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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 2h

SAMEEE so often we will go to a venue and literally immediately turn around and leave when we see how busy it is

If i can't sit, i can't come in, but also like. People will not give me space with a cane, it will be kicked and shoves out from under me, etc, it's just not doable for me

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 3h

Here's an in-depth exploration of information you might wish to include in your Accessibility info for your venue or event, written by a disabled man!

Free to read.

johannestevans.co.uk/2025/10/15/d...

Some things to consider adding to your Accessibility section for your event and/or your venue, from a disabled man.

"The venue is semi-wheelchair accessible" is a good place to start, but then planning a night out, more information is better than less! Accessibility is the most basic thing I look for in a venue, especially for events.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 3h

A more extensive guide to considering access options and what to include in your Accessibility information is now here on my website:

johannestevans.co.uk/2025/10/15/d...

It is free to read and share, but tips are appreciated!

Disabled Access For Your Events

A guide to providing robust accessibility options for your venue and/or your event, from a disabled man. If you manage a venue or if you run events, accessibility is a great thing to consider. Most…

johannestevans.co.uk

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 4h

bertie loves to elope into the corridor and he just walks back and forth sniffing other people's doormats and lying on the floor like "hey, come pick me up! and carry me back inside!" and then he wants to run out again so he can be picked up and carried back inside again

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 15h

Oh you want to read Gellert's New Job, about the meanest autistic transgender man and the biggest bastard of a vampire mov boss, so badly. You want to read it for just 99p for the eBook or a fiver for the paperback.

#BookSky #TransMan

You grew up in Lashton,” said Pike. “You know how to handle yourself, don’tcha? Word is people don’t like you.”

“Oh no,” said Gellert sarcastically. “That hurts my feelings.”

“’Cause you’re on the spectrum.”

“Colour spectrum?”

“Asperger’s.”

“Asperger’s,” Gellert repeated, and scoffed. “Even when they diagnosed me, I wasn’t palatable enough to be labelled with Asperger’s. I’m autistic.”

And blind as shit,” said Pike. “And you talk funny. And you’re a cunt.”

“And you want to hire me,” said Gellert.

Pike grinned, showing his sharp fangs. “Yeah,” he said.

“Now who’s the cunt between us?”

“What’s the different between Asperger’s and autistic?”

“Politics, acceptability, and about fifteen years.”

Do you think people hate you more ’cause you’re a faggot, or ’cause of the autism?”

“Always asking the important questions, aren’t you?”

“Is it true you’re a trap?” asked Pike, and Gellert blinked.

“I beg your pardon?”

“You know, a cuntboy,” said Pike. “You had your womb whipped out and your tits chopped off, but you still have an axe wound.”

Oh,” said Gellert, filing “trap” away to remember for later, and doing his best to do anything but remember “axe wound”. “The politically correct term is transgender, but yes.”

“You’re not getting angry,” said Pike.

“Are you trying to make me angry?”

“Not really,” said Pike. “Just wanted to see if you would be. You too good for crime?”

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 8h

God I just want to chew on the dialogue in every episode of Justified

It's in that same lane of gracefully crude poetry as Deadwood but less vulgar and more folksy. It's all southern charm and wit wrapped around the tightest, snappiest exchanges you've ever heard

THAT'S TV WRITIN

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 10h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h

I assure you there is a non-trivial amount of the social media population who finds me exasperating and enervating when I show up unbidden in their feeds. I strongly encourage them to mute or block me. No one who finds me annoying here should have to deal with me! Expunge me! Be free of me!

d4sbwitu @d4sbwitu.bsky.social · 11h

What kinda sad, sad person would be better off without you in their feed? My day is slightly darkened by the thought.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 9h

www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

Here!

Gellert's New Job

Gellert has worked as a business manager for the King family for nearly a decade when an error in judgement brings his employment to an abrupt end. Lucien Pike, a rival kingpin, employs his services i...

www.smashwords.com

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

Just some questions to consider when writing the Accessibility notes for your event or your venue!

white text on a blue background, with an icon of a person in a wheelchair beside the heading "accessibility at your events".

the body text reads, "Some things to consider adding to your Accessibility section for your event and/or your venue, from a disabled man.

“The venue is semi-wheelchair accessible” is a good place to start, but when planning a night out, more information is better than less!

Accessibility is the most basic thing I look for in a venue, especially for events."

$white text on a blue background, with an icon of a cane beside the heading "accessibility at your events". Firstly, not all wheelchairs look the same. Motorised and power chairs might be wider, longer, or heavier than lighter chars without a motor - these chairs may need more space to go through doorways. Secondly, wheelchair-users are only a fraction of disabled people who may have additional access requirements - some people use canes, crutches, frames, rollators. Some may be photosensitive or use hearing aids, etc.$

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 14h

This was a fun read. I do love a story featuring an unapologetically cranky bastard.

Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 15h

Oh you want to read Gellert's New Job, about the meanest autistic transgender man and the biggest bastard of a vampire mov boss, so badly. You want to read it for just 99p for the eBook or a fiver for the paperback.

#BookSky #TransMan

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Rain Lily ✨🌿 @asrainlily.bsky.social · 22h

Painting finished!!!
An exercise with realism and acrylics. A first experiment with realism painting inspired by the works of the talented Miurgen. ✨🌿🎨

#paint #astarion #bg3 #baldursgate3 #art #astarionbaldursgate3 #digitalart

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 14h

I promise the typos in this post have everything to do with the feverish haze of my current influenza and not my actual writing ability

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 14h

Available from Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Kobo, Apple Books, Smashwords, Itch, whatever site you might by your books from, as well as from my website!

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 15h

Oh you want to read Gellert's New Job, about the meanest autistic transgender man and the biggest bastard of a vampire mov boss, so badly. You want to read it for just 99p for the eBook or a fiver for the paperback.

#BookSky #TransMan

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 16h

YOOOOO this is so exciting!!!!

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 16h

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 16h

i am gonna write up a more extensive accessibility guide to go with this set of images but lmfao i just hammered a coconut apart to grate and put in this curry and now i am so incredibly tired i have to go back to bed

in the meantime i've made some website tweaks so tags and links are more visible!

Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

Just some questions to consider when writing the Accessibility notes for your event or your venue!

$white text on a blue background, with an icon of a cane beside the heading "accessibility at your events". Firstly, not all wheelchairs look the same. Motorised and power chairs might be wider, longer, or heavier than lighter chars without a motor - these chairs may need more space to go through doorways. Secondly, wheelchair-users are only a fraction of disabled people who may have additional access requirements - some people use canes, crutches, frames, rollators. Some may be photosensitive or use hearing aids, etc.$

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 17h

every time a tv show or movie shows a conference call by splitting the screen into everyone hopping onto the call another year is added to my lifespan it makes me sooooo happy EVERY time it's just so GOOD

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26d

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

School of fish drawn in a spiral in hues of teal and sea glass green

A transmasc sideview portrait in hues of faded green. Golden clouds and stars and fish float over him

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 1d

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

The bbc focussing on what the ceasefire means for the hostages way more than what it means for Gazans, again seeing that disproportionately we’ve become accustomed to for years, this isn’t new, and it’s certainly not ok

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

I love how many cats and dogs are like. If you really loved me you'd fully grab me by my face and muzzle and sort of shake it around, or physically wobble my whole body with your hands. And then you do that and they're like :) yeah!!!!!!!! :)

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