Ande[']s Candies
@abobandrea.myatproto.social
she/any [non-neuter, non-weaponized]
queer neurodivergent ill disabled realist
i'm pissed off, funny, and warm / i'm a good man in a storm
queer neurodivergent ill disabled realist
i'm pissed off, funny, and warm / i'm a good man in a storm
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It is going to continue becoming increasingly important for you to understand and internalize that nice is different than good.
The sooner you get there, the better for us all.
The sooner you get there, the better for us all.
Babele Fantasma by Virgilio Villoresi
October 31, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Babele Fantasma by Virgilio Villoresi
I will be going as "gal clutching small trash can and intermittently emitting ghostly moans of agony" for Halloween this year. Aces.
October 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I will be going as "gal clutching small trash can and intermittently emitting ghostly moans of agony" for Halloween this year. Aces.
Look at that cute lil face✨️
October 31, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Look at that cute lil face✨️
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I improved the old paper folding puzzle 😈 After a certain number of folds, this gets really hard to build. But I am ambitious
Fold
Fold the paper until a dot shows through every hole.
lukesteuber.com
October 31, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I improved the old paper folding puzzle 😈 After a certain number of folds, this gets really hard to build. But I am ambitious
If you don't like the beta notification screen, apparently pointing out that you've been conscripted into unpaid labor is the way to get @bsky.app to take it away from you lol
Weird, I don't remember being hired as a beta tester for @bsky.app. Who do I contact about setting up direct deposit?
October 30, 2026 at 10:50 PM
If you don't like the beta notification screen, apparently pointing out that you've been conscripted into unpaid labor is the way to get @bsky.app to take it away from you lol
Idk how one could not be at least a little in love with a world that does this✨️
October 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Idk how one could not be at least a little in love with a world that does this✨️
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give the Bills social media team a raise imo
October 30, 2026 at 4:52 AM
give the Bills social media team a raise imo
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Had to take the 12yo to school cause he couldn’t really carry his backpack and I wanted to make sure my borb (black-capped chickadee) could manage stairs safely. 🐡🪶
October 30, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Had to take the 12yo to school cause he couldn’t really carry his backpack and I wanted to make sure my borb (black-capped chickadee) could manage stairs safely. 🐡🪶
Truly an example of platonic affection to cherish and emulate
So many things to admire about Patrick Stewart, but the one that hits me the most is his deeply loving friendship with Ian McKellen. It's so rare and so important to see straight man-gay man friendships as true and natural and authentic as theirs.
They keep taking all the good ones.
October 29, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Truly an example of platonic affection to cherish and emulate
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done
October 29, 2026 at 8:38 PM
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done
If you require *any* hoop-jumping whatsoever in exchange for Halloween candy, you're the baddie
Legit Halloween inclusion means autistic trick-or-treaters get their treats *without* being made to carry a blue pumpkin.
October 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If you require *any* hoop-jumping whatsoever in exchange for Halloween candy, you're the baddie
With alt text because you can't be anti-fascist and ableist at the same time [and because people who use screenreaders deserve accessibility, even if it's to access ridiculous bullshit like this] 🖕
![White text on a textured black and gray background reads:
STOP DEMANDING WE POST
ALT-TEXT
or posting alt text on our behalf
As we have explained ad nauseum:
In September 2025 POSOTUS signed an executive order which was intended to go after the Antifa boogeyman but, in practice, wrongfully declares organizations like ours to be terrorist groups.
Fortunately, the Orange regime and its tech bro sycophants are relatively lazy, and when searching for offenders online priority is given to text scraping far, far more often than image interpretation,
In short we have good reason to not use alt text.
Quit fucking things up for us.
[Clipart of a white rose in lower right corner]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a3ndgkcctuacckkij3i7ruzv/bafkreieka3ofvwtlp7i7biavbe5ahtqk5oltdpjaskecim3blqf52i5pri)
October 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
With alt text because you can't be anti-fascist and ableist at the same time [and because people who use screenreaders deserve accessibility, even if it's to access ridiculous bullshit like this] 🖕
Oh so this is how this year's flu shot aftermath is going to go. Okie dokie.
[It is not, in fact, okie dokie.]
[It is not, in fact, okie dokie.]
October 28, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Oh so this is how this year's flu shot aftermath is going to go. Okie dokie.
[It is not, in fact, okie dokie.]
[It is not, in fact, okie dokie.]
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Dolores Huerta was a transformative American hero and *everyone* owes her so much. (Most of us aren’t farmworkers but all of us eat, right?)
And I’ll forever admire her for having the courage to speak out re Cesar Chavez.
May she rest well💙🕯️
19thnews.org/2026/10/dolo...
And I’ll forever admire her for having the courage to speak out re Cesar Chavez.
May she rest well💙🕯️
19thnews.org/2026/10/dolo...
Dolores Huerta, Chicana activist and defender of farmworker rights, dies at 96
She coined the phrase ‘Sí Se Puede’ and spent over seven decades organizing for better treatment and pay for immigrant workers in California’s Central Valley.
19thnews.org
October 28, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Dolores Huerta was a transformative American hero and *everyone* owes her so much. (Most of us aren’t farmworkers but all of us eat, right?)
And I’ll forever admire her for having the courage to speak out re Cesar Chavez.
May she rest well💙🕯️
19thnews.org/2026/10/dolo...
And I’ll forever admire her for having the courage to speak out re Cesar Chavez.
May she rest well💙🕯️
19thnews.org/2026/10/dolo...
Flu shot got✨️ [and rideshare fragrance bomb washed off me]
Stuck me twice bc she hit bone on the first go, so my arm is pretty displeased with existence atm--but on the winning side, she connected me with a program that might help cover my covid booster and other needed vaxxes!!
Stuck me twice bc she hit bone on the first go, so my arm is pretty displeased with existence atm--but on the winning side, she connected me with a program that might help cover my covid booster and other needed vaxxes!!
October 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Flu shot got✨️ [and rideshare fragrance bomb washed off me]
Stuck me twice bc she hit bone on the first go, so my arm is pretty displeased with existence atm--but on the winning side, she connected me with a program that might help cover my covid booster and other needed vaxxes!!
Stuck me twice bc she hit bone on the first go, so my arm is pretty displeased with existence atm--but on the winning side, she connected me with a program that might help cover my covid booster and other needed vaxxes!!
Illness/disability can seriously impact perception and processing and make you more vulnerable to predation.
The correct take away from this matter is that ill/disabled people need more and better structural and social support. Stop judging us for our desperation and help us.
The correct take away from this matter is that ill/disabled people need more and better structural and social support. Stop judging us for our desperation and help us.
Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
ChatGPT’s Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences (Gift Article)
The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors, advice that came with devastating consequences.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Illness/disability can seriously impact perception and processing and make you more vulnerable to predation.
The correct take away from this matter is that ill/disabled people need more and better structural and social support. Stop judging us for our desperation and help us.
The correct take away from this matter is that ill/disabled people need more and better structural and social support. Stop judging us for our desperation and help us.
I'm so enamored of the gradient of the leaves on this tree, especially in combination with the small green tree growing next to/under it lending color-transition assistance all the way into the grasses below✨️
October 27, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I'm so enamored of the gradient of the leaves on this tree, especially in combination with the small green tree growing next to/under it lending color-transition assistance all the way into the grasses below✨️
This has always been part of disabled/interabled couples' relationship planning reality
The local parent chat is full of tips on how happy couples can divorce so that the lower-earning/non-earning parent can qualify for state Medicaid, if you’re wondering how America is going
October 27, 2026 at 1:53 AM
This has always been part of disabled/interabled couples' relationship planning reality
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This afterword to Tales from Earthsea appears in The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, published by Saga Press in 2018.
October 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
This afterword to Tales from Earthsea appears in The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, published by Saga Press in 2018.