) ace/aro ppl. Clasped hands are labeled "wanting to see real human rep in media vs thinking aliens/robots/etc are fuckin sweet"
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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
say it again, slowly and out loud. I've said it before, will say it again. If you support Generative AI, you are no friend to any artist or creative, and can feel free to eff right off.
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I feel seen
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J¡m Vaughn @jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Me when I'm trying to figure out if an image is AI:
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a man with long hair and a mustache says i do not mean to pry but you do n't
Alt: A gif of Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride asking, "I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?"
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
What are you wearing to the bsky prom? (Either or both outfits, I could change halfway through.)
Anne and Gilbert from the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables. Anne wears a brown plaid vest over a cream colored blouse and a brown skirt. Avwatch is pinned to the breast of her vest. Her red hair is worn up in a chiffon and she had a flat straw hat with a brown hat band. Gilbert wears a gray pinstripe best over a blue shirtwith a red and blue striped tie and a gray flat cap. We can see the chain of his pocketwatch. They sit together on top of a gig (out of frame) driving down a country lane. We can see green grass, rail fences, and trees in the background.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 26/05/2025
being more likely to be incarcerated is not the same thing as being more likely to engage in criminal behaviors & it's time we all get on the same page about that
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
FWIW, blue and red states have some of the highest number of Medicaid recipients: -California (27 percent of its residents use it) -New York (29%) -New Mexico (34%) -Kentucky (28%) -Arkansas (25%) -Louisiana (32%) -Kentucky (28%) -West Virginia (26%) www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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10 Things to Know About Medicaid | KFF
At the start of 2025, many issues are at play that will affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care. While Medicaid was not discussed much on the campaign trail, Congress may consider big ...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Republican congressional districts with the most Medicaid recipients via @kff.org: #CA22 (Valadao) #KY05 (Rogers) #CA23 (Obernolte) #CA01 (LaMalfa) #LA05 (Letlow) #NY11 (Malliotakis) #LA03 (Higgins) #WV01 (Miller) #LA04 (Mike Johnson) #WA04 (Newhouse)
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
🧵 Recovering from a night spent in the ER with my kiddo. In some ways I feel like being a chronically ill adult equips me to parent a chronically ill kid, but I don't know how to teach him the things that help me most. #chronicillness #disability
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Pay no attention to the piracy. #WIPSnips
“It seems likely that the departing vessel was a pirate ship, though she had been masquerading successfully as a legal merchant ship until last night, and it is unclear why her crew would change their minds. Presumably it is related to whatever violence was done under cover of darkness.”
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I nearly passed out in the parking lot (just managed to get into my driver's seat and call the office so they could send out nurses with juice and crackers) when the second arm popped into place while I was walking. As they stood watch over me, they chuckled about how this happened all the time.
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Petra Writes @writespetra.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Explaining my EDS and resulting osteoarthritis in my 30s to a colleague today and came up with "my joints are very mature for their age." #chronicillness #chronicpain
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Karrie @karriehiggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Blocking every person I see sharing that Biden wheelchair story without critical reflection on the fact that a wheelchair is NOT a problem. DO NOT EXPLAIN THE ARTICLE TO ME. I HAVE READ IT. I AM TAKING ISSUE WITH *YOUR* ABLEIST POSTS. FDR used a wheelchair. Sen. Duckworth uses a wheelchair.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Praise from @aoc.bsky.social for the disability rights activists who protested: "I think that they have demonstrated a tremendous amount of courage and bravery putting themselves on the line in order to defend Medicaid for people across the country." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Uproar as disability protesters in wheelchairs dragged out of House Medicaid meeting
Republicans insist the proposed new work requirements won’t hurt people with disabilities, but disability rights advocates disagree
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BAJA BLAST BLAINE @shrekromancer.gay · 26/02/2025
oh cool, we're doing this again
Simpsons "don't make me tap the sign" meme where the sign says "body shaming is shitty regardless of the shittiness of the person you're directing it towards"
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025
This hasn't really gotten the attention it deserves. All Democratic governors need to be more like #JBPritzker apnews.com/article/rfk-autism-resea… #autism #RFKJr #PublicHealthMalpractice
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Illinois governor is first in US to block federal access to personal data on autism
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order protecting the privacy of autism-related health data.
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