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@darkfirelupus - Damon's blog. He's technically more active on here so if you're looking here because this blog followed you or liked something, don't forget to check over there.
This is it currently, but I felt it was worth a pinned post so he could follow people/like posts more freely.
squint for me real quick
Jumpscare?
Penis?
Loss?
What exactly are you presenting me with, OP? 🤔
i mean alright, might as give that a
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
US people with disabilities in the supplemental security income (SSI) program can't have a penny over $2K in their bank account at any time in order to keep their benefits.
You know this economy. That amount is completely unlivable & makes it hard for people with disability to save for the future or have a safety net for emergencies.
A new bill would raise the max to $10K (or $20K for married couples). It would make a world of difference.
Show support, sign this petition.
The SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act is in the Senate RIGHT NOW. Contact your elected officials and tell them they must support it!
zinetober day 12....
I am begging everyone on this site to
gain reading comprehension skills
stop assuming the worst in everyone else's words
thank you goodbye
im sorry but when DECOLONIZE PALESTINE DOT COM, which is RUN BY PALESTINIANS, affirms that a one state solution and the end of ethnonationalist government in the holy land does NOT mean the jewish population should be expelled, you as a white westerner look really, really silly saying it does. and this goes for both paranoid zionists and antisemitic leftists who are thrilled at the concept
This is also very similar to what indigenous people on Turtle Island (North America) have been saying about #landback. From what I learned from my Indigenous studies classes, #landback would mean ceding power over the land back to Indigenous people, not kicking you personally out of your house, or making you go to Europe or something.
Dyscalculia is a humiliating disability to have, because western culture seems to laude being skilled at math as a one to one equivalent of being intelligent. This association is so strong that people assume that having skills in other areas means that you must also have roughly equivalent ability in mathematics, because “smart people are good at math”. Then there are people who believe that math is the Supreme Skillset that supersedes all others, and that you cannot be intelligent unless you are mathematically skilled, regardless of any other skills that you may possess.
I can write applications in JavaScript, recall obscure facts about animals and history, and analyze a work of literature academically, but because I need a calculator to do some “simple” equations and sometimes take a split second longer to read an analogue clock, there is a group of people who would write me off as an idiot from the jump.
sorry you have to see people protesting an active genocide, must be really hard for you
It is, in fact, hard to watch two genocides happening at once and seeing so many failures masquerading as leftists only care about one while using the other to satiate their bloodlust and fantasies of violent revolution. I didn't know so many leftists only care about rape when it happens to people they can pretend to care about. Oh, or that murdering children is fine as long as their parents are sufficiently bad enough. And the elderly. Who cares if they get burned alive as long as they're Jewish!
It's not as if Palestinians have been saying how leftists treat the conflict makes the whole situation worse for them and have repeatedly asked for the nightmare they live to not be treated as live entertainment. Not that any of your kind have ever listened to a word coming out of a Palestinian's mouth that doesn't conveniently fit your narrative. Otherwise, you'd have to acknowledge the fact that Hamas is a tyrannical terrorist group that extrajudicially executes Palestinians that dare to speak up against them for the horrible shit they put them through rather than glorifying them for being Jew kille- I mean, "Freedom Fighters".
It's possible to care about more than one group of people at a time, but obviously reactionaries never feel the need to do that. You all are barely better than the Conservatives you claim to despise and at this point I get the impression a lot of you would have no problem with Republicans if they supported whichever group you're part of that they target. You CLEARLY don't give a shit about anyone else unless it makes you look good and if Republicans had never chased you away and you wanted to look good for them... Well. We all know where that road leads.
Jewish and Palestinian Solidarity Forever. It already happens. You just don't get to see it because those groups don't want anything to do with you.
As the speaker at my synagogue said, "A dead child is a dead child. It doesn't matter where they came from or who they were. Every single one is a tragedy that should never have happened." If you can't agree with that sentiment, you're a monster, and I'm disgusted by anyone that could take you seriously.
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For the love of god if your native language is different from the majority language of the country you’re living in don’t raise your baby speaking the local language. Either have each parent speak to them in a different language or only speak your native language at home. The kid will be okay. Get your native language in their head. You may think you’re helping them in the long term giving them the local language but no. When they’re an adult they’ll wonder why you never taught them your language. They can and will learn the local language in school. They’ll be okay. Produce more bilingual children. They are good for society.
please read the best twitter story i’ve seen all week
bringing this back because it becomes possibly funnier the second (third forth) time around
oh my god
Hot queer spaces tip: never trust any spot that has fewer than 2 fat and hairy people present!! You have no idea what other problems the space has if they can’t even meet the bear minimum
you know that thing where someone like goes into an art gallery, tapes a banana to the wall, and takes photos of people standing around it stroking their chins thoughtfully? and it's meant to be a comment on how postmodern art is arbitrary or worthless or something? well. that's postmodern art. "creating shit art and displaying it in an art gallery as a comment on how art is arbitrary" is a textbook example of postmodern art. that's just completely sincere participation in the thing you're complaining about
[Image ID: Tweet from pea poopingirl @/PoopingIRL on 8/14/23 - i think the idea of a shady dwarven salesman selling "cheap" stuff to humans and laughing to himself like "heh it will only last one generation, those stupid idiots, how will they even pass it down to their kids" forgetting that one dwarf generation is like 4 human ones is funny. There's a black bar at the bottom with an iFunny watermark in the corner. End ID.]
i understand that this is the "disabled people know our own limitations" website, but ime, if you are the kind of disabled where everyone around you knows about it and has known you as a weak, incompetent, subhuman creature your entire life: it is important to learn how to make the distinction between "i can't" and "i'm not allowed to."
"i can't hold fragile things without breaking them" vs "my housemates won't let me do dishes anymore."
"i can't manage my own finances" vs "my family won't let me make my own financial decisions"
"i can't ever learn how to drive" vs "the state has decided that people with my disability cannot be allowed to drive."
also "what would need to happen for it to be possible for me to be able to do dishes?" or "what would i need if i were to ever move out?" or "what kinds of supports would i need if i did try volunteering?"
even if the answer to these you come away with is "i actually cannot do the thing, no matter what supports or accommodations i'm given" that's fine! they're still useful questions to ask!
I feel like what people don't get about this whole anti-masculinity is they get hurt by men and then this confirms that men are bad but here's the thing: yeah there are men out there that will hurt you. that will be violent towards you.
Women hold the exact same capacity to be violent and abusive.
no one is denying the feelings that people that have been hurt by men. but I feel the anguish comes from this quest to find a safe type of people that will not hurt them and that they can always trust forever. and if men are dangerous, that means the "opposite" of men must be safe: women.
Unfortunately this not only is anti-masc gender essentialist bullshit, but you are so much more likely to get hurt again if you go around thinking no woman will ever hurt you like he did. That this sort of behaviour can't possibly come from a woman, because she gets it and there's an intrinsically good quality about her by virtue of being female.
But it's not true. You can still get hurt. What's more, you have that capacity for pain and violence, too. Not only are women fully capable of hurting each other, they're capable of hurting men as well.
It's been 10 years since I read Cliff Pervocracy's Myth of the Boner Werewolf and well. Nothing much has changed huh?
"Many women cannot hear male pain about love because it sounds like an indictment of female failure."
"This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love."
"We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women and men support equally, even if men receive more rewards from that system. Dismantling and changing patriarchal culture is work that men and women must do together."
"When I first began looking at gender issues, I believed that violence was a by-product of boyhood socialization. But after listening more closely to men and their families, I have come to believe that violence is boyhood socialization. The way we “turn boys into men” is through injury: We sever them from their mothers, research tells us, far too early. We pull them away from their own expressiveness, from their feelings, from sensitivity to others. The very phrase “Be a man” means suck it up and keep going. Disconnection is not fallout from traditional masculinity. Disconnection is masculinity."
"Teachers of children see gender equality mostly in terms of ensuring that girls get to have the same privileges and rights as boys within the existing social structure; they do not see it in terms of granting boys the same rights as girls—for instance, the right to choose not to engage in aggressive or violent play, the right to play with dolls, to play dress up, to wear costumes of either gender, the right to choose."
"In our rapidly changing society we can count on only two things that will never change. What will never change is the will to change and the fear of change. It is the will to change that motivates us to seek help. It is the fear of change that motivates us to resist the very help we seek. —Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Intimacy"
the above are all excerpts, quotes i found online, from Bell Hook's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. reading this book gave me so much language to actually be able to speak about and dissect the ideas i was exploring about how our society constructs the stereotypes and expectations of understanding and performing gender. it is incredibly insightful, especially when entering these ideas from a more casual approach. it is not overly academic, but will help you learn about some words and movements in american history.
