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Abled gays celebrating marriage equality: well we sure do have nowhere to go from here when it comes to marriage rights. Gay rights!

Me, a disabled lesbian trying to get on ssi thinking about how I will not be able to marry my girlfriend if I do because I can't have more than $2000 to my name at a time and they count a spouse's income towards that: wow .. gay rights ...

bellwitchfaggot

Just wanna say if you fought for and support marriage equality for gay people its your responsibility to do the same for disabled people. Abled people can and should rb this

studentlifeproblems

Follow @studentlifeproblems for more student memes!

shadesofarrogance

The engineer one is on point 😭😭

niggxrette

So many attacks all at once

thesolarsyst3m-deactivated20250

Ay look it me

lesbianbending-moved

just a reminder to kids who are 14,15,16 on this site, you are opening yourself up to a lot of groups who will try to radicalize you and most of the time it won’t be obvious. i’ve been studying radical groups for my poli sci degree for the past three years, and i still have trouble recognizing dog whistles sometimes. there’s a reason why a lot of terfs on this website are 15, and it’s so sad to see such young people filled with hate, so here are some things to look out for:

a person trying to radicalize you will always seem nice, approachable, and non-confrontational (at first). maybe you just followed their blog bc they like the same books as you, but then they start posting subtly terf-y ideology? but they seemed like such a nice person before so maybe it’s not what it seems? or maybe they’ll comment on a post that makes a trans person look out of control and the terf seem calm, collected, and in the right.

know the history of how people come to be radicalized so you can id dog whistles. for terfs, most of it comes from a) a woman is traumatized by a man so b) she develops an intense distrust of all men so c) she anchors her comfort in women are good and men are bad which leads to d) strict enforcement of gender roles in her mind and e) intense hatred for anything that steps out of that comfortable bubble she has created for herself. a lot of older terfs will find a young girl who fits part a and try to push her along to b, c, d, and e. of course, it can be more complicated than that, but it’s good to recognize how this kind of radicalization can apply to you.

if something makes you uncomfortable, walk away. block them, unfollow them, at the slightest thought of ‘this doesn’t seem right’ or ‘i don’t know if this is good’ - cut them out. it doesn’t matter if you’re mutuals or have been messaging and seem like ‘friends’, just take care of yourself first. additionally, don’t be afraid to not know something! if someone asks ‘how do you feel about ________’ or ‘don’t you think _____’, it’s far better to say ‘i’m not sure’ than jump to a conclusion on a topic you don’t understand fully. don’t be afraid to recognize a past opinion or view you had was wrong, don’t go looking to others for brownie points.

the only people i’ve seen who are vocal about being terfs are 15 year olds, and it’s so so disheartening to see and know how teenagers are targeted. you are not immune to radicalization. there are a million people who want to convince young people of their views, so please stay safe and take care of yourself.

medstudentblues

Ghibli meets avatar by @amaramation. ✨

bakwaaas

rise your hand if you’re a high achieving procrastinator with imposter syndrome and anxiety who does everything last minute and is a disorganised mess but somehow still manages to succeed

whoisnj-deactivated20250601

Aaaaand also is a perfectionist

yeonmo

Brain empty, only lok stuffed appa

filialdisciple

idea: appa has his own merch line.

it's called "appa apparel"

omghotmemes

Poor Dan

homo-sex-shoe-whale

I feel like the punk/emo scene must be pretty cool for trans guys with height dysphoria. Tré Cool from Green Day is 5'6 and Billie Joe Armstrong isn't much taller at 5'7. Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance is also 5'6. Look at Fall Out Boy. Pete Wentz is 5'6, Andy Hurley is 5'5, and Patrick Stump is 5'4! Yet these guys have so many fans thirsting over them! You are always tall enough for the mosh pit.

homo-sex-shoe-whale

And for trans girls, two words: Lzzy Hale. This woman is 5'8 and wears 8 inch heels to every fucking concert.

Not. Even. An. Exaggeration.

dreamsequencer

Also for trans girls: Floor Jansen of Nightwish is more on the goth end of things, but she's 6'0!

dreamsequencer

Look at this woman, she towers over the rest of the band

im-a-sokka-for-you-ooh

black--lamb-blog

I know it’s illegal but whenever I get antibiotics from the doctor I save a few and give them to friends or coworkers who don’t have insurance so that when cold season comes they might be able to shorten their illness

knightfrog1248-blog-deactivated

That is not good- that’s not quite how antibiotics work.

Antibiotics kill some bacteria, but don’t manage to kill other bacteria. Just like when you get a particular sickness (or a vaccination), your body can protect you from future infections, any bacteria that came into contact with the antibiotic is protected from future doses of that antibiotic. Bacteria are very virulent breeders, so they spawn more resistant bacteria.

If you take the full dose of antibiotics, your natural antibodies can deal with the cells that are resistant while the medicine kills off the bacteria that isn’t resistant. If you don’t take the full course of antibiotics, then your body has to deal with both the resistant and the non-resistant strains of bacteria, and it can become overwhelming. Also, most bacteria are able to pass on genes between still-living cells, so that previously non-resistant strains become resistant, and you have inadvertently cultivated a stronger strain of bacteria.

Furthermore, colds and the flu are viral infections, so antibiotics don’t work against them anyway. The best protection against viral infections are vaccinations, as there are not many viruses that we have developed anti-viral medication against, once you already have the disease. If there are anti-viral medications, it is even more important that you take the full dose of the medication, because anti-viral medication is even harsher against the body than antibacterial medication is.

How antibiotics work

How antiviral medication works

quasi-normalcy

Spread this around; antibiotics are not candy

homoluigi

To put it shortly: antibiotics don’t do shit for the cold. You need to take the entire bottle that is prescribed to you. People not doing that is how antibiotic resistant infections crop up. People like OP are literally why diseases like MRSA exist.

queenshulamit-deactivated201602

OP shouldn’t feel bad about good intentions but this is really dangerous. There’s also the risk that your friends are allergic to the specific type of antibiotics you give them.

lemonsharks

things that a better-off person can do for their sick less-well-off friends that don’t involve breeding superbacteria through misue of antibiotics:

Buy them cold medicine

Buy them cough drops

Buy them fancy tissues with lotion

Make them too much soup to eat in one go and freeze half for later

Find them a low-cost clinic and accompany them there

Tell them you are giving them their day’s wages and they are staying home Friday/Monday and then do.

Go to their house. Wash the dishes, take out the garbage, walk the dog, scoop the cat or just plain change the whole litter box, clean the bathtub and mom voice them until they take a hot shower or steam their head.

if they have asthma or bronchitis and are out of inhaler but you have a half-full one, that is a thing you can sanitize and share.

ditto palliative prescription medication like “I have half a bottle of lidocaine gargle, you want it?” “I am bringing you the rest of my Robitussin with codeine” “here harvest some ibuprofen from my giant bottle of 1,000 ibuprofen”

stromesquad-deactivated20221111

I feel like some of this should have been covered in high school health class. It would do a lot to combat misuse of antibiotics. Superbacteria is really dangerous for everyone but is particularly bad for people with multiple antibiotic allergies and will lead to hospital stays for IV antibiotics of kinds they can take.

lynati

Agreed. High school health class curricula simply haven’t been set up to take into account a future in which the middle class has dissolved and a huge chunk of Americans can’t afford to go to a doctor if they get a cold. - _ -

hanji-mama-deactivated20230209

Last year, I had caught a bad case of strep throat. I usually get it a couple of times a year because my tonsils suck, but this time it was BAD. I was taking amoxicillin like I had been before, but nothing was happening. I was still sick 2 weeks later. I told my doctor and he gave me a different antibiotic and it cleared up.

I was telling one of my friends about all of it, and he says “Oh do you need some amoxicillin? I never finished my bottle when I got strep because it went away after like 3 days”.

Like a week before I got sick, that same friend and I were out having dinner, and we shared a bit of food. This asshat gave me an amoxicillin-resistant strain of strep throat because he didn’t finish his antibiotics. I couldn’t eat anything solid and could barely drink for 2 weeks because someone thought he was “feeling better and didn’t need medicine”.

Finish your god damn antibiotics people!!!!

sonicrainbooms

Yeah, i was taught this in year 3. This is just another thing you americans can add to your “why our our educational system is crap” list and its really scary how this isnt common knowledge there

petermorwood

Not finishing the course of antibiotics is VACCINATING THE BACTERIA.

boykeats

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020), dir. James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham

[ID: Six black and white images of disability rights activists during the section 504 sit-in of 1977. The first image shows two people sleeping on a mattress at the foot of a set of stairs, with a wheelchair sitting in the foreground. The rest of the images are close-up shots of individual activists in their wheelchairs or sitting on couches during quieter times in the protest.

The narration from activist Corbett O’Toole reads, “It’s like the world always wants us dead. Disabled people know that every day of our lives. The world doesn’t want us around and wants us dead. We live with that reality, so there’s always gonna be, uh, “Am I gonna survive? Am I gonna push back? Am I gonna fight to be here?” That’s always true. So, if you wanna call that anger, I call it a kind of drive. You know, you have to be willing to thrive or you’re not gonna make it.” /end ID]

capricorn-0mnikorn

For those who don’t know, weren’t there, and/or were not born yet, some more info from Wikipedia:

The 504 Sit-in was a disability rights protest that began on April 5, 1977. People with disabilities and the disability community occupied federal buildings in the United States in order to push the issuance of long-delayed regulations regarding Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Prior to the 1990 enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act was the most important disability rights legislation in the United States.[1]

And specifically regarding the occupation of Federal Building 50 at United Nations Plaza – the focus of this documentary – it lasted 26 days – the longest protest occupation of a Federal Building in U.S. History (but I bet they still don’t teach this in American history classes, do they?)

Then approximately 150 people with disabilities and their allies streamed into the Federal Building at 50 United Nations Plaza. Occupiers included people with many different disabilities. They also included many nondisabled allies such as ASL interpreters, personal care attendants, and parents of children with disabilities. The group was primarily young and racially diverse. Unlike most other major protest movements at the time (with the exception of Women’s Rights), the 504 Occupation was led by women, with queer women playing an especially prominent role

And:

Communicating with the outside world was challenging in an era before computers, cell phones, and fax machines, especially when HEW officials ordered the office phone lines to be turned off. The building’s few pay phones quickly filled with coins as the phone company stopped coming to collect them. The occupiers became resourceful. In addition to unfurling banners out the windows, they used Deaf people inside the building to transmit messages in sign language through windows on the fourth floor to other interpreters outside on the street below. They used this way so that press releases got out into the public and occupiers got news of the outside world

clatterbane

“[I]t was possible to enlist support from other political organizations that hadn’t thought about disability before,” Mary Lou Breslin says in her oral history of this network of allies. “A lot of people had individual connections. They were all brought to bear in one form or another, but Kitty [Cone] knew how to think about it as a matrix.“16 That matrix included the Butterfly Brigade, “a group of gay men who patrolled city streets on the lookout for gay violence,” who smuggled walkie-talkies into the occupied building; Glide Church; local and national labor organizations; members of Delancey Street, the famous grassroots rehab program for substance abusers and former felons, who brought breakfast into the building each day; the Chicano group Mission Rebels, who also provided food; and the Black Panthers, who publicly endorsed the action and provided hot dinners for the duration of the sit-in.17

(Lomax’s Matrix: Disability, Solidarity, and the Black Power of 504)