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Today we honor jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer Herbie Hancock on his birthday!

Hearing Knows Best YouTube video by megan malzkuhn

For those of you who don't know...

2026 BU Deaf Space Announcement YouTube video by William Fertman

Ok, so now I won't just be opening for founding NTD cast member Patrick Graybill, but I'm also going to be on the bill with the Hearing Knows Best guys? Dead, I tell you. I'm dead. ❤️

I'm always proud whenever either of my kids, hearing or deaf, uses a word they've clearly read but never heard spoken.

Yeah, the heroin thing at SLC was really interesting and horrific.

I use Buttondown and it works great for me—very straightforward and unfussy. buttondown.com/will_fertman

A hand holding a cheerful bowl of green jell-o with a neutral face painted on in edible glitter.

The younger one wanted Jell-o. We didn’t have it, but we had a pack of unflavored Knox, some peppermint extract, and a bunch of edible glitter.

Help Us Support Our Writers and Artists! We are an all-volunteer #neurodiversity & autism resource, but we do pay our (almost all-ND) contributors. You can help us keep on doing that, while also wearing (or gifting) cool TPGA gear. Please spread the word if you can:

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Of course their bigotry has additional bigotry hidden in their bigotry.

The eye shadow works.

I watched the whole thing thinking of Wallace Steven's The Necessary Angel:

"We recognize at once, in this figure, Plato's pure poetry, and at the same time we recognize what Colerige called Plato's dear, gorgeous nonsense."

a man in a yellow vest and a woman in a green dress are dancing in a room Alt: Motion GIF from Signin' in the Rain. Cyd Charisse, in green, as a flapper gun moll, seductively dances around Gene Kelly in yellow, dressed as a handsome but naive yokel. She does a dramatic turn, knocking his hat off from raw sexual Charisse-ness.

My book comes out next week, I've got a million things to do, but I decided to pull rank on myself and catch Singin' in the Rain at the last movie theater in town.

image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

Are they making some sort of bullshitty distinction?

Swamp Thing for president!

Cover of a comic book, Swamp Thing. Image: A massive green plant monster runs through shallow water. Behind him is an American flag, with the red stripes dripping as blood near the bottom of the page. Text: DC comics. Tales Beyond Suspense: Swammp Thing, 75 cents, #44, January 88. By Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette and John Totleben

Very appropriate to have a horror artist as laureate in this day and age.

For someone named after a Wagner opera, Reingold's got some bold fuckin' words about what Jews are.

It goes without saying that I can put a mint leaf in my own fucking coffee.

If these flags come down because of "inclusion," Philz is fucking dead to me.

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Big title in our house!

An ambiguous creature in fuzzy gray pajamas with a stuffed panda toy for a head.

Bedtime Pandaman!

I already ordered from another place like a jerk. But you can have your own signed copy when you pre-order Nović’s new book here:

Damn, that looks fun. Wish I was in Yorkshire.

Excellent idea!

Sample chapter headings:

* You’re Going to Be Fine
* Reading to Your Deaf Child
* Dinner Table Syndrome: Not as Delicious as it Sounds
* IFSPs in Yet More Excruciating Detail
* Dealing with Bad Professionals
* Fucking Magnets, How Do They Work?

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

screenshot of the profile page for the account @protectsaladokids.org

An account you're going to want to immediately block if you've ever spoken about kids' right to read

No idea who the actual person behind the account is, but they love targeting librarians over on X and they'll likely just be looking to screenshot your posts here for clout (such that it is) there

Promoting books you say? Well, if you or someone you love has a deaf or hard of hearing child, or if you work with dhh kids, or you're interested in niche parenting books with significant numbers of swear words, my book comes out April 16:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/deaf-baby...

#deaf ♿ #ASL #langsky

Watercolor blue background. Text reads: April is National DEAF History Month. Above the letters for DEAF are hands of various shades spelling deaf using ASL. The ASAN logo is at the bottom.

April isn’t just Autism Acceptance Month, it’s also National Deaf History Month! As we continue to promote autism acceptance and advocacy, we also encourage people to take time to learn about Deaf history this April. Look Deaf-led orgs like the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to learn more!