idk man

[clown-avian]

Being a disabled eldritch deity is kinda funny because that means I got nerfed to be able to fit in this reality.

I wanted to experience life but was too OP so I got a physical disability and a neurological disability too.

[squishranger]

by the way...

PSA!

please do your best to not express disgust when a hypermobile person... exists. like, i'll bend my fingers weird, and the people around me will writhe and gag in disgust. referring to it as "body horror" is the worst part. it's not body horror. my body isn't horror. my body is a part of me.

yeah, it's a little freaky when you're not used to it, but please do your damnedest to keep it to yourself. it's incredibly humiliating to be on the receiving end of that sort of thing. it makes me feel like a monster or something less than human. be kind to those that aren't like you. that's the lesson at the end of the day, for all things.

thank you for your time 🙏

[dragonpyre]

Fun fact! Your teeth are kept in place in your skull via ligaments. Another fun fact! If you're hypermobile, that does indeed affect your teeth. And it can sometimes feel like they're loose.

[androdragynous]

fuck it I will make this my Disability Pride Month Request: if you are able-bodied, or just unfamiliar, look up the prices of things. Look up what life-sustaining medication costs, look up what good manual¹ and any power wheelchairs cost, look up what corrective surgery and accessible vehicles and home meal delivery services and service dog training and special dietary restriction food costs. and look up how much money is available for people who can't work.

how many months of government support does it take to afford something like a power wheelchair if you're someone who needs one to get out of bed? how much expense is incurred while saving up for that, making sure you still get food, cleaning, other appointments while you're saving up? is it enough to pay rent? is it enough to still have nice meals, streaming subscriptions, a new video game? is it enough to help family or friends cover emergencies? are there resources available to help with dating, girl's nights, family events if you can't do it all yourself? how in demand are those services, how far in advance do they have to be reserved, how much do they cost?

I've had a few posts about disability get relatively well-shared at this point, and there's always an element of surprise in it - like, what do you mean there's subscriptions, what do you mean it's that expensive, isn't there something else? - and while I understand why, it would really mean a lot if people who don't know about this stuff took the initiative to find out just how bad some of this shit is on their own time

¹ and not just the folding ones on Amazon, which are still expensive, but which I can say from experience are also really uncomfortable and not suited for full time use

[legsdemandias]

Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”

[legsdemandias]

IMO, blurring the lines between “I’m defending them because they’re right” and “I’m defending them because you’re taking this too far” is step numero uno to cutting down the very existence of fair trial and democracy–even in places where saying that might seem a little dramatic. 

Mob mentality is extremely strong in humans and it’s also extremely dangerous. Mobs don’t think things through. Mobs kill and they destroy and they can’t be reasoned with. Someone trying to calm a mob down isn’t someone defending the ~problematic party~ It’s time we re-learn that.

[nekos-perverse]

the antiship idea that your fictional tastes must equal your IRL tastes is incredibly aphobic and queerphobic.

that person who enjoys lolisho content must be attracted to real children? okay, then that asexual who enjoys smut must be lying about being asexual. that aromantic who enjoys romance stories must be lying about being aromantic. that lesbian who's attracted to a male fictional character must be attracted to real men. that gay man who's attracted to a female fictional character must be attracted to real women. wdym "it's different"? no, no, your fictional tastes definitely equal your IRL tastes, because the antiship community says so!

[whencircuitsshort]

why do people need to be domesticated animals for petplay,. u r my lion i bought you illegallu and you are trying to kill me. go

[andromeda708]

Petplay but im an exotic bird being smuggled across border lines

[discodeerdiary]

Truly hate the way "did this person do something that actually harmed someone" and "do they deserve to be unpersoned for it" are considered the same question

[discodeerdiary]

"Do you support [person]?" is the kind of binary question that comes out of an atomized social landscape where people do not get to practice thinking about how many kinds of support there are

[arborealgargoyle]

you can support someone being treated like a human being and not have their human rights violated while also not supporting giving them any power over others because they’ve been shown to abuse it. you can also support people living their lives and doing what makes them happy while also not supporting the idea of their lives overlapping with your own personal one because you’re just not compatible and that’s best for everyone. the world isn’t made up of two doorways that say “Perfect Moral Person” and “Person Who Needs To Be Fed To Piranhas”. that’s not rlly how it works. there are lots of doors.

[jdeko]

"but you don't understand, only BAD people get fed to piranhas. ME and everyone i love are GOOD people so we will NEVER be fed to piranhas!"

[alternamarian]

[thereisnocorrectanswer]

[ID: screenshot of the tags: #'therefore it's okay to feed them to piranhas' and #'therefore we are morally obligated to geed them to piranhas' #all mean the same thing #q. end ID]

[ri5k]

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

[vanglaggle]

IT'S CALLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COMPASSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT EMPATHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE WORD YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS COMPASSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[muppetcoldwar]

ID: instagram comment by user heidimccahan.author that says: "While I'm thrilled for you that you've found a way to consume so much content at little or no cost, please remember that authors are generally not paid per borrow. Please consider how your excessive use of generous lending policies impact the people creating the content you enjoy consuming." END ID

[hagiomoto]

I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.

[hagiomoto]

The average Tumblr blogger has such poor manners that even a pig would be embarrassed to bring them home to its mother.

[bagofmice]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing

[yet-another-heathen]

[juniperpomegranate]

The original article (should be the same thing but this one is from a .org site)

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

A dentist documents how extreme heat is turning Pakistani farmworkers’ mouths into hostile environments for their own teeth.

[proship-confessional]

About that anon who mentioned HP stuff (and I’m probably going to get flamed for this as well…)

…is it just me, or is “read another book” used as a substitute for actual education on the topic being talked about/referenced (even when it’s not HP?)

When someone constantly says, “read another book” instead of bringing up ACTUAL facts or arguments (like, “hey, comparing this fictional fascist regime to an actual one can come off as tasteless,” or “hey, the author of this is doing harm to X group” (for people unaware of what the author is doing, which is surprisingly common)) it just feels like a lazy, passive attempt at education rather than actually doing something…

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[amanitaphalloides]

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

[amanitaphalloides]

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[hemipenal-system]

funny side effect of the racism thing is how white conservatives just can’t really rap. im not sure they understand the genre

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

once you notice half of all memes are just a picture of a black person with unrelated text over them you really cannot unsee it

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

this is actually horrific right? we can all agree about that?

I'd never thought I needed to be paranoid about the fact that photos I share on social media might be turned into memes in a discord run by JuicyBigNut but that's what existing in a public space as a black person is like! not to mention the fact that they don't even know who the man in the picture, yet we know who first spread it and no one has beaten that guy to death yet

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Text reading: According to an exchange of Twitter DMs with Know Your Meme, the image came up on a friend of Twitter user @/ HamAcavs' Instagram and they screenshotted it, finding the man's pose amusing. They then began sharing and spamming it on private Instagram ^10 meme page @/ JuicyBigNut's Discord channel, where new variations were made, with an unknown user adding the caption, "Shout out women's day fr (crossed fingers emoji) Gotta be one of my favorite geners. I fw men too if anyone was wondering" (shown below" JuiceBigNut first share the post on his Instagram ^11 page on International Women's Day, after which it went viral. /End ID]

[angelsaxis]

I haven't seen this version anywhere so I made one!

[angelsaxis]

This flag is pissing off TERFs of course but i am seeing so much colorful JOY from trans lesbians and other lesbians in the notes like I've never seen a set of tags so happy before omg

[butchcockweilder-deactivated202]

everyone should reblog the bipoc transbian flag. It should be law.

[fivetrench]

I’m not sure if anyone’s added this yet, but here’s some intersex-inclusive versions :3c

Edit: Looked through the reblogs and found MANY other intersex-inclusive edits! Here’s links to all of them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

[this-is-multigenderphobia]

[id first image: the seven stripes sunset lesbian flag with a triangle on the side adding the progress flags' white, pink, blue, brown and black colours]

[id second image: seven stripe sunset flag with the addition of the triangle from the progress flag adding the yellow triangle and purple intersex circle among the other colours. The third image is the same but with the five stripes lesbian flag]