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Say I love you to your friend who walks slow. Who pauses long and often to gather their thoughts. Who forgets what they were trying to say. Who can’t focus on you because of pain. Who can’t give complex responses even though they wish they could. Who struggles to ask for anything because the answer could be no. Say I love you to your friend who feels safe enough to be slow around you.
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.
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).”
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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.
@annieelainey you should share this with your followers! This is important info!!
To my mutuals on wheels, print out the law before you fly and whip it out at the gate if they don’t accomodate your wheels.
Thanks a lot for posting this, bro! Flying while crippled is already difficult enough without people pulling this kind of shit. Also, make sure that if there is a piece of your wheelchair or something important missing off of it, that you make a big fucking deal out of it! I’ve had pieces fall off of my wheelchair and nearly lost a decoration I had on it that meant a lot to me because people were careless with my chair. Don’t let them mistreat your wheelchair.
Non-wheelchair folks:
Now that you know, speak up.
You never know when you’re going to see someone who needs an ally.
Yes! Let’s share this information and support our friends on wheels.
things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever
change the color used to highlight text on your laptop
move the pictures on your wall
stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all
slightly vary your commute, even just by one street
change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed
drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real
shower with the lights off, without music
buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room
start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing
wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night
listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015
Almost all of these are about variety. Humans need stimulation! We need enrichment! We literally cannot do the same thing every day!
The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!
This is why taking walks/drives and trying new hobbies are good for you! Don’t turn yourself into a sad zoo animal! You need some pumpkins to roll around in your enclosure!
ITS BACK!!!!!
god i fucking love the quote “dont turn yourself into a sad zoo animal” it has really inspired me!
“it’s weird for queer minors to be friends with queer adults” oh my god. ohhh my god.
intergenerational community support, especially in a community that is split so much age wise as the queer community, is immensely fucking important. get to know older queers and younger queers. this is how communities frazzle out and die to infighting.
the hypothetical queer adult that people are mad over in the post this is refrencing is 35 years old. only 35.
its weird for any minors to be friends with any adults, queer or not. There should be no reason why unrelated adults or minors should be making close relationships in any sense outside of professional ones. I understand wanting education, but they can be taught when they are adults as well.
is this a joke.
If you believe there is something inherently wrong with adults being friends with teens, you've been brainwashed into believing that every adult sees youth as a form solicitation.
This makes you part of the problem.
Fun fact, not having any friends who are adults make it much, much harder for abused minors to be able to seek help and report abuse. Teachers - aka adults who are not related to the minor in question - are the top demographic for reporting child abuse, with tutors, music teachers outside of school, and other adults such as sports coaches, doctors, and nurses.
Think about what kind of person benefits from you, a minor, not having adults you can talk to in confidence when you're in trouble.
If they want you isolated, ask yourself why.
Isolation is an abuse tactic.
i think teenagers should get to have smartphones and video games and also get to go skating and hang out in parks and go to stores to buy snacks. i don't think this should be one or the other here. i think teenagers should just get to exist sometimes without people acting like they're going to start jumping people or setting fire to shit. studies show minding your own business is the fastest way to mind your own business
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Please for the love of god, if you value whatever media or whatever you're creating a wiki for:
DO NOT USE FANDOM WIKIA
Not just because Fandom wiki is just straight up adware. But because they will happily take all your rights as a wiki owner away and give it to a corporation in the name of profits, like they did to the McDonald's wiki or y'know, completely destroy LGBTQ+ wikis on many identities (including removing nearly every aroacespec labels including demisexual, greyromantic, and many other labels, including many more I used!) all without the permission or consent of the admins of the wiki to "make LGBTQ+ identities easier to understand" and replaced the admins with their own chosen ones, of which iirc were very questionable in their behavior.
"What are alternatives then?"
Fandom Wikia runs off a FREE open-source software known as MediaWiki, it's the same thing Wikipedia, Bulbapedia, and many others use.
This means that you can host your own wiki, or use any other wiki farm such as Miraheze, which is what the wiki I help run uses.
The best part about WikiMedia is that something made on one wiki can be cross-compatible with another. We often use and base our templates off of other wikis, and it makes it somewhat easier to transfer from FANDOM if necessary.
Stop FANDOM's monopoly over wikis, they'll stab you in the back as soon as it's a choice between the user or profits.
wish it was socially acceptable to lay down on the floor at work
hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?
'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters
Penguin falls down resulting in best sound ever [x]
oh my god
NOOOOOOO
they all gasped like OHHH
IM CRYING IM PHYSICALLY CRYING HE FALLS AND THERE ALL LIKE WHAAAAWHOA U OK BRO AND HE GETS UP LIKE *SIGH* YEAH ITS FINE
Having a bad day? push play, and within six seconds all you will feel is tears of laughter streaming down your face and the stomach cramps of laughing too hard.
This is one of the finest things ever captured on film.
I’m so happy this is back
Pingu is real
For all the stealth archers out there...
So what makes a butcher knife more butch than other knives?
The knife itself isn't necessarily butch. It's named that because it's wielded by a butcher, who is more butch than the other food shop owners
Hmm, I see.
What, then, makes the butcher more butch than other food shop owners?
the knife
That's what ancient Greek philosophy is like
ppl who don't get cats will try to argue that cats don't love you meanwhile cats will cry and cry and cry and cry like the world is ending until you hold them like a baby and give them a kissy on their perfect lil forehead
hate capitalism and its perpetual use of buzzwords just saw an ad for lemonade with "plant-based caffeine" like where the fuck else would you get caffeine if not from a plant
Like seeing “non-GMO” salt…
…salt is not an O…it’s has no Gs to M…
gluten free milk
I feel like there was something more egregious I saw "gluten free" applied to it was just like God it better be 
My favorite is the "Zero Carbs" bottle of extra virgin olive oil I saw in a grocery store once.
OKAY SO
A lot of these are stupid, but there's actually a really good reason for the milk one.
Most foods do not have dedicated plants that make only that food. Like, your potato chip plant also makes corn chips, probably, or at least packages them. Which is fine if you can assume everything in the building doesn't contain a common allergen...but you can't make that assumption. That's why you'll see things like chocolate bars that say "may contain nuts" or steakhouses with warnings up about cross-contamination with shellfish. And you'll also see the reverse--for example, Multigrain Cheerios are prominently labeled as being gluten-free. That's because they contain oats, which are often grown alongside wheat fields, so while oats themselves contain no gluten, they can be cross-contaminated while growing, and the gluten can remain even after processing. The GF label therefore indicates "our oats were grown nowhere near wheat fields."
What might be processed in a milk plant that would contain gluten? I gave you the clue right in the last answer: oat milk. If oat milk is packaged in the same place as dairy milk, any gluten on the oats could contaminate the machinery, and even if said machinery is cleaned between types of item, gluten is fucking sneaky. All it takes is one tiny missed spot. "But Nina, that's like, what, maybe one one-ten-thousandth of a part per billion, is that even enough to matter?" Maybe, maybe not, but it does mean the machinery wouldn't meet regulatory standards for being truly gluten-free, and trust me, you do not want them weakening or making exceptions to those regulations. Bad idea.
And this is why you may see dairy milk labeled as being GF, nut-free, or soy-free. Because what that's actually saying is "we do not process other milks that could cross-contaminate your dairy milk with common allergens." And that is a good thing.
So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.
Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”
It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.
Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.
White supremacy is exactly the key thing here.
Walsh for example is obsessed with the idea that the “white race” is at risk of “dying out,” playing into the antisemitic replacement conspiracy theory. This particular fearmongering has been spread by the likes of Tucker Carlson as well and was chanted at the Charlottesville neo-nazi/KKK rally. Walsh has also stated that the white race “lost” America at the Reconstruction (see the link): i.e. the era post-Civil War where Black people made strides in political clout and efforts were actually made by the government to right some of the wrongs of slavery. (This did not last long due to white backlash).
Now what does this racism and antisemitism have to do with queerness? Well… it’s a whole web of shit and bigotry BUT I do want to highlight a pair of things here.
1) Demonizing non-white cultures. In Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on our Sex-Obsessed Culture, Sherronda J. Brown outlines how the nuclear family was set-up in-part to demonize the non-cisallohet culture norms of Black people; justifying slavery, subjugation, colonization, etc. This was also justification for violence against Indigenous people. They outline this far far better with more research than I can offer here.
2) White birth rates. During the Reconstruction (alongside an influx of immigrants, so xenophobia is a major factor here too), there was a fear that - now with Black people free and immigrants arriving - white people would be outnumbered. There was pressure to increase white birthrates to prevent such a catastrophe. There was a particular obsession with tomboy wombs being strong to birth many children. As outlined above, this replacement fearmongering is still present today.
Walsh has said himself he has no problem with teenage pregnancy, because that’s when girls most “most fertile.” His problem is with “unwed” pregnancies. i.e. …advocating for children to get married. (again, see the first Walsh link).
And if you read through so many of the anti-trans legislation being passed, so much of it was about the future ability of these children to give birth. This is why things like breast enhancements on teen girls or forced surgery on intersex children are never included in these bills.
Furthermore, those advocating against asexual or platonic marriages nowadays (yes, there’s actual lobbying happening), it’s because they all specifically define procreation as a critical part of marriage and family.
Shout out to the Ace Couple podcast for doing a four-episode series breaking down the various groups lobbying for this (transcripts of the episodes available at links as well).
One, this is a repetition of the argument against gay marriage; the inability* to procreate. Two, aromanticism and asexuality entirely* opt out of their marriage and sexual requirements.
Yes, there are ways for gay couples to have children, yes there are aro and ace people who get married, have sex, etc. And yes there are those of us who do actually want kids. But white supremacy isn’t thinking about the intricacies of our identities. We’re just a blanket threat to their precious white birthrates, to their power.
Which is a reminder that it’s also critical not just to have solidarity across queerness, but to also have solidarity across all intersections. We need to be invested in Black liberation, in Land Back, in Jewish freedom, in Muslim acceptance, in migrant/refugee rights, in fat liberation, in disability rights, in all of these places.
