The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

I'm Scotty. Pansexual; any pronouns/none at all; also I like Batman a lot.

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my absolute favorite part of tumblr is how much you guys hate symbolism and like to pretend english teachers made up symbolism and authors never intended to write it. symbolism is what saves books from being boring and lifeless. i need you guys to understand how lazy and childish you look when you complain about having to find symbolism in books made for finding symbolism

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Lmao Im a writer and fuck writing symbolism. Its all accidental

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hey it’s october so i just thought i’d let you guys know i’ll never post jump scares and am extremely anti-screamer or anything else along those lines. i hope you’re all ok and stay safe this month

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feel free to rb this as much as you want! just because it’s tagged with “personal” doesn’t mean you shouldn’t tell your followers this too. let people know you have a safe blog!

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I’m

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KVRX 91.7 or kvrx.org. 11pm. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Song. Radio show and story. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2U6OCKB21P/?igshid=1ny0k5ll0p7f5

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KVRX 91.7 or kvrx.org. 11pm. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Song. Radio show and story. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2U6OCKB21P/?igshid=1unpiyeuyneeq

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"How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Song," my KVRX 91.7 radio show, is BACK this semester! Thursday nights at 11pm, tune into KVRX 91.7 in Austin or go to kvrx.org to hear folk punk tunes and stories from The Desert Wasteland.

"Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist." - Ramshackle Glory

"Do you remember when you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire?" -Against Me!

"I'm allergic to bees" -Local News Legend

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Mysteries of Love in Space #1 - “Glasses” (2019)

written by Jeff Loveness art by Tom Grummett & Cam Smith

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I’ve gotta reblog this again because it’s honestly fantastic “he could be anyone and he chooses to be kind” shows such an amazing understanding of Superman as a character, who I think a lot of people who don’t understand him really struggle to write, Jeff Loveness continues to kill it, inhumans spiderman special, groot, he’s written so little and yet I remember like every moment, I really really hope he gets a series soon he more than deserves it

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Locking your wheelchair lift and requiring disabled people to find an employee to unlock AND OPERATE it is a direct violation of the ADA.

“The [ADA] Standards require ‘unassisted’ entry and exit from lifts (§410.1). Situations in which platform lifts are locked and require users to request or retrieve a key for operation will not satisfy this requirement for independent operation.”

“Attendant operation, although recognized by the ASME A18.1 Standard, is expressly prohibited by the ADA Standards. Platform lifts must provide ‘unassisted entry and exit from the lift’ (§410.1).”

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Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen…

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This is not great, but it’s likely because people are fucking stupid and will screw around with it if it’s not locked up.

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[ID: @gavrielabrahams “It’s probably because people were peeing in it.”]

You think people were peeing. In an open wheelchair lift. In the middle of a museum. With public toilets around the corner.

I think not.

But even if people had been peeing in it or otherwise misusing the lift… It. Doesn’t. Matter. It’s not just “not great.” It’s ILLEGAL. It is just as illegal to lock off a wheelchair lift as it is to not provide one to begin with. 

The correct response to people peeing in an elevator is never to lock the elevator. It is to provide a toilet. If you think the correct response to any problem is to violate the civil rights of an entire group of people by denying them access, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

Disability rights are civil rights.

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You want to know exactly how this went down? Let me tell you a tale.

I was visiting the museum with friends. They went on around the corner while I finished looking at the previous exhibit. I then followed them around the corner only to find I couldn’t get up to the exhibit because the museum AS PART OF THEIR POLICY had illegally locked the lift. My friends didn’t know the lift was locked (why would the lift be locked?) and had no idea that I couldn’t get to them.

Now I, the disabled person, am forced to travel halfway around the building to the front desk to find someone to unlock the lift for me, wait for them to finish what they’re doing, and then travel all the way back to the lift. This was bad enough in a wheelchair. Who else uses lifts? Oh yes. People who struggle to walk. Can you imagine, as a person who struggles to walk, being forced to walk halfway around a building, and then back again, just to access an exhibit? You wouldn’t do it. You’d skip the exhibit. You’ve just been completely denied access.

So finally the museum employee unlocks the lift and then operates it (because yes, they’ve made it so I can’t operate it myself, which is also illegal). I finally get to the top probably ten minutes later, only to find that my friends have finished looking at the exhibit and are heading down again, wondering what has happened to me. 

After I’ve gone to all the trouble to get up there, fuck it if I’m not going to look at the damn exhibit. So I look at it, then head back to the lift to go back down, only to find they’ve locked the lift with me at the top and gone back to the front desk.

If one of my friends hadn’t stayed up there with me, I’d probably still be up there. As it was, my friend had to go down the stairs, back around to the front, find an employee, and get them to come back and let me down. Leaving me sitting up there. Alone. For another five minutes.

Now imagine if I had gone to the the museum by myself. Or what if there had been an emergency? You think if there was a fire some museum employee who couldn’t be assed to leave the damn lift unlocked until I had come back down would really have run back into the building to unlock the lift so I could get down? I think not.

Locking an accessibility feature is never the right solution. It is denying access to an entire class of people. Which is ILLEGAL and a CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION.

Disability law is civil rights law.

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24. A song by a band you wish were still together.

“I’ll Fix It” by The Total Bettys

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MUSIC ASKS these are actually pretty fucking hard but why not

1:A song you like with a color in the title

2:A song you like with a number in the title

3:A song that reminds you of summertime

4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

6:A song that makes you want to dance

7:A song to drive to

8:A song about drugs or alcohol

9:A song that makes you happy

10:A song that makes you sad

11:A song that you never get tired of

12:A song from your preteen years

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

16:One of your favorite classical songs

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

18:A song from the year that you were born

19:A song that makes you think about life

20:A song that has many meanings to you

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

22:A song that moves you forward

23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

25:A song by an artist no longer living

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

27:A song that breaks your heart

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

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The care bears are coming. What side of history will YOU be on? :)

The winning side.

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Last show of the semester. 1am. KVRX 91.7 or Kvrx.org. How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Song. (at The University of Texas at Austin) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIzm5ugsWY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=110z3sk6cjlhs

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If you didn’t get a chance to see @swisscheesecake it’s on YouTube now! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZJhRrUr_DWL3QOhQB0L3a_EdpA_n6awA (at The University of Texas at Austin) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxHzRFFgLOR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ss07ue1jsdj0

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1am. KVRX 91.7 or Kvrx.org. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Song. Folk punk for days. (at University of Texas, Austin) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvvC57Ag5t-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17d2tiql8hj7n

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Radio Show. 1am. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Song. KVRX 91.7 or Kvrx.org. #radio #collegeradio #folkpunk #radioplay #texas #utexas #ut (at The University of Texas at Austin) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvcn-hagIfc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n7om281szogg

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Weird question but if y’all were stuck in a time loop where you died and then the day restarted over and over again, what slightly insanity-inducing song would be playing every time you woke up

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25. Role Model

Taika Waititi, the nicest director in Hollywood.