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the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to "wow i wish i could do that" and then you can't. and it sucks.
accomodations are important but i think they miss the point of this post. sometimes you can't do it. at all. someone needs to do it for you or it will never happen.
this video sends me every time. the lip syncing. the source material. iconic
I reblogged this one time and someone else who reblogged it from me tagged it with #violence
no offence but I hate when people my age start projecting their own fears and ideas about aging and youth onto me. girl sorry but I’m young and beautiful if you think women in their late 20s onwards are worthless old hags who have run out of time that’s a personal problem
i can fix him (sign him up for a library card)
it is absolutely BONKERS to me, the number of people in the united states i have talked to who have never even heard of the battle of blair mountain. how the largest labor uprising in our history manages to skirt by so many leftists unknown is just downright astonishing. the largest labor uprising, and the largest armed uprising, period, since the civil war.
did yall even hear me?
THE LARGEST ARMED UPRISING!! besides the civil!!! fucking!! war!!! was fought in 1921 in the name of LABOR RIGHTS AND UNIONS by TEN THOUSAND RIGHTEOUSLY PISSED, STRIKING COAL MINERS
these absolute fucking LEGENDS marching out the hollers of west virginia, wearing their red bandanas and wielding their papaw's shotguns pointed at the lawmen. waging war against the fucking UNITED. STATES. MILITARY!!! for their right to work safely and be paid fairly!!!
and people just like. don't know about that? put some fucking respect on west virginia!!! and fellow appalachians, yall best just own it when ignorant people call you a fucking redneck cause our ancestors did that shit and they did it for us
The mine owners hired planes to drop bombs on the striking workers. Chemical weapons and leftover WWI explosives were also used against the striking workers. All for the “horrific crime” of wanting to join a miner’s union.
That is why we celebrate Labor Day in September. That is why Labor Day is a national holiday.
To the best of my knowledge, the continental United States has only suffered air-to-ground attacks four times in the nation's history.
9/11
One (1) successful fire balloon attack courtesy of the Japanese Empire in WWII
The Battle of Blair Mountain
and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
A full half of these attacks are US citizens bombing other US citizens because the victims of these attacks were willing to do the hard work required to improve their material conditions within the oppressive systems that defined their lives.
(unmasked voice) if trump wins i’m going to start building community locally and going to protests and firebombing walmarts. …why am i not wearing a mask? well the government said i dont have to and people might judge me :(
too afraid of judgement to wear a mask talking about all the huge society altering protests ur gonna engage in yeah sure man have fun with that. also what are your plans re: protests if slash when youre too sick to walk. how are you preventing yourself and ur comrades in this community ur building from ending up in that exact situation. if i have long covid and you have long covid who’s doing the mutual aid. Etc.
why dont you “organize” a mask onto ur face
is the community youre building accessible to disabled people? to immunocompromised people? to those vulnerable to covid/long covid (which is everyone who’s previously been infected, btw)? why or why not?
is a covid-unsafe community really what you want? why is it acceptable to implicitly exclude disabled/immunocompromised people from these spaces? does excluding them mean valuable insight & information & connections are lost? is it worth it?
who told u it was safe to unmask? did u stop bc everyone else did? have u read into the research on covid, its effects on the body both in the acute phase and after? is it worth risking ur own health? is it worth risking others’ health?
who is going to take care of u when u get sick?
what will happen when u r both sick?
there is a weirdness to how I can escape particular kinds of threats through removing body parts. I can’t be threatened with forced pregnancy now because I removed my uterus. If I get my breasts and nipples removed my torso will no longer be legally obscene. The ability to change the body brings into stark focus how policed the body is. I think that is a large part of why reactionaries prioritize opposing transition so fiercely— changing one’s body and watching the legal system contort itself to apply new laws to the same person makes obvious the violence necessary to maintain the political structure they want people to believe is “natural” and “innate.” People undergoing sex change are almost walking symbols of how much effort, how many resources, how much violence (threats and punishment) everyone must collectively expend in maintaining the pericis patriarchal order. Transition suggests the possibility to everyone that patriarchy is deeply artificial and not as difficult to undermine and dismantle as one might imagine. Not an immutable force of nature but a delicate system constantly needing to be collectively maintained by a global majority of people in order to prevent collapse. Trans people by virtue of existing provoke cis people to realize they themselves might benefit from refusing to participate in this maintenance. Might it be easier and more freeing to not police bodies? Might the world be more just if we all refuse to revoke the bodily autonomy of others along axes of political power? These realizations threaten the hold of naturalized patriarchal ideologies and so trans people are relentlessly targeted for extermination.
load-bearing little treat
this is the plot of Dune
feel like people should see the death grip of the full image
Homes are expensive because of landlords hoarding them for profit, not because of regulations.
Time to bring back my favorite picture: The reason there have been so many food and consumer good recalls in the past few years. (If you got listeria from cold cuts? Direct result of Trump's actions!) Regulations exist to protect consumers from profit-hungry corporations.
Remember, there is no "lesson learned" from those regulations. They aren't safety procedures where now that people know putting lead in cinnamon is a bad thing that they won't do it even if you take the regulation away. The regulations were created because, when given a chance, these people leapt at the chance to destroy housing, poison food, and blight the planet.
Everytime a regulation like that is removed you should be concerned about who was being "held back" by a law preventing them from selling disease riddled meat.
A salient example, since lead got brought up specifically—
A while ago it occurred to me to wonder how long we’ve known lead is poisonous, since it was so ubiquitous in paint and construction and so many other places until just a few decades ago, so I went on a wiki dive to see when the first alarm bells were sounded about the health hazards of lead.
Want to guess?
Ancient Rome.
People have known lead is poisonous since at least Ancient Rome.
It didn’t stop people using it.
Your safety regulations are written in blood, not by accident, not because people didn’t know there were dangers, but because without them, blood is cheap.
Lead was used as a pesticide in the early 20th century, so I reckon we knew it was poison
watching Seven Samurai
i wonder how many they'll need
i hesitate even to speculate
you're not ready for the world that's coming
i wish for medical diets to not be left out of diet culture discussion for ONCE
can we talk about how diet culture messes with medical diets and how diet culture keeps affecting how medical diets are perceived and try to display themselves as helping medical diets but making them worse instead can we talk about products for medical diets still needing to exist without them adding extra unneeded diet culture shit and can we just not forget medical diets exist and are affected by diet culture
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of A
Happy September everybody, NaNoWriMo has decided to go "no YOU'RE the baddies" because no one likes their AI-ridden sponsor, lmao. In other news, multiple authors are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.
As a disabled writer myself I find this stance to be immensely insulting, mostly because they are using disabled people as a smokescreen to push their agenda, while also completely ignoring the fact that there are plenty of tools for disabled authors to employ that don't rely on fucking STOLEN MATERIAL to get it done.
We already have TTS, Dictation, and Predictive Text (though this has actually gotten WORSE because of AI so.... thanks for nothing assholes) software to assist for those of us that may be physically challenged and further handwriting and keyboard tools for those who might have motor skill issues or are blind.
There are Graphic Organizers, Dictionary and Thesaurus for those who may not be great at organizing their thoughts or as adept at words...
So this EXCUSE they are putting forth for us and claiming we are being "classist and ableist" is disingenuous and IMMEDIATELY makes me think they got their talking points from that Lore.FM faker that tried to claim they were making software "to make fanfiction more accessible."
Only for it to have turned out to be a shell company for a larger Generative AI scheme.
It would NOT shock me if NaNoWriMo got a huge donation from an AI company with the stipulation that they have to advertise it. Would not shock me, at all.
I do kind of think that we're past the point where new technological innovations can actually meaningfully improve life for most people in industrialized countries. Like I think the problem is social organization, not a lack of new gadgets.
Doesn't help that all of the "innovations" that we're working towards now are things like "Your new toaster can tell if you buy sliced bread from the wrong company, and also toasting is a subscription service now, and you can go to prison if you try to jailbreak it"
This was actually a thing they talked about when I was at Google. They focus a lot of effort on "the next billion users" because the facts are that they basically have the entire industrialized world already. So a lot of work is done in figuring out how to sell Gmail to people who barely had electricity a decade ago.
But the flipside to this focus on the developing world is that basically all their efforts they spend elsewhere is not about building new products or devices or new features, because all that shit plateaued years ago. Instead it's just finding ways to make money off formerly free services and how to make people use stuff they don't need and it's really ugly and sad.
So much tech is stuck in a "where do we go from here?" problem where they already did most everything they wanted to accomplish, and all that's left is bad shit.
There's a lot of new technologies that can benefit humanity. The problem is doing so under capitalism is...problematic at best.
Once a technology matures, to the point that the market for it is saturated, you would think the companies that make it would say "well, we have a good stable revenue stream".
But that would require sanity on the part of investors, who will instead invariably scream "But...LINE NOT GO UP!" If profits don't increase every quarter, is bad! Line must go up!
That's why companies with mature technologies either start making new things, whether anyone wants them or not, or just start rent-seeking. Investors demand that line go up. Forever.
There are no disabilities which are raised above ableism. The person in the wheelchair, the autistic person, the person with schizophrenia and the person with an invisible chronic illness may all experience society's ableism in different ways, but none of them can expect to avoid it. So the "you wouldn't say X to Y" advocacy needs to retire yesterday. They say all kinds of ableist shit to all of us and it's time to try out some actual solidarity instead of arguing about who has it slightly worse
