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🪵2026/10/21 TWO DAYS until the moving box bill is due!! Made a lot more progress organizing pumpkins stuff, discovered a leak + had a productive meeting with the landlord over it, fixed the undercabinet lights, and paid Dalila's cell phone bill. 💸 bit.ly/WDCshApp ☕ ko-fi.com/ommerdraven 🙏⚒️💕💸🏳‍⚧♿💜

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackandWhite. A downy woodpecker on a very sunny day last fall. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

And with the Supreme Court we have now, there is a real risk of endangering the ADA if any one case gets kicked up to them. I don’t know what you all imagine happens when inaccessibility is spotted, but it’s not the end of a struggle, it’s the beginning.

Darlings. When a disabled person in the United States posts that a place is inaccessible to them, stop telling them to report it. That is not a thing. The ADA is a law, not a service. All it does is ensure we can sue. It doesn’t mean we’ll win. In fact, these suits drag on for years.

Took a shower and washed my hair. I woke up fairly early and did stuff online, but got tired later in the day. Now I have sore muscles from the very little I did. But, Tay, a shower! #CFS

There are no ethical uses of AI. There are no “safe” uses of AI. There are no defensible “leftist” uses of AI. You want to know how I know this? The computer scientists in my life who had to work on it are all suffering moral injuries and burnout.

A male downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) on a feeder is mostly #Black&White, with just a small patch of red. #BirdOfTheDay #Colourful #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

I'm going to tattoo this on my forehead

A belted kingfisher with a fish. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

"People with #ChronicPain experience #fatigue at levels that people without #pain will never understand..[it] is not like #tiredness from a work day..you’d have to go 3 days without any sleep and then try to function.": buff.ly/OWIGR1B by sarahlynn358 #ChronicFatigue #InvisibleIllness #disabled

Draven is helping someone I know online who has a serious chronic illness. It is always risky with online requests, but I think this is for real.

My doctor finally refilled my prescription for a ten day supply. I have an appointment with her next week. After a while, you just have to laugh. It's ridiculous. I'll give her a few more months, but at at a certain point she has to trust me, otherwise this isn't care.

This is genuinely heartbreaking for her, and people need to leave her alone. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I have been dissociating so hard to keep from thinking about this busted up spine, but I messed up. A sad thing happened on a show I was watching and I let myself feel that and it opened the door to All the Feelings. In case you wonder why disabled people say pain control is mental health treatment

So today we have birds with #LittleLegs as the subject for #BirdOfTheDay, so here is a Long Tailed Tit showing how delicate its tiny legs are. Also one of the cutest birds we have visiting The Garden Jungle #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife

" #LymphDrainage massage can help if yr #LymphaticSystem isn’t working as it should. U might hv a congested #lymph system if u develop: #Bloating. #BrainFog. Chronic sinus infections. Fatigue. Headaches..swollen ankles or hands [etc]": buff.ly/IlFE3t9 via @ClevelandClinic.bsky.social #massage

Nuthatch in the woods #BirdOfTheDay #Brown #dusk #birds #photography

Tree and church #BNW #NewEngland #EastCoastKin #photography #ThreeWordGenre #Autumn #Minimal

One more of my beloved mountaintop for #MountainMonday. 🩵🏔️✌️ #Photography #Scape #PNW #PDX #Oregon #Mountains #MountHood #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #Forests

Rocks on Burgh Island, Devon. September 2026 #Scape #sea #seascape #devon #rocks #coast #sonyalpha #photographer

Justice4me.uk is arguing for equal access to safe medical treatment for all #pwME, regardless of symptom severity, in England and Wales. The campaign needs more financial support to retain knowledgeable legal representation - for as long as it takes (too long!!)

For people less familiar with ME, we often get "white matter hyperintensities" "white matter lesions" or "punctate white matter lesions" diagnosed via MRI. These are common in circulatory and neurological disease, but they're non-specific. You see them in advanced age, too.

Still remember the MS specialist saying, "prepare yourself" because #MECFS signs and symptoms look so much like MS that even the MS expert was sure! "Nope; you have the wrong lesions... you may have a kind of 'pre-MS'," was her conclusion. 25% of MS diagnoses are misdiagnoses. How many are ME?

#Photography #ECK #MacroMonday #BlueskyMonday #Macro #Bugsky #Lavender #Butterfly

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflection. A pair of young wood ducks. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Work Incentives Planning & Assistance (WIPA): Fall 2026 Benefits Training Location: IowaWORKS Sioux City - 2508 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101 Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., with break for lunch

Some days the hardest part is explaining to people why you look fine but feel terrible. You're not making it up. Your symptoms are real, your fatigue is real, and you deserve support. #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness #Spoonie

#photography The Mediterranean today.

Then Everything Exploded at Once – I cramped up all of a sudden, as if my #period had arrived without warning & felt like I had to relieve my #bowels at once. I finally got the #nurse to disconnect the drip as I ran to the toilet.": buff.ly/KDNMa1w #MondayBlogs #allergy #anaphylaxis #rituximab

A Noisy Miner that was nesting low right over the path at Oxley Creek Common. Noisy Miners fear nothing. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

"The prob is that most of the frameworks for managing #ChronicIllness — even the good 1s — don’t account for [the #EmotionalLabor / #cognitive load]. They’re designed for people with more capacity than u may have on a given day, week, or month.": buff.ly/X6rRz9e by @thethrivingspoonie.com #spoonie

As always: research or reporting that seems basic and common sense is often needed to establish baseline common sense among people who aren’t clued in. Sometimes it’s frustrating. (See: disabled people have BEEN TELLING YOU about COVID.) But it’s important.

So I am waiting for a renewal of a 15 day supply of medication I last took on October 4th. So, we are one day past a critical point if I were desperate for the medication. I usually get this refilled every 30 days, but even then, the 2×15 days or 30 days is tomorrow.

One thing I love about being on the road are the unexpected moments you come across, like this scene outside of Kayenta, Arizona just after a rain storm had left the area. Nikon Z9, Z 24-70mm S lens at 54mm (DX crop on), f11, ISO100, 1/320 second

"I sometimes have to do #tasks in a slightly diff way than non- #disabled people, but having a physical #disability does not mean I am less #capable ..only means that sometimes I require a little more #assistance, but that is okay.": buff.ly/TrlogCa by sarahlynn358 #DisabledPerson #disabilities

Fortunately, if my current doctor is really that bad, as soon as I find a new doctor, I can report her to the local chapter of the AARP for discrimination against the elderly. And I can report her for discrimination against the disabled. I just have to find another doctor first.

Time to show off some of those #Ducks & #Geese for #MallardMonday, it's one of the only times they get to shine. #birds #ECK #CanonR5mmkii @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social #PhotographyIsArt @rspb.bsky.social #birdphotography #ukbirding #wildlife #DuckLife #naturephotography #NatureTherapy #BirdLife

Beautiful red oak up the driveway in its autumn glory in Minnesota #LandscapePhotography #Nature #Autumn #ECK #Minnesota