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If you don't want to pursue an autism or adhd diagnosis and you have access to a doctor or therapist you can get them to write you a note attesting to a symptom of your neurodivergence (rather than naming the condition itself) and stating the need for accommodation.
It's something my therapist told me about when we were still working in offices. I have sensory processing issues and on multiple occasions the noise in my office was so bad I broke the skin on my hand clenching my fist.
This work-around of course won't fix structural ableism and relies on you having access to a doctor/therapist who actually gives a crap, so still might only help a couple of folks.
The Texas doctor had six hours. Now that a vial of Covid-19 vaccine had been opened on this late December night, he had to find 10 eligible people for its remaining doses before the precious medicine expired. In six hours.
Scrambling, the doctor made house calls and directed people to his home outside Houston. Some were acquaintances; others, strangers. A bed-bound nonagenarian. A woman in her 80s with dementia. A mother with a child who uses a ventilator.
After midnight, and with just minutes before the vaccine became unusable, the doctor, Hasan Gokal, gave the last dose to his wife, who has a pulmonary disease that leaves her short of breath.
For his actions, Dr. Gokal was fired from his government job and then charged with stealing 10 vaccine doses worth a total of $135 — a shun-worthy misdemeanor that sent his name and mug shot rocketing around the globe.
“It was my world coming down,” Dr. Gokal said in a telephone interview on Friday. “To have everything collapse on you. God, it was the lowest moment in my life.”
“The officials maintained that he had violated protocol and should have returned the remaining doses to the office or thrown them away, the doctor recalled. He also said that one of the officials startled him by questioning the lack of “equity” among those he had vaccinated.
“Are you suggesting that there were too many Indian names in that group?” Dr. Gokal said he asked.
“Harris County’s district attorney, Kim Ogg… issued a news release that afternoon with the headline: ‘Fired Harris County Health Doctor Charged With Stealing Vial Of Covid-19 Vaccine.’“
The case against Dr. Gokal was quickly dismissed, but they haven’t un-fired him.
congrats to the ARAs who got facebook to ban animal sales. shortly before then, many rare heritage chicken breeds were getting much needed attention to save the breeds thanks to various agricultural facebook pages highligting them. but now, with the ban of animal sales on facebook, those heritage breeds have become damn near impossible to find again. guess what that means? the breeds will begin dying out again. people will go back to hatcheries who mass produce unhealthy chicken breeds in horrible conditions. folks will always buy chickens, but now instead of buying them from ethical breeders on facebook they’ll be supporting a terrible industry, woohoo.
I think this interaction is very important for people to see.
animal welfare advocates work to make sure heritage, healthy breeds survive as an alternative to corporate breeds like the Cornish X, which grow so quickly that their legs eventually collapse under their own ballooning flesh. heritage breeds like the Brahma, Cochin, and Legbar (left to right below) grow and lay at a normal life, and can happily scratch about, dig holes in your grass to nap in, rip the leaves off your garden plants one by one, and make very funny sounds with their functional beautiful bodies, all while providing you with food.
‘animal rights’ advocates like @gendercontender would prefer a world in which the relationship between chickens and their keepers (and the chickens themselves) did not exist. I would go ask Tallgeese, Yennefer, Anzu, Milkshake, Henny and Perchy what they think of all this, but fortunately they’re too busy tearing apart a fresh green head of lettuce like the tiny funny velociraptors they are.
Also literally every single accomplishment of animal rights activists seems to do exponentially more damage to the small guy than the big guy. Broiler crosses are still being produced by the billion in an essentially untouchable industry but good job ruining farmer joe schmoe and his government allowed maximum of 99 layers (Canadian law thanks to quota). The political policy equivalent of releasing cane toads to take down cane beetles or w/e. Its great that you feel good about yourselves and you hate animal agriculture but you can do shit all to stop the cooperate poultry industry so have fun picking on the little guy I guess.
By the way, the facebook rule ONLY targets small individual breeders, because if you are selling animals tied to a registered business you’re allowed to post them on facebook. That’s why you still see pet stores selling puppies, auction houses listing dairy cattle, registered horse farms selling foals, on Facebook. A USDA licensed puppy mill (that’s a thing and the USDA licence does not mean it’s a nice place) can post and sell their puppies on Facebook while a hobbyist dog breeder who does it for love and invests every dollar back into health testing and proper care cannot. It only affects hobbyists.
A big reason I’ve sort of been turning anti-law/rules lately, every “well meaning” law only harms poor individuals and never huge companies. Less restrictions but more people thinking for themselves, please.
Every animal breed - and cultivar of plant, for that matter- is more than just a subset of the species that looks a little different from the next. They are even more than separate reservoirs of genetic diversity, something vital to the continued existence of all domestic things (and they will continue, no matter what others do). Each one is a chapter of the human story, of how someone or someones had a need or a dream and filled it with a new living thing shaped with an eye for form and function, often beauty, and then with necessity, with pride, with love, we kept this piece of the story alive beside us. To willingly participate in their destruction destroys more than a domestic race. It extinguishes living culture. It is akin to burning tapestries. They can be reconstructed, but they cannot be replaced.
Do what you can- not everyone can keep livestock, and the prices of the rarest and their product can be steep, but anyone can grow a heritage tomato in their window.
Back on here for the briefest of moments to say that Cyberpunk 2077 gave me Big Feelings and I completed a piece of (what’ll be an ongoing work of) fanfiction.
Do you have to deal with terfs like the ones in the notes of that one post in real life? Asking as a trans guy whose worried abt all the terf/transphobic shit I’ve been seeing online and hoping that they mostly stay behind their computer screens.
Asks like that don’t bother me at all anymore. I just don’t care now that I’ve had bottom surgery—you can’t make me feel invalidated or less than as a man. Like, fuck you. I’ve got a dick and balls and two really hot boyfriends who I have lots of hot fag sex with and other men consistently cruise me/look at me very hungrily and I’ve been yelled at that I’m a faggot more times than I can count, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'd love to dunk on this entity but I'm having too much fun talking to ACTUAL gay men about our homosexuality and our love and attraction for other men so sis can do as she pleases
Because being called faggot totally confirms male homosexuality, or turns a female into the opposite sex. Not a single straight man has been called that in the history of the world. Have fun in clown world queen.
Heterosexual homophobia isn’t magically erased by sewing a flesh arm tube to your pube area. If it helps you feel better in your body cool. It’s not a magical pass to be homophobic or claim homosexuality includes opposite sex same gender ppl
Before anyone calls for reforming the Albuquerque Police Department (APD), remember that all of this comes after nearly six years of court-mandated, federally supervised police reform in Albuquerque. Every police policy has been revised; every police practice has been reviewed. There’s not another police department in the United States that can claim to have gone through more reform than APD.
Between 1987 and 1991, Albuquerque police killed 15 people. Nearly all were people of color. A majority suffered from mental illness or were experiencing a mental health crisis when police killed them. People were outraged. The City Council promised to fix the problem through reform.
APD continued to kill people of color, Indigenous people, and people suffering from mental illness.
In 1996, the City Council investigated APD and found that between 1987 and 1997, police killed 31 people. The City Council once again promised to fix the problem through reform. It redesigned police training, raised hiring standards, and created a new police oversight commission— all the measures reformists promised would fix APD and finally hold it accountable.
APD continued to kill people of color, Indigenous people, and people suffering from mental illness.
In the seven years following this period of reform, between 1998 and 2004, APD killed 23 people, an actual increase in the rate at which APD killed people. In 2004 the City responded, again, to demands by the families of people killed by police to fix APD. Again, they promised they would fix the problem through reform.
But reform never ends police violence, it sustains it. Every police reform effort in Albuquerque has resulted in more police patrolling the city, more weapons in their hands, and more money in the police budget. And also more police violence. Police violence isn’t an aberration, it’s precisely how policing is designed to work.
APD continued to kill people of color, Indigenous people, and people suffering mental illness.
In 2004, for example, APD used lethal or non-lethal violence 551 times. Its officers tackled people to the ground hundreds of times, pepper sprayed hundreds of people, Tasered scores of people, and kicked dozens of people. APD officers used their batons and sicced its attack dogs on more than 30 people. These are just the numbers we know about. APD’s officers report their own use of violence, and we know from investigations of APD that their use of force is vastly underreported.
Between 2006 and 2010, APD killed 18 people, and shot and injured 19 others. Between 2010 and 2014, APD killed more than 30 people and shot dozens more. In 2014 Albuquerque police committed nearly 21 percent of all homicides during the year. Its officers beat, kicked, punched, batonned, Tasered, and sicced dogs on hundreds and hundreds more. Police set a man on fire with the use of their Tasers. Police killed an elderly man at a bus stop who walked with a cane.
Police violence, public protest, promised reform, repeat.
If reform could fix APD, it would have happened already. In 2014, the federal government investigated APD. The U.S. Department of Justice sued the City and APD, forcing it into federally monitored reforms. From 2014 to today, under federal scrutiny, APD rewrote all of its policies on the use of force. It now operates under policies that dramatically limit its officers’ ability to use violence. But out on the street, according to the federal monitor who supervised those reforms, nothing has changed. Police use chokeholds and punch people in the face and report this as “distraction” strikes, not violence. They turn off their lapel cameras and beat people with their fists and batons. They use pepper spray and flash-bang grenades and list these on their reports as “non-use of force events.” They shoot and kill people of color and people in mental health crises whose families call 911 for help. These are long-standing and ongoing patterns, not opinions, and they’re documented by irrefutable evidence.
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It’s time to disarm, defund, and fully dismantle police and poli
We are a case study in why reform doesn't work. Abolition is the only solution.
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