All aboard the Kaine Train!

Welcome to my blog! >21 he/they.

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[3liza]

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

every so often I remember when they crashed a train into a nuclear waste storage container, on purpose, to demonstrate how durable they were, and the storage container didn't lose any measurable containment whatsoever.

meanwhile, coal power plants can spray radioactive coal ash willy-nilly into the atmosphere all day and all night, but noooo, it's nuclear power that's the scary bad polluter.

[3liza]

usa: you do not need to go to the post office to mail a package

you can order priority mail shipping boxes and envelopes in any size from store.usps.com for free. if you do not have a printer, you can buy them with the postage already paid on them. the postal service will deliver these boxes to your house. you can pack your item into the box at home, then go back to usps.com and schedule a time for the mailman to pick the package up from your house. this is also free. you do not have to visit the post office at any point in this process. if you use flat rate mailers you also do not need to weigh anything.

i have to explain this to people about 20 times a year, no joke. it is some sort of anti post office conspiracy that everyone thinks you have to buy shipping boxes and then drive to the post office and stand in line to mail things. you do not. shipping mailers and boxes are 100% free. priority mail service or above (and prices are now adjusted to the point that its usually pointless not to use priority mail) entitles you to a free pickup, and if you have even one priority mail package to ship, you can ask for all your other packages to be picked up on the same trip too.

if you are shipping JUST books, use Media Mail. its very cheap

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[sibyllance]

if your without and you put nuts on it I don't make the rules snowflake

TRUCK

was made nuts that truck is trans if you got a problem take it up with god

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

[infantisimo]

the will is weak the flesh also is weak and me i am not doing too good either

[47witchyneurons]

When I get blood samples at work sometimes they’re still warm from being imminently inside the patient’s veins and my hands are always cold because all the labs Ive work in are in the basement and they keep it kinda cold for whatever reason (and I’m also just a chilly kid).

And I clutch the little warm tubes of blood and feel this sick person warming my hands and I think about how kind you might be and how I wish I could hold your hand and how badly, how really really badly, I want you to get better and stay warm and hold someone’s hand again.

And anyway sometimes it’s better to not think so vividly about the people I’m doing tests for. I’m a good little cog in a vast machine of people all trying to heal and cure, and my cog feels so fucking small sometimes. But I hope the blood I prepare for you helps you breathe better and laugh and wake up feeling well rested.

We’ve never met but you warmed my hands and I want you to know I love you and I’m rooting for you.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[breeyn]

The thing that is wild about this, is all the disabled people I know try so hard not to need their mobility devices. Each time one of my friends needs to graduate to a more helpful device - cane to a walker, walker to a sitting walker, sitting walker to a wheel chair - they're deeply unhappy about it. And my other friends and I rally around them and remind them that anything that makes their life easier and less painful is GOOD, and it's there to help. We have to convince them that it's ✨okay✨ to be in less pain, and do things more easily. And none of them would be crying over that if they didn't know how many assholes are out there who'll treat them differently, accuse them of faking or being dramatic, or actively try to take their mobility aids away.

I was severely injured years ago and couldn't stand or walk at all for a month, and needed a cane for six months after. Do you know how much that sucked? How difficult it was to get around? Go to the bathroom? How exhausting it was to strategize how to run errands and get places and do basic shit like catch transit? I never took those things for granted but holy shit was that experience eye opening. A total of two people held a door open for me. A *ton* of people eyed me skeptically. I had to be seated amongst the first of those boarding a plane and other passengers were furious. Those same people would also have been furious if they were stuck behind me as I slowly hobbled onto the plane with the main group.

No one would fake a disability. I mean, there might be someone out there trying it for unfathomable reasons, but humans are hugely independent creatures and deeply, deeply pressed by our culture to feel shame over not being able to do things alone. I think the idea that anyone is faking a disability is fucking ludicrous. Needing a mobility aid is painful and difficult and exhausting, both physically and mentally. You'd only use one if it made your life legitimately easier. If you're fully mobile, IT WOULD NOT BE EASIER.

If you ever suspect someone of faking, please take a breath and rethink it. Because that is a bonkers stance.

[thedman0310]

[ghost--bot]

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

The American century of humiliation is goin great 👍

[wizardelf]

[analog-delight]

i think you should have to come out as cis or straight. stop assuming it's the default and everything else is a deviation.

[analog-delight]

you can reblog this btw. make cis people feel uncomfortable about assuming they are "normal" and we are "other". make straight people feel uncomfortable assuming they are "regular" and we are "deviant".

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[psychotic-gerard]

sorry i will never understand cis grief. your daughter is living her best life and going around with friends and feeling like a human being. your son doesn’t feel like he needs to crawl out of his skin anymore and can actually smile. your children are happy and no longer see their existence as the worst thing in the world. why are you grieving this lmao. grow up.

[byjove]

Misogyny is a major factor in the plummeting birth rate in the USA, not the only factor but a major contributing factor. Conservatives blame feminism when it is the extreme wave of reactionary misogyny making women rethink motherhood. This is a common refrain from a lot of childfree women, if they just listened to them, but they won’t.

[byjove]

women: a lot of men in my generation straight up hate women and it makes finding a suitable life partner very difficult. I do not feel safe enough to think of starting a family. I do not want to be permanently entangled with/dependent on a man who treats me like shit.

men: we need to hate women more and make them more unsafe and more dependent on us. this will certainly improve the birth rate. everyone knows that frightened and deeply unhappy women are the most fecund.

[feminist-space]

[feminist-space]