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I don't make this stuff up.

[llleighsmith]

i re-teach my brain this every day

[radical-eve]

[ironbound-oberon]

I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)

cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.

[athelind]

Cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled.

[resonanteye]

this this this people have to hack their goddamn insulin pumps

[c3rvida3]

The salmonella onion ban has informed me that about 50% of my mutuals had a nice soup planned that's just RUINED now.

[starlightomatic]

sorry the what now?

[absolutely-feral-deactivated202]

This is per the CDC, read any stickers they might have on them!

[curiousobsession101]

From the CDC page about this outbreak:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1020-food-safety-salmonella.html

“CDC advises people who have unlabeled whole red, white, or yellow onions at home to throw them away and not eat them. People should not eat, and businesses should not sell or serve, whole onions that were imported from Chihuahua, Mexico, and distributed by ProSource Inc.”

“About Salmonella:

Most people infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramping 6 hours to 6 days after eating contaminated food.

The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most people recover without treatment.

In some people, the illness may be so severe that the patient is hospitalized. Salmonella infection may spread from the intestines to the bloodstream and then to other parts of the body.

Children younger than 5, adults 65 and older, and people with weakened immune systems are more likely to have severe illness.”

[walks-the-ages]

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE TIME STAMPING URGENT NEWS LIKE THIS!

THIS RECALL IS CURRENT AS OF WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 2021!

[curiousobsession101]

You’re right, I should have included that. So I’m reblogging again with your comment.

[frogitivity]

People talk about needlessly gendered items but one time I got diagnosed with female presenting autism and I’m still losing my mind over it

[criticallyalexandrite]

This is why Autism Speaks studies are invalid. it’s resulted in people thinking that only men can have autism. Thus resulting in stupid terms like female presenting autism.

[veemopusvulgaris]

FEMALE PRESENTING AUTISM???

[800-dick-pics]

I refused to give my adhd evaluator my gender/sex so she logged my traits and answers from the questionaires both for the “male” adhd and “female” adhd traits and the results varied so much that even my evaluator was shocked by it bc it was the first time she had done both “genders” for one person (and i think it opened her eyes on how wrong and inaccurate sexed tests/evals are). my hyperactivity, and impulsivity scored lower (aka downplayed) on the female page but had a HUGEEEEE spike for it on the male page, their were things like my emotional dysregulation that were also“less apparent” on my female results than my male ones. Genuinely ask who ever is evaluating you to remove sex/gender from the evaluation process and if they refuse demand that they test you as a “male” and “female” Lots of us esp black and brown autistics and adhders are getting duped out of a proper diagnosis bc white perisex cishet people are seen as the “standard” for literally everything in the medical field 

[politijohn]

[politijohn]

Yes, this is really a thing…

[solitarelee]

Yep, because baby formula is one of the most shoplifted things in America. Which should ALSO radicalize you.

[girtheemoninja]

Or… We stop shoplifting? 🤔 Are we demonizing acts to stop crimes now?

[demonius-darkblade]

ill tear your head off your shoulders you dumb fuck

[jana-the-clown]

I’m all for radicalization like the government and society are fucked. But they put baby formula in locked cases because it is used to make meth. The store does this to keep an eye out if someone is buying way too much. Like waaaaay too much.

[40ouncesandamule]

No. They lock it up because hungry babies need it and there is a thriving market for stealing baby formula because people will pay good money to guarantee their babies don’t starve.

You can’t make meth out of baby formula. You can stretch some drugs by cutting it with baby formula but “Drug dealers sometimes use the powdered formula to dilute heroin and methamphetamine or to stretch the product when supplies run low. However, experts say that more often than not, formula is stolen because of its high market demand among consumers rather than drug dealers.”

This is what imperialism and capitalism and the “war on drugs” does to people’s brains. You can see that people are so desperate to feed their babies that the people who rule your lives keep baby formula under lock and key but rather than that radicalizing you and making you want to fight for a world where no baby ever goes hungry, you justify this draconian bullshit because you’ve fallen for the propaganda that baby formula is used in some nebulous relation to “drugs” and drugs are bad so whatever inhuman monstrosity that occurs must be justifiable.

[rosyish]

Speaking aave when you’re not black is a problem that must be addressed

[nightphoenix10]

Some of my favorite responses to this post, hastily screenshotted:

Credits to @bandaniofficial, @lauroboros, and @fractalzoom (who I can’t properly link for some reason).

[feferi]

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN FUCKING SAYING

[talesfromtreatment]

And all these dogs are super fear-aggressive towards strangers as well. The vast, *vast*, majority of dogs a year old or less that we have come in for my shelter’s spay/neuter services are either borderline-traumatized fearful and shut down or they are trying to bite me for the crime of existing within 10 feet of them.

It is not ‘normal’ for a 4 month old shih-tzu puppy to be growling at me from 5 feet away.

It is not ‘normal’ for a 7 month old aussie to lunge for my face when I offered him some food.

It is not ‘normal’ for the 9 month old lab mix to be completely uncontrollable by the owners, up to and including grabbing their arms with his mouth when they tried to put him on the scale and literally knocking them over and dragging them away.

It is not ‘normal’ for the 6 month old golden to be cowering and urinating in fear.

This is a major issue that every level of veterinary and animal care professional is going to be dealing with for the next 15+ years. I sincerely believe that in a few more years, the rate of behavioural euthanasias is going to skyrocket and we’ll be seeing massive increases in incidences of dog bites.

[im-the-punk-who]

Do you know how *FUCKING* irritated this makes me? I work as a dog trainer(and walker, but primarily as a trainer now) and at the start of the pandemic me and my coworkers literally BEGGED people to continue their dog’s routine as normal - if he gets crated during the day when you went to work, crate him for a few hours a day even if you’re home. If he went on pack walks, continue having him go on pack walks. I literally begged people to do training with me at the start of the pandemic - not just because I was out of work but because I - we all - knew that this would happen. I even offered deferred payment or extreme price cuts to training because it was more about preventing the mental breakdowns I knew these dogs would have than the money for me.

No one took me up on it. I had a client base of 75+ dogs at the start of the pandemic and work was completely silent until at least september of that year.

You know when everyone started calling and asking for help with their dog, who is suddenly going off the rails, barking, biting, peeing, destroying things? In June when everyone really stared going back to work and their dog’s behavior started bothering  them. When the dog’s anxiety could no longer be masked or written off as ‘oh i’m just home more often so that’s why Buddy is always with me.’

And to be clear - all of this was preventable. Even in the middle of a pandemic there are ways to socialize animals that are no-contact. Literally just taking your dog to a park and having them sit and watch people walking around is an excellent way to socialize a dog without having to be near people. Leaving your house for an hour and not taking your dog is another. These are simple things and yet as tehy *always do* people thought they knew better then every single animal professional who literally begged them not to just sit at home with their dog for a year and a half and now the animals are paying the price.

And to be clear, I don’t actually care if you think your dog doesn’t have anxiety over this. They do. I can guarantee you they do. Oh they’re just a little more hyper? They’re just chewing some things? They just seem *Really really happy* when you come home now? Follows you around from room to room? Congratulations your dog is showing symptoms of anxiety and you need to address them now before your dog bites someone.

I really really wish that people stopped having such an aversion to calling aggression an anxiety response. Aggression is an anxiety response. No stops. 100% of aggression is anxiety and no I don’t care if you think some dogs are predisposed to aggression they are not. They are predisposed to *anxiety* but people will ignore the hyperactive german shepherd who never settles down or the pitbull who does zoomies 24/7 and jumps on people and needs to be on your ass or she’ll die because that’s cute, right up until that behavior turns to uncontrolled biting and then suddenly it came out of nowhere and it must just be ‘the breed’.

I literally had to stop being a dog trainer for a few months because the expectations people have for both their dogs and us post pandemic are fucking unreasonable. No, I cannot fix your dog in two sessions when it took you 18 months(or probably longer tbh) to fuck him up. No, I will not help you if your only goal is to ‘stop the biting’ and not address your dog’s very real emotional distress that is causing that. No, I can not help you if you want me to do all the work or do not expect this process to take all the time and energy you could have and should have spent during the pandemic just because now you ‘don’t have the time’.

Fucking listen to the professionals - and not the fucking crackpots you cannot turn on two episodes of Caesar Milan(may your dog piss on your remote if you do) and call yourself a dog whisperer. You can watch however many youtube dog trainers you want but unless you have a real, live, professional meet you and see you dog(at *least* through fucking zoom jesus christ) you are going to be addressing the wrong things and *addressing them wrong* because you don’t have anyone to teach you, and watch *you* and tell you what *you* are doing wrong. 

But honestly there is no solution now. Or, there is, but pet owners don’t wan to hear it. They just want a magic easy fix, ‘just put my dog on meds’ or ‘i cant do this, he needs a home better for him’. And pet care professionals are so overwhelmed now and honestly compassion fatigued out that the good ones are leaving the profession or just simply do not have the time and energy for as many *severe* cases of anxiety and aggression that have popped up.

[malewifenat]

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

[captainlordauditor]

same energy

[princesskuragina]

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

[definitely-not-lordenglish]

[catradoraism]

[thousandfoottallowl]

there’s more

[snenby-with-two-daggers]

[0palite]

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

[augustdementhe]

SIGH

[i-restuff]

[sangononya-kokomeow]

here’s another one

[daeva-agas]

IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION

[elamikaaa]

how does this get even worse

[tf2mobilegame]

not to get political but im begging you guys to stop coming to hawaii. in maui theyre asking to put a 'pause' on flights bc we literally do not have enough room or staff to service you. the roads are so full that its causing a major backup when ppl need to get to work.

on top of this, i heard that by September? theyre expecting to get rid of the mask rule (if 70% of ppl are vaccinated/all goes well) but ill be honest w/ you, i know many locals arent getting the vaccine and i know plenty of tourist arent gonna take the necessary precautions.

[oh-okay-kay]

homeless hawaiians aren’t even allowed to sit or lay on sidewalks to keep up the “paradise” image for tourists

[saturnzspawn]

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[kislanddd]

Tw:Missing kid

A 17 yr Black boy named Antoine Whittley is missing a friend of his said Antoine said he believed he was being followed he was last seen February 10th Please reblog , like , boost and share his Lyft driver never took him to the right destination his Lyft driver name is Wesley ( no last name of the driver )

Anyone who may have any information related to Antoine's location is asked to call Detective Kris Palma at [phone] or email [email protected]. Tips can also be submitted to Richmond's anonymous tip line at (510) 307-T1PS (8177) or the police non-emergency 24 hour number at [phone].

[imreallyfrmoaklandtho]

This kid has been missing since last week, and it’s really just now going public. Share this, and help his family find him...

[queengodiva619]

Didn't find an update as of June 28, 2021

[alwaysbewoke]

And remember these are NFL players. Clearly upper upper class with regards to income but in America, racism can still reach you even if you’re a millionaire. Also where’s Jay-Z in all this?

[mysharona1987]

[nekojitachan]

https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/

[peachdoxie]

This makes me cry, actually.

[thesharpestlance]

Just to add on. Libraries in many cities have 3d printers you can use that charge you only the price of materials. So if you can't wait for the shipping from the engineers, try your local library.

[cricketcat9]

Humanity at its best 🤗

[blizzardofjj]

I have a neighbor with essential tremors in her hands and know this would help her tremendously

[purplewitch1351]

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[guerrillatech]

Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father on Father’s Day…his grave is annually shot by local police

[erinbowbooks]

.Some context for this:

-Fred Hampton was a black activist from Chicago – an extraordinary speaker, youth organizer for the NAACP. 

-He joined the Black Panthers and shone so brightly that he was made chair of the Chicago chapter when he was only 20.

-He founded the Rainbow Coalition, which brought together Black and Latino activists and radical anti-poverty Catholics.  He forged an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them make peace and work for social change.

-In 1967, when he was just 19, Hampton was identified by the FBI as a “radical threat.” The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation to get the groups he’d drawn together to distrust each other, and getting an FBI plant next to him as a bodyguard.  

-(This is part of an illegal FBI program called COINTELPRO, which aimed to paint black civil rights activists (among others) as violent and threatening.  If you’ve only seen pictures of the Black Panthers as armed and dangerous revolutionaries, and never heard of their children’s breakfast program, their community health clinics, or their “copwatch” patrols, this is why.   It’s because COINTELPRO was a highly successful work of political propaganda.)  

-On December 3, 1969, Hampton taught a political education course at a local church, and then several Panthers gathered at his apartment for a late dinner.  One of them was the FBI plant bodyguard, who drugged Hampton.  

-At 4:45 AM on December 4, a squad of Chicago Police officers and FBI agents with a warrant to search for weapons stormed the apartment. Investigations later showed they fired between 90 and 99 times.  The Panther on security detail, Mark Clark, was holding a shotgun.  He was shot, and the gun went off into the ceiling.  This was the only shot fired by the Panthers. 

-Fred Hampton, in another room, didn’t awaken.  He was shot in his bed.  Twice, in the head, at point-blank range.  He was 21.  

-Four weeks after witnessing Hampton’s death, his finance Deborah Johnson gave birth to their son, Fred Hampton Jr.  That’s him in the photograph, visiting the grave of a father who died before he was born.  A resting place riddled with bullets.  

[washipink]

You can say what you want about the police “protecting and serving” but, what is shooting a man’s grave PROTECTING? Somebody tell me.

[radgritty]

[vegannerdgirl]

Spoiler alert: I’m still struggling with health problems from my childhood eating.

[agro-carnist]

This is super fucking classist because a lot of these items listed are popular foods for poor families and families that live in food deserts. Get fucking real. Maybe spend like 5 minutes off your high horse so you can actually see why these items are so popular to give children.

They are cheap. They are accessible. They are favored by kids. They are easy to eat. Have fun making your kids live on rice and beans instead of giving them age-appropriate foods. Parents not giving their kids enough vegetables is not fucking child abuse and it does not mean being vegan is healthy for them. Most children put on vegan diets suffer deficiencies with permanent effects on their health and can effect their growth and learning. Willingly depriving kids of nutrients they NEED and forcing an ideology on them is child abuse. Fuck this post and fuck everyone who reblogged this uncritically.

[lagonegirl]

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