Signal: andrewleland.99 Email: aleland@fastmail.com Writing about disability, language, technology, art, culture, ladybugs in sweatpants, etc Low vision, long covid, bad faith, good times https://www.andrewleland.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3mboljlrfgk25I have an email newsletter vilejelly.substack.com/p/snail-shells https://vilejelly.substack.com/p/snail-shells05 Jan 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mboljlrfgk25https://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3m4thdf24os2eI have an email newsletter https://open.substack.com/pub/vilejelly/p/help-yourself?r=dec&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true04 Nov 2025 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4thdf24os2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3lsetsxjzz22xI wrote a post that opens a tiny window onto the terminally nerdy shit I've been distracting myself with lately vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff https://vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff24 Jun 2025 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsetsxjzz22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3ls3ek26ipc26Josh has shaped my thinking on blind identity, accessibility, technology, whiskey variety, and on and on: tremendously honored and just straight-up chuffed to be asking him questions about his brilliant new book in NYC next week. It's hybrid virtual and in-person so you better be there: [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jun 2025 01:09 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls3ek26ipc26https://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3loqp7ksuvk2zStumbled across this ~30-year-old TNY piece about online discourse and it's at once shockingly quaint and entirely prescient https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/06/06/my-first-flame09 May 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqp7ksuvk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3lkmamrqzmc2cI have two new stories up: first is on disability politics under Trump 2.0, second is me feeling bad about a new feel-good documentary about blindness . Both linked on my "Substack" here! https://open.substack.com/pub/vilejelly/p/how-maga-scrambled-disability-politics?r=dec&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true17 Mar 2025 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkmamrqzmc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3lhyyzienss26Is deletion the new cancellation12 Feb 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhyyzienss26https://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3lhc2dvictk2sAll this talk of DeepSeek's innovation arising from the limitations its engineers worked under recalls the long history of disabled geniuses making breakthroughs under their own sort of constraints. Nice to see another puncture-hole in the myth of the supremacy of the nondisabled, the hyperresourced03 Feb 2025 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhc2dvictk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/quailty.bsky.social/post/3lh2dpsv43k2dLotsa reporting on Trump's scapegoating of DEI for the DC plane crash; less news on his blaming people with intellectual disabilities. The DEIA program offers employment to talented and stigmatized disabled workers in government-- a stigma Trump is reinforcing. https://www.aapd.com/disability-orgs-respond-faa-blame/31 Jan 2025 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:j2b5p52ucgfwopdperhogpbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh2dpsv43k2d