Coset The Table

Coset The Table

@cosetthetable.bsky.social

Disability & food policy, preferably with data. she/her. 💙😈🩷. none of this nonsense, please!

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honestly I’ve gotten used to listening to audiobooks and unexpectedly hearing the names of friends, colleagues, or their bosses. unexpectedly hearing my own spouse’s name was a new one.

pre-pandemic, i was out of town when a particular library card said I needed to go into the branch to re-authorize it. i was absolutely still eligible for that card, but even once i got home, it was going to be a pain in the ass to actually get to the branch in person.

i called, asking if they could at least give me a grace period, so i could use the card in the meantime. ........ the card works to this day. I do not know what expiration date that lovely librarian granted me with, but every time i log in I wonder if my luck has finally run out!

Current List (high to low): Victoria Goddard, Tamora Pierce, Rick Riordan, Gail Carriger, Ally Carter, Martha Wells, Ali Hazelwood, Leigh Bardugo, Chloe Liese, Elizabeth Wein (rereads and novellas count, obviously this scheme benefits authors with large catalogs)

the instacart shopper has refunded without replacement three out of three pork products. one of which is... just normal deli ham. good thing i picked all-beef hot dogs. no one tell him what's in the pepperoni on the frozen pizza!

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Trans kids are not a "contentious issue" and their rights aren’t up for debate. Trans kids need to be loved and supported—not thrown under the bus to score political points.

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Apparently this platform has taken an official anti-death penalty stance, because they will suspend or ban users if they say that a specific person should be tried and executed for their crimes when that person has killed people. So long as that person isn't an elected official, it seems.

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Not gonna lie, I remain delighted that Bluesky management hates that the platform was immediately co-opted by artists and queers.

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Anybody at @moderation.bsky.app want to try to explain why they suspended @matthewcort.land, ANOTHER of the most prominent people out here fighting for disabled and marginalized people? Like… are y'all planning to suspend/ban literally every disabled legal scholar/policy worker out here, orrrr…?

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friend got suspended from here, i jokingly asked if it's because they said something mean about a billionaire, and i was right 🫩

if someone removes you as a follower on insta but does not stop following you, is that more likely a sign that they're interested in stirring up drama or that they just didn't finish the job for whatever reason?

like, sure, i'm sad this friendship is apparently over, i'm especially sad at what appears to have ended it, but i'm also not interested in months or years worth of subposting therapy-speak drama bullshit, and i'm not sure what the cleanest path forward is

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If you're in the Boston area, Matt's overview of the nurse and clinician strike at Brigham is a must-read. If you can get out there to the picket lines and support the strikers, I hope you do. They are fighting for better pay and safer patients.

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My sister, who is very similar to me, was diagnosed when we were kids. I was missed. We’re a natural experiment on this exact question. After diagnosis, my sister got kicked out of the school we both attended & thrown in special ed & ABA. She grew up being told she was a broken failure./

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I think late diagnosed autistic people who genuinely believe that early diagnosis is a privilege should do the math, look up what the treatments and attitudes toward autism were like in their youth, and explain exactly what they believe they missed out on and what their outcome would have been.

every year i tell myself I won't be making any sort of special effort to read queer books during pride month because i read them all year long, and every year other people share lists of queer books that lengthen my TBR and mess up my short term reading plans!

Lololol I picked up a new interest which allowed me to figure out a whole additional red flag that goes nicely with someone’s red flag collection. Oh, you mean that wasn’t an oversight but instead is a consistent personality trait/intentional choice? Good to know.

Looking for: Songs to audition to add to a very eclectic playlist to lift weights to! Currently some of the playlist: MUNA, a bunch of the Heated Rivalry Soundtrack, Rage Against the Machine, AC/DC, Eve 6, Beastie Boys, Garbage, Hole, Dessa, The Mountain Goats, Fall Out Boy, Fatboy Slim.

I gotta impress a queer Oberlin music major and confuse the fuck out of a math PhD, we’re all millennials, ideally I would like to add things so that when I’m at the bottom of a squat a lesbian and/or a Lilith Fair alumna will motivate me enough to actually stand up.