[tearlessrain]

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

[apricops]

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[aqueerkettleofish]

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

[anxiousleftist]

How it feels to be queer & disabled:

[anxiousleftist]

Happy anniversary to this post 💕🌈♿️

[crazycatsiren]

People are always quick to defend healthcare workers who treat their patients poorly with the burnout excuse.

News flash: not all of them are burnt out.

Reality check: for those who are burnt out, it's not the patients' faults.

They at least have the option to quit their jobs. Patients don't have the option to quit healthcare. Those with insurance limitations on where they can go have even less of an option.

Are there awful people who treat healthcare workers like trash? Absolutely! And fuck those jerks!

But the rest of us sure as hell don't deserve their wrath for being sick.

[twisted0lli3]

This is a really good example of how TERFs disguise their attacks against trans men, and why it’s so harmful to consider TERF attitudes towards trans mascs as infantilizing.

The post is made to appear sympathetic to the man they are mocking. “Look at this poor ‘girl’ and how he’s mutilated himself” sounds sympathetic, especially to trans people who are subjected to aggressive, direct attacks on their identities and humanity.

But this performative sympathy is just a front so that TERFs can enjoy being cruel without appearing as the aggressor. This allows the audience to still enjoy the pleasure of engaging in cruelty while dressing it up as pity.

This plays into the broader tactic TERFs deploy with trans mascs.

Rarely ever do they confront us directly the way they do with trans women.

In fact, because they see us as women, their primary objective is to make sure we are never ever heard at all, so that they can maintain the narrative that none of us would ever transition of our own free will.

Instead, they poison the well. They talk to our “handlers”. Our parents, our doctors and psychiatrists, our husbands, boyfriends, our pastors.

The veneer of sympathy is not to appeal to trans men. It is to appeal to those they see as having ownership over us. When trans men fight back against this, the malice comes out in full force.

Trans men do not get attacked less. The attacks are simply not recognized as such, because even in protesting oppression, we place it on a hierarchy.

[genderkoolaid]

But this performative sympathy is just a front so that TERFs can enjoy being cruel without appearing as the aggressor. This allows the audience to still enjoy the pleasure of engaging in cruelty while dressing it up as pity.

[dykepuffs]

For anyone who has ever been seen as an unfashionable*/awkward* etc teenage girl**, it's recognisably a sibling to "We just want to put makeup on you to HELP you, we're telling you your clothes are ugly because you will never get a boy like that! You'd be so pretty! We just feel sorry for you, having to look poor and frumpy and everyone avoiding you because of it" As a method of bullying done by other girls** which often skates under the radar of authority figures like parents and teachers, because they're unwilling to think of something so feminine-coded and seemingly "caring" as being the same kind of ritual humiliation as other more traditional kinds of bullying.

The "point" is of course that the target is unable to fight back in any way - it demonstrates the bullies' social power (because the target could only fight back by physically removing themselves from the situation, running, locking a door etc, which would be further proof of the target's outcast status - "I tried to show her how to do her makeup and she RAN OFF like a FREAK, GROSS" or to physically fight back - "She PUSHED ME when I went to put makeup on her, she's violent and dangerous!") And reinforces that the bully is a morally "good person" (because "she just wants to help!! Why are you so ungrateful?!?!") In the case of the adult terfs with a trans man or transmasc target, the only ways that he can fight back will again make him look either "violent" or "hysterical" or both, making him the bad guy.

It's reinforced by authority figures who, again, will always interpret it as "helpful" and the victim as ungrateful/mistrustful/socially inept for their reluctance. In the case of the terfs it's all the handwringing "Well maybe she is just projecting her own feelings of how much she would be distressed to have had the same surgery? Maybe you just need to have empathy for her like she has for you? She cares about you!!! She SAYS so!!!!" which the terfs enjoy, because it is further proof, again, that their victims are people who can't be believed.

[loupy-mongoose]

I built an Emotional Support Garden in Minecraft~

All my favorite of the new baby mob models in one cozy place~ And the Tadpole, which didn't get an upgrade but it doesn't need one because it was already perfect 💕

[infectiouspiss]

disabled ppl we need to start lying to nosy people okay? you tell me i'm too young to need a cane and i will tell you point blank that maybe you should tell that to the guy who ran me over. you don't get an explanation of my health issues you get lies and depending on how much of an asshole i want to be that lie will be anything from a humble car crash to a 1 billion lions attack. mind yr business.

[infectiouspiss]

"i could never live like that" well maybe you'll have to because this happened overnight. yeah you heard me i was the most able bodied man in the world but then one morning bam i woke up disabled. yeah you could have that too. there's no cure either you'll just wake up one morning and now you have to live like me

[infectiouspiss]

"what happened" well have you ever seen looney tunes? yeah an anvil landed on me and squished me flat.

[australet789]

TLK: Zero feelings

One last piece for Pride Month, because I know I project on Moyo a lot, but my first aroace character (headcanoed at least) was Kasi.

She is sex and romance repulsed!

[bedupolker]

(Drawings I made during my real insomnia hours)

[fucktoyfelix]

[saveaboud]

TO THE WORLD:

The genocide in Gaza continues.

[saveaboud]

[saveaboud]

A violent bombing just shook the hospital.

[saveaboud]

My little siblings are alone, screaming in fear. Please leave a donation to help evacuate my family before it is too late.

Chuffed - PayPal - Verified

[aboud-lives]

More bombing. More evacuation orders.

Please pray for us, and please do not forget us.

[mtf-the-gathering]

"gender is a social construct": fairly easy for leftists to understand

"race is a social construct": a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable

"mental illness is a social construct": this one gets you hate mail in your inbox

[thebookewyrme]

Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)

[bold-baddie]

[transhuman-priestess]

All these industries with shortages of workers and they can’t figure out why.

Im proposing the hypothesis that the reason we don’t have enough doctors/pilots/bus drivers/etc is that maybe, just maybe, having your entire industry function as a lifelong hazing ritual isn’t the best recruiting strategy.

[transhuman-priestess]

Doctors are subject to 8 years of post-secondary education and are forced to work 48 hour shifts.

Pilots and other transportation workers have absurd hours of service requirements that start your rest period as “the moment you shut the vehicle down” and can be as short as 9 hours in some cases.

Railroad workers have to be available on-call 6 days a week and be ready within two hours notice. They don’t get sick time.

Retail workers have to keep a veneer of politeness against any and all abuse or they can be fired.

Truck drivers get paid by mileage and rarely see pay for shipper or receiver delays.

Work should not be designed to make you a miserable burnout and yet here we are.