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@greensarek
i am so fucking sick of people trying to act like itâs ableist to acknowledge that disabled people Are Disabled. this whole movement has started around people saying âdisabled people are just as capable as abled peopleâ when the conversation that SHOULD be being had is âthere is nothing wrong with needing accommodations that abled people donâtâ
Can everyone who reads this PLEASE reblog it?!?!? Libraries literally saved my life as a child!
Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!
I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs)Â
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!
As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)
New books in LARGE PRINT! Iâm visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!
Our library also has quarterly books sales of almost free books!! For 5$USD we get in a day early and can buy as many as we want. Anyone else has to wait and there is a limit for the first 2 days.
Also many, many libraries have inter library loan(it may be called something different). This means if they donât have the item you want, they can get it for you. This may include photocopy/pdf of articles. This can also include along with books and DVDs, microfilm/fiche which is also a huge resource. Check around for libraries that are listed as depositories if you want to look at government documents.
Remember that many colleges and universities have open stacks for the public. You will likely have to pay a membership fee but you will get to stuff.
I love the library âș
The library was one of my favorite places to go as a kid and I still live to go and just. Sit and read. Or do homework. The university Iâm at has a massive 8-story one I love to just wonder around in~ Great places
Libraries are amazing places, we need to protect them to ensure their continued existence.
not to be overly serious (lol) but if youâre mad about these stupid new â"safe modeââ changes on tumblrâs iOS app you need to be directing your energy towards apple because, realistically speaking, there is literally nothing tumblr staff can do about this lol. theyâve either gotta follow appleâs rules or get their app removed from the app store.
but also this is just part of a way bigger and longstanding issue with appleâs walled-garden approach to software where you can only get shit that meets their very specific standards and doesnât compete with their own proprietary apps AND if users make an in-app transaction apple gets like, a 30% cut or something insane. this is why epic games had that whole thing where they took fortnite off the app store in protest (and which iirc is still part of a big pending legal case thatâll have some serious precedent based on its outcomeâŠ..?) so like. this is actually just one tiny battle being waged in a full-scale war of online content and access and censorship and yelling at a bunch of ragtag mobile devs on tumblrâs staff will fix exactly nothing, I promise. so go complain about it to apple!!!!
actually, extremely relevant example because I just saw someone mention discord as an example of an app with nsfw content that apple does allow in their app store (which means clearly tumblrâs just doing this on purpose), but hereâs the thing: discord got fucked by apple too!!! on this exact same issue!!!!
earlier this year discord announced that iOS users would no longer be able to access âmatureâ servers from the discord mobile app due to appleâs content rules. it was a whole thing. apple walked back the restrictions ever so slightly (so you can still visit servers with âincidentalâ nsfw content as long as you opt in to a certain setting, although I donât an iphone so idk exactly what that looks like) but you definitely cannot access Big Jackâs Bareback Shack on your iphone anymore and it is unequivocally appleâs fault. discord was gonna get banned entirely on iOS devices if they didnât comply.
Iâm gonna do to catholicism what tumblr witches did to witchcraft
Time for emoji communion
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Through him, with him, in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is yours, almighty Father, forever and ever.
(Amen)
Likes to confess, reblogs to absolve
Agdgsgsgsg Iâm LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats
IT GETS BETTER
In the wild these urchins will in fact carry a small rock or shell exactly on top like this and im so happy there's people taking advantage of that and who care about their urchins as pets.
i visited an aquarium at some point, and our tour guide told that when the staff had a party, they put a little decorative plastic hat from a booze bottle into the sea urching tank, and just left it there because the sea urchins liked it, and kept taking turns in wearing it.
Discovering that sea urchins wearing hats is a thing in this world means so much to me rn
May I present my 4 year old bastard insisting on wearing my very buoyant thermometer
Sea urchins wearing hats was something I didn't know I needed in my life until now and it brings me such joy to see all of these fancy bois living their best lives in style
We all need this in our lives.
*sobbing* tiny hats-
Duolingo bimboification
2019: cute!
2014: classic. Nice.
2012: eats human skin
2011: this might be a harmful black magic sigil
Duo Owl c. 1536
0h god heâs the demon of knowledge i knew it
thinking about that WoW epidemic
i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.
he said âso they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?â and i told him the truth: they didnât. they couldnât control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.
a CNN article recently referenced another âviralâ event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.
it really feels like that meme where itâs like âwow, cool video game reference!â and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.
weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it
The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.
Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldnât do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have âno symptomsâ; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.
The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said âif you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you donât spread it!!â the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.
They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it youâll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didnât do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.
ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.
However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasnât reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that werenât cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.
Think about that.
The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences werenât permanent. âNo one would act like that in real life.â But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?
And we canât time travel.
âThey complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.â
This is the most terrifying one. This is how the rich and healthy are acting about the poor and disabled.
i wish we could have posts on this site that discuss the issues trans men face without transandrophobia truthers being like âbut you guys are too busy caring about trans women to care đâ
itâs just really fucking frustrating to see well-worded posts that highlight the transphobia that trans men are subjected to, and then see some shit about how people only care about trans women tacked onto it.Â
adding a passive-aggressive comment like that to your posts tells me that your efforts to support trans women are flimsy at best, since you throw a hissy fit when trans women talk about transmisogyny. the fact that there are trans men who see posts discussing the dangers of transmisogyny and think âwell why arenât we talking about me?â is just incredibly selfish. believe it or not you can care about two issues at once, even if one of those issues doesnât affect you! so yeah maybe next time you make a post about transphobia you can leave your weird grudge against trans women out of it.
Since I donât want to be mean or critical without suggesting an alternative, if you are an American and donât do well with geography and international relations, here are some ways which, IMO, can help you improve it:Â
- Play Sporkle Countries of the World (and countries by continent) quiz to identify the gaps you have in relation to basic geography.Â
- See which regions youâve struggled the most with, and open wikipedia overview for them.Â
- Look up the countries you didnât know existed.Â
- Think of what do you know about histories, economics, geography, peoples, politics and cultures of the countries you see in the American news a lot? What do you know about China? Russia? India? Iran? And so on. Wikipedia presents a decent overview and can be a good start.
- Countries usually have state media, official websites, popular bloggers and independent news in English. It can help you raise awareness of the current issues the people face from diverse and different perspectives.
- Be respectful. Do NOT treat one person as a token representative and the absolute authority. Countries are not monolithic, and by listening to MANY people with different opinions you can form more realistic image of the situation, see the nuance, the difference of experiences and the current issues (and maybe how you can support the people). Another country is NOT the same as yours, and a lot of the things which might seem obviously good or bad to you might be drastically different from an insider perspective. You donât need to agree with them, but knowledge and understanding are important.Â
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white lgbt ppl dont know how much trouble theyve caused for us -_-
white lgbt ppl will constantly have to be informed about racism and nonwhite issues bc they're only ever friends w other white people, speak over lgbt ppl of color when it comes to representation and problems in media, not acknowledge when white supremacy feeds into intracommunity bigotry. and then say things like "the lgbt community shouldn't be at odds with each other! đ€" i don't know if you guys know how big a split there is between you and us at the best of times
white gays can reblog this if u can keep ur mouth shut
full offense yaâll donât have to announce youâre white, very white savior-y, just reblog the post and stop trying to use peopleâs struggles to make yourselves look good
Trailblazing queer Black feminist writer bell hooks has passed. The activist and critic leaves a legacy of Black Feminist Thought.
âIt is with tremendous sadness to report, beloved feminist critic, author, and professor, bell hooks has died. She was 69 years old.â đđđŸđđ€
The grind all day people are so sad and obnoxious. In what world should a person with a full-time job be broke? Capitalism is a brain rotting disease.
"Love taking an 8 minute route that takes an abled 2 minutes"
Able-bodied people, this is what your world is like. In a new situation it's also usually impossible to even know an alternate route, so the options are like enduring the painful and dangerous illegal barriers or...going home. And for the people suggesting the op report these things- that's a great suggestion but you should also be aware of how often businesses, governments, schools flat out ignore concerns like this.
If it troubles you, I highly suggest making your own complaints every time you see something like this.
Do not shop at businesses that break the law. Do not let governments who deny disabled rights go unchallenged. Don't do nothing when your world is dangerous to us.
[Image ID. A TikTok by user dark.moon.witch.
Video opens with OP in a library. The text on the video reads, âFollow a disabled college student to class.â OP has light skin, is in a wheelchair, has headphones around their neck, and is wearing a mask and a short-sleeved pink dress with a long-sleeved white shirt underneath. They make the âhang looseâ symbol with their hands and do a little dance.
Cut to OP outside with a brown jacket on. The text reads, âADA violation #1â.
Cut to a shot of stairs leading up to a walking path and then to a building. The text reads, âMy class is up there. Only stairs and no sign directing you to the accessible routeâ. Text changes to read, âGotta take the long wayâ.
A sped up sequence from OPâs perspective moving to the accessible entrance. They press the button to open the automatic doors. They pass through the doors, press the button in front of the next set of doors, and pass through those.
A sequence of OP moving through this building and to the elevator, then to a ramp within the building. They arrive at a door. Text appears which reads, âADA Violation #2. The button for the door is broken AGAIN.â
Cut to them moving outside in a parking lot. Text reads, âThe only way out is so bumpy I almost tipped over multiple times."
Cut to OP pointing to a ramp. Text reads, âADA violation 3. Ramp thatâs too steep.â
Cut to a shot of OP arriving to class. They are making a peace sign. The text reads, âMade itâ with the smiling emoji surrounded by hearts. End ID.]
Elon Musk's only real act of genius was casting himself into a fictional archetype (the Tom Swift / John Galt / Tony Stark-style billionaire inventor) that so many people want to believe in so badly that they will overlook the mounting evidence that he's actually just an unstable idiot with enough money to hire better engineers than himself.
And in some ways, clever people *have* to believe in it. If it's real, then they're living in a meritocracy; the world is fundamentally just, Everyone Can Become Rich in America, and all social problems can be solved through visionary engineering and rugged individualism. If it's a lie, on the other hand--if he only bought his way into his position using the proceeds of a stolen emerald mine worked by stolen labour--then how will *you* ever become a genius-billionaire-playboy philanthropist with *your* engineering degree? And worse, if the system is unjust enough to promote someone like that, and if electric cars and underground tunnels and colonising Mars aren't going to solve the problems that capitalism creates--then don't you have a moral obligation and practical obligation to change the system?
No, it doesn't bear thinking about.
this is the most concise and clear explanation of elon muskâs popularity among my fellow engineers that Iâve found, and I agree pretty resoundingly.
A historical moment
[ID: painting of a frog in a suit captioned âLadies and Gentleman, it is my pleasure to inform you that Today shall be the final 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st centuryâ end ID]
JKR literally wrote a manifesto against nonbinary people and trans men, and smeared autistic people while she was at it, so can y'all please stop acting like the JKR bullshit is somehow an issue unique to trans women only?
Stop acting like this isnât a community-wide issue that affects ALL trans people. Especially autistic trans people.
Our trans brothers & nonbinary siblings in the UK deserve better than this. Stop forgetting them. Stop erasing them.
Since some people are unaware of the breadth and depth of JKRâs ableism:
In her award winning(!!!) essay, Rowling explained that she believes autistic trans men and boys (like myself) are not mentally competent to consent to our own medical care.
Weâre easily influenced, you see. Gullible. Liable to be led astray by militant trans activists, social media, and the glamour and popularity that comes with being transgender.
JK Rowling, outspoken feminist and champion for the rights of women, wants to deny medical autonomy to âgirlsâ because she thinks weâre overly-emotional, frivolous, and susceptible to peer pressure.
She has spoken directly about her belief that autistic âgirlsâ, especially, should not be allowed to transition because weâre intellectually incapable of forming, recognising, and articulating our own identities, and especially vulnerable to âsocial contagionâ.
But, of course, the law doesnât (shouldnât) discriminate, and if autistic teens and/or adults canât legally consent to treatment of gender dysphoria, we canât legally consent to the treatment of anything. We wonât be able to access any treatment or medication without approval from a responsible adult.
The ability of trans kids to consent to their own medical care has already been the subject of a court case (Bell vs Tavistock). It was overturned on appeal, but one of the potential consequences of that specific case was that cis teens could have lost access to hormonal contraception without parental consent.
If Rowling gets what sheâs said she wants, the knock-on effect may well be that autistic people in the UK lose the ability to live independently.
This is one of the things sheâs putting her social and financial clout into. Her ongoing activism is a danger to the lives and wellbeing of all trans people and all autistic people in the UK and abroad.
