Dear @darthbluesky.bsky.social, @esmewang.com (who is not on Bluesky much these days) wanted to let you know that her sweet Daphne has died.
Melissa Hung
@melissahung.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. 📚Disability Intimacy, Body Language. Founding editor, Hyphen. Writing about immigrant communities, Asian America, culture, food, disability & more. melissahung.xyz
ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text
Ellie Mae O'Hagan@elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 3w agoI love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
Fellow spoonies, my friend is teaching a class online tomorrow 9/1 on reclaiming your body. She is a dancer with Lyme disease who found a way to regain her agency through movement & now teaches it to others. thrivingwithlyme.com
Thriving With Lyme – Reclaim Your Body Today
Discover personalized support for chronic illness and auto-immune conditions. Join a supportive community of BIPOC & QTBIPOC folks to reduce pain and boost energy. Schedule a discovery call today to b...
thrivingwithlyme.com
Gary, IN is still without power. Boost the below article, so folks know how to help and these people aren't forgotten.
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · last mo.@blockclubchi.bsky.social has a good round up of how folks can help the good people of Gary
If you’re curious about what it’s like to live with a constant headache and chronic pain, I used to write about it for Catapult Magazine (RIP): magazine.catapult.co/author/melis...
Drum Head: Playing Through My Chronic Pain
magazine.catapult.co
Happy anniversary to me & my chronic headache. 13 years ago, I woke up with a headache. It never went away. I didn’t know it that day, but my life changed. Not asking for advice BTW — I'm under the care of a great neurologist — just sharing as a reminder that anyone can become disabled at any time.
Happy anniversary to me & my chronic headache. 13 years ago, I woke up with a headache. It never went away. I didn’t know it that day, but my life changed. Not asking for advice BTW — I'm under the care of a great neurologist — just sharing as a reminder that anyone can become disabled at any time.
Today @thesicktimes.org: An in-depth feature on UCSF and PolyBio's VIPER program, by @davetuller1.bsky.social. VIPER plans to validate promising Long COVID biomarker candidates and fast-track them for clinical trials. thesicktimes.org/2026/08/11/v...
VIPER aims to fast track Long COVID biomarkers. Here’s how it works. - The Sick Times
Led by researchers at UCSF, the research program plans to validate promising candidates for noninvasive tests that can be used to advance clinical trials.
thesicktimes.org
Someone made a site where you can scan produce to see if it came from Taylor Farms. (They are behind many store brands.) Thank you to whoever made this. I've been cooking all my greens, but it's hot out here (and AC-less in my kitchen) and sometimes I just want a salad. www.taylordetector.com
Taylor Detector — Scan for Taylor Farms brands
Wondering if a product is made by Taylor Farms? Scan any barcode to instantly check brand ownership and affiliations. Free, no signup required.
taylordetector.com
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#BitOfJoy from the other day: swimming laps at the Chinatown YMCA in San Francisco while in the adjacent lane aunties do water aerobics to Bad Bunny, led by a distinguished gentleman with a ponytail.
#BitOfJoy from the other day: swimming laps at the Chinatown YMCA in San Francisco while in the adjacent lane aunties do water aerobics to Bad Bunny, led by a distinguished gentleman with a ponytail.
A lawsuit alleges that ICE beat a man, causing his existing disabilities to worsen and get new ones. Once he was in ICE detention, the lawsuit says, he was mocked by detention staff and didn't regularly get his medication. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Lawsuit accuses ICE and private prison contractors of abuse a disabled detainee
Ulises Peña López says guards taunted him — telling him he'd never walk again — while withholding the medication he needed.
motherjones.com
I’ve been off socials because I was at my first writing residency in a cottage in the woods on Whidbey Island. I wrote, but also rested a lot — much needed after these recent years of loss, grief, & health challenges. Thank you to Hedgebrook for this gift of time & care.
"One of the reasons why I do what I do is I don’t want you to have to buy something, I want you to take what you have and give it new life and make it something that’s even better than what you originally bought it for, because now it’s one of one." - Ramell-Correen Frederick
The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile)@thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3mo agoLast image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“
Was just looking at an old journal entry from college where I said I wanted to tell my mom’s story but didn’t know how to do it. Mom, I’m finally writing your story now. This piece is from a collection I’m working on. Thank you to @inshortlit.bsky.social for publishing it in their new issue.
Melissa Hung
inshortjournal.com
Was just looking at an old journal entry from college where I said I wanted to tell my mom’s story but didn’t know how to do it. Mom, I’m finally writing your story now. This piece is from a collection I’m working on. Thank you to @inshortlit.bsky.social for publishing it in their new issue.
Melissa Hung
inshortjournal.com
ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
nj.com
My new enemies are a trio of pigeons. Has anyone tried the fake owls and do they work against NYC pigeons?
The first Memorial Day dates to 1865 when members of Black churches re-buried Union soldiers from a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp to individual grave sites. Memory of the event was later suppressed. apnews.com/31e1623c7565...
Charleston can lay a claim to 1st Memorial Day
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The city that plunged the nation into its bloodiest conflict can also lay a claim to holding the first Memorial Day observance honoring the dead from the Civil War. In a little...
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A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
a swarm of autumn bugs@facefullabugs.bsky.social · 7mo agoLove the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
revisiting this Mary Oliver poem. or it’s revisiting me.
Two years ago this month I had a lumpectomy. A mammogram caught my cancer early. This is a reminder to get your mammograms, colonoscopies etc
Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.