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Alex B

@alexdesignsit.bsky.social

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she/hers • queer • disabled • graphic design • nonprofit • solidarity forever • EDS • ADHD • PTSD • ischemic colitis • cat mom • nature lover • science! • capitalism ruins everything a wet bag of molecules and electrical impulses


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chadzia dax 🖖🏻 😷 🔞's avatar chadzia dax 🖖🏻 😷 🔞 @m00psy.bsky.social
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this!! fun fact, it’s also known as camel case, because the capitalized letters are like humps. 🐫

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We are going to be by the beach and I am bringing a laundry line, but still

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The main problem I have with packing the most minimal amount of clothing for a camping trip is that I sweat SO FUCKING MUCH and I just do not want to rewear many damp and/or stinky items

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It’s probably happened at least a dozen times already

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Just reserved this baby at Ludington State Park for a few hours this week I’ve always wanted to drive a tank and this might be the closest I ever get to that dream

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I wish I had a magic cure for this to share. Sunlight is nice but so dangerous!

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I wish you didn’t live on the opposite side of the country - I would have loved to go somewhere quiet. The 4th is so disruptive. I also wish you had many loving and covid safe people in your life to help. 🫂❤️

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This is all about internalized ableism. Not wanting to be the "sort of person who needs a mobility aid". So much about the devaluation of Disabled people can be inferred from that single idea.

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I just. The work of showing people how ableism is real and how their "everyday harmless status quo normal" beliefs and attitudes and behaviors are actually harmful can be like pulling teeth. Ableism is /so/ foundational. Folks will just straight-faced be like "but that /does/ make someone lesser."

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For those who do not improve in the first six mo. or so, some of the toughest psychological work you may have to do is acknowledging your disability.

You can accommodate disability. You can improve your quality of life through treatments.

But you cannot Ctrl-Z a disability. #LongCOVID #MECFS

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"Pace myself up".

I know it's REALLY hard to grok, but pacing is not about increasing what you can do a little every day until you're back to normal. That's graded exercise therapy, and it does not work for people with PEM. 🧪 #MECFS #LongCOVID

Pacing is this: www.meaction.net/resource/pac...

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We have everybody here with their instruments and yet chaos reigns

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My brain is leaping to a lot of musical analogies. It’s like if my body were an orchestra tuning & warming up but nobody is playing the same thing and the time signatures don’t match

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Me: what? Ok! It’s time to sleep! My body: FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME

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Me: *silently trying to fall asleep, very zen-like* My body:

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There is no party here, I’m just exhausted and this silly meat suit is not cooperating

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Body: I’m blue da ba de da ba di Me: what no Body: ok then NO 👏 SLEEP 👏 TILL BROOKLYN 👏👏👏 Me: it’s fucking Brooklyn go to sleep Body: You gotta fight 🎸 for your right 🎸 to partayyy

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It’s like every body system has jet lag but they’re from all different time zones

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Generally all of my bodily sensations are slightly out of whack

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Hoping my camping trip this weekend will do a hard boot on my sleep cycle

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My ability to sleep is severely impaired but I’m hoping that’s temporary and will improve over time

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My sense of hunger is all messed up and trying its best to normalize but at increasingly odd hours

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Partner told me earlier he is glad I’m off of it because he felt it really tranquilized me, not in a good or helpful way. Gotta say I agree. It helped dull the pain bc it kind of dulled everything

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Struggling with what I assume is the last of my physical dependence on Pregabalin and it’s surprisingly weird My body is confused

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Good job squeezing those lemons, friend! They sure are fucking sour lately

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I really don’t get why people are so obsessed with firearms and fireworks Explosions are dangerous and they pollute the air

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Partner knew someone who was hit in the top of the shoulder from a falling bullet. It didn’t kill him but it could have.

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Some asshole is shooting guns into the air like a block away

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When life is throwing nothing but lemons I try to do a bunch productive destruction

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Mmm all this talk of printing has me doing a linocut I’ve been meaning to carve

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I remember the very first moment I walked into my How To Printing Press class as a junior in high school. That was the beginning of my absolute infatuation with print design. 🥰

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I have a deep and abiding love of the smell of printers ink first thing in the morning and I don’t think that will ever change

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LETS RISOGRAPH Seriously hope to own one some day. I love print. I love ink. I love printers and printing presses and and and

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Literally nothing about the man would surprise me at this point

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If I ever decide to do drag, I will make myself a Dr kelloggs king

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But what about Dr. Kelloggs’ penchant for Yogurt Enemas? That has to have caught on for sure, right

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I just started Aliette De Bodard’s Navigational Entanglements - definitely recommend it!

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Love Sarah Gailey’s books! Some of my absolute favorites. The Echo Wife chilled me to my bones but I couldn’t put it down until I finished it.

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