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Anna Holmes

@annabookwriter

Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd. https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks (She/they) β™ΏοΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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I got my hand caught between my armrest and the train divider trying to avoid hitting clueless nondisabled people and the bruise is BRIGHT yellow.

07.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a pro-fun account.

There’s a lot going on, times are hard and they aren’t going to get better any time soon.

Celebrate your half birthday.Make up holidays.Find reasons to gather, party and fellowship.Find your people.Spend time with family and friends. Ignore anyone in opposition to fun.

07.03.2026 10:55 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

07.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 2915 πŸ” 683 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Eating the freedom raw causes all kinds of conditions

06.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe just start with sitting with your own discomfort and turning that into curiosity.

06.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I also don’t know if you know, but you can disagree with the vehemence of a position without accusing public health officials of aiding and abetting child murder.

06.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

how many of you are wearing masks as long covid is now the most common childhood health condition?

06.03.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Because public health is everyone’s responsibility, right?

People stop me all the time and say I’m β€œsmart” to mask with all of the disease running around, and yet, they never do it, even at hospitals.

So. Check your own behavior before applying sanctimony.

06.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I get it. It’s enraging. Infuriating. Maddening, even.

And: if you want uptake to improve, you cannot do that by accusing people of hating their children. It’s actually a really great way to get them to double down.

Also, how many of you are wearing masks?

06.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Hi, I’m someone permanently disabled because a classmate’s mother was too selfish to get her vaxxed and a nasty case of rubella went around and kool-aid manned through my vaccination.

I don’t think that mom would have changed her mind if you called her an evil, gullible bitch. Just me.

06.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When you hear people ask
(and you will hear people ask)
if these machines
are conscious,
please try to remember:
that the question is not
if these machines
are conscious,
but why it is that we
treat people
we know are conscious
like they are machines.

06.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Most meds are like this in the UK! Unsure why the US is married to bottles.

06.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says β€œBREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says β€œBREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

06.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 5103 πŸ” 808 πŸ’¬ 309 πŸ“Œ 607

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

06.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 1991 πŸ” 622 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 19

Anglo-saxons: Heroes are fragile things. The constant urge for glory and war will lead to nothing but a dead, buried heap of old metal.

Celtic epic: Rage and hypervigilance are a path to the doom of all around you. The land has its own rules; do not ignore them. Be very careful what you promise.

06.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West"

Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure.

Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.

06.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 202 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

There is literally someone sitting on the floor.

06.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m going to need people who think they can bring large items onto the accessible car because β€œthere’s room there” to read about why the room is there.

06.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of me standing by a pool wearing a houndstooth KN95

Photo of me standing by a pool wearing a houndstooth KN95

kn95s are great for pollen but unfortunately wearing one might make you look like you care about protecting disabled people and i know we simply cannot have that

06.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 315 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Heated Rivalry’ Creator Is Making a Decidedly Gay Netflix Show About Alexander the Great A second season of the gay hockey show will have to wait until 2027.

Oh this is gonna piss off some dudes with white marble busts as their profile pictures. Good.

www.them.us/story/alexan...

06.03.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

He’s visiting the guy behind him, who is a very good sport about being thoroughly snuffled. Owner keeps apologizing, but he’s chuffed. Conductor also getting some pets in.

Dog is dramatically sneezing for attention.

06.03.2026 09:18 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This scruffy black dog on the train has one (1) white toe. Ran out of toner at the very end.

06.03.2026 09:15 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

05.03.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 2236 πŸ” 528 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 15

I loved this show very very much a long time ago

it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

05.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 1664 πŸ” 152 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 9

Writing an essay about how clinging to neutrality threatens libraries and I only have 1500 words. Hope this professor likes really direct arguments

05.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer ghoul

05.03.2026 19:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a cartoon of anna and kristoff from frozen says i 'm gonna tell em Alt: Kristoff from Frozen says β€œI’m gonna tell em” and Anna says β€œdon’t you dare.”
05.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol. This is amazing

05.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

28.02.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 3890 πŸ” 1932 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 26

Here's the thing about using AI for lit reviews ... If you've actually read the scholarship, writing the lit review yourself isn't that taxing. But what's gonna happen is folks will use AI to save themselves having to *read* the scholarship, which will then make the rest of their article trash.

05.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 301 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 5