its so awkward when people ask me why i dropped out and i have to be like "inadequate disability support" bc no one wants to hear this. they're always like i thought they had to provide that though isn't it the law? girl you might want to sit down i have some bad news about the litigation-based enforcement of the americans with disabilities act
then if i do say that theyre like, couldnt you sue? well theoretically maybe but not without spending more money than i have and putting myself through absolute hell. so no. no i can't.
we've definitely posted about this before but if i see one more person act like the only forms of childhood trauma that exist are abuse from family or sexual assault i will actually start crying and it will be so so so loud everyone will hear it from every corner of the earth
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!! PEER ABUSE !!!!! ISOLATION !!!!!!!! RACISM !!! SEXISM !!!!!! MEDICAL ABUSE !!!!!! NONCONSENSUAL SURGERY !!!! POVERTY !!!! SO MUCH MORE !!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
edit: i made this in a high school enduced rage and didnt expect it to blow up like this ?
anyway i love trans people i love intersex people i love people with personality disorsers i love aspec people okkk
one of the most frustrating things about being disabled and chronically ill is that everyone around you is allowed to be worried or scared for you. but the second you yourself say you’re worried or scared, suddenly it’s “you can’t be so negative, think positively, you might be totally fine in five years”
but i have to placate everyone when they’re telling me multiple times a day that they’re scared for my health??
saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—
“It just means you have to work double as hard as most people!”
Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!
Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?
It bothers me so much that the healthcare system relies so much on the patient's ability to advocate for themselves, organize their history, and be so persistent against every medical “professional” who says there’s nothing wrong/they can do. But so many struggle with fatigue, brain fog, and face such ingrained systemic barriers, that the people who need and deserve help and support can’t access it.
I saw something recently that resonated with me: “Access shouldn't depend on who has the energy to fight for it.” And I’ve never agreed with anything more.
One thing healthcare shouldn't require is a side quest in advanced paperwork, phone tag, and convincing people you're actually sick.
A lot of folks are already running on empty. Asking someone with fatigue, pain, or brain fog to become their own case manager feels like handing a drowning person swimming lessons.
The people who need help most often have the least energy to fight for it. That's why empathy, patience, and systems that actually support people matter so much.
And honestly, if "have you tried calling again?" fixed everything, we'd all be cured by now.
"But we need to talk about how you shouldn't get to be lazy-" No we don't actually. Not when so many millions of disabled people are facing medical neglect, poverty, discrimination and abuse in the name of "defeating laziness"
they really don't respect the time of disabled people. your application can take up to 12 weeks. the specialist waitlist is 3 years. your assessment will be any time within the next 6 months. let us know if you cannot attend this appointment you waited 7 weeks for and we'll reschedule next year. we've decided to assess you at this time and day and you have to be available or any support you dared to apply for is not going to happen. and in between these long bouts of waiting you have to survive the everyday
For a super mushy one how about some headcanons for how each skeleton would confess to their crush!!
this turned out funny because i realized there's a handful that will just never confess if it isn't tortured out of them. i love these emotionally constipated idiots
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Sans lays out his feelings in typical Sans fashion -- fast, loose, and in joke format. "hey, what do you and a calendar have in common?" "????What??" "you both have dates. when are you free?" And that's the interaction. Like, what just happened? It happens so quick you can't wrap your head around it. Maybe that was by design. Or maybe he was so nervous that he couldn't fathom actually taking it seriously and fell back into the comfortable barrier of humor to separate himself from his brewing feelings. Smooth.
Papyrus just. Projects instead of confesses. He's in love with you, so you might as well be in love with him. Not to worry, he'll graciously accept your intense infatuation with him and take you out on a date that he definitely hasn't spent the last day meticulously planning.
Blue meticulously plans out his course of action, and he gives it 110% percent. Full suit and tie, a bouquet you have to hold with two hands, a declarative poem he wrote (and will perform) himself, fireworks, Stretch off to the side with a bluetooth speaker, waiting for prompts to change the songs... It's a little overboard, but it's very Blue. If this is how he gets a date, you're just scared of how he's going to propose one day.
Stretch doesn't intentionally confess. His feelings for you are one of the few things he goes to his much more extroverted brother for advice on, and one day, he mixed up Blue's and your contacts. You caught a glimpse of "how do i tell them they're my soul walking outside my body without losing aura" before it was promptly deleted, and a mortified string of apology texts started pouring in.
Red is a fake nonchalance king, but he has gotten really good at hiding it. Except when he gets drunk, big shocker. When his inhibitions are dull, he's desperately clinging to you and asking what the two of you are, like he's gonna drop dead if he doesn't find out that very second.
Edge has tact. Edge has "old world" chivalry. Edge knows how to handle romance. But he's also still Edge when he catches feelings. You WILL let him pick you up at eight, you WILL dress in something nice, and you WILL allow him to court you. Non-negotiable.
Black THOUGHT you already knew. Which is why he took you out for dinner and a walk to watch the sunset in the park. Which is why he dressed sharply and was only a little put off by your jeans and t-shirt. Which is why he just about dusted on the spot when he stopped you under a streetlight and tried to kiss you, and you leaned away, bewildered. Yeah, he should've made his intentions wayyyy clearer. He's just relieved you'll give him a second try at a first date after he apologizes profusely and fesses up.
Mutt confesses over text. He sees nothing wrong with this. His brother will yell at him for having no tact or etiquette. His brother will also yell at you if you start dating him for having no standards.
Mal is super attuned to his emotions and is extremely experienced with feeling romantic love. This is obviously why he kidnaps you and demands to know what mind-magic you've been using to manipulate him into always having you on his mind. It must be powerful, the way his mind short-circuits when you laugh at his antics all sweetly like that.
Cash doesn't confess. He will, however, do that stupid thing where he makes a deal with you that if you both aren't in fulfilling relationships ten years down the line, you'll just marry each other. He proceeds to get extremely pissy and agitated whenever you're talking to someone else (and possibly attempts to sabotage it).
Axe doesn't really confess, he just sorta... stakes his claim. This one is his, don't mess with them.
Birch, usually so sure of himself, is quite shy about this sort of thing. But he has to tell you, otherwise, he feels like his magic is going to burst out of his bones in a fiery supernova of unaddressed feelings. But he's still shy. His confession is a long rambling mess of the way you make him feel and how much he likes you and all the things he wants to do with you by his side and-- Please stop him, he's caught in a loop.
Killer will casually drop the bombshell of his feelings in the middle of an unrelated conversation only because he has no idea how to process his emotions otherwise. It'll go something like: "nah, a straw has two holes. it's got one for things goin' in an' one for things comin' out. i think i might be in love with ya, by the way. like, if ya crimp it in the middle, you can literally see both holes at the same time." He throws it in there like it's a fun fact.
Dust will not confess. However, when you've got his interest, you're the only thing he'll stare at when you're in a room with him.
Nightmare doesn't confess because he doesn't need to. Sure, it's obvious with your special treatment and how possessive he is over you, but you see it in more subtle ways, too. It's mostly in the way he lets his deeply repressed romantic side show (ok yearner i see you), but also in the way he actually makes small talk with you and asks about yourself, something he'd never do even out of pity for anyone else. That, and he has a penchant for keeping a limb on you at all times, auxiliary or otherwise
Dream yearns from afar for the most part. Romance has always been something he could observe, but never have for himself. Hell, I think falling for someone actually scares the shit out of him. BUT. Unlike the rest of the emotionally constipated ensemble that shut down when they experience an inkling of an emotion, Dream is an optimist and also mostly well-adjusted. He'll seek you out alone and have a vulnerable heart-to-heart with you about his feelings and how he wants to pursue them. He's also not afraid to lay down what you might be getting into if you say yes to trying this out with him. Congrats on being emotionally available, Dream, because around here, that's a high-value commodity.
Ink doesn't confess purely because he thinks you're already together. He's interested in you, you look like you're interested in him, that's how it works, right?
Error won't confess. I think he'd rather tear his own code apart line by line than process a single emotion. There's not even a "but..." to this, he just won't, even when his feelings become impossible to ignore. And when he can't ignore it any longer, he gets reckless. Isolated. Self-destructive. Does anything but admit to it. He's supposed to be above this.
Fresh will not confess. He does not understand the emotions he feels for you, and thus will not have the context he needs to act on them. If he actually does receive context from someone however, he'll take a page out of the 90s and show up at your house at 2am with a boombox held over his head. The song he plays is a toss-up, though, because he doesn't understand the gesture needs a romantic song to accompany it.
Cross paces in front of your door for ten minutes, working up the courage to tell you. When he finally knocks, you open the door to find him on one knee, crushing a bouquet of flowers in his anxious grip.
Epic tests the waters with sending you couples memes with the caption "what if this was us? haha jk jk." His version of asking you out is sending you more of these without the added joking message.
Delta likes to think of himself as the playboy type, but he gets so soft when he's in love (and he also falls pretty easily). He doesn't hide it, he acts on it with lots of physical touch and talk of making you his, if you'll let him. Bravery soul better be getting paid the way it's working overtime.
Color wants to do it the old-fashioned way, nothing too extravagant, just a couple flowers he picked himself and a proposal for coffee sometime. Unfortunately, this doesn't come as a surprise to you, because his friends are nosy and told you the second they found out in an effort to speed things along. He's initially so embarrassed that they meddled like that, then grateful that you let him figure things out at his own pace (while promising to chew Delta and Epic out for getting in his business).
Ccino doesn't confess. He'd rather curl up and dust than do that than face the slim possibility of rejection. Seriously, you could be giving him the biggest signs, and he still won't do it because what if he's reading it all wrong? His cats, being intelligent (and possibly fully cognitive???) creatures, know, because he talks to them about all his problems. Now whenever you're in his shop, they flock to you, having taken a very strong liking to you. For some reason.
Plum doesn't confess because he'd rather not put you in that position, nor would he want to risk the friendship. He's super cool with casual stuff, but the second feelings get involved, he tries to distance himself. Which ends up being a tell in and of itself when he starts to avoid you and act nervously dismissive of you when you talk to him. But if you get the chance to lay down that you're cool with dating a sex worker, he starts suggesting classier joints than his usual stomping grounds to take you out on a proper date.
When Reaper confesses that he's in love with you over a late-night talk on your balcony, leaning against opposite sides of the railing, it's not actually the first time he's told you. He's spent several weeks whispering it to you when you're asleep, after you've started letting him stay overnight with you.
G does absolutely everything in his power to lock away any and all romantic feelings. If he confesses, it'll be blurted out in a super inopportune and emotional time (read: post-sex) and then immediately backpedaled.
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.
So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.
And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.
Serbian here living in Belgrade! This is all true and I've actually seen some of these around the city a few times. They're amazing at what they do and really cool to watch up close because you can see pretty swirling inside them. It's not only functional but aesthetically pretty nice as well!
