KissingDragons

[liberalsarecool]

Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

[wizardshark]

I was a participant of the now cancelled UBI pilot in Ontario Canada. I was happier, safer, was able to move and work at better jobs.

And oops there it is. Better jobs.

Better jobs

It's a class barrier. They need a poverty class to function

[teratocybernetics]

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

[depsidase]

[dragonblerd-art]

Happy Pride Month everybody!!! 🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[behaviornerdwithahat]

[spoonieshepard]

Honestly, that's part of the reason why functioning labels suck

[crazykuroneko]

In response to Slate's article on the possibility having non-heteromative team in figure skating (particularly, ice dance and pairs), Oniceperspective shared a glimpse of Gabriella Papadakis (FRA) and Madison Hubbell (USA) working on their same-sex program. You can see how they switch the leading figure between them.

You can see them trying out lifts in this video.

The rest is on Instagram here:

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[a-la-orilla-del-rio]

[memeuplift]

[guerrillatech]

[solarianloverboi]

[steverogeres]

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A DRAGON

[whats-a-bear]

hey, don’t cry. 250 thousand dragons on tumblr okay?

[jaycee-speaks-now-deactivated20]

AYO EDEBIRI | 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who did this shit for free and offers this remarkable thing for free!

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're mentally ill, chronically ill or otherwise disabled, do yourself a favor and consciously work to dismantle the "if you're too sick to go to work you're also too sick to be on the computer" mindset which got drilled into most of us during childhood. You don't have to deny yourself joy. You don't have to directly or indirectly punish yourself for not being able to do certain things. It doesn't help anyone. All it does is make you even more miserable than you have to be. So make sure you don't punish yourself for being sick. Make sure you don't subconsciously sabotage yourself with the idea that you have to be punished for not being abled. Make sure you embrace the joy you can find instead of denying yourself out of unnecessary guilt.

[momowho34]

Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

[momowho34]

oh and people with ASPD and borderline and bipolar disorder and anybody who experiences psychosis but doesn’t have schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder. i love all of you and i wish you the absolute best <3

[impliedbass]

Garak goes to pride

[themilanobitch]

oh I am positively BEWITCHED, I just looked out my window and saw this little feller flying around, hovering mid-air and looking directly at me and I’m like hello?? who are you??? you look like a hummingbird but this is no habitat for hummingbirds, what in the ever loving climate change fastly approaching global warming induced death are you??? so I did what any reasonable person would do and looked him up on google and oh my god. oh jesus christ. you guys.

it’s a moth. a MOTH.

it’s called the hummingbird hawk-moth and it specifically evolved in order to resemble a hummingbird and just so happens to live in climates where hummingbirds do not naturally exist and just decided to hover outside my window to absolutely blow my mind, how have I reached my mid-20s and never in my life seen any of these little guys I am going to fucking cry real manly tears they’re so cute I love the world. what a fantastic day to be alive

[spaceconfusion]

They visit my garden every year!! I absolutely love them

[fish-with-a-knife]

they also come in green!

[spicecities]

worst thing people did was turn the incredibly personal experience of being lgbt into strict definitions and rules and then ridicule and harass others who don't fit into their neat boxes, as if that isn't what we were trying to run away from this whole time.

[tainbocuailnge]

if you search a tag on someone's blog on the mobile app it will show you only a selection of posts in an inscrutably random order but if you go to a mobile browser and type [blog url].tumblr.com/tagged/[tag] you will get all posts on that blog with that tag in reverse chronological order. if you add /chrono behind it you get them in regular chronological order. naturally this works in desktop browsers too but i know many people are mobile only these days and the app's built in tag search is shit so this knowledge is vital to your survival

[autisticjoy]

its just so fucking unfair that disabled people need extra support but in order to actually get that extra support we have to have both the energy and ability to express ourselves to deal with the bureaucracy of getting that support and i just. i am so tired.

[naamahdarling]

"I am disabled. May I have support?"

"Sure, jump through all these hoops first."

"I am disabled in such a way that I cannot do that."

"There are places that will help you apply."

"What are these places?"

"We don't keep an updated list. Try looking it up yourself and making a hundred phone calls."

"I don't think I can do that. I need help to find help."

"Tough shit."

"Okay, it took me three months to do this and then I waited on a list for 6 months to get in to see a social worker, who helped me with the application. I have submitted it. Now what?"

"You have to wait for months and months while we examine every aspect of your life. We will communicate with you solely via paper mail, so you had better have a stable address. The letters arrive less than a week before deadlines and our site only runs on Internet Explorer."

"All right. So you use my doctor's records, right?"

"We appoint our own just to be sure."

"Okay, fair enough. Hang on, this person offers conversion therapy?! How can I be sure they aren't, like, fucking unhinged?!"

"We have another doctor. They have an opening in three months."

"...Okay. I have pretended not to be queer and have seen the TERF doctor. It actually went well and they said they were optimistic. I'm legitimately disabled. You can see that now, right?"

"Well, barring an act of God, we reject almost everyone."

"...Weren't you going to tell me I can reapply?"

"That was in a very poorly-worded letter you probably didn't get."

"Okay, but why would reapplying change anything? Like, everything is going to be the same."

"You might have better luck applying with a lawyer."

"I can't afford one."

"They take their cut out of your back pay, presuming you eventually are approved."

"Okay, so the appeal won't take as long as the first time, right?"

"It might take longer."

"Okay. Now that I have successfully appealed, I get a handbook telling me what I am allowed and not allowed to do, right?"

"Of course not! You have to call our hotline and wait on hold for several hours."

"But they keep telling me conflicting things! How do I know the truth about the rules?!"

"We will let you know when you've violated them. Try not to violate them by, for instance, not reporting that you accepted food or money from your family and friends."

"I picked up a quarter in the parking lot. Am I supposed to report that, too?!"

"Yes. By the way, you can't be in a relationship without us counting their income against you, and you aren't allowed to have more than $2,000 in assets."

"But my house is falling down! I need to save up $4,000 to fix the roof!"

"NO."

"What if I access a program for the needy to help me with things I need?"

"You have to report all of that in case it counts against you. But we won't give you the rules."

"I found the handbook online and it says I'm allowed to do XYZ..."

"Our representatives may not be well-trained, so they will probably make mistakes and count it anyway."

"How do I fix that?"

"Hire a lawyer, idk lol."

Etc. ad nauseam.

You cannot win with these people. They are bastards and whether or not the system was DESIGNED to crush and kill us, it does, and has been allowed to remain that way, so at this point it is very deliberate.

And when we talk about it we are told we're a burden, should kill ourselves, aren't worth saving, are lying, are derailing, being depressing, or lashing out inappropriately.

I just want to make my art and not struggle for food. Instead I have to be paranoid 24/7 about getting in trouble because a friend feeds me now and then.