argument alley

21 - she/they - struggling

[drunkwhenimadethis]

I have to do something drastic. Well maybe I don't but that's how I feel

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Just for once I’d like to tell the gate agents and flight attendants that my folding wheelchair is going into the onboard closet and not have them tell me there’s “no room”. Bitch that’s a wheelchair closet, not a “your bags” closet. Move your damn bags where they belong.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Ok, so according to my friendly aviation expert, this is a Big Fucking Deal. In fact, if an airline argues with you about putting your wheelchair in the wheelchair closet or even suggests there may not be room, unless there is already another passenger’s wheelchair in that closet, they have violated federal law.

CFR Title 14, Chapter II, Subchapter D, Part 382, Subpart E, Section 382.67, Subsection (e)

“As a carrier, you must never request or suggest that a passenger not stow his or her wheelchair in the cabin to accommodate other passengers (e.g., informing a passenger that stowing his or her wheelchair in the cabin will require other passengers to be removed from the flight), or for any other non-safety related reason (e.g., that it is easier for the carrier if the wheelchair is stowed in the cargo compartment).”

Source

This is hugely important because it means that if this happens to you, you should report their asses to the DOT. Why? Because these statistics are published every year for every airline, and the airline gets a huge ass fine for every violation. If we want to see change, we need to make airlines literally pay every time they treat us this way.

[thefreakhasgreeneyes]

@annieelainey you should share this with your followers! This is important info!!

[pancakeke]

animators fuck me up. if you asked me to draw something it would take every ounce of my life to complete this task. if you then asked me to draw it again a little to the left I would die

[sexpigeon]

Welcome to the age of enthusiasm.

[theinfiknight]

Unironically love this

[shelter-wood]

there's a tortoise at work and he's 30 years old and I love that he's 30 years old because I can look at this animal that is 3 years older than me and go "does the man want his appy slices??" and he hustles over cause the man do want his appy slices

[geopsych]

The start of a new day.

[farewell-to-lorien]

Morning bath of the Plain-bellied emerald. São Paulo, Brazil.

[goldring]

Pair of earrings in the form of vines, enameled gold mounted with amethysts, France, about 1840-50.

[princess-lointaine]

'enchanted heart earrings.' from softcharmshop, a small business devoted to 'affordable, dainty jewellery.'

[argumentalley]

I miss being able to vent to people. Texting people at 3AM. Just recklessly trauma dumping. Getting bad advice, perspectives that only validated my emotions, never challenged the things I said. Never questioning the ethics of who or what I was venting about. Just indulging in whatever felt good for me and only me at the time.

Obviously, that was unhealthy. But the alternative seems like it may have swung too far to the other end of the spectrum.

[sosuperawesome]

Anastasia Trusova on Instagram

[rawrda]

This is your daily reminder to not be ashamed of making your life easy for yourself.

Cut your food into small pieces, make the font size 30 on your e book, use straws to drink, get a pen that’s comfortable to hold, take more naps, walk slowly, eat another cookie, buy velcro shoes, re-watch the part you couldn’t understand the first time, write things on your hands so you don’t forget it… whatever you want and/or need

Don’t let anyone tell you how you should be doing things. We don’t need to prove each other anything

[unbotheredmuse]

[capnledian]

i drew a vent comic on a covid testing strip guide and it got some traction on twitter so i thought i'd post it here too . general consensus is Big Emotions Its A Lot so cw covid/trauma

[capnledian]

(this is what it looks like all together)

[bomberqueen17]

i say this unironically but put this in the smithsonian

like i’m really saying that, as a person who knows things about museums

my county historical society was collecting pandemic artifacts a while back, but like--

put this in the fucking smithsonian

[i-wear-the-cheese]

Put it in a billboard first

[theoutcastrogue]

“I have graded more than 500 undergraduate papers about why Plato is an idiot and no one would ever behave in the Republic the way he has the people behave in the Republic. I have graded maybe 15 brilliant undergraduate papers about why Plato thought people would behave that way in the Republic, and the differences between Plato’s worldview and Plato’s psychology and our own, and why he thinks this thing that to us seems wrong.

That to me is the much harder kind of critical thinking, the empathetic kind of critical thinking that doesn’t criticize but reads carefully, critically, prudently and with empathy and connection to try to understand the other side, which I think is something that doesn’t just apply to the academic world, doesn’t just apply to how we write a paper in a class. It applies to how we read a blog post, how we judge a New York Times article, how we evaluate when someone has posted something on Twitter that they want us to hate or like to hate, as Twitter often is, whether the empathetic reading, which is the really challenging critical element, is there.”

– Ada Palmer [x]

[argumentalley]

This blog has been dead because I'm going through yet another phase. It's exhausting.

[nairel-system]

Comic about amnesia